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  • Learn how the Truman Doctrine marked the beginning of the Cold War, how it shaped America's attitude towards communism and how it shifted its foreign policy on interventionism with its involvement in the Mediterranean after World War II.
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  • @yoshi24_
    @yoshi24_ Před 3 lety +112

    this man looks so smooth like if you touch him there would be no bumps

  • @seanharrington9356
    @seanharrington9356 Před 5 lety +215

    It seems wrong to label Spain blue for "Democratic" when it was ruled by a dictator until 1975. Especially since Switzerland is labeled grey, even though it had a democratic government. You should change the label to just "anti-Communist."

    • @mekakittykiller
      @mekakittykiller Před 3 lety +10

      Its more that they were on the allies side, Franco buddied up to the richest guy

    • @guillermoelenes7252
      @guillermoelenes7252 Před 2 lety +8

      @@mekakittykiller but this video explicitly frames the conflict as a fight between "Democracy Vs Communism" . And as you point out, it was just "anti-comunist"

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Yugoslavia is also gray even though they were Communist and Turkey is blue even though their democracy is a fraud, so I think gray is neutral and blue is NATO.

    • @seanharrington9356
      @seanharrington9356 Před 10 měsíci

      @@samsonsoturian6013 Almost. Austria, Sweden, and Ireland are also not part of NATO, and yet they're the same light blue as France, which was a founding NATO member. Meanwhile Spain didn't join until 1982. Something about the coloring/labeling is definitely weird and incorrect.

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 Před 10 měsíci

      @seanharrington9356 hmm. I thought the History Channel was actually pretty good back in the day....

  • @codealias3234
    @codealias3234 Před 5 lety +205

    Anyone else have a History test tmrw?

  • @joedig.
    @joedig. Před 3 měsíci +9

    who else being forced to watch this for school 💀

  • @JaylenPotts-zs2qw
    @JaylenPotts-zs2qw Před 21 dnem +2

    Harry Truman was a great president and an inspiration for many of Americans.

  • @salsa0333
    @salsa0333 Před 4 lety +460

    im being forced to watch this for online school

  • @HarlowSchmarlow
    @HarlowSchmarlow Před 4 lety +88

    I am currently struggling to finish up late Global Studies work at 4 in the morning, isn't online learning just FUN? :)

  • @johnjones4426
    @johnjones4426 Před 6 měsíci +9

    It's funny how Gary Oldman has now played both Winston Churchill and Harry Truman. Wonder if there's a Stalin biopic being made soon...

  • @10Jackoo
    @10Jackoo Před 5 lety +87

    Why doesn't this have CC? I wanted to show it in my class because I have students who are deaf or hard of hearing :((((

  • @tiffanytripp224
    @tiffanytripp224 Před 5 lety +29

    wow you really helped me with my work thanks sikke

  • @adromio
    @adromio Před 4 lety +69

    Wait hold on, did you just said Spain was a democratic state? It was a cruel, genocidal fascist dictatorship under Francisco Franco (helped out by Hitler and Mussolini themselves) up until 1975. And Portugal was a corporative dictatorship as well under Salazar until 1974. But I guess the US gave it a pass...

    • @kK-ox7rk
      @kK-ox7rk Před 3 lety +8

      Well Spain was under a “dictatorship” but it wasn’t cruel and specially not genocidal.....”helped out” by Hitler and Mussolini wouldn’t the best way to describe it either, Hitler asked Spain to be their allies in WW2 but Spain didn’t want to join. That’s the only time Hitler and Franco ever met. Btw after a while Franco tried to become more friendly to the western powers but since it was a dictatorship it didn’t go too well with the USA. But it is to be noted that Franco prevented Spain from becoming a communist country

    • @jamesdubanik4202
      @jamesdubanik4202 Před 2 lety +3

      This mam look like if I looked at his head I could see my reflection

    • @behemondi2554
      @behemondi2554 Před 2 lety +5

      It wasn’t democratic but it certainly wasn’t “genocidal or cruel”.

