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[articleimagethumbLeft]The Cold War Heats Up: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Produced by Michael Blurton, Portola Magnet School, 1996 read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]The Disintegration of Yugoslavia: A Historical Perspective
Produced by Michael Delbuck, Venice High School, 1994 read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]The Fall of Communism: New Directions for Politics, Social Conditions, and the Economy
Produced by Virginia D. Pranik, Arch Diocese Bishop Amat High School read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]The Siege of Sarajevo and the American Civil War
Produced by Karalee Wong Nakatsuka, First Avenue Middle School, 1996 read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]The Soviet Union and the Fall of Communism
Produced by Katherine Temesvary, St. Augustine School, 1997 read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]The Use and Misuse of Power
Produced by Bill Younglove, Long Beach Millikan High School, 2000 read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Challenges to Democracy: A Summer Institute for Educators
A summer institute for educators, held August 8 – August 12, 2005, focuses on ethnicity, diversity and other issues in contemporary Europe. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Cyprus
Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, 113 kilometres (70 miles) south of Turkey and around 120 km west of the Syrian coast. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Malta
The Republic of Malta is a small and densely populated island nation in southern Europe. It consists of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea directly south of Italy. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Georgia
Georgia, a nation in the Caucasus region of eastern Europe and western Asia read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Kazakstan
Kazakhstan, also spelled Kazakstan, is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Asia, and a former republic of the now extinct USSR. A portion of its territory west of the Ural River is located in eastern-most Europe. It has borders with Russia, the People's Republic of China, and countries of Central Asia, such as Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and has a coastline on the Caspian Sea. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, and sometimes known as Kirghizia, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it borders China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Its capital is Bishkek. Once a republic of the Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan has been independent since 1991. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Latvia
The Republic of Latvia, or Latvia, is a country in Northern Europe. Latvia has land borders with its two fellow Baltic states — Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south — and Russia and Belarus to the east. In the west Latvia shares a maritime border with Sweden. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Moldova
The Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the east. Its border with Romania follows the Prut and lower Danube rivers. Previously a republic within the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991 as Moldavian SSR, it declared independence on 27 August 1991. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Russia
The Russian Federation, or Russia, is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest nation, Canada. It ranks seventh in the world in population, following China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, and Pakistan. read full article »
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