Cuban Missile Crisis - The Failed Checkmate - Extra History - Part 1

[@extrahistory]

Why would Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba? It would be like the US putting missiles in Turkey... oh, wait. This series on the Cuban Missile Crisis brought to you by DomiNations! smarturl.it/CubanMissile1

[@lefocheurhunter4456]

when will you make a video on the war of the kippour

[@timothymclean]

I can't believe they actually had that conversation. It sounds like something a Bush caricature would say, not a real president.

[@patrickfrancis1764]

Extra Credits Notifications anyone??

[@caspramio]

Everyone knows... Walpole was behind it while Bismark had a plan to counterfeit it... but that's a "secret"

[@redarius2158]

Thanks for another great Video!

[@honeybadger4396]

This is so intense, considering this happened just some 50 years ago it's still scary how close it all came to midnight. Thanks for this Extra Credits, I was waiting excitedly for your new series

[@ThePoeticPariah]

HoneyBadger just under 60 years ago, actually.

[@TheSuperCanucks]

50

[@Mr.Sparks.173]

The sheer destructive power of both the human mind, and nuclear weapons makes it a miracle that we're all still alive. I mean, imagine the absolute mess that was the lead into WWI, but with nuclear weapons. Europe would be a irradiated wasteland today.

[@markhenley3097]

It's not 2000 anymore, time does fly.

[@BigTuk]

I think that might be why there has been no large scale global conflict since the development of Nuclear weapons. Proxy fights, skirmishes and small factional fights, but that's been about it.. Why? Because There are enough people with braincells on all sides that know, winning a nuclear war still meansan irradiated nightmare.

[@sirfredrin6302]

Ex Comm was about nukes and not aliens? what is this blasphemy

[@ThatIrishLass]

SirFredrin And their enemy wasn't even unknown! I feel cheated.

[@Decimate2016]

Yes, I feel Terror from the Deep on this one too.

[@danime91]

And not a single dude with sunglasses, a handlebar moustache, and a pink cowboy hat. Character customization in this version sucks.

[@Marylandbrony]

Even worse it's just a plain old committee of advisers to JFK than a secret monitoring/counteraction service to an alien invasion.

[@matthewbutcher6275]

ey at least they dident get a 99% accuracy miss.

[@ShinePei]

Bismarck has a plan, Bismarck always has a plan... Oh wait, wrong country

[@eddietorres1313]

I'm pretty sure he still had a plan tho XD

[@LoganSewell83]

Bismarck and Frederick the Great would be spinning in their graves over the divided Berlin.

[@kevinli1438]

Wrong time period, wrong war and wrong figurehead

[@aayushpatel2788]

Oh wait,wrong country yes yes,very wrong country

[@oumarkoume7238]

"I have a plan" Dutch Vanderlinde 1911

[@deathrayman8074]

3:43- 3:48 "Sir, you need to look at this photograph!" "You're right! That *is* the cutest dog I've ever seen!" "Sir, I was referring more to Soviet missiles."

[@Jrookus]

Artemis Fowl IX wrong video right comment

[@deathrayman8074]

@WerstInternetUser Yeah? That's kind of the point of putting it here, mate. You haven't seen other people do that on different videos? Oh, and the 'how' should be 'know'.

[@AliKhan.1247]

Yes, just yes

[@meryemcifci4164]

@@Jrookus OVERSIMPLIFIED

[@medic1204]

This enraged kennedy who punished him severly

[@ProbablyAEuropean]

USA : puts nukes next to the USSR Soviet Union : puts nukes next to the USA USA : *shocked pikachu face*

[@PretzlcoatlTheFirst]

Damnit USA stop acting surprised

[@isentient666]

How dare they reciprocate!

[@pumpkinpixie9677]

USA: (puts nukes next to the USSR) Soviet Union: (puts nukes next to USA) USA: (ShOcKeD pIkAcHu FaCe) Me: Uh, I time travelled here to tell you to take away all the nukes Everyone: (sHoCkEd PiKaChU fAcE)

[@darknewbie342]

Oh so the US did my profile pic? Nice.

[@somerandomguyfromthebeyond1821]

@@pumpkinpixie9677Pixie you do realize that nuclear weapons and the damage they can cause are a major reason why we haven't had world war 3 yet right?

[@Jabrwock]

I want to know JFK's reaction after saying "It would be like we put missiles in Turkey". "Uh sir we did." "WE WHAT?!??!"

[@oddsdenver9673]

Why would the president not know of a strategic missile placement?

[@Jabrwock]

Apparently Kennedy knew, he was briefed prior to the crisis on the possibility of removing them because they didn't want to provoke the Russians after the Bay of Pigs. So I guess this was just some artistic liberty...

