@@HashSl1ng1ngSlasher 1600s, didn't you read history books. France once again rose as a great power under Napoleon in 1800s. Only after battle of Waterloo did France became weaker
I know the "Hiding behind the desk" thing is often made fun of, but I feel like the trope of criticizing it often distracts from the rationale behind the tactic. Certainly, if you are directly in the main blast of a nuclear attack, it won't do much. But it's not like bombs draw a big circle where everyone inside instantly dies, and everyone outside is completely uninjured. There's always an outer limit where people directly exposed to the bomb will be severely injured, and those who take some amount of cover will survive with lesser wounds. We can look to the tragic accounts of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki: there are many reports of people surviving the blast strangely uninjured compared to those around them, simply because they happened to have been in places that offered even the smallest amount of extra protection. Learning from these lessons, if your job is to prepare a city for a possible atomic attack, wouldn't the best approach be to teach everyone to go to the best cover they could find? It won't save everyone, but it will certainly make a difference.
Excellent points. I also wanted to mention that my schools never did atomic bomb or air raid drills, during the 1970s and 1980s, despite only being a dozen miles from a SAC base with B-52s. Used to watch those big bombers flying low over the forests, practicing their "stealthy approaches to the target". Ha!
Totally agree, but we can identify three blast radii for a nuclear bomb. The smallest is the fireball, not much chance of survival. The second has lots of radiation and a shockwave, duck and cover can save your life, but injury is almost guaranteed. In the third the shockwave is lessened enough that your biggest concern is flying debris rather than collapsing buildings, duck and cover is really important here (and make sure you aren't in sight of a window).
I love all the crash courses on history humanize history. It's a way of seeing history that you'll never learn in school and even if you know the subject it's worth watching for this new perspective.
@Ordinary Sessel they weren't deemed reliable before. Now we know we can corroborate events in oral history to real events they're a lot more reliable now. BBC Africa has a whole series on TH-cam on African history, you might learn something new and less bigoted about the continent if you give it a watch. Expand your knowledge past western centricity 🙄
@Ordinary Sessel again your lack of knowledge is predictable. Coming from such a bigot I'm not surprised. Africa has written history. You just lack the critical thinking to be objective away from your strongly held belief of Africa being without written history. We've moved on from 19th century anthropological ideas
Hi all. We had a map error in the original version of this episode, so we uploaded it again. Sorry if you got double notifications. Thanks for watching! -stan
This episode quickly became about the United States vs USSR, and not about Europe. I understand the US held great influence during this time, but more information about what Europe and their leaders were doing would be more appropriate for a series about Europe. Mayhaps it was easier to research?
It's worth noting that the USSR is European (and Asian but hey), but I see what you mean. It'd have been better to have more emphasis on more than just Russia during this time.
110% agree. There was so much to say about what was going on on Spain, France, Greece, Portugal and many other countries and how every one tried to rebuild itself after WW2 and why. And even though at the end John says the next episode will deal with it, I'm afraid it's been too much time lost to the US stuff
I agree with you. However, I feel like this episode might be setting the stage for upcoming ones. The next one that gets teased at the end of this episode sounds like it will be much more about domestic politics and the economy and therefore should be more about Europe itself. So I'm willing to give CrashCourse the benefit of the doubt that the contents were chosen carefully and intentionally with the upcoming topics in mind.
Being 2AM and sleepy, I was so confused when I saw this video on my feed, "didn't I watched this like a few hours ago?" Thanks for the late night confusion guys.
I feel like altough this is a course on European History, you still focus too much on the United States. That bit where you talk about schools doing exercises on how to react in the case of nuclear war is not an european experience, or at least where i live in.
I hope you can shine a light on decolonization and the break up of Euorpean empires in the next one. Its one of those issues where the world impacts Europe and Europe impacts the world.
The Luftbrücke with their Rosinenbomber was one of the biggest reasons for the support of the western Germans of the US, they had demonstrated that they would do whatever it takes to save the lives of German citizens in Berlin. This was vital in reducing the amount resistance to the occupation.
in 1969 my family lived in Novisibirsk as a part of a science exchange. My father was a mathematician and considered "harmless" without strategic knowledge. It was interesting as a western kid to live in the USSR for a while.
The US and USSR are incredibly important in the period, I believe the focus is justified. But it is European History. First and foremost the wording regarding the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe is - controversial. Communist parties were to some degree popular, but very far from any universality. Secondly; why not dwelve into the consequences of war on the different nations. It's the step before the Cold War, and was the marking of "the lines". I, I am actually severely disappointed. I expected a three or four parter about the aftermath of the war. Since the aftermath is essential for the development of the EU and all, why - how, how could that not be the focus?
