i could use some kind of quick crash course in the history of the cold war. anyone have any recs (, )? this youtube video seems pretty good so far for a noob like me
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Oversimplified says some nonsense stuff I might look for something that looks a little more serious - or just less biased
Paging I wonder if one of them has recs. Eigen may also have one
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anything especially nonsense i should be aware of?
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I haven't watched this video. They repeat unsourced tropes about why events played out, motivations of different leaders. I would rate their quality as very low.
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gotcha. most of what i was trying to get was just simple bare facts about what even happened, we didn't cover much 20th century history in school and i didn't pay much attention when we did
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my level of understanding right now is like: uhhh WWI happened, then WWII happened, then vietnam + watergate + woodstock (idk in what order), then i don't think we really covered anything after the 60s 😅 or outside the US after WWII even
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oh, the civil rights movement. i'm bad at history
So there was this time when the Soviet Union was going to put nuclear missiles on Cuba...
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I looked into it -- there was a gas shortage and a flock of seagulls. that's about it
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