[@oddsdenver9673]

Ok

[@ViktorEnjoyer]

@@oddsdenver9673 r/whooooooosh

[@cakecheese2895]

@@ViktorEnjoyer not even close

[@danilooliveira6580]

gotta love how both sides were absolutely terrified, but can't show it. history is weird

[@clayxros576]

One of the few times in history the world leaders had a brain.

[@arturoaguilar6002]

Sounds familiar...

[@sol2544]

@@clayxros576 Well Kruschev is debatable, but in all honesty he did seem kinda anti war compared to other stalinist leaders. I dont really know though, but if I am right, that is respectable then

[@JH-hb5cc]

Day R Stalin was pretty anti war though. The whole abandonment from world revolution to socialism in one country. You hear people always saying “what if Trotsky has ruled” when Trotsky was the one who advocated permanent revolution, which would have been much more violent. The Soviets didn’t send troops in direct intervention (only weapons and supplies) even though the West did that during multiple revolutions. Finally, Stalin even disbanded the Third Internationale.

[@thattotalwarguy7911]

@@JH-hb5cc Very Anti War. So much so that he blockaded Berlin so as to stop the west from supplying the civilians, as well as war with the west inevitable.

[@acsshaw]

Khrushchev:“Half of my nukes are in Havana oo na na”

[@squidwardleg]

Half of my heart is in Havana oo la la

[@hughmungus7290]

He took me back to Eastern Europe na na na

[@TheCynicalCommentator]

Although my nukes are in Havana. There’s something bout Castro. Havana oo na na

[@hs.3898]

🤣💀

[@Not_Xqd]

Lol

[@fightingblindly]

Thank god for Vasily Arkhipov. Also the fact that Robert Kennedy was worried if everyone was ok while lying in a pool of his own blood with three bullets in him showed what kind of man he was.

[@benwilsonMMA]

good man, not a very good leader

[@dabome4001]

@@benwilsonMMA good man and good leader thats why he dead

[@aluisious]

"Khrushchev's betrayal." I've always considered this to be particularly asinine. We put missiles in Turkey, but it's a betrayal for them to put missiles in Cuba.

[@DTFinnMacCool]

It's only a betrayal because Khrushchev told Kennedy that he wouldn't send any missiles to Cuba (or at least that's what's said in the video starting at 4:14).

[@teddyn240]

The US put missiles in turkey to protect turkey since the USSR was a lot closer to turkey and thus can use its intermediate missiles there.

[@kishinasura1504]

@@teddyn240 Then the USSR put missiles in Cuba to protect Cuba since the US is a lot closer to Cuba thus can use its intermediate missiles there.

[@badabada4251]

@@teddyn240 same logic could be applied to USSR and Cuba, even more legitimate because US was actually trying to invade Cuba months before when USSR did not do the same to Turkey

[@teddyn240]

Bada Bada Uh have you heard of all of those pro soviet communist uprisings post WW2 and the Soviet aggressive actions during that time.

[@principetnomusic]

As a Russian, I find it really nice that you showed the perspective of both the USSR and the USA. We both fought for our countries back then, after all.

[@jirue]

Medovukha Welcome to the world of fighting based on differing ideals and perspectives. Humanity loves to point the finger at the other side for it's atrocities, and completely forgets the ones committed by it's own. This goes for both sides on most conflicts through out history. Gotta love mass media's part on this.

[@jacker7382]

Medovukha Just to let you know, the Us also committed crimes

[@principetnomusic]

Medovukha Oh, let's take a look at your land. All these natives, I wonder what happened to them...

[@jeremyshiu]

Imperios yeah but they weren’t part of the “United States” it was a conquest, I do think that they shouldn’t have been wiped out but they weren’t US citizens unlike all the soviet ones wiped out in the great purges. They fought back those Russians couldn’t.

[@principetnomusic]

Jeremy Shiu >it is okay to exterminate people if they are not your own

[@AegixDrakan]

I'm shocked we survived that period in history, honestly.

[@isaacroebuck9514]

I'd be more shocked Russia survived, we had the power to destroy them at the time. Of course, that changed a couple decades later, and went back again. That happened a lot during the cold war.

[@AegixDrakan]

When I say WE, I mean humanity as a whole. Forget the US-Russia thing, either of them could have destroyed the world twice over with this. :s

[@totallyaploy1824]

@Taiwanlight not particularly

[@aluisious]

@Taiwanlight Recent calculations by idiots. One volcano makes 100 nuclear bombs look like a gnat farting in the wind.

