Revolution in Iran: Fall of the Shah (TRIH eps 636-639)
1941–1980 · Resource
A four-part series on the Iranian Revolution: the Shah and his relationship with Carter, Khomeini's rise and return in 1979, the seizure of the US embassy and the hostage crisis, and the failed 1980 rescue attempt.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1941
- Korean War (1950)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)