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The History of the Twentieth Century — 448 episodes

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444 Tempest

2

443 Shoot the Works

3

442 Make Peace, You Fools

4

441 The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

5

440 The Destruction of Army Group Center

6

439 Doctor Win-the-War

7

438 A Bill of Goods

8

437 Where Do We Go From Here?

9

436 Too Good to Be True

10

435 D Plus One

11

434 The Longest Day III

12

433 The Longest Day II

13

432 The Longest Day I

14

431 Bombing Your Allies

15

430 Question Time II

16

429 The Fall of Rome

17

428 An Idea of Simple Genius

18

427 Half American

19

426 Incomparably More Difficult

20

425 Eight to the Bar

21

424 From Z to A

22

423 Bodyguard of Lies

23

422 A Stranded Whale

24

421 Two Strikes and You're Out

25

420 A Contintent-Wide Crime

26

419 Millions of Spectators

27

418 Bloody Tarawa

28

417 Over the Rainbow

29

416 The Iron Gut of Europe

30

415 Would They Obey You Any More Readily?

31

414 The Teheran Conference

32

413 Frankly, My Dear

33

412 Hero to Zero

34

411 From the Top

35

410 Stranded on Plum Pudding Island

36

409 Famous Players in Famous Plays

37

408 The Great Retreat

38

407 The Siege of Leningrad II

39

406 The Siege of Leningrad I

40

405 On the Good Ship Lollipop

41

404 The Other Resistance

42

403 The Resistance II

43

402 The Resistance I

44

401 No Option But to Fight On

45

400 War in the Air II

46

399 War in the Air I

47

398 An Incontrovertible Fact

48

397 Pop Goes the Weasel

49

396 The Battle of Kursk

50

395 A Definitive Mistake

51

394 The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

52

393 Everything Is Going to Be Fine

53

392 Warsaw and Katyn

54

391 The Manhattan Project

55

390 Benito è finito

56

389 On the Defensive

57

388 Woman of the Year

58

387 Hooray for Hollywood

59

386 Do Or Die

60

385 The Thingamabob That's Going to Win the War

61

384 Do You Want Total War?

62

383 Casablanca

63

382 Turning Point

64

381 Der Manstein kommt!

65

380 Operation Uranus

66

379 How Green Is My Ally

67

378 The End of the Beginning

68

377 Verdun on the Volga

69

376 Two Hammers, One Anvil

70

375 Time Is Blood

71

374 A Steppe Too Far

72

373 The Machinery of Mass Murder

73

372 The Road to the Holocaust

74

371 Operation Shoestring

75

370 Not One Step Back

76

369 Operation Sledgehammer

77

368 The Second United Front

78

367 El Alamein

79

366 The Desert Fox

80

365 The Second Happy Time

81

364 The Man with the Iron Heart

82

363 Midway

83

362 Scratch One Flattop!

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361 I Could Never Be So Lucky Again

85

360: Now You Belong to the Japanese Army

86

359 Order 9066

87

358 The Wannsee Conference

88

357 No Retreat

89

356 Happy Time

90

355 Reap the Whirlwind

91

354 The Fall of Singapore

92

353 A Date Which Will Live in Infamy

93

352 Climb Mount Niitaka II

94

351 Climb Mount Niitaka I

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350 The Land of Abundant Wildlife