[@chadsknnr]

I feel the same way. Proof that there are "higher powers" out there protecting mankind . . . .

[@hemidas]

Cold War; The most nail biting Chess Game in the existence.

[@davidkelly4210]

Would you like to play a game?

[@andmos1001]

Jovan Mitrić not chess, its playing dice

[@anemu3819]

Rules for cold war style chess 1 dont take others chess pieces 2 if you do the opponent can skip three turns and take all pawns or 6 to tale all pieces minus king and queen 3 wait 7 turns to be able to flip the board and both parties owe 1000 to the patron

[@badbeardbill9956]

The Great Game between the British Empire and the Russian Empire was pretty interesting. Kind of like an 80 year long Cuban Missile Crisis, minus the nukes.

[@Gunshinzero]

8:35 "none of us will be alive later to tell them they were wrong" serious business but I still had to laugh.

[@aa2339]

Lemay, always the war hawk.

[@terrakaion]

“And the world slips one minute closer to midnight.” That is a chilly statement.

[@ShotThyh]

I'm from brazil and my heart skips a beat every time I see a new extra history video uploaded by you guys. Learning history from all around the globe (and knowing how close we came to destroy ourselves multiple times) always makes me think about how we can be cruel and evil, but also noble and loving. Back when you guys started the Sengoku Jidai videos and up until now, it has become a family "tradition" to gather around and watch your videos, followed by a debate. It's a really nice bonding experience, and I thank you for that, keep it up, everyone. Best regards from me and my family o/

[@rodrigopaim82]

From Salvador Bahia, I totally agree with you!

[@guilhermesstrueb881]

Falou tudo meu caro. They are amazing!

[@loztwalker5068]

Beibe beibe do biruleube leibe?

[@muhazreen]

your family love this too that really great experience my family just obsess with nowdays tick tock & twitter thing chasing their own ego instead of calm down and talk like a human

[@nathanmckenzie904]

Extra History on a -Wednesday- Thursday? It's like Christmas in February

[@jedimasterpickle3]

...it's Thursday

[@nathanmckenzie904]

LOL.. Yea I thought about that after i wrote it

[@Tarik360]

I thought I glitched and got an early watch.

[@herbertvonbismarck8303]

Happy early lunar new year or Chinese New year

[@manilastreetsweeper5890]

In the Philippines, it's Friday.

[@babygorilla4233]

thank you guys for bringing up that the united states was doing the same thing as the USSR its a detail that's often overlooked.

[@treekid7455]

yea,it's the first time i have heard of it, US was being a dick toward the Soviet and get all mad when soviet start doing the same

[@babygorilla4233]

@XZDrake thanks for the reminder MacArthur.

[@soylentgreenb]

The US never promised the USSR not to put missiles in Turkey.

[@babygorilla4233]

@soylentgreenb no but if your someone pulls a gun on you and says were not going to shoot at you we want this just in case, than makes you agree to effectively disarm are you the bad guy for trying to arm yourself? its not a perfect analogy but the soviates went a force of pure evil as they are often portrayed in the telling of the story of the cabin missile crisis.

[@omni42]

MacArthur wanted to use nuclear weapons on China. He was a nutjob. Having one decent tactical plan over his career doesn't negate that.

[@cosmopolitan4598]

0:23 "... and the world slips one minute close to midnight" It's the Doomsday Clock

[@Batman-jc8to]

ik

[@jodiallardice1500]

My dad was around 16 years old when this happened and said it was the scariest shit he’s ever experienced in his life

[@kyuven]

I love these cold war stories. They're so tense and you really get to get into the heads of how people think. Plus they kinda show you that above all, no one REALLY wants to blow up the world.

[@hemidas]

The only winning move is not to play.

[@adit1711]

You missed the part about the role of the X-Men

[@NeverDoubtTheWorm]

Aditya Kamath Ahahahahaha Ahahahahaha spot on spot on

[@Nukle0n]

That Chief of Staff is Curtis LeMay, WW2 veteran and one of the craziest generals of all time. If he'd had his way none of us would be alive today.

[@thorp.n8998]

Yes! - but neither would the Soviet union!... oh wait

[@prophetcitrus9638]

Sending jet fighters to drop bombs on nuclear warheads and was 90 seconds before dropping the bombs, and Kennedy saved us since ounce he heard what the general did he got the USAF to get the jets back before they start ww3.

[@thorp.n8998]

It is called a joke.

