Cold War

Introduction (1:52)

Rift Begins (1:56)

Overthrowing Czar (1:49)

Lenin (1:40)

Wilson Fights Leninism (1:03)

Potsdam and Atomic Bomb (2:31)

Iron Curtain (2:49)

Containment and Diagnosing Soviet Motives (2:02)

Truman Doctrine (1:20)

Marshall Plan (2:39)

Berlin Blockade (1:50)

Berlin Airlift (1:54)

Communist Successes in 1949 (2:28)

North Korea Invades South (1:50)

America Enters Korean War (1:34)

Inchon Landing and Continuing North (1:56)

China Enters War (2:27)

Chosun, MacArthur's Firing and War's End (1:02)

Legacy of Korea (2:16)

Fear of Communism (2:43)

Hollywood Ten (2:57)

Hiss and the Rosenbergs (2:30)

McCarthy (1:45)

Fall of McCarthy (2:57)

Abandoning Moral Restraint (0:50)

Massive Retaliation (2:37)

Russian Olive Branch (2:06)

Open Skies Proposal (2:35)

Khrushchev (2:32)

U-2 Shot Down (1:38)

U-2 Embarrasses U.S. (2:36)

Stalin's Legacy and East German Uprising (2:41)

Khrushchev Denounces Stalin (1:40)

Hungarian Rebellion (1:52)

Soviets Crush Rebellion (3:07)

Suez Canal Crisis (1:30)

Non-Aligned Movement (1:36)

Overthrowing Governments (1:16)

French Withdrawal and Division of Vietnam (1:39)

Vietnam War (1:36)

American Ambivalence, Soviet Boldness (1:46)

Flexible Response (2:07)

Bay of Pigs (1:57)

Kennedy's Berlin Crisis (2:50)

Cuban Missile Crisis (1:46)

Diplomacy and Mobilization (1:49)

Khrushchev Removes Missiles (2:15)

Mutually Assured Destruction (1:08)

Kennedy and Khrushchev Gone (1:37)

Social Upheaval (1:46)

Detente (2:31)

Nixon's Appeal to Russians (0:58)

Watergate (0:49)

Helsinki and Human Rights (1:50)

Defiance in Poland and Czechoslovakia (1:53)

Challenges to American Under Carter (1:10)

Reagan Prepares for Showdown (2:39)

Reagan's Strategy (1:18)

Reagan Doctrine (1:24)

Nuclear Freeze Movement and SDI (2:19)

Reagan's Rhetoric and Soviet Fears (1:25)

Reagan Shifts Rhetoric, Gorbachev Takes Power (2:38)

Reagan and Gorbachev at Summit (1:31)

Ending Arms Race (1:28)

Iron Curtain Opens (2:54)

Romanian Dictator Executed and Berlin Wall Falls (1:23)

Soviet Union Falls (1:13)

Credits: Cold War (0:46)