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