[@Yoyle-jq9ul]

USA: *puts missiles in Turkey* USSR: you know what USSR: *puts missiles in Cuba USA: *pikachu face*

[@firestrikeriii5043]

Nope

[@travcollier]

Great pointing out the US missiles in Turkey. It is odd that isn't mentioned more often with respect to the Cuban Missile Crisis. My father was stationed in Turkey (USAF) a few years after and had some stories about other still-not-officially-acknowledged nuclear weapons the US had there. Makes sense given the importance of the Bosporus and the Black Sea Fleet, but also super sketchy from a diplomatic POV. Also a random word regarding "boasts" about missile capabilities and such during that time period. The game theory of Mutually Assured Destruction requires that both sides see the other as a credible threat... otherwise it is unstable and the chances of a first-strike really do get a lot bigger. It is terrifying and horrible, but it is also correct. Some of the people who publicly sounded like the greatest war-mongers were actually those most concerned with avoiding war. If someone seems too terrible or stupid to believe, there is a good chance they actually weren't.

[@mikked01]

Heck snek was responsible for resolving the Cuban Missile Crises? The more you know!

[@samuelwithers2221]

SuperKami Guru And knowing is half the battle

[@namingisdifficult408]

Samuel Withers GI Joe

[@Abdul54cp]

how are you alive

[@xMasterxRazorx]

Heck snek is my favorite running gag in this series.

[@donatodiniccolodibettobardi842]

"Heck snek"?

[@JoeyfilmingTv]

I find the board room politics and planning so fascinating and I wish they were talked about more. Really enjoying this series and can't wait to see more.

[@telz759]

As someone who is still learning english as second language and someone who is intrested in gaming and history, you guys are doing an amazing educational job here! Even the videos I am not intrested in right off the bat are intresting to me because of their very high quality. I'm incredibly grateful for this content and as soon as I earn some Money myself I will make sure to support you guys as good as possible!

[@lordofspearton8643]

This really hits different after recent events..

[@frindjinny6]

Kennedy is furious at krushchev’s betrayal *looks at turkey* Oh I wonder where those came from

[@raeedahossain7762]

wait what does the cuban missile crisis have to do with thanksgiving?

[@NobelTheKnave]

@@raeedahossain7762 The country not the bird, unless you were joking around

[@raeedahossain7762]

@@NobelTheKnave i was but your reply was cute haha

[@firestrikeriii5043]

Nope fals e

[@keeperofeurobeat8421]

Who gave Khruschev the idea to put nuclear weapons in Cuba? It was Walpole

[@ayushkumar-bg1xf]

USA by installing missile in Turkey

[@shshshshsh5471]

WAAAALPOLEEEEE!

[@Joseph_417]

Keeper of Eurobeat *W A L P O L E*

[@jivasche3029]

It was USA that put nuclear missiles in Turkey. However it is Walpole who gave USA the idea

[@ottogunsche9566]

Keeper of Eurobeat the amercian version of *W A L P O L E*

[@TheJboy88]

The Cold War has always been one of the more fascinating periods of history to me. The politics, intrigue, threats and opposing alliances are all things that make it a conflict of a far different flavour than pretty much anything else history had to offer, and I thoroughly look forward to seeing you do more videos on the subject :)

[@Tanknuggets217]

I recommend reading the book called "Thirteen days a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis"

[@williamcampbell4807]

Why let a little missile crisis get in the way of a good crusade?

[@vicente8651]

Wait, wrong time period! But, why would that get in the way of a good cruzade?

[@justanotherguy1122]

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate how good the drawing is? I love the style of it!

[@guiltybench3879]

3:23 i just love how they look for some reason, maybe the fact that they look a bit chibi has to do with this.

[@Mr-CJX]

A little transcription mistake. The last vowel in "Khrushchev" 's name is russian "ё", which is much closer to english "o" rather then "e". So his name is more like "Hruschov" with an emphasis on the last syllable. I am russian myself, i know.

[@icedragon769]

No non-Russians say it that way. The video is in English, not Russian. www.dictionary.com/browse/khrushchev

[@zashazaikov]

I'm Russian too, but honestly I don't care. Language has already adopted Khrushchev as the universal spelling and pronunciation. Not much we can do.

[@romankazinets1759]

We russains have similar looking letters to english, but they sound different. For example, H/N. What can we do?

[@johnfrancisdoe1563]

OZX7S Only in English. Other western languages got a closer transcription, including the O sound that he shares with Malinkov, Moscow and many other Russian names.

[@GardEngebretsen]

@@icedragon769 That's not true. In Norwegian we say "Khrusjtsjov" which is pronounced more or less like "Hruschov". That's non-Russian.

[@jewishjedi]

My dad was a sailor on one of the ships involved in the blockade. I’m very glad cooler heads prevailed on this one.

