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George HW Bush and the End of the Cold War: Crash Course US History #44

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  • Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
  • In which John Green teaches you about the end of the Cold War and the presidency of George H.W. Bush. It was neither the best of times nor the worst of times. On the domestic front, the first president Bush inherited the relative prosperity of the later Reagan years and watched that prosperity evaporate. That was about all the interest Bush 41 had, domestically, so let's move to foreign policy, which was a bigger deal at this time. The biggie was the end of the Cold War, which is the title of the video, so you know it's important. The collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest deal of Bush's term, and history has assigned the credit to Ronald Reagan. We give the guy a break and say that he helped. He was certainly an expert in foreign policy, having been an envoy to China, ambassador to the United Nations, and head of the CIA. Bush also oversaw the first Gulf War, which was something of a success, in that the primary mission was accomplished, and the vast majority of the troops were home in short order. It didn't do much to address some of the other problems in the region, but we'll get to that in the next few weeks. Along with all this, you'll learn about Bush's actions, or lack thereof, in Somalia and the Balkans, and you'll even be given an opportunity to read Bush's lips.
    Thanks to Michael Williams at www.mylifeinpla... for the Barbies.
    Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. During President H.W. Bush’s time in office, he oversaw the U.S. response to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR: www.commonlit....
    Chapters:
    Introduction: George H.W. Bush 00:00
    George H.W. Bush 0:43
    The Election of 1988 1:48
    George H.W. Bush's Foreign Policy 3:48
    Saddam Hussein & The First Iraq War 5:25
    Mystery Document 6:45
    Domestic Policies: FMLA & the ADA 8:08
    Rodney King & the L.A. Uprisings 9:29
    Economics of the Early 1990s 10:12
    Bush's Failed Re-Election Campaign 11:24
    George H.W. Bush's Legacy 12:34
    Credits 13:20
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Комментарии • 1,7 тыс.

  • @chuckpowell6263
    @chuckpowell6263 5 лет назад +187

    You do a good thing John. I'm a 35 year old railroad worker that wants to know the real history of this great country of ours and to have a better understanding of the world my two girls grow up in.
    Knowing the past makes the present alot less scary(most of the time) and gives me some optimism for our nation and the human race as a whole.
    Thank you sir.

  • @bradleysowers5725
    @bradleysowers5725 8 лет назад +864

    "The 1990s began in 1988..."
    -John Green

    • @johncrandall5782
      @johncrandall5782 6 лет назад +32

      Many historians say the 90s began in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall

    • @matthew8153
      @matthew8153 6 лет назад +32

      Bradley Sowers
      What everyone gets wrong is that there were two 90s. The early nineties with its comprehensible Rap songs, and the late nineties which was just like the 2000s but with a booming economy.

    • @WeGoblinFolk
      @WeGoblinFolk 5 лет назад +23

      And ended in 2008.

    • @juanmanuelpenaloza9264
      @juanmanuelpenaloza9264 5 лет назад +3

      Do you have the time
      To listen to me whine
      About nothing and everything
      all at once!

    • @ninjagonesmith4495
      @ninjagonesmith4495 5 лет назад +3

      I'm in 2019

  • @kaylaabernathy4963
    @kaylaabernathy4963 9 лет назад +330

    "The guy had more careers than Barbie!!" Laughed out loud at work.

  • @KingJaredoftheLand
    @KingJaredoftheLand 9 лет назад +99

    That Super Mario World-inspired thought bubble with Bowser was so great I went back and watched it twice.

    • @webscouller293
      @webscouller293 9 лет назад +3

      It also terrified me a little. Sorry, that's a lie, a lot.

  • @anubis2814
    @anubis2814 10 лет назад +97

    What will I do without this channel when you get to the present? I hope you have plans to go back through history again talking about different evens from different angles.

    • @ArcturusMinsk
      @ArcturusMinsk 10 лет назад +11

      I just hope they do World History next.

    • @anubis2814
      @anubis2814 10 лет назад +11

      Yes its quite awesome, especially, you guessed it, The Mongols.

    • @candraadiputra
      @candraadiputra 10 лет назад +2

      They can make country specific video history like US history. How about German history, or Indonesia History maybe!

    • @anubis2814
      @anubis2814 10 лет назад +6

      This is Merika! We're the only nation worth lernin about

    • @Passonator11
      @Passonator11 10 лет назад +10

      anubis2814 Europe History would be nice.

  • @OSILVEROBULLETO
    @OSILVEROBULLETO 10 лет назад +87

    My greatest take away from this was that no matter what decisions a government makes, it will always displease someone in the favor of another and we will always wonder what if...

  • @SuperKing604
    @SuperKing604 10 лет назад +187

    damn Bush had a impressive career props for the finishing his mission in a burning plane thing that's hardcore

  • @dangerouslytalented
    @dangerouslytalented 10 лет назад +261

    *quick note: It is very easy to make millions of dollars in the oil industry if your father, and his father before him, and going all the way back to the 1600s were all rich. The Bushes are the oldest of "old money"...

    • @SuperKing604
      @SuperKing604 10 лет назад +36

      his career is still impressive

    • @nilloc93
      @nilloc93 10 лет назад +16

      DW42536387384 What is wrong with being rich and wanting to stay rich? No where in the law does it state "If you were successful its your job to give away money"

    • @dangerouslytalented
      @dangerouslytalented 10 лет назад +36

      The problem these days is that they are eroding the wealth of everybody who is not incredibly rich in order to build their own wealth.

