The video library. 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.
Anchor series Three channels that should do 80% of the lifting.
By unit 4 hand-picked videos per unit. Each one tells you why it’s on the list.
Jocz
Belief systems baseline — Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism.
Jocz
Louis XIV, Peter the Great — the political baseline before revolutions hit.
CrashCourse
Why Europe gets rich on the triangular trade and what it costs Africa.
CrashCourse
The Asian-centered world — the empires that mattered most in 1750.
10.2
Enlightenment, Revolution, and Nationalism Outline Jocz
Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire — what each one is famous for.
CrashCourse
Estates → Bastille → Reign of Terror → Napoleon, told as one continuous story.
CrashCourse
The only successful slave revolution. Toussaint L'Ouverture is a likely CRQ.
Jocz
Cavour, Garibaldi, Bismarck, Realpolitik — high-yield comparison.
Jocz
Why Britain first, key inventions, the factory system in one pass.
Jocz
The Smith / Marx contrast that shows up on almost every released exam.
CrashCourse
Japan industrializes on its own terms — a classic CRQ pairing with China.
Hip Hughes
Suffrage, abolition, labor laws — the responses to industrial life.
CrashCourse
Berlin Conference, motives (God/Gold/Glory), legacy of artificial borders.
Jocz
EIC → Sepoy 1857 → Raj. Sets up Gandhi later.
Jocz
Opium Wars, Taiping, Boxer Rebellion — chain of causation Regents loves.
New Visions
Comparative resistance — Zulu, Ethiopia, Boxers — for the CRQ.
10.5
Unresolved Global Conflict (1914–1945) Outline Jocz
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism + Sarajevo. Memorize cold.
Hip Hughes
Direct link to Hitler's rise — the through-line for the whole unit.
CrashCourse
Lenin, Stalin, the move to totalitarianism. Pair with Mussolini/Hitler.
Jocz
Causes, turning points, Holocaust as the canonical Human Rights case study.
Jocz
Yalta → Iron Curtain → containment → fall of the USSR in one frame.
CrashCourse
Mao vs. Chiang, and why China becomes a Cold War flashpoint.
Hip Hughes
13 days that anchor every Cold War MCQ on brinkmanship.
Jocz
Containment in practice. Common paired-doc CRQ.
10.7
Decolonization & Nationalism Outline Jocz
Salt March, satyagraha, Partition — high-frequency MCQ figure.
CrashCourse
Zionism → Balfour → 1948 → 1967. Needed for the modern Middle East.
New Visions
Ghana, Algeria, Kenya, Congo — patterns of independence.
Jocz
Quintessential human rights + nationalism case. Always exam-relevant.
10.8
Tradition vs. Modernization Outline Jocz
Shah's White Revolution → Khomeini → Islamic Republic. The model case.
Hip Hughes
Counterexample: top-down secular modernization that sticks.
CrashCourse
Great Leap → Cultural Revolution → Deng's market reforms. Major CRQ source.
New Visions
Frames the global pattern the unit is really about.
10.9
Globalization & a Changing Environment Outline Jocz
WTO, NAFTA, EU, supply chains — the vocabulary you need cold.
CrashCourse
Why China matters for every post-Cold War prompt.
New Visions
Environmental change is its own enduring issue on the framework.
Hip Hughes
Anchors the early-2000s portion of the modern-era CRQ.
10.10
Human Rights Violations Outline Jocz
The post-Holocaust rubric every later case is measured against. Memorize the date.
CrashCourse
The prototype 20th-century genocide — pairs constantly with the Holocaust in CRQs.
Hip Hughes
Pol Pot, Year Zero, Killing Fields, S-21 — the revolutionary-genocide case.
Jocz
100 days, 800,000 dead, Dallaire's warnings ignored — the case that built R2P.
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