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
Genres:
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
364 The Man with the Iron Heart
4/21/2024
Reinhard Heydrich was one of the most vicious of the Nazis. So much so that the Czechoslovak and British governments decided that he needed to be eliminated.
Duration:00:44:39
363 Midway
4/14/2024
The Japanese execute their attempted ambush at Midway, and it fails catastrophically.
Duration:00:58:44
362 Scratch One Flattop!
4/7/2024
The US Navy sent two of its carriers into the southwest Pacific to thwart the Japanese campaign to take New Caledonia and isolate Australia. The Japanese responded by sending two of their own. The carriers engaged each other in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Duration:00:42:13
361 I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
3/31/2024
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.
Duration:00:54:07
360: Now You Belong to the Japanese Army
3/17/2024
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.
Duration:00:42:09
359 Order 9066
3/10/2024
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.
Duration:00:51:11
358 The Wannsee Conference
3/3/2024
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.
Duration:00:57:14
357 No Retreat
2/25/2024
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.
Duration:00:44:50
356 Happy Time
2/11/2024
After the sinking of Bismarck, the Germans abandoned surface raiding in the Atlantic and turned to their greatest naval strength: submarine warfare.
Duration:00:44:37
355 Reap the Whirlwind
2/4/2024
The Luftwaffe's bombing campaign over England did not force a British capitulation. Can RAF Bomber Command force a German capitulation?
Duration:00:50:05
354 The Fall of Singapore
1/28/2024
The Japanese Army's greatest victory; the British Army's greatest defeat.
Duration:00:47:01
353 A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
1/21/2024
The attack on Pearl Harbor ended the political division in the US between interventionists and isolationists. Now the US was united as never before.
Duration:00:55:07
352 Climb Mount Niitaka II
1/7/2024
The Japanese attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Duration:00:53:34
351 Climb Mount Niitaka I
1/2/2024
The Japanese give up on peace talks with America and began prepare for war.
Duration:00:45:07
350 The Land of Abundant Wildlife
12/25/2023
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.
Duration:00:47:18
349 Why Do the Winds and Waves Rage So Turbulently?
12/24/2023
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.
Duration:00:58:13
348 Five Minutes to Midnight
12/17/2023
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.
Duration:00:41:47
347 The Green Folder
12/3/2023
Even before the first German soldier crossed the frontier into the USSR, the Nazi government in Berlin had a plan for administering occupied Russia.
Duration:00:48:57
346 The Battle of Smolensk
11/26/2023
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.
Duration:00:44:15
345 Operation Barbarossa
11/19/2023
On June 22, 1941, Germany began an invasion of its erstwhile trade partner, the USSR.
Duration:00:44:21