I think the closer we get to modern day times the more do ongoing politics define how accurate the info we get will be. For instance I do not believe we'll be told that in 1989/90, the dissolution of the Soviet Union was against the will of most people - I don't even think it will be discussed how in many member states such as Russia, this can be boiled down to nationalist coups essentially. I do not think that we'll be hearing much about how many post war countries employed nazi collaborators in post war governments - the Nuremberg Trials in Germany is probably as detailed as it'll get. We will not hear about things such as the Greek Civil War in which Great Britain established a right wing puppet dictatorship in Greece. And so on and so forth.
Pete9320 keep in mind, these Crash Course videos are formatted to help those who are taking the Advanced Placement program in the US. Don’t criticize John and the team. Criticize the US education system and it’s formatting for higher level courses. You’ll see this with any AP history class. Broad strokes.
The series is supposed to be about Europe. The Korean War gets more mention than Yugoslavia and its unaligned socialist policy, Finland and its similar approach from the capitalist side, Spain and Portugal and their independant process of coming to terms with Fascism and slow growth of democracy, the Greek civil war, a very hot conflict between capitalism and communism in that country, operation Gladio and the role of NATO in the political lives of Italy and Turkey, Albania's very special way, the position of England and France... Guys, seriusly, I am totally against eurocentrism, but if you call a series 'European History', then please, at least a bit of focuse on, eh, Europe would be nice
P.S. you mention about your 'duck and cover' drills in school. Nothing against your education, but that was in north America, unless I am badly mistaken, so not in Europe. How about checking out how the kids on both sides of the iron curtain in, you know, Europe were being prepared? We didn't have duck and cover drills, we were taught how to recognise the different alarm patterns and where the nearest shelter was. Not critically important, I know, but adds to the fact that you substitute emotion and impressing the audience for actual research, digging through literature and maybe, just maybe, talking to Europeans from both sides of the curtain who actually lived through this
As a chinese live in states. I can’t agree more. At the end of day great people make great government. Dumb people make dumb government regardless of what kind of government it is.
my grandfather was in the Korean war he never told his sons (one being my dad) so that they don't want to go to war, it did not work, he told this to my mom about how he was on the front lines and how he saw the faces of those he shot at he had to go back after the war when we said we would rebuild, he was an engineer and later helped plan the D.C. metro, they gave him a plaque to thank him and of course money but not once did I hear him speak of Korea he was very young when he was drafted.
It shouldn’t be hard to figure out which strategy was overall better for individuals, even if you still believed that “communists are for the little guy”. Would you rather be in Western Germany and US Berlin? Or in East German Germany and USSR controlled Berlin? Don’t like that question? Well then, South Korea or North Korea? I’ll wait.
Austria or Hungary. Not saying that the US was innocent - looking at Latin America - but at least they didn't actively coerce, imprison and execute their own people en masse. Communists advertised themselves to be for the little guy and yet it was the USSR that actively harmed its own ordinary citizens. But don't worry, tankies will arrive with their propaganda soon enough. =)
Not saying a communist government would be a good thing (it definitely wouldn’t), but pure capitalism leads to plenty of exploitation as well. So what about a capitalist government, but with protections for employees, customers, and the environment along with safety nets for vulnerable people.
@@nicholaslewis8594 Absolutely! Extremes are never good. The market is imperfect and requires corrections to make it more fair, which should be one of the government's jobs.
Because the video was reuploaded I'm gonna say it again. We were supposed to have European history but we got Americanised European history instead. Nice.
You make the comparison between US kids taught soviet communism was evil and soviet kids taught that US capitalism is evil, then very casually go on to tell how the soviets went about purging random groups of their own population. A fair comparison, no doubt...
@eres I honestly have no idea what soviet nations kids were taught in school. Just pointing out that the comparison is just plain false - even though western capitalism is not saintly by any means, it certainly has never committed such atrocities on such scales. So yeah - I'm pretty comfortable saying that population purges = evil. This is an objective truth that transcends politics and culture, and anyone who thinks otherwise has a dangerously convoluted view of the world.
@eres yeah, and also rounding up all sorts of groups of intellectuals, religious figures, and even just the more successful among the farmers (they must have stolen their wealth, how else could they have got it) - You could guess this did not bode well for the Russian people (obviously not that well for the purged either).
