The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (TRIH eps 528-529)
1938 · Resource
On 17th September 1938, in Munich, one of the most extraordinary meetings in history took place. Neville Chamberlain launched an extraordinary and unprecedented diplomatic coup. Boarding a plane, he set off to meet Adolf Hitler in a desperate attempt to prevent war over Czechoslovakia, following the Nazis’ territorial incursions into Czechoslovakia. Little did he know that Hitler was already planning to launch a full blown war on the first of October - just two weeks later. Chamberlain, in hi...
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- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1941)