America's leader for nearly three decades, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, dies, leaving Harry Truman in command. Victory in Europe is celebrated in glorious fashion, but war rages on in Okinawa. Truman makes a fateful decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation of this new American weapon bring about an immediate Japanese surrender. This final program chronicles the last months of the war with a remarkable visual essay that sums up the preceding programs, examines the effects of the war on traditional American attitudes and reflects the tremendous sense of relief that swept the nation. With V-E and V-J Days, the world looks bright, but powerful new forces in Russia, China and indochina plant the seeds of a terrible new Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.

Note: This is part 10 of a series of 10 parts.