1940 (TRIH ep 43)
1940 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History brings James Holland (guest) to discuss the pivotal year 1940. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interrogate popular myths and trace the arc from the Phoney War through the German offensives of April–May 1940, the collapse of France, and the evacuation at Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo). They examine the political drama in London — Chamberlain's fall, the Halifax–Churchill dispute and the Five Days in May — and argue why Churchill insisted Britain must fight on....
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Around 1940
- World War II (1939)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Korean War (1950)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)