Super underrated too: restrained the budget, pursued peace in the world, and appointed Volcker to the Fed in '79 (tanking his chances for re-election, but saving the country from inflation in the following years). Not great; but a good man, and a good president.
@@heyyou7881 yes, but it began under Carter in 1979 and 1980 with his appointment of Volcker at the Fed. Reagan kept Volcker on at the Fed and rightly left him to do his job properly as he should've. They both get credit
Does anybody else think that they should do a Crash Course on Economics? A lot of the Keynesian economics, inflation, and stagflation discussed in these videos are hard to understand.
omg yes!! John Green, Stan, please, here us here!! Crash Course on Economics is such a good idea and you would do it perfectly as always. You're awsome!
BowtiesExist Totally! I am trying to understand macroeconomics and the theories would be so much easier to understand with crash course. Please Crash Course add an Economics section! :)
I think Carter would be a more fitting president for today rather than for the late 1970s. He got a raw deal with the timing of his term. Sure, he made misjudgements, especially in domestic policy, and bad PR didn't help, but that period of American history would've been rather bleak with or without him in my opinion.
His policy was that in if Americans want his economic plan to work, they should live less comfortably. That's a horrible outlook no matter the time period.
Dasaun McClinton True, but there comes a point where less is more. With the money spent on 40% of our food being wasted we could of fed the poor or indulged in other luxuries.
Joorum , im not so sure about Carter being a better president today. One aspect of leadership is the ability to take bold steps to solve national problems. Would have been interesting to see Trump as president in the 70s, but then again we would have missed Reagan. In the same way that Carters incompetence set the stage for Reagan, Obama’s radical Keynesianism set the stage for Trump.
"More, more, always more, more for you. More. More. More. I promise" This should sound familiar in 2016 and 2017, John Green from 4 years in the past. Thank you for your history videos! I am a history major and you always inspire me! :)
I realize perhaps the weirdest thing about the 1970s (from our 2013 perspective) is that our presidents were a conservative Democrat (Carter) and a moderate-if-not-liberal Republican (Nixon).
And Reagan was right to lower gov regulations and lower taxes. More government won’t fix an economy, less government will. Regan was and still is right to this day.
Carter was a coward and had no business being in a position of power. He's the type of individual that holds the trump card, refuses to play it, then brags about how he refused to play it after getting the shaft. Awful leader.
i watched these in high school for APUSH because my teacher made us..... now I'm watching them again on my own because I'm taking history 2 in college, they go along with my class in order and it's amazing.
There are people watching crash course who weren't alive in the 1900s? OMG, 2000 was 13 years ago....Why did you have to say that John?! You popped my geriatric bubble of ignorant bliss!
Thank you so much for this video, Crash Course guys! The economic theory of the 1970s has been physically painful to learn - and you just made a nice, understandable video with colourful cartoons explaining it all.
Now that you're done with World History, and US History, can you guys do a series on the Cold War? I absolutely love learning about history, and especially the Cold War, and your show just makes me love history even more! Please do it!!!
I think this may be my favorite crash course video yet! :) Keep it up John Green and Crash Course staff! You guys are awesome! Your videos both entertain and teach. They have become a great way to take a few minutes to relax during even my busiest days.
If anyone wants to learn more about Iran ~1978 - ~1993, I highly suggest Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It's autobio, but there's a lot you can learn about the social situation in Iran under Islamic law. There's also a movie version.
For the close-call bankruptcy of New York in the 70's i recommend Professor David Harvey's "The Neoliberal City" talk on youtube(he is an old-school marxist btw and teaches classes on Marx's 'Capital') It outlines how the financial sector strong-armed the government into not lending New York money and instead engineered a deal in which New York HAD to cut social spending and various public subsidies to qualify for a loan. This, naturally, meant that the bankers could buy up cheap, vacant property to create artificial scarcity and drive up prices to make a huge profit.
Jimmy Carter is one of the most underrated presidents in American History. His character contrasted with the age of persona (today's presidents) presidents should be noted.
I think you need to go back and do an episode on just the last few minutes of this. An understanding of the breakdown of the Philips Curve and how it relates to current economics would be very education, I think. Thanks!
On the oil embargoes: my grandfather owned a gas station and would take my uncle over to pup gas at five in the morning, when they showed up there would often be a line down the block waiting to get their tanks filled. When the station ran out of gas the rest of the line was sent home to come back another day.
