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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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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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48:27

365 The Second Happy Time

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/05/05

When the United States entered the war, the German U-boats suddenly had many more targets.

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44:39

364 The Man with the Iron Heart

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/04/21

Reinhard Heydrich was one of the most vicious of the Nazis. So much so that the Czechoslovak and British governments decided that he needed to be eliminated.

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58:44

363 Midway

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/04/14

The Japanese execute their attempted ambush at Midway, and it fails catastrophically.

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42:13

362 Scratch One Flattop!

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/04/07

The US Navy sent two of its carriers into the southwest Pacific to thwart the Japanese campaign to take New Caledonia and isolate Australia. The Japanese responded by sending two of their own. The carriers engaged each other in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

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54:07

361 I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/03/31

Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt asked the military to find a way to strike back at the Japanese Home Islands. It took an unorthodox approach to make this possible.

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42:09

360: Now You Belong to the Japanese Army

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/03/17

For India, like Australia, the entry of Japan into the war meant it was no longer a distant, European struggle. By May 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army was at the Indian border.

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51:11

359 Order 9066

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/03/10

In 1942, many Americans feared a Japanese invasion of the West Coast of the US or Canada was imminent. Regrettably, these fears led to the belief--unsupported by facts--that the ethnic Japanese population on the West Coast represented a dangerous fifth column of potential spies and saboteurs.

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