The United Nations
The Cold War Begins
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Communism in China and The Korean War, 1950-1953
Great Leap forward China Mao 6 min
Conflicts in Latin America
Asia and Africa
Israel and Zionism. Rick Steeves' Holy Land 56 min Abraham Isaac Ishmael Arabs Muslims Palestine UN 6 day war
56 min. Holy land rick steves
The Vietnam War 1957-1975
5:42 the Vietnam War Prager
Disarmament and Detente
The Rise of Conservatism in the West
Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987
When Reagan issued his famous challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev in Berlin, the speech earned mixed reviews. Even members of the President's own team were lukewarm on it. But in 1989, the Berlin Wall was demolished, and today the address is remembered, in the words of the German newspaper Bild, as a speech that "changed the world."
When Reagan issued his famous challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev in Berlin, the speech earned mixed reviews. Even members of the President's own team were lukewarm on it. But in 1989, the Berlin Wall was demolished, and today the address is remembered, in the words of the German newspaper Bild, as a speech that "changed the world."
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USSR Map
Drag and Drop the place names within the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics
Video Links
CIA Archives: Vietnam War—The Battle of la Drang Valley (1965 Documentary) (27:36)
Filmed in 1965, CBS’s Morley Safer and Walter Cronkite report on the Battle of la Drang Valley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDMcxBk4vg4
Pol Pot—Inside Evil
Frontline episode on Khmer Rouge
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/cambodia/
Malcolm X – (1:25:59):
Available on Netflix Instant: Salute. A documentary on the 1968 Olympics.
CIA Archives: Desegregation and the American Civil Rights Movement (52:42)
Weblink
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/03_schools.html
The Civil Rights Era from BBC Motion Gallery (2:15)
This short clip from the BBC’s Motion Gallery department presents a montage of both images and audio/visual clips depicting the struggle for Civil Rights in America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBPeCQzHu5w
General Idi Amin Dada—Uganda Discovery (1:30:30)
This documentary looks at Uganda before and after the rise of General Idi Amin Dada and the legacy of destruction and turmoil which has scarred the country’s history and people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygmHRjimpq4&feature=related
Web Links
Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Rich archival materials including collections on the end of the Cold War, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Chinese foreign policy documents.
www.wilsoncenter.org/program/cold-war-international-history-project
College of DuPage Library. Typing in the “search” box “Research guide to 1960s websites” yields a wide-ranging set of relevant topics.
http://www.Codlibrary.org.
BBC’s archive ON THIS DAY shows video footage from the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/
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