The critical issues and conflicting ideologies of the 40s, 50s, and 60s
World Service,·16 episodes
Anglo-French forces fail to wrest the Suez Canal from Egypt's President Nasser's control
01 Jan 1985,·28 mins
Allied forces led by America try to stop Kim Il-sung's communist take-over of South Korea
08 May 1985,·27 mins
As empires were retreating, why was France so determined to keep Algeria as its own?
02 Jul 1985,·28 mins
How close did the Cuban Missile Crisis take the world to a nuclear war?
09 Jul 1985,·28 mins
The human side effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by America in 1945
31 Jul 1985,·27 mins
How the reforms of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dubček were crushed by the Soviet Union
15 Aug 1985,·28 mins
The reasons behind the Nigeria civil war, also known as the Biafran civil war in 1967-70
09 Sep 1985,·28 mins
How did the United States become involved in a revolutionary war in South East Asia?
11 Sep 1985,·28 mins
Iran nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1951 and the West arranged a coup d'etat
26 Nov 1986,·28 mins
The Greek Civil War 1946-1949, as fascist and communist fought for control of the country
01 Jan 1987,·28 mins
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
29 Jan 1987,·28 mins
In 1955, Austria recovered it's independence. But how and when did it lose it?
16 Feb 1987,·28 mins
South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth in 1961 in defence of apartheid
25 Feb 1987,·28 mins
President Pinochet's path to power and the torture and repression that kept him there
17 Mar 1987,·28 mins
In 1971 Bangladesh emerges from East Pakistan after a bloody civil war
01 Jan 1995,·28 mins
