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The Expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe 1944-50
One of the biggest forced movements of populations in human history occurred in the final months of the Second World War and long into the post war e…
11 years, 2 months ago
Wilson, Roosevelt and the USSR
Democrat presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt hoped the USSR could become a key part of the post war worlds they were involved in develop…
11 years, 2 months ago
The Easter Rising 1916
At the start of the First World War the threat of civil war in Ireland between home rule nationalists and protestant unionists in the north began to …
11 years, 3 months ago
Women's Political Publishing 1850-1918
In the second half of the 19th Century, the development of a new and diverse range of magazines, leaflets and books written by educated and wealthy V…
11 years, 3 months ago
The Liberal Government and the First World War
In the first two years of the First World War, British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith was a distant and detached character, leaving major decisions t…
11 years, 3 months ago
The Red Summer 1919
In 1919 America experienced a post war explosion of racial violence. Black communities in over 30 cities across the USA were attacked by mobs, angry …
11 years, 3 months ago
China and the First World War
During the First World War, nearly a hundred thousand poor Chinese labourers dug British trenches on the western front. Their government hoped that t…
11 years, 4 months ago
Mussolini's Cult of Personality
Benito Mussolini dominated Italy for two decades and was able to rule partly because of the relationship he had with the Italian people. To many ordi…
11 years, 4 months ago
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was the last major meeting of the allied powers and took place after the surrender of Germany. The conference was a key event …
11 years, 4 months ago
The Wannsee Conference
In January 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's deputy held a conference at Wannsee in Berlin to order the mass extermination of all of Europe's Jews. T…
11 years, 5 months ago