America in the 20th Century (13 Parts)

Introduction (1:33)

Truman Assumes Office (2:29)

Demobilization, GI Bill and Post-War Economy (1:21)

Truman's Agenda and Strikebreaking (2:01)

Taft-Hartley and Civil Rights (2:47)

Dixiecrats (2:07)

Fair Deal and Truman's Foreign Policy (1:59)

Eisenhower, Modern Republican (3:00)

Eisenhower Foreign Policy and Nuclear Arms Race (2:15)

Eisenhower's Infrastructure Development (1:41)

1957 Civil Rights Act, and Brown v. Board (1:41)

Military Integrates Little Rock (1:56)

Military-Industrial Complex (0:55)

Fabulous Fifties (3:03)

Suburbs and Cities (0:51)

Consumerism and Conformism (1:40)

Car Culture and Television (2:11)

Cold War and American Life (2:19)

Teenagers and Rock and Roll (1:51)

Summary of The Post-War Years (0:28)

Credits: The Post-War Years (0:43)

Introduction to Vietnam (2:11)

French Colonizers and Vietnamese Defiance (1:31)

Ho Chi Minh at Paris, Versailles and Moscow (1:26)

Viet Minh and Appeals to America (2:21)

First Indochina War (2:08)

Geneva Accords (1:40)

Domino Theory (1:49)

Diem's Difficulties (1:21)

North Vietnamese Atrocities and Ho's Popularity (1:55)

Kennedy Increases Commitment (3:05)

Strategic Hamlets and Buddhist Protests (2:51)

Diem's Assassination and American Complicity (2:14)

Johnson's Motives and Tonkin Gulf (2:09)

Escalation (1:20)

Rhetoric During Escalation (1:09)

Infrastructure Building and Reliance on Bombs (1:46)

Yadrang and War of Endurance (3:11)

Yadrang's Influence on Strategy (1:18)

Wearing Down America (2:01)

Johnson's Dilemma (2:03)

Credibility Gap and Protests (1:26)

Draining the Great Society (1:32)

Dividing America (1:36)

Tet Offensive (1:28)

Media, Tet and Public Opinion (2:45)

Cronkite Turns Against War (1:29)

1968 Tumult (3:23)

Peace With Honor (2:14)

Cambodia Invasion and Kent State (1:29)

Easter Offensive and Secret Negotiations (1:32)

Cease Fire (2:24)

Nixon Resigns (2:13)

Fall of Saigon (1:20)

Ghosts of Vietnam (2:08)

Effects on American Psychology and Military Policy (1:22)

War Damage to Southeast Asia (2:07)

Enduring Debate (0:48)

Credits: Vietnam (0:44)

Introduction (1:52)

Rift Begins (1:56)

Overthrowing Czar (1:49)

Lenin (1:40)

Wilson Fights Leninism (1:03)

Potsdam and Atomic Bomb (2:31)

Iron Curtain (2:49)

Containment and Diagnosing Soviet Motives (2:02)

Truman Doctrine (1:20)

Marshall Plan (2:39)

Berlin Blockade (1:50)

Berlin Airlift (1:54)

Communist Successes in 1949 (2:28)

North Korea Invades South (1:50)

America Enters Korean War (1:34)

Inchon Landing and Continuing North (1:56)

China Enters War (2:27)

Chosun, MacArthur's Firing and War's End (1:02)

Legacy of Korea (2:16)

Fear of Communism (2:43)

Hollywood Ten (2:57)

Hiss and the Rosenbergs (2:30)

McCarthy (1:45)

Fall of McCarthy (2:57)

Abandoning Moral Restraint (0:50)

Massive Retaliation (2:37)

Russian Olive Branch (2:06)

Open Skies Proposal (2:35)

Khrushchev (2:32)

U-2 Shot Down (1:38)

U-2 Embarrasses U.S. (2:36)

Stalin's Legacy and East German Uprising (2:41)

Khrushchev Denounces Stalin (1:40)

Hungarian Rebellion (1:52)

Soviets Crush Rebellion (3:07)

Suez Canal Crisis (1:30)

Non-Aligned Movement (1:36)

Overthrowing Governments (1:16)

French Withdrawal and Division of Vietnam (1:39)

Vietnam War (1:36)

American Ambivalence, Soviet Boldness (1:46)

Flexible Response (2:07)

Bay of Pigs (1:57)

Kennedy's Berlin Crisis (2:50)

Cuban Missile Crisis (1:46)

Diplomacy and Mobilization (1:49)

Khrushchev Removes Missiles (2:15)

Mutually Assured Destruction (1:08)

Kennedy and Khrushchev Gone (1:37)

Social Upheaval (1:46)

Detente (2:31)

Nixon's Appeal to Russians (0:58)

Watergate (0:49)

Helsinki and Human Rights (1:50)

Defiance in Poland and Czechoslovakia (1:53)

Challenges to American Under Carter (1:10)

Reagan Prepares for Showdown (2:39)

Reagan's Strategy (1:18)

Reagan Doctrine (1:24)

Nuclear Freeze Movement and SDI (2:19)

Reagan's Rhetoric and Soviet Fears (1:25)

Reagan Shifts Rhetoric, Gorbachev Takes Power (2:38)

Reagan and Gorbachev at Summit (1:31)

Ending Arms Race (1:28)

Iron Curtain Opens (2:54)

Romanian Dictator Executed and Berlin Wall Falls (1:23)

Soviet Union Falls (1:13)

Credits: Cold War (0:46)

The Civil War (2:25)

The Reconstruction Era (1:58)

Jim Crow Laws (2:26)

The Road to Brown (2:05)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (2:05)

Southern Whites Fight Back (1:21)

Brown vs. Board of Education (3:31)

Southern Manifesto (1:52)

Little Rock Nine (2:16)

Beginners Course in Racial Violence (2:48)

Bending Toward Justice (2:07)

Montgomery Bus Boycott (2:28)

Passive Resistance (1:13)

Shock Troops of the Revolution (1:53)

Greensboro Four (3:43)

The Black Vote (2:08)

Freedom Riders (2:07)

Watershed Moment (2:46)

Confrontation 1963 (2:32)

National Disgrace (1:56)

Race Has No Place (1:50)

March On Washington (4:43)

Let Us Continue (2:32)

Mississippi Burning (2:13)

Freedom Summer (2:42)

The Sheriff Was In On It (2:20)

Civil Rights to Selma (3:32)

C.T. Vivian (1:57)

Bloody Sunday - Edmund Pettus Bridge (1:52)

President Johnson Addresses a Nation (2:25)

Black Power (2:00)

Malcolm X (2:16)

Black Power (2:21)

The Promised Land (2:05)

Kerner Commission (2:15)