Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Season 1, Episode 4: Chapter 4 - The Cold War - 1945-1950
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The equation changes: specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War emerge and it is not entirely clear who started it. Highlights include Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, the civil war in Greece and the Red Scare that prompts the rise of Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee and the FBI.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Chapter 1 - World War Two
Episode 2
Chapter 2 - Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace
Episode 3
Chapter 3 - The Bomb
Episode 4
Chapter 4 - The Cold War - 1945-1950
Episode 5
Chapter 5 - The 50s: Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World
Episode 6
Chapter 6 - JFK: To the Brink
Episode 7
Chapter 7 - Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune
Episode 8
Chapter 8 - Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World: Rise of the Right
Episode 9
Chapter 9 - Bush & Clinton: American Triumphalism - New World Order
Episode 10
Chapter 10 - Bush & Obama: Age of Terror