Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader (TRIH ep 373)
1934 · Resource
The fascists in Britain have found a leader known across the country: the sinister yet complex Oswald Mosley. Following stints as an MP for both the Tories and Labour, Mosley, a veteran of the First World War, forms the British Union of Fascists in 1932, making a big effort to appeal to women and the working class. Although his rhetoric is surprisingly anti-militarist, the violence that occurs at his fascist meeting in Kensington Olympia in 1934, the same month as the Night of the Long Knives...
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- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)