    • @dangerouslytalented
      @dangerouslytalented 10 лет назад +15

      Diana Peña 50 lifetimes? Actually, for the richest, that is a gross underestimation. That would be their weekly income.

    • @dangerouslytalented
      @dangerouslytalented 10 лет назад +4

      DW42536387384 except that America's infrastructure is not collapsing.. what? It is? Well surely it is not bogged down in Afghanistan... wait...

  • @FirstRisingSouI
    @FirstRisingSouI 8 лет назад +135

    Why is the mystery document still ancient parchment?

    • @gavin169
      @gavin169 8 лет назад +6

      +R3df0x123 OooooOOOoooo! Spooky!

    • @Questron71
      @Questron71 7 лет назад +22

      Stan probably bought a squaremile of it when they started these videos and hasn't yet run out ;) It's always a procurement fubar when such inexplicable things happen :D

  • @photosinensis
    @photosinensis 10 лет назад +207

    George H. W. Bush is seriously one of our most underrated presidents. His domestic policy lacked vision, but he knew foreign policy and handled the situation well.

  • @Ancor3
    @Ancor3 10 лет назад +298

    The US doesn't have paid maternity leave? Wow, that is so......retro.

    • @zingeuron5094
      @zingeuron5094 10 лет назад +38

      Matthew Smit It's not terrible compared to a lot of other countries, but we still have many things we are lagging behind in that the rest of the world has figured out, like healthcare. The average quality of life is still relatively high, as far as the world goes.

    • @JonnyXrep
      @JonnyXrep 10 лет назад +15

      Depends on the employer, as it is not required.

    • @DanielGarcia-pu6xe
      @DanielGarcia-pu6xe 7 лет назад +8

      Imagine how it'll be with our current dictator,

    • @arnav9192
      @arnav9192 6 лет назад +8

      remix central and if you were poor as hell, that would have been impossible to do... Universal healthcare is meant to benefit the poor/unable to travel more than the rich

    • @hail_void8844
      @hail_void8844 4 года назад

      Well thats one way to put it.

  • @Cucumber-ej1pm
    @Cucumber-ej1pm 10 лет назад +39

    That Soviet Bowser looked fucking awesome good job Thought Bubble (or Thought Cafe).

  • @shubhramishra8698
    @shubhramishra8698 7 лет назад +204

    "More careers than Barbie" :)

  • @alexpindell4307
    @alexpindell4307 8 лет назад +750

    He was a better president then his son

  • @seanpowell2734
    @seanpowell2734 10 лет назад +6

    Can't get enough of Crash Course. I watch it in Geography class and now at home; I'm going mad!

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub 10 лет назад +109

    Not to hate on China or India, but I think outsourcing American jobs is one of leading contributors to the death of the American middle class. Wonder why Detroit is dying? That's why.

    • @carlewen-lewis3305
      @carlewen-lewis3305 10 лет назад +11

      I think you should blame globalization for that. Without it, outsourcing would not have happened. It could be argued though, that without globalization, we would not have what we have today.

    • @PoliticalWeekly
      @PoliticalWeekly 10 лет назад +11

      Carl Ewen-Lewis People are ultimately wealthier and faster developing. More people in the world have cars, cell phones and food on the table. Globalization, coupled with the destruction of stupid trade barriers, makes americans richer. Especially consumers who now have cheaper food and clothing.

    • @carlewen-lewis3305
      @carlewen-lewis3305 10 лет назад

      I am not arguing that, I am simply stating that outsourcing is a by-product of globalization.

    • @MaskinJunior
      @MaskinJunior 10 лет назад +17

      I think the American problem is it's relationship with unions. In Sweden collective bargaining is a right, and the unions are working together with the corporations to find ways to work smarter in order to compete with low wage nations.

    • @MIddleJaman
      @MIddleJaman 10 лет назад

      MaskinJunior But then again, Sweden isan third world , rank 33rd in the enoconmy Sweden vs Usa no match cos us #1 but then Agian Sweden is only 27th. that is why si i dont belive in trad unons i

  • @jakelenhart1456
    @jakelenhart1456 Год назад +42

    For some reason, this show has really helped in keeping me from unaliving myself. Maybe because it’s funny and history is cool. Maybe it’s because John Green is cool. Anyways, thanks everyone at CrashCourse.

  • @thehistoricalgamer
    @thehistoricalgamer 9 лет назад +434

    HW Bush was really a solid president, he handled the end of the Cold War brilliantly, the gulf war well, and when he thought it was necessary for the good of the nation he raised taxes. He seemed very pragmatic and competent. I would argue he was one of the better presidents of the 20th century, its too bad his son fell pretty far from the tree.

    • @perfectsplit5515
      @perfectsplit5515 9 лет назад +28

      ***** It is too bad Bush Sr was blamed for the recession.

    • @Starboard76
      @Starboard76 9 лет назад +16

      ***** No he wasn't…he masterminded Iran Contra and the October Surprise (ex-CIA Chief, he already had the pieces in place)
      He deceptively goaded Iraq into invading Kuwait in order to play the hero..the weeping Kuwaiti Ambassador's daughter was complete charade.

