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Not so Long Ago Episodes Available now
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The Prague Spring
How the reforms of Czechoslovakia's Alexander Dub膷ek were crushed by the Soviet Union
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The Bombing of Hiroshima
The human side effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by America in 1945
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
How close did the Cuban Missile Crisis take the world to a nuclear war?
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The Algerian War
As empires were retreating, why was France so determined to keep Algeria as its own?
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The Korean War
Allied forces led by America try to stop Kim Il-sung's communist take-over of South Korea
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The Suez Crisis
Anglo-French forces fail to wrest the Suez Canal from Egypt's President Nasser's control