922
Lectures Watched
Since January 1, 2014
Since January 1, 2014
- A History of the World since 1300 (67)
- History of Rock, 1970-Present (50)
- A Brief History of Humankind (48)
- The Modern World: Global History since 1760 (35)
- Chinese Thought: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science (34)
- The Bible's Prehistory, Purpose, and Political Future (28)
- Introduction aux éthiques philosophiques (27)
- Roman Architecture (25)
- Jesus in Scripture and Tradition (25)
- Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender (23)
- Descubriendo la pintura europea de 1400 a 1800 (22)
- Introduction aux droits de l'homme (19)
- Buddhism and Modern Psychology (18)
- Calvin: Histoire et réception d'une Réforme (17)
- The Ancient Greeks (16)
- The French Revolution (15)
- À la découverte du théâtre classique français (15)
- Christianisme et philosophie dans l'Antiquité (14)
- Key Constitutional Concepts and Supreme Court Cases (14)
- Letters of the Apostle Paul (14)
- Egiptología (12)
- Western Music History through Performance (10)
- Phenomenology and the Conscious Mind (9)
- Human Evolution: Past and Future (9)
- Greek and Roman Mythology (9)
- Alexander the Great (9)
- The Great War and Modern Philosophy (9)
- The Rise of Superheroes and Their Impact On Pop Culture (9)
- Villes africaines: la planification urbaine (8)
- Masterpieces of World Literature (8)
- Programming Mobile Applications for Android (7)
- Introduction to Psychology (7)
- Fundamentos de la escritura en español (7)
- MongoDB for Node.js Developers (7)
- Pensamiento Científico (7)
- Greeks at War: Homer at Troy (7)
- Lingua e cultura italiana: avanzata (6)
- A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior (6)
- The Emergence of the Modern Middle East (6)
- Reason and Persuasion Through Plato's Dialogues (6)
- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts (6)
- Karl der Große - Pater Europae (6)
- The Rooseveltian Century (6)
- Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas (5)
- Dinosaur Paleobiology (5)
- Understanding Einstein: The Special Theory of Relativity (5)
- L'avenir de la décision : connaître et agir en complexité (5)
- Designing Cities (4)
- Problèmes métaphysiques à l'épreuve de la politique, 1943-1968 (4)
- The Kennedy Half Century (4)
- Introduction to Public Speaking (4)
- Emergence of Life (4)
- War for the Greater Middle East (4)
- Postwar Abstract Painting (3)
- Découvrir l'anthropologie (3)
- Analyzing the Universe (3)
- The Music of the Beatles (3)
- La visione del mondo della Relatività e della Meccanica Quantistica (3)
- Initiation à la programmation en Java (3)
- Formation of the Universe, Solar System, Earth and Life (3)
- History of Rock and Roll, Part One (3)
- La Commedia di Dante (3)
- Devenir entrepreneur du changement (3)
- Introduction à la philosophie de Friedrich Nietzsche (3)
- Moons of Our Solar System (3)
- Orientierung Geschichte (3)
- Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution (3)
- Western Civilization: Ancient and Medieval Europe (3)
- Russian History: from Lenin to Putin (2)
- L'art des structures 1 : Câbles et arcs (2)
- Art History for Artists, Animators and Gamers (2)
- Introduction to Classical Music (2)
- Galaxies and Cosmology (2)
- The Science of Gastronomy (2)
- The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem (2)
- Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity (2)
- Philosophy and the Sciences (2)
- Understanding Russians: Contexts of Intercultural Communication (2)
- The European Discovery of China (2)
- Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes (2)
- Découvrir la science politique (2)
