The History of the Twentieth Century
by Mark PainterA 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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Episodes
365 The Second Happy Time
48m · PublishedWhen the United States entered the war, the German U-boats suddenly had many more targets.
364 The Man with the Iron Heart
44m · PublishedReinhard 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.
363 Midway
58m · PublishedThe Japanese execute their attempted ambush at Midway, and it fails catastrophically.
362 Scratch One Flattop!
42m · PublishedThe 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.
361 I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
54m · PublishedShortly 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.
360: Now You Belong to the Japanese Army
42m · PublishedFor 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.
359 Order 9066
51m · PublishedIn 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.
358 The Wannsee Conference
57m · PublishedSometime 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.
357 No Retreat
44m · PublishedThe 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.
356 Happy Time
44m · PublishedAfter the sinking of Bismarck, the Germans abandoned surface raiding in the Atlantic and turned to their greatest naval strength: submarine warfare.
The History of the Twentieth Century has 407 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 301:26:08. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 11th, 2024 02:45.