Le Monde tremble (1950-1952) (E03)

September 1950. On the banks at Incheon, 30 miles from Seoul, General MacArthur is victorious. The landing he planned, to rescue his men stuck in Pusan, was a success. But the war isn't over. In the North, the Americans will have to face an unexpected enemy. On the other side of the frozen Yalu river, Mao, covert as always, has stationed 300,000 of his men. On Thanksgiving Day, the Chinese and North Koreans attack the US army, whose only choice is to fall back. Faced with his army's defeat and Chinese intervention, Truman considers the atomic bomb? Further south, in Indochina, the French are also suffering setbacks. An ambush by the Vietminh on the RC4 road wipes them out. As a last resort, the French government dispatches one of its most renowned generals, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, to turn the situation around. The French are victorious at Vinh Yen, but with heavy casualties. The similarities between Korea and Indochina are striking - same covert players, same frightened civilians, same regions destroyed by bombs, same rows of starving prisoners? De Lattre believes both wars to be one and the same; a war for freedom and against Communism. And the real enemy is Stalin, who sends arms and MIG-15 planes to the North Koreans, and prances around in front of his people with his super fighter plane that can transport his brand-new atomic bomb. Will Stalin conquer the world? (National Geographic)