The History of the Twentieth Century
History Podcasts
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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United States
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History Podcasts
Description:
A chronicle of the history of the twentieth century, including art, music, popular culture, science, religion, and, of course, politics and war.
Twitter:
@History20th
Language:
English
Episodes
417 Over the Rainbow
9/7/2025
A look at some prominent blues singers, plus Judy Garland and her most famous role, as Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz.
Duration:01:01:54
416 The Iron Gut of Europe
8/31/2025
The Allies hoped their invasion of the Italian mainland would lead to a rapid occupation of Italy, but the Germans put up a defense that slowed their advance to a crawl.
Duration:00:42:04
415 Would They Obey You Any More Readily?
8/24/2025
The German Army continued to retreat westward over the winter of 1943-44, abandoning most of Ukraine. Red Army pressure was relentless, not giving the Germans any opportunity to establish a strong defensive line.
Duration:00:37:54
414 The Teheran Conference
8/17/2025
The Big Three--Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill--met and conferred together for the first time in November 1943. It was the most important meeting of world leaders since the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Duration:00:40:23
413 Frankly, My Dear
8/3/2025
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, created in 1924 by the merger of three film production companies, quickly rose to become the most successful studio of the era. The record box office for the 1939 film Gone with the Wind represents the studio at its height.
Duration:00:40:03
412 Hero to Zero
7/27/2025
The Japanese "Zero" fighter plane played an important role in Japan's amazing victories early in the Pacific war. But by 1943, the Zero (and its pilots) were falling behind their Allied counterparts.
Duration:00:39:51
411 From the Top
7/20/2025
Continuing from the previous episode, we examine events in multiple theaters in August-September 1943
Duration:00:45:13
410 Stranded on Plum Pudding Island
7/13/2025
An eventful period in July-August 1943, when there were major developments on the Eastern Front, in the Mediterranean, and in the Pacific.
Duration:00:44:58
409 Famous Players in Famous Plays
6/29/2025
The history of Paramount Pictures, one of the oldest and most prominent film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Duration:00:48:26
408 The Great Retreat
6/22/2025
The end of the Battle of Kursk did not mean the end of the Red Army advance. The Germans withdrew, but the Red Army just kept coming.
Duration:00:39:03
407 The Siege of Leningrad II
6/15/2025
Hundreds of thousands died in Leningrad during the winter of 1941-42, but with spring came new hope. Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's latest symphony became a patriotic anthem, and not only in the USSR.
Duration:00:48:35
406 The Siege of Leningrad
6/8/2025
As war raged around the globe, the city of Leningrad suffered under a German siege that lasted 872 days.
Duration:00:56:45
405 On the Good Ship Lollipop
5/25/2025
In this episode, we look at Twentieth Century-Fox, John Ford, Shirley Temple, John Wayne, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Duration:00:43:42
404 The Other Resistance
5/18/2025
Resistance against the Nazis could take many forms.
Duration:00:43:22
403 The Resistance II
5/11/2025
Some of the biggest successes (and biggest failures) of European resistance movements and their guides in Britain.
Duration:00:40:56
402 The Resistance I
5/4/2025
In the occupied countries of Europe and Asia, resistance movements developed to oppose Axis occupations. In most cases, the resistance movements were divided between Communist and non-Communist.
Duration:00:46:36
401 No Option But to Fight On
4/20/2025
The U-boat war was going quite well for the Germans at the beginning of 1943, but by mid-year, the German Navy was on the verge of abandoning the effort.
Duration:00:44:48
400 War in the Air II
4/6/2025
The Hamburg bombing forced the German government to rethink its defense policies. In Québec, Churchill and Roosevelt cut a deal on atom bomb research.
Duration:00:41:06
399 War in the Air I
3/30/2025
After two years of trying, RAF Bomber Command at last perfected the techniques to inflict mass casualties and devastation on an enemy city. Meanwhile, the US Eighth Air Force struggled to develop their own strategies.
Duration:00:41:42
398 An Incontrovertible Fact
3/16/2025
As the war turned against them, the Japanese attempted to create allies among the nations it occupied, declaring the independence of Burma and the Philippines, while the US embraced China as a peer of the main Allied powers, alongside the US, UK, and USSR.
Duration:00:41:10