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1 online resource (streaming video file) (38 min. 59 sec.) ; 228135733 bytes |
Series |
The Nineties ; Series 1, Episode 5 |
Summary |
The world changed in fundamental ways in the first few years of the 1990s. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved and East and West Germany were united. Nelson Mandela was freed from prison and Mikhail Gorbachev was forced out of office as Apartheid ended in South Africa and the Soviet Union collapsed. After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, President George HW Bush led an international coalition in the Persian Gulf War. In the 1992 election, Ross Perot, a flamboyant multimillionaire businessman challenged the political establishment and Bill Clinton became America's first baby boomer president |
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Closed captioning in English |
Event |
Broadcast 2017-11-19 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Coalition governments.
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Documentary television programs.
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Politics and government.
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Germany.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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Author |
Browkaw, Tom, contributor
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Fenton, Tom, contributor
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Kennedy, Edward, contributor
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De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem), contributor
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Magaziner, Daniel, contributor
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Sissons, Peter, 1942- contributor
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