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  • the way you teach here is way better how the teacher at my school teaches :]]

  • thank you so much for the video! now i understand about the cuban missile crisis 1962 :]]

  • is this just theory? 

  • @HostingReviews1 This is not just theory. After 40 years all countries have to freely give out all documents unless it endangers the lives of people such as witness protection and undercover agents. Anyone can access the private documents that countries handed eachother in private. Some of them are truly interesting.

  • Nice ..

  • Can we get a video just about the cold war?

  • KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

  • this is so useful

  • i wish he was my history teacher back in the school days :(

  • More history videos please!

  • I am always amazed at the ability of teachers of US Hist to speak, w/o batting an eyelash, about the US installing or overthrowing the governments of other sovereign nations (which we do, as you can learn from Sal's prev vid about the Bay of Pigs, not to make sure democratic, humane leaders are in place, but to ensure our own political or economic domination). No matter your politics, a true teacher of US Hist would at least pose the question "Do we have the right to do this?"

  • @river777runner I had a teacher who was great at that, even if it completely opposed his opinion, he would always add both sides of each argument, it really made learning so much better when you have two perspectives.

  • KHAN ACADEMY DOES HISTORY?!?!? DUDEE

  • Das ist gut Mir learnt die cüban es dir

  • Hi, Sal. Can I request? Can you make a long video or combine multiple videos to one and arrange mutually exclusive timelines paralleled so we get to understand the whole world history in just one video? Because some of the incidents would be connected to each other and it is difficult already to align your history videos and mentally connect the dots. It would make things a lot easier for us or at least for me If I am not being too selfish, Thank you! And please keep uploading your videos......!

  • WOnderful!

  • I must say, I am honored to be one of Sal's first supporters a few years back.

  • hello i survive this time in history, i recall , anti aircraft missile falling from a truck in caretera central caimito near san antonio de los banos cross from my house.nise work. God speed

  • Great work!!

  • These history video is very addictive !!! Thanks Khan and his team. (^-^)

  • @khanacademy Please do one about the "Philippine Insurgency" (known as "Philippine-American War" in the Philippines)

  • the science and maths vids are very helpful but these history vids are actively addictive! :\

  • The difference between the proposals was due to power struggles in the USSR itself. It shouldn't be forgotten that Kruschev was himself fearful of being seen as a weak figure too and feared the Soviet military was plotting a coup against him - and indeed he was disposed as a consequence of what was seen by the Soviet military as a humilation.

  • my bet, The CIA made the U-2 spy plane vulnerable to get shot down so they could justify their position for a full scale attack and convince kennedy to change his position and invade.

  • @trublu97

    CIA of 1962 != CIA of 2003

  • @Menegoth

    I don't think that "!=" (which means "is not equal to") is understood by many people other than programmers.

  • What ! Me worry ?

  • Hello very interesting to be better informed about this tumultuous time period. I usually just watch your videos that pertain to my engineering major. I do have a question, my father told me of a fact he learned on the history channel; about the soviets having a radio delay to their missile locations, after the ceasefire was declared, in which missiles could have been launched at the U.S.A., even though an agreement was reached. Do you know if that is true? Thanks your videos are awesome!

  • Hello very interesting to be better informed about this tumultuous time period. I usually just watch your videos that pertain to my engineering major. I do have a question, my father told me of a fact he learned on the history channel; about the soviets having a radio delay to their missile locations, after the ceasefire was declared, in which missiles could have been launched at the U.S.A., even though an agreement was reached. Do you know if that is true? Thanks your videos are awesome!

  • HOW CAN YOU NOT BE A PARTNER??

  • @RushMetalXTC he is

  • "the communists always like talking about labor" that was funny

  • Make one on communism and how it works !

  • @HarmonicaWarrior and how it doesn't work*

  • Sal saying he would read that letter made me think about him reading actual books. I'd love to hear your voice in "A Brief History of Time" or similar. Oh! Read the American Constitution!

  • I would look up any technical stuff that was needed for a job or an exam, including fundamental math, science and economics concepts. I think it is better to get videos on history or geopolitical type economics. I think videos like this history set, or like the ones that explained the China-USA currency situation would be more popular. Videos about who is likely to win present wars (rather that who has the moral highground) would also be good.

  • computer science!!! i really want you to say HELLO WORLD! java would be best, but c or c++ is good also. i have to admit that qBasic would make my day : )

  • @doomsword86 I don't think it's all for show. They are not gaining anything from doing business with a country that doesn't have a private market.