Good thing I know about all these events from Twilight Struggle (a board game about the superpowers' fight over influence in the world during the cold war)
I think it's really cute how in your animation showing both sides trying to "out do" each other in terms of comfort and advancement, you make it looks like they were on equal footing. The soviet side should have looked like a bunch of poor starving people, not a comfy home with a nice radio and TV.
While living conditions in the Eastern bloc were certainly not on par with the West, "starving" is massively out of place for the post-50s Soviet Union (or the rest of the East).
@@varana the Soviets posted notices telling people it was wrong to eat their own children. I think there was plenty of starvation happening in the Soviet union.
It's an atrocity that you didn't talk about the redrawing of borders by the allies (mostly in the east) and the massive campaigns of ethnic cleansing and millions of refugees that such action unleashed.
When and how did the nuclear drills end in schools in the USA? Which state was the last state to have such drills? Or did they all stop at the same time?
That was excellent, congratulations on not pushing propaganda :P As John Green recalls, most history and TV shows tend to be drenched in jingoism for either side, although we get a very pro-USA view in the 'West'. However, it would be interesting to discuss the non-aligned movement as well :)
Because high calorie, high sugar, and high fat food is cheaper for many people and many people can only afford that. So I'd say that’s a failure of the market in this case.
@@nicholaslewis8594 No way. The healthiest food is always the cheapest. Compare anything in the produce isle to any of the food that went through extra prepossessing to add extra fat and sugar. Healthy food is ALWAYS cheaper!
A lot of people are indirectly, and sometimes outright, accusing John of American-centrism. But while European politics were important during this period, it’s important to realize that the two major players in the Cold War were America and the USSR, and it was their actions that dictated the outcome of most engagements and this era as a whole. To not focus on America, would essentially prevent John from giving complete context to the the Cold War.
Harry S. Truman, who became President of the United States in April 1945, wrote (re: veto right): "All our experts, civil and military, favored it, and without such a veto no arrangement would have passed the Senate." Yeah, “Stalin muh”
8:15 Difference between you and the kid in Soviet USSR was you were learning with a full stomach, new clothes, and was probably dropped off at school by your dad in his Chevrolet or Ford. .... Anybody wanna guess what the kid in the Soviet Union had for breakfast? 😁
Adrian Duran but no one in the USSR had that, except the children of government leaders. The difference between poverty in the US and poverty under Stalin was that Stalin was trying to create poverty while Americans were trying to end it.
@@andrewkinzie5221 Have a look again, he's much smaller than the troops, moves at a different speed to the camera panning, in completely different focus, and higher resolution than anyone else.
@@andrewkinzie5221 and most damning of all is he stays the same size, despite being in the foreground, while the troops become bigger as the camera pans over.
The blockade part is absolutely always missing the part where the soviets were happy to supply the city themselves and at least nominally didn't want Americans driving 100s of miles through East germany
I just remembered we're not gonna be talking about Vietnam, thank goodness. That's a train wreck this continent managed to avoid. Now what are the video topics, it's all fairly chill until the late 80s/90s? Decolonisation of the imperial nations?
“During this period Communist parties in Europe had popular support.” Yea, except when the soviets rolled in with their tanks they mowed down any “popular” communists there might have been lest anyone think what they were about to bring to Eastern Europe was going to be anything but dictatorial and brutal.
Seen various comments below indicating what you could have included. But this crash course has provided me more info than the entire lesson I had in my 8th grade. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to support on patreon The coolest takeaway though was James Bond Vs Max Otto ;)
i know accepted physicality has changed but those guys at the beginning seemed more sincere with their kisses as the classic time square kiss picture to me.
It's hard not to believe that Allies deserved it by betraying Central European countries, more than once. First, before and at the beginning of the war when they allowed invasion on Czechia and then leaving Poland alone which they were obliged to help by treaties. Again at the end during Tehran and Yalta conferences where they betrayed their allies once again allowing USSR to annex or subdue half of the continent. One could say that in the latter they couldn't do much. Well, didn't the Phoney War teach them anything?
