A Year To Remember - 1946
History • 59m
In this episode: - Nations turn their attention to reconstruction and the prospects for the future- Winston Churchill makes his famous speech in which he describes an iron curtain falling across Europe- The first verbal battles of the Cold War are fought- In China, civil war rages between Mao Zedong's communist forces and the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek.
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