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The History of the Twentieth Century

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Radio Detection and Ranging

June 11, 2023 · 44 min

Theories of strategic bombing in the 1930s suggested that it alone might be enough to win a war. But the development of radar meant that the bomber might not always get through after all.
326 War in the Air

June 4, 2023 · 48 min

We examine the advances in aviation technology between the World Wars.
325 After the Fall

May 28, 2023 · 48 min

The world reacts to the Fall of France.
Plan Red

May 21, 2023 · 44 min

After the Dunkirk evacuation, the next stage of the Western offensive began, aimed at capturing Paris and defeating France.
Operation Dynamo

May 7, 2023 · 54 min

After German armor cut off the Allied First Army Group in Belgium, the Royal Navy attempts an evacuation of the trapped forces from the port of Dunkirk.

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Plan Yellow

April 30, 2023 · 45 min

After months of delays and a diversion into Denmark and Norway, Hitler finally gets his Western offensive.
Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat

April 23, 2023 · 40 min

The Allied debacle in Norway sparked a revolt in the British Parliament against the Chamberlain government's conduct of the war.
Operation Weserübung

April 16, 2023 · 40 min

Improbably, the nation of Norway finds itself the front line of the Second World War.
Winston Is Back!

April 2, 2023 · 44 min

In the final year before the war began, Winston Churchill's denunciations of Nazi Germany began to seem prescient, but Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain fiercely resisted calls to invite Churchill into the Cabinet until war came. Then…
The Calm Before the Storm

March 26, 2023 · 42 min

Adolf Hitler wanted to attack in the west immediately after the fall of Poland, but unfavorable weather kept postponing the offensive. Then a copy of the plan fell into Allied hands.
The Winter War

March 19, 2023 · 45 min

With the other Great Powers involved in their own wars, Stalin and the USSR are now free to claim the territories Germany granted to their "sphere of influence."
Nazism Unleashed.

March 12, 2023 · 49 min

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it freed the Nazis from having to worry about international opinion. Hitler and his followers could now do as they pleased.