Korean War Podcast

A weekly podcast telling the story of the Korean War from 1950 to 1953.

Episode 8.20 01/13/2024

Episode 8.20 In this final episode of this season, I will be discussing nuclear weapons and the threat of a nuclear war which hung over the world during the cold war. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/29471158

Episode 8.19 01/06/2024

Episode 8.19 After Che Guevara left Cuba, he would try to led two revolutions in the Congo and in Bolivia, neither of which would succeed. He would be captured by the Bolivian Army and murdered in cold blood but he death, he would become an idea to many young people with left wing values. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/28959303

Episode 8.18 12/30/2023

Episode 8.18 An American U2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet Surface to Air missile. The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union increases but President Kennedy decides not to bomb Cuba. He uses a message from the Soviet leader to end the crisis and the Soviet nuclear missiles are withdrawn from Cuba. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/28918063

Episode 8.17 12/23/2023

Episode 8.17 An American U2 spy fight discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba. The American military chiefs wanted an invasion of Cuba but President Kennedy decides above a naval blockade of Cuba instead. President Kennedy address the nation on television to tell them of the Soviet missiles now based in Cuba. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/28698823

Episode 8.16 12/16/2023

Episode 8.16 The Soviets send nuclear weapons and fifty thousand military personal to Cuba, all without being observed by the Americans. The Soviet nuclear missiles pose a serious danger to the United States. A biography of the Soviet military commander in Cuba, General Pliev. In October 1963, an American U2 flight will plunge the world into crisis. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/28009962

Episode 8.15 12/09/2023

Episode 8.15 Cuban exiles with the secret support of the American Government would in 1961, attempt a landing on the south coast of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. The invasion was crushed by the Cuban Army, President Kennedy would not allow the American military to become directly involved, although the American Government involvement soon became known. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27999393

Episode 8.14 12/02/2023

Episode 8.14 When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, his mask of being a liberal and a democrat fell. There would be no free elections in Cuba. Those who had fought in the Cuban revolution for a free and democratic Cuba would become the victims of repression, imprisonment and execution, another revolution was eating its children. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27968991

Episode 8.13 11/25/2023

Episode 8.13 1958 saw the Guerrilla armies in Cuba grow in number. The Cuban Army was sent to crush Fidel Castro and his rebels in operation summer, it nearly success but Fidel Castro led his men out of a trap. The American Government turn against the Cuban dictator and he is forced to flee. In December 1958, the rebels overcame the Cuban Army. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27923613

Episode 8.12 11/18/2023

Episode 8.12 During 1957, Fidel Castro guerrilla band would grow in numbers, they attacked isolated Army garrisons in Eastern Cuba and the Cuban Army would abandon parts of the countryside to the rebels. Fidel Castro would prove to a master of public relations and reassure the world he was a democrat not a Communist. A biography of his brother Raul. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27916296

Episode 8.11 11/11/2023

Episode 8.11 Fidel and Raul Castro would form a small army of Cuban exiles in Mexico, to train and return to Cuba, to try to overthrow the Cuban dictatorship. They would be joined by an Argentina doctor Che Guevara, his biography is given. They and eighty other rebels would travel back on a boat the Granma but within a few days most would be dead. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/28583383

Episode 8.10 11/10/2023

Episode 8.10 Fidel Castro in 1952, when Cuba fell under a military dictatorship. He founded the Movement an underground resistance to the Cuban Dictatorship. The Movement in July 1953 launched an attack on a army garrison the attack was a failure and Fidel and his brother Raul were sent to prison but not for long for they would be released and would go into exile in Mexico. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/28583113

Episode 8.9 10/28/2023

Episode 8.9 After the Spanish - American War, Americans dominated Cuba's economy. Elections are often were marred by fraud. In 1933 a revolution brought in a left wing Government but it lasted only a hundred days. It was overthrown by Batista a former sergeant who became Cuba's military strongman, he would overthrown another Democratically elected Government in 1952 and introduce a brutal dictatorship into the island. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27236211

Episode 8.8 10/21/2023

Episode 8.8 The story of Latin America's most brutal dictator Trujillo who govern the Dominican Republic for 31 years and killed 50,000 of his people. Yet even after his death the country was political unstable and in 1965, President Johnson would sent American troops to the country to put down a left wing revolt. Also a look at decolonisation in the British West Indies and Canada's foreign policy. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27070758

Episode 8.7 10/14/2023

Episode 8.7 A political review of the states of South and Central America between 1945 and 1965. Sadly it will be a story mainly of dictators, repression, unstable political environments, corruption and poverty. Power largely in the hands of elites not the people. Armies more active in overthrowing their Governments than defending them. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27046329

Episode 8.6 10/07/2023

Episode 8.6 American involvement in Central America in the first half of the 20th Century. The story of two countries, in the post war period which the Americans supported coups, one in Costa Rica, which established a stable democracy and in Guatemala which overthrow and a left wing democratic Government and would led to a 36 year long civil war. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27013341

Episode 8.5 09/30/2023

Episode 8.5 The story of the early years of the American Central Intelligence Agency and it most important director Allan Dulles. The CIA go on from a disappointing start during the Korean War to became the oversea convert operations agency for the American Government but some of its actions would latter be questioned. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/27000510

Episode 8.4 09/23/2023

Episode 8.4 When Eisenhower ran for President in 1952, the Korean War was an important issue during the election campaign. When he became President he tried to end the Korean War, at first time without success but then in March 1953, Stalin died and it was possible to begin talks to end the war. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/26966955

Episode 8.3 09/16/2023

Episode 8.3 For years President Truman had failed to invest in South Korea's defence, the North Korea invasion invasion in June 1950 came as a shock but Truman decided to commit American troops to the defence of South Korea. General Mac Arthur invasion at Inchon turned around the Korean but his relation with the Truman became strained leading to the firing of the General. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/26864898

Episode 8.2 09/09/2023

Episode 8.2 The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy, a biography of him is given. Following a speech by him in 1950 he became the most famous anti-communist in American. Hearing he chaired destroy the reputation of many. However when he started to investigate the Army, President Eisenhower was prepared to the same tactics to bring down Senator McCarthy. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/26854407

Episode 8.1 09/02/2023

Episode 8.1 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/26812128

Episode 7.20 01/20/2023

Episode 7.20 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/25635399

Episode 7.19 01/14/2023

Episode 7.19 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/25491717

Episode 7.18 01/07/2023

Episode 7.18 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/25371630

Episode 7.17 12/24/2022

Episode 7.17 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/25191411

Episode 7.16 12/17/2022

Episode 7.16 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/25097952

Episode 7.15 12/10/2022

Episode 7.15 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/24869145

Episode 7.14 12/03/2022

Episode 7.14 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/24831702

Episode 7.13 11/26/2022

Episode 7.13 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/24722940

Episode 7.12 India's Wars 11/19/2022

Episode 7.12 India's Wars 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. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/24675528

Episode 7.11 Queen Elizabeth II 11/12/2022

Episode 7.11 Queen Elizabeth II This is a special one off tribute to Queen Elizabeth the Second who died in September. It tells of her life and the British armed forces which she commanded from 1952 to 1965, when British troops, sailors and airmen were active in fighting in several parts of the world. /episode/index/show/koreanwarpodcast/id/24620736

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