Confronting Communism : And the Walls Came Tumbling Down / ABC NEWS.

[Place of publication not identified] : ABC NEWS, [1999]

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2019.

©1999

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From the rise of Lenin to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 20th century witnessed the birth and death of the Soviet Union. This ABC News program anchored by Peter Jennings confronts the impact of Bolshevism, from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War, featuring the spread of Communism to China, the Korean War, the Berlin Airlift, McCarthyism, the Hungarian uprising, Sputnik, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, glasnost and perestroika, and the raising of the Iron Curtain. (62 minutes)

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September 04, 2019

Bolshevism in Russia (4:24); Communism Versus Democracy (5:29); Cold War Confrontation in Berlin (5:10); Russian Nukes, Mao, and Korean War (5:05); McCarthyism, Hungary, Nuke Tests (5:50); Rocket Experimentation and Sputnik (4:02); Soviets: A Strong Global Presence (2:49); Cuban Missile Crisis: October 1962 (4:03); Peace Corps and Vietnam (5:18); Vietnam: America's Longest War (3:17); Nixon's Detente with Russia and China (3:28); Reagan and Gorbachev Disarm Nukes (6:53); Democracy Prevails (4:18);

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