    • @thehistoricalgamer
      @thehistoricalgamer 9 лет назад +25

      ***** First of all Iran Contra has nothing to do with his presidency... at all.
      Second, if you think he goaded Saddam into invading you obviously haven't studied the conflict in much detail. The US warned Iraq numerous times not to do it, yet Iraq did it anyway. Saddam thought the US was just putting up a show of protects and he gambled. He miscalculated, that's not Bush's issue, the administration was very clear Iraq shouldn't invade.

    • @Starboard76
      @Starboard76 9 лет назад +7

      Bullshit! Iran Contra could not have succeeded with him, you clearly haven been in the military, you too gullible and in love with this dude, your post drips with it. He never gave a clean accounting…only another Bushism (I wasn't in the loop.. and we all make mistakes - not Iraq sized mistakes we don't).
      My god, you must believe everything you read on the cereal boxes! Iraq thought no such thing..it got a clear green light from Bush to do..google up Ambassador to Iraq, April Gillespie - educate yourself. Start by learning how to employ 'critical thinking'

    • @assbread5950
      @assbread5950 9 лет назад +5

      ***** every president in american history is a lying, murdering, stealing tyrant. and each and every single one of them belongs in prison.

  • @GoldenJules
    @GoldenJules 5 лет назад +200

    Who here in 2018
    RIP H.W bush😔

  • @emeraldrocks0013
    @emeraldrocks0013 5 лет назад +8

    Hey! I just want to say how much I love this RUclips channel! I honestly do love this RUclips channel, it’s helped me a lot with history class. Even though I’m homeschooled, My Aunt will add one (or a few) of your videos to her History playlist. And let me say this, y’all are Hilarious! Me and my cousin both love y’alls channel! We both just love the humor! So, thank you so much for teaching me, my cousins, and my little sister so many things that I didn’t know about history! I really do appreciate the effort being put into these videos! Thank y’all 💙😁

  • @kabukiwookie
    @kabukiwookie 10 лет назад +3

    I'll never forget this. I was just out of HS when the gulf war started. I'LL NEVER FORGET my best friends dad (Vietnam vet) advised us to enlist BEFORE we got drafted so you get a kinda sorta choice on your assignment. We decided to be in tanks figuring (naively) that snipers can't get us easily therefor increasing our chances to survive. But I remember feeling and saying to everyone EXACTLY the same thing Mr. Green says in the mystery document: "If we haveto go, we haveto go. But it would be a shame."

  • @hamilton0919
    @hamilton0919 10 лет назад +44

    I find it funny how you can learn more things watching 14 minutes of Crash Course than sitting in a classroom for 7 hours.

    • @matthew8153
      @matthew8153 6 лет назад +2

      hamilton0919
      But will you retain it?

  • @ChristopherNFP
    @ChristopherNFP 5 лет назад +10

    You forgot to mention the other iconic political moment: where Senator Benson said to Dan Quayle "I knew John Kennedy, I served under John Krnnedy. You sir are no John Kennedy".

  • @Hutts
    @Hutts 10 лет назад +56

    0:48 He's the Hulk? Thanks I know what my history project is about now :)

    • @raghul0078
      @raghul0078 4 года назад

      Remember now. You have grown into 373k subs

  • @soccerlovin1
    @soccerlovin1 8 лет назад +6

    As a moderate who was born 6 years after the 1992 election. George H.W Bush was pretty smart and pragmatic President. He would be unelectable today with republicans calling him the evil establishment because he had experience and was moderate and liberals would vilify him for being born rich as that somehow stops him from being sympathetic to the poor. We need another one like him!

    • @TheSm1thers
      @TheSm1thers 8 лет назад

      +Shariq Torres But he was a successful and defensive war hawk, since he was in the army and CIA and so was smart with foreign policy.

    • @soccerlovin1
      @soccerlovin1 8 лет назад +1

      He raised taxes, expanded health care, increased environmental regulation, negotiated peace deals, and made peace with Russia. All these things would make him a villain in today's Republican Party.

    • @soccerlovin1
      @soccerlovin1 8 лет назад

      I know, that is what made him interesting. He was willing to be fiscally responsible even it cost him the election (and I hate higher taxes).

  • @LividImp
    @LividImp 10 лет назад +40

    In 1992 I was 18 and I thought that G. Bush Sr. was one of the worst presidents we had ever had. This seemed to be reinforced by the comparatively improved 90s. Little did we know just how bad things would get under his spawn. Bad enough that Bush Sr. would publicly criticize his own son years later.

    • @darkchocolate3390
      @darkchocolate3390 6 лет назад

      You think Bill clinton was worse? How about Obama and so far Trump?

    • @matthew8153
      @matthew8153 6 лет назад +5

      DarkChocolate33
      Clinton created most of today’s problem: NAFTA, China, the Housing Crisis. Hell, he’s the one that decided Bin Laden was not a threat.
      Bush Jr tried to fix these things but 9/11 happened and everything went haywire.
      Obama kissed the Muslims’ collective arses.
      And now Trump is fixing everything at record pace.

    • @darkchocolate3390
      @darkchocolate3390 6 лет назад +8

      +Matthew LMAO. When BIll Clinton was bombing terrorist training camps in the 90s Conservative radio hosts were saying he's only doing that because wanted us to get distracted from his affairs. Meanwhile Bush Jr. was uninterested with Bin Laden literally weeks before 9/11.

