cold war

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the Cold War
A look at the Cold War, covering the influence of Stalin's postwar strategy, the effects of the McCarthy hearings on policies, the Cuban Missle Crisis, and more.

Happy days (1953-1960)

2005
Examines the dark undercurrent that lay beneath American contentedness in the 1950s, discussing McCarthyism, the escalation of the Cold War, and violent civil rights demonstrations.

A new world (1981-1989)

2005
Chronicles the evolution of the United States over the course of the twentieth-century, focusing on the events of the 1980s which were marked by the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and a booming economy.

The Cold War

Examines the events that led up to the Cold War, discussing the political and military strategies that the world's two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, employed, and provides information about key people, battles, and events.

Code breakers and spies of the Cold War

2019
About the spread of communism and the Cold War between the United States and the USSR.

The 1950s

(1950-1959)
2016
Discusses the American politics and history of the 1950s.

Spy runner

Twelve-year-old Jake McCauley, who lives very close to the air force base, becomes suspicous when a Russian man becomes a boarder in his home and who claims to have known Jake's father who disappeared during World War II.
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Cold War

A history of the Cold War, focusing on the major conflicts of the era, including the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and highlighting significant people and locations in all areas of the hostilities.
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Cold War

A history of the Cold War, focusing on the final years of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union, beginning with the replacement of Nikita Khruschev by Leonid Brezhnev, and highlighting significant people, places, and events on both sides of the hostilities.
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The summer garden

2011
Tatiana and Alexander have miraculously found one another in America after both of them fled their native Russia following World War II. Now they have a son, Anthony, and their love seems boundless; but the trials of the Cold War, in its infancy still, threaten to take away the peace that was already so fragile.
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