Series: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Season: Season 1
Episode Number: 5
Air Date:
Duration: 58 min
Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles replace Truman. Stalin dies but relations with the Soviet Union turn colder. The H-bomb and the doctrine of nuclear annihilation are explored, as are the Korean War and U.S. rearmament. McCarthyism grows and so does the ruthlessness of U.S. policy towards a Third World. Eisenhower emerges as a game changer.
Oliver Stone
Writer
Oliver Stone
Director
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self