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I think it was the right call to attempt a pass, I don't agree with the pass play that was called. I would've called a play action pass in that situation
@@Dalton1294 Nah, Pete Carroll or it's Russell Wilson himself who wants to win the SB MVP not Marshawn Lynch that's why they pass. I'm sorry but You got an unstoppable force at the 1 yard line yet you choose to pass? That was a big mistake
@@charliesmith4072which wasn't popular at the time and is why the art school he was rejected from told him he would be good as an architect but he didn't listen, he was a stubborn, cowardly, and hateful man
Its just a popular myth, he had a chance to present his works before an artistic committee but canceled the meeting himself in the last minute. I’m not saying that this was the turning point, but his artistic career didn’t end because of refusals.
@@SYOTOSVLOG Yup, a country with a military a 1/3 the size of your buddy Putin couldn't even take them before they started getting arms from NATO because of massive corruption and incompetence
@@SYOTOSVLOG half the time its the USA invading... Canada (1812), Vietnam (1965), Bay of Pigs (1961), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq(2003)... The next contender seems to be Russia, with Finland (1939), Afghanistan (1979), Japan (1904) and Poland (1920). And then its good old WW2 Axis, with Germany , Japan and Italy basically trying to invade whole world... And WW1 was not much better, everyone piled up like it is rugby match.
Yes what a great precedent that set for future peacekeeping efforts 😊 nowadays, no one wants to use nukes or build nukes and no one invades each other because of the threat of nuclear war. Phew, thank goodness that's no longer an issue 😁@@doopmcdoop9367
Agree. Worst possible Supreme Court decision .... along with the ones which completely mis-interpreted the 2nd Ammendment, and declared money to be "protected free speech" when it came to politics.
Right? How did the Donner parties' shortcut make the list when it only affected them? Soooo many other historical events with far-reaching consequences...
@@tarajh That and Hitler invading the USSR don't in any way belong on the same list. A few dozen dead vs a few dozen million? And taking abolitionism out of the Declaration of Independence? It would never have been signed otherwise.
Henry Clay & Daniel Webster: No! We STOPPED the Civil War with the Compromise of 1850! Terminator: No, you only postponed it. Civil War is inevitable. (with or without Dred Scott)
At the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 French Marshal Ferdinand Foch said: "This isn't a peace, it's a 20 year armistice." 20 years and 39 days later, Germany invaded Poland, setting off World War II.
So what? Chamberlaine said "peace for our time". Nixon said "I am not a crook". Hitler said he had no more territorial claims. The only reason that what Foch said is remembered was because there was a war. There were probably millions of others that predicted the opposite, in fact that is what the League Of Nations was about (and it was more effective than commonly thought). Yet we don't quote them. It's survivor bias. What's also forgotten is that he thought that because the Versaille Treaty was not harsh enough. Kind of the opposite of what people are trying to prove when they 'selectively' quote him. Please read up about The Versailles Treaty, plus the treaty Germany impossed on Russia, and the other WW1 treaties. What most people still think about it is more aligned with Nazi spin than the actual truth. Ask yourself, if it was the cause of WW2 then how come Hitler's attempted putsch failed in 1923 (while Mussolini's had the opposite result) yet he was successful ten years later via the ballot box? What happened in those intervening years? Here's a clue... it was somewhat depressing.
0:23 Diocletian splits Rome into East & West 1:16 King Leopold II's rush to Africa 2:20 Sending Diego de Landa to convert the Yucatán peninsula 3:17 Romanos IV recruiting a diverse army 4:16 Jefferson removing an anti-slavery passage from the declaration of independence 6:53 King Charles I dissolving the parliament 8:21 Operation Cyclone 9:38 Lenin installing himself as a dictator 10:46 Louis XVI's financial aid to the USA 12:03 The bay of pigs invasion 13:07 The donner party's "shortcut" 14:10 Churchill decides to invade Gallipoli 15:11 Battle of the Little Bighorn 16:24 Napoleon's invasion of Russia 17:01 The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan 17:42 The Spanish Armada's failed invasion of England 18:45 The Fourth Crusade 19:34 Chernobyl meltdown 20:33 Hernán Cortés' alliance with the Aztecs' enemies 21:37 Mao's great leap forward 22:20 The topping of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran 23:02 Escalation of the Vietnam war 24:18 George W Bush invading Iraq in 2003 24:59 Austria-Hungarian invasion of Serbia 25:43 Russian invasion of Ukraine 26:51 Japan bring the USA into World War 2 27:50 Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union 28:25 Angering Genghis Khan 29:22 The victorious allies (mainly France) impose harsh terms on Germany after WW1
@@who399 Because you've not learnt from history: the war was fought by the South to retain slavery (the North fought merely to preserve the Union). Removing slavery revokes a motive to rebel
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 changed the world to this day. A 19 year old assassin changed the world for the next century to come. Wild!
10:00 Lenin had nothing to do with the February Revolution and the Tsar's abdication, because he was in Switzerland at the time. Lenin is responsible for the October Revolution that overthrew Kerensky and the Provisional Government.
@Shinzon23 The February Revolution was not a communist revolution. Alexander Kerensky was not a Communist. The Communist Revolution was in October. The Communists overthrew Kerensky's Govt, not the Tsar's. Lenin despised the liberal politicians.
Barbarossa is a much stronger contender for the worst decision of all time. It directly led to Germany losing the war and was completely avoidable. And it was even worse given that there was already the example of Russia humbling Napoleon. #3 isn’t high enough.
The problem was that Germany and Hitler NEEDED to invade Russia, not to take over the country for Lebensraum (living space) as they claimed, but for the oil rich Caucus region
America did the same Iran ,Iraq vietnam , Afghanistan all failed and the only difference was all of these are weaker nations and people didn’t care enough about middleeast
@@AdarshYadav-ki8xnThey never invaded Iran, the Iraq America built is still standing and the ANA were the ones who immediately surrendered and lost Afghanistan. Learn history kid
YEAH and turning Disney and every great franchise into woke culture .... baning disney from saying ladies and gentlemen and brainwashing the next 200 years of school children making them think there are hundreds of different sexes. Another one is EA buying up every classic PC games company and turning PC game industry into play to win and downloadable content with no inovation since they bacame the biggest PC games company
Native Americans were not externally. They died because their immune system wasn’t able to fight off the infection of malaria and other mosquitoes diseases.
That was bad but the Residential school systems here in Canada were the final nail in the coffin for our people, that messed up almost every single Indigenous person to this day
How about democrats politicizing it and banning any opinion that agreed the evidence pointed to a Wuhan lab leak, which is accepted now. How many had to die because of the misinformation and propaganda to protect the source of the problem.
That was largely a result of terrible leadership. Look at the countries who were hot the hardest, and who was in charge. Basically a gaggle of tyrants that don't care about the people they govern.
The conspiracy theories about vaccines, the belief that people couldn't breathe with masks on and some moron suggesting that Hydrochloriquin, a lupus medication, Ivermectin, a horse de-wormer, injecting yourself with disinfectant and shinning UV light UNDER THE SKIN didn't help either And now that same moron is going to be in office again in 3 weeks
Well it wasn't really the "wrong" country. Bush knew who was responsible. He had always wanted to attack Iraq. He's responsible for countless deaths, and gets to walk around like he's blameless.
4:16 The Committee of Five who worked on the Declaration of Independence had no choice but to remove it, if they didn’t, the Southern Colonies would’ve never agreed to join the rebellion and United States. Jefferson put it perfectly: "[Slavery is holding] the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
THIS, is likely the smartest post put on the internet ever...of all time. Priority #1 was to create a united nation. Without the South, England would have crushed the rebellion.
Holy $&## someone REALLY knows their American history. You have to be a teacher. I've given up on the average American knowing the history of this country.
