World Trouble Spots - The Big Picture
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Channel: Nuclear Vault · 2011 · Education
National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569843 / Local Identifier 111-TV-645 Big Picture: World Trouble Spots Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). This documentary provides a grim kaleidoscope of world trouble spots: the Berlin Wall, the Lebanon crisis, Laos, South Vietnam, and Cuba. Scenes document Red China as it crushed a revolt in Tibet, then attacked a militarily weak India; Cuban freedom fighters as they attempted to retake their homeland and met disaster; Russian missiles discovered in Cuba; and President John Kennedy's ultimatum to Nikita Khrushchev.
