Crash Course
Economic Depression and Dictators: Crash Course European History
We're still leading up to World War II, but first we gotta talk about the rise of the dictators. Today we talk about the rise of militaristic dictatorships in Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Spain, and the economic depression that...
Step Back History
The Weimar Republic
This week, we're going to look at the dead, shortlived Weimar Republic. Germany in the age between the World Wars. How did a burgeoning social democracy, one of the most progressive countries on earth, fall to reactionary far-right...