Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States — Season 1, Episode 4: Chapter 4 - The Cold War - 1945-1950

Episode synopsis

The equation changes: specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War emerge and it is not entirely clear who started it. 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.

About Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Chapter 1 - World War Two
• E2Chapter 2 - Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace
• E3Chapter 3 - The Bomb
• E5Chapter 5 - The 50s: Eisenhower, the Bomb & the Third World
• E6Chapter 6 - JFK: To the Brink
• E7Chapter 7 - Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune
• E8Chapter 8 - Reagan, Gorbachev & Third World: Rise of the Right
• E9Chapter 9 - Bush & Clinton: American Triumphalism - New World Order
• E10Chapter 10 - Bush & Obama: Age of Terror