- Introduction à la programmation en C++ (2)
- Géopolitique de l'Europe (2)
- Gestion des aires protégées en Afrique (2)
- Lingua e letteratura in italiano (2)
- The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome (2)
- Materials Science: 10 Things Every Engineer Should Know (2)
- Highlights of Modern Astronomy (2)
- La Philanthropie : Comprendre et Agir (2)
- The Science of Religion (2)
- Advertising and Society (1)
- America Through Foreign Eyes (1)
- Superpowers of the Ancient World: the Near East (1)
- The Art of Poetry (1)
- Bemerkenswerte Menschen (1)
- Big History: From the Big Bang until Today (1)
- Controversies of British Imperialism (1)
- Age of Cathedrals (1)
- Christianity: From Persecuted Faith to Global Religion (200-1650) (1)
- Narratives of Nonviolence in the American Civil Rights Movement (1)
- Constitutional Law - The Structure of Government (1)
- Contagious: How Things Catch On (1)
- Care of Elders with Alzheimer's Disease (1)
- The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art (1)
- Programming Mobile Services for Android Handheld Systems (1)
- Animal Behaviour (1)
- From the Big Bang to Dark Energy (1)
- Configuring the World (1)
- Introduction to Data Science (1)
- Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society (1)
- The Law of the European Union (1)
- 21st Century American Foreign Policy (1)
- Éléments de Géomatique (1)
- History and Future of Higher Education (1)
- The Age of Jefferson (1)
- The Magna Carta and its Legacy (1)
- A New History for a New China, 1700-2000 (1)
- The New Nordic Diet (1)
- A la recherche du Grand Paris (1)
- What Managers Can Learn from Great Philosophers (1)
- Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1)
- Exercise Physiology: Understanding the Athlete Within (1)
- Physique générale - mécanique (1)
- Subsistence Marketplaces (1)
- Practicing Tolerance in a Religious Society (1)
- Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life (1)
- Andy Warhol (1)
- Web Intelligence and Big Data (1)
- Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics (1)
- Learning How to Learn (1)
- Imagining Other Earths (1)
- Vital Signs: Understanding What the Body Is Telling Us (1)
- Développement durable (1)
- Dinosaur Ecosystems (1)
- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1)
- Shakespeare: On the Page and in Performance (1)
- Introducción a la genética y la evolución (1)
- Poetry in America: Whitman (1)
- Anthropology of Current World Issues (1)
- Escribir para Convencer (1)
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- Créer et développer une startup technologique (1)
- Frontières en tous genres (1)
- Une introduction à la géographicité (1)
- Gestion et Politique de l'eau (1)
- Theater and Globalization (1)
- Handel’s Messiah and Baroque Oratorio (1)
- Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales (1)
- From Goddard to Apollo: The History of Rockets (1)
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- Magic in the Middle Ages (1)
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- The World of the String Quartet (1)
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- The Talmud: A Methodological Introduction (1)
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- The World of Wine (1)
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The Modern World: Global History since 1760
This is a survey of modern history from a global perspective. It begins with the revolutions of the late 1700s, tracks the transformation of the world during the 1800s, and analyzes the cataclysms of last century, concluding with the new phase of world history we are experiencing today.
