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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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Now displaying: April, 2023
Apr 30, 2023

After months of delays and a diversion into Denmark and Norway, Hitler finally gets his Western offensive.

Apr 23, 2023

The Allied debacle in Norway sparked a revolt in the British Parliament against the Chamberlain government's conduct of the war.

Apr 16, 2023

Improbably, the nation of Norway finds itself the front line of the Second World War.

Apr 2, 2023

In the final year before the war began, Winston Churchill's denunciations of Nazi Germany began to seem prescient, but Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain fiercely resisted calls to invite Churchill into the Cabinet until war came. Then Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty, for the second time in his career.

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