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Episode 2.8: Deception As Policy examines the increasingly secretive plotting which took place behind the scenes in early autumn 1956. While Eden worked feverishly to make the confl...
2018-12-21 18:45:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 2.7: Blind Intrigue examines the steps which led towards the military intervention in Egypt, by placing the British behaviour in its imperial context. In spring 1955, Britai...
2018-12-21 17:49:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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You've been introduced to the Big Three of Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George - you know their aims, their backstories and their fears. What happens though when these men gather together ...
2018-12-19 16:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 14th December 1918 - The Coupon Election secures Lloyd George's Coalition Government.
It had long been expected that Lloyd George w...
2018-12-14 02:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 13th December 1918 - US President Woodrow Wilson lands in France.
Woodrow Wilson had a vital role to play in the Treaty of Versailles, and was certainly the ...
2018-12-13 01:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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David Lloyd George's assent to the top of the greasy pole came at a difficult time for Britain and the allied war effort. The war did not appear near its end after all; instead the bloody ...
2018-12-12 18:06:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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Great news - we have reached 20 Delegates for our Delegation Game 2018-12-09 21:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points are an integral part of what made the end of the First World War so fascinating, but also so confusing. Did the President want to go easy on Germans ...
2018-12-05 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome to Woodrow Wilson's United States of America. As we build towards a key concept, the Fourteen Points, here we set some background and ask some pertinent questions, such as - why di...
2018-12-03 20:42:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - 1st December 1918 - The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is proclaimed by Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia
This kingdom, kno...
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If finding a solution to Western Europe was difficult, then untangling the morass which was Eastern Europe seemed like mission impossible. Thankfully for those flocking to Paris, Eastern E...
2018-11-29 23:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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ON_THIS_DAY_IN_HISTORY - sort of - everyone was going to Paris!
Destination Paris: Mission, end the war! As thousands of people from all across the world flocked to Paris for the...
2018-11-28 00:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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"From the blind confusion of factional strife the Frenchman has emerged in this hour all of a piece throughout, stronger, more resolute, silent, smiling, his eyes bright with an invinc...
2018-11-24 00:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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France, that critically important cog in the machine of the Paris Peace Conference, had scores to settle and plenty to feel sorry about. The war had ripped through her people and country, ...
2018-11-23 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 2.6: The Entente Rides Again looks at the increasingly close cooperation between Britain and France in light of the signal defeat of Western imperialist ambitions in Egypt. We open...
2018-11-20 23:43:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 2.5: Oh No Cairo looks at British commitments in the Middle East, and how setbacks there could massively drag down ideas of British ‘prestige’ in that region. What did the Fren...
2018-11-20 20:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post
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Remember - check out the Delegation Game
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Remember - check out the Delegation Game, ...
2018-11-18 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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It is impossible to tell the story of the Treaty of Versailles without Germany, and in episode 2 of the VAP, 'Germany Falling, Germany Falling', we examine the state of Germany in military...
2018-11-16 00:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here we have yet another introduction episode - this final one will be giving us a brief(ish) rundown on the origins of the Great War, for the benefit of those that have not listened to th...
2018-11-13 00:02:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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We must set the structure and sources of this project in front of you before we jump right into it, and we should also clarify our aims before we go any further too. We have got a LOT of g...
2018-11-12 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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To make it through the tons of research material available on the Treaty of Versailles, it is essential we take a certain angle as our guide. Find out what kind of angle I am interested in...
2018-11-12 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's time. It's time at long last to unleash this project, to reveal the hidden complexities, the terrible truths, the dire dangers, the fascinating characters and the inspiring anecdotes ...
2018-11-11 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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WDF is about to be positively lit up by the most ambitious project we've ever taken on, but before we jump into that, I felt it only right that I bring you guys up to speed with my new job...
2018-11-08 10:51:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's time to say goodbye to this incredible era, and to end this whopper journey we've been on for the past 11+ months. I really can't believe we're here, but we are, and I figured there w...
2018-10-30 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's time to say good bye!
Episode 48: Something Of An Ending gathers together everything we’ve learned over the last 47 episodes and returns to those key...
2018-10-29 01:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 47: Ike Will Bring Them Home! This is our penultimate episode, and as such plays a critical role in bringing several threads of our narrative together. How fluent in the use of ato...
2018-10-26 14:48:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 46: Atomic Diplomacy looks at the fascinating tactic supposedly made use of by the Eisenhower administration in the first half of 1953. This policy of threatening nuclear war if th...
2018-10-21 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Episode 45: The Culminating Factors brings several threads of our story together, as we count down towards the establishment of peace amidst the political climb of Dwight D. Eisenhower, wh...
2018-10-20 12:06:19 +0000 UTC View Post