Hey John, love your video's, love that you don't only tell the european version of events. I live in Australia & was given the worst possible information on the history of Australia, especially what occurred with the British & the aboriginals, the true owners of this continent. Was wondering if you could please do a video on the subject? Please. Just subscribed to Crash Course as well as Hanks Scishow. Keep up the good work & I'll keep supporting you!
eh. Acceptable. Don't fret about the Iran/Iraq thing Crash Course, we all make mistakes. Don't lose your marbles over there at CC headquarters. You are providing a free and valuable service to the world. Thank you.
Wow. I found this Crash Course episode in particular incredibly enlightening (even more so than the rest). I've been quite "angsty" since returning from living in Denmark in 2010: Among many things, I learned about how in 1973, the Danish reacted to the oil crisis by removing their dependance on oil and the automobile, shifting towards cycling. Now Denmark it is one of the best bike cities.. and cities in the world. I had always wondered why Canadians / Americans (besides being someone ignorant) did not adapt accordingly to this oil crisis as well (Maybe because we have oil reserves of our own?) Anyways, The final words of this episode make it ...more... clear. In the past episodes we see how the government gains the responsibility to aid the people in a time of crisis (top down) and here it seems as if, after the crisis, and at the end of the 70s the opposite was understood. That each individual's actions affect the whole. I think this is a very powerful lesson that continues to be incredibly relevant today, given the use of the internet and the ability for a single voice to be heard and shared. I could go on and on about what this episode has made me realize but I'll keep it to myself until I develop it in more clarity / detail. Thanks Crash Course! Seriously. This is a big deal for me!
If I may, the biggest reason why America hasn't abandoned cars in favor of things like bicycles and more public transportation is because America NEEDS cars. The United States is more than 200 times larger than Denmark, nearly 10 million square kilometers. I grew up in the western United States, where cities are spread far apart. For example, if we needed to go see a doctor, we would need to travel some 150 miles. Heck, I was born 150 miles from my hometown because it was the nearest hospital. Now, extrapolate that to long haul-truckers, who are constantly driving across the country. That's going to burn up a lot of gas.
It's an easy excuse. Cities here were designed around cars, not people. The technology fuels sprawl and other lifestyles from it. As far as population goes, Its proportional. In Denmark, I can ride my bike to the metro, easily jump on the train and be in the airport / another country super fast - 60% of others use the bike to commute or work or school. The car is here to stay, of course - it should just be used for what it is good at. If everyone is converging towards the city than transit makes more sense. Cars are more efficient for outward travel where you are going to a unique point. In the end we have put too much towards one technology, placing all of of our eggs in one basket, designing our cities primarily around cars. This doesn't allow for the city and its inhabitants to evolve as easy. Then we wonder why sprawl and congestion / pollution happens / making unpleasant environments. What's needed is a more balanced approach, where each transit solution is understood for its benefits, to establish redundancy. There is not one perfect solution.
Oh, goodness. Well, I don't want to go around starting some kind of internet slugfest with someone who hasn't posted in a week, but my gum I'm willing to risk it! When I say that the nearest hospital is 150 miles away, I don't mean that there are a whole bunch of delightful towns with tragically insufficient infrastructure that could be solved with good urban planning. My school district back in the day, for instance, was probably the size of a small country, with some students needing to ride the bus for an hour or more to get to school. So why don't they build schools at the towns they live in, I hear some ask? Because there aren't "towns" out there. Around half of the students live in family houses that are quite literally 5, 10, 15 miles from the nearest house. How exactly could public transportation handle that? I'm not saying I think public transportation can't work EVERYWHERE in America. You're right about public transportation being the correct option in many situations. But there will always be more cars than bicycles in America when there are truly vast expanses with population densities measuring in less than 10 people per mile.
Charles Larue I also grew up in the United States, and I was also born a long way from my hometown because it didn't have a hospital. In cases like this, It's important to ask why. Why did so many of us grow up in such sparsely populated places? Most of my neighbours weren't farmers or ranchers; in fact many of them drove insanely long commutes to one of the nearer big cities. How did we end up in such remote exurbs? Racism. Our grandfathers did not want to send their kids to black schools, which was a thing that was mandated by the federal government in the sixties. It was no accident that the school I went to had exactly one black kid the whole time I went there. Of course, we can't discount the convenience and glamour of having your own car, as opposed to using public transport, but for a lot of blue collar workers, the cost (where I live, it costs $15000 annually to own and operate your own car, while the average annual income is only $42000) of that puts nearer suburbs out of their financial reach.
