Here are videos pertaining to NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
NATO
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I showed parts of this film about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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This film is about the 1968 Prague Spring
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I probably won't have time to show this video, but it has to do with the Solidarity movement in Poland in 1981. This was another movement intent on bringing reforms to a communist government -- this time in Poland. Moscow threatened with Warsaw Pact troops, which were mobilized and brought to the Polish border, but the government was able to control the situation by instituting martial law. Nonetheless, the movement, which started in the docks of Gdansk and was led by one of the workers, Lech Walesa, eventually did manage to bring enough pressure on the government to negotiate for change.
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