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The History of the Twentieth Century

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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Feb 2, 2025

Adolf Hitler begins his long-delayed 1943 offensive against the USSR, which fizzles in a matter of days.

Jan 19, 2025

Warner Brothers was one of the minor studios until they introduced the first talking picture, which made the studio into one of the majors. In the Thirties, Warner Brothers, led by the irascible Jack L. Warner, was known for its glitzy musicals and crime dramas. In the early Forties, the studio released two films that are now regarded as among the best American films ever made: The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca.

Jan 5, 2025

The Japanese claimed to be liberating their fellow Asians from Western oppression, but Japanese rule proved to be brutal and murderous.

Dec 29, 2024

In early 1943, the remaining residents of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the SS. Farther east, the German Army uncovers the mass grave where the Soviet NKVD buried thousands of murdered Polish Army officers.

Dec 25, 2024

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the American atom bomb project kicked into high gear. Fearful that the Germans were already working on a bomb and had a head start, the US government built a huge program meant to approach the problem of building an atom bomb from several different angles all at once.

Dec 22, 2024

The Allies invade Sicily, which leads to the fall of Benito Mussolini.

Dec 15, 2024

Hitler himself said that he had "never been a man of the defensive," but in the aftermath of Stalingrad, he had no choice.

Dec 1, 2024

RKO Radio Pictures had a reputation for producing second-rate films. Even so, this was the studio that signed Fred Astaire and Katharine Hepburn; it was the studio that released King Kong and Citizen Kane.

Nov 24, 2024

The first in a series looking at the American film industry in the 1930s and 1940s, the heyday of the "studio system."

Nov 17, 2024

The fall of Burma to the Japanese put India on the front lines of the war, posing hard questions for the Indian nationalist movement.

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