96

349 Why Do the Winds and Waves Rage So Turbulently?

97

348 Five Minutes to Midnight

98

347 The Green Folder

99

346 The Battle of Smolensk

100

345 Operation Barbarossa

101

344 America First

102

343 The Balkan Detour

103

342 Operation Marita

104

341 A Crime against the Future

105

340 The ULTRA Secret

106

339 The Enigma Machine

107

338 The Battle of the Atlantic

108

337 The Tizard Mission

109

336 Όχι

110

335 Pay Him in His Own Coin

111

334 Stalemate

112

333 The Hand That Held the Dagger

113

332 God Help Us All

114

331 Caped Crusaders

115

330 Amazing Stories

116

329 Dawn of a New Day

117

328 The Battle of Britain

118

327 Radio Detection and Ranging

119

326 War in the Air

120

325 After the Fall

121

324 Plan Red

122

323 Operation Dynamo

123

322 Plan Yellow

124

321 Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat

125

320 Operation Weserübung

126

319 Winston Is Back!

127

318 The Calm Before the Storm

128

317 The Winter War

129

316 Nazism Unleashed

130

315 Lessons Learned IV

131

314 Here We Go Again

132

313 What Guarantee Is There?

133

312 It Don't Mean a Thing

134

311 We Shall Not Forget You

135

310 A Switch in Time

136

309 The Golden Age of Radio

137

308 And Now, a Word from Our Sponsor

138

307 The Certainty Principle

139

306 The November Pogrom

140

305 Peace for Our Time

141

304 Axis and Anschluss II

142

303 Axis and Anschluss I

143

302 When You Wish upon a Star

144

301 The Marco Polo Bridge

145

300 The Imperial Way

146

299 The Spanish Civil War

147

298 The Lost Generation

148

297 A Rendezvous with Destiny

149

296 Request Instructions as to Bodies

150

295 The Bottle Uncorked

151

294 The Year of the Three Kings

152

293 Strength Through Joy

153

292 An Article for Export

154

291 The Nuremberg Laws

155

290 The Second New Deal

156

289 The War of Thirst

157

288 What's Up, Doc?

158

287 An Eight-Minute Tidbit.

159

286 Unwinding Versailles

160

285 The Night of the Long Knives

161

284 The Bomber Will Always Get Through

162

283 Where Are the Customers' Yachts?

163

282 One Hundred Days

164

281 Fear Itself

165

280 A New Deal

166

279 Persistent Experimentation

167

278 Chain Reaction

168

277 The Empire Christmas Pudding

169

276 The Salt March

170

275 Stalin Is the Lenin of Today

171

274 Start Talking and Stop Moving

172

273 The Anatomy of Fascism

173

272 The Vision of Fascism

174

271 The Roots of Fascism

175

270 The Reichstag Fire

176

269 Chancellor Hitler

177

268 A Private from Bohemia

178

267 The Brown Battalions

179

266 After Hitler, Our Turn

180

265 Foreign Commentary Changes Nothing

181

264 What Is a Planet?

182

263 Discussion Is Useless

183

262 The Long March

184

261 The Great Crash III

185

260 The Hunger Chancellor

186

259 The Great Crash II

187

258 The Great Crash I

188

257 An Orgy of Speculation

189

256 When the Levees Broke

190

255 Mussolini Is Always Right

191

254 The Century of the State

192

253 Alfonso the African

193

252: Mahatma Gandhi Ki Jai!