  • @BetaMind
    @BetaMind 10 лет назад +12

    I can listen to John talk for hours. lol those last to memes in the mystery document

  • @eahere
    @eahere 6 лет назад +10

    "who never inhaled marijuana and didn't cheat on his wife except for some times"
    I'm dead 😂

  • @jfridy
    @jfridy 10 лет назад +23

    I always remember this interview, which I will give the quotes from on the Dick Chaney article on Wikipedia.
    In an April 15, 1994 interview with C-SPAN, Cheney was asked if the U.S. and UN forces should have moved into Baghdad. Cheney replied that occupying and attempting to take over the country would have been a "bad idea" and would have led to a "quagmire", explaining that:
    "Because if we'd gone to Baghdad we would have been all alone. There wouldn't have been anybody else with us. There would have been a U.S. occupation of Iraq. None of the Arab forces that were willing to fight with us in Kuwait were willing to invade Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it - eastern Iraq - the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey. It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. The other thing was casualties. Everyone was impressed with the fact we were able to do our job with as few casualties as we had. But for the 146 Americans killed in action, and for their families - it wasn't a cheap war. And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth? Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right.[54][55]"
    Cheney regarded the Gulf War as an example of the kind of regional problem the United States was likely to continue to face in the future.[56]
    "We're always going to have to be involved [in the Middle East]. Maybe it's part of our national character, you know we like to have these problems nice and neatly wrapped up, put a ribbon around it. You deploy a force, you win the war and the problem goes away. But it doesn't work that way in the Middle East. It never has, and isn't likely to in my lifetime."
    I wonder what happened to this guy between his days as Secretary or Defense and his time as Vice President.

  • @ghettoflyer
    @ghettoflyer 10 лет назад +5

    John ( as well as everyone behind the scenes) thanks for giving a fair and level headed assessment of a presidency that most people feel is a foot note in our history.

  • @Mutex50
    @Mutex50 10 лет назад +22

    Good video, but I was hoping this would be a little more about the end of the Cold War.
    Btw, it is ridiculously stupid that we have a voting system that allows vote splitting. At least someone in Oregon is trying to do something in that state. There is a petition for an initiative that would make all candidates to run in one primary and voters would be allowed to vote for any number of candidates that they approve. The top two candidates with the most approval would face off in the general election. This is a great idea; not only will it stop vote splitting, it will drastically reduce partisanship and force candidates to go to the REAL center (not Washington center).

  • @Edit-nk6nb
    @Edit-nk6nb 10 лет назад +14

    Those 99 other jobs declines Raoul because they knew he was destined for more - They knew that he had to be the one to guide John Green 'from the past' down the line of the historian so that they could make crash course.
    And yet they couldn't tell Raoul about the future - Time travelers and historians don't get along !

    • @EmperorTikacuti
      @EmperorTikacuti 10 лет назад +1

      Unemployment is a major issue in the American Empire.

    • @final7845
      @final7845 10 лет назад

      DW42536387384
      I like how the guy with 2 letters and a shit load of random numbers for a name keeps calling the USA the "American Empire". Do you even know what an Empire is? The way you keep saying it makes me think otherwise. An empire is when a country takes over other countries and keeps it under one name.

    • @EmperorTikacuti
      @EmperorTikacuti 10 лет назад +1

      Because they don't take nations by force, they take them by cash and other invisible methods by making them submit under one power, who rules the universe, which is entirely false. No nation will ever be the one to match of God and Christ.

    • @final7845
      @final7845 10 лет назад

      Well when it comes to fantasy, no nation will ever be able to match God and Christ.

    • @EmperorTikacuti
      @EmperorTikacuti 10 лет назад +1

      I believe because in the Ten Commandments, no one, even a nation can never become God and what the American Empire says, "one nation under god", is truly foul and disgusted.

  • @double0_kevin
    @double0_kevin 8 лет назад +19

    That is literally Soviet Bowser in a hammer and sickle Koopa Clown Car on the Thought Bubble screen.

    • @double0_kevin
      @double0_kevin 8 лет назад

      And Uncle Sam defeats Soviet Bowser in a way that 6-year-old Me from the Past tried tons of times over years of playing Super Mario Advance 2 without realizing that it wasn't the right way to beat him.

    • @double0_kevin
      @double0_kevin 8 лет назад

      +Prolet Kult I know exactly what it means. I used it unnecessarily, but I know what it means.

    • @maxstirnersego
      @maxstirnersego 7 лет назад

      Kevin Davis I need it

  • @matthewhanley3251
    @matthewhanley3251 10 лет назад +4

    Hey, good job making a video that was truly moderate. It's so common for people to go into all out bashing mode or all out defense mode when discussing anything conservative or republican. It's refreshing to hear someone say, "there were things they did wrong AND things they did well". Imagine that, a somewhat unbiased point of view.

  • @Corristo89
    @Corristo89 10 лет назад +87

    America's worst nightmare: the common enemy disappears over night. All those new weapons and defense budgets and military ventures in countries people couldn't pronounce nor locate on a map were suddenly useless. How do you justify spending billions, if not trillions of dollars to fight an enemy who isn't there anymore? That's like me taking out a loan to buy smartmines to fend off the Sasquatch in my yard. Pointless.
    But American politicians learned: Never again shall our enemy just disappear! Now we have the endless war on terror, which is basically the USA fighting the people they (namely the CIA) recruited and trained back in the 70's and 80's. And since they're elusive you can never say that they're defeated.