To make it worse.. the Southern states only agreed to join if Congress promised that Slavery could not be made illegal until the year 1810. The Founding Fathers basically had to kick the can down the road and hope that the future generation of law makers would do the right thing when it became time to do so.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Engaging the North Vietnamese wasn't the problem, it was how we were fighting the war In past wars, we fought to gain territory to deny it from the enemy. But in Vietnam, we fight to take a hill, lose dozens of men at a time, only to abandon it and let them take it back again, forcing us to take it again and abandoning it again Add to the fact that LBJ and Robert Mcnamara micromanageing the war from 10,000 miles away, William Westmoreland saying he could win the war if he just got a few thousand more men, over and over again, the Rules of Engagement hamstringing us while the enemy doesn't play by our rules and the F4 Phantom which didn't have guns and missiles with a 75% failure rate, didn't help
F4 didnt have guns because it shouldnt have needed them the whole point of it was to kill its target well before it got into visual range but as usual politics got in the way they literally forced all bomb runs through a single flight corridor to the north allowing the north to stack air defences at one point and then banned the airforce from attacking the those defences giving the reason that if there was russian or chinese advisors assisting with the weapons it could cause diplomatic issues So just go to hell and back instead
Ironically in 1964 an English translation of Gen. Giap's book "People's Army, People's War" was available in the U.S. It was clear to the few hundred of us who read it that the U.S. was on the wrong side and would lose. In 1996 West Point made it mandatory reading. Only 30 years too late. Unfortunately the net effect of U.S. intervention was to bring to power the Stalinist faction after Ho Chi Minh's death and put off Vietnam's entry into the world community for 20 years.
I dont think its ranked that hard. The invasion of Afghanistan led to the dissolution of the USSR. But WatchMojo didn’t say that was a disastrous decision. Killing 2 million civilians on the way. They said the US support of the Afghans was the terrible decision. Because they are big terrorist to the US now. It didn’t say the decision to commit 9/11 was a disastrous decision either. It even said France going into debt funding America’s war of independence was a TERRIBLE decision of France because it likely made a french famine worse. Mind you this led to the US becoming France’s biggest ally and hero in WW2 but also the French Revolution. Weird take to say the debt suffered by France was an awful decision considering what they got from it.
@@brandonvasser5902 9/11 Wouldn't fit on this list because these ones are all government/citizen sanctioned decisions that were meant to have positive effects instead of the disastrous ones they ended up having. 9/11 had the exact effects it was intended to have by the people who made the decisions.
@@brandonvasser5902 I think much like the Romanovs, revolution was going to happen regardless. Louis the 16th’s out of control spending Versailles had the people enraged. It is definitely ironic that his help with the American Revolution was a huge factor in the shortly following French Revolution. Oopsie! 😉
@@Jeremy-ql1or Not quite, Osama Bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in hopes of stopping and deterring US interference in the Middle East. The exact opposite happened.
The thing is, we still don't know all the ramifications of this invasion. Maybe this was the event that will led to the third world war, but we can't tell yet.
Handing the German Chancellery to a failed Austrian painter in 1933. The stupidest decision in human history. While the Treaty of Versailles did give rise to fascism, there was still plenty of opposition in the Reichstag and thus this could have been avoided.
A few other contenders: the mounting of Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg (1863); the addition of tetraethyl lead to gasoline (early 1920s); The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930); Decca Records rejects the Beatles (1962)
If only all those voters ACTUALLY KNEW about the Smoot Hawley Tariffs? If only they saw what tariffs did during the Depression? Buckle up America......
@@xyz061220 Exactly! Yeah, in the grand scheme of things, this was indeed a terrible decision, but not exactly world-impacting. A lot of bad business decisions fall into that category: Blockbuster refusing to buy Netflix, Ford introducing the Edsel, so forth. Maybe the most significant in changing the world was DRI refusing to license CP/M to IBM...not sure.
@@suzyfarnham3165 I was actually in favor of tariffs at one point as a way to stimulate the domestic economy - but honestly, given some not-very-deep research and historical lessons such as this, I'm thinking it is generally not a good idea.
Omitting that sentence from the declaration of independence wasn't a mistake. It was a product of the times, slavery was everywhere in the world at that time, it isn't like the US was the only country that had them
And deleting that sentence was one of the compromises Jefferson and Adams and Franklin had to make to assure that the declaration would be unanimously adopted even by the slave holding states. Without its removal from the declaration, there would have been no United States of America. However, one of the scariest, and obviously most reflective discoveries was a statement Adams made to Franklin. Adam’s vehemently opposed to removing it and said that if it did within a couple generations, it would cause a civil war. He was extraordinarily prophetic.
@EdmondGuay Another factor was that slaves weren't included in the census count. Keeping that sentence would've given slave states more seats in Govt. Right or wrong, it played a role
That's where you are wrong. The real reason for the colonists deciding to rebel was because Slavery was going to be outlawed in the British Empire in 1795. Too many colonists, including the American founding fathers, were slave owners. Slavery had already been outlawed in 1708 in Great Britain (England outlawed slavery in 1068) and the influential colonists in every Assembly made the the decision to rebel. Today, we hear the ill-founded belief that the revolution was about taxation and representation. No American having gone through the indoctrination in the US school system believes anything but what they are told. The facts are documented in various letters from the Colonial Office in London to different Colonialists in the 13 Colonies.
In the Congo under Leopold, the primary punishment for disobedience or failing to meet rubber production quotas was having one's hands cut off. These were often cut off by Force Publique soldiers who were made to account for every shot they fired by bringing back the hands of their victims. The baskets of severed hands, set down at the feet of the Belgian post commanders, became the symbol of the Congo Free State.
Just remember that had Princess Charlotte not died during childbirth, then Leopold would have never been born, and Belgium wouldn't even exist. Shitty medical practices caused a lot damage.
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A few others: The Roman army going into the Teutoburg forest. The 2 Inca brothers more engaging in fighting each other in a civil war than fighting the small conquistador army. The French generals ignoring the Ardennes in May 1940.
Napoleon invading Russia. Germany invading Russia. Just basically remember it’s exceedingly vast and frozen. Also goes for Afghanistan. Which is empty except for rocks
Not a fan of slavery. Thomas Jefferson took the bit about slavery out of the Declaration of Independence, because none of the southern states would have signed it. So the whole revolution would’ve never occurred.
Thank you. I'm sick of these snarky asides about his owning slaves. What was he supposed to do, free them all to starve in an economy they weren't prepared for? And if he'd freed Sally Hanson, she would have to have moved away from him. The desire of fledgling Americans to emulate ancient cultures by using slavery was too strong for one person to change, but at least he tried.
@@LogoSmith87 Actually they were, Jefferson had to argue with people who cited thousands of years of slavey all over the world. Import of slaves was banned in the USA in 1817, but by then it was solidly entrenched in the Southern economy. When Lincoln came in, being from the North and unfamiliar with slavery, he studied the problem before signing the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves, including those at the White House- and they are tearing down his statues now.
In #26, you failed to mention that the passage of slavery in the Declaration of Independence was removed for legitimate political reasons. Had it remained, there would not have been 13 colonies declaring independence. The southern colonies would not have remained with Britain, and the northern colonies alone would have failed in a war with Britain. It was not a mistake to remove the slavery passage ... it allowed the founding of the United States of America to happen.
Not sure it is on this list, but the financial crises of 2008. In 1999 the U.S. Congress had passed legislation intended to expand affordable housing through looser financing. Which the banks took advantage of, they gave housing loans to very, very high risk people, and that caused the 2008 banking crash that we still feel today. Now housing is almost impossible to get for most people. So the bill did the exact opposite to what it was intended to do. Also the banks never really recovered, so we have mass inflation over the last 15+ years or so.
That’s not the only reason. Gramm-leach-bliley act repealing parts of glass steagall allowing banks to become “too big to fail” by letting banks to allow investing/insuring/lending institutions.
I think it’s safe to say that for Afghanistan, it’s safe to say that the soviets were responsible for the start of the Afghan conflict, not to mention the many war crimes that they carried out which involve the massacres of many Afghan of civilians resulting in a whopping 2 million Afghan deaths, and of course, the fact that this would lead to the forever Afghan conflict in general.
It would be wise to say the Soviet Afghan war and all the events that happen during it were a major mistake for both the Americans and the Russians. The Soviet Afghan war and the Russians ineffectiveness at fighting against guerrilla warfare and at sustaining financial funding military opreations for a prolonged time length led to the Russians suffering a major full scale completed decisive defeat in Afghanistan and why the Soviet Union effectively completed full scale dissolved as a entire superpower, entire nation state, entire country, and as a entire society. But the US support for the Afghan mujahedeen( A loosely allied coalition of mostly Islamist, Islamic fundamentalist, and Jihadist independent militias) and the Afghan mujahedeen effective completes full scale decisive victory over the Soviets at the end of the Soviet Afghan war and their effective completed full scale military decisive victory over the communist Afghan government during the first Afghan civil war led to the rise of Islamism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Jihadism in the Muslim world(Which includes southeast Asia and the middle east.) Which led to the creations and rise of Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and ISIS. Which led to the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent US led war on terror campaign. Which is why despite the US effectively achieving an ultimate completed full scale decisive victory over the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold war as the United States effectively still existed but the Soviet Union doesn't in the 21st century. It is also why the US wasn't able to effectively not have to predominantly worry about it foreign policy in the post cold war era after the 1990's ended.