    • @jhonklan3794
      @jhonklan3794 Před 6 měsíci +1

      What genocide did it carry out

    • @adromio
      @adromio Před 6 měsíci

      @@behemondi2554 oh yeah? would you say that 160,000-200,000 victims of politicide, mass murder or forced labour do not seem "genociadal or cruel"? How about adding the disappearances of 114,266 people between 17 July 1936 and December 1951 still estimated to be in unmarked graves and the fact that we continue, to this day, exhume every year bodies from these graves. Not cruel at all... for sure not.

  • @shukriibrahim3920
    @shukriibrahim3920 Před 5 lety +7

    Very helpful.

  • @thinehero
    @thinehero Před 4 lety +11

    woah dude your voice is soothing

  • @sai742
    @sai742 Před 4 lety +14

    did the history channel actually misspell "straits" ?

  • @lovesadiesink_
    @lovesadiesink_ Před 6 lety +1

    Oh. Killed it

  • @angelaarden8204
    @angelaarden8204 Před 4 lety +11

    can you please add the transcript?

  • @Will-wb1zr
    @Will-wb1zr Před 4 lety +16

    Isn't Turkish Straights suppose to be Turkish Straits?

  • @stickhistory8835
    @stickhistory8835 Před 3 lety +4

    this is my kind of video
    i love history

  • @luciecolin7563
    @luciecolin7563 Před 2 lety

    c'est super

  • @helmy4328
    @helmy4328 Před 2 lety +8

    I have my GCSE History exam tomorrow. Just watching to remind myself. Good luck to everyone taking the exam tomorrow!

  • @hawksnebula1506
    @hawksnebula1506 Před 2 lety +6

    At 2:08 you discuss the points that Iranian oil would have to be shipped through Turkey and into the Black Sea? As at this time the Soviet Union held direct control over the buffer states of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbjian so surely a land border would do?

    • @nathansprinkle7237
      @nathansprinkle7237 Před 2 lety

      Across the Caspian sea would work, too. But maybe the purpose was to deliver the oil to Ukraine to be used for agriculture. Pipelines were rare at the time and ships were the easiest way to carry things, that's another thing to consider.

  • @Syisulis
    @Syisulis Před 2 lety +3

    This very history involves all of us the Domino effects of these events are staggering

  • @FentLover
    @FentLover Před 4 lety +15

    why does he look like a gta npc

    • @nabeel8633
      @nabeel8633 Před 3 lety +1

      legit couldnt get that out of my head

  • @UriyZ9mb8e
    @UriyZ9mb8e Před 4 lety +12

    2:12 am i the only one who has always said it as "I ran"?

    • @Mwriggles
      @Mwriggles Před 4 lety

      yes

    • @UriyZ9mb8e
      @UriyZ9mb8e Před 4 lety

      @Laurel Brenton lol

    • @egarcia7071
      @egarcia7071 Před 4 lety +1

      ohh where are you from because most engish people say it like "ih rarn"

    • @nabeel8633
      @nabeel8633 Před 3 lety +3

      that's a really white way of saying it basically, the correct way is ee-raan with a lil flick of ur tongue to put emphasis on the R (ایران‎ in arabic)

    • @UriyZ9mb8e
      @UriyZ9mb8e Před 3 lety +1

      @@nabeel8633 ok cool, sorry I've just never heard it any other way. I will use the correct pronunciation from now on!

  • @jorgebravo7980
    @jorgebravo7980 Před 3 lety +67

    “Democracy vs Communism”? Please.
    It wasn’t about democracy. The US organized coups (and deaths) of democratically elected leaders who were leftist. And also the US supported dictatorships who were from the right. It wasn’t about democracy. So that title is extremely misleading.
    A more correct title should be “Capitalism vs Communism”

    • @akashsingh-mp4nr
      @akashsingh-mp4nr Před 3 lety +11

      Imperialist vs Socialist

    • @ZeroResurrected
      @ZeroResurrected Před 2 lety

      To defend your own liberty, you must often make difficult choices. The ends justify the means

    • @Gorboduc
      @Gorboduc Před 2 lety +6

      Freedom vs Communism. 👌

    • @marionhope8960
      @marionhope8960 Před 2 lety +2

      The Truman's speech highlighted the difference between Democracy Vs communism.he is right.

