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Between 2 Wars
Season 1 · Episode 43
Czechoslovakia - the Last Bastion of Democracy | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 1 of 4
0.020mDecember 2, 2019
Czechoslovakia is holding on to democracy by a thread. It even looks like they might be able to integrate the German Czechoslovakians, but Hitler's rise to power changes everything.
Episodes
- Episode 1Rise of the Nations I BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1918 1 of 2
- Episode 2Disease, War and The Lost Generation: 1918 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 3Planes, Guns and Automobiles: 1919 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 4Russian Civil War and Russian Wars: 1919 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 5Peace, Revolution and the Treaty of Versailles: 1919 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 6Enter ADOLF HITLER stage left: 1919 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 7Miracle on the Vistula - Polish Soviet War: 1920 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 8The German People Oppose the Right Wing Extremists: 1920 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 9Carving up the Middle East: 1920 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 10Sex, Drugs, and the Right to Vote: 1920 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 11The US Turns Away from the World to Prohibition and Crime: 1921 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 12Poland Rises in the East: 1921 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 13Rise of Fascism and Mussolini's March on Rome: 1922 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 14The Greco-Turkish War and Legalisation of Ethnic Cleansing: 1922 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 15Hitler's Beer Hall Disaster: 1923
- Episode 16Lenin's Death and Stalin's Rise to Power: 1924
- Episode 17Smashing China to Pieces, the Background: 1925 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 18Glueing back together the shards of China: 1925 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 19Fake News in the Radio Age: 1926 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 20How Hollywood Helped Hitler | Between 2 Wars | 1926 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 21Chiang Kai-shek Plays it Like Stalin | Between 2 Wars | 1926 Part 3 of 3
- Episode 22Making America Great Again - The Roaring Twenties | Between 2 Wars | 1927 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 23From Aerobatics to Terror Bombing - Civil Aviation | Between 2 Wars | 1927 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 24A Bankrupt Germany Didn't Create the Nazis - Weimar's Golden Era | Between 2 Wars | 1928 Part 1 of 1
- Episode 25The US Economy is About to Crash Hard - The Wall Street Crash | Between 2 Wars | 1929 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 26Enter Yugoslavia Part 1 | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1929 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 27Enter Yugoslavia Part 2 | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1929 Part 3 of 3
- Episode 28Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Salt - The British Empire | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1930 Part 1 of 1
- Episode 29Italy's African Destiny - The Colonisation of Libya | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 30Japan, the Bureaucratic War Machine | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 31Germany Commits Suicide by Cancelling War Reparations | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1931 Part 3 of 3
- Episode 32Stalin's 5 Year Plan for Economic Mass Murder | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 33Most Germans Reject Hitler - Politics in Weimar Germany | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 34The Holodomor - the Communists' Holocaust | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 35Rise of Evil - From Populism to Fascism | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 36Germany Never Elected Hitler - The Machtergreifung | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1933 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 37The State of the US is Depressing - The Great Depression | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1933 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 38The World Takes Advantage of American Isolationism | BETWEEN 2 WARS | 1933 part 3 of 3
- Episode 39Why "All Germans Were Nazis" - How Hitler Created the 3rd Reich | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 40"Not all Fascists Are Nazis - Civil War in Austria | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 2 of 4"
- Episode 41Murder and Fascism - Rise of the Ustaše | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 42The Far Right French Revolution - The 6 February Crisis | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1934 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 43Czechoslovakia - the Last Bastion of Democracy | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 44The End of Polish Democracy - Pilsudski and the Sanacja Regime | BETWEEN 2 WARS | 1935 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 45Communist Boots Are Made For Walking - Mao's Long March | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 46One More Scramble in Africa - The Second Italo-Abyssinian War | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1935 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 47Zionism, Arabism & Colonialism in the Middle East | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1936 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 48How Left/Right Partisanship Starts a Civil War in Spain | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1936 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 49How Hitler Won the Olympic Games - The Berlin Olympics | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1936 Part 3 of 3
- Episode 50Did WW2 Start in 1937? - The Rape of China | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1937 Part 1 of 2
- Episode 51Why the Nazis Weren't Socialists - 'The Good Hitler Years' | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1937 Part 2 of 2
- Episode 52Appeasement - How the West Helped Hitler Start WW2 | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 1 of 4
- Episode 53Chain Your Woman to the Stove - Feminism in the 1930s | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 2 of 4
- Episode 54The Road to the Holocaust - Kristallnacht | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 3 of 4
- Episode 55Stalin's Paranoid Military Purges - The Great Terror | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 4 of 4
- Episode 56The Deadly Dry Run for WW2 - The Spanish Civil War | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 1 of 3
- Episode 57A Soviet-Nazi Alliance - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 2 of 3
- Episode 58The True Story of How WW2 Began | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1939 Part 3 of 3