This is the podcast that started with me wanting to learn more about things that interest me; crazy and important things that happened In the 20th century; things that don’t always get the attention to detail that they deserve. I dig into the story behind what happened, and offer an abridged version of the history and events that became the story.
As each series develops and I think about what to cover in the future, I have come to realize that I want to find out what can be learnt from the last 100+ years. Each event has lessons for us today, if we want to learn them.
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Following the tumultous revolution and subsequent hostage crisis, Iran's neighbour, Saddam's Iraq thought the timing was opportune to do a land grab.The strategic miscalculation led to one of the bloo...
Iran; Oil, Islam & the west (00:45:41)
When I was seven years old, one of my friends moved to Tehran with his family. I do not know what his parents did, but I know that they returned in less than a year because of the revolution. I did no...
Ukraine; & the bear next door. (00:42:39)
Here is the continuation of the 2 part series on Ukraine in the last 100+ years; trying to see the overall picture and understand why Ukraine has become such an important headline in the last few year...
Ukraine; from about 1910 to World War II. (00:45:08)
It seems that Ukraine rarely made the news until about 2013-14 when Russia invaded Crimea and somehow the Bidens were involved in a scandal. I knew of it, because my mother's family all trace their li...
Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge (00:48:16)
Its effect was little in the rest of the world. Vietnam was the larger story at the time, and the horror of the Cambodian Killing Fields a sidenote in coverage.
Korean War; the war and its legacy (00:35:43)
This is part 2 of the two part series on the Korean War. Thanks for listening.
The Korean War; the background (00:37:01)
If you have listened before, you know how this goes. This episode looks at the history of the Korean peninsula and what happened leading up to the Korean War in 1950.
Greek Civil War: 1st conflict of the Cold War (00:54:42)
We're following the trajectory of the Cold War; after the end of the very hot World War II, the beginning of the Cold War was playing out in countries and regions around the world, seemingly all at th...
The Cold War begins (00:43:42)
This is episode 2 talking about post-war Europe and the early days of the Cold War in Germany and specifically Berlin.Listen to the first episode for greater context and come back for more!
The Cold War; post world war recovery (00:39:49)
The Cold War - a long, drawn out conflict between competing ideologies and world views. We start to look at the years immediately following VE -Victory Europe. There are iconic images of sailors celeb...
Nazi SS; war to the end (00:57:30)
This episode has some disturbing descriptions. I began researching for this podcast about 2 1/2 years ago. I could not have imagined in 2021 that we would have witnessed the recent attack on Israel no...
The Nazi SS; eugenics (00:49:06)
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
If you have not listened to part 1 of this series, I recommend doing that first. The purpose of the series is to understand the police ...
The Nazi SS; origins (00:47:39)
We all know about World War 2, and the Holocaust. We have watched movies and have a picture of what happened. But in this episode, I wanted to explore the evolution of what happened, the logistics of ...
The Partition of India - Pakistan; The Divide (01:11:03)
Here it is! The finale - the culmination of the other three episodes where we have worked toward an understanding of where political forces stood in the mid-20th century. I start this episode after ...
The British Raj in India (00:55:05)
After the Mutiny of 1857 by military personnel in the employ of the East India Company, the British Crown took over rule in India. It would last until Indian independence 90 years later. It was a lo...
*extra* The rise of the East India company and the decline of the Mughal empire. (00:52:23)
Episode 1 of the India-Pakistan partition was a quick introduction to centuries of Indian history, but I could not ignore all the details of just the 18th century. There was so much happening! Afgha...
Partition of India - Pakistan: Part 1; An introduction to the history of India (00:55:15)
You have to listen to this! In 1947, Britain effectively abandoned its responsibility to India after a few hundred years of pillaging the wealth from the Asian subcontinent. We'll get to that... But ...
The Spanish Civil War part II (00:55:25)
In Episode 1, I discussed the different players contributing to the rising tensions in the Spanish Republic in the years leading up to 1936. They were the same tensions that were growing across Europ...
The Spanish Civil War part I (00:53:31)
The civil war that ravaged Spain in the years leading up to World War II has been a footnote to the greater conflicts in Europe in the early 20th century. But it had much greater implications; in som...
The Bosnian War: 1992 - 1995 (01:17:10)
If you have patiently listened to the first 2 episodes of this series, I hope you feel educated about the long history of this region. The previous hours have been a preparation to help explain what ...
The Bosnia War; Part 2 the Background (01:00:44)
This is the second of a 3 part series on the Bosnian War of the 1990s. Please join me as I delve into the relationship between the nations that make up the former Yugoslavia and give historical cont...
The Bosnian War; Part 1 A History (00:48:30)
In the late 20th century, as the Iron Curtain fell, the nations that made up the country of Yugoslavia began re-evaluating their relationship to one another and opening some old wounds. Bosnia, a nat...
Rwandan Genocide Part 2 (00:56:22)
In the early 1990s, the country of Rwanda jumped into the headlines with horrific images and details of what was to become known as the Rwandan Genocide. Part 1 of this podcast explored what happened ...
Rwandan Genocide Part 1 (00:50:11)
In the early 1990s, the country of Rwanda jumped into the headlines with horrific images and details of what was to become known as the Rwandan Genocide. This is a walk through the years leading up to...
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