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Social Mobility and the American Dream 1945-50
Rising living standards, new scientific innovation and a faith in progress were prevalent in America in the immediate aftermath of the Second World W…
7 years, 11 months ago
Hitler, Goering and the Four Year Plan
When President of the Reichbank and Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht suggested slowing the pace of rearmament to Hitler in the mid 1930s, he was re…
7 years, 11 months ago
Lenin's Train to Russia: April 1917
The journey made by Vladimir Lenin in 1917 from Zurich to Petrograd was part of a German strategy to undermine its enemies from within. Previous atte…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Defence of India -
At the start of the Second World War, India had several overlapping defence concerns and Britain sought to place more cost and responsibility on the …
7 years, 11 months ago
The Siege of Leningrad Pt 1
While the German Army prepared to seize Moscow, the longest siege of the war began at Leningrad on the Gulf of Finland. It would result in the deaths…
8 years ago
America's post war boom (Part One) 1945-1973
An interventionist state, the capture of global markets and the destruction of economic opponents (Germany and Japan) and the loss of Britain's econo…
8 years ago
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's failed bid to seize Moscow
After a summer and autumn of devastating defeats at the hands of the Wehrmacht, the Red Army was finally able to inflict a major setback on Hitler's …
8 years ago
India's Congress Party and the Muslim League: 1939-40
Following the unilateral declaration of war by the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, in 1939 without consulting any of India's political parties, lo…
8 years ago
David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler: 1936
As Lloyd George's political career ebbed away and he became increasingly marginalised in British politics, his sympathies for Germany and his positiv…
8 years ago
Barbarossa Part Six: The end of the offensive
Despite Germany's spectacular advances and the devastating defeats inflicted on the Red Army, Hitler failed to capture Moscow. In late October 1941 t…
8 years ago