麻豆约拍

Fall of Saigon - 1975

The fall of Saigon was a humiliation for the US. But who won the peace?

• 13 mins

End of the Berlin Wall - 1989

The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War. Why was it put up? And what brought it down?

• 13 mins

Nelson Mandela's Release - 1990

Nelson Mandela's release from prison after 27 years years signalled the end of apartheid

• 13 mins

Man on the Moon 1969

Neil Armstrong's moon landing. A triumph for mankind, science and America in the Cold War

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Gandhi's Salt March 1930

Ghandi's defiance of the British salt tax marked the beginning of the end of colonial rule

• 13 mins

Wall Street Crash 1929

How the crash led to a world-wide depression and a new era of government intervention

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Hiroshima 1945

In August 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The nuclear age had begun

• 13 mins