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Woodrow Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference 1919
In December 1918 US president Woodrow Wilson set sail for Europe to build a lasting peace after four years of devastating war. The principled but oft…
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British Propaganda and the First World War
In Phillip Knightley's seminal account of war reporting 'The First Casualty', the British came to excel in distorting war reporting and influencing p…
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China in 1945
After eight years of devastating war with Japan, China found an uncertain peace in the summer of 1945, which would soon come crashing down. The civil…
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Churchill and Roosevelt 1939-1940
In 1939 American diplomats were certain that Britain and France faced defeat and Roosevelt would have to play the role of peace broker. A new prime m…
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Stalin, Mao and the Korean War
The outbreak of war in the Korean peninsula in 1950 was preceded by half a decade of careful consideration by Stalin and an desire by Mao to take on …
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Foreign workers in Hitler's Germany 1939-45
Hitler's war industries experienced critical manpower shortages throughout the war and the solution was to import millions of foreign workers from al…
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Pre War German Jewish Culture and Indentity
The horrors of the Holocaust have shaped how we see Germany and Europe's Jews, mainly as victims. However, German Jews were among the most emancipate…
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Truman and the founding of the CIA - 1947
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, a skeptical Harry Truman abolished America's only spy agency the OSS, without a replacement. With…
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Maoist Re-education and China's Youth
In 1968 a new wave of political purges began, following two years of anarchy in the Cultural Revolution. This time, young people were sent to be ideo…
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Australia and Asia in the 1960s
How did Australia adapt to the decline of the British Empire and the challenges of the Cold War, while seeking to contain its own oppressive racial p…
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