Global: How We Got Here

The story of the 1945 Labour government

How candidate Nixon used a South Vietnamese backchannel to stop LBJ's promising peace negotiations, ensuring Nixon's win and seven more years of death and destruction.

In late June 1776, as a massive British fleet prepared to invade New York, a complex drama played itself out at the headquarters of General George Washington's Continental Army in New York City: a former bodyguard of the general was set to be hanged for conspiracy against the Patriot rebellion—and against Washington, himself.On June 28, some 20,000 people gathered in a field just north of the city and watched a private in the Continental Army mount the gallows on charges of sedition, mutiny and treachery. The doomed man was Thomas Hickey, an Irish-born former British soldier who had joined the rebel cause after the outbreak of war in 1775- History

Analayzing Matt Karp's taking in Harpers magazine about the historical relevance of the 1619 project

Explaining the fascinating career and life of General Benjamin Butler throughout the civil war

The story of Huey P Long

Putting today's chaos in Afghanistan in 70 years of context to close out season 2 of Hidden History

Understand Haiti's current political moment with a look back through Haitian history

How Wilmington, NC a prosperous majoirty black town's government and society was destoeyed by a band of state supported white supremacists in 1898, and why no one talked about it for another 100 years

How a conspiracy between the FBI and the Chicago Police Department murdered one of the most influential leaders of the civil rights movement, Chairman Fred Hampton

A history of "the donkey"'s bloody rein in Chile

The life and times of John Brown, the radical abolitionist who helped kill slavery with his famous Harpers Ferry raid

Operation Paperclip, the US's hiring of Nazi scientists to help fight the Soviet Union explained. https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-paperclip

Investigating the questions around the murder of Martin Luther King Jr

Telling the story of how Israel gained a homeland and Palestine lost one. Solidarity to all those remembering family members this Nakba Day on Saturday

Reviewing the evidence that the killer of Malcolm X wasn't the Nation of Islam dispute previously thought. Source material is this article https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/who-killed-malcolm-x-fbi-cointelpro-elijah-muhammad

Examining a new Netflix series which goes through the case the FBI could have killed Malcolm X

Weighing the evidence about the mob's involvement in winning Illinois for Kennedy in the 1960 election.

A history of American populism, including how and why it started, and why it fizzled out and what that says about where we are today.

A history of American populism, including how and why it started, and why it fizzled out and what that says about where we are today.

How the CIA's MKUltra program brought one of the most infamous drugs to our nation's shores in the heat of the Cold War.

How the business community made a run at the greatest presidency in American history

Things you didn't know about that famous day 57 years and one month ago .

How LBJ stole his first election

The story of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

Examining the rise and fall of the fascist dictator of Spain, Francisco Franco.

A preview for the show.

A comprehensive review of Period 3.

This is a VERY all encompassing review. I tried to thin it down as much as I could but in all likelihood there is still some stuff that you don't need to know for the quiz. This is content based with no LEQ review. MERCH Link https://teespring.com/stores/swrn-shop

Reviewing material from period one before the test.