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Lebensraum, Genocide and Nazi Colonial Utopias 1941-45
The conquest of the Soviet Union was an idea that had been at the forefront of HItler's thoughts since the 1920s. Exploiting the resources of Russia and the Ukraine for the benefit of Germany was not…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Soviet Citizens and the start of the Great Terror- 1937
In 1937 many Soviet citizens had traumatic memories of collectivisation, anti Kulak campaigns and famine from the period 1928-33. Many could sense that a new time of crisis was emerging and saw the a…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Schlieffen, Moltke and German strategy 1914
In the decade before the FIrst World War, Germany and Austria-Hungary put little effort in to coordinating their military strategies in the event of a war on two fronts. Germany's chief of General St…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
Eisenhower, Korea and the politics of 1950s America
The landslide victory for Eisenhower and the Republican Party in the 1952 Presidential Election showed Democrats that a right of centre, socially conservative America in the grip of an obsessive anti…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
Problematic Histories: Teaching Civil Rights in the UK and the BLM moment
History teaching is within the confines of a curriculum and under the pressure of examinations is riven with unfortunate compromises and unintended outcomes. The question of the civil rights movement…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
The Eighth Airforce over Germany - Explaining History in conversation with David Dean Barrett
In early 1942 the American Eighth Air Force existed on paper only. Within twelve months it was a formidable fighting force in daylight raids over Germany and by 1945 was mounting the first two thousa…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Britain, France and the Mandate System 191-19
During the First World War, much of the fighting occurred in colonial Africa, which in 1918, the victorious powers believed could not rule itself. President Woodrow Wilson of the USA and Britain were…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Germany and Austria-Hungary's 'war fever' re-examined: 1914
A popular view of the July crisis that led to the start of the First World War was the excitement and enthusiasm across Europe for war. Examining Alexander Watson's Ring of Steel, we discuss the vali…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Korea, McCarthy and anti communism
For the Republican Party in the 1940s and 1950s, the only means of attacking the Democrats was by inflating the fear of communism and accusing their rivals of treason. In 1951, following the dismissa…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Postwar planning, centralisation and its enemies: 1945
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the belief that anything was now possible in the reshape and redesign of societies was widespread in the liberal capitalist and communist worlds. T…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago