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17:30 - 18:30
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Mon, 22 June
1. The Road to War: 1920s & 30s
Guildhall
In the 1930s, the fallout from the Wall Street Crash triggered a devastating global depression, fuelling instability across continents. Governments faltered, extremism surged, and democracy gave way to dictatorship; from Nazi Germany to militarist Japan, from political chaos in France to civil war in Spain. The path to global conflict was set. In this compelling first conversation, James Holland and Anthony Scaramucci explore how these forces collided to spark the Second World War and how, in its aftermath, a new world order emerged that secured decades of peace and prosperity in the West.
