All Episodes
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122 - The Air War over Europe
As the Soviets were fighting the Germans all along a 1000 mile long front, they were demanding that the Allies in the west do something to open a second front against ...
121 - The Battle of Stalingrad
Every once in a while, there is a great moment or battle that really changes the course of history. Yes, yes, I know I said that exact thing at the beginning of the l...
120 - The Battle of Midway
Every once in a while, there is a great moment or battle that really changes the course of history. The Battle of Salamis, Caesar crossing the Rubicon, Charles the Ha...
119 - The World at War
Ok, it’s the beginning of 1942, and for the Allies, things are looking, well, kinda bleak. France, one of the great powers of the world as recently as 1939, is now oc...
118 - Tora, Tora, Tora!
Last episode, we left the German soldiers freezing off ihr Gesäß in the the early, harsh Russian winter of 1941. But there was more going on in the winter of 1941 tha...
117 - Hitler, Stalin, and Operation Barbarossa
Last episode, I said Hitler might have done better in the long run if he hadn’t had Germany attack Great Britain. Well, after that mistake, he decides to double down, ...
116 - Winston Churchill and the Battle of Britain
I’m going to make a quick confession to you here: The Battle of Britain is one of my three favorite parts of all of human history. The other two would be the Roman E...
115 - Blitzkrieg! The Germans Invade France
You might have noticed that I kind of used the same title twice in a row, which might seem like kind of lazy writing, but I really couldn’t think of a better title to ...
114 - Blitzkrieg! The Germans Invade Poland
Ok, here we are, poised right on the edge of World War II. I’m going to try to not bog down as much as I did on the US Civil War, but I still have 9 episodes planned ...
113 - Adolf Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
Well here we are, about to introduce one of history’s most notorious villains. I’m talking about Adolf Hitler. He really is remembered as one of the worst, most dang...
112 - The Great Depression and FDR
This episode, we’re going to talk about the great depression. Last episode, we talked about the stock market crash of 1929, and mentioned that it was one of the cause...
111 - Prohibition, the Bull Market, and Black Thursday
The 1920’s was a very prosperous time for America, and for much of the world. As I mentioned last episode, during the 20’s the American economy became the largest in t...
110 - The Roaring 20's
Well, the war to end all wars was over. After a period after several months, the surviving soldiers began to return home. The Treaty of Versailles was signed, and Eu...
109 - The End of World War I
We’ve been here on World War I for seven episodes, if you count the 2 on the Russian and Soviet revolutions. See? I’m getting more concise. It took me 10 episodes t...
108 - America Enters the War
Well, last episode, we left the chaos of the eastern front and the founding of the new country of the Soviet Union. In this episode, we’re going back to France and Be...
107 - The Soviet Revolution (Part 2 of the Russian Revolution)
здравствуйте, еще раз, товарищи. добро пожаловать в советский союзFor Lenin, transforming a society from near feudalism to communism was a tall order. To do that, yo...
106 - The Russian Revolution Part 1
здравствуйте, товарищи. добро пожаловать в русскую революцию.One of the weirder and more catastrophic side effects of the First World War was what happened to Imperial...
105 - Big Battles of World War I
One of the unique aspects of World War I was simply the huge scale of the battles, with numbers of soldiers, sailors, and even airmen that the world had not seen in a ...
104 - Stalemate in the Trenches
World War I was a very different war than all the other wars fought before it. There main reason for this was that military technology had advanced incredibly quickly...
103 - World War I Begins
Last episode, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire, all of Europe began to mobilize their armies, and move them to the bo...