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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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49:40

385 The Thingamabob That's Going to Win the War

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/11/10

The BBC struggles to determine its role in wartime Britain.

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47:12

384 Do You Want Total War?

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/10/27

Stalingrad falls and Joseph Goebbels tries to spark a program to ramp up the German war effort.

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40:40

383 Casablanca

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/10/20

Roosevelt and Churchill met again in early 1943 to discuss the next stage of the war against the Axis, and they chose a provocative venue: Casablanca, a city their armies had only recently taken.

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54:31

382 Turning Point

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/10/06

In October and November 1942, the Japanese began their final push to drive the Americans off Guadalcanal.

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50:54

381 Der Manstein kommt!

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/09/29

The Germans began an operation to relieve the siege of Stalingrad, but the Red Army was already prepared with a counter attack.

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40:30

380 Operation Uranus

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/09/15

The battle for Stalingrad raged on for two months, then the situation was suddenly upended by a surprise Soviet offensive that surrounded the city.

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44:36

379 How Green Is My Ally

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/09/08

The Anglo-American amphibious landings in French North Africa were not only a complex military operation. There was also complex negotiation going on behind the scenes. The Allies did not want to defeat French forces in North Africa; they wanted the French to join them.

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40:57

378 The End of the Beginning

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/09/01

In October 1942, Bernard Montgomery began his long-awaited offensive against the Italians and Germans in Egypt. Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the Mediterranean, the Allies were preparing to open a new front in Africa.

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46:19

377 Verdun on the Volga

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/08/25

The Battle of Stalingrad was a throwback to the kinds of battles fought in the last war. Like Verdun, the Germans were paying a heavy price. Would the gain be worth it?

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41:48

376 Two Hammers, One Anvil

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/08/11

As Bernard Montgomery plotted an offensive against Axis forces in North Africa from the east, Dwight Eisenhower was plotting one from the west.

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39:14

375 Time Is Blood

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/08/04

When German soldiers began their assault on the city of Stalingrad, they expected a quick victory, but the Soviet defense was far tougher than they had imagined.

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42:42

374 A Steppe Too Far

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/07/21

German forces advance on Stalingrad in August 1942, while Adolf Hitler becomes increasingly hostile and mistrustful of his military commanders.

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44:51

373 The Machinery of Mass Murder

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/07/14

The Nazis applied the experience they had gained from murdering disabled people and Soviet POWs to their project to exterminate Jewish people in Europe.

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45:44

372 The Road to the Holocaust

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/06/30

It started with the concentration camps.

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43:26

371 Operation Shoestring

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/06/23

In the first American offensive action of the war, US marines land on Guadalcanal.

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41:59

370 Not One Step Back

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/06/16

The German 1942 offensive in the USSR began well, so well that Hitler split the offensive into two parts. The German Army was advancing on Stalingrad and threatening to cut Russia off from its oil fields in the Caucasus.

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48:15

369 Operation Sledgehammer

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/06/09

The US military went into the war just itching to invade France and take on the Germans ASAP. It was up to the British to talk them down, though the Allies did attempt a raid on the French coast at the port of Dieppe. Meanwhile, German intelligence infiltrated saboteurs into the United States.

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47:12

368 The Second United Front

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/05/26

The war against Japan brought the Nationalists and the Communists back into a new alliance, but it didn't last. Mao Zedong polished up his political writings and asserted his authority over the Party.

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39:07

367 El Alamein

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/05/19

Adolf Hitler redeployed Luftwaffe units from the Eastern front to the Mediterranean. With Axis air superiority in the region established, shipments of equipment and supplies to Panzer Army Africa substantially increased. Soon Rommel was on the move again, this time driving the British deep into Egypt.

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40:08

366 The Desert Fox

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/05/12

Rommel was surprised by a British offensive (Operation Crusader) and his forces were driven all the way back to where he had started from a year earlier. But in a few months, he and his army pushed the British back to where they had started.

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