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: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: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:E25 – Disneylands and Entertaining the World's Middle Class

How Disneyland, Disney World, EPCOT, and Disney Parks Explain the World

Episode Notes

Disneyland and Entertaining Middle Class America // EPCOT brings the World to America // Disneyland Tokyo and the Success of Americanization // Disneyland Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Limits of Westernization

S2:E26 – World Cinema After World War II

How Cinema Explains World Culture From French New Wave to Nollywood

Episode Notes

European Cinema Recovers After WW2 // The French Poverty // The British Bond Imperial Salvation // The Moody Scandinavian Intellectualism // Bollywood shows India can tell their Own Stories // Nollywood proves the world can make their own cinema and watch themselves on screen

S2:E27 – Cold War Kids: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

The US and USSR Divide the World and Nearly End it - and everyone Wants Soft Toilet Paper

Episode Notes

The Cold War Gets Hot // The West Grows Rich // The European East Falls Behind // Toilet paper explains the end of Soviet Communism // The US and USSR Fight Everywhere while Great Art and Music gets made under the Nuclear Threat // Genesis makes a Video // Peter Gabriel plays Games // RUSH wonders if it was worth it after the Berlin Wall Falls

S2:E28 – South Asia Partition, War and Recovery

The British End their Raj and the Subcontinent's Been at War Ever Since

Episode Notes

India gains Independence // Pakistan Gains Independence // Bangladesh gains Independence from Pakistan // Everyone Fights, Everyone's Traumatized, and then We Add Nukes // Hindu India leaves Islamic Pakistan Behind // There are wars in Afghanistan

S2:E29 – Africa, Decolonization, Apartheid, Disaster and Recovery

The Search for Dignity

Episode Notes

Africa after World War 2 // The Trauma the Europeans leave behind // Apartheid Ends and Nelson Mandela teaches the World to Forgive // Europeans Sing Songs to "Save" Africans

S2:E30 – China After World War II - Disaster, Death, Recovery, Success

The Trauma of Chinese People From Occupation to Wealth

Episode Notes

China occupied // Civil War // Mao's Great Leap Forward // Mao's Cultural Revolution // Starvation, Death, and independence from the West // Economic Modernization // The Square Incident // Wealth and political Conservatism

S2:E31 – American Conservatism - From Wilderness to Dominance

How America became Conservative and what it Meant for the World

Episode Notes

The Suburbs, the Sixties, the Backlash, Religion, Re-Segregation, Economic Inequality, the End of the Welfare State, Racism, Sectionalism, Winning the Cold War, and the America you live in now.