Interwar 19 Germany pt2: The Uprising of 1919
From the SPD perspective, with the Kaiser gone, the German Revolution was complete in 1918. But to the Spartacists, there was still a real r...
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20 of 310 episodesInterwar 18 Germany pt1: The German Revolution of November 1918
The Kaiser abdicates. The Social Democratic Party arrives to power. Karl Liebknecht stands on a balcony and tells the workers: “The rule of...
Interwar 17: USA the wrap-up
A departure from our normal historical narration: Dave reacts to contemporary USA headlines and politics with a view to American Interwar hi...
Interwar 16: The US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
The sordid and criminal US occupation of Haiti 1915-1934 with resistance heroes like Charlemagne Peralte, occupiers like Smedley Butler, a y...
Interwar 15: Gunboat Diplomacy: Interwar USA in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica
A roundup of Interwar US imperialism in four Central American countries
Interwar 14: Sandino battles the Americans for Nicaragua, 1927-1933
We go way back, at first, to the rise and fall of the filibustering William Walker, who wanted to be king of Nicaragua. You’ll meet Smedley...
Interwar 13: America invades the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924
In the Interwar years America invaded many Central American and Caribbean countries. The major ones included Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Domin...
Interwar 12 America: The Scopes Monkey Trial, Sacco & Vanzetti framed
A showdown over evolution at the Scopes Monkey Trial. A frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti. A pair of Interwar trials define America in this per...
Interwar 11: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Back when we covered the US Civil War, we talked about how the US ultimately un-did the Reconstruction. But undoing the Reconstruction went...
Interwar 10 America pt2: American Racism – Reservations, Black Labor, the KKK
Continuing our series on Interwar America including Indian Reservations, Black Labor, the Garveyite Movement, and the KKK.
Interwar 9 America pt1: Autos, Cinema, Airplanes, Finance, Prohibition, Gangsters
A little bit of everything as we take two hours to start to paint a picture of Interwar America.
Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi
After the Cossack Coup, a power struggle between rivals leads to Reza Khan rising to the top. He defangs an American financial mission, jail...
Interwar 7: Reza Khan and the Cossack Coup of 1921
The 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement made every Persian government that followed unviable. Britain wanted Iran to be a colony, but couldn’t find...
Interwar 6: Iran the Semicolony and the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution was in 1905, but the British are there and bent on colonizing it. The struggles of the last of the Qajjar S...
Interwar 5: Ireland from Easter Rising to Partition
In the aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish Revolutionaries regrouped. We trace their path through armed struggle against Brita...
AER 153: Venezuela War Begins with Maduro’s Kidnapping
In the early morning of January 3, 2026, the US bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its president and its first lady. As of Day 1 of the war, Ven...
Interwar 4: The Anglo-Afghan War of 1919: Amanullah wins Independence
Our last episode of 2025. Did you know that Amanullah’s decision to wage war for Afghanistan’s independence from the British Empire had ever...
Interwar 3: India 1919: Massacre at Amritsar, Uprising in Malabar…
Using Anita Anand’s book, The Patient Assassin, among other sources, we tell the story of India from 1919 to the 1920s, including the massac...
Interwar 2: The 1919 Strikes!
1919 was the year of strikes in North America. How general strikes in Winnipeg and Seattle shook the North American rulers, even though both...
AER 152: The Third Ceasefire Begins…
Jon Elmer joins. We discuss the beginning of the third Ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.