4: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 | History File

Duration: 23'12''

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Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, U2 Spy Plane and the start of the Nuclear Arms Race.

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