Notes on 35 Lectures I Watched in This Course:
36 People I Have Learned About in this Course:
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George Marshall (1880-1959) Chief military adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt famous for his leadership roles during World War II and after
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Harry Hopkins (1890-1946) Franklin Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor during WWII
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) First Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century
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John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) British economist whose ideas have fundamentally informed the economic policies of governments
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Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
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Sukarno (1901-1967) The leader of Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Netherlands
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Vyacheslav Molotov (1890-1986) A Soviet politician, diplomat, and Old Bolshevik, leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s into the 1950s
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Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) First Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976
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Dean Acheson (1893-1971) Secretary of State in Truman administration, helped design the Marshall Plan
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George Kennan (1904-2005) American political scientists, the "father of containment"
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Jean Monnet (1888-1979) French political economist and diplomat, regarded as a chief architect of European unity
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Robert Schuman (1886-1963) A founder of the European Union, twice Prime Minister of France, Minister of Finance and Foreign Minister
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Albert Coady Wedemeyer (1897-1989) United States Army commander who assumed command of U.S. forces in China during World War II
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Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (Taiwan) between 1928 and 1975
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Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
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Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China
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Kim Il-sung (1912-1994) Leader of North Korea from 1948-1994
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Syngman Rhee (1875-1965) First president of South Korea
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Matthew Ridgway (1895-1993) U.S. Army general credited for turning the Korean War around in favor of the UN side
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Peng Dehuai (1898-1974) Chinese Communist military leader who supported Mao's suggestions to involve China directly in the Korean War
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Josip Tito (1892-1980) Authoritarian, "benevolent dictator" of Yugoslavia
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Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882-1967) Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 until 1953 overthrown by British/Americans
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Che Guevara (1928-1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary against capitalist exploitation of Latin America
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Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1957) Second president of Egypt after planning 1952 overthrow of monarchy, cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood and ousted president
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Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, president of North Vietnam 1945-1969
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Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) Leader of Ghana 1951-1966 nation's independence from British colonization in 1957
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Gary Powers (1929-1977) American CIA pilot whose spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident
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Ngo Dinh Diem (1901-1963) First president of South Vietnam (1955–1963)
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Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933-2011) Nigerian military officer and politician, the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970
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Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969) President of the People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968, during which he implemented policies of economic reconstruction in China
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Russian novelist, historian who helped to raise global awareness of Soviet Union's forced labor camps
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Edward Heath (1916-2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974, bitterly denounced by Thatcher
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Enrico Berlinguer (1922-1984) An Italian politician and national secretary of the Italian Communist Party
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Helmut Schmidt (1918-) West Germany chancellor from 1974-1982, member of the SPD party,
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Milton Friedman (1912-2006) American economist, statistician, and writer, the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century
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Yuri Andropov (1914-1984) Leader of the Soviet Union from 1982-1984
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9 Vocabulary Words I Learned in this Course:
adjudicate, v. give a judicial decision ⇒ "The realistic path for the superpowers was to adjudicate the conflicts and disputes among themselves." |
ambivalent, adj. simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, or motivations ⇒ "The image of Sukarno on the cover of Time Magazine is ambivalent, do you sympathize with this man, or are you afraid of him?" |
avuncular, adj. regarded as characteristic of an uncle, especially in benevolence or tolerance ⇒ "That gentle, avuncular fellow Milton Friedman." |
benighted, adj. lacking knowledge or education, unenlightened ⇒ "In the 1920s and well into the 1930s, the American South was regarded as the substantially unreconstructed backward backwater of American society: weaker education, oppression of the Negros, a kind of benighted, colorful place, fit for the fiction of William Faulkner but hardly for imitation in the rest of the country." |
collude, v. act together secretly to achieve a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose ⇒ "What happens then is that the British and French secretly collude with the Israelis so that all three countries launch a joint military occupation which will seize the Suez Canal while the Israelis will attack Egypt in Sinai." |
firebrand, n. person who stirs up trouble or kindles a revolt ⇒ "Mao Zedong, the young firebrand." |
prescient, adj. [PRESS-ee-ahnt] having knowledge of coming events;, foreseeing, conscious beforehand ⇒ "F.A. Hayek's message in the book 'The Road to Serfdom' suggested that visions like those of James Burnham are extremely prescient, and that people need to fight it." |
rankle, v. to cause irritation or deep bitterness ⇒ "The Soviets took chunks out of the expanded German Reich and moved the whole country of Poland about 150 miles to the west, which rankled the British and French who had gone to war in 1939 to fight for the security of Poland." |
4 Flashcards I Recorded in this Course:
which country owned Angola as a colony?
Portugal
three people who helped create the Marshall plan
Dean Acheson, George Kennan, Will Clayton
who were the two opposing leaders in China at the end of WWII
Chiang Kai-shek (nationalists) and Mao Zedong (communists)
from where to where were the Chinese nationalists trying to move their capital in 1947
from Chongqing to Nanjing