History is all about individuals, it just remembers those that have the will to change it, and only some have that within them, it's something you are born with.
Thank you for this! My own history education petered out around the 60's. My Dad is heavily conservative in every way and this helps me better understand why.
For the inevitable second incarnation of Crash Course Literature (Can not wait), may I make my recommendations of Beowulf, The Divine Comedy, and Dune. Also, good work on the correction. DFTBA.
Pretty good summation of the 70s, nice work. The problems with inflation started with the Guns and Butter policies of LBJ, which were continued by Nixon. You can only run huge deficits so long before there are negative consequences. Nixon's closure of the gold window (aka, a default of obligations from the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944) wasn't to devalue the dollar to boost exports, but to prevent redemption of gold by foreign holders of dollars. The outflows of gold were significant, so Nixon stopped it by executive fiat, an egregiously criminal action, IMO. This is why I roll my eyes every time someone says the US has never defaulted on its debt obligations.
EXCELLENT REVIEW!! so nicely and honestly put.. I am from Syria and I am a big fan of you since your summery about the war in the country and now big fan of u
John, I can't help but notice that you use vocabulary and concepts that may be a bit too advanced for a younger audience. Economic shocks, systemic changes, the relationship between unemployment and inflation, the notion of government as a moderator in the economy, just to name a few. So please, if you're reading this, give us a Crash Course Economics!
John I know you’ll never see this but I’m saying it anyways. My grandmother is also a frequent QVC shopper. I just busted out into hysterical laughter at that line. Shoutout from Ragland, Alabama.
This decade is also considered one of the greatest eras of Doctor Who. Including such popular Doctors as Tom Baker, who is still by many considered the best, and Jon Pertwee! And the Hinchgliff era! Also our lord and savior David Tennant was born in this decade. This was a good decade for Who. I suppose my mom and dad were born in this decade too... and Star Wars came out. Same year as John Green (was born)!
"Let me tell you a lesson from history ... you get re-elected by telling Americans 'More, more, always more. More for you. More. More. More. I promise." Yup, that sounds a lot like our current president elect.
Yeah, watching John Green now with a book by John Green next to me (yes my copy) so yeah, good job John. I am a self admitted military buff, and you talk about military action about as in depth as I talk about fashion, if not less, but I still love it. Good job and DFTBA.
I remember reading about how Carter was the one who actually freed the hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. I believe in his last days of office Carter continued to try and rescue the hostages, but because he did it right before Reagan would've been inaugurated, he got all the credit. The hostages were released just ten minutes after Reagan was sworn in, so really Carter should get the credit. Also Carter was elected at a terrible time in American history. No one could've taken on the disaster that our country was. I would love if anyone would like to bring up a counter argument to this comment, because as I view it, Carter gets a bad rap because of the bad circumstances he faced. Carter simply had too much bad luck during his presidency, and he could not handle the immense problems of America at the time.
Jimmy Carter was the sole cause for the escalation of the decline of the economy in the 1970s, which is exactly why conservatives were able to regain ground, so I guess I owe him a thankyou.
Civil War Fan Really? His dramatic skyrocket of regulations and his climate change craze didn't stifle the economy? I don't know what world you live in, but it must be nice.
first off i really like the series; i've watched the whole lot in less than 2 weeks! thats why i'm wondering, could you guys make series like these on other continents as well? in western histografy i notice a very destinct tendency towards europe and america (it's a culture trip, so no offence intended). so it would be nice if crash course were (among) the first to break through that stalemate and open up the european minds to alternative tellings off history. with focus on what actually happend on continents; rather than watching them through the eyes off europe and the USA. china for example has a rich history, which i imagine to be available too those allready engaged in their research.
Of course, the only reason the Vietnamese intervened in Cambodia and forced the Khmer Rouge out of power was because Pol Pot had invaded them. So it worked out alright. (I mean, it didn't work out alright, what with more than two million dead, but at least it ended eventually.)
cOmAtOrAn Ah, fuck me, did I say Cambodia invaded Vietnam? I must have been drinking. Well, they _did_ launch the first border incursion, against Phú Quốc, as an attempt at a preemptive strike against projected Vietnamese expansionism. A preemptive strike that went horribly, horribly wrong. I can't imagine they would have attempted even that much without diplomatic support from the great powers, though they probably cared more about the PRC than the US. Still, the fact remains: The Carter Administration provided Pol Pot with diplomatic support. We've been in bed with some nasty governments over the years, and every administration going at least as far back as TR has a share of the blame for that; but I think the Khmer Rouge might well rank as our most despicable "ally" ever.
Americans love to be told how wonderful they are in simplistic soundbites. Politicians who try to use rational, intellectual arguments tend to lose bigly. I’m looking at you, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry! The key to success is telling people exactly what they want to hear. It works in religion too; witness the popularity of prosperity gospel preachers from Norman Vincent Peale to Joel Osteen.
Shout out to John Green for keeping my history grade up
same
He just makes me look smart
"More, More, Always More, More For You. More. More. More. I Promise."
- _John_ _Green_, _on_ _Presidential_ _Election_ _Strategy_, _2013_
Some Curiosities I am sharing this
I would've voted for him.
_Trump_ >:(
Well, it worked for Trump.
What a fool Carter was, telling the truth and trying to do the right thing. That's not what we do around here!
Super underrated too: restrained the budget, pursued peace in the world, and appointed Volcker to the Fed in '79 (tanking his chances for re-election, but saving the country from inflation in the following years). Not great; but a good man, and a good president.
@@GoFartherPodcast Jimmy Carter failed Iran and the US.
He was weak and ineffectual. He lost to Reagan in a landslide as a result.
@@GoFartherPodcast wtf, what saved the US from inflation was Reagan making interest rates higher. Not Carter.
@@heyyou7881 yes, but it began under Carter in 1979 and 1980 with his appointment of Volcker at the Fed. Reagan kept Volcker on at the Fed and rightly left him to do his job properly as he should've. They both get credit
Does anybody else think that they should do a Crash Course on Economics? A lot of the Keynesian economics, inflation, and stagflation discussed in these videos are hard to understand.
omg yes!! John Green, Stan, please, here us here!! Crash Course on Economics is such a good idea and you would do it perfectly as always. You're awsome!
they are now!
BowtiesExist I was thinking the exact same thing!
BowtiesExist And Finance!! :)
BowtiesExist Totally! I am trying to understand macroeconomics and the theories would be so much easier to understand with crash course. Please Crash Course add an Economics section! :)
I think Carter would be a more fitting president for today rather than for the late 1970s. He got a raw deal with the timing of his term. Sure, he made misjudgements, especially in domestic policy, and bad PR didn't help, but that period of American history would've been rather bleak with or without him in my opinion.
But he did teach us all an important lesson: If you're the president, you have to sugarcoat EVERYTHING.
His policy was that in if Americans want his economic plan to work, they should live less comfortably. That's a horrible outlook no matter the time period.
Dasaun McClinton True, but there comes a point where less is more. With the money spent on 40% of our food being wasted we could of fed the poor or indulged in other luxuries.
+Joorum Exactly.
Joorum , im not so sure about Carter being a better president today. One aspect of leadership is the ability to take bold steps to solve national problems. Would have been interesting to see Trump as president in the 70s, but then again we would have missed Reagan. In the same way that Carters incompetence set the stage for Reagan, Obama’s radical Keynesianism set the stage for Trump.
Carter is the absolute BEST ex-president.
Hooray for mentioning energy history. I just love learning about how energy shapes policy, particularly around the oil shocks and the Carter Doctrine.
Jimmy Carter legalized homebrewing; making him the best President in my opinion.
Hahaha
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ok dude
2008: We have the second worst hangover. 2020: Hold my beer
Yes.
I love how John is so excited to talk about the 1970's because that's when he was born.
"More, more, always more, more for you. More. More. More. I promise" This should sound familiar in 2016 and 2017, John Green from 4 years in the past. Thank you for your history videos! I am a history major and you always inspire me! :)
more, more, always more, more for you. More. More. More. I promise. That was exactly perfect.
Gotta love how almost every photo of Nixon is him on the phone.
Plazmedics Love the picture of him walking on the beach in his shoes.
I realize perhaps the weirdest thing about the 1970s (from our 2013 perspective) is that our presidents were a conservative Democrat (Carter) and a moderate-if-not-liberal Republican (Nixon).
Bag on Carter for that speech if you want, but in essence... HE WAS RIGHT
Except that we don't "hire" our POTUS to be the National Preacher or Scold.
And Reagan was right to lower gov regulations and lower taxes. More government won’t fix an economy, less government will. Regan was and still is right to this day.