The British tried taking Afghanistan, as have many others, it's a strategic piece of land. Problem stems from bigger countries trying to exert their influence.
Mao? This video is entertainment and the creators and consumers are western, so that will be it's emphasis. There are plenty of 'horrible' things done by non-Europeans or Americans. Being 'horrible' is more a human trait than a geographic one. As is slavery, colonization, and having empires (pretty much everywhere on the planet has done that at some point).
Jaws tapped into our primal fears of certain animals Other animals in those fears include snakes, bears and scorpions to name a few Imagine if it had been about one of them instead Plus jaws tapped into our fear of the ocean as well
Jaws did for swimming what Psycho did for showers. 😁 Apparently the trouser press is more dangerous than the great white. I'm looking forward to that blockbuster. 😂
Sooooo many bad decisions in the treaty of Versailles. Punishing Russia, humiliating Germany, welching on Italy, stupid divisions of the Middle East. Rejecting Japanese proposals…
No it didn't. That is very much an outdated myth that just gets repeated over and over. Please read up on it. You are not going to get the full facts from one minute in a youtube video.
@@andrewjodon1433true. If not him, it could have been someone else. I don’t know that the result would be similar but there was already a movement created. Mustache douche joined an already established party
NASA bosses deciding to launch the Challenger space shuttle, resulting in the engineers warning coming 100% true. The crew and vehicle that were lost, mass trauma of observers (the children in that school room watching a live broadcast) and the later ending of the shuttle program.
No hurt feelings. They’re a propaganda outlet. See the 780 million settlement with dominion (voting machine company) for an example of their tactics and lies.
@@mulletoutdooradventures6286Because like "leftist" CNN it's EVERYTHING RUPERT HATES WE DO from the viewers. Wake up. He did it to avoid tax evasion. His son Lachlan was not so lucky
@@jerryf.coffey2671 People have become so delusional they now hate each other over trivial fairy tales of moral grandeur bringing in a new direction where the US is declining as global power and giving rise to destabilization in the middle east, Europe and expansionist China. Fox has deliberately fueled divisiveness. Fear and loathing is easy to sell. Adult responsibility for events and behavior is a hard sell.
05:01 Imagine if Jefferson had kept the anti-slavery passage in the Declaration of Independence. How different do you think American history would be? Could it have avoided the Civil War altogether?
The North would have been forced to invest in southern development. Instead we got a poor agrarian society with slavery that was eventually burned down and then kept down by “carpet baggers” from the North for a generation. There would be less wealth disparity between the states I believe.
America would have lost the Revolution. The southern states would have never agreed to join the cause if slavery was abolished. The rebellion needed EVERYONE if it was going to stand any kind of chance against the British. So unfortunately, compromises had to be made. That is why it was removed from the initial draft as they chose to let future generations deal with it. Their primary focus was winning the Revolution.
Much of what we think we know about history is just plain wrong, and often just made up. Certainly at the popular level like this. Many of the things that were common beliefs half a century ago and have since been disproved or revised on the basis of new evidence and research are still repeated as true. With just one minute per topic you can't expect a video like this to cover the complexity of the events it covers. So you get a summary that has to skip so many facts it's, at best, meaningless and, at worse, misleading. This is fun not history.
The defeat of the Spanish Armada wasn't just down to the more maneuverable ships. The Spanish Armada were still using outdated boarding tactics against gun ships. So not only could they not out maneuver them, they couldn't even effectively fight back. Just a fun fact about this list.
Instead of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany should have let Austria fight their own war over the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. They were just itching for a reason to go to war with the Balkan states. Blame Gavril Princip for what followed.
We should've, but we were contractually bound to assist Austria-Hungary in the case of a war happening. (The Dual Alliance of 1879) The Dual Alliance was a military treaty that had Austria-Hungary and Germany support and aid each other fully in the case of a Russian attack. This was also valid for the case of the attack originating from a country supported by Russia. It was originally designed for five years, and was to be automatically renewed for three years if neither country objected. After Bismarck's treaties broke apart in 1890, this was the only treaty left that was actually valid for Germany.
I think it was a little more complicated than that. It's worth reading up on. A tale of miscalculations and misunderstandings. It's almost a miracle that the war happened (in a bad sense). Many weak links in the chain of events. It was very far from inevitable. Astro-Hungary wasn't itching to go to war with the Balkan states. Serbia was their issue, and that was because it was a threat. Even when states invade other states they usually do it claiming self defense with some truth (however tenuous or overblown) behind it. For example, Poland 1939, Norway 1940, Pearl Harbor 1941 all the way through to the Gulf Of Tonkin, Iraq and Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Even German's justification for going to war with Russia in WW1 was partially defensive. Wars are often, he hit me first, or he was about to hit me. If you understand kindergarden politics you understand global politics and animal politics. Yes, even dogs are aware of when things 'aren't fair'.
Diocletian spliting the Roman Empire was one of the besh decisions in history. Because of him and Constantine the Roman Empire lasted for another thousand years.
Objectively, the treaty of Versailles was pretty run of the mill and Germany lost less than ten percent of its territory. Compare that with Austria-Hungary or the Ottoman Empire which were completely dismantled. But the psychological impact was immense. This goes to show that’s you can’t underestimate the bitterness of an entire nation.
The reparation payments in the Treaty of Versailles were completely unreasonable. Germany couldn't afford to pay them, so France invaded and occupied the Ruhr. To make the next payment, Germany was forced to hyperinflate it's currency which eventually became completely worthless. That economic hardship lasted for more than a decade until mustache man came into power and flipped the German economy
@@doctorwyvern9992 Tear gassed civvies, sent us into a recession, had a terrorist attack on the capital, made us a laughing stock on the world stage, spent more money than any president in recent history just to golf and have his ego stroked at rallies, bungled the Covid response because he was afraid of the economy tanking, signed an abysmal deal with terrorists just to campaign on it and then not actually following through with the evacuation, just to name a few things
Abe Lincoln deciding to go to Ford's Theater for a show. In personal history the day a drug dealer's phone number found its way to my phone and I decided to call it. No ill will to the dealer. He's just a guy supplying a demand. But meeting him was the worst thing to ever happen to me as it began a 10+ year run of addiction that stole almost everything I worked for. Sober for 6 years now and still not even close to where I was.
Every single one of these bad decisions in the video, all the ones in the comments and millions of others not listed were all able to happen because of the biggest single mistake in all of human history. Coming down from the trees and learning to walk.
for the 20th century, the worst decision was the coach driver of Archduke Franz Ferdinand deciding to take a shortcut and drive in to another street where the dude who tried to kill Ferdinand shortly before just happened to be again as well, giving him a 2nd change at murder, causing WW1, without WW1, WW2 would have likely never happened.
What is , oh a k-cup is from KFC sorry I'm Scottish and have never been to America but i know how to spell American words, color is colour, phaucet is tap,
I would argue that creating a communist Empire in WW2 was one of the biggest mistake ever. Stalin ended up with all of the territory that Germany was going for anyway and more. The Soviet Union became a superpower and was able to fund other communist uprisings around the world. If we didn't do that, there wouldn't be a North Korea, there wouldn't have been a Great Leap Forward in China, there wouldn't be a CCP, there wouldn't have been a Vietnam War or an Afghan war. No Khmer Rouge or killing fields in Cambodia. No Taliban. Easily one of the worst mistakes in history.
We should include the Hitler-Stalin pact. All it did was give both the go-ahead to wage war on Europe. We saw how that worked out for Germany and Europe. And the USSR doesn’t exist anymore and Finland and the balkans and Ukraine and Poland all hate Russia. Stalin shouldn’t have decided to split up Europe with the Nazis together. Germany ultimately won, they lead the Euro and Putin is seriously struggling to rebuild his empire while his former states try to pull away and join Germany and France.
It shouldn't have been a bad thing for most of Europe. Germany probably didn't expect that Britain would actually declare war when they invaded Poland as Poland had only existed for 20 years. If Britain and France just let it go and didn't declare war on Germany, Germany never would have gone West. Their war with the Soviet Union was inevitable, the war with the West could have been completely avoided.
