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George W. Bush: 9-11-01 Speech 4:25
FDR: 12-8-41 Speech 7:45
JFK: Cuban Missile Crisis Speech 3:05
Trinity Test Bomb 11:24
WWI: 4 Weeks in the Trenches by Fritz Kreisler
Britain's Imperial Destiny by Wilfred Scawen Blunt
American Life Histories (The Great Depression)
United Nations: Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, 1960
Secondary Sources:
What does the British Empire say about America and its Empire today? The National Interest: "Lessons from the British Empire" by Jordan Michael Smith.
Why did Japan surrender the day after Nagasaki? FP: "The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan...Stalin Did." by Ward Wilson.
When the US ruled Japan: HistoryNet: "American Proconsul: How Douglas MacArthur Shaped Post-War Japan" by Stanley Weintraub.
The transition to an Asia-centered 21st Century began in the 19th century: HistoryToday: "Asia and the Old World Order" by Thomas DuBois.
Read all about the West's first intervention in Iraq here: HistoryToday: "Coming as Liberators" by Kristian Ulrichsen.
The 20th century of Cyprus from its takeover by the British to 2008: London Review of Books: "The Division of Cyprus" by Perry Anderson.
Napoleon was an "eagle," can he teach us to be eagles today too? The American Interest: "Eagle Nests and Sheeple Stalls" by Walter Russell Mead.
A great what if?: FirstWorldWarOne.com: "What if Germany had won World War One?" by John J. Reilly.
A summary of the Iranian Revolution and different views of it: London Review of Books: "A Little Feu de Joie" by Adam Shatz.
The cruel treatment of Kenyans during British Imperialism: Los Angeles Review of Books: "Empire and Mau Mau" by Katie Engelhart.
The British Empire: Three Empires in One: The New Republic: "Hearts of Darkness, the Incoherence of the British Empire" by Maya Jasanoff.
Napoleon as bad as Hitler? Daily Mail: "The French Fuhrer" by Christopher Hudson.
The Franco-German War of the 1870s: HeritageHistory: "The Franco-German War" by M.B. Synge.
The Battle of Austerlitz: MilitaryHistoryOnline: "Austerlitz: Napoleon makes his own luck" by Lonny Grout.
Three different current books look at the last hundred years of history and its impact on China's future - all three see different thinking: The New York Review of Books: "Will the Chinese be Supreme?" by Ian Johnson.
The world's bloodiest civil war was in China: Los Angeles Review of Books: "The World' Bloodiest Civil War" by John B. Thompson.
China was the unrecognized necessary ally in WWII: Pacific Standard: "China Lost 14 Million People in World War II." by Michael Todd.
On Sun Yat-Sen, founding father of China: China-History: "Dr. Sun Yat-sen" by Johnathan Spence.
The last emperor of China: CDOT: "From Emperor to prisoner to citizen to emperor to prisoner to citizen" by Stewart Wesdal.
1914-->2014? BrookingsInstitute: "The Rhyme of History" by Margaret MacMillan.
Britian vs Zulus: HistoryofWar.org: "The Zulu Wars" by TDP Dugdale-Pointon.
How did Colonialism affect Africa? AFBis: "The Myth of Neo-Colonialism" by Tunde Obidana.
The Air War of WW1: firstworldwar: "The War in the Air" by Ari Unikoski.
When was the order given? Holocaust-History: "When Did Hitler Decide on the Final Solution?" by Gord McFee.
Who started WW1? BBCNews: "World War One: 10 Interpretations of who started WW1."
On Alliances in 1914: IWM: "What you need to know about pre-first world war alliances" by Paul Cornish.
What happened in Tiananmen Square? WilsonQuarterly: "Tiananmen Square at 25" by Yerril Yue Jones.
Baby Brazil: HistoryToday: "Empire of Exceptions: The Making of Modern Brazil" by Gabriel Paquette.
Credit to WW1: Nautilus: "The 6 Most Surprising, Important Inventions from World War One" by Simone M. Scully.
The death that started WW1: NewStatesman: "Who was Franz Ferdinand?" by Simon Winder.
Freeing Peru: HistoryToday: "Jose San Martin liberated Peru." by Richard Cavendish.
Multimedia:
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CrashCourse: Haitian Revolution 12:35
Crash Course: The Industrial Revolution 11:05
Crash Course: Capitalism and Socialism 14:03
Crash Course: World War I 11:45
Crash Course: Chinese Revolution 12:11
Crash Course: World War II 13:13
Crash Course: the Cold War 12:16
Crash Course: Decolonization 12:49
Crash Course: Globalization I 11:51
Crash Course: Globalization II 13:55
HistoryIsHappening: Origins of World War I 8:42
History: World War 2 from Above 1:28:12
BBC: Hiroshima 4:35
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