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War Reporting 1939
The experience of managing information in the First World War shaped how Britain and Germany would control propaganda in the next conflict. Both soug…
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The USSR and the aftermath of the Six Day War
A devastating air campaign against Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq saw the Arab forces that faced Israel destroyed and the balance of power in the Midd…
8 years, 8 months ago
Franco German cooperation 1926-32
In the aftermath of the First World War, France and Germany sought ways to cooperate throughout the 1920s in order to provide economic stability and …
8 years, 8 months ago
Hitler's decision making 1940-1941
The months that followed the fall of France were crucial in determining the future outcome of the war. Hitler's decision making became more impulsive…
8 years, 8 months ago
David Ben Gurion and Palestine 1945-48
The rising star of the Zionist movement by the end of the Second World War, Ben Gurion was a mercurial figure with complex and often antagonistic rel…
8 years, 8 months ago
World War One and the creation of the Mandate system
During and immediately after the First World War, a range of plans were devised to distribute and manage German and Ottoman colonies and the process …
8 years, 9 months ago
The Battle of Britain Part Two
Despite Herman Goering's estimates that the RAF would be defeated in under a month, a long battle of attrition raged throughout August and September …
8 years, 9 months ago
Black Americans and Civil Rights in 1945
The Second World War had a dramatic impact on the civil rights struggle, but as a new era in the battle for equality and justice for Black Americans …
8 years, 9 months ago
The overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and the Ottoman Empire 1909
In the space of a year the Ottoman Empire was convulsed by two revolutions and a violent civil war between secular modernisers and Islamic traditiona…
8 years, 9 months ago
Rethinking Stalin's Gulags
Some fresh perspectives on Stalin's labour camps, revising Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archepelago
Explaining History helps you understand the 20th Century …
8 years, 9 months ago