How World War I Started: Crash Course World History 209
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- In which John Green teaches you about World War I and how it got started. Crash Course doesn't usually talk much about dates, but the way that things unfolded in July and August of 1914 is kind of important to understanding the Great War. You'll learn about Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, the Black Hand, and why the Serbian nationalists wanted to kill the poor Archduke. You'll also learn who mobilized first and who exactly started the war. Sort of. Actually, there's no good answer to who started the war, but we give it a shot anyway.
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Getting ready for world war 3
gotta know the prequels you know
Bernardo IV
When Is It Beginning? Pls Tell Me
Honestly I agree
Make sure you look at ww0 as well
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IKR
*When WW1 ends*
Most of countries: Finally, peace
Some german boy that got rejected in art school: **Peace was never an option**
I actually laughed out loud on that one best thing I've read all day
You guys would be legends if you made a quizlet for each video
Saman Ali nah mate kahoot
YEEEES but I also feel like that's now up to us to create.
Or you could do your own homework and research to get a greater understanding of subjects at hand.
No no dont give the teachers ideas
Do you homework SLACKER!
Whos watching during corona quarantine instead of history class
Gresho me !
I'm watching this for my online history class T_T
Meeeeee
@@jeramiyhaochoa6744 let's go!
J2D12 bro my history teacher was like “just watch this video for the online homework and you’re good”
5:06
*Scrolls Down*
Disappointment
Dittoooo!
+Quan Narula Now John Green can officially say, "Made ya look!"
lol
Lol yeah me too
yup
no one:
the class trying to take notes: *sobs* mr. green pleaSE talk slower
I watch in 2x speed
This is relatable
no exam,no school,no assignments.
just a guy who is interested on war.
Same
Really interested aftet completed school
Same here😊
*Calls IDF
same
The comments in Crash course world history videos:
33% Mongol memes
40% people who are asking others if they are studying for tests like them
27% actual discussions about history
No. You forgot something. There is also 1% comments about the breakdown of comments in crash course videos.
You read 100% of comments
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ikrrrr
you forgot "2019 aNyOnE?!"
You forgot predictions on WW3
I love how Switzerland was surrounded by the war, but never fought in WWI or WWII
+TheHeistPlanner
You can bet they made a lot of money though.
+Karl Karlos Definitely.
They came up with a swiss cheese dummy? Do they test their ski lifts with those?
+Chris Lohr You don't "afford" to make Swiss cheese, joke or not.
+Chris Lohr also they made "swatches" and Swiss bags while everybody was killing each other
Otto Von Bismarck said '' One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans'' he was reffering WW1 and he said that 36 years before First World War.
He wouldn't have needed to be a psychic to predict that, the Balkans had been a right mess since the 1820s when Greece became independent.
Robert Faber Yeah i know that,then the serbs and bulgarians got their independent. If Ottomans won the 1st Balkan War and then conquer them(Balkan League , there will be no WW1.
gtabigfan34 I'd disagree. The web of alliances in Europe had simply become too complicated by 1914; there was going to be a war at some point, regardless of what happened in the Balkans. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was not the cause of World War I, it was only the trigger. If the Ottoman Empire had won the First Balkan War though, or Bulgaria hadn't caused the Second Balkan War, the Ottomans would probably have stayed out of World War I, and we might still have had an Ottoman Empire today, which would certainly be a good thing to all those who like to see peace in the Middle East...
Robert Faber you're right Robert, if Ottoman Empire still existed today, WTC would not be attacked, or The Gulf War would never be happen or even WW2? Well,i think that's quite possible
gtabigfan34 well, like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottomans were on their way out anyway. Their territory had been shrinking for centuries, and ethnic nationalism was only getting stronger. What MIGHT have happened is an avoidance of the chaos of the Sykes-Picot agreement, if Arab nationalism had carried on on its own terms rather than as a pawn of the British and French, and the nations had fractured according to realities on the ground. If you want an example of a middle eastern nation that determined its own independence without western "guidance", look no further than Turkey. While not perfect, it is leagues ahead of most of its neighbors who endured western monarchs followed by dictators. So we might have had peace in the middle east, but thanks to self-determination, not masterful Ottoman rulership.
Watching this 100 years after the war ended
Never forget
Whats world war 1?
no your watching this 104 years after
@@xaniel6639 the end my guy
Let it go man.
Sometimes forget...
Kobe dead
What makes history so fascinating is that the events themselves can be interpreted in so many ways. You could find in the unfolding events an argument that pins the blame on really any of these powers. John Green here in this video did a great job of illustrating this.
1:50 so the butterfly started World War One! Of course. No one suspects the butterfly!
floooooooooooooooood The orange tint on the butterfly's wings? IT'S BLOOD!!!
Stephanie Verdin The dots..?
THE SOULS OF OUR ENEMIES!
