Instructional Video13:28
Crash Course

The Soviet Bloc Unwinds: Crash Course European History

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video13:35
Crash Course

The Soviet Bloc Unwinds: Crash Course European History

12th - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video5:01
Curated Video

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Hungary: A Journey to Democracy

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:21
Curated Video

Gray Propaganda

9th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video26:01
Wonderscape

History Kids: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis

K - 5th
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.
Instructional Video15:48
OverSimplified

The Cold War (Part 2)

6th - 11th
The Cold War (Part 2)
Instructional Video5:16
Kult America

Communist Cars

Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Strobe Talbott on the Beginning of the Cold War

9th - 10th
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]