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Not so Long Ago Episodes

  1.

    The Creation of Bangladesh

    In 1971 Bangladesh emerges from East Pakistan after a bloody civil war

  2. The 1973 Chilean Coup D'etat

    President Pinochet's path to power and the torture and repression that kept him there

  3. South Africa leaves the Commonwealth

    South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth in 1961 in defence of apartheid

  4. Austrian Independence

    In 1955, Austria recovered it's independence. But how and when did it lose it?

  5. The Jordan and Egypt Defence Pact

    The 1967 defence pact between Jordan and Egypt was a turning point in the Middle East

  6. The United Nations

    How the devastation of World War Two led to the creation of the United Nations

  7. The Greek Civil War

    The 锘縂reek Civil War 1946-1949, as fascist and communist fought for control of the country

  8. The Abadan Crisis

    Iran nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1951 and the West arranged a coup d'etat

  9. The Vietnam War

    How did the United States become involved in a revolutionary war in South East Asia?

  10. The Nigerian Civil War

    The reasons behind the Nigeria civil war, also known as the Biafran civil war 锘匡豢in 1967-70

  11. The Prague Spring

    How the reforms of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dub膷ek were crushed by the Soviet Union

  12. The Bombing of Hiroshima

    The human side effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by America in 1945

  13. The Cuban Missile Crisis

    How close did the Cuban Missile Crisis take the world to a nuclear war?

  14. The Algerian War

    As empires were retreating, why was France so determined to keep Algeria as its own?

  15. The Korean War

    Allied forces led by America try to stop Kim Il-sung's communist take-over of South Korea

  16. The Suez Crisis

    Anglo-French forces fail to wrest the Suez Canal from Egypt's President Nasser's control