*Gasp.* It all makes sense now...
How many enemies hath the mighty butterfly slain? One can only shiver and wonder at its power...
+floooooooooooooooood
The butterfly effect...
Maybe the butterfly works for the Spanish?
I can't be the only one watching this for a history exam ?
nope
uhhhhhhh....
do you live in australia ?
Nah
30mins before the exam lol
john, i love the vids man, but my brain just cant keep up
Gavrilo Princip was the most influential man of the 20th century, not because he was an inventor or a brilliant mind but because the incident he caused had a domino effect that still affects the world today.
So a guy killed a guy so that guys group of guys got mad at the other guys group of guys so they attacked those group of guys so the other group of guys call in their friend guy who owned a grouped of guys and then the original guy that got killed group of guys called in their friend guy who owned a group of guys so another group of guys also helped that other other group of guys so then the Original guy who got killed group of guys ally attacked a group of guys to get to the other other other group of guys but then another group of guys allied to those group of guys came in to attack those group of guys attacking there friends...
So like that?
um yes
+RѦУϺØЙĐ Yep, that sum up everything.
Wut Lol xD
Uh yah
Okay.. but what is saint Vidis's day? 2:52
Little anachronism: The Russian battlesuit shown at 6:30 is a Rytsar Mk2 which wasn't introduced before April 1916. The Mk1 in use in 1914 had smaller shoulder guns, a blue "eye", and no extendable forearms.
Zogg from Betelgeuse I like your style.
They also did not have mech suits.
putbye1 doesn't like your style as much as I do.
Oh my Zogg! If I reply to this, will Zogg from Betelgeuse actually read my comment? Holy crap! I'm a massive fan, Zogg.
***** ●-)
(That's an one-eyed smiley.)
What i learned from crash course:
So archduke Franz Ferdinands death was due to a butterfly flapping its wings...
The butterfly was the initial cause of world war 1 and eventually world war 2.
Makes sense.
That butterfly caused anime
@Jakob Apodaca Its been 2 months
I just watched your video on being kinder online and although I never comment on youtube videos I thought I would do so today. This channel has helped me get through so many of my late night study sessions and has been the base of half of my essay's so for my act of internet kindness I thought I would say thanks for the easy to understand, interesting, and funny content. Side note, I also love your books. x
Here's a warning before you go on: Do not read Crash Course History comments. You have been warned.
I think this marks the permanent point where I never again tread into the comment depths...
Will I learn anything? No.
Will I gain an expanded perspective? Not a good one.
Will I feel better? Hahaha....
+RunItsTheCat Lol
+Jacob D Wunsch But it is entertaining to see large amounts of stupidity, as long as you stay out of it :P
Too late....
thank you
In one hundred years people would ask why did the United States spend so much time in the middle east?
...and the resounding answer will be "Oil".
And boy will that be a complicated video!
When bush was around yes.
Is more that Oil, I think Israel interest play there, plus many of the dictators are from the cold war with Russia. Oil is a big reason but not the only reason.
Purutzil the united states has enough oil to support itself....
I miss going to school and my teacher having him as a way to explain us each topic and all of us would watch him. I mean I could learn this without a teacher, but it’s not the same and I miss my world studies class. The only class I liked tbh
who's whatching this while being stuck at home cause of covid 19 for history class
instead being in school
im bored
I gotta write the causes or something and he talks way to fast
Darmathon you can slow the video down
Stole my comment
Me I’m in Australia btw wbu?
In which John Green teaches you about World War I and how it got started. Crash Course doesn't usually talk much about dates, but the way that things unfolded in July and August of 1914 are kind of important to understanding the Great War. You'll learn about Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Pincep, the Black Hand, and why the Serbian nationalists wanted to kill the poor Archduke. You'll also learn who mobilized first and who exactly started the war. Sort of. Actually there's no good answer to who started the war, but we give it a shot anyway.
Is world history your favorite subject
Lord Zephyros search AlternateHistoryHub on UA-cam. That channel already does videos like that, including what if the nazis won and if the Soviet union didn't collapse. They're really interesting videos.
Hi crash course love the new world history series. Hello from canada
I can't wait for the "how" episode. The more I study World War 1, the less inevitable it seems, the scale of it at least. The concert of Europe didn't have to die. Russia didn't have to join, if it just had stayed scared of Germany, balkan states were growing and diminishing all the time. Germany could have just Bunkered down in Elsass-Lothringen, instead of angering the Empire of the never ending sun. People could have had the intelligence not to board a ship transporting ammunition, when a freaking ambassador warns them.
And most important of all, Franz Ferdinand could have hired an actually competent security detail.
Mr Green, Mr Green! One of the primary reasons was the arch duke. Thank you An Abundance Of Katherines!
"For the love of agriculture!"
