5. Story of England: Modern Warfare
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Importance of Control in the Second World War
In the First World War it takes a moment of crisis in 1915 and 1916 to lead to a dramatic increase in state power. In the 1930s that happens in the run up to the Second World War. A lot of things that the state is doing in the late 1930s, building new munitions factories or investing in the aircraft plant are what's happening before hostilities actually break out. Of course that war goes on longer. It requires a different sort of mobilization even more than at the end of the First WWI.
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