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[@xFlared]

they never taught us this in history class, and I'm already in college. gotta love today's education.

[@orchidotaku]

Yikes Im watching this for history right now actually. We need more teachers that get different sources for their classes. Im learning more at my new school and we dont even use books😂

[@martymcfly5423]

cuz this is Propaganda and no history

[@kaizen2840]

@@martymcfly5423 I lost brain cells reading this, if its in the past and has historical significance, what do you know! its history

[@Takdinadin]

Sal, you have a gift for explaining things in a clear and concise, conversational and enjoyable way. Something about your delivery and the context you give really makes one want to listen. Thanks!

[@dingdong1059]

i love history, cus it's just like cool stories that your dad would tell you.

[@juancabeza5809]

I started the CoD: BlackOps campaing and your video helped me get through stage 1... Thanks a lot for this video!!!

[@nohyphenamerican8959]

😂

[@Svidge_123_]

Excellent presentation! Thank you so much for keeping history alive and available to everyone to learn.

[@ShidaiTaino]

So you are saying that we could have normal relations with Cuba if the Bay of Pigs never happened. * facepalm*

[@VickiBee]

+Francisco At least he's not saying what one of the students in my daughter's class said (when she was a teacher's assistant): The test question was "What was Kennedy's biggest challenge during the Bay of Pigs invasion? The student's answer was "Whether to sleep with Marilyn Monroe or stay faithful to his wife."

[@hitman1365]

I wonder how many people my age actually know about this event because of Black Ops. lol

[@jonuss02]

Excellently explained, thank you!

[@xXEpicLoVeXx]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! This was very comprehensive and detailed - really helped me for my project.

[@Kariakas]

I enjoy all your historic videos, great work.

[@ajhoward4064]

thank u so much this helped me understand this much better than another documentary

[@grantkidd4142]

Thank you so much for explaining this so clearly and in 13 minutes too

[@gabrielpapaizgarbini9390]

Thank you for video! Very interesting!

[@sebokaz]

Thanks for the story. Seems like there's not so many documentaries on this matter.

[@NehaYadav-rk2yz]

Wonderfully explained...

[@Gtajora]

Sal, is there any topic you CAN'T teach? Seriously, the breadth of your knowledge is envious; I only wish there were more hours in the day so I could watch more of your videos.

[@xxhannahwatsonxx]

Im studying this in history right now and i was to learn this from a text book. I just couldn't understand it. This video really helped me understand different perspectives

[@Lipton16]

ty for posting!

[@So0h]

I would really love it if you did more videos about the cuban revolution

[@paulceltics]

this is awesome sauce

[@denisev22dv]

so helpful!!!!

[@Paranoidhuman]

12:04 - A possible explanation for his assassination?

[@jesus5181482]

Thank you for the video

[@thedock09]

i love how neutral you teach this stuff

[@Waranle]

THank you Khan now i know about IAD :)

[@noblessus]

Very interesting video! More History of U.S. wars please!

[@MK87_]

Great vid good information

[@sbespn3820]

Do you have one of these on Syria?

[@absolutely3766]

Lol this is the same guy that helps me with pre cal and chem haha he does it all

[@praetor29]

That's Sal Khan, and he's the founder of Khan Academy ;)

[@robuk639]

Excellent info

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

That's right, they totally left out the part where US history is all rainbows and unicorns. They never propped up any corrupt dictatorships or monarchies or did anything hypocritical with the justification that their citizens' freedom should come at the expense of others. Its really awful when Russia and China go messing around with other countries though, but the US never did or would ever do such things.

[@stephanieschoen6330]

My dad served as a fighter pilot in the Navy stationed in Cuba during this time ,bay of pigs and cuban missile crisis. My Dad disliked JFK. He lied to the American people. Not only were there missiles in ,Cuba, there was also Russian submarines in the gulf of Mexico.

[@gurriato]

@Mode2 He also read bahía Honda like it was written "Janda" in Spanish. If he makes more videos like these he should make sure every foreign word is shown on screen, like he did with the French and Vietnamese names in the previous lectures.

[@gorgurus]

3rd! awesome as always!

[@jallanstudios]

Great videos (maybe a tad too biased toward the U.S., but then I guess that's nothing new) and a very cool concept.

[@daizahdaiz2909]

What software do you use

[@matthewheide6816]

i love how he put devil horns on Batista when he sayed JFK dident like him :) lol

[@dodin1536]

Hey!! Good Stuff.

[@30LayersOfKevlar]

How about overview video of the Cold War ?

[@vvillem9]

Oh wow, I only knew about the science part of KhanAcademy.

[@Rayman304]

Did anyone else notice the horns that Sal drew on Batista?

[@antoniosilvestro2494]

JFK was toast in 63 and Castro lived to be an old man. Enough said

[@Mode2]

Not to knock your pronounciation, Sal, but Guevara is pronounced "Geh-vah-rah" not "goo-eh-veh-rah." Still a freakin' awesome video, man. Keep it up!

[@nikasamwkusvili9345]

cubans whats your opinion on castro maimi cubans ar also welcome to responde

[@Degotelo]

Please do, The Age of Jackson

[@dannyboy12357]

were those horns on batista?

[@victorveng217]

well explained, you just got a new subscriber

[@mizanmedia]

Great video. One small note, his name was Che Guevara (as in "car" or "bar" not Guevera).

[@josefgiven]

lol @ Batista's devil horns!

[@raulvaldes3252]

Fidel Castro the devil in person

[@VanYYFan]

Sal you should do a video on Mao.

