A part of the series America in the 20th Century. Although communists and capitalists united during World War II to crush fascism, Hitler's defeat set the stage for allies to become adversaries once more. This program frames the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union as the defining conflict of much of the 20th century. Viewers are shown how the world's two superpowers faced off in an uncompromising showdown over ideology and economics that would persist for five decades - not in a vacuum, but under the omnipresent threat of nuclear holocaust. Correlates to standards from the National Council for the Social Studies.

Correlates to standards from the National Council for the Social Studies. Learn360 is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

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)