A history podcast dedicated to examining the global history of the 1920s and 30s in order to explain the causes of World War II, both large and small. As you might imagine, there’s a lot of ground to cover just to contextualize how the conflict got so out of control. If you love historical deep-dives and play-by-plays of nations in way over their collective heads, this is the show for you. Best niche history podcast out there! PROTIP: If you’re a new listener and are hopelessly confused by me bouncing from topic to topic, the scope of this show has kinda gotten away from me over the years. I have included an index of miniseries in the description of Episode 1 to provide a guide for what I’ve covered so far.
Episodes
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
This week's episode is a little change of pace from the last two, as before I get going into the histories of individual countries, I need to provide an intro into Fascism. This political ideology is absolutely vital to the period, and is a primary reason why the world turned to war and violence in the 1930s. Despite that importance though, Fascism remains a nebulous system of ideas, and its practitioners never bothered codifying a coherent platform. So now I get to spend an entire episode defining it for them.
Questions? Comments? Email me at peaceintheirtime@gmail.com
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Today's episode is the second part to the Paris Peace Conference. In this part the terms of the peace deals are finalized, which alienate Entente allies like Italy and Japan, while infamously aggrieving the Germans to the point where they immediately begin dreaming of tearing this new status quo apart. The old order predating WWI is truly gone with this peace, and the new one will have a difficult birth as the victors test the old proverb of "better a bad peace than a good war."
Questions? Comments? Email me at peaceintheirtime@gmail.com
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Today's episode will be the first part of two covering the Paris Peace Conference. Best known for producing the Treaty of Versailles, the Conference was actually responsible for a whole collection of treaties to bring peace to the world. Long story short, it didn't work and we'll be going over the difficulties suffered during the negotiations.
Questions? Comments? Email me at peaceintheirtime@gmail.com
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Hello and welcome to Peace in Their Time! This is the introductory description to the introductory episode of the podcast. The episode will be laying out the mission statement for the show and a general description of what topics you can expect me to cover.
Episode/Miniseries Index:
Season 1: Table-setting and the wasted opportunities of the 1920s
1 - Intro
2-3 - Versailles
4 - Overview of Fascism
5-11 - Italy in the 20s and the rise of Fascism
12-14 - 1920s France and its failure to find security
15-21 - 1920s UK, imperial overstretch and economic depression at home
22-30 - Weimar Germany
31-36 - Hitler and the early Nazis (up to the end of the 20s)
37-43 - Central Europe in the 1920s
44-51 - The Colonial Empires (45-47 1920s India)
52-61 - Rise of the Japanese Empire and Japan in the 20s
62-77 - China from the 1910 Revolution to the end of the Northern Expedition
78-110 - Formation of the Soviet Union and its history up to mid-1928
111-115 - 1920s diplomacy, the struggle for a lasting peace settlement
116-121 - 1920s US
122 - End of Season 1
Season 2: The Great Depression and the collapse of the world order
123-133 - Great Depression around the world
134-143 - Rise of the Nazis
144-149 - Japan 1930-37
150-158 - China 1928-37
159-168 - 1st Five-Year Plan in the USSR
169-181 - The 1st New Deal
182-192 - Italy and Ethiopia
193-211 - German rearmament, militarization and early aggression
212-220 - French response to early Nazi aggression
221-233 - British response to early Axis aggression
234-??? - The Spanish Civil War