Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khr...
Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.
A look back at the classic series Wheeler on America from 1996. Charles Wheeler traces changes in US society since the lib...
Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...
While Watergate forces Nixon to resign, the Vietnamese continue to savage one another.
Despite being allies against Hitler, disagreement and rivalry soon break out between the Soviet Union and the West, leadin...
The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.
After losing the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the French leave Vietnam. A stream of refugees flee to the south after the Communist north institu...
Europe is exhausted and impoverished in the years after the Second World War. The United States implements the Marshall Plan to r...
The United States nuclear strategy of counterforce, intended to counter a Soviet conventional attack by targeting military facilities, is discr...
The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...
Likewise the Soviet Union started the decade with growing openness and optimism. There was also an emerging cohort of youth with no memory o...
Through thrift, hard work and discipline, Japan and later South Korea enjoy economic miracles that bring growth, prosperity an...
Following the Chinese Revolution Mao Zedong aligns China firmly with the Soviet Union. China becomes the recipient of Soviet aid, supports Co...
Nixon builds closer relations with China and the USSR, hoping to leverage an honourable US exit from Indochina. The Soviet Union is fearful of a US-C...
Under Détente the superpowers continued their rivalry, but carefully avoided direct conflict by courting allies in the developi...
The United States saw the emergence of leftist movements in different Latin American countries as threatening to its commercial interests,...
Carter's ambitious proposals for total multilateral nuclear disarmament are rejected by Brezhnev; his championing of human rights does not w...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khrus...
The wartime allies demobilise - the United States enjoys its economic strength and resurgence while Britain and the rest of Europe is e...
President Kennedy and his advisers wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocratic...
David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. How Kennedy and Khrushchev's meeting in Vienna in 1961 near...
Nur Mohammad Taraki comes to power in Afghanistan and attempts to modernise the country on Marxist-Leninist lines, provoking a rebe...
Throughout the Cold War both sides sought intelligence about their opponents using spies, satellites and other means. For political reasons, ...
Reagan's 1983 ''Evil Empire'' speech sets the tone for a more aggressive US posture against the Soviet Union, and the costly arms race is...
While in the second half of the century there are fewer conventional wars, civil conflicts under the backdrop of superpowe...
Gorbachev makes clear Eastern European countries were free to determine their own destinies. In Poland Solidarity enters into negoti...
By the 1970s the people in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were becoming aware of the economic failures of central planni...
David Reynolds uncovers the story of three summit meetings that shaped the modern world. He sees how Reagan and Gorbachev helped ensure a peaceful e...
With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops.
For both altruistic and self-serving purposes, the United States provides massive grants of aid to the countries of Europe in the form...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet lea...
Peter and Dan Snow, at the border between North and South Korea, tell of two key moments in the years of fighti...
By 1947, the United States placed as a high priority the revival of the German economy, an approach opposed by the Soviet Union. After the in...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader...
Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south.
Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a net...
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader ...
Korea after the Second World War was occupied by both the Soviets and the Americans, who respectively installed Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee a...
American casualties and enemy body counts mount as marines face deadly North Vietnamese ambushes.
The fears the leadership of both sides had were projected inwards towards their own people. In the United States the House Committee on Un-Amer...
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases.
Public support for the war declines, and American men of draft age face difficult decisions.
With morale plummeting in Vietnam, President Nixon begins withdrawing American troops. As news breaks of an unthinka...
In this episode, Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century.
As a consequence of the atomic spies, the Soviet Union joined the nuclear club, and the two superpowers compete to develop their nuclear ars...
Massive US airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive.
West Germany, and West Berlin, become more affluent, prompting a surge of East Germans to cross the borders in Berlin, kept open under the ...
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