Korean War Podcast

By 1945, the Soviet Union had established a highly effective spy ring operating in the United States. Many of their spies were key figures within the American Government, they also spies in the atomic bomb programme, who would pass on information which helped the Soviets build their own atomic bomb. A biograph of two Soviet spies who would be executed, Julius and Ethel Rosenburg.

In 1964, Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev from the Soviet leadership in a coup. A biography of Brezhnev is given. He would firmly establish his leadership in 1965 and afterwards and remained leader until his death in 1982. During time it seemed that Soviet Union was strong but internal weakness was undermining it.

The Soviets bring down an American U2 spy plane over the Soviet Union and capture the pilot, this leads an international incident. The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, dividing the City of Berlin into two, in order to stop East Germans fleeing to the West.

A review of the course of the Cold War in Asia between 1945 and 1965. This review will briefly deal with the effects of the Chinese Civil War, the First Indochina War, the Korean War, the start of the Vietnam War as well as other wars in Asia n this period.

General Khan the military ruler of Pakistan decided to go to war against India in 1965. The war began in Kashmir but soon was being fought along the border between West Pakistan and India. Both sides were fairly equal in the air and in tanks and the war ended in a draw.

In this second episode on the Sino - Indian War of 1962, I look at the fighting in the Aksai Chin region in Eastern Kashmir where Chinese troops defeated the Indian Army and occupied the region. I also look at the long term effect of the war.

In October 1962 at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Chinese troops attacked Indian along their disputed border. This episode looks at the fighting in the North east frontier Area. A biography is given of V.K.K. Menon, the Indian defence minister who failed to prepare the Indian military for the Chinese attack.

A biography of Indian Prime Minister Nehru and the story of his work with the international non aligned movement which attached a great deal of support from the newly independent third world nations. However relations between India and China which had been good for a decade decline.

India and Pakistan between 1947 and 1949 fight their first war against each other for control of Kashmir. The population of the area was mainly Muslim but its ruler was not., he tried to keep Kashmir independent but when Pakistani troops invaded he was forced to call for help from India, which sent troops and airplanes to fight for control of the area.

In 1947 India was to gain its independence but it had to broken up into two nations, India and Pakistan known as Partition. In the run up to this the India was to witness an outbreak of murder, rape and the following out from their homes of millions of people. A biography of the first leader of Pakistan, Muhammad Jinnah is given.