The History of the Twentieth Century

Mark Painter

A chronicle of the history of the twentieth century, including art, music, popular culture, science, religion, and, of course, politics and war.

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393 Everything Is Going to Be Fine
The Japanese claimed to be liberating their fellow Asians from Western oppression, but Japanese rule proved to be brutal and murderous.
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392 Warsaw and Katyn
In early 1943, the remaining residents of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the SS. Farther east, the German Army uncovers the mass grave where the Soviet NKVD buried thousands of murdered Polish Army officers.
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391 The Manhattan Project
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the American atom bomb project kicked into high gear. Fearful that the Germans were already working on a bomb and had a head start, the US government built a huge program meant to approach the problem of building an atom bomb from several different angles all at once.
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390 Benito è finito
The Allies invade Sicily, which leads to the fall of Benito Mussolini.
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389 On the Defensive
Hitler himself said that he had "never been a man of the defensive," but in the aftermath of Stalingrad, he had no choice.
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