Sins of a father.... The actions you take today can have a devastating effect down the road for generations of people I think the world overall is doing a lot better than we were even 100 years ago but we need to all call out bs like these examples when we see it
Very confused about the Normans taking Rome in 1071? Are they confusing the Seljuks taking Mazikert? The fall of Rome, the city, was 500 years prior to 1071 and done by Ostrogoths.
Rome could have settled the angry Protestants and calmed all Europe for hundreds of years by simply giving up the practice of selling indulgences (ie, paying the Pope to tell God to let you out of hell)
A Lt Colonel is still called colonel by military custom, just like there are 4 ranks of general (formerly 5) but we still call them general The same applies to Admirals and Lt Commanders
@MrShaneVicious It wasn't really surprising that he did get demoted after the Civil War, many officers who stay in the service after a war got demoted Lewis B "Chesty" Puller was a luitenent in the Marines and got demoted to sergeant after he got his commission before getting promoted again
@dragonweyr44 that was normal, a lot of officers got temporary promotions during the war because of the massive expansion of the Army. When the Army was reduced after the war, it wasn't feasible to keep so many higher ranked officers for such a small army.
Not sure I agree. It led to the Soviet decision to install missiles in Cuba, which prompted a vigorous US response. The resulting confrontation led to substantial efforts at de-escalation, including protocols for direct communications between the leaders of both countries.
@ The missile crisis was a substantial event in itself but, we are still dealing with Stalin’s evil empire to this day. So I would not say anything has been resolved and yet no nuclear exchanges so far.
@@michaelbishop1 It resulted in the hotline between the US president and Soviet premier, and it arguably opened the door to subsequent missile reduction treaties. That said, I would agree that the basic issues at play haven't been resolved.
24:26 George Bush Jr. said in his autobiography that he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when he started the endless war with them.
What's funny is about the Spanish invasion of England was that the King of Spain, Phillip II, was formerly the brother-in-law of Elizabeth I, the Queen of England.
Another worst decision I have In mind 1 Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony 2 attempted assassination on trump 3 Israel vs Palestine 4 oye primos ( the disgrace to animation ) being created 5 cancel culture
Hates cancel culture, calls for hate on some actress on the same channel, apart from rain what would make the Paris Olympic opening ceremony appear on any list?
3:48 His biggest mistake was recruiting a highly diverse army from various backgrounds with no loyalty who would desert and fight for the other side.... I thought diversity was a strength.
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@11:10 hmmm this sounds AWFULLY familiar ........ hmmmmmm
The iranian revolution destabilized the whole middle east region until today and decades to come :(
The Browns hiring Kevin Stefanski......
How did Moctezuma welcoming Cortes, Japan's invasion of Asia in WW2, and Hitler's invasion of Poland weren't on this list?
Still no clue why the Shah refused peace with Genghis Khan. Genghis wanted peace and he accepted two different kingdoms.
I'd say letting Russell Wilson throw a pass instead of handing the ball over to Marshawn Lynch for a run in SB 49
That is so real
Could've changed the whole NFL timeline
Yep
I think it was the right call to attempt a pass, I don't agree with the pass play that was called. I would've called a play action pass in that situation
@@Dalton1294 Nah, Pete Carroll or it's Russell Wilson himself who wants to win the SB MVP not Marshawn Lynch that's why they pass. I'm sorry but You got an unstoppable force at the 1 yard line yet you choose to pass? That was a big mistake
When the Austrians rejected that one amateur artist....
Well, he was a bad painter anyway
@@dragonweyr44His paintings were not bad. But the rise of the Picasso and artists like that made it less popular
@@gerarduspoppel2831 Have you seen them? They were full essentially architectural drawings.
@@charliesmith4072which wasn't popular at the time and is why the art school he was rejected from told him he would be good as an architect but he didn't listen, he was a stubborn, cowardly, and hateful man
Its just a popular myth, he had a chance to present his works before an artistic committee but canceled the meeting himself in the last minute. I’m not saying that this was the turning point, but his artistic career didn’t end because of refusals.
The worst part is the inability to learn lessons from these awful decisions and the events they triggered 🤦♀️
Yeah 😢
What lessons?
@@gandydancer9710 that's exactly what I mean
most of these decisions are on purpose. Making sure there is a continuity of enemies for the war machine to profit.
Yeah like being an armchair critic playing Captain Hindsight.
like, half of these is being "lets invade a neighbour, it will be over by Christmas" wars
Then there's that crazy Bastard, George Washington: "Let's invade these mf'ers IN THEIR SLEEP. ON CHRISTMAS. Follow me across this frozen river!"
ukraine is still winning right bud???
and its usually if two neighbors are fighting its because usa visited one.
@@SYOTOSVLOG Yup, a country with a military a 1/3 the size of your buddy Putin couldn't even take them before they started getting arms from NATO because of massive corruption and incompetence
@@SYOTOSVLOG half the time its the USA invading... Canada (1812), Vietnam (1965), Bay of Pigs (1961), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq(2003)... The next contender seems to be Russia, with Finland (1939), Afghanistan (1979), Japan (1904) and Poland (1920). And then its good old WW2 Axis, with Germany , Japan and Italy basically trying to invade whole world... And WW1 was not much better, everyone piled up like it is rugby match.
Now we need a "Top 30 BEST Decisions In History", make it happen Mojo!
Here you go ua-cam.com/video/je8x52eNEgw/v-deo.html
One question, would Hiroshima and Nagasaki be on it?
Yes what a great precedent that set for future peacekeeping efforts 😊 nowadays, no one wants to use nukes or build nukes and no one invades each other because of the threat of nuclear war. Phew, thank goodness that's no longer an issue 😁@@doopmcdoop9367
@@WatchMojo That was quick! You guys work really hard!
Dred Scott ruling. Seriously that ruling basically set the stage for civil war
It also lead to the language seen in the 14th Amendment
Agree. Worst possible Supreme Court decision .... along with the ones which completely mis-interpreted the 2nd Ammendment, and declared money to be "protected free speech" when it came to politics.
Right? How did the Donner parties' shortcut make the list when it only affected them?
Soooo many other historical events with far-reaching consequences...
@@tarajh That and Hitler invading the USSR don't in any way belong on the same list. A few dozen dead vs a few dozen million? And taking abolitionism out of the Declaration of Independence? It would never have been signed otherwise.
Henry Clay & Daniel Webster: No! We STOPPED the Civil War with the Compromise of 1850!
Terminator: No, you only postponed it. Civil War is inevitable. (with or without Dred Scott)
At the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 French Marshal Ferdinand Foch said: "This isn't a peace, it's a 20 year armistice." 20 years and 39 days later, Germany invaded Poland, setting off World War II.
So what? Chamberlaine said "peace for our time". Nixon said "I am not a crook". Hitler said he had no more territorial claims. The only reason that what Foch said is remembered was because there was a war. There were probably millions of others that predicted the opposite, in fact that is what the League Of Nations was about (and it was more effective than commonly thought). Yet we don't quote them. It's survivor bias. What's also forgotten is that he thought that because the Versaille Treaty was not harsh enough. Kind of the opposite of what people are trying to prove when they 'selectively' quote him. Please read up about The Versailles Treaty, plus the treaty Germany impossed on Russia, and the other WW1 treaties.
What most people still think about it is more aligned with Nazi spin than the actual truth. Ask yourself, if it was the cause of WW2 then how come Hitler's attempted putsch failed in 1923 (while Mussolini's had the opposite result) yet he was successful ten years later via the ballot box? What happened in those intervening years?
Here's a clue... it was somewhat depressing.
0:23 Diocletian splits Rome into East & West
1:16 King Leopold II's rush to Africa
2:20 Sending Diego de Landa to convert the Yucatán peninsula
3:17 Romanos IV recruiting a diverse army
4:16 Jefferson removing an anti-slavery passage from the declaration of independence
6:53 King Charles I dissolving the parliament
8:21 Operation Cyclone
9:38 Lenin installing himself as a dictator
10:46 Louis XVI's financial aid to the USA
12:03 The bay of pigs invasion
13:07 The donner party's "shortcut"
14:10 Churchill decides to invade Gallipoli
15:11 Battle of the Little Bighorn
16:24 Napoleon's invasion of Russia
17:01 The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
17:42 The Spanish Armada's failed invasion of England
18:45 The Fourth Crusade
19:34 Chernobyl meltdown
20:33 Hernán Cortés' alliance with the Aztecs' enemies
21:37 Mao's great leap forward
22:20 The topping of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran
23:02 Escalation of the Vietnam war
24:18 George W Bush invading Iraq in 2003
24:59 Austria-Hungarian invasion of Serbia
25:43 Russian invasion of Ukraine
26:51 Japan bring the USA into World War 2
27:50 Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union
28:25 Angering Genghis Khan
29:22 The victorious allies (mainly France) impose harsh terms on Germany after WW1
L spoilers
Missed 5:45 non-testing of the Titanic.
