20th Century
The Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw ghetto was established on October 12th 1940 when it was announced that all Jews living in Warsaw were...
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The Failure of the League of Nations
The League of Nations was an international organisation set up in 1919 to help keep world peace. It was intended...
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The Origins of the BBC
Wireless telegraphy was first publicly demonstrated by Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor in 1894. The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company was...
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The Sinking of the Tirpitz
The German battleship, The Tirpitz, sister ship to The Bismarck, was launched in April 1939. In 1941 the ship began...
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Remembrance Day
The Armistice agreement that brought an end to World War One was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest...
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The German Occupation of Vichy France
On 14th June 1940, Paris fell to Germany. The Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud and his deputy, Henri-Phillipe Petain, disagreed over...
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The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
At the end of World War Two Germany had been partitioned into four sectors controlled by America, Britain, France and...
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Hitler and the Munich Beer Hall Putsch
Following the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm and defeat in World War One, the government of the new German Weimar Republic...
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The Battle for Gaza, 1917
The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (forces of the British Empire in Egypt) led by Archibald Murray had twice failed to capture...
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Nicholas II the Last Russian Tsar
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov was born on 18th May 1868. He was the first child of Alexander, son of Tsar Alexander...
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