The Cold War and the Modern World
USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL (5 min)
Why it was built, what it meant and the implications of its fall. Here is the story of the 28-year existence of the physical symbol of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War, explained using archive photos, recent video and lots of facts.
Vietnam War Documentary: Inside the Viet Cong - Tactics, Weapons, Tunnels, Uniform
The Viet Cong (Vietnamese: Việt cộng), or National Liberation Front (NLF), was a political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959--1975), and emerged on the winning side. It had both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many soldiers were recruited in South Vietnam, but others were attached to the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), the regular North Vietnamese army. During the war, communists and anti-war spokesmen insisted the Viet Cong was an insurgency indigenous to the South, while the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments portrayed the group as a tool of Hanoi. This allowed writers to distinguish northern communists from the southern communists. However, as it turned out, northerners and southerners were always under the same command structure.