The Cold War: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 7 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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From espionage across the Iron Curtain, to the global struggles between communists and capitalists, Michael Goodman responds to your questions on the decades of geopolitical tension that shaped relations between east and west in the second half of the 20th century, in the latest in our series tackling the big questions on major historical topics.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine, Britain's
0:15.8	bestselling history magazine.
0:18.8	I'm Ellie Corporn.
0:26.6	Which how close did the Cold War get to becoming hot?
0:30.1	And has it ever really ended?
0:32.4	In the latest episode of our Everything You Want to To Know series, Professor Michael
0:36.8	Goodman of King's College London tackles questions on the conflict that divided East
0:41.9	and West from the evolution of espionage on either side of the Iron Curtain to the global
0:47.4	impact of the conflict.
0:49.5	Putting the questions to Michael was our acting digital editor, Eleanor Evans.
0:54.5	More topic for today's Everything You Wanted To Know podcast episode is the Cold War.
0:59.4	Our expert is Professor Michael Goodman, Professor of Intelligence on International Affairs
1:04.3	and Head of the Department of War Studies at King's College London.
1:07.8	Thanks so much for joining us Mike.
1:09.7	Absolutely pleasure.
1:10.7	Great.
1:11.7	So as with previous episodes, the format will be looking at popular search queries around
1:15.6	the subject and also some listener questions as well.
1:18.7	And we've had some great listener questions so thanks so much for all of your submissions
1:22.1	ahead of this episode.
1:24.0	And a sad soft mic, perhaps we could start by covering off a couple of the most broad
1:28.0	search queries that are most often put to Google about the subject, which are when was
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