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Britain: So France what levels of independence are you going to grant to your colonies? France: No

Hate to be that guy, but Western Sahara (included in your maps together with Morocco) was controlled by Spain, not France. Spain also held the Rif region in the country's north.

Hmm that Muammar Ghadafi fella sounds interesting. I wonder if he will have any impact on future events....

This is just a minor mistake on the map, but Western Sahara was under Spanish control and not French 0:54

No mention of Yemen and the First president of Egypt: Mohammad Naguib...

your Sudan map hasn't South Sudan, which only became independent in the 2010s. your Morocco map has Western Sahara, which was still a Spaniard colony back then.

Algeria wasn't a "colony" to France. They considered it as a part of France itself and ran it, and fought to keep it, as such. Tunisia and Morocco were just protectorates so it was easier to let them go.

Trust me, you're almost there. The gestures are much better, the presentation is much more lively. Now someone needs to tell the sound manager to increase the volume, and we'll be set. Thanks in advance.

I am preparing for a big exam in Cold War history, especially with an emphasis on the Third world countries. Your channel was a great discovery and is helping me massively. Keep up with a great work :)

Love the fact that you guys have dedicated an entire Chanel to the cold war. Keep up the amazing work!

Good info as always, glad to see you correct your mistakes when you can and the positive peer-review in the comments. Nobody and nothing is perfect, but your channels always do great work

I feel as though this episode is a step in the wrong direction after the recent Iranian, Gouzenko and Operation Unthinkable videos. In addition to the errors on the map others have noted (Western Sahara being French controlled; Sudan somehow having its post-2011 borders), there is some pretty egregiously lazy editing of the stock footage. For example, around the seven minute mark David is talking about Arab attitudes towards the Soviets, but the footage is of students and tutors in Oxford or Cambridge in England! The beginning of the discussion about Lebanon after the 12 minute mark shows a U-boat firing its deck gun and German soldiers firing their kar98s, neither of which has anything to do with the topic at hand. Additionally, while I'm sure the British had flimsy prop-driven biplanes at Habbiniyah at some point right after the Great War, they certainly did not when they tried to negotiate a new treaty with the Iraqis after World War II. Yet that's the footage we see after the nine minute mark. Mentions of rioting in Baghdad after the four minute mark is accompanied by random footage of men marching through snow. I understand that virtually all stock footage is to some extent a contrivance. Most World War II documentaries use propaganda footage to illustrate panzer divisions on the march, for instance. With very few exceptions (the explosions of the Hindenberg and the battleship Barham come to mind) there is some artificiality if not fabrication of most footage from these time periods. However, I can't see much excuse for not bothering to align the footage with what is being described onscreen. It's as though some editing assistant just queued up some licensed newsreel footage from British Pathe or whoever, saw that "Iraq", "Egypt" or "Lebanon" was somewhere in the title, and then just used part of that newsreel regardless of whether the clip was relevant or not. I can't make sense of what I'm seeing onscreen otherwise, and I'm frankly disappointed.

You should do a video about the Lebanese civil war that ended when the cold war ended an interesting topic full of twist and turns .

Another outstandig job. thanks

This would led to the Suez Canal Crisis

Nice video, I hope you cover the Gulf States,Horn of Africa, and Yemen seperately.

I think the 1948 war was glossed over a bit too quickly here

that power-sharing agreement in lebanon sounds so reasonable, I'm sure everyone will get aloh god why is everything on fire

In january im writing my bachelor thesis on the soviet influence in the arabian Peninsula so thank you for this video, also the western sahara was spanish not french

I just noticed the red "hot line" on the table, cool touch. Film footage at five minutes is claimed to be Syria but looks a lot more like Morocco or Algeria to me. Only a few seconds though so hard to be sure, no shop signs or anything to check.

Interesting Fact: Gaddafi got his military training from Turkey

Knew parts of this history. But the rest not so much. Thanks for filling in a few blanks. My thanks to those who made this video a reality.

this is my great discovery, finding this channel as an IR student

Nice video Hope you guys will talk about UAE too and Sheikh Zayed

What about Arabia ? Independence movements, Yemen civil war Gulf Arabs alliance with the western world ?

a quick question as the war progressed will you change the leader portraits i.e kennedy and khrushchev during cuban missile crisis?