Well I know my new catchphrase
Nobody:
Me: *goes straight to the comments for a summary*
I feel yah man
*checks replies to see if someone commented a summary* lol
The video IS a summary
Abla Iroca stfu
who else is watching this for your history class?
At this point John Green has become my history teacher.
True
So boring though
omg me
@@tumbler4123 Lol ikr
me
lol "a month feels like a long time" this hits so differently during COVID 19. We are living in history my dudes
Does playing battlefield 1 count as studying for my World War I Test?
aashrith madagiri you’ll get a perfect 100
Yes
Kind of, yes.
for sure
Just watch OverSimplified
I really want to thank you guys for making this. I was having a breakdown while reading about the start of WWI and watching this made me calm, put things in order in my mind and even made me chuckle from time to time.
If schools taught like this dude I would be a straight A student lol
If my teachers would actually teach I would be a straight A student 😂
I wouldnt be able to keep up
I thought it was because a bloke named Archie duke went and shot an ostrich because he was hungry
love that son
The Hun and his villainous empire building!
mad as a bicycle
So the old ostrich died for nothing
Your father JImmy would be proud of you
Han. Han shot first.
+v1e1r1g1e1 "Greedo shot first this is the most important point in the series without Greedo shooting first there would be no star wars. Now let me tell you about this idea I have for the most important character who with out there would be no star wars cause he caused the star wars, his name is JarJar Binks"-George Lucas early 90s discussing the reissue with CGI
GenBloodLust I don't know what version of Star Wars- A New Hope you saw, but in the 1977 worldwide release, HAN SHOT FIRST! Anyone who knows anything about the series knows that George Lucas went all politically correct decades after and RE-CUT the first film to make it look like Greedo shot, and Han was only returning fire in self defence. Weasel-shit! HAN SHOT FIRST.
you obviously didnt read my comment
GenBloodLust I did. You're still wrong. Han shot first.
obviously you didn't. cause It was a joke about how fervently George Lucas defended it and how he defended jar jar binks.
Thank you so much! This video was very helpful in my opinion. You really should make more videos just like this. They always tend to help me out a lot in my college course (U.S. History). History class was never really my thing, even while in high school. Once again, thank you very much for this informative video. I love the humor that you have with it as well. Humor makes videos more fun, because this makes it less boring and very easy to pay attention to.
One of the best crash courses that I have ever watched. I really enjoyed the thought provoking ending!
i think you guys need to do a "Crash course today" to replace the world history series, something that can cover and analyse what's happening today
yeah, the comments section, not gonna be good
Gregsplays alternative history hub bro
disable it then.
wail rimouch What, you encourage censorship?
Damminh Khoi Yes. to hell with Freedom if it causes chaos.
I wish he had touched more on the question of whether the war would have happened if Ferdinand hadn't been shot.
IT would have been nice, but it wouldn't have been the point of the video
***** I would, but she never listens! She needs to marry already...And yes. But shhh. I'm suppose to keep that secret.
I don't think it would have happened at all, at least not in the form that it did. I feel that there may have been a war between similar powers, but it wouldn't have happened so quickly and globally.
what would happen can always be argued but as far as I see, the answer is: Yes, WW1 would still happen even if the arch duke was not assassinated. Reason to why I believe so is:
-By the time WW1 started all "civilized" nation have already enter the industrial era. This allow each nation to mass produce in a rate never before seen in history. And how would a nation feel if they have massive surplus of food, fire arm, and people? Untouchable.
-You have to remember that why it turn out to be a world war. Reason is simple. There is not a single powerful nation in Europe at the time, that has yet picked a side. With all the alliance going on. Both side feel they are "safe". Just like the Idea of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction). If both side know what it means to go to war, then logical conclusion would be, no one want to wage war. But as we all know... that was not the case...
-Lastly as John Green had mentioned. Austria was looking to take over Serbia. The death of the Arch Duke was only an excuse. Even if Duke did not die, or get shot. Austria would still attack Serbia regardless. (only difference is: the war might have started years later after the the center power gain more allies in both quality and quantity)
But as I said before, what could happen can always be argued. But the root cause of WW1 is still there. Arch Duke's death was only an excuse. Think of it as the spark that set off a huge load of gunpowder.
It would of happened anyway , even if he died , he was just a reason . like Hitler who burned the Reichstag to blame it on the communists.
Austria wanted to expand south to the sea , Russia declared war after because Serbia is an allay , yes , but also because they wanted to strech down to the South to the sea as well , it was all about territory.
how i started:
Franz Ferdinand: I would like some burek sa sirom
Princip: *shoots him*
John Green: "we are always in the middle of a "how"
Me: "how am i still alive?"
And I just realized that my great grandparents were born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They migrated the America ten years before World War 1.
No kidding.
