An introduction to my new podcast series which will be published from September dealing with the wars of German unification and influence of Otto von Bismarck on Germany and Europe. The first series will deal with the Revolutuion of 1848 and the First Schleswig War. Later series will deal with the Second Schleswig War, the Seven Weeks War between Austria and Prussia and the Franco - Prussian War, then it will finish with the final years of Bismarck as Germen chancellro. This first episode deals with Prussia before 1848. You can listen to this and further episodes on a different feed from September onwards.
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Episode 8.20
In this final episode of this season, I will be discussing nuclear weapons and the threat of a nuclear war which hung over the world during the cold war.
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Episode 8.19
After Che Guevara left Cuba, he would try to led two revolutions in the Congo and in Bolivia, neither of which would succeed. He would be captured by the Bolivian Army and murdered in cold blood but he death, he would become an idea to many young people with left wing values.
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Episode 8.18
An American U2 spy plane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet Surface to Air missile. The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union increases but President Kennedy decides not to bomb Cuba. He uses a message from the Soviet leader to end the crisis and the Soviet nuclear missiles are withdrawn from Cuba.
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Episode 8.17
An American U2 spy fight discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba. The American military chiefs wanted an invasion of Cuba but President Kennedy decides above a naval blockade of Cuba instead. President Kennedy address the nation on television to tell them of the Soviet missiles now based in Cuba.