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Cold War culture and the path to the First World War

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Dominic Sandbrook explores how the Cold War impacted on many aspects of British life, while Margaret MacMillan tells us why she believes the First World War broke out when it did Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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but in the next decade or so.

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That was Dominic Sandbrook talking to us about how the Cold War affected British culture.

0:53.0

The tension's building up.

0:54.5

And so when the Archduke is assassinated,

0:56.7

it becomes a precipitating factor.

1:00.3

I think other things could have done it as well.

1:02.5

And that was Margaret McMillan,

1:04.4

author of a new book on the First World War.

1:23.8

Music Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast.

1:30.4

My name is Rob Atar and I'm the editor of BBC History Magazine, which is the UK's best-selling history magazine. You can find us in all good newsagents and on subscription.

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