[@torstenwinkel2183]

It aggravates me to no end, that NO discussion of the Cuban missile crisis adequately explains why ICBMs and rockets are such a big deal in the 60s: Before Sputnik (=inter continental missile) the USA was untouchable by ANY attacker especially the Soviets, at least the US population felt that way. Sure the US and the Soviets had nuclear bombers, but plains take a LONG time to reach the enemy and can be shoot down by air defenses. Winning the air war over Europe was fresh in the memories of the military and US people. Many in the US military advocated STARTING a nuclear war, while the US was technological and militarily in the lead. Sputnik shattered this feeling of invincibility, because from space every location on the globe can be targeted, and it showed that the Soviets could compete technologically with the US, and in this case even surpass them ...

[@themadhammer3305]

@Xiao Luo no but Sputnik put the missile that carried it on the front page worldwide. I doubt prior to Sputnik many civilians realised the USSR had a rocket programme or even cared about it

[@Bailey_Dreamfoot]

Kennedy during this whole situation: Come on! This isn't rocket science!! Oh wait..

[@surreal9583]

"And the world slips one minute closer to midnight." That line gave me chills

[@GarrettPetersen]

Ever played Twilight Struggle? It perfectly captures the tensions of the Cold War.

[@kingcole5977]

Twilight Struggle is an interesting game: Pros: + More options than risk + Contextualised history moments into mechanics + Sending bad cards to space + I will make a coup, *the* *shapeshifting* *master* *of* *darkness,* *unleashed* *an* *unspeakable* *evil!* Cons: - Only two players - Very long playtime - Though the rules are decent, *the* *rulebook* *was* *written* *by* *a* *madman!*

[@GarrettPetersen]

Samuel Cole The app is great too. It cuts the playtime and adjudicates the rules for you, fixing 2/3 cons against the game.

[@AlexMason94]

Such a good game!

[@KikomochiMendoza]

"Perfectly", every game I played ends in my victory cause the opponent was forced into Defcon 1. Thankfully the world doesn't play like a board game (great game though. totes recommend it)

[@andmos1001]

somehow, i lose to the capitalist scums and totalian reign... Yea im bad

[@cathalhughes5996]

Top 10 April fools pranks that went to far

[@spellsnare]

Yeah but in that time of history we got really close to get a fallout game in real life Now I just hope we never see a nuclear strike in our lifetime

[@Tea_N_Crumpets]

@@spellsnare another settlement needs our help!

[@mogun9072]

@@Tea_N_Crumpets I hate Preston

[@totallyaploy1824]

@@mogun9072 everyone does

[@creatoruser736]

Fun fact: Khrushchev's original idea was to build artificial islands in the Atlantic in international waters and put the missiles on those. But that was too ridiculous even for him.

[@albertocamejo827]

I’m Cuban and My grandpa was in his 20’s when this happened. I once asked if he was scared that Cuba would be attacked by the U.S He told me that “if we were, we probably wouldn’t notice the difference afterwards”

[@albertocamejo827]

8:49 Fun fact: My grandparents got married the day before this in October 19 1962 and I would be born in October 21 in 2000. Kinda funny how that happens.

[@doldfamily9983]

Did your grandfather tell you anything else? Also, can you clarify what he meant by not noticing "the difference afterwards"?

[@Lucia-nr3mp]

😂

[@Lucia-nr3mp]

😂

[@seba-rw8lf]

USA: * Puts Nukes in Turkey * USSR: * Puts Nukes in Cuba * USA: hOw DaRe YoU!

[@firestrikeriii5043]

False

[@lynyamasaki4045]

I wonder if they'll mention the part where everyone shoots at mutants on the beach lol

[@scribejay]

Well, that's not a very polite way to describe The Bay of Pigs.

[@lesterramos6468]

And some soldier woman who just had to undergo labor in the middle of a battlefield! D:

[@erictaylor5462]

You left off a rather critical event in this story. Right after Castro came to power he went to the United States to ask for support. Vice President Nixon basically said "Go away you silly man." so Castro turned to the USSR for support. The rest was, as they say, history.

[@gustavowadaslopes2479]

Is it really critical? It happens so much before and it really appears like side info here.

[@erictaylor5462]

Are you stupid? What do you think would have happened had the US granted that aid? Do you think he would have turned to the USSR?

[@bobmiller3627]

Ah yes, American's old policy of, "Of course we won't help you, we need an enemy that we can rally against ten years from now." They also did the exact same thing to Ho Chi Minh around that same period.

