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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

241 I Am a Camera

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/06/06

The period from roughly 1924-1933 was a time when Germany threw off the shackles of Imperial authoritarianism and embraced the new and modern in art and culture.

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41:59

240 The Golden Chancellor

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/05/30

Churchill was out of Parliament for a couple of years following the 1922 general election. When he returned, it was as a Conservative and as chancellor of the exchequer in the new Tory government of Stanley Baldwin.

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37:35

239 A Barbarous Relic

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/05/23

History seemed to teach that the gold standard was the key to prosperity. But the postwar world was a different place. Economist John Maynard Keynes dismissed the gold standard as a "barbarous relic."

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48:13

238 Holy Mackerel!

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/05/16

The RCA partners settled their dispute, new technologies appeared on the horizon, including television, and the radio series, an ongoing show chronicling the adventures of a fixed cast, became a new form of entertainment.

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50:43

237 The Phone Booth of the Air

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/05/02

Radio broadcasts were begun by companies that wanted to sell radios and were offered free of charge. But as the radio craze bloomed, it became apparent that broadcasting was going to have to pay its own way somehow.

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39:37

236 The Radio Music Box

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/04/25

From its invention, radio was conceived as a means for wireless two-way communication. Radio telegrams. Radio telephones. But as the technology matured, some in the field saw the potential for radio to become much more.

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50:19

235 The Five-Year Plan

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/04/18

After the death of Lenin, the USSR was a socialist state without a clear understanding of what that meant. Stalin ended Lenin's New Economic Policy and created a centralized push for industrialization known as the Five-Year Plan.

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43:21

234 Chiang in Charge

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/04/11

The death of Sun Yat-sen came at an inopportune moment, just as the Nationalists were poised to regain control over China. Chiang Kai-shek emerged as the Party's new leader. He ended the United Front and attacked and killed Communists.

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43:07

233 Uncle Shylock

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/03/28

By 1922, the Lloyd George government was challenged on many fronts, which led to a general election and a new prime minister, Andrew Bonar Law. Perhaps the biggest challenge was debt repayment to the United States.

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51:57

232 A Noble Experiment

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/03/21

Prohibition came as something of a surprise, and there was widespread flouting of the law. A new drinking culture emerged, and criminal gangs made more money, and became more violent, than ever.

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37:07

231 Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/03/14

By the Revolutionary era, male British colonists in North America were among the heaviest drinkers the world had ever seen. 150 years later, alcoholic beverages were banned in the US and Canada.

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47:00

230 Keep Cool with Coolidge

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/03/07

Hardly anyone knew anything about Calvin Coolidge when he became President, yet he managed to run an Administration that accomplished much and remained popular.

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39:22

229 Teapot Dome

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/02/21

The Teapot Dome scandal became the biggest corruption scandal in US government history. For the first time, a US cabinet secretary was sent to prison for official misdeeds.

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42:52

228 The Little Green House on K Street

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/02/14

By 1923, evidence was mounting of scandal within the Harding Administration. The President did not acknowledge this publicly, but privately he agonized about it. It may have been a factor in his death in August.

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41:32

227 The Jazz Age

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/02/07

Jazz music, by its nature, has to be heard to be understood and appreciated. In an earlier time, it might have remained a regional or ethnic niche music for some time, but thanks to the phonograph, one musician or band could teach jazz to millions.

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50:31

226 Our Native Music

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/01/31

Jazz has its roots in a number of other musical forms: band music, spirituals, blues, and ragtime.

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40:57

225 We Dream of the Future

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/01/17

After years of warlord infighting, some of the major factions were exhausted, while striking workers agitated for reform. It was time for the United Front to make its move, but the untimely death of Sun Yat-sen complicated the picture.

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52:08

224 The Harding Era

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/01/10

Warren Harding was very much a hands-off kind of leader. This worked well when he appointed capable cabinet secretaries, especially Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes. Meanwhile, America experiences the Tulsa Massacre, the worst single episode of racial violence in its history.

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53:45

223 A Calculated Piece of Inhumanity

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2021/01/03

Gandhi returned to India during the Great War, but needed some time to reacquaint himself with the country after being away for so long. The British promise more self-rule, but the ruthless killing of hundreds of peaceful, unarmed civilians in Amritsar is for many Indians the last straw.

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42:16

222 The Kingdom of Satan

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2020/12/27

Mohandas Gandhi went to South Africa to represent an Indian business in a legal dispute. He stayed for 23 years, practicing law, advocating for equal rights for Indians, and developing his theory of resistance, which he called satyagraha.

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