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Places That Changed The World

Pivotal events that shaped the century, and where they took place

World Service,5 episodes

Episodes

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Hiroshima, Birthplace of the Nuclear Age
Experts discuss the devastating end to the Second World War
19 Aug 2005,26 mins
Yalta, Meeting Place of the Big Three
Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt's Crimean summit in 1945
25 Aug 2005,26 mins
San Francisco and the Founding of the United Nations
Fifty countries gathered in 1945 to learn from the mistakes of the 1930s
02 Sep 2005,26 mins
Delhi and the Decolonisation of India
The end of the British Empire in 1947
09 Sep 2005,26 mins
Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the IMF
Everything that makes the global economy tick has its roots at this 1944 conference
16 Sep 2005,26 mins