[@waverly2468]

There was a good reenactment of this event in the miniseries "The Company" (a history of the CIA). Also check out the trailer on you-tube of the movie "The Last Grenade", a movie about mercenaries. Countries use mercenaries when they want to acheive some military goal without officially being a part of the operation. (Although I'm not sure what kinds of jobs Blackwater gets hired for).

[@jeremyhofmann7034]

What about “"Lawrence of Arabia"? British Beatlemania?

[@ThriveCreativeMedia]

Yes We KHAN! (can) :D ..man the range of things you have taught....did you come from space? O_o

[@HotPepperLala]

Sal could you do a video on Osama and 911?

[@Sal_slothlife]

What if I told you J.F.K. had that dawg in him... 12:07

[@yougotchee]

umm your correct cuba doesn't hate us but I wasn't talking about cuba

[@Ilikemeows]

Hey Khan, wheres the Korean war?

[@romanrosenberg3420]

5:17

[@melvinknight69]

I have never known that the bay of pigs happened

[@KoolThing14]

@hitman1365 Unfortunately a lot.

[@KoolThing14]

@dangermous1968 I c wut u did thar

[@Thankyouobamabasedgod]

There's always two sides to history

[@JaneJabre21]

I have a freaking conference thing where i am USA and i just dont know cause the US is guilty if soooo many things

[@micahj.donaldson7902]

ok

[@f16tuga]

Jane Jabre what?

[@konstm.s.236]

Dismiss the guilty stuff do what Trump does. Say No and move the topic somewhere else.

[@ableasdale2000]

Focus on inherent value of free markets and individualism, and failings of collectivism (including forced submission of individual to collective will, i.e., will of communist intellectual elites.)

[@wookiemaster73]

You can relive this very event in black ops.

[@Grayscape.]

jc did iny one wanna play black ops after thes.??

[@mehdiali9846]

We love you Che Guevara we do... Afghanistan and Australia love you

[@DiandraStarShine]

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[@artisankatstudios7902]

Interesting video, but please remember, one does not need to talk extremeley LOUDLY into the microphone: Just turn up the 'gain' :) Cheers.

[@Michael1966W]

Bay of Pigs was a disaster however it was more incompetence. President Kennedy to his credit fired those who headed the ill fated mission

[@jamesanthony5681]

No. JFK didn't fire brother RFK who went to the CIA and organized the details WITHOUT getting the military involved upfront. The incompetence lies with the Kennedy brothers, but of course any failure was always due to someone else.

[@TeoEthan]

Sounds like Call of Duty Black Ops

[@RauilLindion]

thats not what the videos about, he does this to explain what happened for people who don't understand, its not a video on ethics.

[@javieguerrero35]

Haha i only clicked on this cause call of duty started of with the bay of pigs.. mission.

[@gurriato]

@Poleschs You are joking, right?

[@MrAn0nym00s]

Are you a history teacher?

[@jmantime]

call of duty black ops didn't cover this right

[@SalsaTiger83]

@trexx32 I do think America should legalize all drugs so that south america can go to peace more easily. But why don't they? I find it hard to blame anyone in particular, most Americans believe they need to stop drug use and trafficking. I partly blame the weapon lobbyists though. I also doubt that Mexico has any potential to set up a functional, free nation right now, even if the US magically vanished over night.

[@SalsaTiger83]

@dangermous1968 the more I learn about what the CIA actually did do, the more I keep thinking they'd be more effective if they worked like the Mossad: They don't give a crap about who thinks what.

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

That is also why we failed because that we only sent no more than a few thousand troops. If we had sent at least hundreds of thousands, we would've captured that island and overthrown that communist prick Castro. Also problem was being the Cold War, Cuba sided with the Soviet Union and had to call off the invasion to prevent a nuclear war. We were close too of getting into one.

[@IMMAEDEDDNEDDY]

United Kingdom, eh? Isn't what the U.S is doing what you all have been doing for several centuries?

[@unitytorch]

False Flag - Operation Northwoods

[@keeperSIDE]

right, russian historyyy!!

[@HarryBlufc91]

hey babe

[@yulianacruz4345]

can someone summarize the video for me ?

[@rodrickau]

@Mal1234567 Wrong! the entire south west will merge with da pacific.

[@davidrivero7943]

We left before he took our belongins & property, but he got them, anyways. JFK promised ,but never delivering the crucial Air Support needed. Who else likes Dallas Tx & Convertible Automobiles. ?

[@boss180888]

did you at least watch the video and learn something?

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

And if they really wanted to rid of Castro, the US would've have sent far more troops, only sending a few thousand, 1,400 of them Cuban refugies. The US should've had sent at least a hundred thousand, however there was a problem. It was the height of the Cold War and Cuba then sided with the Soviet Union, therefore Kennedy had to call off the invasion when Soviet Russia sent missles on the island knowing it would have triggered a nuclear war with the Soviets.

[@Jonmad17]

@KevinVancouver2 America DID win the war of 1812...

[@SalsaTiger83]

@trexx32 how many US slave states are there now, actually?? How many of them are worse off than cuba? Invasion certainly wasn't the best idea, but cuban exiles weren't exactly enamored with fidel. After all, he did better than batista, but worse than most democratic leaders....

[@23470000]

RIP Harambe

[@mlst3rg]

where is the rest of this course on conspiracy theories?

[@Medea5960]

This is just unbearable. Talking of dictators as "guys", transforming them into devils.... The victims on both sides deserve better than this sloppy comment.

[@WeeeWriter]

Terrible implications.

[@martymcfly5423]

this whole video is full of Propaganda-Lies