    In fact, by isolating them they are protecting their own market because a communist regime playing the free market is like competing against giant corporation that owns a huge island with eleven million employees at it's disposal.

    China on the other hand is/was different story because they have (partially) opened their market for foreign investors.

  • @noxure that is assuming that cuba would not have changed in the past four decades as a reaction to trade with the U.S. ... I think the very reason they don't have a significant private market is that they can't really have much of a foreign trade market. With the point about the "corporation that owns an island" I have to disaggree strongly. It would be one heck of an inefficient corporation. Market protection never really works the way it was intended anyway....

  • nice

  • please please please can you do a lesson on british empire and slave trade. please

  • Very Interesting Thank you, keep them coming

  • Thanks for the video! I've really enjoyed it :D

  • Loved the comment about how "the Soviets are always talking about labor", hilarious! Good work on these history videos!

  • Awesome vids mate. Could you comment on the Hawaii Annexation and perhaps the American Samoa takeover. Im interested in your comments on those. Thanks

  • Great video very interesting. thank you

  • @doomsword86 To appear strong and not admit mistakes. Of course, in all other countries they intend to increase internet coverage and maybe even dissidence through that, while in Cuba they take steps for that not to happen. Also I sometimes think the sanctions on Cuba are meant as some kind of "showcase of a failing communist economy", while communists would argue communist Cuba would thrive if it wasn't for the sanctions. All a big kindergarden of politics if you ask me....

  • @SalsaTiger83 Especially when the US refused the aid Cuba offered after Katrina. 1.500 doctors and tons of equipment would have saved many lives, especially when every minute counts.

    But nooo, rather having your citizens die than saying "thank you". It's so irresponsible that you would expect that only a petty dictator is capable of doing something so stupid.

    Yet, most Americans are convinced nobody in the world offered any help at all. Those poor dumb bastards make me so sad...

  • @noxure They had to turn it down given prior policy. Not that the actual prior policy was sane, though. Also, the U.S. can afford to pay for it's own health care if it wanted to.... They don't really need to have child death rates higher than libya....

  • @SalsaTiger83 I know, considering that the health and safety of your own citizens should have priority over that's exactly what I meant. And yes, off course; but the main issue is getting enough qualified personnel over there as fast as possible. Money only helps in the aftermath.

    The irony is that a poor country like Cuba is unique because it has so many doctors it could afford to send a lot of them over there without impeding their own healthcare system.

  • History is an important subject. Also a controversial one. But I'd love to meet Americans with a better grasp of non-american history or politics in the future... Of course not all US-Americans are *that* bad, but I often have the impression they don't know a lot. Just not a focus of their educational system....

  • I always think communication between enemies while at war/on the brink of war is a really interesting thing to look at, it seems really strange that people can still negotiate even when they are mortal enemies.

  • more SCience,,,you should put some computer proggreming stuff up im really wondeirng how that works

  • well explained. I like how the entire narration was kept apolitical, which is not easy.

  • Just in time for the AP tests! :D

    

  • nice khan, playing with "official" history, is it really worth to promote what "they" say is true?

  • Wow khan is truly prolific dude!

  • Scary times. Good video.

  • Great video Sal! Gonna show it to my History Teacher!

  • I dont have a test, quiz, or currently taking a history class, but for some reason, I can;t stop watching this, WE WANT MORE!!!!!!!!!!

  • Holy shit Sal, I was just watching you today for Calculus. You teach history too? Are you God?

  • Khrushchev hammered JFK at the Vienna summit. JFK said afterwards: "He beat the hell out of me."

  • Dude, the CIA tried to kill Castro 638 different ways. LOL!

  • i subscribed for math. I'm watching this for shits and gigs :)

  • I don't think you emphasized enough*

  • Good video, but I think you emphasized how truly close both sides were to actually firing their missiles..

  • Yeah, once the History playlist is more developed it will be such a resourceful library  for its information and entertainment value. I would rather watch these videos than the history channel on television.

  • I'm not currently studying this. I just love History lol

  • I'm liking these history videos. Since I've subscribed I've mostly only seen science and math. Good to see you branching out.

  • @KoolThing14 He said he may do philosophy soon.

  • @RonBurgundy161 Really? Cool!

  • This is great. Thanks Mr. Salman

  • amazing job

  • Put more MY AP EXAM IS ON MAY 6.

  • @Degotelo And your just now worrying about this?

  • @KoolThing14 haha I have been Studying but he teaches way better.

  • @Degotelo ikr?

  • I LOVE this

  • YES thank you! just in time for the AP test you're amazing!

  • awesome! Great job.

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