194

251 Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied

195

250 An Instinct for the Regrettable

196

249: Coming of Age in Samoa

197

248 Darwin's Dilemma

198

247 Inherit the Wind

199

246 The Great Debate II

200

245 Les années folles

201

244 Anything Goes

202

243 The Algonquin Roundtable

203

242 Dos, Don'ts, and Be Carefuls

204

241 I Am a Camera

205

240 The Golden Chancellor

206

239 A Barbarous Relic

207

238 Holy Mackerel!

208

237 The Phone Booth of the Air

209

236 The Radio Music Box

210

235 The Five-Year Plan

211

234 Chiang in Charge

212

233 Uncle Shylock

213

232 A Noble Experiment

214

231 Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary

215

230 Keep Cool with Coolidge

216

229 Teapot Dome

217

228 The Little Green House on K Street

218

227 The Jazz Age

219

226 Our Native Music

220

225 We Dream of the Future

221

224 The Harding Era

222

223 A Calculated Piece of Inhumanity

223

222 The Kingdom of Satan

224

221 The Great Debate I

225

220 An Unnatural Condition

226

219 The Victorian Holocausts

227

218 By Themselves Are Nations Made

228

217 The Unending Quest

229

216 A Return to Normalcy

230

215 1919 - Germany VI

231

214 1919 - Germany V

232

213 1919 - Germany IV

233

212 1919 - Germany III

234

211 1919 - Germany II

235

210 1919 - Germany I

236

209 1919 - Ireland III

237

208 1919 - Ireland II

238

207 1919 - Ireland I

239

206 1919 - United States IV

240

205 1919 - United States III

241

204 1919 - United States II

242

203 1919 - United States I

243

202 1919 - Mexico

244

201 1919 - Latin America

245

200 1919 - China

246

199 1919 - Japan

247

198 1919 - Italy II

248

197 1919 - Italy I

249

196 1919 - Turkey & Greece III

250

195 1919 - Turkey & Greece II

251

194 1919 - Turkey & Greece I

252

193 1919 - The Near East III

253

192 1919 - The Near East II

254

191 1919 - The Near East I

255

190 1919 - Africa II

256

189 1919 - Africa I

257

188: 1919 - The USSR

258

187 1919 - The Caucasus

259

186 1919 - Russia IV

260

185 1919 - Russia III

261

184 1919 - Russia II

262

183 1919 - Russia I

263

182 1919 - The Baltic States

264

181 1919 - Finland

265

180 1919 - Poland II

266

179 1919 - Poland I

267

178 1919 - Austria-Hungary III

268

177 1919 - Austria-Hungary II

269

176 1919 - Austria-Hungary I

270

175 The Paris Peace Conference

271

174 Lessons Learned III

272

173 The Khaki Elections

273

172 Pale Horse, Pale Rider II

274

171 Pale Horse, Pale Rider I

275

170 Très Bien

276

169 Tipperary mbali sana sana

277

168 The Black Day

278

167 The Armistice of Mudros

279

166 An Unanswered Riddle

280

165 You Die Waiting for It

281

164 Grim Earnest, to the Death

282

163 A State Not Yet Born

283

162 We Just Got Here

284

161 Kaiserschlacht

285

160 The Fourteen Points

286

159 The Liberal Crisis

287

158 So Thoroughly Policed

288

157 A Path Strewn with Roses

289

156 Locomotives for Heads

290

155 A Lake of Blood

291

154 The Balfour Declaration

292

153 The Visionary and the Evangelist

293

152 Like a River Flowing On

294

151 The Eye of the Day

295

150 Caporetto

296

149 Passchendaele

297

148 Peace, Land, and Bread

298

147 The Kornilov Affair

299

146 Chaos in the Army

300

145 The July Days

301

144 All Power to the Soviets

302

143 Disabling the Russian Colossus

303

142 Lafayette, We Are Here

304

141 The Cossacks Are Not Coming

305

140 The Hindenburg Line

306

139 No Fight, No Loan

307

138 Make the World Safe for Democracy

308

137 The February Revolution

309

136 The Winter of Our Discontent

310

135 Stupidity or Treason?

311

134 The Zimmerman Telegram

312

133 We Win Ourselves to Death

313

132 Guerre à la guerre

314

131 This Wellsian Wonder

315

130 He Kept Us out of War

316

129 Everywhere and Nowhere

317

128 A Portuguesa

318

127 A Terrible Beauty Is Born II

319

126 A Terrible Beauty Is Born I

320

125 Question Time

321

124 What Passing-Bells for These Who Die as Cattle?

322

123 Something Wrong with Our Bloody Ships