[@Sondrebol]

Eric Taylor he isn't stupid because he is right. This isn't really critical information. It's not even a part of this story. Funny and ironic? Yes. But in terms of the Cuban missile crisis in general, it's not important. If we were talking about the Soviet allience with Cuba however, then it would be quite a bit more important.

[@erictaylor5462]

Bob Miller I don't think the American politicians really expected Cuba to go the way it went. As for Ho Chi Min, you are absolutely right. They did the exact same thing in Vietnam. But it wasn't to create an enemy. It was done out of ignorance or stupidity. In the case of Ho Chi Min, he wanted to rid himself of the French Colonials, but the French were a strong US ally. Politics is very complicated, and most of the political policy makers are stupid and short sighted. This is not just an American problem, it is a problem everywhere and throughout history. For some reason government leaders tend to be mostly idiots.

[@matthewsinclair8198]

Things only got worse for EXCOMM as later on, they had to try and cover up an entire alien invasion. Although I might be confusing them with something else.

[@teecee1827]

Matthew Sinclair That was before or after they lost South Africa?

[@matthewsinclair8198]

After Africa and after they lost China because their super squad got wiped out by chrysalids... Fucking chrysalid.

[@willhuey4891]

man i hated dealing with the chrysalids in xcom

[@rejvaik00]

The piece at 6:59 - 7:06 needs to be replayed over and over again in every US middle-School, Highschool, College, University and whenever this topic of history is to be discussed with an American.

[@josephschultz3301]

"If we listen to them (the Air Force), none of us will be alive to tell them they were wrong later." Goddamn, were you ever right about that one, Kenny. Nuclear War shouldn't be something that you just up and risk by pissing into the wind and then not expecting to get splashed hard in the face.

[@explodingpineapple7471]

0:09 You brought a GOD DAMN SPY! ...was all I could think about.

[@extrahistory]

It's double-feature Extra History week (and for the next few weeks while we cover the Cuban Missile Crisis!). We'll be debuting the long-awaited Genghis Khan series on Saturday!

[@SirKinbote]

Awesome!

[@P23Pranav39]

Nice Video Extra Credits

[@P23Pranav39]

Extra Credits What is Your Name

[@jenzyk1302]

Who did this? Ik was walpole

[@danielemilazzo84]

Genghis Khan drooling - please say at least once "unless you are the mongols" as a tribute of John Green's Crash Course World History :D

[@areoants9453]

Yeah, I've always heard about the Cuban Missile Crisis and just how close we came to doomsday, but I never got the gist of just what happened. Thank you guys (and your sponsor), so much, for putting this event in light.

[@okrish_]

Watching at 11:58 *"And the world slipped closer to midnight"*

[@msblackrosas]

I really enjoy these series because in high school I could never understand what happened in history. This makes it much easier. Thank you !

[@RobertoMartinez-pz7im]

Hi, im cuban, living in madrid and developing videogames and this series is going to be great. I'll be following it to see your side of the stroy that my mother suffered so much when she was a little girl. History between cuba and usa have always been interesting.

[@robertjarman3703]

Roberto G. Martínez de Zayas I wonder what really should be done. What would have gotten rid of Batista without the US trying to support a dictatorship as they often did today and more so mining rights today or having to have really hardcore Stalinists trying to overthrow anything?

[@brittanyrose3412]

Roberto Martínez I’m American Cuban and Puerto Rican and my great grandma came to America her name is Carmen Maria rodenquiz married to Micheal llanusa. I’m trying to find the roots of my family

[@Decimate2016]

I hope this doesn't end in nuclear war. I'll have to wait to see how it played out with the coming episodes. Thanks EC, great channel!

[@NathanLucas5]

Conservative Yoda yeah I know. Everyone knows it ends with nuclear war, but we won so it's fine

[@juice6521]

When will they finally release World War 3? That's what I want to know.

[@arturoaguilar6002]

I can’t tell if this was a joke or not; but I definitely laughed.

[@walterbrunswick]

@@NathanLucas5 you know, I don't think USA "winning" is a good thing....

[@pujanshah7868]

Keep it up fellas ur educating the world about small details no one knows about keep it up👍🏻❤️

[@Ajc-ni3xn]

Pujan Shah Most small details are made up, because we can’t really know everything.

[@glenthemann]

educating LIES

[@btdpro752]

Полиграфович Where do I get the accurate information?

[@TheBigManWithTheBiggerPlan]

where is the truth? come on, give me it?

[@nathanstorm3320]

The Cuban missile crisis isn’t a small detail.