And nova days Stirlitz is a poplar jocke in Poland. Exapmple: . Wróciwszy do swego gabinetu, Mueller zauważył, że Stirlitz podejrzanie kręci się w pobliżu sejfu. - Co tu robicie, Stirlitz? - srogo zapytał. - Czekam na tramwaj - odparł Stirlitz. - W porządku! - rzucił Mueller, wychodząc. Ale na korytarzu pomyślał: Jakiż u diabła może być tramwaj w moim gabinecie? Zawrócił. Ostrożnie zajrzał do gabinetu. Stirlitza nie było. - Pewnie już odjechał - pomyślał Mueller. Coming to his office Muller seas Stirlitz suspiciously wandering around the safe cabinet. "What are you up to?" he asks. "I'm just waiting for a street car" answers Stirlitz. "O, thats ok then." seas Muller living the office calmly. On the hallway he asks himself "What the hell!? What street car can there be in by office?" He turns back. Carefully he looks in to the office. Stirlitz is not there. "Well, he probably road off ." thinks Muller.
You named three 'Eastern Europian Countires' - Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. Unfortunatelly, it happens that neither of the three actually is in Eastern Europe - despite the 40 years long Soviet rule over the region.
@@ShidaiTaino Correct! If only this video was about how European countries managed to come back from total destruction, instead it was about the US and USSR's rise to superpower status
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“Three main powers... and France.”
France was only a major power once, in the 1600s. Like a bad breakup, they never got over it when their time passed.
@@HashSl1ng1ngSlasher 1600s, didn't you read history books. France once again rose as a great power under Napoleon in 1800s. Only after battle of Waterloo did France became weaker
@@raghul0078 Right. My bad.
@@HashSl1ng1ngSlasher France was the strongest country in Europe for a long time during the middle ages.
@Bihan JAYATHILAKE I only told facts
0:19 that is a very friendly soldier
Actually it's a typical Russian greeting
Such gay times they were.
You could have discussed the Non Alignment Movement too.
I know the "Hiding behind the desk" thing is often made fun of, but I feel like the trope of criticizing it often distracts from the rationale behind the tactic. Certainly, if you are directly in the main blast of a nuclear attack, it won't do much. But it's not like bombs draw a big circle where everyone inside instantly dies, and everyone outside is completely uninjured. There's always an outer limit where people directly exposed to the bomb will be severely injured, and those who take some amount of cover will survive with lesser wounds. We can look to the tragic accounts of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki: there are many reports of people surviving the blast strangely uninjured compared to those around them, simply because they happened to have been in places that offered even the smallest amount of extra protection.
Learning from these lessons, if your job is to prepare a city for a possible atomic attack, wouldn't the best approach be to teach everyone to go to the best cover they could find? It won't save everyone, but it will certainly make a difference.
It’s also as equally “do something so you don’t think about how you can do nothing about it.”
One word: "fridge"
Excellent points. I also wanted to mention that my schools never did atomic bomb or air raid drills, during the 1970s and 1980s, despite only being a dozen miles from a SAC base with B-52s. Used to watch those big bombers flying low over the forests, practicing their "stealthy approaches to the target". Ha!
Totally agree, but we can identify three blast radii for a nuclear bomb. The smallest is the fireball, not much chance of survival. The second has lots of radiation and a shockwave, duck and cover can save your life, but injury is almost guaranteed. In the third the shockwave is lessened enough that your biggest concern is flying debris rather than collapsing buildings, duck and cover is really important here (and make sure you aren't in sight of a window).
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I love all the crash courses on history humanize history. It's a way of seeing history that you'll never learn in school and even if you know the subject it's worth watching for this new perspective.
Can you do a crash course: African history?
C O L O N I Z E D
Ordinary Sessel 50% of history is from legends and oral traditional, which are very accurate.
@@Ghost-Rider667 the oldest continuously inhabited continent will result in "One short video"? Your ignorance is showing
@Ordinary Sessel they weren't deemed reliable before. Now we know we can corroborate events in oral history to real events they're a lot more reliable now. BBC Africa has a whole series on TH-cam on African history, you might learn something new and less bigoted about the continent if you give it a watch. Expand your knowledge past western centricity 🙄
@Ordinary Sessel again your lack of knowledge is predictable. Coming from such a bigot I'm not surprised. Africa has written history. You just lack the critical thinking to be objective away from your strongly held belief of Africa being without written history.
We've moved on from 19th century anthropological ideas
YOU POSTED THIS THE DAY BEFORE MY EUROPEAN HISTORY EXAM BLESS YOU CRASHCOURSE
I came after years. He speaks slower and seems much calmer now. I appreciate the change as english is not my first language 👍👍
Hi all. We had a map error in the original version of this episode, so we uploaded it again. Sorry if you got double notifications. Thanks for watching! -stan
CrashCourse cool!
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Question: although it seems like COVID-19 hasn't really affected your content, has it though?