Carter was a coward and had no business being in a position of power. He's the type of individual that holds the trump card, refuses to play it, then brags about how he refused to play it after getting the shaft. Awful leader.
2008: we give you a hangover
2020: hold my virus
For those taking APUSH, we're almost done with history! Hang in there and best of luck on your final exam :)
+11ellie7 I have mine tomorrow. I'm pretty confident.
You'll do fine, it was super easy. I miss APUSH lol, I took my AP government final exam today and I'm pretty sure I nailed it.
taking it tommorow, i had a shitty teacher so literally im teaching myself, i have a slim to none chance of passing son but im still studying
Maricela bitterdark how'd it go?
Mines on Friday, pray for me 😂
10:08 Yay! You fixed the mislabel of Iran!
10:20 ...and you still mislabled Tehran.
Thank you, I'd had thought maybe it was me being sick is the reason why this felt like Deja Vu.
EmperorTigerstar hey
EmperorTigerstar you're one of my favorite RUclipsrs
You just about called it with your prediction of you tube WW1.
It's almost as if having an economy linked so strongly to one finite resource is a bad idea
I, and I'm sure many others, would absolutely love to see a Crash Course: Economics out of you in the future, John
i watched these in high school for APUSH because my teacher made us..... now I'm watching them again on my own because I'm taking history 2 in college, they go along with my class in order and it's amazing.
There are people watching crash course who weren't alive in the 1900s? OMG, 2000 was 13 years ago....Why did you have to say that John?! You popped my geriatric bubble of ignorant bliss!
Thank you so much for this video, Crash Course guys! The economic theory of the 1970s has been physically painful to learn - and you just made a nice, understandable video with colourful cartoons explaining it all.
Now that you're done with World History, and US History, can you guys do a series on the Cold War? I absolutely love learning about history, and especially the Cold War, and your show just makes me love history even more! Please do it!!!
Americans: *panicking because annual inflation reached 10%*
Me: *laughs in Argentinian*
I love Jimmy Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech.
I think this may be my favorite crash course video yet! :) Keep it up John Green and Crash Course staff! You guys are awesome! Your videos both entertain and teach. They have become a great way to take a few minutes to relax during even my busiest days.
AP exam on Friday...thank goodness for Crash Course.
Me too
Always the best location compared to all youtube channels.
i have been watching crash course as a way of studying for my usa history final tomorrow.
+Zeina R
you're cute lol
this guy should be your cue to end t from this particular comment
The book would probably have been more helpful...
john where were you when i was in 9th grade social studies?
If anyone wants to learn more about Iran ~1978 - ~1993, I highly suggest Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. It's autobio, but there's a lot you can learn about the social situation in Iran under Islamic law. There's also a movie version.
brumagemm nobody cares about Iran
Watching our country's past leaders is depressing
Watching our country's current leader is sometimes depressing
alex Your statement still stands 3 years later.
Stephen Lu "sometimes" is no longer accurate. People either worship the ground he walks on or hate his guts.
Justanotherconsumer he was talking about obama but i guessits the same
more, more, always more, more for you. more, more, more. I promise.
Yah that statement.
For the close-call bankruptcy of New York in the 70's i recommend Professor David Harvey's "The Neoliberal City" talk on youtube(he is an old-school marxist btw and teaches classes on Marx's 'Capital')
It outlines how the financial sector strong-armed the government into not lending New York money and instead engineered a deal in which New York HAD to cut social spending and various public subsidies to qualify for a loan. This, naturally, meant that the bankers could buy up cheap, vacant property to create artificial scarcity and drive up prices to make a huge profit.
*Strong with the Force, this channel is.*
Jimmy Carter is one of the most underrated presidents in American History. His character contrasted with the age of persona (today's presidents) presidents should be noted.
I love it when I guess the mystery document correctly!!!
Carter is still one of the best, most-grounded presidents we've had some of y'all just don't want to admit it
I think you need to go back and do an episode on just the last few minutes of this. An understanding of the breakdown of the Philips Curve and how it relates to current economics would be very education, I think. Thanks!
I just want to thank you guys for making these. Accessible to the world, sorry China, and free for the people in need of it. Its awesome
Thanks for the great videos! I am able to maintain an A in my 1302 American History class because of them. Please don't stop.
On the oil embargoes: my grandfather owned a gas station and would take my uncle over to pup gas at five in the
morning, when they showed up there would often be a line down the block waiting to get their tanks filled. When the station ran out of gas the rest of the line was sent home to come back another day.
Imagine having him as a history teacher
Hey John, love your video's, love that you don't only tell the european version of events. I live in Australia & was given the worst possible information on the history of Australia, especially what occurred with the British & the aboriginals, the true owners of this continent. Was wondering if you could please do a video on the subject? Please. Just subscribed to Crash Course as well as Hanks Scishow. Keep up the good work & I'll keep supporting you!
eh. Acceptable. Don't fret about the Iran/Iraq thing Crash Course, we all make mistakes. Don't lose your marbles over there at CC headquarters. You are providing a free and valuable service to the world. Thank you.
I love this series. Thanks for it!
Wow. I found this Crash Course episode in particular incredibly enlightening (even more so than the rest).
I've been quite "angsty" since returning from living in Denmark in 2010:
Among many things, I learned about how in 1973, the Danish reacted to the oil crisis by removing their dependance on oil and the automobile, shifting towards cycling. Now Denmark it is one of the best bike cities.. and cities in the world. I had always wondered why Canadians / Americans (besides being someone ignorant) did not adapt accordingly to this oil crisis as well (Maybe because we have oil reserves of our own?)
Anyways,
The final words of this episode make it ...more... clear. In the past episodes we see how the government gains the responsibility to aid the people in a time of crisis (top down) and here it seems as if, after the crisis, and at the end of the 70s the opposite was understood. That each individual's actions affect the whole. I think this is a very powerful lesson that continues to be incredibly relevant today, given the use of the internet and the ability for a single voice to be heard and shared.
I could go on and on about what this episode has made me realize but I'll keep it to myself until I develop it in more clarity / detail.
Thanks Crash Course!
Seriously. This is a big deal for me!
If I may, the biggest reason why America hasn't abandoned cars in favor of things like bicycles and more public transportation is because America NEEDS cars. The United States is more than 200 times larger than Denmark, nearly 10 million square kilometers.
I grew up in the western United States, where cities are spread far apart. For example, if we needed to go see a doctor, we would need to travel some 150 miles. Heck, I was born 150 miles from my hometown because it was the nearest hospital.
Now, extrapolate that to long haul-truckers, who are constantly driving across the country. That's going to burn up a lot of gas.
It's an easy excuse. Cities here were designed around cars, not people. The technology fuels sprawl and other lifestyles from it.
As far as population goes, Its proportional. In Denmark, I can ride my bike to the metro, easily jump on the train and be in the airport / another country super fast - 60% of others use the bike to commute or work or school. The car is here to stay, of course - it should just be used for what it is good at. If everyone is converging towards the city than transit makes more sense. Cars are more efficient for outward travel where you are going to a unique point.
In the end we have put too much towards one technology, placing all of of our eggs in one basket, designing our cities primarily around cars. This doesn't allow for the city and its inhabitants to evolve as easy. Then we wonder why sprawl and congestion / pollution happens / making unpleasant environments. What's needed is a more balanced approach, where each transit solution is understood for its benefits, to establish redundancy. There is not one perfect solution.
Oh, goodness. Well, I don't want to go around starting some kind of internet slugfest with someone who hasn't posted in a week, but my gum I'm willing to risk it!
When I say that the nearest hospital is 150 miles away, I don't mean that there are a whole bunch of delightful towns with tragically insufficient infrastructure that could be solved with good urban planning. My school district back in the day, for instance, was probably the size of a small country, with some students needing to ride the bus for an hour or more to get to school. So why don't they build schools at the towns they live in, I hear some ask? Because there aren't "towns" out there. Around half of the students live in family houses that are quite literally 5, 10, 15 miles from the nearest house. How exactly could public transportation handle that?
I'm not saying I think public transportation can't work EVERYWHERE in America. You're right about public transportation being the correct option in many situations. But there will always be more cars than bicycles in America when there are truly vast expanses with population densities measuring in less than 10 people per mile.
Charles Larue I also grew up in the United States, and I was also born a long way from my hometown because it didn't have a hospital. In cases like this, It's important to ask why. Why did so many of us grow up in such sparsely populated places? Most of my neighbours weren't farmers or ranchers; in fact many of them drove insanely long commutes to one of the nearer big cities. How did we end up in such remote exurbs? Racism. Our grandfathers did not want to send their kids to black schools, which was a thing that was mandated by the federal government in the sixties. It was no accident that the school I went to had exactly one black kid the whole time I went there. Of course, we can't discount the convenience and glamour of having your own car, as opposed to using public transport, but for a lot of blue collar workers, the cost (where I live, it costs $15000 annually to own and operate your own car, while the average annual income is only $42000) of that puts nearer suburbs out of their financial reach.
