The coup and the chaos that followed.
The overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and the years of unrest and violence that followed.
The background, significance, details, and legacy of the 1953 coup of Iran's democratically elected PM Mohammed Mossadegh.
How candidate Nixon used a South Vietnamese backchannel to stop LBJ's promising peace negotiations, ensuring Nixon's win and seven more years of death and destruction.
In late June 1776, as a massive British fleet prepared to invade New York, a complex drama played itself out at the headquarters of General George Washington’s Continental Army in New York City: a former bodyguard of the general was set to be hanged for conspiracy against the Patriot rebellion—and against Washington, himself.On June 28, some 20,000 people gathered in a field just north of the city and watched a private in the Continental Army mount the gallows on charges of sedition, mutiny and treachery. The doomed man was Thomas Hickey, an Irish-born former British soldier who had joined the rebel cause after the outbreak of war in 1775- History
Analayzing Matt Karp's taking in Harpers magazine about the historical relevance of the 1619 project
Explaining the fascinating career and life of General Benjamin Butler throughout the civil war
Talking about the cold war through 10 key events.SOURCES:https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/public/TrumanCIA_Timeline.pdfhttps://www.history.com/topics/1980s/iran-contra-affairhttps://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/fr/document/indonesian-killings-1965-1966.html
This is a VERY all encompassing review. I tried to thin it down as much as I could but in all likelihood there is still some stuff that you don't need to know for the quiz. This is content based with no LEQ review. MERCH Link https://teespring.com/stores/swrn-shop
Reviewing material from period one before the test.
Putting today's chaos in Afghanistan in 70 years of context to close out season 2 of Hidden History
Understand Haiti's current political moment with a look back through Haitian history
How Wilmington, NC a prosperous majoirty black town's government and society was destoeyed by a band of state supported white supremacists in 1898, and why no one talked about it for another 100 years
How a conspiracy between the FBI and the Chicago Police Department murdered one of the most influential leaders of the civil rights movement, Chairman Fred Hampton
Steve Cahill
very interesting but slow down talking,,,, breath every now and then