    • @majormud8345
      @majormud8345 10 лет назад +12

      and if it looks like they're about defeated you simply stage another 9/11....again

    • @SirFaceFone
      @SirFaceFone 4 года назад

      Well there's also China

    • @pabloreyes-sanchez6844
      @pabloreyes-sanchez6844 4 года назад

      You forget that a whole lot of our military budget goes to protecting other nations

  • @deancostello14
    @deancostello14 10 лет назад +28

    It's weird to think things that have happened in my lifetime are considered history. I'm only 22.

    • @matthew8153
      @matthew8153 6 лет назад +2

      Deano
      Time be a harsh mistress laddie

    • @DiaJasin
      @DiaJasin 5 лет назад +2

      Now you're 27, but I'm still 22.

    • @raghul0078
      @raghul0078 4 года назад

      @@DiaJasin Now your 23 but I am still 22

    • @DiaJasin
      @DiaJasin 4 года назад +1

      @@raghul0078 idk about you, but I'm feelin' 22!

  • @natureman494
    @natureman494 8 лет назад +22

    my dad took that photo of mike duckis in the tank and it was that photo that sunk his candidacy

  • @danhanson1032
    @danhanson1032 9 лет назад +17

    5:37 two sevens on the calender

  • @ingenparks
    @ingenparks 10 лет назад +4

    Yay! No partisanship and name calling by the narrator! One of you best on that score, John.

  • @edkeserovic9288
    @edkeserovic9288 9 лет назад +5

    Dick (Cheney) was actually born on the 30th of January, and not on the 23rd. I'm thinking it was the thought bubble's fault and not really yours. I have learned so much from your series. I was born in Titoslavia in the 80s and your take on the Balkans in the 90s was spot on. You make history informative and a lot of fun.

  • @chefkendranguyen
    @chefkendranguyen 10 лет назад +38

    Good one, John. :)

  • @arielsteinsaltz1956
    @arielsteinsaltz1956 8 лет назад +14

    0:20 Ahh Harry Potter shirt!!! *does excited happy dance*

  • @whitedragon1204
    @whitedragon1204 10 лет назад +6

    Nice job animation crew! Really well done!!

  • @whiteflagstoo
    @whiteflagstoo 10 лет назад +12

    Hello me from first grade, this is what happened back then.

  • @JHON22802
    @JHON22802 10 лет назад +17

    CrashCourse should do Ancient History next

    • @brandonsimmons1108
      @brandonsimmons1108 10 лет назад

      good idea

    • @temporalTechnologist
      @temporalTechnologist 10 лет назад +1

      He already did world history which covers ancient history.

    • @brandonsimmons1108
      @brandonsimmons1108 10 лет назад

      ***** he meant only ancient history they are doing US history and they did world history so it would make just as much sense to do a ancient history only

    • @JHON22802
      @JHON22802 10 лет назад

      ***** Like in such sparse detail yeah, educate yourself

    • @brandonsimmons1108
      @brandonsimmons1108 10 лет назад

      .

  • @royms2000
    @royms2000 9 лет назад +24

    We're Americans: We're fine with going to war, but don't you dare make us actually pay for them!!

    • @matthew8153
      @matthew8153 6 лет назад +1

      royms2000
      Wars don’t actually cost much when you consider the size of the budget even during peace. Liberals just like to point out the military spending as a reason for not spending on their own stupid pet projects.

  • @herro7887
    @herro7887 4 года назад +5

    9:49
    2020: hold my beer

  • @TheAmphicyon
    @TheAmphicyon 9 лет назад +44

    First president I voted for, really intelligent man. Voted for his son once, not a second time, hell no, nothing like his father. His son caused me to stop voting Republican, I started voting independent, haven't changed a bit, and forget Democrat.

    • @kemvalen4784
      @kemvalen4784 8 лет назад +1

      Why don't you like the Democrats ?

    • @TheAmphicyon
      @TheAmphicyon 8 лет назад +13

      kemal valente feminists socialist agenda in taking resources from men and giving it to women through law, courts, and taxes. Just look up who benefits more from governments, men or women.

    • @kemvalen4784
      @kemvalen4784 8 лет назад

      +TheAmphicyon everyone look dude i hate the new ultra feminists but that is not progrevism.Progresvism is trying yo help people not ultra feminists because you are talking about the wage gap between man and women or maybe maternity leave which is also a problem for men i don't see how what you said has anything to do with the Democratic Party.

    • @TheAmphicyon
      @TheAmphicyon 8 лет назад +1

      I don't care for Republicans trad con agenda of putting men back in his cage as a work horse to support the nuclear family anymore than the Democrats trying to support women on the backs of men through taxes like ACA ie.Obamacare (which women use more than men), payed maternity leave, paid birth control/abortion (what women do with their bodies I don't care as long as I don't have to pay for it), welfare which goes primarily to single mothers, subjecting men to selective service registration but not women, blatant lie about the wage gap, and the BS war on women garbage. Democrats especially with Sanders give free college education to students (primarily females) stand out as the worst of two parties when it comes to men.

