Cuban Missile Crisis | The 20th century | World history | Khan Academy

Khan Academy9.51M subscribers

340,115 views

Why it's on BrighterTube

From a channel a BrighterTube curator approved in full · 80% confidence

From a channel Lumen includes in full: Khan Academy's main channel holds thousands of free, standards-aligned lessons across maths, science, economics and the humanities, taught step by step on a digital blackboard by Sal Khan and subject experts.

What you'll learn

A 19-minute video from Khan Academy's catalogue; the title names its topic.

Video by Khan Academy, played through YouTube's embedded player.

Part of The postwar era (1945-1980) | US History | Khan Academy, Period 8: 1945-1980 | AP US History | Khan Academy, History

Related

How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented VeritasiumScience & Math22.7M views

8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities Fall of CivilizationsHistory41M views

2. The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse Fall of CivilizationsHistory8.17M views

Origins of Precision Machine ThinkingEngineering3.04M views

The Secret Life of the Vacuum Cleaner - Remastered tim hunkinEngineering288K views

The Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.)Historia CivilisHistory7.36M views

Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained engineerguyEngineering1.06M views

London Swallowed a City but Couldn't Digest It.CGP GreyHistory8.58M views

The Assassination of Julius Caesar (The Ides of March, 44 B.C.E.)Historia CivilisHistory4.67M views

(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer engineerguyEngineering475K views

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED VeritasiumEngineering57M views

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag Every Frame a PaintingArt & Design8.4M views

How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented

Veritasium22.7M views

How imaginary numbers arose from solving cubic equations in Renaissance Italy.

8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities

Fall of Civilizations41M views

A long-form narrative history of Sumer, from the first cities of Mesopotamia to their decline, drawing on archaeology and translated cuneiform texts.

2. The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse

Fall of Civilizations8.17M views

The interlocking collapse of Late Bronze Age Mediterranean states around 1200 BCE: the Hittites, Mycenaeans, Ugarit and Egypt, and the competing explanations.

Origins of Precision

Machine Thinking3.04M views

Traces how humans learned to make precise flat surfaces, screws and measurement — the foundations of modern manufacturing.

The Secret Life of the Vacuum Cleaner - Remastered

tim hunkin288K views

Tim Hunkin's remastered Secret Life of Machines episode on the vacuum cleaner: its history, mechanics and quirks.

The Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.)

Historia Civilis7.36M views

How Julius Caesar's calendar reform produced the 445-day year of 46 BCE and gave us the Julian calendar.

Building a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained

engineerguy1.06M views

Using medieval cathedrals, Bill Hammack shows that engineering works by rules of thumb and iteration, not just applied science.

London Swallowed a City but Couldn't Digest It.

CGP Grey8.58M views

Why the City of London is a separate, ancient corporation inside the metropolis of London, with its own government, police, privileges and unusual elections.

The Assassination of Julius Caesar (The Ides of March, 44 B.C.E.)

Historia Civilis4.67M views

A blow-by-blow reconstruction of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar and the Ides of March, drawn from Suetonius, Plutarch, Appian and Cassius Dio.

(1/4) Intro/History: Introducing a 100-year-old mechanical computer

engineerguy475K views

Introduction to Michelson's 1890s harmonic analyzer, a mechanical computer that performs Fourier analysis with gears and springs.

Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Veritasium57M views

How Shuji Nakamura overcame material-science dead ends to make the first bright blue LED.

Buster Keaton - The Art of the Gag

Every Frame a Painting8.4M views

Buster Keaton's gag construction and its influence on cinema.