"Explaining History" The Fear of War in 1930s Europe (Podcast Episode 2023) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
As the first rumblings of another great war stirred in Europe in the 1930s, Mexico and the United States seemed like unlikely allies. In 1938, Mexico’s reformist president, Lázaro Cárdenas, nationalized the country’s oil industry, which angered powerful U.S. oil companies. “The late ...
In the light of recent scholarship on Australian responses to Nazism, Fascism and the origins of the Second World War in Europe, it is worth revisiting a formative influence on Australian public opinion on international affairs in the 1930s, the Sydney University historian Stephen H. Roberts. ...
World War I's static nature was a major factor in preventing it from becoming a total war. The trenches, at least in northwestern Europe, acted as a geographical brake on what modern military analysts would call high-intensity conflict. This was less true elsewhere; in East Prussia, Poland,...
Two factors must be kept in mind at all times when the 1920s and 1930s are under review: the dominating memory of the "Great War" - as what we call World War I had come to be called - and the reality of continued conflict in some portions of the world. In Europe, where most of...
The other Korean nationalist movement, no less revolutionary, drew its inspiration from the best of science, education, and industrialism in Europe, Japan, and America. These “ultranationalists” were split into rival factions, one of which centred on Syngman Rhee, educated in the United States...
The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. Some say another could be starting as tensions with Russia rise.
When the Cold War ended, permanent peace based on close interdependence and strong institutions appeared within reach in Europe. What had been achieved by the mid-1990s fell short of this internationalist vision. The question raised in this article is to what extent the realization of the vision...
Birth statistics are examined and discussed in terms of the sex ratio during World War 2. The ratio of males to females in reported stillbirths declined since 1922 although this is not considered significant. The sex ratios of white live births were high in the years 1915-1930 lower in the...
The Museum of London Docklands has released a number of images from its ‘Docklands at War’ collection – including some rarely on display – to mark the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe.These images of the East End show the scale of the damage and destruction caused to London’s dock...