Matthew Brunette CHANGE YOURE PROFILE IMAGE THE CONFEDRATE FLAG IS SATAN
***** The irony in your guys' exchange is utterly mindblowing.
Can you guys fucking not. Seriously, stop arguing over a piece of goddamn fabric with a blue x on it.
+BPN 28 I can agree with you there mate it's just some people don't really like seeing the confederate flag for 2 reasons 1. it represented a group of people who burned and beat people based on the color of their skin and 2 It also a reminder of how stupid every single american was during that time and should probably be forgotten
I love it when he talks about a month being a very long time. I've been a part of a '100 Years Ago Today' thread since the anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. My part has been to cover air and naval conflicts, and when you talk about history in hindsight it really does seem to compress, but when you're waiting each day for the next event to happen, you begin to really understand just how long it takes. It can actually become frustrating waiting weeks for what you know is coming.
That doesn't make it any less entertaining.
Continue to love these CC videos! Your sense of humor is commendable. Please keep them coming!
There are so many nuances already in history and all of the additions you throw in as you speak so quickly is hard for my students to follow, but thanks for offering an entertaining venue.
THANK YOU JOHN GREEN. Crash Course is simply amazing! It's FUN to know why things are what they are today, it's FUN to gather knowledge you can apply throughout your life, it's FUN to begin to develop your own views and opinions instead of going off what others biased information imposes on you, it's FUN to feel like part of a community of people who want to make themselves better by being able to comprehend others, it's FUN to be EXCITED. Not only all is that giant not very eloquent run on sentence talk about the super fun things Crash Course gives us great, but it's honestly the very best thing to procrastinate from learning by learning. That sounds like a super strange sentence (probably because it is) but when I'm too lazy to put effort into homework I watch Crash Course and vlogsbrothers and my brain feels like a flowy mix of happiness because its always eating new knowledge. AND the new things I know conveyed by the incredibly hilarious and amazingness of Crash Course, leads me to other great things! I can watch The News with a fuller understanding, and The Colbert Report, and The Daily Show (which makes me super crazy happy!!!) LIKE IT'S JUST THIS HUGE POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP WHERE I COME OUT AS A SMARTER AND AWESOMER PERSON. So thank you. Not even the Mongols are an exception to this greatness.
Hello John. As a former Yugoslav, I congratulate you for this video. This is the best explanation I have ever come across. Keep up the good work.
Hey! Loving history somuch! My, some of my Favorite teachers were history and science when we were like 14! And my partner also loved history and I Love listening all the details too! Those were all masterpieces! And your talks are cheerful way that what we love too!
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH without y’all I wouldn’t have *GRADUATED* !!!!!
Technically it would have just been Austria hungry and Serbia going against each other but the leader of Russia chose to help Serbia which caused Germany to join then a chain reaction started
Russia was ready to fight but wasn't really in the state to fight because they weren't very industrialized then Germany got them to drop out then thanks to Lenin the Bolsheviks took over then bam the Soviet Union... That's one of the reason y Russian wasn't at the treaty of Versailles because the allies hated them for dropping... Y am I explaining all of this I just realized that
so few things germany said from the start that austria can do whatever they want bcs they would protect them from russia and russia had to help serbia bcs austria would detsroy us(im from serbia) and there s a big historic relation between russia and serbia both being slavs and the fact that we r both ortodox led to russia defending us not to mention the dardanele s are important for russia to control so she had to make sure balkans were on her side
Der Kaiser ah how do i explain this to you at the time russians and serbs were like brothers given the fact that we r both ortodox and have same origins so much so that in ww1 russia didnt want to help france and uk if they didnt send their ships to transport serbians soldiers into greece so even tho serbia and russia didnt sign any treaty there was one
+Der Kaiser no it didnt brole any law bcs in that time there wasnt any law and even if they did broke the law who cares russia warned austria and germany what would happen but both didnt care so its their fault
*mic drop*
Digging the tank-robot-machine things
I just wanna get into AP History ;-; but I've never had history in my school.... so I'm at a disadvantage but I'm still gonna do it!!! Wish me luck (only a few spots left for AP History)
did you get in?
A crash course on the breakup of Austra-Hungary, the how and why, and overall the structure of the Empire, how Habsburg lands developed into Austrian Empire and then the dual monarchy. Basically a crash course on that part of Europe would be much appreciated as it was a big part of European history, and is pretty complicated to understand now.
7:30 YOU FORGOT AUSTRALIA *AGAIN*, JOHN. HOW COULD YOU.
He left out Canada too, who was just happy to be invited.
He also technically forgot Ireland.
Around 30 countries were officially in the WWI. Mr. Green here just didn't want the video to become a boring list of all the countries.
all those countries you guys have mentioned were part of great Brittan then
It was part of the British Empire.
