Costa Rica: Civil War (TRIH ep 258)
1948 · Resource
In this World Cup-themed episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the history of Costa Rica, concentrating on the 1948 Civil War and its long-term consequences. Dominic narrates the lead-up: populist president Rafael Ángel Calderón, his weak successor Teodoro Picado Mikalski, allegations of electoral fraud and the murder of a newspaperman (named in the transcript as Artiglio Ularte Blanco) which triggered revolt. José Figueres Ferrer ("Don Pepe") leads a heterogeneous anti-authoritar...
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- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)