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 Před 2 lety

      @@akashsingh-mp4nr
      Thank God, Communism doesnt exist anymore here in Europe 😉

  • @tricyclebtw348
    @tricyclebtw348 Před 3 lety

    this is so helpful for revision how does it only have 200k veiws

  • @MantashaNaaz-mz3ii
    @MantashaNaaz-mz3ii Před rokem

    Great

  • @ashyknees4013
    @ashyknees4013 Před 4 lety +1

    00:51 Portugal is missing

  • @ryanweaver962
    @ryanweaver962 Před 11 měsíci +1

    The reality of health and energy/infrastructure... the needs of various regions and populations can be better addressed than fear based rhetoric every could. These changes are not always easy, but the alternative is really not very appealing. The habits of dysfunction are bizarrely comforting, but they do not make them ok nor effective. The better work, while minimizing usurpations can ease some of the rhetoric without ridding the obvious needs of decent governance. Human rights is a baseline requirement for this work... and it is good work.

  • @ryanweaver962
    @ryanweaver962 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Proxy fights of influence end up costing a lot of revenue and increase the likelihood of empowering less than savory leaders in exchange for acquiescence of perceptions of leverage. The populations of various countries and regions tend to suffer in these regards. The justification of tyranny is never real.

  • @avas2564
    @avas2564 Před 3 lety +5

    i am currently failing U.S. history how are yall😍🤞🏼

    • @queens7758
      @queens7758 Před 3 lety

      Failinggg😘😘😌😝😜😜😋😋

    • @Eva-zr2nh
      @Eva-zr2nh Před 2 lety

      Im failing as welll from australia

  • @akashsingh-mp4nr
    @akashsingh-mp4nr Před 3 lety +1

    Watching for my subject International relations

    • @ritikasingh2415
      @ritikasingh2415 Před 2 lety

      Hey I guess u r in 12th from india

    • @akashsingh-mp4nr
      @akashsingh-mp4nr Před 2 lety

      @@ritikasingh2415 no I'm a graduate

    • @AsadKhan-vx3ts
      @AsadKhan-vx3ts Před rokem

      @@akashsingh-mp4nr you must be preparing for upsc....?

    • @akashsingh-mp4nr
      @akashsingh-mp4nr Před rokem

      @@AsadKhan-vx3ts not really but I'll soon.... currently I'm doing masters in political science form University of Delhi

    • @AsadKhan-vx3ts
      @AsadKhan-vx3ts Před rokem

      @@akashsingh-mp4nr lucky you.... ❣️

  • @Oluwagbemisoke
    @Oluwagbemisoke Před 3 lety +6

    Online school anyone

  • @StarbitO
    @StarbitO Před 2 lety +3

    I gotta watch this for class i hate it here

  • @dimitargueorguiev9088
    @dimitargueorguiev9088 Před rokem +1

    and ripples throughout 21 century as well..

  • @nonoimnothere
    @nonoimnothere Před 3 lety

    can someone jus tell me what notes to right down? im blanking

  • @parasgupta4533
    @parasgupta4533 Před 4 lety +2

    What area did the Truman doctrine target

  • @spacemonkey325
    @spacemonkey325 Před rokem +1

    0:55 he talks abt the us‘s wartime allies and there is the german flag ??

    • @NahBullshit
      @NahBullshit Před 5 měsíci

      Really 💀
      Also it all sounds like USSR and USA wasn't on the same side in WW2, how ridiculous...

  • @susanbuchser-lochocki20
    @susanbuchser-lochocki20 Před měsícem

    Exactly he started it all

  • @murielthompson1765
    @murielthompson1765 Před 3 lety +2

    So what I’m hearing is that US v USSR was basically UK v FRANCE with a little bit of spice

    • @nestormakepontos9700
      @nestormakepontos9700 Před rokem +1

      Didn't those have colonial rivalries? So, nothing big in front of the USA amd USSR. They were fighting literally for the whole world

  • @rafaelalamo7665
    @rafaelalamo7665 Před 29 dny

    Just watching this because it's interesting 🤷‍♂️

  • @owenlloyd4291
    @owenlloyd4291 Před 4 lety

    Mr. Meadows?