Although Austria's invasion of Serbia triggered the first world war, it is IMPERIALISM and NATIONALISM fused together that essentially caused this horrific event to happen. Starting from the 1870's, countries were becoming insecure and dependent on imports of raw materials. Only through the acquisition of colonies and search of new markets can this be achieved. Consequently, this led to the rise of conflicts between European powers. Austrian and Russian rivalry for the control of the Balkans is a perfect example that illustrates how imperialism contributed to the formation of a competitive and anarchic international environment. As a result, this prompted the formation of the Alliance system and Militarism which only worsened the building tensions in Europe. This chaotic environment was what allowed for World War 1 to happen. Each crisis in Europe, one by one, increased the chance for war. It was becoming inevitable, and it was only a matter of time. By 1914, countries could no longer refrain themselves and thus initiated the first world war. Not considering the long term causes is ignoring the true causes of the first world war.
Exactly. The best comment on WWI I have ever read. Hats off to you, Sir.
Haha thanks! I'm taking IB European History and this was right before my exam! I got an A on it so I'm really happy! I studied like maniac XD
Good analyses of human nature.
Everybody wanted to be king of the mountain, and also felt they had a God given right to be Nr.1...
An oversimplification which ignores the fact that as Bismarck pointed, with rare exceptions, colonies tended to cost more than they made for the imperialistic power (building and maintaining infrastructure, fortifications etc). Plus the agreement between Britain, France and Russia was informal, with the British especially suspecting the Russians (fearing Russian ambitions towards British India, one of the few money making colonies). It only became a firm alliance when Germany invaded Belgium, which the British saw as a threat to their own security.
***** That is only true for the nations which came late in the game, and got the scraps left over after others had had an early start.
It was not only the resources of colonies, but also the strategic location (geostrategy).
The late starters like Bismarck's Germany therefore got large swathes of land with little raw materials, and little strategic value, making the massive investments a one-way long-term loss.
Money was poured in, but almost nothing came back as a result.
Other countries were luckier, because getting that early start meant they could choose the cream of the crop, and their investments paid off far quicker.
Often, a war fought to gain a territory, as often happened in the initial stages of colonialism, cost far less than the adversary had already sunk into the development of a region.
That made the few hundred or few thousand dead soldiers an investment "well worth it" for the elites.....
Thanks! Really helped with my revision.
i swear everyone is watching this during quarantine
Except the people who were watching it years ago.
@@BradyPostma well... ye
+John Green Great video, one of my favorite this season (and it has been an excellent season). One thing I would love to hear is how this connects to the 1990s war in Bosnia and how the situation in 2014 Ukraine/Russia might compare to Russia's "pre-war readiness" in World War I. There was also a strong development in the concept of nations/patriotism and conscription that you touched on in Season 1's discussion of WW1 that I would love to see expounded on.
If you want to write a what-if history essay, I think the what-if Franz Ferdinand has not been shot is a great topic. Leave out the World War I take on things and focus on the Danube Federation which he hoped to establish in a final attempt to save the Austro-Hungarian empire. Ultimately I think WW1 was inevitable, nationalist jingoism and fear between countries was at a height. However, the main reason for me is that WW1 was an awaking for more than just colonial subjects and the birth of mass politics, those two forces were the real end empire and absolute monarchy/Prussian constitutionalism. It is in these awakening and these new ideas that makes me think WW1 is probably the most important period in history.
This is so much better than any of the history classes I took while I was in High School.
My history teacher always makes us watch his videos in class when we start a new video and he once said "he super rich and he still wears shirts like that" something along those lines. And now I can't stop thinking about it.
Does he ever post scripts of his video? Cause damn this guy is incredibly intelligent but he speaks at the speed of Light!
Yes. Go to the "more" button under the video.
Yes and he also edited out the pauses between sentences, which is even more annoying! I don’t know why UA-cam channels nowadays think it’s cool to do that.
cangjie12 Dude needs to breathe... if he sounded out of breath it wouldn’t sound too gre@t?
cangjie12 Especially when you’re watching the videos to learn things! I’ll watch videos to help with my science classes, and they just talk literally as fast as they can.
Just turn on captions. Also, why did @cangjie12 reply to an almost 2 year comment?
Well my AP World History test is tomorrow morning and I haven't studided at all, so I guess its time to watch Crash Course. Good lookin John Green.
Dude, I love your videos. Keep on being awesome.
That calendar section was awesome and made the Empire-admirer in me satisfied.
They need to make an open world first person shooter game that takes place during WW1, maybe something like fallout
They have two in development right now. Verdun, which is on Steam; and The Somme, which is not out yet.
ASCG5000 Good to hear, I was hoping that the next COD would at least have a flashback level
RapidFire175 No.
I imagine that could get boring.
