The United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II at odds over their postwar goals. The escalation of these conflicting opinions led the world into a tense, bitter struggle that came to be known as the Cold War. While the world's superpowers never battled each other directly, the...

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Format:	Video Software
Language:	Undetermined
Published:	Wynnewood, PA Schlessinger Media c2001, 2003
Series:	United States history origins to 2000: The Cold War
Subjects:	Cold War World politics / 1945-1989 DVDs Films for the hearing impaired Außenpolitik United States / Foreign relations / Soviet Union Soviet Union / Foreign relations / United States United States / Foreign relations / 1945-1989 Sowjetunion USA
Summary:	The United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II at odds over their postwar goals. The escalation of these conflicting opinions led the world into a tense, bitter struggle that came to be known as the Cold War. While the world's superpowers never battled each other directly, their indirect involvement with each other in locales around the globe pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war. This vivid program utilizes archival footage and interviews with renowned experts to dramatize this uneasy period in American history, featuring in-depth coverage of the crisis in Berlin, Fidel Castro and Cuba and the eventual fall of the Soviet Union
Item Description:	DVD.. - Title from disc. - Special features: discussion questions. - "V7021." Narrator: Robert O'Gorman Music, Joe Deihl ; executive producers: Andrew Schlessinger & Tracy Mitchell Introduction -- Containment -- The Berlin crisis -- NATO and the Warsaw pact -- The nuclear arms race -- The Berlin Wall -- Fidel Castro and Cuba -- The domino theory -- Détente -- From détente to "The evil empire" -- The collapse of communism -- A changing world order
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (28 min.) sd., col. with b&w sequences 4 3/4 in. + 1 teacher's guide (5 p. ; 18 cm.)