Korea was part of a world-wide struggle called the Cold War. The army of North Korea, however, was larger, better equipped and better trained. Both the government in the north and the government in the south claimed that it alone was the valid government of all of Korea. The small peninsula of Korea was divided between a communist government, supported by the Soviet Union in the north, and a government supported by the United States in the south. In eastern Asia, the war left many of the nations that Japan had invaded and occupied unstable. This is their story and the story of Germany in the Cold War.In 1945, World War II came to an end with the surrender of Germany and Japan. The demonstrations on June 17, 1953, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the major demonstrations in Bonn against Pershing missiles, nuclear strike drills, employment bans in West Germany on members of the German Communist Party, the opening of the Wall, the collapse of the Eastern bloc - all were events that shaped people’s lives. Who were the winners and losers in this brutal stand-off between communism and capitalism? How did Germans experience this Cold War? How did it shape attitudes to life on both sides of the Iron Curtain? This three-part documentary asks political actors and decision-makers in East and West, but above all contemporary witnesses from divided Germany, what experiences they had in the period between 19. On the one hand, there was the race for technical progress, the fear of bombs and rockets, the struggle for moral superiority over the other side: and on the other, doubt about each state’s policies, and those of their allies. The Cold War was persistently present in the two Germanys - both on the political and military level, but also in everyday life.
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