    • @kemvalen4784
      @kemvalen4784 8 лет назад

      +TheAmphicyon free college and maternity leave is necesery and most developed nations have it already and by the way this has nothing to do with the democratic party and by what you say you should support them

  • @olufsen98
    @olufsen98 10 лет назад +6

    Can't wait for the next few episodes, it'll be a firestorm in the comments I'm sure xD

  • @Nilguiri
    @Nilguiri 10 лет назад +11

    Fantastic graphics from Thought Bubble!

  • @mal9310
    @mal9310 10 лет назад +41

    please, do Europe History next :)

    • @straitJacketFashion
      @straitJacketFashion 10 лет назад +7

      That would either be a colossal undertaking (compared to the US, Europe isn't seen as united in the same way and the documented history is extensively larger) or too broad and inevitably skim across the surface - resulting in reductive explanations. Unless they were to parcel them up akin to the World History series, but why not then just return to said series.

    • @mal9310
      @mal9310 10 лет назад +1

      straitJacketFashion well, Europe is not a country, hence you can't have the same approach as with the US history. But he did pretty good job on the world history, so I was thinking that maybe a similar angle would work. I have faith in mr. Green.

    • @mauricemcdonald292
      @mauricemcdonald292 10 лет назад +5

      Ugh...Have we not heard enough about European history? I'd rather hear the history of shovels.

    • @mal9310
      @mal9310 10 лет назад +6

      Maurice McDonald well, than you do not have to watch it. now tell me the history of how you hit yourself with a shovel.

    • @EnnSeeSee1701
      @EnnSeeSee1701 10 лет назад +5

      lol most of the history we're taught is basically European history anyways. (or at least an outgrowth of European history)

  • @GaryLeventhal
    @GaryLeventhal 10 лет назад +1

    "Ya" crash course writer Raoul Meyer. Thanks for John Green.

  • @dorkmax7073
    @dorkmax7073 7 лет назад +9

    I'm pretty liberal. But I come from a military family and we live us some Stormin Norman. What a badass.

  • @hiphopfan22
    @hiphopfan22 7 лет назад +3

    Bensten "made Quayle look good"? Bensten absolutely humiliated Quayle in the Vice Presidential debate after Quayle's JFK comparison.

  • @daedra40
    @daedra40 10 лет назад +1

    "Knowledge, ain't just power ; it's *beyond description for me* "

  • @Zerepzerreitug
    @Zerepzerreitug 10 лет назад +4

    Frankly, my only working memory of the first Bush was that simpson's episode.

  • @Pranaynaynay
    @Pranaynaynay 10 лет назад +6

    Whoa, CNN was actually competent and relevant once upon a time?

  • @keithfaust8925
    @keithfaust8925 10 лет назад +6

    You didn't mention him throwing up on the Japanese Prime Minister! It was the highlight of his presidency! WTF?!

  • @AndrewJohnstonerulez
    @AndrewJohnstonerulez 10 лет назад

    Just assigned Crash Course as a supplement for assigned readings during these past 2 snow days. Thanks John, you're very helpful in allowing me to ruin snow days with "work."

    • @kimkg
      @kimkg 10 лет назад

      It would be irresponsible for teachers to use videos like these as instructional material because there are important historical inaccuracies (e.g., Somalia), biased and poorly-supported opinions on public perceptions of the time (i.e., glorification of H.W. Bush over Clinton), and careless dismissals of the impact of massive global social-political events (e.g., "America did not change that much as a result of the end of the cold war"). Really, the only way one should use something like this in a classroom is as a single perspective in a spectrum of voices about this time period.

    • @Briggie
      @Briggie 10 лет назад +1

      kimkg
      Keyword "supplement"

  • @strawberrysnowflake5488
    @strawberrysnowflake5488 8 месяцев назад

    Oh, my gosh! Thank you for including a Black, Extra History!!! Man, I am so glad this channel isn't racist!!! Keep up the good work, Extra History. KEEP. IT. UP!!!

  • @edmundfitzgerald4605
    @edmundfitzgerald4605 8 лет назад +16

    Wait black hawk down was during Clinton??????

    • @ericavance4534
      @ericavance4534 8 лет назад +1

      www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bush-orders-u-s-troops-to-somalia

    • @seansmith6397
      @seansmith6397 5 лет назад

      Yes it was

  • @ChrisWebb44
    @ChrisWebb44 10 лет назад +3

    Great video John! I’m love the channel. When I finish up my student teaching and get a job that pays money I am definitely going to donate on subbable. Keep up the good work!!

  • @GorggW
    @GorggW 5 месяцев назад +2

    "the present" *me watching this 10 years after it uploaded*

  • @Crystalvampire66
    @Crystalvampire66 10 лет назад

    I think Crash course has finally caught up to my lifetime. That's weird, cause I haven't been around that long.

  • @SvenskaKrig1709
    @SvenskaKrig1709 10 лет назад +10

    I long for the days of the Cold War. The unguided approach to foreign policy is horrendous at best. The nuclear hair-trigger was the only bad part, but that still exists. Back then, we could not take idiots (Mrss. I can see Russia from my house), or the indecisive (Mitt Romney, Harry Reed) seriously. Dead lock was not an option. Space exploration was a valuable asset. The reasons go on, and on... We need another one.

    • @occasional_doomer
      @occasional_doomer 10 лет назад

      Maybe China, or a resurgent Russia will provide it(That is if Russia, or Putin really, can somehow solve their population crisis). Though I think it's possible to be prosperous and competent without a rival.