Huge thanks for that video, It helped me to write an academic essay, got 90% ! (I study in a University outside the US) 10/10
History is all about individuals, it just remembers those that have the will to change it, and only some have that within them, it's something you are born with.
Thank you SO much for these videos, they are super helpful!
Who else on here is on here in a HIS 104 college class with a Eric Foner textbook. This man is helping me keeping my grades up
There Mile Island is in my hometown. I feel semi honored that John Green talked about this even if it wad the worst domestic nuclear accident
10:52 IS HE DRINKING BILLY BEER??? CAUSE THAT WOULD BE BRILLIANT AND HILARIOUS
Thank you for this! My own history education petered out around the 60's. My Dad is heavily conservative in every way and this helps me better understand why.
For the inevitable second incarnation of Crash Course Literature (Can not wait), may I make my recommendations of Beowulf, The Divine Comedy, and Dune.
Also, good work on the correction. DFTBA.
if it ends without lovecraft im going to be really disapointed
I agree. I wont be dissapointed, but a little saddened. Also:
_ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn_
If that will be the case I honestly hope Mr. Green will do a better job than my former literature teacher did with the Divine Comedy.
I second the request for the Divine Comedy.
I was hoping he would do some Charles Dickens, or maybe 2001: A Space Odyssey? Although some of Clarke's other books are not that good.
Pretty good summation of the 70s, nice work. The problems with inflation started with the Guns and Butter policies of LBJ, which were continued by Nixon. You can only run huge deficits so long before there are negative consequences.
Nixon's closure of the gold window (aka, a default of obligations from the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944) wasn't to devalue the dollar to boost exports, but to prevent redemption of gold by foreign holders of dollars. The outflows of gold were significant, so Nixon stopped it by executive fiat, an egregiously criminal action, IMO.
This is why I roll my eyes every time someone says the US has never defaulted on its debt obligations.
Pffffhah! The Billy Beer gag was brilliant!
toonbat I wasn't sure that was what that was. Thanks for the confirmation.
The Vietnam War is not mentioned, but I have to think it had a hand in wrecking the economy.
"more more, more for you. more more more, I promise" haha love it
Glad to see you're committed to getting it right.
EXCELLENT REVIEW!! so nicely and honestly put.. I am from Syria and I am a big fan of you since your summery about the war in the country and now big fan of u
Very pleasurable balanced take.
APUSH test on Wednesday........
Best of luck!
Thank you so much John Green for using the amazing word, malaise, in a great way!
History repeats itself...
Man that Jimmy Carter speech seems shockingly on point these days.
6-2 for the Mystery Document season. Great job John
I was also born in the late 70s. It was a truly awesome time.
John, I can't help but notice that you use vocabulary and concepts that may be a bit too advanced for a younger audience. Economic shocks, systemic changes, the relationship between unemployment and inflation, the notion of government as a moderator in the economy, just to name a few.
So please, if you're reading this, give us a Crash Course Economics!
John I know you’ll never see this but I’m saying it anyways. My grandmother is also a frequent QVC shopper. I just busted out into hysterical laughter at that line. Shoutout from Ragland, Alabama.
More, more, always more, more for you, I promise! -- classic!
Woo! Start of the John Green era!
This decade is also considered one of the greatest eras of Doctor Who. Including such popular Doctors as Tom Baker, who is still by many considered the best, and Jon Pertwee! And the Hinchgliff era! Also our lord and savior David Tennant was born in this decade. This was a good decade for Who. I suppose my mom and dad were born in this decade too... and Star Wars came out. Same year as John Green (was born)!
Can’t wait for the 2000s where we get the start of the Elijah Ford era. But most importantly...... THE RTD ERA, BEOTCH!
Fuck, this episode was fantastic. Better production values than xmen 3 yet as informative as NPR. Brilliant.
10:23 ... Incorrect Label still!! Iraq is again depicted as being Iran!!
love this show
This makes me happy to support crash course
I wish that they would make a Australian History playlist.
"Let me tell you a lesson from history ... you get re-elected by telling Americans 'More, more, always more. More for you. More. More. More. I promise." Yup, that sounds a lot like our current president elect.