New objective: don't die during 6-hour shelling
Repeatedly press B to stay low
New objective: act as cannon fodder in attempt to capture 10m of land
New objective: fall back from positions your previous character and 500 others died for yesterday
New objective: don't die of disease
New objective: don't die in another 6 hour shelling. Mash X to stay sane.
Could you imagine the people who fought in WW1, would they want a video game made about a tragedy that lost millions of lives. I don't think making a shooting game about it would be very appropriate
Mr.Green, Mr.Green you should do a crash course on Yugoslavia most notably the wars for independence and democracy i mean WWI started there you can also talk about the fall of the last communist bloc in Eastern Europe it is a very interesting subject i think a lot of people would enjoy... it is very important world history and also another Look at communism because Tito's socialist government thrived especially sense he was allied with democratic USA and banned from the Communist party even though he was a communist as i mentioned it is a very interesting subject... Please thumb up so CrashCourse can see the comment :o)
It would be amazing if Crash Course did a series on Yugoslavia but it would also be immensely difficult and no matter how well they made it, it would be insanely controversial.
Shame though - would be a great project and you could involve historians from all of the successor states in the writing... But it would be so hard to do well.
He wouldn't do that because Serbs would immidiately get butthurt
why do you say that? i mean they do have a pretty dark history in recent years with Milosevic, Karadzic and General Mladic during the 90's wars which is pretty much the whole cause of the conflicts but if you look further back all the parties on the balkans have a dark history...
going to have to agree with you on this you are 100% right but history is history it has to be written the way it happened you cant only choose the bits and pieces i really hope all the people in the balkans can one day look past their differences but it is very difficult when during WWII close to a million Serbs were killed by Ustashis and in the 90's Hundreds of thousand of Muslims by Serbs... dont even make me go further back
History is about picking bits and pieces... That is how history is written that is why you have so different accounts in different places. In history you either have too many or too few source, but either way you never have the right ones. It is the story of humans and as such cannot be objective (if you disagree the please look up the definition of objectivity).
I had a wonderful lecture some months back from a guy who travelled the Balkans. When he started talking about the difference in historical perceptions in the region (Alexander the Great apparently had about 5+ different home countries) it was clear to me that WWI had changed nothing, And my own experience (one of my close friends is Greek and I recently was in Belgrade) have done anything to change this perception.
Peace is just a slow way of cutting your enemies throat...
The only way to know you did a video so specific on the Balkans right, would be if as a result everybody from the Balkans unsubbed immediately. When they all equally want to kill you, then you know you have discovered the truth.
That place is awesome :)
I’m a simple man, I see Cherno Alpha on the thumbnail, I click.
who’s back because of the possible ww3 because this is kind of similar
i find it crazy that many people from different countries around the world thought the same thing, WW1 vibes...... i think nuclear weapons are the reason WWIII didnt start yet....no one want that kind of war
Me
Im getting a bunker for my family
Kliff Williamson I for one embrace the sweet release of death
@@DavidFletcher08 ?
I think butterfly get blamed for to much, on the other hand I do see them in groups a lot so maybe they are planning these things.
A group of butterflies is called a swarm, rabble, or kaleidoscope. I have seen pictures of the Monarch's migration to Mexico. Incredible.
Panzer4F2 Yet you never hear Mexicans bitch about the millions of monarch's sneaking into their country and taking their jobs.
TheyCallMeGawd Who else is going to package all of those drugs?
This made my day
It wouldn't have matter if Franz Ferdinand got assassinated because Conrad the leader of the Austrian Hungry army wanted to go to war with Serbia and was likely to go to war any way wether Franz Died or not.
WolfPlayer but him dying gave everyone a good reason to go to war
ShelbyRay It just gave Austria-Hungry a good reason to go to war. The thing is. Russia said if Serbia was to be attack they will aid Serbia and Germany said if Austria-Hungry went to war Germany would assist them. Then Germany tried to take France during the time so countries took sides.
AH wouldn't have been able to issue the 4 point ultimatum to Serbia without the assassination, thereby not giving them a legitimate cause for war. Regardless of alliances, declaring war without a reason tends to burn bridges.
The entire Austria-Hungary didn't like Franc Ferdinand, they planned to overthrow him. But then Gavrilo Princip got in the mess and us Serbs were blamed. Yay.
It's not like Franz Ferdinand was the one guy that repeatedly stopped Conrad from starting the war, and it becomes even worse considering Franz Ferdinand was a good guy, the reason gavrilo got his chance was because he decided to go to the hospital in which the wounded of an assassination attempt on him were being treated.
Anyone else here last minute studying for the AP World History Exam
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He puts it in a fun and amazing way that I understand!!!
Sooooo, why is the icon on here from Pacific Rim?
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CrashCourse Any plans for covering the Russian Revolution as a dedicated video?
