Interesting that the US was pushing decolonization and universal human rights at this time while simultaneously repressing its own citizens and resisting civil rights of the blacks. Can anyone make that make sense?

Great series. How about another one covering the 1967 six day war and the 1973 Yom Kippur war?

Excellent work as always. All hail the algorithm.

Curious how listening to the Russian attitude 90 years ago is similar to Russian attitude to Ukraine now in 2024. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes.

SER, YOU ARE SPEAKING ABOUT " CRATIA LIBERATION ", NOT EVEN ONCE SAYING THAT STAT OF CROATIA DOES NOT EVER EXIST BEFORE HITLER OCUPATION OF KINGDOMOF SERBIANS, CROATIANS & SLOVENIAN. BEFORE FORMATION "NDH" IN THE YEAR OF 1942 , MAJORITY OF POPULATION LIVING THERE WERE SRBS.. !!? THEN, ABOUT WHICH LIBERATION ARE YOU SPEAKING? WHO, FROM WHOM ?! WHY YOU DID NOT TELL US ABOUT " NDH'S" DECLARATION :" KILL ONE THIRD, CONVERT ONE THIRD AND EXPELL ONE THIRD OF SERBS "?!

Freemasons again

Terrific work as always. Mahalo!

Sad that the only thing the Serbs learned from being oppressed by Austria-Hungary was to oppress their own neighbors when given the chance.

What a wonderful 13 part series. It was really entertaining and scary at the same time. We are all lucky to be here after what happened.

The barn fly reminds me of rve movie Rocketeer. The opening barn scene makes sense now

History is written more in favour of Robert Hooke these days. And that's a good thing. A lot of the credit goes to Stephen Inwood. Who should be applauded, for his tireless work getting Hooke back into the limelight.

Wow

How could I have missed this!! These TG Shorts are great. Love to see the incredible duo in duetting historical stuffs.

NAZI HITLER IS A SUCCESSORS OF THE DUTCH , J.P.COEN. THE MASS MURDERER AND THE LAND GRABBER. FOLLOWED BY ALL THE DUTCH GOVERNMENTS AS THE SUCCESSORS OF J.P.COEN,INCLUDING THEIR ROYAL FAMILY.

Frankly, you should have a million subscribers. Everything about this is absolutely brilliant.

So many people were killed in the "interwar" period, 1918-1939. War, hatred, and ethnic slaughter never really stopped.

Gripping delivery, Indy. You really deliver this episode well. Mahalo and Aloha!

hey i think the name is national SOCIALISM, hope this helps!

When atheism becomes religion...

Your green lava lamp died. Mine did the same thing in 1980…

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What a great series!

Wonderful history. I like the set, Astrid. Well done. The light through the blinds give a very spy-novel, Humphrey Bogart feel…Mahalo for your work…

At 5.5 years old at the time I remember the tension it caused in the home even though I could not grasp the gravity of it. The result of these events certainly impacted my life for many years afterward.

My youngest brother was born on the day Kennedy announced the Cuba blockade .

Heyser

Excellent series.

Excellent work. Well researched and impeccably present by Indy. Mahalo for your work.

Excellent work, as always.

Excellent and impartial

For hundreds of yesrs.the dutch considered NUSANTARA /dutch east indies as theirs. But,only the land and the natural resources, NOT the people who has been living there for thousands of years. Just like the israelis who thinks that PALESTINE is theirs ONCE COLONIALIST REMAINS COLONIALIST.

holy crap, was there really a *THE END* title card at the end of the "we may have to push the button, so look out" speech?

He/she seems an accomplished historian.

It is worth adding Bundism was a competing ideological rival in the Jewish sphere before WW2, where the events of that war effectively killed it off.

I'm very late to this party I know, but your summary of the state of the nuclear arms race understates the American lead. The Soviets trailed in numbers of bombs, but until the development of their first ICBM in 1957 (the R-7) the Soviets had no viable way to deliver a nuclear weapon to America. Even if the Soviets had the means to build a USAF-sized fleet of bombers after WW2 (they didn't!) a Soviet bomber would have to cross thousands of miles of airspace dominated by the US and NATO to reach America. The converse was not true: the US and its allies had bases right up to the Soviet frontiers. Objectively, the Soviets had no effective deterrent before 1957.

What hogwash, te conservative Catholic and patriotic parties were staunchly for democracy and because they championed freedom they were strongly opposed to te ideology of communism and its totalitarian system. They were never fascist! That is outright communist propaganda.

Not to be the "um, ackutally" guy, but the test at 0:37 was codenamed Chama, thumbalina was the name of the secondary device used in the test.

Regarding the Tsar Bomba: In the 1990s US Nuclear experts stated, the same effect could had been achieved by deploying to 20 MT devices. Those devices were , unlike the TB, practical deployable weapons

I was 12 years old and living near Hanford, WA, which everyone in the area knew would be on any nuclear target list. I was certainly old enough and smart enough to grasp the truly existential threat that the Cuban Missile Crisis presented. I would offer this observation as a coda to the affair: Many of my contemporaries, and myself, came to the realization that our existence could be erased in a moment, and that there was nothing any of us could do to affect that. This led to a psychological compensation that, I would argue, led to the momentous changes in American culture in the late '60s-early 70s. When you become aware at an early age that your life is perpetually hanging by a thread, that old men in remote places could make decisions that would lead to the erasure of humanity, your outlook on life and its meaning certainly is affected. The norms and moral strictures you were exposed to as a child become nonsensical, even absurd, and for many of us the deeply felt belief that we would be lucky to reach anything like old age changed our perspectives toward work, family, material wealth and the accumulation of such, were pointless, even silly. If everything you might acquire or accomplish can be vaporized in an instant, it is perfectly rational to indulge in whatever physical and emotional salves appeal to you, instead of running off to a meaningless, and perhaps pointless, career. We all participated in those silly nuclear attack scenarios, crawling under our desks. It wasn't long before two things occurred: we grew too big to actually fit under a school desk, and the futility of the act was absurd. This led to the saying, "In case of nuclear attack, crawl beneath your desk, put your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye." By the time I reached high school, my classes all refused to participate, although on the part of many it was simply that they didn't want to get their clothes dirty in a pointless exercise in mind-control. Had I known then just how close I and my contemporaries had actually come to total obliteration, I suspect the ensuing psychological revolution would have been even more intense. Thanks, Time Ghost, for digging into the subject and telling me, all these years later, what I had suspected all along: all our lives hang by a thread and Death is always hovering just over our left shoulder.

Miles please

I remember listening to my mother's phone calls to others at the time. I remember her asking others if my father could get home in time (he worked nights then). It was speculated that any attack was likely to occur during the night since the Soviet Union would prefer to suffer the retalitory strike during their daytime hours. I also remember the newspaper announcements that the local Catholic parishes would be open and hearing Confessions for extended periods of time. There were lines outside...

Beautiful Siamese cat yo have there Indy...what's her name??

John Wayne was a racist douche

More King Charles and less Peter o"Tool :)

Excellent thank you Indy

More reasons my late Dad left Italy after WWII--utter chaos, and a long history of it. People are still leaving Italy in droves--no opportunity, rampant corruption.

I hate to nitpick, and maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the Mandate for Palestine was part of the Treaty of Lausanne. Kinda two different things.

The orange glow of your hair... is that on purpose? 😂

Maybe the real foreign volunteers were the friends we made along the way

1:41 not sure if that's a koteka or...