    • @EmperorTikacuti
      @EmperorTikacuti 10 лет назад +1

      But remember, capitalism is like communism because who controls us for power?

    • @occasional_doomer
      @occasional_doomer 10 лет назад +4

      DW42536387384 Go away. You are least interesting person to talk to. You try to have the same argument on every video.

    • @SvenskaKrig1709
      @SvenskaKrig1709 10 лет назад

      I think a United Europe could fill the role too,
      Like the Victorian Era? A Scramble for Mars maybe? But that might just spark WWIII. I think some sort of conflict will be inevitable. Living in peace is just in not human nature.

    • @EmperorTikacuti
      @EmperorTikacuti 10 лет назад +1

      We'll always have wars because some nations learn to be fools for ridiculous ambition, which will cost them, their prestige.

  • @Mobius14
    @Mobius14 10 лет назад +15

    I guess it looks like the final episode is going to talk about 9/11 and GWB's presidency.
    I have a feeling hes going to not only criticize the security acts passed post-911 like The Patriot Act but hes going to get a huge backlash no matter what stance Green takes.

    • @lukemathews1574
      @lukemathews1574 5 лет назад

      Nobody this comment didn’t age well as his last episode wasn’t about 9/11

  • @WillStrop2008
    @WillStrop2008 10 лет назад

    The Super Mario World reference at 4:30 is awesome!

  • @TheFireflyGrave
    @TheFireflyGrave 10 лет назад

    These keep popping up in my 'recommended' bar but rarely click on them. That will have to change because these videos are great.

  • @undolf4097
    @undolf4097 10 лет назад +7

    An excellent display. I feel very much in-favor of B.H.W. Bush and even more so now.

  • @rezkysrydrzjczyk
    @rezkysrydrzjczyk 5 лет назад +3

    I'm here after George H.W. Bush passed away. The greatest man ever to be President of USA

  • @FwaterO
    @FwaterO 10 лет назад +1

    Critiques:
    -No mention of saving and loans scandal
    -No mention of highway of death or Iraq sanctions
    -No mention of Nato round the clock bombing of Yugoslavia for 79 days
    -or for that matter no mention of Nato needing to disband after fall of USSR

    • @120masterpiece
      @120masterpiece 10 лет назад

      Oh, I didn't know NATO was a part of America. Let's poor some more anti American sauce on your dish of hate.

    • @FwaterO
      @FwaterO 10 лет назад +1

      120masterpiece
      Yes, Nato is not part of "America" but US has a larger military budget is higher than the next ten highest countries combined, so when Nato attacks someone who do you think is funding the job, it's mass killing that conveniently doesn't have US directly tied to it while they openly fund and support it.
      Nato was a US initiative and supposedly for cold war reasons, with no cold war why is there still a Nato?

    • @120masterpiece
      @120masterpiece 10 лет назад

      FwaterO You're a little kid that's spoon fed liberal propaganda. Don't you have something else better to do than try to talk politics?
      Just for your information kid, research why America went to Yugoslavia in the 90s. I know it's hard for you to understand what genocide is, but try.

  • @emoore29681
    @emoore29681 Год назад +1

    "He had said 'read my lips' and they believed him, but it turned out he hAD NO LIPS!" Somebody better have gotten a raise for writing that line lmaoooo

  • @jamesrpascoe
    @jamesrpascoe 9 лет назад +5

    John is pretty harsh on Bush's foreign policy. However, especially relative to the next 16 years, it was pretty good. He managed to not do dumb things in a big way (like antagonize Russia at its most vulnerable). I suppose he could have acted more decisively in Yugo - but so could have like, ya know, Europe. Sending troops on an aid mission to Somalia - mixed. Again, the biggest accomplishment was managing the Russian crisis.

  • @KainusGulch
    @KainusGulch 10 лет назад +22

    Texas had democrats before the democratic party went south. haha. It sounded funnier in my head.

  • @dpSimi2244
    @dpSimi2244 10 лет назад +1

    John Green knows the city I live in. Simi Valley wooo!!!

  • @jeremybeal6226
    @jeremybeal6226 10 лет назад +1

    I think HW "giving" the wall falling moment to europe was his greatest move.

  • @RomanNomen
    @RomanNomen 10 лет назад +8

    "Technically, we'll never get to the present, because we're always in the past."
    Thank you for ruining my perception of reality!

  • @wingitprod
    @wingitprod 10 лет назад +7

    @5:20,'course the Battle of Mogadishu was under Clinton

  • @taylagwengrifo9564
    @taylagwengrifo9564 8 лет назад

    I know for a fact that the end of the Cold War had an effect on South Africa. It may be too late for me, writing my final tomorrow but I know that future generations would appreciate a crash course on that too.

  • @jonathaneby1440
    @jonathaneby1440 10 лет назад

    I'm so glad you guys are going deep into the "present". It helps us understand what's going on today.

  • @macrameschool
    @macrameschool 10 лет назад +18

    Europe next, please (:

    • @Gary-vv5bg
      @Gary-vv5bg 6 лет назад

      Macrame School Bradley is a cool rocking dude

  • @WinBear
    @WinBear 10 лет назад +3

    I always heard GHWB's famous quote as "KNOW new taxes"

  • @lemmingsgopop
    @lemmingsgopop 10 лет назад +3

    I needed to send over 500 resumes before finding a position. Thanks degree in physics.