That would be amazing
JustalocalSoviet You probably wouldn't like it, any unbiased 10 minute video is going to be very anti-Bolshevik.
garrywarne1 Not necessarily though the Bolsheviks were quite ruthless, it started with the best of intentions but failed when Stalin took power (something Lenin really didn't want to happen) and Russia became a dictatorship in all but name. Marx had only ever envisioned communism working in a civilised industrialised nation and sadly Russia at that time wasn't either of those things. Too many people think Stalinism, Maoism and whatever the fuck you call the dictatorship in North Korea as forms of communism, they are not, they are just dictatorships swaddled in a red cloak.
The Russian Civil War is an interesting and very bloody war that involved many of the countries that had just fought WW1 and it would be interesting to see a video about this and how it affected the revolution and possibly led to it's failure and the rise of Stalin.
Samuel Smith Such a video would have to cover the following:
- How the Bolsheviks came to power via a coup (aka 'The October Revolution'). Overthrowing the Provisional Government which, broadly speaking, wanted a Western Liberal style democracy, although probably a bit to the left (in fact, its leader, Alexander Kerensky, was a socialist).
- How the Bolsheviks received approximately 24% of the vote in the democratic November 1917 Elections of the Russian Constituent Assembly (compared with the Socialist Revolutionary's 41%), before having the Red Guards dissolve it on its first day.
- The Russian Civil War, which was responsible for the deaths of almost 3,000,000 people. Even following the disastrous and costly Russian involvement in WWI, and in spite of the Bolshevik's pre-October Revolution promises of 'Peace, Bread and Land', Lenin actually wanted a civil war as it gave him a perfect opportunity to eliminate his political opponents. The Red Army (which had replaced the Red Guards), used to win this war was effectively a return to tsarism. It was led largely by ex-tsarist officers and death penalties for desertion and disloyalty. The Bolsheviks' war conduct was exactly anticipating the Geneva Convention either, one particularly noteworthy example of their brutality can be seen in the options they gave to defeated troops: be conscripted into the Red Army or be executed. In response to the civil war, the Bolsheviks instigated what was known as the 'Red Terror', which was authoritarian and anti-communist through and through. Trotsky for instance, upon ending independent trade unions, forbidding workers frm negotiating pay and introducing punishments for failures to meet targets, declared that the working classes "must be commanded just like soldiers".
- The disastrous policy of 'war communism', consisting primarily of Bolshevik nationalization of industry and requisitioning of grain (prodrazvyortska). This policy saw gross economic production halve between 1917 and 1921 (when war communism was abolished). Worse still, the policy of grain requisitioning was (along with mass conscription and the loss of 'bread-basket' Ukraine in accordance with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsky) responsible for a famine that resulted in the deaths of six million people, since most peasants refused to grow a surplus if they knew it would be requisitioned anyway. Not that this bothered Lenin, he used it as an opportunity to destroy the church in particularly affected areas (“in the starving regions... we can (and therefore must) carry out the confiscation of church
valuables with the most savage and merciless energy”). Additionally, the Bolshevik government used the non-existent class of 'kulaks' - well off peasants who were apparently hoarding grain - as scapegoats for the famine. One particularly disturbing example is that of Lenin's Hanging Order, from 1918, which orders the public hanging of "no fewer than one hundred known landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers" with the purpose of frightening the populace.
- That the only way they managed to get out of all of the problems associated with war communism was with the essentially capitalist New Economic Policy (NEP). The NEP was controversial even within the party itself, with a figure no lesser than Trotsky describing it as "the first sign of the degeneration of Bolshevism", believing that the squeezing of the peasants under war communism (i.e. famine) as essential to the revolution.
All of that without even talking about the anti-democratic origins of the Bolshevik Party, the Cheka, or the Worker's Opposition and Kronstadt Rebellion.
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1)Provisional Government was not democratic, it was not elected, and did not answers of the aspirations of 95% of the population
2)Bolsheviks really gave land to the peasants but only 10 years
3)White forces strongly avoided the question of land for the peasants in their political progamma
4)What determined their defeat in the Civil War
Wow thanks so much! Ive had difficulties with history but this helped
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Six Years Later: The season is Null and Void
Everyone is in a comment war and I'm just drinking my soda with my dozens of textbooks*history geek*
Speaking of alternate history. If WW1 hadn't happen, WW2 wouldn't happen, and the USSR wouldn't happen, and the cold war wouldn't happen. And probably Putin wouldn't happen, since there would have been no USSR.
Nope, simply a fascist dictator would have taked over England or France and iniciate WW2. Also, the USSR would happen because they signed a peacy treaty with the Kaiser.
diego acosta The USSR happened because Russia entered the war, used disastrous tactics against the Germans that killed millions of its own soldiers, which lead to resentment back home, which allowed the communists to take advantage and launch their revolution/coup. So if Russia didn't go to war in the first place, then the USSR might not have existed.
diego acosta WW2 only started because of Hitler and the German people resentment of what happened after WW1.
