The Falklands War: Countdown to Invasion (TRIH ep 169, part 1)
1982 · Resource
This episode, the first of a four-part Falklands War series, examines the origins and early days of the 1982 conflict. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook set the scene with the islands' contested colonial history, early visits and settlements, and the development of competing British and Argentine claims.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1982
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)