Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0538 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Satellites, Crises, and Decolonization
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The idea
Soviet satellites tested Moscow in the fifties and sixties; rebellions in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia were crushed. Berlin in sixty-one and Cuba in sixty-two brought the superpowers near war. Africa's colonies fought for independence, and Mao's China suffered famine and the Cultural Revolution.
In practice
Détente in the seventies; proxy wars.
Where people slip
Apartheid, which the anchor's key term ends in nineteen ninety-one.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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