Cold War (TV Mini-Series 1998) Poster  (1998 TV Mini-Series)
Episode List   Season 1  Though ideological enemies, the Soviet
Union and the United States are allies against Hitler during
World War II. At the end of theWar, Europe is divided and the
one-time allies now confront each other. The United States has
the atomic bomb. Iron Curtain The Soviet Union dominates Eastern
Europe. Churchill warns about the consequences. Stalin insists
that the governments of the Soviet Union's client states be pro-
Communist. Impoverished after the war, Great Britain opts out as
a world power. Marshall Plan The United States adopts the Truman
Doctrine--it will defend freedom, worldwide. Secretary of State
George Marshall plans to bolster economic recovery in Europe.
Stalin sees this as a threat, and forbids his satellites to
participate. The world divides. Berlin is a Western enclave in
Eastern Europe. The Soviets blockade the city, but the allies
airlift in supplies. NATO is formed.In August 1949, Soviet
scientists explode a