This Week In History
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22 Dec
The West German Chancellor walks through the Brandenburg Gate to shake hands with the East German Prime Minister
- December 22nd 1989 -
two great post World War 2 peace conferences at Yalta and Potsdam created a situation that was to symbolise the...
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05 Jul
Churchill’s Crushing Election Defeat
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5th July 1945
The Second World War shook up society to its core. Scholars have spent their entire lives attempting to uncover its political, cultural and social ramifications. The United Kingdom’s 1945...
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06 Aug
August 6th 1945 - At 8.15am on August 6th the US B10 bomber, Enola Gay, dropped its 5-ton Uranium-235bomb. It detonated 2000 feet above Hiroshima, taking 43 seconds to fall from the aircraft that was flying just over 31,000 feet. The “Little Boy”...