Bloody birth of the Soviet Union -- The United States responds -- Strange bedfellows -- The Cold War begins -- The Iron Curtain comes down -- Containing communism -- The Berlin Airlift -- The birth of NATO -- Communist victory in China -- The Cold War turns "hot" in Korea -- Cold War spies -- The death of Stalin -- The red scare -- The space race begins -- Khrushchev in America -- Cuba goes communist -- The Berlin Wall -- Aiming for the moon -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Living with the bomb -- The war in Vietnam -- Nixon in China -- Limiting nuclear weapons -- The Cold War and the Olympics -- Reagan and Star Wars -- A new day in Russia -- The Berlin Wall comes down -- The Soviet Union collapses -- A new world order -- A new Cold War? -- NATO and the Warsaw Pact -- Key players -- Cold War timeline.