Curated playlist
Wars involving the Soviet Union
- Cold WarWhy was the Cold War called a war when the two superpowers never fought each other directly?
- First Indochina WarHo Chi Minh's government fled Hanoi for the mountains when fighting erupted on the 19th of December 1946.
- Russian Civil WarIn 1919, Trotsky armed Petrograd's workers and saved the city from a White army.
- Vietnam WarOn March 8, 1965, 3,500 US Marines waded ashore near Da Nang, starting America's ground war in Vietnam.
- Gulf WarA rounding error in a Patriot missile's computer let a Scud kill 28 US soldiers in Saudi Arabia.
- Korean WarThe UN approved force in Korea because the Soviet Union was absent. It had boycotted the Council since January 1950.
- Hungarian Revolution of 1956Hungary's 1956 revolution began when students read out sixteen demands. Soviet tanks crushed it after just 15 days.
- Soviet–Afghan WarEarly in the Soviet–Afghan War, troops in Afghan uniforms stormed a Kabul palace and killed the country's leader.
- Sino-Soviet border conflictOn the 2nd of March 1969, Chinese troops ambushed Soviet border guards on Zhenbao Island.
- Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern BukovinaIn June 1940, Molotov gave Romania four days to hand over Bessarabia and northern Bukovina.
- World War IIHistorians still disagree about the day World War II began. Most choose 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.