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Episode Guide
The Iron Curtain
Series: The Cold War
Series Progress: Episode 12 of 2450% Completed
Synopsis
Part 2: An "Iron Curtain" descends over central Europe between 1945 and '47 as the Cold War heats up. "The Soviet Union is in a mood to expand," diplomat George Kennan warned from Moscow in a cable to the State Department, "and must be contained.", With WWII at an end, the world soon faced a new challenge widely known as the Cold War. In 24 episodes, this series chronicles this war of ideologies, from its inception in the late '40s until the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. some 40 years later. With Europe and Japan absorbed in rebuilding their cities and economies, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the world's superpowers and standard bearers for incompatible political philosophies. Capitalism or Communism: The line was drawn in the sand and the conflict began. This episode looks at the development of the Soviet Bloc in Eastern Europe. The Russians gained what they had lost when Hitler betrayed the German-Soviet Pact and attacked them. Winston Churchill warned the world that an "iron curtain" was dropping across Europe. Only the United States had the resources to stop the advance of Communism.
📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 24 hours 0 minutes (24 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Moderate Burn - Story-dense episodes. Best spaced out over a week.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 24 days
3 episodes/day: 8 days
5 episodes/day: 5 days
Episodes (24)
- S01E01 - Comrades
- S01E10 - Cuba, 1959-62
- S01E11 - Vietnam
- S01E12 - MAD
- S01E13 - Make Love, Not War: The Sixties
- S01E14 - Red Spring: The Sixties
- S01E15 - China, 1949-72
- S01E16 - Detente, 1969-75
- S01E17 - Good Guys, Bad Guys, 1967-78
- S01E18 - Backyard, 1954-90
- S01E19 - Freeze, 1977-81
- S01E02 - The Iron Curtain Viewing
- S01E20 - Soldiers of God, 1975-88
- S01E21 - Spies, 1945-90
- S01E22 - Star Wars, 1981-88
- S01E23 - The Wall Comes Down, 1989
- S01E24 - Conclusions, 1989-91
- S01E03 - The Marshall Plan
- S01E04 - Berlin, 1948-49
- S01E05 - Korea, 1949-53
- S01E06 - Reds, 1947-53
- S01E07 - After Stalin, 1953-56
- S01E08 - Sputnik, 1949-61
- S01E09 - The Wall, 1958-63