Tag: Second World War
What are the causes of the second world war?
In 1939, countries expected war to be imminent. The cause of the Second World War is to be found in the diktat imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. The growing…
Fall of the USSR: in Russia, the teaching of history is still far from objective
Our series on 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union. A page of recent history which has become a very sensitive political issue, its teaching, especially from the…
Iris Chang, the voice of the victims of the 1937 Nanjing massacre
Sino-American journalist and historian, Iris Chang in 1997 made a major contribution to the memory of the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945) by publishing The Rape of Nanjing. This historic essay, which…
How Josephine Baker earned her place in the Pantheon
This Tuesday, November 30, 2021, Joséphine Baker enters the Panthéon. Forty-six years after his death, the icon of the Roaring Twenties joins the great French figures who rest in this…
Questioning History at the Averroès Meetings
Second World War ; Algerian War; memorial issues; freedom of expression: omnipresent subjects 5 months from a French presidential election which must nevertheless decide the future. A program in Marseille,…