CrashCourse i thought I was having a dejavú there
@@akshaygowrishankar7440 I imagine these episodes were filmed sometime last year. they've most likely been done for months now
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This episode quickly became about the United States vs USSR, and not about Europe. I understand the US held great influence during this time, but more information about what Europe and their leaders were doing would be more appropriate for a series about Europe. Mayhaps it was easier to research?
As an European, this was a lousy episode.
It's worth noting that the USSR is European (and Asian but hey), but I see what you mean. It'd have been better to have more emphasis on more than just Russia during this time.
110% agree. There was so much to say about what was going on on Spain, France, Greece, Portugal and many other countries and how every one tried to rebuild itself after WW2 and why. And even though at the end John says the next episode will deal with it, I'm afraid it's been too much time lost to the US stuff
This was much like what my teachers taught me in a British secondary school.
I agree with you. However, I feel like this episode might be setting the stage for upcoming ones. The next one that gets teased at the end of this episode sounds like it will be much more about domestic politics and the economy and therefore should be more about Europe itself.
So I'm willing to give CrashCourse the benefit of the doubt that the contents were chosen carefully and intentionally with the upcoming topics in mind.
Being 2AM and sleepy, I was so confused when I saw this video on my feed, "didn't I watched this like a few hours ago?" Thanks for the late night confusion guys.
ME TOOO IT THOUGHT I WATCHED THIS
2AM? Where are you from?
They took down the original upload for whatever reason.
@@k-panga I'm from Indonesia dude
I feel like altough this is a course on European History, you still focus too much on the United States. That bit where you talk about schools doing exercises on how to react in the case of nuclear war is not an european experience, or at least where i live in.
In soviet occupied Europe it was talked about but they didn't do any drills. In soviet russia everything was "fine" all the time.
I hope you can shine a light on decolonization and the break up of Euorpean empires in the next one. Its one of those issues where the world impacts Europe and Europe impacts the world.
I expect that's the episode after the next one.
@6:00 You forgot that the West, especially the U.S., also took scientists away from the Nazis. That's a big miss John.
Operation papaer clip.
Preposterous Altercation honestly what is wrong with you
I still think this episode should have focused more on Europe. I didn't learn anything more in this video than in US History or World History
There are a lot of interesting things that happened in Europe in the 10 years after 1945, too bad non were mentioned here.
You realise that the eastern bloc contained well over half of all europeans right?
RobotGoggles Europe was literally a pile of rubble under the thumb of the US
The Luftbrücke with their Rosinenbomber was one of the biggest reasons for the support of the western Germans of the US, they had demonstrated that they would do whatever it takes to save the lives of German citizens in Berlin.
This was vital in reducing the amount resistance to the occupation.
in 1969 my family lived in Novisibirsk as a part of a science exchange. My father was a mathematician and considered "harmless" without strategic knowledge. It was interesting as a western kid to live in the USSR for a while.
Love the shoutout to Milada Horáková!
The US and USSR are incredibly important in the period, I believe the focus is justified.
But it is European History. First and foremost the wording regarding the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe is - controversial. Communist parties were to some degree popular, but very far from any universality.
Secondly; why not dwelve into the consequences of war on the different nations. It's the step before the Cold War, and was the marking of "the lines".
I, I am actually severely disappointed. I expected a three or four parter about the aftermath of the war. Since the aftermath is essential for the development of the EU and all, why - how, how could that not be the focus?
I think the closer we get to modern day times the more do ongoing politics define how accurate the info we get will be. For instance I do not believe we'll be told that in 1989/90, the dissolution of the Soviet Union was against the will of most people - I don't even think it will be discussed how in many member states such as Russia, this can be boiled down to nationalist coups essentially. I do not think that we'll be hearing much about how many post war countries employed nazi collaborators in post war governments - the Nuremberg Trials in Germany is probably as detailed as it'll get. We will not hear about things such as the Greek Civil War in which Great Britain established a right wing puppet dictatorship in Greece. And so on and so forth.
Pete9320 keep in mind, these Crash Course videos are formatted to help those who are taking the Advanced Placement program in the US. Don’t criticize John and the team. Criticize the US education system and it’s formatting for higher level courses. You’ll see this with any AP history class. Broad strokes.
In what world do you think John won't do an entire episode on the formation of the EU!?
