PBS
The History of Reparations
In 2014, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article for The Atlantic “The Case for Reparations” went viral. Tracing everything from the racial terror of slavery to the rampant housing discrimination of the 20th century, Coates made the case for...
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Khan Academy: Ap Us History: Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles
At the end of World War I, country leaders had the difficult task of ironing out a peace accord at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 while coming to the table with very different outlooks. Germany had very harsh and humiliating...
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Khan Academy: Ap Us History: More Detail on the Treaty of Versailles and Germany
Discusses the conditions that the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany and how these fueled discontent and contributed to the rise of Nazism and eventually the outbreak of World War II. [6:20]