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Now displaying: April, 2021
Apr 24, 2021

This episode deals with the Civil War in the Congo between 1960 and 1965 following independence from Belgium.  It became a proxy war of the cold war with the United States and the Soviet Union supporting different political factions in the Congo.  A biography of Mobutu who would become the dictator of the Congo for over thirty years from 1965.

Apr 17, 2021

The British Army fought three guerrilla wars in the middle eastern region.  In Cyprus the British Army was involved in a guerrilla war against EOKA who fought for your union between Cyprus and Greece.  A biography of Sir John Harding the Government of Cyprus.  The British Army always fought in wars in Oman and Aden.

Apr 10, 2021

Nasser reaps the rewards from the Suez Crisis.  British and French power in the middle east declines.  A biography of the new British Prime Minster Harold Macmillan.  The end of the British Empire.  The distrust between the French and British Government after the Suez Crisis.  The American military involvement in the Lebanon in 1958.

Apr 3, 2021

After just two days of fighting, the British Prime Sir Anthony Eden orders a cease fire, this would be followed by a humiliation withdraw from Port Said by British and French Forces.  Why, well the American Government created a run on the pound which caused Eden to panic.  United Nations Peace keepers are sent to region, this is proposed by Canadian Foreign Minister Lester Pearson, his biography is given. 

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