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Japan, war and hardship 1937-41
By 1941 Japan was facing acute economic crises due to the long drawn out war in China and the American oil and scrap metal embargo. The surprise atta…
9 years, 1 month ago
The Fate of Europe's Collaborators - 1945
At the end of the Second World War, savage reprisals against anyone suspected of collaborating with the Nazis swept Europe. In many instances, howeve…
9 years, 1 month ago
Kennedy, the CIA and Vietnam 1960-1963
In November 1963, shortly before he was assassinated, John F Kennedy ordered the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam. Diem, a corru…
9 years, 2 months ago
India and the outbreak of war 1939
In September 1939 Lord Linlithgow, the British Viceroy of India declared war on Nazi Germany without consulting any of India's political parties. The…
9 years, 2 months ago
The Battle of Amiens, 1918
Following the failure of Germany's last bid to defeat Britain, France and America in the west, a counter offensive took advantage of the Kaiser Army'…
9 years, 2 months ago
Hitler and the Catholic Church 1933-37
In 1933, as Hitler consolidated his power, he signed an agreement or 'concordat' with the Catholic Church, removing the power of the Papacy from Germ…
9 years, 3 months ago
Radical Politics and British Pop Music 1976-87
For the first time in its history, British popular music became radically politicised in the mid 1970s as a result of the rise of far right racist gr…
9 years, 3 months ago
From Tito to Milosevic - the breakup of Yugoslavia
What factors led to the destruction of Yugoslavia and the death of 140,000 people over a decade? This podcast examines the mounting tensions that com…
9 years, 4 months ago
Nixon, Reagan and the war on drugs 1971-1989
By the late 1960s anxieties over rapid social change and racial tensions promoted a conservative backlash against the perceived permissiveness of the…
9 years, 4 months ago
Class Warfare in Spain 1918-1931
In the decade and a half before the Spanish Civil War, a bitterly divided society existed in constant conflict. Wealthy landowners and industrialists…
9 years, 4 months ago