Fall Out
Jul 28, 2026 · 38 min · 17 segments
The war is over, and the Allies are triumphant. The United States and the Soviet Union initially work together to establish a new world order, but over the course of the next four years these two…
Jul 28, 2026 · 38 min · 17 segments
The war is over, and the Allies are triumphant. The United States and the Soviet Union initially work together to establish a new world order, but over the course of the next four years these two…
Simon Sebag MontefioreGuest
Jon MeachamGuest
Michel ParadisGuest
Dan CarlinGuest
The Allies won this war in the cause of freedom and the ideals of anti-fascism, the ideals of democracy.
One of the great legacies of the Second World War is that a disputatious, complicated, often wrong nation like the United States can, in extremis, marshal significant force to do the right thing.
As Churchill's alleged to have said, "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing once we've exhausted every other possibility." We spent blood and treasure to defeat fascism.
The United States had fulfilled Roosevelt's ambitions to be the arsenal of democracy to orders of magnitude no one could have predicted.
In New York, hundreds of thousands lined the docks to greet America's ships and welcome home their sons and daughters.
President Harry Truman is honored with a ticker tape parade through the city's Canyon of Heroes.
[crowd cheering] Speaking in Central Park, the president addresses the nation.
The world cannot afford to let the cooperative spirit of the Allies in this war disintegrate.
The world simply cannot allow this to happen.
[suspenseful music] [crowd cheering]
He's dressed in a white marshal summer uniform with shoulder boards like a Russian Romanov emperor.
Stalin emerges from the Second World War with astonishing, almost religious prestige in the Soviet Union.
The spirit of cooperation is so high that Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Command in Europe, probably one of the future staunchest anti-communists in American history, stands right next to Stalin.
The bloodshed and horror of the Second World War is unprecedented in human history.
Nearly 70 million people are killed, the majority civilians.
The Brits are bankrupt.
The Americans and the Soviets, they're demobilizing.
What's really clear coming out of World War II is that the United States has an incredibly important role to play in the world.
She hasn't been physically touched by the war other than Pearl Harbor.
The Allies won this war in the cause of freedom and the ideals of anti-fascism, the ideals of democracy.
One of the great legacies of the Second World War is that a disputatious, complicated, often wrong nation like the United States can, in extremis, marshal significant force to do the right thing.
As Churchill's alleged to have said, "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing once we've exhausted every other possibility." We spent blood and treasure to defeat fascism.
The United States had fulfilled Roosevelt's ambitions to be the arsenal of democracy to orders of magnitude no one could have predicted.
In New York, hundreds of thousands lined the docks to greet America's ships and welcome home their sons and daughters.
President Harry Truman is honored with a ticker tape parade through the city's Canyon of Heroes.
[crowd cheering] Speaking in Central Park, the president addresses the nation.
The world cannot afford to let the cooperative spirit of the Allies in this war disintegrate.
The world simply cannot allow this to happen.
[suspenseful music] [crowd cheering]
He's dressed in a white marshal summer uniform with shoulder boards like a Russian Romanov emperor.
Stalin emerges from the Second World War with astonishing, almost religious prestige in the Soviet Union.
The spirit of cooperation is so high that Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Command in Europe, probably one of the future staunchest anti-communists in American history, stands right next to Stalin.
The bloodshed and horror of the Second World War is unprecedented in human history.
Nearly 70 million people are killed, the majority civilians.
The Brits are bankrupt.
The Americans and the Soviets, they're demobilizing.
What's really clear coming out of World War II is that the United States has an incredibly important role to play in the world.
She hasn't been physically touched by the war other than Pearl Harbor.
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