Wow, this is like TimeGhost without Indy

9:09 That flag looks like the flag Switzerland would get in Victoria 2 if they became Islamist (and if Islamist was an ideology in that game)

Random question but does anyone know of what the speech was called that Nikita Krushev had made in 1961 about the african nations

its frystrating how your playlist is not in oder

the algerian war of independence cost the lives of one million and half not 150000

I hope a video will come out for the Algerian war. One sentence describing it as brutal isnt enough.

Nice videos till now, can you please cover : Operation cyanide Lavon affair Swiss crisis

Thank you, The Cold War.

Perhaps you should have mentioned the sycs-pyco agreement with established some the arab countries

Please talk about south east asia during this period. Vietnam dominated this subject because you know, Vietnam war But i beg you to talk about this region during cold war

The power drift is adrift again fellas

They completely gloss over the fact that South Yemen was a declared Marxist republic from 1969- 1991, as well as the British involvement in Dhofar. Surely this would be interesting in the context of the great power games of the Cold War?

Wow, democratic Syria, and it was overthrown by the CIA. That bit them back

Algeria spent 1 million and some thousands souls in the war with france (at least)

In the map about 1 minute in, Spanish possessions in what is now Morocco are indicated as French.

Please cover the Ogaden conflict.

what's untold is how much the British and the Americans and the French were also undermining each other while jostling for control my great uncle was in Libya in the 50s and 60s and lots of the American planes and helicopters "accidentally" got sand in their engines when the only other personnel around were British and they kind of avoided talking about it and changed up people's clearances but it wasn't always a unified front

12:51 22 November 1943 was when Lebanese independence was declared, but (correct me if I'm wrong) the French didn't declare the mandate over until 1945, remove their troops in 1946.

Genuine question... is Tunisia supposed to be pronounced "Tyooneezshah" or "Tyooniseeah"? Or does it really matter?

Interestingly enough, the USSR supported the creation of Israel and then in the '67 war the Russians (Soviets but I call em Russians cause I'm literally translating some convo I had with someone who fought that war) supplied most of the weapons for the Arabs. The '67 war already predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union way before Afghanistan ever became a thing. (the war not the country)

Iraq wasnt a colony during that time

there is a mistake in the map at the beginning of the video (colonization forces in norht africa) The western Sahara which is now annexed by Morocco was under the dominance of Spain until the 70's and not colonized by France.

6:52 Totally random Oxbridge footage

What about arabia and yemen and the gulf states they also called arab

Why does French Morocco include Western Sahara on your map? 15:42 Spain controlled Western Sahara.

The one that pisses me off the most is what happened immediately to iran because had the US and UK not gotten rid of mossadegh then the country probably wouldn't have been anti western theocracy as it is right now

1:16. Why is south Sudan not shown as part of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan?

You left the most interesting country in the Arab world during Cold War ie Yemen

The newsreels in this series are crazy. They have nothing to do with what is being said! Where do you get them from? At 9:56 there are WWI airplanes that have nothing to do with post-WWII Egypt. I'd hate to see you guys do a video on the US Auto industry. Pretty sure you'd mention ford and show a circus clown on a unicycle!

Please make video on India during Cold War 1.0

To understand the position of France about Algeria's independence, it's important to precise that there were around 1 million French inhabitants in that colony. They were of French origin, but most of them were born in Algeria. If I remember correctly, there were around 7 millions Arabs and Berbers at the same time. The local population was also far from united. Algeria had a special status in the empire, as it was not organized like other colonies, but in 3 "départements", like in mainland France. Eventually, the French population had to flee the country and became refugees. And the tribes who had supported the French during the war of independence were simply abandoned. During the war of independence, no good solution was possible. Any outcome would have left some part of the Algerian population in trouble.

