Explaining History

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Explaining History episodes

January 19, 2015 Book Review: The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe
This month's Explaining History Book Review features The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe by Martin Winstone.
To buy the book click on the link below:
http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Humanities/History/History%20earliest%20times%20to%20present%20day/20th%20century%20history%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000/The%20Dark%20Heart%20of%20Hitlers%20Europe%20Nazi%20Rule%20in%20Poland%20Under%20the%20General%20Government.aspx?menuitem={DFF51E2F-C0BA-4928-ACC4-415188DCDEE8}
Also you can get Julia Routledge's: The Genocidal Century here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genocidal-Century-Mass-Killing-20th-ebook/dp/B00PCMAV1E/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1421680875&sr=1-1
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January 14, 2015 The Red Summer 1919
In 1919 America experienced a post war explosion of racial violence. Black communities in over 30 cities across the USA were attacked by mobs, angry at the new economic opportunities that had opened up to black people as a result of the First World War.
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20 min
January 06, 2015 China and the First World War
During the First World War, nearly a hundred thousand poor Chinese labourers dug British trenches on the western front. Their government hoped that the war would provide opportunities to revise crippling treaties imposed on her by Britain and France and claim back territory lost to Germany and Japan. When Chinese hopes were dashed at the Paris Peace Conference, the long term political consequences in China were immense and dominated the next three decades.
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23 min
January 01, 2015 Mussolini's Cult of Personality
Benito Mussolini dominated Italy for two decades and was able to rule partly because of the relationship he had with the Italian people. To many ordinary Italians he was an immensely popular figure and many viewed him as down to earth and in touch with the lives of Italy's working poor. This podcast explores his cult of personality.
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24 min
December 11, 2014 The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was the last major meeting of the allied powers and took place after the surrender of Germany. The conference was a key event in the development of the Cold War and drew up the conflict's battle grounds in Europe and Asia
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23 min
December 02, 2014 The Wannsee Conference
In January 1942 Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's deputy held a conference at Wannsee in Berlin to order the mass extermination of all of Europe's Jews. This podcast explores the relationship between the conference and the course of the war.For a detailed analysis of this and the Jewish Holocaust, read Julia Routledge's excellent new ebook The Genocidal Century: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Genocidal-Century-Mass-Killing-20th-ebook/dp/B00PCMAV1E/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1415438292&sr=1-1
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30 min
November 27, 2014 Book Review:The Seventies
This month's book review features three titles on Britain and the world's experience of the turbulent 1970s.
* State of Emergency and Seasons in the Sun by Dominic Sandbrook.
* Strange Rebels by Christian Caryl
http://www.amazon.co.uk/State-Emergency-Were-Britain-1970-1974/dp/0141032154/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417102355&sr=1-3&keywords=dominic+sandbrook
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seasons-Sun-Battle-Britain-1974-1979/dp/0141032162/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417102370&sr=1-1&keywords=dominic+sandbrook
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Rebels-1979-Birth-Century/dp/0465065678/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1417102416&sr=1-1&keywords=strange+rebels
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November 21, 2014 Harold Wilson's Government 1964-70
Harold Wilson was Britain's Prime Minister from 1964-1970, a period in which optimistic visions of a new country faltered and faded. By the end of the decade the modern, meritocratic and scientific country that he promised in 1964 had not materialised. This podcast explores Wilson and the challenges he and Britain faced.
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20 min
November 18, 2014 Europe In 1945
At the end of the Second World War Europe was devastated, starving and in chaos. Millions of refugees and displaced persons were dependent on the United Nations to feed and shelter them. Some of the newly restored governments saw it as an ideal opportunity to expel unwanted ethnic minorities and in parts of the continent, fighting between communist and non communist forces continued.
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23 min
November 11, 2014 The Yalta Conference
by February 1945 The Soviet Union controlled most of Eastern Europe and outnumbered the Western Allies 3-1. Stalin was in a uniquely powerful bargaining position at the Yalta Conference in the Crimea to shape the post war world and demand concessions from Churchill and Roosevelt.
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23 min