How Lincoln freeing the slave wasn't #1 I'll never know
@@who399 Because you've not learnt from history: the war was fought by the South to retain slavery (the North fought merely to preserve the Union). Removing slavery revokes a motive to rebel
@stephenlitten1789 Well, Lincoln freeing them seems to have been a huge mistake, or are you not aware of the state of things today?
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 changed the world to this day. A 19 year old assassin changed the world for the next century to come. Wild!
Completely agree
It would have happened regardless
And they still errected statues of Gavrilo Princip in Serbia in 2014.... While at the same time try to get into the EU....
😮😮😮😊
10:00 Lenin had nothing to do with the February Revolution and the Tsar's abdication, because he was in Switzerland at the time. Lenin is responsible for the October Revolution that overthrew Kerensky and the Provisional Government.
He founded the movement before the exile tho
@Shinzon23 The February Revolution was not a communist revolution. Alexander Kerensky was not a Communist. The Communist Revolution was in October. The Communists overthrew Kerensky's Govt, not the Tsar's. Lenin despised the liberal politicians.
You think watchmojo actually did any research whatsoever beyond a 2 minute Wikipedia summary?
@@onetakehoovie5955 no they probably did not
@@onetakehoovie5955 obviously not
Barbarossa is a much stronger contender for the worst decision of all time. It directly led to Germany losing the war and was completely avoidable. And it was even worse given that there was already the example of Russia humbling Napoleon. #3 isn’t high enough.
The problem was that Germany and Hitler NEEDED to invade Russia, not to take over the country for Lebensraum (living space) as they claimed, but for the oil rich Caucus region
America did the same Iran ,Iraq vietnam , Afghanistan all failed and the only difference was all of these are weaker nations and people didn’t care enough about middleeast
@AdarshYadav-ki8xn Uh, we don't invade Iran,. We did Afghanistan
@@AdarshYadav-ki8xnThey never invaded Iran, the Iraq America built is still standing and the ANA were the ones who immediately surrendered and lost Afghanistan. Learn history kid
Swedish king Charles XII also proved the stupidity of invading Russia.
And Number One: George Lucas sells Star Wars to Disney
YEAH and turning Disney and every great franchise into woke culture .... baning disney from saying ladies and gentlemen and brainwashing the next 200 years of school children making them think there are hundreds of different sexes. Another one is EA buying up every classic PC games company and turning PC game industry into play to win and downloadable content with no inovation since they bacame the biggest PC games company
I’m surprised these fruit cakes aren’t mad at you saying that😂 watchMojo‘s community has changed
Have you seen episodes 1,2, and 3? Star Wars was no better in George Lucas's hands.
@@ba1050 😐 bro you don’t know what you’re talking about. The prequels are freaking good and the best sw in my opinion was pt 5
@@ba1050 True. Should have kept it to the original epic trilogy....spare us the likes of Jar-Jar Binks, lol.
Yes, but where is Joker 2?
A movie can not be called one of the worst decisions in history.
@@jsutton0010 If any movie arguably could, it would be Joker 2
😂
@@jsutton0010 my decision to see it on the other hand, is
Too bad we live in a world where everyone is right
Even if people make a mistake they'll almost NEVER own up to it
Yes. Accountability is a dying trait these days.
@@Snatchystashy Accountability has never been a trait of the human race.
Sadly it's been going on for centuries
Voters have yet to apologize for installing Dubya the war criminal as US president.......and then re-electing the moron. It is disgusting.
Google it, man's last words
The release of the T-virus into Racoon city was incredibly costly to mankind. Can’t believe this didn’t make the list…
The near extermination of the Native Americans was appalling, and definitely a dark stain on American History!
Native Americans were not externally. They died because their immune system wasn’t able to fight off the infection of malaria and other mosquitoes diseases.
Mistake was making it "near".
@@heathrunyon4036 Yes, that happened but the majority were killed by europeans specially those who settle on the northern part of the continent.
That was bad but the Residential school systems here in Canada were the final nail in the coffin for our people, that messed up almost every single Indigenous person to this day
I bet you would rather live under modernity than under the Stone Age, which the Native Americans were stuck in.
27:10 "...the USA, Britain and the Dutch, who all had TERRITORY in the pacific ..." - Now that's a euphemism for colonies, isn’t it?
Some had spheres of influence in China which were not as bad as being colonies.
As if the Japanese weren't a Imperial power fueled on racial superiority.
Food
I would say the lack of communication and transparacy that caused the COVID pandemic to escalate into a global crisis
How about democrats politicizing it and banning any opinion that agreed the evidence pointed to a Wuhan lab leak, which is accepted now. How many had to die because of the misinformation and propaganda to protect the source of the problem.
That was largely a result of terrible leadership. Look at the countries who were hot the hardest, and who was in charge. Basically a gaggle of tyrants that don't care about the people they govern.
The conspiracy theories about vaccines, the belief that people couldn't breathe with masks on and some moron suggesting that Hydrochloriquin, a lupus medication, Ivermectin, a horse de-wormer, injecting yourself with disinfectant and shinning UV light UNDER THE SKIN didn't help either
And now that same moron is going to be in office again in 3 weeks
You mean gain of function?
That started from China.
The Iraq War - invading the wrong country. This act of stupidity cost lives on all sides.
Well it wasn't really the "wrong" country. Bush knew who was responsible. He had always wanted to attack Iraq. He's responsible for countless deaths, and gets to walk around like he's blameless.
It was a deliberate act. They knew Iraq had nothing to do with 9 / 11 and the US wanted their oil.
@@user-em6ie2be7x Bush invaded the country he wanted to. A million dead civilians, and he walks around like nothing happened.
Yeah but I deployed 5 times in support of that war plus did a year in Turkey tax free. I made some really good money. War is profitable for sure!
@@nodnarbleahcim5097 Yeah, but money can't change you from being a turd of a person, can it?
4:16 The Committee of Five who worked on the Declaration of Independence had no choice but to remove it, if they didn’t, the Southern Colonies would’ve never agreed to join the rebellion and United States. Jefferson put it perfectly: "[Slavery is holding] the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
THIS, is likely the smartest post put on the internet ever...of all time. Priority #1 was to create a united nation. Without the South, England would have crushed the rebellion.
This is 100 % correct. Jefferson had no choice.
Holy $&## someone REALLY knows their American history. You have to be a teacher. I've given up on the average American knowing the history of this country.
@@scottreyes17you don't get out much do you
To make it worse.. the Southern states only agreed to join if Congress promised that Slavery could not be made illegal until the year 1810. The Founding Fathers basically had to kick the can down the road and hope that the future generation of law makers would do the right thing when it became time to do so.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Engaging the North Vietnamese was a costly mistake.
That was one of the many consequences of creating a communist superpower in ww2.
Engaging the North Vietnamese wasn't the problem, it was how we were fighting the war
In past wars, we fought to gain territory to deny it from the enemy. But in Vietnam, we fight to take a hill, lose dozens of men at a time, only to abandon it and let them take it back again, forcing us to take it again and abandoning it again
Add to the fact that LBJ and Robert Mcnamara micromanageing the war from 10,000 miles away, William Westmoreland saying he could win the war if he just got a few thousand more men, over and over again, the Rules of Engagement hamstringing us while the enemy doesn't play by our rules and the F4 Phantom which didn't have guns and missiles with a 75% failure rate, didn't help
F4 didnt have guns because it shouldnt have needed them the whole point of it was to kill its target well before it got into visual range but as usual politics got in the way
they literally forced all bomb runs through a single flight corridor to the north allowing the north to stack air defences at one point and then banned the airforce from attacking the those defences giving the reason that if there was russian or chinese advisors assisting with the weapons it could cause diplomatic issues
So just go to hell and back instead
@efraincastaneda3586 Considering that we haven't had a domestic war in 160 years, that's unlikely to happen
Ironically in 1964 an English translation of Gen. Giap's book "People's Army, People's War" was available in the U.S. It was clear to the few hundred of us who read it that the U.S. was on the wrong side and would lose. In 1996 West Point made it mandatory reading. Only 30 years too late. Unfortunately the net effect of U.S. intervention was to bring to power the Stalinist faction after Ho Chi Minh's death and put off Vietnam's entry into the world community for 20 years.
