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Roosevelt, Stalin and the Creation of the Grand Alliance
When Hitler invaded the USSR in June 1941, the changing strategic picture presented Britain and America with opportunities and hazards. A deal with S…
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Truman's anti communist policy 1945-47
The mid term elections in 1946 were a disaster for the Democratic Party, which faced fraudulent accusations of communist sympathies from their Republ…
7 years, 9 months ago
Japan's Strategic Failures 1940-41
By the winter of 1941 the Japanese public, military planners and government were in broad agreement about the necessity of war against America, Brita…
7 years, 9 months ago
Italy and the Paris Peace Conference Part Two
Second in the series of discussions on Italy's departure from the Paris Peace Conference.
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French Internment of Spanish Refugees 1939-45
When half a million supporters of the Spanish Republic fled from Franco's murderous nationalist armies in 1939 to France, they faced hostility and im…
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Himmler's orders and the SS Camp System 1933-39
In the hidden world of the Nazi camps, Himmler's desire for order presented the sadists who worked as camp guards with strict regulations on prisoner…
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Italy and the Paris Peace Conference
When Italy attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando had immense ambitions to acquire new territories. The disappo…
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Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism
A combination of free market economic liberalism and social conservatism, was Margaret Thatcher an 'inconsistent ideologue'?
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Erich Fromm and the Sane Society 1955
In 1955, psychoanalyst Erich Fromm examined the emotional realities behind the lives of Americans experiencing unprecedented material wealth. His fin…
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Mass consumerism in America 1945-60
In the decade after 1945 American life was transformed by cheap housing, cheap fuel and the biggest increase in material well being in human history.…
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