The critical issues and conflicting ideologies of the 40s, 50s, and 60s
World Service,Β·16 episodes
Anglo-French forces fail to wrest the Suez Canal from Egypt's President Nasser's control
Allied forces led by America try to stop Kim Il-sung's communist take-over of South Korea
As empires were retreating, why was France so determined to keep Algeria as its own?
How close did the Cuban Missile Crisis take the world to a nuclear war?
The human side effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by America in 1945
How the reforms of Czechoslovakia's Alexander DubΔek were crushed by the Soviet Union
The reasons behind the Nigeria civil war, also known as the Biafran civil war ο»Ώο»Ώin 1967-70
How did the United States become involved in a revolutionary war in South East Asia?
Iran nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1951 and the West arranged a coup d'etat
The ο»ΏGreek Civil War 1946-1949, as fascist and communist fought for control of the country
How the devastation of World War Two led to the creation of the United Nations
The 1967 defence pact between Jordan and Egypt was a turning point in the Middle East
In 1955, Austria recovered it's independence. But how and when did it lose it?
South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth in 1961 in defence of apartheid
President Pinochet's path to power and the torture and repression that kept him there
In 1971 Bangladesh emerges from East Pakistan after a bloody civil war
