Name: Superpower
Released: 2010-05-30

America: The Story of Us

S1 · E11 — Superpower

S1:E11 · Superpower

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12 episodes in this season

Rebels

45 min

Revolution

45 min

Westward

45 min

Division

45 min

Civil War

45 min

Heartland

45 min

Cities

45 min

Boom

45 min

Bust

45 min

E10

World War II

45 min

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45 min

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Millennium

45 min

America: The Story of Us

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Superpower

Season 1 · Episode 11 · May 30, 2010

World War II transforms America into a global Superpower. The economy booms. Technology feeds the boom and a new age of consumerism is born. More than twenty thousand cars roll off production lines daily and - just like the Transcontinental Railroad more than a century before - the Interstate highways connect the country. After defending their country and their ideals the Greatest Generation comes home. Like the pioneers before them they push back the boundaries, plowing up over a million acres of virgin territory a year to create the suburbs. This pioneering spirit knows no bounds as first the jet age and then the space age takes America into the supersonic era. The first man walks on the moon - and plants the American flag. Optimism for the future prevails - but first America must deal with the past - and the issue of race. It's a second Civil War, but finally the Civil Rights movement brings the words of the Declaration of Independence home to ALL Americans - black and white.

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America: The Story of Us

TV Series

201045m8.2

Documentary

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Superpower

Season 1 · Episode 11 · May 30, 2010

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