[@Saekadelic]

0:22 TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT! THE HANDS THAT THREATEN DOOOOOOOOM

[@theholyhay1555]

When you think about it. How accurate should a nuclear warhead Long Range missiles be? Its radius of destruction is so massive

[@Darthvader-oc5tp]

At least somewhat accurate so you actually completely destroy what you want to destroy. At this time nukes weren’t nearly as powerful as they are now so even though they had the capability to flatten cities, they only have so much range to where if they were off by a hundred miles or so they wouldn’t have as bad of an effect on the actual target.

[@GameOnRadio1]

This was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more informative and interesting then the way I learned in high school /College. I love this channel. It’s easily in my top 5 of KZbin

[@davidkelly4210]

Because the HS version is ''Merica fuck ya!' propaganda. It wasn't HS that I learned about the American missiles in Turkey, that makes the Soviets look like rational actors trying to defend both themselves and Cuba from genocidal Americans. The standard HS version makes it look like Kennedy used his magical Leader of the Free World(TM) powers to scare the evil Reds away just as they were about to nuke red blooded, apple pie eating Americans for no reason.

[@nqinadlamini]

"If we listen to them, none of us will be alive later, to tell them they were wrong. " JFK Thats a scary sentence, when you consider how many people are so gun ho in the world.

[@firestrikeriii5043]

Not true

[@a.h.tvideomapping4293]

US: Puts Nukes in Turkey USSR: does the same in Cuba US: :0

[@MrAkshatmahajan]

As a history student,these videos are helping me so much,can't even explain. Watching these before reading deep text materials helps in complete absorption of the information and i can produce accurate,easy and amazing notes.

[@Racerxwilly]

Soon as i watched the intro, i couldnt help but hear Bruce belting out"2 minutes to midnight" in my head.

[@afcreative22]

You know what? I'm not even mad that this is not about Genghis Khan

[@queek5389]

What do you mean? It's about president kahnnedy after he taught his horses how to swim and conquered America before the Communists appeared and well the rest is history

[@nvrumi]

Although I was young, I recall the incident and the tension here in the states while we watched it play out. It was a time of deep concern.

[@totallyaploy1824]

I respect you

[@yodayoda4764]

It'd be like the US putting missiles in Turkey. Lolz.

[@galdrack5402]

Just like defending Cuba would be paramount to containing the US in case of war.

[@galdrack5402]

No they just backed violent revolutions all over the world to destabilize those nations. There's no point in arguing for a "good guy" in the cold war, both nations were dicks.

[@galdrack5402]

1: claiming the nukes in Cuba is a false equivalence to nukes in Turkey is naive. The US had them so they could nuke the USSR the USSR put them in Cube for the same reason, no false equivalence whatsoever. 2: the regimes put in control by the US were horrific and last to this very day (Afghanistan, Iran come to mind). The US had a hands off approach so they could claim they weren't responsible it is in every way as equivalent as the USSR. 3: I believe the USSR was awful to it's own citizens in a way the US has never been and would agree with what you're saying there. But claiming that what the US did during the cold war was in some way for good is nonsense. 4: this goes nowhere because it just comes to adding 40 years of two superpowers shitting on smaller nations and claiming one is somehow worse than the other.

[@bonuslesbian]

Holy shit, @Fredrik Dunge you don't know what you are talking about at all. First of all the communist regimes weren't closely tied together like NATO. The Warsaw pact was only between the USSR and their puppets. Meaning you can't blame Moscow communists for something that happened in Vietnam. The communists movements around the world did plenty of genocides but it is propaganda that they were alone in this. The US supported plenty of genocidal regimes (Iraq, Talibans, Pinochet etc). The communists who did awful things acted on their own in their own country, however the US supported regimes as an imperialistic foreign policy and made coup attempts against democratic nations. Also NATO isn't a defensive organization, it's mainly used to surround then USSR, now Russia with nuclear weapons and military personnel. The only reason the talibans were put in power was because during the soviet invasion to help Afghanistan's communists retain power, the US funded training and weapons for the taliban. Without the US support we wouldn't even have the same problems there that we do today.... Here's the problem with lesser evil thinking. It forces you to take a side in a awful situation. It's stupid and shouldn't be used. The US did enough terrible things during the cold war to be considered "evil". The Soviets too. But you aren't obligated to pick one of them at all. There were plenty of neutral nations during the cold war, innocent nations who wanted to preserve peace and maintain prosperity. Choose their side instead.

[@BigTerra92]

The US interfered with south american politics setting various military dictators around south america in fear their governments would be approached by the USSR. In most of these dictatorships, millions of citizens died or straight out disappeared leaving no trace. In addition, they implemented their media as a way of cultural domination. There are no good guys in war, not even in the cold war.

[@TheMadRatKing]

These kind of videos kind of help me see things from both perspectives, not just the perspective biased for America. Makes things easier to understand.

