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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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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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57:14

358 The Wannsee Conference

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/03/03

Sometime in the autumn of 1941, a decision was made among the Nazi elite to murder every Jewish person in Europe--or within reach, anyway. No record exists of how that decision was made, but we have a very detailed record of how it was carried out.

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44:50

357 No Retreat

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/02/25

The winter of 1941-42 was not a happy one for the German Army. On the Eastern Front it was battered by a record cold winter and a Soviet counteroffensive. In North Africa, a British offensive pushed Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps all the way back to central Libya, from where he had begun.

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44:37

356 Happy Time

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/02/11

After the sinking of Bismarck, the Germans abandoned surface raiding in the Atlantic and turned to their greatest naval strength: submarine warfare.

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50:05

355 Reap the Whirlwind

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/02/04

The Luftwaffe's bombing campaign over England did not force a British capitulation. Can RAF Bomber Command force a German capitulation?

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47:01

354 The Fall of Singapore

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/01/28

The Japanese Army's greatest victory; the British Army's greatest defeat.

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55:07

353 A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/01/21

The attack on Pearl Harbor ended the political division in the US between interventionists and isolationists. Now the US was united as never before.

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53:34

352 Climb Mount Niitaka II

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/01/07

The Japanese attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

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45:07

351 Climb Mount Niitaka I

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2024/01/02

The Japanese give up on peace talks with America and began prepare for war.

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47:18

350 The Land of Abundant Wildlife

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/12/25

The defining features of the nation of Panama are its abundant wildlife and that it is the place where the world's two largest oceans are at their closest.

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58:11

349 Why Do the Winds and Waves Rage So Turbulently?

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/12/24

The upper levels of Japanese government (and, more important, the military) increasingly came to the view that war with the United States was necessary if Japan was to survive.

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41:47

348 Five Minutes to Midnight

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/12/17

At the end of the rasputitsa, the mud season, the German Army had one final, narrow opportunity, to win the war against the USSR before winter.

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48:57

347 The Green Folder

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/12/03

Even before the first German soldier crossed the frontier into the USSR, the Nazi government in Berlin had a plan for administering occupied Russia.

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44:15

346 The Battle of Smolensk

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/11/26

The German invasion of the USSR went brilliantly for the first 2-3 weeks, but instead of collapsing as expected, the Red Army only got stronger.

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44:21

345 Operation Barbarossa

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/11/19

On June 22, 1941, Germany began an invasion of its erstwhile trade partner, the USSR.

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55:47

344 America First

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/11/12

The Dust Bowl ravages the central United States, Charles Lindbergh's infant son is kidnapped, the America First movement opposes US involvement in the war.

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54:47

343 The Balkan Detour

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/10/29

Germany executes its invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece, and the Axis encourages an anti-British coup in Iraq.

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42:25

342 Operation Marita

The History of the Twentieth Century ·

2023/10/22

As Germany made preparations to assist its ally Italy in the war against Greece, a coup in Yugoslavia prompted Adolf Hitler to order the invasion of that country as well.

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