CHAPTER 4 - The Cold War
The equation changes—specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War. 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.
CHAPTER 5 - The '50s: Eisenhower, The Bomb and The Third World
Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles replace Truman. Stalin dies but relations with the Soviet Union turn colder. The H-bomb and the doctrine of nuclear annihilation are explored, as are the Korean War and U.S. rearmament. McCarthyism grows and so does the ruthlessness of U.S. policy towards the Third World. Eisenhower emerges as a game changer.
CHAPTER 6 - JFK: To The Brink
JFK and the Bay of Pigs; on the brink of total war during Cuban Missile Crisis; early Vietnam; JFK's attempts at peace with Khrushchev; JFK assassinated.
CHAPTER 7 - Johnson, Nixon and Vietnam: Reversal Of Fortune
Cataclysm in Vietnam as the war reaches a turning point - there's no going back. The betrayal by Richard Nixon.
|Official Release Date||Sep 02, 2014|
|Starring||Chris Edgerly, Alan Shearman, Oliver Stone|
|Audio||DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1|
|Subtitles||English, French, Spanish|