  • @theairdropperhypehouse9290

    ВСЕ НА ВЫБОРЫ

  • @rebeccas1048
    @rebeccas1048 Před 4 lety +12

    :48 "the united states, along with its wartime allies" this says as if the ussr wasnt arguably the most important american ally in ww2...... ok

  • @summerhale9173
    @summerhale9173 Před rokem

    what's this guys name ?

  • @alexhayden2303
    @alexhayden2303 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Britain got a major part of the Marshall Plan Aid.
    Germany made better use of their portion!

  • @kayleebaliya7383
    @kayleebaliya7383 Před měsícem +1

    i think it’s a me problem that i did not understand a single thing

  • @doc3087
    @doc3087 Před 6 měsíci

    Two seconds into the video i stopped it and did not finish it, guess why.

  • @rishaanbatchu
    @rishaanbatchu Před 5 měsíci

    Hey Evan, if you are watching this, Harry Truman is so funny

  • @24-Card
    @24-Card Před 2 lety +3

    The day America turned from protector, to aggressor.

    • @ZeroResurrected
      @ZeroResurrected Před 2 lety +3

      Being aggressive towards totalitarian regimes is a good thing

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ZeroResurrected
      Yeah...no...
      Its not Americas buisness!

    • @ZeroResurrected
      @ZeroResurrected Před 2 lety +2

      @@kayvan671 By your logic, we should’ve stayed out of WWII. You’re an appeaser

  • @louisconstant8214
    @louisconstant8214 Před 3 lety

    2:22 - why did the USSR need access to the Turkish Straits to bring in oil from Iran?

  • @kennedyandjory
    @kennedyandjory Před 2 lety +1

    I don't get why the Soviets had to go through Turkish waters... it's literally quicker to go the other way? Does anyone know the reason behind this?

    • @kennedyandjory
      @kennedyandjory Před 2 lety

      Also could someone clarify what is meant by first financial investment by the united ststes outside of the western hemisphere? Didn't they give money in WW2?

  • @lovesadiesink_
    @lovesadiesink_ Před 6 lety +1

    20

  • @sillymadness2896
    @sillymadness2896 Před 4 lety

    1:50 what kind of gun has a mag the points upwards?

  • @ethanhodes3281
    @ethanhodes3281 Před 4 lety +1

    Im in a history class help!

  • @patrickonuoha4965
    @patrickonuoha4965 Před 5 měsíci

    like why tf am I getting an project to do right after December break and bro doesn't allow us to do the work in class now im up late doing ts RAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @leandroribeiro8738
    @leandroribeiro8738 Před 5 lety +2

    0.51 ... Portugal is missing

    • @starloszelson4541
      @starloszelson4541 Před 4 lety

      Leandro Ribeiro didn’t Portugal start the African slave trade

  • @jilliangill5728
    @jilliangill5728 Před 11 měsíci +1

    It's time to reestablish the Truman Doctrine!

  • @heatherdavie
    @heatherdavie Před 3 lety

    I reckon this bloke is spunky!

  • @0ee63
    @0ee63 Před 2 lety +1

    i know i'm 3 years late but 2:27 it should be spelt 'Turkish Straits.'
    doesn't seem so professional for the history channel

  • @cay4306
    @cay4306 Před 3 lety +2

    so we all watching this because online school

  • @kevinwarren3998
    @kevinwarren3998 Před 2 lety +3

    You have confused sovietism and communism. The Greek question was less about communism as it was about Stalin setting up shop in Greece if the (Yugoslav) backed communist rebels succeeded. The establishment in the US was less concerned about communism as an ideology. The sales pitch to the people had to be moral, and that is where communism came into play.

  • @mathiasmakesmusic
    @mathiasmakesmusic Před 3 lety +2

    they spelled straits wrong 🤓

  • @rockyhuang2128
    @rockyhuang2128 Před 3 lety +1

    add transripts so i dont have to listen to this thanks !

  • @gemsbyjackie5479
    @gemsbyjackie5479 Před rokem

    Better off watching Untold History of the US by Oliver Stone

  • @guerafossilfightersfan
    @guerafossilfightersfan Před 2 lety +1

    hello ames class A3

  • @sympathypains
    @sympathypains Před rokem +1

    both countries are just fighting to get more power. i hate this.