To say that invading Ukraine is a worst mistake than the Great Leap Forward is the most out of touch thing I’ve ever heard
I dont think its ranked that hard.
The invasion of Afghanistan led to the dissolution of the USSR. But WatchMojo didn’t say that was a disastrous decision. Killing 2 million civilians on the way.
They said the US support of the Afghans was the terrible decision. Because they are big terrorist to the US now.
It didn’t say the decision to commit 9/11 was a disastrous decision either.
It even said France going into debt funding America’s war of independence was a TERRIBLE decision of France because it likely made a french famine worse. Mind you this led to the US becoming France’s biggest ally and hero in WW2 but also the French Revolution. Weird take to say the debt suffered by France was an awful decision considering what they got from it.
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9/11 Wouldn't fit on this list because these ones are all government/citizen sanctioned decisions that were meant to have positive effects instead of the disastrous ones they ended up having. 9/11 had the exact effects it was intended to have by the people who made the decisions.
@@brandonvasser5902 I think much like the Romanovs, revolution was going to happen regardless. Louis the 16th’s out of control spending Versailles had the people enraged.
It is definitely ironic that his help with the American Revolution was a huge factor in the shortly following French Revolution.
Oopsie! 😉
@@Jeremy-ql1or Not quite, Osama Bin Laden orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in hopes of stopping and deterring US interference in the Middle East. The exact opposite happened.
The thing is, we still don't know all the ramifications of this invasion. Maybe this was the event that will led to the third world war, but we can't tell yet.
Handing the German Chancellery to a failed Austrian painter in 1933. The stupidest decision in human history. While the Treaty of Versailles did give rise to fascism, there was still plenty of opposition in the Reichstag and thus this could have been avoided.
A few other contenders: the mounting of Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg (1863); the addition of tetraethyl lead to gasoline (early 1920s); The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930); Decca Records rejects the Beatles (1962)
Make sure to show a pic of Dick Rowe ...
If only all those voters ACTUALLY KNEW about the Smoot Hawley Tariffs? If only they saw what tariffs did during the Depression? Buckle up America......
Also British Prime Minister Nevil Chamberlain's Munich Accords paving the way for hitler invading Europe
@@xyz061220 Exactly! Yeah, in the grand scheme of things, this was indeed a terrible decision, but not exactly world-impacting. A lot of bad business decisions fall into that category: Blockbuster refusing to buy Netflix, Ford introducing the Edsel, so forth. Maybe the most significant in changing the world was DRI refusing to license CP/M to IBM...not sure.
@@suzyfarnham3165 I was actually in favor of tariffs at one point as a way to stimulate the domestic economy - but honestly, given some not-very-deep research and historical lessons such as this, I'm thinking it is generally not a good idea.
3:50 "Let's just spray paint modern army helmets silver, so they'll look medieval!" 😂
So the lesson from this is invasions are usually a very bad idea.
How Franz Ferdinand's driver taking a wrong turn and leading to his assassination isn't number one here is absolutely puzzling
It definitely is
Not only that but WW1 even after the assassination could've been stopped but people were irresponsible
Because it means nothing? The war was absolutely going ro happen. This was just a handy excuse.
Maybe because ww1 was gonna happen regardless of whether franz got shot or not
@SparklRebel it could've been prevented but you're not wrong tensions were already high
Every war at it basics is over “money” The mistake is the “love of money”.
Omitting that sentence from the declaration of independence wasn't a mistake. It was a product of the times, slavery was everywhere in the world at that time, it isn't like the US was the only country that had them
True even Egypt had slaves of its own people
And deleting that sentence was one of the compromises Jefferson and Adams and Franklin had to make to assure that the declaration would be unanimously adopted even by the slave holding states. Without its removal from the declaration, there would have been no United States of America. However, one of the scariest, and obviously most reflective discoveries was a statement Adams made to Franklin. Adam’s vehemently opposed to removing it and said that if it did within a couple generations, it would cause a civil war. He was extraordinarily prophetic.
@EdmondGuay Another factor was that slaves weren't included in the census count. Keeping that sentence would've given slave states more seats in Govt. Right or wrong, it played a role
That's where you are wrong. The real reason for the colonists deciding to rebel was because Slavery was going to be outlawed in the British Empire in 1795. Too many colonists, including the American founding fathers, were slave owners. Slavery had already been outlawed in 1708 in Great Britain (England outlawed slavery in 1068) and the influential colonists in every Assembly made the the decision to rebel. Today, we hear the ill-founded belief that the revolution was about taxation and representation. No American having gone through the indoctrination in the US school system believes anything but what they are told. The facts are documented in various letters from the Colonial Office in London to different Colonialists in the 13 Colonies.
@@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming It sounds like you got this from the 1619 project.
In the Congo under Leopold, the primary punishment for disobedience or failing to meet rubber production quotas was having one's hands cut off. These were often cut off by Force Publique soldiers who were made to account for every shot they fired by bringing back the hands of their victims. The baskets of severed hands, set down at the feet of the Belgian post commanders, became the symbol of the Congo Free State.
Just remember that had Princess Charlotte not died during childbirth, then Leopold would have never been born, and Belgium wouldn't even exist. Shitty medical practices caused a lot damage.
Do you have to talk like trash to make your point?
Yeah but what about Philadelphia getting rid of those cheesecake bars
GREAT VIDEO! Thanks to Watch Mojo and everyone for thinking of it and following through with it! Especially thanks to the irreplaceable narrator and the fact finders who are just the finest in all of You Tube land. Happy New Year to everyone!
A few others:
The Roman army going into the Teutoburg forest.
The 2 Inca brothers more engaging in fighting each other in a civil war than fighting the small conquistador army.
The French generals ignoring the Ardennes in May 1940.
Napoleon invading Russia. Germany invading Russia. Just basically remember it’s exceedingly vast and frozen. Also goes for Afghanistan. Which is empty except for rocks
Not a fan of slavery. Thomas Jefferson took the bit about slavery out of the Declaration of Independence, because none of the southern states would have signed it. So the whole revolution would’ve never occurred.
Thank you. I'm sick of these snarky asides about his owning slaves. What was he supposed to do, free them all to starve in an economy they weren't prepared for? And if he'd freed Sally Hanson, she would have to have moved away from him. The desire of fledgling Americans to emulate ancient cultures by using slavery was too strong for one person to change, but at least he tried.
He could've tried harder is the point I think, but let's bend over backwards to excuse a little slavery, I mean everyone else was doing it, smh
@@LogoSmith87 Actually they were, Jefferson had to argue with people who cited thousands of years of slavey all over the world. Import of slaves was banned in the USA in 1817, but by then it was solidly entrenched in the Southern economy. When Lincoln came in, being from the North and unfamiliar with slavery, he studied the problem before signing the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves, including those at the White House- and they are tearing down his statues now.
This is such a sick video, please do more of these!!!!
Right now a whole lot of people are wondering why their marriage isn’t listed here.
Or their kids 👀
@@sophiaclark376 Not for most people. My kids are the one positive that came out of my marriage.
In #26, you failed to mention that the passage of slavery in the Declaration of Independence was removed for legitimate political reasons. Had it remained, there would not have been 13 colonies declaring independence. The southern colonies would not have remained with Britain, and the northern colonies alone would have failed in a war with Britain. It was not a mistake to remove the slavery passage ... it allowed the founding of the United States of America to happen.
Thank you!!!! Someone who actually does their research👍👍
Not sure it is on this list, but the financial crises of 2008. In 1999 the U.S. Congress had passed legislation intended to expand affordable housing through looser financing. Which the banks took advantage of, they gave housing loans to very, very high risk people, and that caused the 2008 banking crash that we still feel today. Now housing is almost impossible to get for most people. So the bill did the exact opposite to what it was intended to do. Also the banks never really recovered, so we have mass inflation over the last 15+ years or so.
That’s not the only reason. Gramm-leach-bliley act repealing parts of glass steagall allowing banks to become “too big to fail” by letting banks to allow investing/insuring/lending institutions.
@@alwillk I'm glad someone mentioned Glass Steagall.
I've been really enjoying these videos lately. Very interesting.
I bet a lot of people are going to say letting Donald Trump be president again is going to be one of them.
And all of those people will be wrong.
It's a horrible idea.
