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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…
8 years, 10 months ago
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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The BBC and the General Strike 1926
The British government had a long standing suspicion of the powers of broadcasting when the BBC was established in 1922. The experience of the Genera…
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Roosevelt and Chamberlain 1939-1940
In 1939 Franklin Roosevelt struggled against the popularity of isolationism in the USA and his plans to aid Neville Chamberlain's Britain and Eduard …
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Hunger and Division in Germany 1916-18
In the first two years of the First World War, German society was largely unified in fear of external enemies, particularly Russia. However, by 1916 …
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Eastern Europe after Stalin 1953-1989
Following the death of the dictator and the end of Stalinism, different Warsaw Pact members attempted to solve their economic problems by building co…
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