The series is supposed to be about Europe. The Korean War gets more mention than Yugoslavia and its unaligned socialist policy, Finland and its similar approach from the capitalist side, Spain and Portugal and their independant process of coming to terms with Fascism and slow growth of democracy, the Greek civil war, a very hot conflict between capitalism and communism in that country, operation Gladio and the role of NATO in the political lives of Italy and Turkey, Albania's very special way, the position of England and France... Guys, seriusly, I am totally against eurocentrism, but if you call a series 'European History', then please, at least a bit of focuse on, eh, Europe would be nice
P.S. you mention about your 'duck and cover' drills in school. Nothing against your education, but that was in north America, unless I am badly mistaken, so not in Europe. How about checking out how the kids on both sides of the iron curtain in, you know, Europe were being prepared? We didn't have duck and cover drills, we were taught how to recognise the different alarm patterns and where the nearest shelter was. Not critically important, I know, but adds to the fact that you substitute emotion and impressing the audience for actual research, digging through literature and maybe, just maybe, talking to Europeans from both sides of the curtain who actually lived through this
@@mg4361 Praise this post! A surprising amount of people didn't notice he talked about America half the video
american kids were taught that communism was evil.
russian kids were taught that capitalism was evil.
two things can be true at the same time.
Anon archist
Under capitalism, you work yourself to death for money, under communism you work yourself to death for the state.
It's almost like those blanket terms don't even have any meaning.
found the person who hasn't read any political philosophy
As a chinese live in states. I can’t agree more. At the end of day great people make great government. Dumb people make dumb government regardless of what kind of government it is.
Great episode as always.
I totally thought about 1984 like two minutes before John mentioned it.
Speaking of Cold War, I’ve always wanted to do a Trabant tour of Berlin. That would be fun
I've been watching this guy for years and only just leant he wrote 'the fault in our stars'...
my grandfather was in the Korean war he never told his sons (one being my dad) so that they don't want to go to war, it did not work, he told this to my mom about how he was on the front lines and how he saw the faces of those he shot at he had to go back after the war when we said we would rebuild, he was an engineer and later helped plan the D.C. metro, they gave him a plaque to thank him and of course money but not once did I hear him speak of Korea he was very young when he was drafted.
Yeah I remember the weekly test of the airraid alarm. Every wednesday at 12. We didn't hide under the table, though.
*Hey, I've seen this one before!*
*What do you mean you've seen it, it's brand new!*
It shouldn’t be hard to figure out which strategy was overall better for individuals, even if you still believed that “communists are for the little guy”.
Would you rather be in Western Germany and US Berlin? Or in East German Germany and USSR controlled Berlin?
Don’t like that question? Well then, South Korea or North Korea?
I’ll wait.
Austria or Hungary.
Not saying that the US was innocent - looking at Latin America - but at least they didn't actively coerce, imprison and execute their own people en masse. Communists advertised themselves to be for the little guy and yet it was the USSR that actively harmed its own ordinary citizens.
But don't worry, tankies will arrive with their propaganda soon enough. =)
Not saying a communist government would be a good thing (it definitely wouldn’t), but pure capitalism leads to plenty of exploitation as well. So what about a capitalist government, but with protections for employees, customers, and the environment along with safety nets for vulnerable people.
@@nicholaslewis8594 Absolutely! Extremes are never good. The market is imperfect and requires corrections to make it more fair, which should be one of the government's jobs.
Because the video was reuploaded I'm gonna say it again. We were supposed to have European history but we got Americanised European history instead. Nice.
Highly Americanised! Europe was barely mentioned
definitely one of my favourite topics of history
i’m talking like interesting wise, i don’t want it repeated
I already watched the first upload, but watched it again to keep the numbers high
Nice
You make the comparison between US kids taught soviet communism was evil and soviet kids taught that US capitalism is evil, then very casually go on to tell how the soviets went about purging random groups of their own population.
A fair comparison, no doubt...
@eres I honestly have no idea what soviet nations kids were taught in school.
Just pointing out that the comparison is just plain false - even though western capitalism is not saintly by any means, it certainly has never committed such atrocities on such scales.
So yeah - I'm pretty comfortable saying that population purges = evil. This is an objective truth that transcends politics and culture, and anyone who thinks otherwise has a dangerously convoluted view of the world.
@eres yeah, and also rounding up all sorts of groups of intellectuals, religious figures, and even just the more successful among the farmers (they must have stolen their wealth, how else could they have got it) - You could guess this did not bode well for the Russian people (obviously not that well for the purged either).
My mom:you are not a failure
Me:league of nations
I just started reading 1984 and took him pointing it out for me to realize that constant visible warfare is in fact dystopic
Thanks for the lesson Jone Green.
"the three main powers... and france"
Best comment of the episode
France was not a player.
