There's a neat channel on youtube called "oversimplified " that gives quick and dirty history lessons on some major and not so major events.
Using very basic animation, irreverent humor and a bit of a flippant attitude, it provides a capsule description of various things like the French revolution, the american revolution, WW1 and it's sequel, etc.
The lack of detail and casual attitude towards some important stuff might make a real historians head explode in a purple mushroom cloud, so if you are a real history buff you might want to avoid it, or you might respect the way it boils things down to the bare essentials.
In other words watch it at your own risk Indy...
Here's a sample of it, the French revolution.
https://youtu.be/8qRZcXIODNUYou won't pass a serious history exam after watching this but in general you'll know what happened, who did what and why.
