History in 28-minutes
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Spanish Civil War – Episode 2 - The Gloomy Clouds of War
Hi all, The second episode in our series on the Spanish Civil War is out now! rss feed | iTunes | Spanish Civil War Page | Other listening options Spains true democratic experiment was tearing the country further and further apart. Traditionalist, conservative, Catholic Spain was increasingly at odds with urban, liberal, secular Spain. And in the fervent, charged atmosphere of 1930s Europe, both sides were increasingly viewing the other as an extremist enemy. Then in February 1936 an...
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Spanish Civil War History - Episode 1 - To Change or Not...
Hi all, Were back with the first episode in our brand new series on the Spanish Civil War. rss feed | iTunes | Spanish Civil War Page | Other listening options The Spanish Civil War is surely one of the most important civil wars of all time. It was a war that had ideological, social, class, religious, regional, and economic divides. It was a bloody war that saw brutal repression. And it was a war that had a major international element - it involved battles between democracy and dictatorship,...
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Cold War People - Episode 7 - John F Kennedy
Hello! John F Kennedy, a man who surely needs no introduction, is the last person we look at in this series of Cold War People. rss feed | iTunes | History Podcasts Page We shall be looking at one of the most iconic of US presidents, a sometimes controversial figure who inspired hope in so many. He also died in the most tragic of circumstances. rss feed | iTunes | History Podcasts Page See you soon for our series on the Spanish Civil War. George Levrier-Jones
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Cold War People - Episode 6 - Nikita Khrushchev
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Cold War People - Episode 5 - Dwight D Eisenhower
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Cold War People - Episode 4 - Walter Ulbricht
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Cold War People - Episode 3 - Harry S Truman
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Cold War People - Episode 2 - Joseph Stalin
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Cold War People - Episode 1 - Winston Churchill
Hello All, Were back with our brand new series, Cold War People. This series will look at the lives of some of the most important people involved in the Cold War. We will provide interesting, introductory overviews of them rather than necessarily looking in detail at their involvement in the Cold War. rss feed | iTunes And the first episode looks at one of the most important men of his age, Winston Churchill. The British war-time leader played a key role for the allies throughout World War...
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Cold War Series - Episode 10 - The End of the Cold War
The End of the Cold War, the final episode in itshistorypodcasts.coms Cold War series, is out now.. The episode looks at what happened as a result of the changes that Gorbachev unleashed in the USSR. Last time we saw how Cold War tensions rose before the world changed once more - the policies of Reagan and Gorbachev led to a breakthrough on nuclear weapons. However, it would be the reforms that came from the Eastern bloc that led to a world transformed and the end of the Cold War. Required...
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Cold War Series - Episode 8 - Capitalist and Communist...
Capitalist and Communist economies episode 8 in itshistorypodcasts.coms Cold War series is out now.. We look at the key trends in the capitalist and Communist economies up to the 1980s and set the scene for what was to happen in the final years of the Cold War. Economic growth was key to the battle between the super-powers more growth meant that they could spend more on the military in a sustainable way. But, military spending had to be traded-off against allowing people in these countries...
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Cold War Series - Episode 6: Europe 1950s & 1960s
Here is episode 6 of itshistorypodcasts.com's series on the Cold War Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. Were going to pick up on the story of many countries in a Continent that had become divided by an Iron Curtain. The Continent had the USAs most important and strongest allies, and was the area of many of the USSRs key allies. It was of course Europe. We left the story of Europe with one of the most dramatic events of the Cold War - the Berlin blockade. This time, we will be back in Berlin for...
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Cold War Series - Episode 5: The Vietnam War
Here is episode 5 of itshistorypodcasts.com's series on the Cold War the Vietnam War. Its on that generation-defining war, a war that spanned the central years of the Cold War, but also the years when the global balance of power perhaps started to shift a little bit. We are going to be looking at a war in which US involvement lasted more than double the whole length of World War II, and one that spans over a quarter of a century. It also involves many key trends in the Cold War...
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Cold War Series - Episode 4 - The Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cold War Series - Episode 2: Europe 1945-1954
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