Good thing I know about all these events from Twilight Struggle (a board game about the superpowers' fight over influence in the world during the cold war)
I think it's really cute how in your animation showing both sides trying to "out do" each other in terms of comfort and advancement, you make it looks like they were on equal footing. The soviet side should have looked like a bunch of poor starving people, not a comfy home with a nice radio and TV.
While living conditions in the Eastern bloc were certainly not on par with the West, "starving" is massively out of place for the post-50s Soviet Union (or the rest of the East).
@@varana the Soviets posted notices telling people it was wrong to eat their own children. I think there was plenty of starvation happening in the Soviet union.
@@homewardboundphotos Err... could you point me to those notices?
Again, post-war, not 1930s.
We’re getting so close to the present, maybe we’ll get an episode about the coronavirus crisis and how it went downhill from there
We're getting close to the present....?
Cant wait for next week!! Great video :)
Fascinating stuff.
i haven't watched crashcourse in so long and john looks so different
It's an atrocity that you didn't talk about the redrawing of borders by the allies (mostly in the east) and the massive campaigns of ethnic cleansing and millions of refugees that such action unleashed.
STAN? STAN LIVES? God its good to hear him talk to stan again
When and how did the nuclear drills end in schools in the USA? Which state was the last state to have such drills? Or did they all stop at the same time?
Thought this was second video in one day and I was jazzed. :(
That was excellent, congratulations on not pushing propaganda :P As John Green recalls, most history and TV shows tend to be drenched in jingoism for either side, although we get a very pro-USA view in the 'West'. However, it would be interesting to discuss the non-aligned movement as well :)
People downvoting a 10 min video when its been online for 90 seconds
7:01 "... some argued American Capitalism seemed mostly to benefit the rich and well-fed".
Still holds true to this day.
The old Russian jokes goes "Everything they told us about communism was a lie. Everything they told us about capitalism is true."
Thats why I prefer Nordic or Singaporean capitalism.
Seeing how a majority of the U.S. is obese, I assume that means it benefits most.
Because high calorie, high sugar, and high fat food is cheaper for many people and many people can only afford that. So I'd say that’s a failure of the market in this case.
@@nicholaslewis8594 No way. The healthiest food is always the cheapest. Compare anything in the produce isle to any of the food that went through extra prepossessing to add extra fat and sugar. Healthy food is ALWAYS cheaper!
11:40 - 'Jam' in a SpaceBalls style, eh ?
this is the best video
You should do a series on historiography.
A lot of people are indirectly, and sometimes outright, accusing John of American-centrism. But while European politics were important during this period, it’s important to realize that the two major players in the Cold War were America and the USSR, and it was their actions that dictated the outcome of most engagements and this era as a whole. To not focus on America, would essentially prevent John from giving complete context to the the Cold War.
Damn, every time I watch these I'm reminded of how stupid I am.
Hiding under the desk was to stop the glass shards from the windows injuring you
Harry S. Truman, who became President of the United States in April 1945, wrote (re: veto right): "All our experts, civil and military, favored it, and without such a veto no arrangement would have passed the Senate."
Yeah, “Stalin muh”
Good call turning the comments off on that last one.
meow:) my cat and i watch you every weekend she naps alot during it
The division of Berlin reminded me of "The Third Man".
For some reason they never mention how Vienna was similarly divided up. The third man still run three times a week at one Viennese movie theater.
Please do a crash course european history on the republic of Ireland’s independence (1916 rising, civil war ect) !
8:15 Difference between you and the kid in Soviet USSR was you were learning with a full stomach, new clothes, and was probably dropped off at school by your dad in his Chevrolet or Ford. .... Anybody wanna guess what the kid in the Soviet Union had for breakfast? 😁
maybe John had all that, but many kids in the US don't have that
Adrian Duran but no one in the USSR had that, except the children of government leaders. The difference between poverty in the US and poverty under Stalin was that Stalin was trying to create poverty while Americans were trying to end it.
"Anybody wanna guess [...]"
Fried eggs, porridge, sandwiches, a cup of tea.
His dreams. By the way, how come my comment got deleted before? Curious.
My guess: vodka mixed into water and maybe bread or some type of porridge?
Didn’t I watch this already like 3 hours ago
3:39 lol what is that footage? Random guy with a camera greenscreened in.
accually no people had cameras taking photos of army’s for propaganda
@@andrewkinzie5221 Have a look again, he's much smaller than the troops, moves at a different speed to the camera panning, in completely different focus, and higher resolution than anyone else.