  • @jamesgardner6434
    @jamesgardner6434 10 лет назад +1

    John mentioned 1992?
    Yay, I've finally been born!

  • @KTMONEY100
    @KTMONEY100 10 лет назад +5

    Jessie Jackson is really......Neil Degrasse Tyson? 2:35

  • @limeymcfrog1
    @limeymcfrog1 10 лет назад +4

    This was VERY generous to HW. No mention of his extraordinarily imperialistic policies in Latin America. He did terrible things to Panama and Columbia in our name.

  • @James_Tn
    @James_Tn 10 лет назад +2

    yay, glad to see cc back, i hope there is something planned after us history

  • @XieYali
    @XieYali 10 лет назад

    I really wish this wasn't blocked from streaming on smartphones.

  • @JamesLewis98
    @JamesLewis98 10 лет назад +7

    I

    • @TallBison
      @TallBison 10 лет назад +2

      Hoping for crash course physics, but I heard it's crash course literature.

    • @ReinZ_96
      @ReinZ_96 10 лет назад

      TallBison Hank already said there will be no crash course: physics because he does not feel qualified to teach it.

    • @shaunaaaah
      @shaunaaaah 10 лет назад +4

      TallBison literature and psychology.

    • @nolanthiessen895
      @nolanthiessen895 10 лет назад

      John's doing another literature miniseries with 12 (I think) different books. Hank is doing psychology.

    • @MIddleJaman
      @MIddleJaman 10 лет назад

      British bastard! It's all bout ENGLAND

  • @cabalofdemons
    @cabalofdemons 10 лет назад +4

    Awesome episode. Next Stop is the Clinton Years!

  • @GeorgeN678
    @GeorgeN678 4 года назад +1

    That Raul Meyer story is better than the fault in our stars.
    Change my mind

  • @cam1149
    @cam1149 8 лет назад +2

    usually well informed, but what is missing here is why did America turn on Saddam Hussien? Why was he an ally right through the 80's while he committed human rights violations only to be invaded by America when he invaded Kuwait? Why does America engage intervene in foreign affairs, to promote democracy and peace and protect innocent lives or to secure foreign resources, usually oil? These are the questions this channel and everybody else needs to ask more often

    • @macforfagz9726
      @macforfagz9726 8 лет назад +3

      They Didnt innvade Iraq during the gulf war in kuwait. Iraq was innvaded in 2003 due to false accusations of having weapons of mass destruction, however an US promoted uprising DID happend right after the gulf war cease fire aggreement in southern Iraq

  • @CottonDrifting
    @CottonDrifting 10 лет назад +4

    If my experience watching anime has taught me anything, it's that now we can expect a filler arc to pad out some time for the source material to get ahead.

    • @Filbi
      @Filbi 10 лет назад +3

      George H. W. Bush is the Garlic Jr. of American history.

  • @doumahamigahila8133
    @doumahamigahila8133 8 лет назад +8

    my mum saw american soldiers when she was fleeing the conflict in somalia

    • @danielm5633
      @danielm5633 8 лет назад

      how did she describe it?

    • @DylanJo123
      @DylanJo123 8 лет назад +8

      Man, where in the world can't you see American soldiers running around, lets be real

    • @erestar9287
      @erestar9287 8 лет назад +1

      +Jenkins lol

    • @doumahamigahila8133
      @doumahamigahila8133 8 лет назад

      Jenkins true

    • @doumahamigahila8133
      @doumahamigahila8133 8 лет назад +4

      Shadow Slayer she felt scared but safe at the same time

  • @gayavenkat
    @gayavenkat 6 лет назад +1

    Thanks for acknowledging we exist -someone from Simi Valley

  • @cj-seejay-cj-seejay
    @cj-seejay-cj-seejay 10 лет назад +1

    Yesss, we're getting into stuff I can remember! Well, I was very young during the Bush 1's presidency... I can vaguely remember watching the news at my grandma's house and seeing stuff about the Rodney King case and riots.
    But the Clinton years... oh the Clinton years. That was when I became a person.
    I cannot wait for next week!

  • @MrFoxPredator
    @MrFoxPredator 8 лет назад +4

    Last best president ever

  • @John_Mason
    @John_Mason 10 лет назад +5

    It's pronounced ir-rock not eye-rack :) Sorry, had to bring that up ;) Spent time in Alabama too (Homewood) so things slip in for me as well.

    • @DuranmanX
      @DuranmanX 10 лет назад +7

      it's actually "al-‘Irāq"

    • @alexbeerling1048
      @alexbeerling1048 10 лет назад +8

      I hasten to remind you that mispronouncing things, IS HIS THING!

    • @John_Mason
      @John_Mason 10 лет назад +2

      The Bushes had a habit of doing that as well so I guess it fits :)

    • @postshift19
      @postshift19 10 лет назад

      ***** I say TUSA.

  • @Strettger
    @Strettger 10 лет назад +7

    Ah we get to the world wide web soon.
    That glorious European innovation that changed the world..... ;)

  • @TheWulf899
    @TheWulf899 8 лет назад

    11:15 I wish I had that luck - Sent out 300 applications over the course of 6 months, got 2 interviews before getting a position as a Medical Lab Scientist - for a contracted *six months* only.