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Harry Truman 1945
Following the death of US president Franklin Roosevelt, his successor, Harry Truman entered the Oval Office in the last days of World War Two. The in…
10 years, 4 months ago
Nixon and Kissinger 1968-74
By the end of the 1960s the Cold War was in deadlock and America was mired in war in Vietnam. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger attempted to address …
10 years, 5 months ago
Subhas Chandra Bose
During the Second World War, Subhas Chandra Bose courted Soviet, Nazi and Imperial Japanese leaders in order to build an army to force the British ou…
10 years, 5 months ago
The Tories and the Miners 1970-1984
In 1974 the government of Edward Heath was defeated in an election called to give Heath a mandate against the trade unions. His nemesis was the miner…
10 years, 5 months ago
Asia after the atomic bomb
In August 1945 two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan ending the Second World War in Asia. However the bombs did not end conflict across the region, …
10 years, 6 months ago
America in 1945
At the end of the Second World War, the USA was the wealthiest society in history and experienced an economic boom that was to last for nearly three …
10 years, 6 months ago
British and American Journalists and the Russian Revolution
During the chaos of the First World War a generation of British and American correspondents in Russia astutely predicted the failure of the Provision…
10 years, 6 months ago
Romania, Communism and the Holocaust
Throughout the 20th Century Romania has endured the twin catastrophes of fascism and communism. During the Second World War Romania was deeply involv…
10 years, 6 months ago
Thatcher, AIDS and sexual politics in the 1980s
Margaret Thatcher was a politician convinced that a return to 'family values' after two decades of seeming moral decline in the 60s and 70s was part …
10 years, 7 months ago
Goebbels and Total War
In February 1943, after one of the longest coldest winters of the war, the news that the German 6th Army had been lost at Stalingrad shocked the nati…
10 years, 7 months ago