  • @pixilmon
    @pixilmon Před 4 lety

    why no us do ora ora ora ora

  • @TheStewieOne
    @TheStewieOne Před 3 lety

    The thing he did.

  • @David-kn4hb
    @David-kn4hb Před rokem

    Why does not the Soviet Union control Georgia and Azerbaijan and Armenia and Why aren’t Austria and Spain shown as neutral

  • @sjampie67
    @sjampie67 Před 4 měsíci

    you did forget the britisch militaire presents and the brutal crackdown of communist demonstrations, and the fact that stalin did not support a communist take over in greece.

  • @anchiteze
    @anchiteze Před rokem

    whoever is in seminole Hs good luck soldier(not really) whoever again whoever is here a 30 minute class ain't it or enough time

  • @gudrat
    @gudrat Před 4 lety +3

    Are you kidding? You even do not know the exact borders of the USSR. Our primary school books are more informative than your video analysis.

    • @varoslod
      @varoslod Před 4 lety +1

      It is rather stupid that they show the southern borders of the former USSR wrong, as if it had stopped at the Caucasus. Turkey and Iran had common borders with the USSR, of course.

    • @macmcintyre9434
      @macmcintyre9434 Před 4 lety

      Aren’t we a bit critical lol

  • @pajeetsingh
    @pajeetsingh Před 5 měsíci

    0:55 Nothing to do with “Democratic” government. It was about free market. The guys knew if they controlled money flow in the country they could control the country too.

  • @jorgefarfanv
    @jorgefarfanv Před 5 lety +3

    Seventh

  • @kevinbacon147
    @kevinbacon147 Před 3 lety

    lol!

  • @jacobpoulton3547
    @jacobpoulton3547 Před 3 lety

    86th

  • @KazutoTuto_Ui
    @KazutoTuto_Ui Před 2 měsíci

    My history teacher is lazy

  • @dreamliner9640
    @dreamliner9640 Před 6 lety +1

    Third

  • @uncletruth4529
    @uncletruth4529 Před 6 lety +1

    Second

  • @ishowslow8006
    @ishowslow8006 Před 6 lety +4

    First

  • @Younes87
    @Younes87 Před 4 lety +5

    What is this propaganda

  • @thedude5449
    @thedude5449 Před 6 lety +1

    First!

  • @avitalalef9947
    @avitalalef9947 Před 3 lety +1

    i know that this is a 5 min. long youtube video, but this is very flat and inaccurate so
    yeah :/

  • @NeelBasu
    @NeelBasu Před 3 lety +3

    It was never about democracy. It was about supremacy of USA.

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 Před 2 lety +2

      Actually not.
      America saved Western Europe and South Korea from Communism.
      We will always be thankful for this.

    • @liamvictor6969
      @liamvictor6969 Před 2 lety +2

      @@kayvan671 saved???

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 Před 2 lety +1

      @@liamvictor6969
      Yes, pretty much.

    • @person3070
      @person3070 Před 2 lety +1

      @@kayvan671 what about Japan? didn't we aid them as well after the bombings in fear of them turning to communism, for the same reasons as us developing the Marshall plan

    • @DrunkNuckChorris
      @DrunkNuckChorris Před rokem

      @@liamvictor6969 yes saved, South Korea didn't stand a chance against Soviet funded north Korea

  • @ballsofstone2883
    @ballsofstone2883 Před 3 lety +2

    The ideology fight was always about communism against capitalism and not democracy. While America supported parliamentarian democracy, the soviets preferred the direct democracy with one person as a leader.

    • @liaharv8161
      @liaharv8161 Před 3 lety +9

      You really just called the USSR a democracy huh xD

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 Před 2 lety +3

      Dude...
      Your comment made absolutely no sense.
      Troll somewhere else!

    • @kayvan671
      @kayvan671 Před 2 lety +1

      @@liaharv8161
      Commies don't have any idea what democracy really means.

  • @RestlessRiver
    @RestlessRiver Před 3 měsíci

    2:48 You're trying to tell me this is two different people?.. I don't believe it. And I'm extremely tired of "social studies" being all about white men, if I'm being absolutely transparent.