Funeral in Berlin suggests not only what a "cold war" is but also what the "Cold War" was in the early 1960s following the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

During World War II, the Soviet Union had been one of the Allies in union with Great Britain and the United States (France had been occupied by Germany) in opposition to the Axis powers, principally Germany, Italy, and Japan. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. The Soviet Union declared war on Japan and occupied Manchuria in August. While American troops were preparing to invade Japan, President Truman ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Na gasaki. Such destruction brought the war to an end, but it also initiated the Nuclear Age, the most dangerous age human kind has ever known.

In such a time the Cold War began with the dropping of the Iron Curtain of Communism...