The Battle of Cable Street: Fascism Defeated (TRIH ep 374)
1936 · Resource
“You will never catch Sir Oswald admitting to anti-semitism - all he does is embody it!” Following the violent scenes at Kensington Olympia, the British fascist movement is in decline. Britain is swirling with unemployment, a decade on from the General Strike, and as the country suffers, changes and becomes more urbanised, the fascists seek a scapegoat to pin Britain’s downfall on.
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Around 1936
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)