@@andrewkinzie5221 and most damning of all is he stays the same size, despite being in the foreground, while the troops become bigger as the camera pans over.
Well done…thank you!
The blockade part is absolutely always missing the part where the soviets were happy to supply the city themselves and at least nominally didn't want Americans driving 100s of miles through East germany
I reaaaally wanna to watch African history season .. thanks oncle STAN
What I have studied in in Sophomore year in highschool BOTH SIDES. Archie Brown book covers both sides.
I just remembered we're not gonna be talking about Vietnam, thank goodness. That's a train wreck this continent managed to avoid. Now what are the video topics, it's all fairly chill until the late 80s/90s? Decolonisation of the imperial nations?
Thanks for the Mongol montage Stan
“During this period Communist parties in Europe had popular support.” Yea, except when the soviets rolled in with their tanks they mowed down any “popular” communists there might have been lest anyone think what they were about to bring to Eastern Europe was going to be anything but dictatorial and brutal.
can we get crash course literature 5? it's been 64 years
I forget that I was born right after the fall of the Berlin wall. As well as the concept of living in "one world" is a pretty recent idea.
I'll be the petition for who's here from online school
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CRASH COURSE ASIAN HISTORY PLEASE!
Seen various comments below indicating what you could have included. But this crash course has provided me more info than the entire lesson I had in my 8th grade. Thanks for the video. Looking forward to support on patreon
The coolest takeaway though was James Bond Vs Max Otto ;)
14:17 “Were do for 30 years of glory after all the bad ones....” Said Me And Every Millennial below a $500,000 Tax Bracket
Let us therefore not vanquish our shared enemy. Better yet, let us invent or employ a common enemy (as is done in wars of attrition).
Could you make a history book that includes the actual first sources and what they mean
i know accepted physicality has changed but those guys at the beginning seemed more sincere with their kisses as the classic time square kiss picture to me.
I want to see more of the show, I'm way more interested in seeing how the rest of the 20th century went for Europe.
We need a crash course on Latin American history, please
I hope that the Eurovision Song Contest gets a mention 😁
Operation Vittels was called in German: Luftbrücke = air bridge
2:25 that most definitely is NOT how you should hold a pen.
Is there any more Crash Course Literature coming soon? :)
Please do History of Indian Subcontinent!
It's hard not to believe that Allies deserved it by betraying Central European countries, more than once. First, before and at the beginning of the war when they allowed invasion on Czechia and then leaving Poland alone which they were obliged to help by treaties. Again at the end during Tehran and Yalta conferences where they betrayed their allies once again allowing USSR to annex or subdue half of the continent. One could say that in the latter they couldn't do much. Well, didn't the Phoney War teach them anything?
Orlando, FL?? Not my first guess for the origins of DFTBA
It's Lenin's 150th birthday today.
Hope he is enjoying hell
And nova days Stirlitz is a poplar jocke in Poland. Exapmple: . Wróciwszy do swego gabinetu, Mueller zauważył, że Stirlitz podejrzanie kręci się w pobliżu sejfu. - Co tu robicie, Stirlitz? - srogo zapytał.
- Czekam na tramwaj - odparł Stirlitz.
- W porządku! - rzucił Mueller, wychodząc. Ale na korytarzu pomyślał: Jakiż u diabła może być tramwaj w moim gabinecie? Zawrócił. Ostrożnie zajrzał do gabinetu. Stirlitza nie było.
- Pewnie już odjechał - pomyślał Mueller.
Coming to his office Muller seas Stirlitz suspiciously wandering around the safe cabinet. "What are you up to?" he asks. "I'm just waiting for a street car" answers Stirlitz. "O, thats ok then." seas Muller living the office calmly. On the hallway he asks himself "What the hell!? What street car can there be in by office?" He turns back. Carefully he looks in to the office. Stirlitz is not there. "Well, he probably road off ." thinks Muller.
9:30 Aahh what a miss, you should’ve said: “Budgets for arms and missiles SKYROCKETED!” Hahaha
The end is near.
“Never that simple”….
Please do a UK history!
You named three 'Eastern Europian Countires' - Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. Unfortunatelly, it happens that neither of the three actually is in Eastern Europe - despite the 40 years long Soviet rule over the region.
This was not so much about Europe thought.. little bit too much American perspective
Silvester B Europe, which was a pile of rubble, was too busy trying not to fall apart
@@ShidaiTaino Correct! If only this video was about how European countries managed to come back from total destruction, instead it was about the US and USSR's rise to superpower status
We don’t need to tear down to build….