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How it all Began Episodes

  1.

    Berlin

    The Yalta agreement that split Germany

  2. Hong Kong

    Hong Kong was known as the business mecca of the east

  3. The Nuclear Arms Race

    A look back at the nuclear arms race and the Cold war

  4. Ethiopia - Eritrea Conflict

    Eritrea became a disputed territory following the downfall of Mussolini

  5. Indo-Pakistan Tensions

    Partitioning India involved moving 8 million people and dividing the land

  6. The Russian Empire

    Retaining identity in a consolidated Russian empire

  7. Northern Ireland

    How did mistrust between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists come about?

  8. Greece and Turkey

    "Condemned to be friends" - Georg Mavros

  9. Khmer Rouge

    The fatal relations between the people of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge

  10. Chemical Weapons

    The effectiveness and cost of chemical weapons

  11. Antarctica

    What lead to the commercialisation of Antarctica?

  12. Sino-Soviet Tensions

    When Russia refused China a nuclear bomb - a symbiotic relationship broke down.

  13. Gibraltar

    Gibraltar has been fought over for centuries

  14. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

    Described as a cartel that manipulated the price of a commodity the world relied on

  15. The European Economic Community (EEC)

    Reconstructing Europe after the Second World War

  16. Ozone Depletion

    The moment when world leaders acknowledged an environmental crisis

  17. Apartheid

    An Afrikaans word meaning "the state of being apart", literally "apart-hood".

  18. Latin American Debt

    Trying to put an end to poverty. How Latin America got into debt and the cause of crisis