S2:E24 – World War II and The Death of the European Hegemony

"I Have Nothing to Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat..."

Episode Notes

What Can I say - We Murder 60 Million People this Episode, Industrialize Mass Racial Murder, and Nuke Two Cities // We Bomb Spain and Horrify Hemingway // We Show What Fascism Does to Fascists and the Poor People in the Way of Fascists // we Invent "Anti-Fascists" (like grandpa-pa) // We usher in the Nuclear Age with a Massive Collective World Trauma // China survives but the Chinese citizens are Terrorized // Japanese cities are burned to the ground // Even the Heroes do Terrible Things in this Episode

S2:E23 – 1930s: Popular Culture -Superman Where are You Now

How Do You Escape the Depression? With Gangsters, Technicolor, and Superheroes

Episode Notes

Fascism tries to Recreate the Traditional World and Bores Everyone (Even Goring) // Stalin Murders the Great Artists but Gets Lots of Graphic Design to Brag About Him // America has a Crisis of Dignity // Gangsters escape the Limits of the World and Fall to Earth // Escapism makes One Forget About Life for a While // Comic Books Save the World

S2:E22 – 1930s: Fascism Hates You

Some People Just Want to See the World Burn

Episode Notes

Conservatives flock to Fascism to Save them from Liberal Communism and Burn up the World with Hate // There's only Silly Hitler in this Episode // The Nazis are Hyper-Masculine, Women Hating and Surprisingly, well, Gay. // Scar from the Lion King Appears // Charlie Chaplin Dances with a Globe // Fascism tries to Control the Economy without Owning the Economy like Communists // America Inspires Europe with Eugenics, Segregation, and Conservative Violence

S2:E21 – 1930s:Communism and the Stalinist Destruction

Don't Call it a Comeback, I've Been Here for Years

Episode Notes

The Communist Revolution in Russia // The Stalinist Destruction and Mass Murder // The Breaking of Society to Make a New World (and here's the thing - it works - it terribly, horribly, works) // The USSR Creates a Powerful State During the Great Depression

S2:E20 – 1930s Liberalism: Capitalism is Dead, Long Live "Capitalism"

The One Where the Welfare State Kills Laissez Faire Capitalism

Episode Notes

The Great Depression Responses, Part 1: Killing Capitalism to Save it.

S2:E19 – The Great Depression and the Crisis of the Modern World

The One Where Capitalism Dies

Episode Notes

How the Great Depression Happened // How Traditional Capitalism Died // And how it Traumatized the Anglo-American-European World and gave Birth to The Modern World

S2:E18 – 1920s: The Conservative Backlash

We're Going to Keep them on the Farm Whether or Not They've Seen Paree

Episode Notes

The Conservative World tries to stop all the changes of the 1910s and 1920s - they win the Courts and pass some laws and loose the culture

S2:E17 – 1920's: Liberalism on the Move

The Great Age of Liberalism Coming From Trauma

Episode Notes

Women and the Right to Vote // African Americans invent the jazz age // Writers Write // The World is Terrible but its Also Awesome //

S2:E16 – The Catastrophe of World War 1

The European Trauma

Episode Notes

Europeans murdered each other in staggering numbers and then there was a Plague

S2:E15 – Europe - 1900 to 1915

Europe Wins the World and is Fool Enough to Lose it

Episode Notes

Mary Poppins and Modern Major Generals show that 1910 is the Age of (sometimes old) Men // Young men are in Crisis // Women are Marching for Rights and Rioting in the Streets // Mrs. Pankhurst is Clad in Irons Again // the World is Young and Full of Promise // The World is Old, Decadent, and Dying.