Witness to history. The Cold War
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This program deals with the years after World War II and the growing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Newsreel footage highlights the Berlin Airlift, the Korean War, the conflict between President Truman and General MacArthur, the anti-Communist hysteria that swept America in the early 1950s and the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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18 min
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Alexander Street
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