The exact creators that map onto the NYSED Global II framework. Start your study session here, then move into the outline and practice questions for that unit.
Three channels that should do 80% of the lifting.
John Green
The most-watched world history series on YouTube. Tight 10–14 min episodes that map cleanly onto the NYSED Global II framework — start here for any unit.
New Visions for Public Schools
Built around the exact framework NYSED uses. Pair the videos with their free unit packets — same vocabulary, same enduring issues.
TED-Ed
Beautifully animated 5–8 min explainers. Use these for the human-rights case studies (Armenian, Cambodian, Rwandan genocides; Apartheid; Cuban Missile Crisis).
4 hand-picked videos per unit. Each one tells you why it’s on the list.
TED-Ed
Belief systems baseline — Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam in one animated pass.
CrashCourse European History #13
Divine right, Versailles, the Sun King — the political baseline before revolutions hit.
CrashCourse World History #24
Why Europe gets rich on the triangular trade and what it costs Africa.
Khan Academy
The Asian-centered world — the gunpowder empires that mattered most in 1750.
CrashCourse European History #18
Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire — what each one is famous for.
CrashCourse World History #29
Estates → Bastille → Reign of Terror → Napoleon, told as one continuous story.
CrashCourse World History #30
The only successful slave revolution. Toussaint L'Ouverture is a likely CRQ.
CrashCourse European History #27
Cavour, Garibaldi, Bismarck, Realpolitik — high-yield comparison.
CrashCourse World History #32
Why Britain first, key inventions, the factory system in one pass.
CrashCourse World History #33
The Smith / Marx contrast that shows up on almost every released exam.
CrashCourse World History #34
Japan industrializes on its own terms — a classic CRQ pairing with China.
CrashCourse European History #25
Suffrage, abolition, labor laws — the responses to industrial life.
CrashCourse World History #35
Berlin Conference, motives (God/Gold/Glory), legacy of artificial borders.
Vox Borders
Opium Wars, Treaty of Nanjing, Boxer Rebellion — the chain Regents loves.
CrashCourse World History #213
Comparative resistance from colonized intellectuals — perfect CRQ material.
CrashCourse World History #36
MAIN causes + Sarajevo, all in one episode. Memorize cold.
CrashCourse European History #36
Direct link to Hitler's rise — the through-line for the whole unit.
CrashCourse European History #35
Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, the move to totalitarianism. Pair with Mussolini/Hitler.
CrashCourse World History #38
Causes, turning points, Holocaust as the canonical Human Rights case study.
CrashCourse World History #39
Yalta → Iron Curtain → containment → fall of the USSR in one frame.
CrashCourse World History #37
Mao vs. Chiang, and why China becomes a Cold War flashpoint.
TED-Ed
13 days that anchor every Cold War MCQ on brinkmanship.
CrashCourse US History #38
Containment in practice. Common paired-doc CRQ.
BookBox
Salt March, satyagraha, the moment that broke British legitimacy in India.
CrashCourse World History #223
Zionism → Balfour → 1948 → 1967. Needed for the modern Middle East.
CrashCourse World History #40
Ghana, Algeria, Kenya, Congo — patterns of African independence.
TED-Ed
Quintessential human rights + nationalism case. Always exam-relevant.
Radio Free Europe
Shah's White Revolution → Khomeini → Islamic Republic. The model case.
History Documentary
Counterexample: top-down secular modernization that sticks.
CrashCourse World History #37
Mao → Great Leap → Cultural Revolution. Major CRQ source.
Brookings Institution
Frames the global fundamentalism pattern the unit is really about.
CrashCourse World History #41
WTO, NAFTA, EU, supply chains — the vocabulary you need cold.
CrashCourse World History #42
Wealth gaps, environmental cost, the case against globalization.
United Nations
Environmental change is its own enduring issue on the framework.
ABC News
Anchors the early-2000s portion of the modern-era CRQ.
UN Human Rights
The post-Holocaust rubric every later case is measured against. Memorize the date.
TED-Ed
The prototype 20th-century genocide — pairs constantly with the Holocaust in CRQs.
TED-Ed
Pol Pot, Year Zero, Killing Fields, S-21 — the revolutionary-genocide case.
Tell Professor Atlas what you saw — he’ll quiz you on it and connect it to an enduring issue.