Yeah, watching John Green now with a book by John Green next to me (yes my copy) so yeah, good job John. I am a self admitted military buff, and you talk about military action about as in depth as I talk about fashion, if not less, but I still love it. Good job and DFTBA.
Great mystery document, I must say.
Why can't I like this twice?
He is right about the part about Americans wanting more,more, and more instead of spending less they also don't know how freedom feels like
I remember reading about how Carter was the one who actually freed the hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. I believe in his last days of office Carter continued to try and rescue the hostages, but because he did it right before Reagan would've been inaugurated, he got all the credit. The hostages were released just ten minutes after Reagan was sworn in, so really Carter should get the credit. Also Carter was elected at a terrible time in American history. No one could've taken on the disaster that our country was. I would love if anyone would like to bring up a counter argument to this comment, because as I view it, Carter gets a bad rap because of the bad circumstances he faced. Carter simply had too much bad luck during his presidency, and he could not handle the immense problems of America at the time.
Well, technically he did, but the Iranians hated him so much that they purposefully waited for Reagan to be inaugurated.
Ken Taylor, Canadian diplomat, sheltered six Americans who escaped capture when a mob of Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
I remember most of the things in this segment. The 70's....my childhood. :D
Also important to note how little oil needed to be withheld to create a crisis.
Jimmy Carter was the sole cause for the escalation of the decline of the economy in the 1970s, which is exactly why conservatives were able to regain ground, so I guess I owe him a thankyou.
It wasn't Jimmy Carter fault for the decline of the economy.
Civil War Fan Really? His dramatic skyrocket of regulations and his climate change craze didn't stifle the economy? I don't know what world you live in, but it must be nice.
Jimmy Carter repelled a lot bad regulations that hurt the economy.
American History Fan He repealed regulations and replaced them with even worse ones.
What bad regulations did he create?
What do we want!?
A NEW EPISODE OF CRASH COURSE US HISTORY!
When do we want it?
NOW!!
:D Please?
This Is like a gift for us who study Economics haha xD thanks
Glad to see my Subbable money is used for important stuff like pictures of Gerald Ford!
I just love crush course who else....
The 1970's was also the decade of disco. Unless of course you are wait for it. The Mongols.
“History is not about individuals” thats so true and not true at the same time..
first off i really like the series; i've watched the whole lot in less than 2 weeks! thats why i'm wondering, could you guys make series like these on other continents as well? in western histografy i notice a very destinct tendency towards europe and america (it's a culture trip, so no offence intended). so it would be nice if crash course were (among) the first to break through that stalemate and open up the european minds to alternative tellings off history. with focus on what actually happend on continents; rather than watching them through the eyes off europe and the USA. china for example has a rich history, which i imagine to be available too those allready engaged in their research.
Carter also supported the Cambodian invasion of Vietnam. That's Pol Pot's Cambodia, remember.
Of course, the only reason the Vietnamese intervened in Cambodia and forced the Khmer Rouge out of power was because Pol Pot had invaded them. So it worked out alright. (I mean, it didn't work out alright, what with more than two million dead, but at least it ended eventually.)
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Ah, fuck me, did I say Cambodia invaded Vietnam? I must have been drinking.
Well, they _did_ launch the first border incursion, against Phú Quốc, as an attempt at a preemptive strike against projected Vietnamese expansionism. A preemptive strike that went horribly, horribly wrong. I can't imagine they would have attempted even that much without diplomatic support from the great powers, though they probably cared more about the PRC than the US.
Still, the fact remains: The Carter Administration provided Pol Pot with diplomatic support. We've been in bed with some nasty governments over the years, and every administration going at least as far back as TR has a share of the blame for that; but I think the Khmer Rouge might well rank as our most despicable "ally" ever.
aperson22222 Can you blame the US government? Cold War policy
I still have a WIN button somewhere.
They really need to start teaching Global Geography in American schools... Even smart guys like John Green can't get it right :(
Good thing my APUSH test is Friday and my teacher only taught this to us today 😳😳
And how did ya do?
In the map of Tehran in the Thought Bubble, the first star was pointing to Baghdad, not Tehran, so that is why they put up the error on 10:22.
Americans love to be told how wonderful they are in simplistic soundbites. Politicians who try to use rational, intellectual arguments tend to lose bigly. I’m looking at you, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and John Kerry! The key to success is telling people exactly what they want to hear. It works in religion too; witness the popularity of prosperity gospel preachers from Norman Vincent Peale to Joel Osteen.