Don't forget Japan. Even without WW1 Japan would have lobbied for racial equality and was yearning to become the dominant power in the Pacific. Japanese officers were trained since 1904 to anticipate a war with America in the Pacific, and the entire Japanese mindset was that America was the only nation powerful enough to stop it from building an empire. So even without WW1, at some point things would have sparked between the US and Japan and some conflict would have started in the Pacific. Which is half of WW2 anyway. And that could have led to a Cold War between Germany, Britain and the US in the long term, since they were the three biggest industrial giants and of military capabilities. Which all could have been worse, theoretically.
I would say WW1, in some form, was probably inevitable. Too much built up tension, too much nationalist friction, too many conflicting goals between nations, and too many leaders thinking war had become a good way to achieve their goals.
If WW1 goes differently like Russia someone stays out entirely (unlikely) or gets out sooner (ex: Kerensky govt from the February Revolution doesn't keep fighting, thus less opportunity for Red October and the Bolshevik takeover) then maybe no USSR.
If Germany isn't punished so severely (or doesn't lose at all) then no Hitler. If France loses to Germany, especially if there is a punitive peace treaty (likely), then its quite likely we would have seen a fascist France - possibly even one that murdered Jews (Dreyfuss affair anyone?). Though they won WW1, France still had monarchists and fascists in 1940, and wasn't completely sold on that whole "republic" thing. That's one of the reasons they were okay with Vichy France.
A Pacific War between the US and Japan probably IS inevitable, regardless of what happens in WW1 and regardless of whether there is a larger WW2. There was just too much conflict of interest and Japan was too willing to wage war for empire.
Wilfred Owen has some really good poems on his experiences of World War I. His most popular being Dulce et Decorum est.
Thank you for these videos!!!
Well I need to learn my history so I am not a confused idiot in BATTLEFIELD 1 BABY
lmao same
Battlefield 1 is actually not all that wrong really
Owen M Hitler wasn't even an NCO in the First World War. He was wounded in 1916 at the Somme as a Gefreiter (Corporal).
Owen M Yeah there certainly was more whites. Which is (ironically) accurately shown in the campaign.
However, funnily enough, going back to your first comment, the German Wehrmacht employed 30,000 Africans and 250,000 Arabs in the North African Campaign. Of course, most of these men ended up rather dead, and were vastly outnumbered by Germans, however.
That steampunk garbage can hardly be called history. A female Bedouin warrior ffs
Who else thought for a moment, looking at their feed, that this was the new Extra History? Not that I mind, but this is exactly the topic of their next episode too.
I did, for about half a second...
Yep, I was actually surprised what John was doing on my screen.
I actually thought it was the other way around with the last Extra History video :)
Tomorrow is our periodical test in Araling Panlipunan(World History) WW1, WW2, Cold war, Ideology, Neocolonialism, Organizations
And this helped me a lot
Thank you for the schooling. Never learned this in public school. 👍🏽
i needed this video two weeks ago
Really like this video. Great job. At 7:55 you mentioned Bosnian Terrorism. This got me thinking. What if a major superpower assassinated an important figure but made it appear as though it was the work of a terrorist cell. Further more if a link between said terrorist attack and major superpower was discovered could this be the beginning of WW3? History tends to repeat itself.
amazing man... Loved it !!!
Loving all the mechs this episode.
Give em hell Cherno Alpha!
I'm not the only one
I thought that was what it was!
SPOILERS: It doesn't end well.
SPOILERS: I'm not talking about the movie.
these guys are probably pacific rim fans
Still have my watch set up for when Gipsy Danger fights Godzilla...
I am watching this at 1.30 am, my history finals start in about 8 hours. Wish me luck
The philosophies he ends these with 😭😭😭
So necessary to make a better, more thoughtful world
"Don't forget to be awesome?" I tell this to my kids every morning when they leave for work and school.
Using in class today, thanks!!
Shout out to the Thought Bubble. Super on-point in this episode.
Quinn Weber Thanks Quinn! We appreciate the kind words!
Yeah placing the mini characters on a field of calendar was a great idea, the way they had illustrated and animated that portion made it all easy to follow. And it was kind of a nod to the Cosmic Calendar from Cosmos.
any reason for the Leviathan reference. please tell me I am not the only one who read that book
Thank you with helping me get through my university.
So Jonh Green is helping me to study to my history test? And I thought he was my favourite writer I Guess it couldn’t get Much better ,thanks man
“WWI was a war fought for no reason. It was just insane.”
-Dr. Elizabeth Clement
Sees Cherno Alpha and was like
"What if countries start settling their scores against each other through one on one Jaeger matches.........coool!!"
I LOVE today's thought bubble!!!
I love your videos, I just find it hard to take in your fast talking!