@@Psymon718oh that’s not…
@@Psymon718 dont bet on it... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@phunkboxx 🤣
It's crazy to me how Leopald has statues around Belgium quite sad.
I think it’s safe to say that for Afghanistan, it’s safe to say that the soviets were responsible for the start of the Afghan conflict, not to mention the many war crimes that they carried out which involve the massacres of many Afghan of civilians resulting in a whopping 2 million Afghan deaths, and of course, the fact that this would lead to the forever Afghan conflict in general.
And heavily lead to the dissolution of the USSR. But WatchMojo doesn’t seem to think the Russian INVASION of the Afghans was a bad idea.
It would be wise to say the Soviet Afghan war and all the events that happen during it were a major mistake for both the Americans and the Russians. The Soviet Afghan war and the Russians ineffectiveness at fighting against guerrilla warfare and at sustaining financial funding military opreations for a prolonged time length led to the Russians suffering a major full scale completed decisive defeat in Afghanistan and why the Soviet Union effectively completed full scale dissolved as a entire superpower, entire nation state, entire country, and as a entire society. But the US support for the Afghan mujahedeen( A loosely allied coalition of mostly Islamist, Islamic fundamentalist, and Jihadist independent militias) and the Afghan mujahedeen effective completes full scale decisive victory over the Soviets at the end of the Soviet Afghan war and their effective completed full scale military decisive victory over the communist Afghan government during the first Afghan civil war led to the rise of Islamism, Islamic fundamentalism, and Jihadism in the Muslim world(Which includes southeast Asia and the middle east.) Which led to the creations and rise of Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and ISIS. Which led to the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent US led war on terror campaign. Which is why despite the US effectively achieving an ultimate completed full scale decisive victory over the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold war as the United States effectively still existed but the Soviet Union doesn't in the 21st century. It is also why the US wasn't able to effectively not have to predominantly worry about it foreign policy in the post cold war era after the 1990's ended.
The British tried taking Afghanistan, as have many others, it's a strategic piece of land.
Problem stems from bigger countries trying to exert their influence.
@@ricardozetino6907 I wish the Yanks got over their Red Scare tactics.
Change the title to ' Horrible things done by europe and america'
U must be from Afganistan
Mao? This video is entertainment and the creators and consumers are western, so that will be it's emphasis. There are plenty of 'horrible' things done by non-Europeans or Americans.
Being 'horrible' is more a human trait than a geographic one. As is slavery, colonization, and having empires (pretty much everywhere on the planet has done that at some point).
The reaction people had and the decision people did when Jaws came out. Oceans where never the same since 😢
Jaws tapped into our primal fears of certain animals
Other animals in those fears include snakes, bears and scorpions to name a few
Imagine if it had been about one of them instead
Plus jaws tapped into our fear of the ocean as well
Nonsence.
Jaws did for swimming what Psycho did for showers. 😁 Apparently the trouser press is more dangerous than the great white. I'm looking forward to that blockbuster. 😂
People were too scared to take a shower after _Psycho_ came out.
Sooooo many bad decisions in the treaty of Versailles. Punishing Russia, humiliating Germany, welching on Italy, stupid divisions of the Middle East. Rejecting Japanese proposals…
The appeasement of Hitler leading to the invasion of Poland
I wasn’t appeasement. War was inevitable
@@EmmaKing30 I totally agree on this, what was avoidable was getting the soviets involved
George Lucas selling Star Wars to Disney is definitely one of these.
Disney has made some good stuff with Star Wars and bad stuff too
And the Prequels were all Lucas's fault
Real disasters, not some nerdy shit.
@@dragonweyr44 Fr AT LEAST we got Rogue One and Andor!! :D
Here’s one not on this list: The Emoji Movie
I'd add every single Robin Williams movie. I'm not a fan.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the Treaty of Versailles. That decision led to the most horrendous atrocities in human history
No it didn't. That is very much an outdated myth that just gets repeated over and over. Please read up on it. You are not going to get the full facts from one minute in a youtube video.
When british soldier Henry Tandey spared Pvt. Hitler's life in WW 1...
Well yes. But The treaty of Versailles is what made it extremely easy for Hitler to come into power to begin with.
@@andrewjodon1433 Excuses will never be accepted for voting in and accepting a madman.
That will also apply in Russia... and USA.
@@babalonkie did I say it was acceptable? No I did not.
Hitler probably made at up no record at he was at that battle
@@andrewjodon1433true. If not him, it could have been someone else. I don’t know that the result would be similar but there was already a movement created. Mustache douche joined an already established party
As a history buff I’ve enjoyed watching this impartial video. Thank you !!
As a history buff you'll know it's full of errors, right?
Actor Ronald Reagan - A Time For Choosing.
When we considered Orwell a work of fiction.
watchmojo saying the titanic sinking was worse than slavery and the civil war
NASA bosses deciding to launch the Challenger space shuttle, resulting in the engineers warning coming 100% true. The crew and vehicle that were lost, mass trauma of observers (the children in that school room watching a live broadcast) and the later ending of the shuttle program.
For me, it's allowing Rupert Murdock to establish FOX News in America!
How so??? 🤔
@@jerryf.coffey2671I gotta hear this reasoning as well 😆. "Cause they hurt my feelings" 😆 🤣 😂
No hurt feelings. They’re a propaganda outlet. See the 780 million settlement with dominion (voting machine company) for an example of their tactics and lies.
@@mulletoutdooradventures6286Because like "leftist" CNN it's EVERYTHING RUPERT HATES WE DO from the viewers. Wake up.
He did it to avoid tax evasion. His son Lachlan was not so lucky
@@jerryf.coffey2671 People have become so delusional they now hate each other over trivial fairy tales of moral grandeur bringing in a new direction where the US is declining as global power and giving rise to destabilization in the middle east, Europe and expansionist China. Fox has deliberately fueled divisiveness. Fear and loathing is easy to sell. Adult responsibility for events and behavior is a hard sell.
Electing Ronald Regan is the biggest mistake ever! #RonaldReganRuinedEverything
05:01 Imagine if Jefferson had kept the anti-slavery passage in the Declaration of Independence. How different do you think American history would be? Could it have avoided the Civil War altogether?
I always think of this. I imagine the country would never have formed the way it did. Too radical for the time probably. Too bad, was nearly perfect.
The USA would have it's southern border along the Potomac
The North would have been forced to invest in southern development. Instead we got a poor agrarian society with slavery that was eventually burned down and then kept down by “carpet baggers” from the North for a generation. There would be less wealth disparity between the states I believe.
The southern colonies would never join the revolution
America would have lost the Revolution. The southern states would have never agreed to join the cause if slavery was abolished. The rebellion needed EVERYONE if it was going to stand any kind of chance against the British. So unfortunately, compromises had to be made. That is why it was removed from the initial draft as they chose to let future generations deal with it. Their primary focus was winning the Revolution.
Dez Braynt caught that ball.
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Much of what we think we know about history is just plain wrong, and often just made up. Certainly at the popular level like this. Many of the things that were common beliefs half a century ago and have since been disproved or revised on the basis of new evidence and research are still repeated as true. With just one minute per topic you can't expect a video like this to cover the complexity of the events it covers. So you get a summary that has to skip so many facts it's, at best, meaningless and, at worse, misleading. This is fun not history.
The defeat of the Spanish Armada wasn't just down to the more maneuverable ships. The Spanish Armada were still using outdated boarding tactics against gun ships. So not only could they not out maneuver them, they couldn't even effectively fight back. Just a fun fact about this list.
Instead of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany should have let Austria fight their own war over the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. They were just itching for a reason to go to war with the Balkan states.
Blame Gavril Princip for what followed.
We should've, but we were contractually bound to assist Austria-Hungary in the case of a war happening. (The Dual Alliance of 1879)
The Dual Alliance was a military treaty that had Austria-Hungary and Germany support and aid each other fully in the case of a Russian attack. This was also valid for the case of the attack originating from a country supported by Russia.
It was originally designed for five years, and was to be automatically renewed for three years if neither country objected. After Bismarck's treaties broke apart in 1890, this was the only treaty left that was actually valid for Germany.
I think it was a little more complicated than that. It's worth reading up on. A tale of miscalculations and misunderstandings.
It's almost a miracle that the war happened (in a bad sense). Many weak links in the chain of events. It was very far from inevitable.
Astro-Hungary wasn't itching to go to war with the Balkan states. Serbia was their issue, and that was because it was a threat.
Even when states invade other states they usually do it claiming self defense with some truth (however tenuous or overblown) behind it.
