I always seem to find myself asking questions I think I should know.

It’s always random things like:

The difference between Left/Right Wing Politics

Who was Plato?

How does the weather work?

What countries were in the The Soviet Union?

How do you start Investing?

The Different Fighting Titles (What the hell is Bantamweight?)

I know the general idea of these but don’t really enough to understand when people are talking about them.

I started to look to history for the answers since reading a book about Churchill and seeing the quote:

“The farther back you look, the further forward you can see”.

So I started listening to a few podcast episodes of Hardcore Histories by Dan Carlin (Which I would highly recommend).

After listening to One Episode it made me realize how much more I could understand of today’s world if I just looked into the history of it.

Maybe then I would be able to make sense of things.

I have decided to turn my journey to understanding the world into a series of blog posts to share with all of you what I find. Once I have looked into each area and got an answer good enough for myself I will change the lines below into links.

I’m going to start with finding out what the world is like now and then I am going to try to understand the following things:

Global Politics

The History of Capitalism

The History of Communism

How do Governments work?

What Alliances are there currently in the world? (EU, NATO etc)

Why are North and South Korea split?

Psychology & Philosophy

What are the different approaches in each of the above?

What is most widely considered to be true by most people?

What have been the most controversies?

Culture & Events

What were the 60s like?

What were the 70s like?

What were the 80s like?

What were the 90s like?

Civil Rights Struggles

Wars

World war one, why did it start, who was involved and what happened when it was all over?

World war two, why did it start, who was involved and what happened when it was all over?

What started the War in Vietnam?

What happened in Iraq and Afghanistan?

The history of ISIS and Al Qaeda

Random

How did “Silicon Valley” start?

How did the internet start?

What other types of humans were there and why did we win?

What Empires have there been and which had the biggest impact?