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The History of the Twentieth Century

A chronicle of the history of the twentieth century, including art, music, popular culture, science, religion, and, of course, politics and war.

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49:37

261 The Great Crash III

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/11/28

The economic bad news had been centered in the United States, but in 1931, bank failures began multiplying in Europe, leading to the Great Depression.

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48:09

260 The Hunger Chancellor

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/11/21

The combination of higher reparations payments and a slower economy led the German government to pursue harsh and unpopular austerity policies.

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48:43

259 The Great Crash II

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/11/14

The crash of the stock market was a shock, but what did it mean? No one was sure, but over the next 18 months, the US economy went from bad to worse.

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39:51

258 The Great Crash I

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/11/07

There were voices warning that the stock market was overpriced, but even in October 1929, there were louder voices proclaiming that all was well, right up to the moment the bottom fell out of Wall Street.

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43:03

257 An Orgy of Speculation

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/10/24

By the beginning of the twentieth century, America already had a reputation for stock speculation, but the Roaring Twenties set new records.

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45:57

256 When the Levees Broke

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/10/17

Unusually heavy rainfall led to widespread flooding in the Mississippi Valley in 1927. The Coolidge Administration's Secretary of Everything, Herbert Hoover, was tasked with flood relief. What kind of relief you got depended heavily on your skin color. Meanwhile, a different sort of flood was rising on the New York Stock Exchange.

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38:37

255 Mussolini Is Always Right

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/10/10

Five years into his premiership, Mussolini ruled over a one-party state. He projected an image of il Duce, the tireless, indispensable leader of the Italian people as he cracked down on dissent at home and unrest in Libya.

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43:05

254 The Century of the State

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/10/03

Although Mussolini had come to power by legal means, he soon cast the moment as a Fascist revolution, and pushed for changes to the electoral system that would tighten the Fascist grip on the country.

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46:15

253 Alfonso the African

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/09/19

The Algeciras Conference awarded Spain a strip of territory in northern Morocco known as the Rif, which became Spanish Morocco. But an award of territory granted by a conference of diplomats is one thing; actual control is another.

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42:31

252: Mahatma Gandhi Ki Jai!

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/09/12

In the early 1920s, Gandhi's first nationwide satyagraha campaign saw unprecedented Hindu-Muslim unity, but led to violence and failed to achieve its aims. Gandhi spent some time in prison, but by 1930, with a Labour government in power, Gandhi and the Indian National Congress felt ready to declare independence.

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44:56

251 Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/09/05

Henry Ford built a successful car company based on the principle of mass production of affordable cars. But his company was eclipsed by General Motors, which had a totally different marketing strategy: planned obsolescence.

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49:07

250 An Instinct for the Regrettable

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/08/29

Two of the twentieth century's worst technological innovations were leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons. Both were introduced by the same person, engineer Thomas Midgley.

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49:20

249: Coming of Age in Samoa

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/08/15

In the 1920s, most took it for granted that Western civilization and culture was the pinnacle of human accomplishment. A 23-year-old graduate student set out to prove that this was not the case, and that even the West had something to learn from other cultures.

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51:13

248 Darwin's Dilemma

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/08/08

Charles Darwin himself noted that the development of civilization had "stopped" evolution by natural selection within our own human species. This led others to speculate on whether society could purposefully direct human evolution.

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51:55

247 Inherit the Wind

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/08/01

The state of Tennessee had made it a criminal offense to teach evolution in the public schools. The trial of John Scopes became the most famous court case in America of the period.

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50:35

246 The Great Debate II

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/07/25

If the first great scientific debate of the 1920s was over the size and composition of the Universe, the second was over the structure and nature of the atom. It turned out that the common-sense rules of our everyday world don't apply at the atomic level.

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40:13

245 Les années folles

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/07/11

The French know the Roaring Twenties as the "crazy years," when Coco Chanel was the queen of fashion and Dada art was making everyone scratch their heads.

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41:17

244 Anything Goes

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/07/04

Music has always been a part of theatre, from opera to vaudeville. But in the 1920s, the first true stage musicals appeared.

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43:55

243 The Algonquin Roundtable

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/06/27

New York City grew to be the most populous city in the world in the 1920s, as well as home to the world's tallest buildings and the world's champion smart alecks.

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47:25

242 Dos, Don'ts, and Be Carefuls

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/06/20

In the early twentieth century, France had the world's largest motion picture industry, but it was soon eclipsed by that of the USA, a larger nation where movies were extremely popular. By 1920, 8 out of 10 motion pictures made in the world came from the United States.

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