For example, Poland 1939, Norway 1940, Pearl Harbor 1941 all the way through to the Gulf Of Tonkin, Iraq and Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Even German's justification for going to war with Russia in WW1 was partially defensive. Wars are often, he hit me first, or he was about to hit me.
If you understand kindergarden politics you understand global politics and animal politics. Yes, even dogs are aware of when things 'aren't fair'.
Diocletian spliting the Roman Empire was one of the besh decisions in history. Because of him and Constantine the Roman Empire lasted for another thousand years.
Can’t wait next year for your lists
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Objectively, the treaty of Versailles was pretty run of the mill and Germany lost less than ten percent of its territory. Compare that with Austria-Hungary or the Ottoman Empire which were completely dismantled. But the psychological impact was immense. This goes to show that’s you can’t underestimate the bitterness of an entire nation.
The reparation payments in the Treaty of Versailles were completely unreasonable. Germany couldn't afford to pay them, so France invaded and occupied the Ruhr. To make the next payment, Germany was forced to hyperinflate it's currency which eventually became completely worthless. That economic hardship lasted for more than a decade until mustache man came into power and flipped the German economy
You aren't educated enough to discuss this.
2. Electing Donald Trump in 2016.
1. Re-Electing Donald Trump in 2024.
And what horrible things happened during his first term?
@@doctorwyvern9992 Not starting any wars.
@@doctorwyvern9992 Tear gassed civvies, sent us into a recession, had a terrorist attack on the capital, made us a laughing stock on the world stage, spent more money than any president in recent history just to golf and have his ego stroked at rallies, bungled the Covid response because he was afraid of the economy tanking, signed an abysmal deal with terrorists just to campaign on it and then not actually following through with the evacuation, just to name a few things
Abe Lincoln deciding to go to Ford's Theater for a show.
In personal history the day a drug dealer's phone number found its way to my phone and I decided to call it. No ill will to the dealer. He's just a guy supplying a demand. But meeting him was the worst thing to ever happen to me as it began a 10+ year run of addiction that stole almost everything I worked for. Sober for 6 years now and still not even close to where I was.
How is something related to covid not on this list
Y’all act like it was the 1347 plague.😂 who would you blame im curious.
It wasn't even that bad.
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Every single one of these bad decisions in the video, all the ones in the comments and millions of others not listed were all able to happen because of the biggest single mistake in all of human history. Coming down from the trees and learning to walk.
for the 20th century, the worst decision was the coach driver of Archduke Franz Ferdinand deciding to take a shortcut and drive in to another street where the dude who tried to kill Ferdinand shortly before just happened to be again as well, giving him a 2nd change at murder, causing WW1, without WW1, WW2 would have likely never happened.
What about the McRib, plastic vomit, and K-Cups?!
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What is , oh a k-cup is from KFC sorry I'm Scottish and have never been to America but i know how to spell American words, color is colour, phaucet is tap,
I agree with most of the ratings--- Sadly, the worse decisions are not used to avoid mistakes; BUT, REPEATED.
I would argue that creating a communist Empire in WW2 was one of the biggest mistake ever. Stalin ended up with all of the territory that Germany was going for anyway and more. The Soviet Union became a superpower and was able to fund other communist uprisings around the world. If we didn't do that, there wouldn't be a North Korea, there wouldn't have been a Great Leap Forward in China, there wouldn't be a CCP, there wouldn't have been a Vietnam War or an Afghan war. No Khmer Rouge or killing fields in Cambodia. No Taliban. Easily one of the worst mistakes in history.
your "reading" of history is just spot on /snark, your understanding of what Marx actually said as compared to what was done in his name.
I'm a bit lost at the idea of the Roman Empire falling to the Normans in 1071...
Honorable mention: me eating that burrito from Taco Bell last night.
If only Taco Johns would just swoop in and take over all the Bells, humanity wouldnt suffer
Some people have called it Gringo Food😂
We should include the Hitler-Stalin pact. All it did was give both the go-ahead to wage war on Europe. We saw how that worked out for Germany and Europe. And the USSR doesn’t exist anymore and Finland and the balkans and Ukraine and Poland all hate Russia. Stalin shouldn’t have decided to split up Europe with the Nazis together. Germany ultimately won, they lead the Euro and Putin is seriously struggling to rebuild his empire while his former states try to pull away and join Germany and France.
It shouldn't have been a bad thing for most of Europe. Germany probably didn't expect that Britain would actually declare war when they invaded Poland as Poland had only existed for 20 years. If Britain and France just let it go and didn't declare war on Germany, Germany never would have gone West. Their war with the Soviet Union was inevitable, the war with the West could have been completely avoided.
Sins of a father....
The actions you take today can have a devastating effect down the road for generations of people
I think the world overall is doing a lot better than we were even 100 years ago but we need to all call out bs like these examples when we see it
Very confused about the Normans taking Rome in 1071? Are they confusing the Seljuks taking Mazikert? The fall of Rome, the city, was 500 years prior to 1071 and done by Ostrogoths.
#31 Voting Trump into office, twice.
Yeah, he hasn't started any wars.
@@RonPaulPeace what do you think the Abrahams accord lead to?
Events can't be considered absolutely bad or good, but only consequential.
Rome could have settled the angry Protestants and calmed all Europe for hundreds of years by simply giving up the practice of selling indulgences (ie, paying the Pope to tell God to let you out of hell)
You are amazing
15:35 Custer was a Lt Colonel at the time of Little Big Horn
A Lt Colonel is still called colonel by military custom, just like there are 4 ranks of general (formerly 5) but we still call them general
The same applies to Admirals and Lt Commanders
@dragonweyr44 my point is he wasn't a General at the time of Little Big Horn. They called him General Custer, when it was actually Colonel Custer.
@MrShaneVicious It wasn't really surprising that he did get demoted after the Civil War, many officers who stay in the service after a war got demoted
Lewis B "Chesty" Puller was a luitenent in the Marines and got demoted to sergeant after he got his commission before getting promoted again
@dragonweyr44 that was normal, a lot of officers got temporary promotions during the war because of the massive expansion of the Army. When the Army was reduced after the war, it wasn't feasible to keep so many higher ranked officers for such a small army.
Donald Trump getting reelected should be number 1
"Worst decisions in American history"
Why isn’t Terry Pegula becoming owner of the Buffalo Sabres on this list?
The Bay of Pigs was an embarrassment but, had no long term consequences.
Not sure I agree. It led to the Soviet decision to install missiles in Cuba, which prompted a vigorous US response. The resulting confrontation led to substantial efforts at de-escalation, including protocols for direct communications between the leaders of both countries.
@ The missile crisis was a substantial event in itself but, we are still dealing with Stalin’s evil empire to this day. So I would not say anything has been resolved and yet no nuclear exchanges so far.
@@michaelbishop1 It resulted in the hotline between the US president and Soviet premier, and it arguably opened the door to subsequent missile reduction treaties. That said, I would agree that the basic issues at play haven't been resolved.
It directly lead to the absolute brink of nuclear war. We have NEVER been so close before or after.
Not exactly true. Maybe not world changing consequences, but it certainly had consequences.
Electing regan and bush should be up there for america
I love how Mojo considers genocide, mass murder and state-sponsored terrorism mere "bad decisions," not crimes against humanity.
They weren’t good decisions
@@Balthazar97638 Ya think???
24:26 George Bush Jr. said in his autobiography that he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when he started the endless war with them.
Selling the rights of Spider-man
to Sony.
Universal got Hulk and the Xmen and Fantastic Four went to 20th Century Fox
Fant4stic is what killed them
What's funny is about the Spanish invasion of England was that the King of Spain, Phillip II, was formerly the brother-in-law of Elizabeth I, the Queen of England.
Another worst decision I have In mind
1 Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony
2 attempted assassination on trump
3 Israel vs Palestine
4 oye primos ( the disgrace to animation ) being created
5 cancel culture
Hates cancel culture, calls for hate on some actress on the same channel, apart from rain what would make the Paris Olympic opening ceremony appear on any list?
Operation Cyclone wasn't the mistake. That was refusing to help the Afghans to rebuild afterwards.
3:48 His biggest mistake was recruiting a highly diverse army from various backgrounds with no loyalty who would desert and fight for the other side.... I thought diversity was a strength.
Historically, it ends in disaster every single time.
This is by far the most underrated comment in the chat.
Yawn. One in every crowd. What would the internet be like without geniuses like you? I don't know, maybe, pleasant?