Evita: The World's Most Powerful Woman (TRIH ep 496, part 3)
1946 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the transformation of Eva Duarte into the political icon Evita within Juan Perón’s Argentina. They compare the popular musical Evita to historical reality, outline Peronism’s mix of social welfare and nationalist rhetoric, and recount Perón’s 1946 electoral victory.
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Around 1946
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)