323

122 They Shall Not Pass

324

121 England's Best Sword Knocked from Her Hand

325

120 A Line in the Sand

326

119 The Minister without Portfolio

327

118 The Lunatics Have Taken Charge of the Asylum

328

117 What Are the French Doing?

329

116 What Did You Do in the Great War?

330

115 Let Them Raise Hell

331

114 Beautiful Tightropes of Logic

332

113 Simpson's Circus

333

112 The Banana Wars II

334

111 The Bulgarian Summer

335

110 The Shell Shortage

336

109: I Am Ordering You to Die

337

108 This Isn't War!

338

107 Too Proud to Fight

339

106 Breaking the Blockade

340

105 The Action of a Lunatic

341

104 The Birth of a Nation

342

103 Colonialism without Bloodshed

343

102 They Showed Us the Way

344

101 Strike a Blow Somewhere

345

100 These Desert Places of the Earth

346

099 Jihad

347

098 Shackled to a Corpse

348

097 The Banana Wars I

349

096 The Rape of Belgium

350

095 The Far Seas

351

094 The Puritan of the North

352

093 The Twenty-One Demands

353

092 Home Before the Leaves Fall

354

091 The Luxury Navy

355

090 I Will See It Through

356

089 A Good Five-Cent Cigar

357

088 The Miracle on the Marne

358

087 The Cossacks Are Coming!

359

086 Paris Cannot Hold Out

360

085 Serbien muß sterbien

361

084 So Much the Better

362

083 The Flight of the Goeben

363

082 No, Whatever the Consequences

364

081 Offense to the Utmost

365

080 Keep the Right Wing Very Strong

366

079 Lessons Learned II

367

078 The Lamps Go Out II

368

077 The Lamps Go Out I

369

076 Today Is Better Than Tomorrow

370

075 The Great Illusion

371

074 A Few Serbian Bullets

372

073 For Serbia We Shall Do Everything

373

072 England Is No Longer an Island

374

071 Like a Sinking Ship

375

070 The Schlemiel of Europe

376

069 Some Damned Silly Thing

377

068 The New Freedom

378

067 Twilight of the Belle Époque

379

066 An Immense Box of Sand

380

065 The Panther Leap

381

064 A Night to Remember

382

063 Like a Bull Moose

383

062 To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and Not To Yield

384

061 Terra Australis

385

060 Very Unkind of Those Canadians

386

059 Ultima Thule

387

058 The Republic of China

388

057 In My Merry Oldsmobile

389

056 The Heavens Themselves Blaze Forth

390

055 So Far From God

391

054 A Martian Odyssey

392

053 Take Advice From Theodore

393

052 TUOBGN

394

051 Goodbye, Youth!

395

050 The Prison of Nations

396

049 Tales of Old Vienna

397

048 The Flight of Icarus

398

047s Documents

399

047 Icarus Rising

400

046 Deeds Not Words

401

045 The God of Dance

402

044 Charlatan and Charmer

403

043 Carry a Big Stick

404

042 A Square Deal for Every Man

405

041 Fear God and Dread Nought

406

040 Moments of Tension

407

039 You Are All Wrong

408

038 The Politics of the Future

409

037 Year of Wonders

410

036 Lessons Learned I

411

035 Mighty Good For Me, Too

412

034 We No Longer Have a Czar

413

033 The Mountain Where Your Souls Lie

414

032 Red Sun Rising

415

031 The Ruler of the East

416

030 The Concert of Europe

417

029 Die Waffen Nieder!

418

028 What Is Going to Happen to Me?

419

027 Too Soon to Thank God

420

026 America's Coming Out Party

421

025 I Am the King

422

024s Documents

423

024 How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?

424

023 Making Italians

425

022 La Forza del Destino

426

021 A Man, a Plan, a Canal—Panama!

427

020 Heart of Darkness II

428

019 Heart of Darkness I

429

018 The Spectre Haunting Europe

430

017 Such a Bully Pulpit

431

016 Assassin's Creed

432

015 Taels I Win

433

014 The Righteous and Harmonious Fists

434

013 The Christian Century

435

012 The Empire Strikes Back

436

011 Moving Like the Wind

437

010 Lest We Forget

438

009 Dark Clouds

439

008 J'Accuse...!

440

007 La Belle Époque

441

006 White Man's Burden

442

005s Documents

443

005 Islands or Canned Goods

444

004s Documents

445

004 Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

446

003 Touch Me Not

447

002 A Place in the Sun

448

001 Age of Empires