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Eastern Europe 1949-89

Losing Soviet control over eastern Europe – video documentary

These three videos present the events that led to the end of communism in the Eastern Bloc.

PART 1 – Gorbachev, the attitude of Honecker, Hungary 1989, Poland 1989, Warsaw Pact Summit 1989, the economic and political situation in East Germany, the crossing of East Germans through Hungary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akGjJcl3GDw

PART 2 – East Germany’s 40th anniversay demonstration, fall of Honecker, fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASEC3m1wULE

PART 3 – Uprising in Romania leading to the end of Ceausescu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFrA9Ga0Mwo

Overthrow of Ceaușescu

The overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1989

On the 22nd December 1989, Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu was overthrown.

Triple Alliance

The creation of the Triple Alliance: an overview

Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy formed the Triple Alliance.