For more than a hundred years, British soldiers, diplomats, and spies and their Russian counterparts competed for influence over Afghanistan in what became known as ‘the Great Game.’ Britain fought wars in Afghanistan between 1838 and 1842, 1878 and 1880...
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In August 1945 atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hastening the end of the Second World War and heralding the birth of the atomic age. International attempts to control the development of nuclear technology...
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After the Second World War, the disintegration of Britain’s empire transformed global politics. Before the war, Britain maintained colonies all over the world, providing valuable raw materials, manpower and strategic bases. By 1945, however, colonies...
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HMS Belfast is a unique ship. She is the Royal Navy’s last surviving cruiser, the largest preserved warship in Europe, and the only surviving cruiser built in the 1930s. Belfast was launched in March 1938, at a time when navies were competing to build...
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Known as Operation 'Plainfare' by the British and Operation 'Vittles' by the Americans, the Berlin Airlift was the first major confrontation between the East and the West. The divided city of Berlin lay deep in Soviet territory, connected to West Germany...
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For almost 30 years, the Berlin Wall stood as a physical symbol of the ideological divisions within Europe during the Cold War. At the end of the Second World War in 1945, Germany had been divided into American, British, French and Soviet zones. Berlin...
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'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.’ Churchill’s words in a 1946 speech recognised that the relationship between the Allies and the USSR had irrevocably changed. The ambition of the...
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On 2 April 1982, Argentinian forces invaded the British overseas territory of the Falkland Islands. Argentina had claimed sovereignty over the islands for many years and their ruling military junta did not believe that Britain would attempt to regain the...
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At the end of the Second World War Korea, which had formerly been occupied by the Japanese, was divided along the 38th Parallel. The North soon fell under the influence of the Soviet Union whilst the South relied on the support of the Americans. On 25...
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A state of emergency was declared in Malaya after the murder of three rubber planters by the MRLA (Malayan Races’ Liberation Army) in June 1948. Under the leadership of Chin Peng, and mainly Chinese in composition, the MRLA had its origins in the Malayan...