00.00 – 01.52
A glimpse at the themes of the programme, including the Great Depression and the build-up to the Second World War.
01.53 – 05.32
We learn of the effect around the world of the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression.
05.33 – 08.57
Niall describes Russia in the 1930s and Stalin's huge construction programme, such as the canal between Moscow and the Volga River.
08.58 – 11.17
Niall visits the building where records of the Gulag were kept, and looks at haunting photographs of some of the prisoners.
11.18 – 16.00
We learn about the relationship between class and race in Stalin's policies, and his use of ethnic minorities from within the Russian empire as slave labour.
16.01 – 21.17
Niall visits Germany and finds out about the Nazis' policies towards Jews in the 1930s.
21.18 – 25.02
We hear the story of one Jew – Victor Klemperer.
25.03 – 28.36
Using a range of contemporary literature, we see how anti-Semitism was encouraged and legitimised.
28.37 – 37.49
This section looks at the build-up of imperial militarism in Japan during the 1930s, and their expansion into China.
37.50 – 41.41
Niall explores why the world did little to stop the growing number of aggressive empire-states that were developing in the build-up to the Second World War. He also looks at the concept of appeasement (agreeing to the demands of an aggressor in an attempt to prevent war).
41.42 – 45.37
At Oxford University we find out why, in Britain in the late 1930s, appeasement seemed the best policy.
45.38 – 47.08
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