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#77 – Bombing Japan
#77 – Bombing Japan
* Which brings us to April 1945.* Only weeks before Germany surrendered on May 7, FDR dies.* And Truman takes over as PO... Read more
13 Apr 2018
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#70 – No Military Justification
#70 – No Military Justification
* The Potsdam declaration on Japan was tricky.* It was drafted while Churchill was still PM.* In fact it was probably on... Read more
18 Feb 2018
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#86 – The Aftermath Part 1
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* TRUMAN ANNOUNCES THE BOMB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_UJJ9ObDs* On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an... Read more
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#40 – Stalin Plays With Pooh
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#87 – The Aftermath Part 2
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#23 – Philby
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#82 – Alex Wellerstein
#82 – Alex Wellerstein
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#67 Clement Atlee
#67 Clement Atlee
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#4 – FDR Part One
#4 – FDR Part One
Part One of our mini-biography of everyone’s favorite wheelchair pilot, FDR. His family background (opium traders), his ... Read more
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#17 – Disgustingly Ugly
#17 – Disgustingly Ugly
We start in August 1942. Churchill is still in Moscow, getting down with Uncle Joe. Stalin accuses the British of being ... Read more
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#92 – The Truman Doctrine
#92 – The Truman Doctrine
* And so on March 12, 1947, before a joint session of Congress, President Truman articulated, for the first time, a comp... Read more
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