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The Economist
How the D-Day landings shaped the world
75 years ago allied forces pulled off the largest seaborne invasion the world has ever seen. The D-Day landings helped liberate Europe from the Nazis—they were also instrumental in changing the world order
Professor Dave Explains
Dwight Eisenhower: I Like Ike (1953 – 1961)
Dwight Eisenhower was the first military hero to become president since Ulysses Grant nearly a century earlier. But the post WWII era was much different from the post Civil War era. The military-industrial complex was taking shape, and...
Hip Hughes History
Russia Invades Ukraine: The Worst Possible Scenario
With 30,000 Russian troops massed on Ukraine's border, are Ukrainians prepared to grab guns and take up arms? What are we to make of comments in an apparent tape leak from Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko? And what is Russian President...
John D Ruddy
Cold War in 9 Minutes
An animated video outlining the basic narrative of the Cold War, Capitalism vs Communism, Red Scare, the Berlin Wall, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan etc.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Talbott on the Reagan Years
Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discusses the changing notion of arms control agreements during The Reagan Administration. [9:57]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Us History: The Clinton Years, or the 1990s
In which John Green teaches you about the United States as it was in the 1990s. You'll remember from last week that the old-school Republican George H.W. Bush had lost the 1992 presidential election to a young upstart Democrat from...
Center For Civic Education
60 Second Civics: Participation in World Affairs Pt. 18: Un, Nato, Etc.
Today we discuss the United Nations, NATO, and other international organizations. This episode originally aired in January 2012.
PBS
Pbs: War in Europe, Nat Os 1990 War With Serbia
Frontline look of the 1999 NATO conflict with Serbia over Kosovo
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: American Diplomacy Throughout History
Fmr. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discusses the transformation of diplomacy from 18th-century diplomacy, government talking to government, to 20th-century diplomacy, government talking to government and the people [10:04]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Albright on Strategic & Humanitarian Interests, the Balkans Ii
How the United States and the UN Security Council came to a resolution: Milosevic and Kosovo, NATO and Russian Opposition. Fmr. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in conversation with Walter Isaacson of the Aspen Institute.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Talbott on Globalization and Non State Actors
Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discusses redefining the tools we need to deal in a world that's global, that has one sort of digital flow of information, and has an influx of non-state actors. [8:20]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Talbott on Containment and the Diplomatic Toolbox
Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discusses how the United States implemented the policy of containment and the transatlantic alliances that emerged during the Cold War. [6:23]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Powell on 9/11
General Colin Powell discusses the decision to go into Afghanistan and the "global war on terrorism" after 9/11. [5:36]