[@headfirstdj]

This is honestly the first time I've seen the human thinking of the soviet side explained so well. So many other sources demonize them and make it seem they were simple crazy or power hungry. Good Job.

[@DoctorDex]

I always welcome some extra Extra History. Also I love that the committee was called Excomm.

[@alexanderrandle8332]

Doctor Dex Notice the font for the Excomm committee?

[@DoctorDex]

Alexander Randle Yeah that was a nice touch.

[@observationsfromthebunker9639]

"Greetings, Commander."

[@shawnheatherly]

EXCOMM... Wow. Already enjoying this series. It's crazy seeing how the situation developers in such a short period of time.

[@LikeTheBuffalo]

And then Magneto, Professor X, Beast, and Mystique show up to show how the real monster is Man, and they go on to expose mutanity to the world, saving the lives of countless mutants from the Sentinels. The End

[@georgiawright2391]

i really like how you dont villainize one party, which is especially rare among American history channels and sources, so thank you! Amazing animations btw

[@Airwavehero]

This feels so relevant right now

[@1234Agen]

3:45 - That is an awfully horizontal photo for a spy plane to take. :P

[@skykid]

idk about you guys but I can't wait to find out if there was a nuclear war between global super powers!

[@Lady_in_Yearning]

ikr? The suspense is klling me!

[@u121386]

10:41 “Well shit” said the Soviet captain in charge of the ship XD

[@Gorbz]

When we were taught about the missile crisis here in the UK in the 90's, missiles in Turkey were never mentioned. Only that the Soviets sent missiles to Cuba, and that a blockade was put in place.

[@samsquanch197]

Just listened to the Hardcore History discussing this. Your timing couldn’t be more perfect.

[@xanaxnation]

You are the only way for me to pass a history class

[@ComicDan]

I love that doomsday clock refrence in the opening

[@diegomarquez4340]

Awesome! I can show this series to my US history teacher instead of having to read the chapter!

[@Pharry_]

This is the first retelling that treated the US missiles in Turkey as anything more than an afterthought.

[@AP-su9oc]

I like how you pointed out Castro hesitation to the idea. People tend to forget that part.

[@eyuin5716]

6:57 That gray guy sitting on the right was me.

[@sortilien2099]

Thanks to Domination. for that extra history.

[@timothymclean]

Kennedy: "Well, okay. I can let you protect Cuba, as long as you don't put nukes there. If you do, there'll be problems." Krushchev: "Da, no problem." _puts nukes in Cuba_ Kennedy: "...Godamit."

[@BigBearMan]

Btw, I LOVE that even though he's never mentioned by name, the defense secretary has Robert McNamara's little parted haircut. Just a little extra detail that I adore.

[@stephenwright8824]

McNamara: Chairman of GM before Kennedy's inaugural. Used to show up around 6 in the morning for work at the Pentagon.

[@eddietorres1313]

*at the sound of the tone, it will be "death-o-clock"*

[@CATboss001]

0:17 I would ask myself why I only have 1 leg, but alright.

[@fetuutilini7857]

Just now noticed after 7 years tf.

[@fetuutilini7857]

Or 6 idk

[@youssefmohamed5638]

Do “the suez crisis” next

[@TheGhostbuster1989]

I would like that too

[@yuvalron324]

Youssef Mohamed i prefer israel independence war

[@SpecterVonBaren]

I want something less high risk. How bout a series on the French attempt to build a Panama Canal? There's so much good stuff in there.

[@divaybishnoi2773]

Youssef Mohamed epichistory covered it. It was a great video

[@masteretainturmakan]

Indy Neidell of The Great War did a day-by-day breakdown of the Cuban Missile Crisis on the channel Time Ghost, I highly recommend watching it when you're done with this video!!!

[@jazeroth322]

I think that was the best history lesson on the Cuban missile crisis I’ve ever heard!

[@Mistscorner]

...as the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, or EXCOMM. "Hello, Commander"

[@guyfrompoland1358]

Good luck 14 commanders of EXCOMM

[@aero-cc6mt]

"The Russians have stationed nukes in Cuba, you must use strategic diplomacy no war is to happen"

[@maxwellfortner9098]

You should make a series on Alexander the great

[@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158]

Time Ghost has a great series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, I would recommend that you watch it. It is hosted my Indy Neidell, the host of The Great War.

[@porter5224]

So how'd it end? Did the nukes fall?

[@oddsdenver9673]

Yes, do you not no history? Ghandi gave the final order to launch!

[@ButteredEgg]

2:12 the falling piece actually represents a king bowing or surrendering