USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History #39
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In which John Green teaches you about the Cold War, which was occasionally hot, but on average, it was just cool. In the sense of its temperature. It was by no means cool, man. After World War II, there were basically two big geopolitical powers left to divide up the world. And divide they did. The United States and the Soviet Union divvied up Europe in the aftermath of the war, and then proceeded to spend the next 45 years fighting over the rest of the world. It was the great ideological struggle, with the US on the side of capitalism and profit, and the USSR pushing Communism, so-called. While both sides presented themselves as the good guy in this situation, the reality is that there are no good guys. Both parties to the Cold War engaged in forcible regime changes, built up vast nuclear arsenals, and basically got up to dirty tricks. If you had to pick a bad guy though, I would point out that the USSR had no intention of bringing Laika the Cosmonaut Dog home alive. That poor dog never had a shot. Sorry to disappoint, but the economist t-shirts are not a real product. Thanks to Raoul Meyer for the YUGOGAL photo. Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set Follow us: @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @raoulmeyer @crashcoursestan @thoughtbubbler @saysdanica Like us!: http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse
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My history teacher wants us to create a 10 min original crash course video. She is looking for creativity and audience engagement. The topic is the interwar years.
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Dang Stalin is a savage
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trash course
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The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. were kept in Czech with MAD. Did u see wot I did thar?
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what did you say about yugo?!
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Cold War III
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"the Soviet Union divvied up Europe" spot the obvious mistake cough*divvied*cough
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Living during the last 20 years of the cold war we didn't feel like nukes would go off anyday. We just went about life like we do now.
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yugoslavia was no part of sowiet union
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2:46 Lol! Says that the US gave protection to European countries but puts a picture of US officials in Venezuela during Perez Jiménez, fail
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Isn't that Putin on the right side of those to ladies at 10:01
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The conclusion is, U.S. intervention around the world only causes problem, not solution!
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this is a calle for east and west to be at peace the russians stole usa information to build the nuclear and atomic bombs? please explain, so why russia thinks its technological when they steal from america? please explain
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Американцы, вы должны сосить промышленной элиты и евреев
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hey why cant u say quite slow
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When will people learn? DEMOCRACY. DOESN'T. WORK.
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Socialism failed. Thank god. Freedom isn't dead.
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I was in German class last year and sadly moved, but we covered WWI to now in Germany and my boyfriend lives in Germany so this is a lot of review, it's nice to see stuff I know well
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I watch this because of my history test tomorrow. Worth it.
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you look like older harry potter from harry potter and the cursed child
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