This second war thing sounds like a big deal

Do you think Egypt could've held onto Sudan even if Britain had recognized it as part of Egypt? Thank you for another informative video! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

You forget Yemen Horn Africa And Arabia too and of south Sudan too these arab too

Will you also do a video about Turkey's entry into NATO and the threat of an soviet invasion, the Turkish straits crisis etc. followed up by another video about the Cyprus crisis?

Really ? Getting the count wrong ? In the algerian war of independance 1.5 million died not 150 thousand. Only the french give that number in order to make the war seem less brutal than it actually was

In algeria its 1,5 millions deaths not 150K

I give tumb upe becouse i see picture of grat Stalin in wall

Use more maps, and less humans -> like K&G

When your hands went ⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️⬆️⬇️🔄🔄🔄 I felt that

Palestine after the first Arab-Israeli War: So are we independent Jordan: Well yes, but actually no

Do cover Saudi Arabia's founding

That is last clip I watch from guy. Jordan invaded Judea & Samara (that are its names) and result gave citizenship to Arabs living there, while 1M were forced to leave the Arab world.

It looks odd having the speaker look off camera at lines to read. Highly recommend you practice lines and take some time to do editing work in order to fully address the audience. Great material, poorly delivered.

It would be exiting to watch if you could make a video on India-Pakistan war of 1971 as Soviet Union supported India while America backed Pakistan.

what about the rest of africa during this period of time?

The war in Algeria should be better discribed as war of independence rather than civil war !!

Hard too think that this all started with Indy Niydal and the "Great War".

i want to rebuild a nation someday. i wonder if the CIA would have me

What about the clash between the Royal Army and the Egyptian police that would lead to the Cairo fire , the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the Suez crisis impact on Egypt, the Yemen war, and many other important events that were glossed over or not mentioned?

YES.NASSER'S COMING IN

SYKES - PICOT!! How can it be left out??? Also, your narrative (even from a Westerner perspective) is extremely blend and accommodating vis-à-vis the Colonial Powers (or the USA). Indeed, what about Saudi Arabia or Iran? Although not technically Arab, the latter is an important piece of Middle-Eastern post-WW2 history.

U.k. and France tell the arabs what to do and the Americans tell the French and uk what to do

I hate how everyone keeps saying "America Supports Democracry" despite Crushing Democracy in The Third World

0:55 jesus christ what the fuck is that map

We demand Greek Civil war!

That is an area that the West will never allow democracy,competent and popular governance.

Many mistakes, also didn't talk about Oman UAE and Qatar and south Yemen nure about Egyptian Saudi sport for qazaier independence and the Iranian occupation of the two UAE islands

15:20 Please note, that Algeria led an independence war against France, so it wasn't a "civil war".Thanks.

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None of the countries mentioned is arab. Arabia is were the arab countries are. Countries outside of Arabia are just arabic speaking countries. When i read the title i expected Saudi Arabia yemen oman and the gulf countries.

America demolished an old empire (UK).

The only stable country is an absolute monarchy.... Maybe feudalism wasn't so bad

Acctually 1.5 Million People Died in The Algerian War

You forgot to mention that France imposed keeping the French language a part of the educational system in the independence deals with Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Lebanon was the only Christian majority nation in the region. And King Farouk of Egypt had one demand from his daughters, which was marrying a Muslim and all the three of them married Christian men. Also you didn't talk about how nationalist arabs kicked the Jewish communities out their homes.

Hand gestures are kinda awkward my guy.

CIA, suspicious as usual

You cant give history lessons without any dates. How is someone suppose to follow?

I feel a pro British wrighting on this one

They will pay back soon these colonies who agrees this

Your head position makes you look like you are drowning and is irksome to watching it.

Well maybe you should have mentioned that the reason why france opposed algerian independence so vehemently is because Algeria had a big french local born population and was not a colony but a part of mainland france, and that the independence of Algeria was followed by extensive genocide and ethnic cleansing of the european and jewish population, the same that happened in other arab countries. But hey, you can't expect a "respectable" youtube channel not to have an anti-western bias

I contend there is/was no such thing as "Palestinian". Consider a program.