Crash Course
The Soviet Bloc Unwinds: Crash Course European History
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, protests and unrest continued continued across Europe, and the Soviet Union was having increasing trouble holding its sphere of influence together. Today you'll learn about the labor strikes of...
Curated Video
The Rise and Fall of Communism in Hungary: A Journey to Democracy
This video discusses Hungary's political landscape in the aftermath of World War II, focusing on the Communist Party's rise to power through manipulation and suppression of opposition. It highlights the struggles faced by Prime Minister...
Curated Video
Gray Propaganda
A weapon of covert action wielded by governments around the world, gray propaganda straddles the fine line between fact and fiction, letting its secret sources instigate chaos without liability.
Wonderscape
History Kids: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Learn all about JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Understand the events of October 1962 that took the United States to the brink of nuclear war and how President John F. Kennedy averted unchecked nuclear proliferation.
Kult America
Communist Cars
I'll never forget the first time I crossed into Poland by bus in the year 2000, I was shocked at how run down and neglected the cars looked, they were truly different than anything I had previously been exposed to. Fast forward 15 years...
Getty Images
Checkpoint Charlie crossing point to East Berlin during the Cold War
sign, 'US Army Checkpoint Charlie' / border crossing area with guards on patrol / looking into the Eastern Sector of Berlin from the Friedrichstrasse. Checkpoint Charlie crossing point to East Berlin during the Cold War on June 26, 1963...
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Protesters in East Berlin demonstrate for and against Cuba
Demonstrations in East Berlin for and against Castro and Cuba shortly before JFK's 'Bay of Pigs' speech / people holding signs
Getty Images
War Devastation in Eastern Ukraine - Semyonovka - intersection on way to Slavyansk
Vehicles pass a damaged billboard at a crossroads leading into Slavyansk. Semyonovka, was heavily damaged in a battle between the pro-Russians, who had taken up residence in houses and buildings, and the Ukrainian military bombarded...
Curated Video
RR 8632D
Queen, one of Britain's most flamboyant pop groups, recently staged a concert in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. They hope it will help break into an East European record market estimated at a hundred million people.
1. Freddie Mercury...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Strobe Talbott on the Beginning of the Cold War
Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discusses how the Cold War developed after post WWII peace summits and the strategic patience that stopped the expansion of Soviet communism. [6:36]