Why World War 2 Was So Much Deadlier Than WWI
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2022
- When we compare wars, it's easy to see why World War 2 was such a destructive and devastating event in history that has no equal. Find out what made WW2 so deadly in today's epic new video.
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I graduated in 1995. If we had something like this channel back then, I might actually like history and know more than the major bullet points taught by the US education system.
Yes, world war 2 has more death but world war 1 was when advanced technology meets 1820 war tactics
. We are talking about Calvary charges into machine guns, tanks in heavy mud, charging a machine gun bunker filled with obstacles.
World war 1 is more deadly in my option.
The US education system is a joke
@@nikko2467 I agree, especially nowadays.
I graduated 2018, those major bullet points you speak of are limited now. Ww1 is hardly talked about and ww2 was even worse. Most of the history was when we broke off from England and around that time civil war wasnt that in depth either. (This was in Baltimore Maryland I can't speak fir all schools tho)
Along those lines, if you were one to like watching historic events on cable TV, the History Channel actually showed history.
"War does not determine who is right, only who is left." - Bertrand Russell
Fairly certain WW2 throws a wrench into that
Meaning who's left
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
@@CosmicFearUkulele Definitely. It is the definition of good vs evil
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WWI: A war between colonial powers & aging empires.
WWII: War against civilians on an unprecedented scale.
ww3 information war
WWI wiped out the old, WWII brought in the new.
WW3 only cockroaches survive
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". -Albert Einstein
U mind elaborating on that quote and what he meant by that, I think I got the right idea but I'm not sure lol
@@1inchpunisher715 he knew our technology would become so advanced that the results of world war with it would end civilization, and the remaining humans will be brought back to Stone Age technology. And this is seen now as an all out nuclear warfare would likely leave the remaining humans to live a very primitive lifestyle without the ability to manufacture even if the knowledge of such weapons remains.
@@1inchpunisher715 it means ww3 will be so violent and brutal and the weapons will be more futuristic that it will take humans back to the Stone Age
@@cheezee405 alright gotcha, yeah I thought that's what it meant just wanted verification, Einstein spoke facts
Even in Quran this is written......in a little different contexts
A relatively forgotten genocide that was going on shortly before WWII (1932-1933) was the Holodomor. It's 3.9 million deaths are often overshadowed by the 5 or 6 million deaths of the Holocaust. The Holodomor was a man-made famine in soviet Ukraine by Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. The rights and movements of Ukrainian farmers were greatly restricted and fertile lands were overtaken by the russian army, and farmers were forced to give up nearly all their crops to Russia. This famine was so bad, many people resorted to cannibalism.
Stalin was georgian
3.5 is an awfully optimistic, unless you arent including the purge and Stalin/Beria going ballistic for....well, ever.
@@lorenzettijavorski who ruled russia. Therefore being, a russian ruler
@@iinglis89 I only counted the Ukrainian deaths, but yeah, I know other groups suffered as well, seeing as there were at least 5 mill. total deaths
Holodomor but also ignore that Russia and Kazakhstan at the same time facing famine during Holodomor too
Battle of the internet historians
It’s not gonna happen
@@satisfyingcuts it is, dont you watch news or read article???
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Both provoking each other lol
Humans, and they/them? As if they aren't all humans?
We living in some biblical times it seems
@@spacecowboy6222 W comment
I remember a quote from Carl Sagan that puts all of the wars we wage in perspective when thinking in terms of the vastness and age of the cosmos. and it makes one realize how futile wars are....“Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot' ” ― Carl Sagan
Only Dot we got
To be fair, if you could be nothing at all , or a master of a dot, what might most people choose?
@davidblanchard66 But the point of the quote is to show the futility of hurting / killing people to be a brief ruler of that dot.
Although WWII was more deadly than WWI, WWI soldiers who fought for their countries should still not be forgotten.
In terms of pure battlefield conditions, WW1 was much more deadly for Soldiers. They stayed in Trenches and would only get a few miles of land. Ww2 was a battle of movement and didn't have soldiers be crowded into trenches for months on end.
I respect how you had a segment for German war crimes on the Eastern Front. That part of the war is usually ignored or toned down when talked about by most people in favor of Japanese war crimes. Mentioning how German forces in the East behaved entirely differently towards Soviet POWs than Western ones usually gets negative reception from people. So it's refreshing how you brought it up.
Which is worse
Mengele or Unit 731?
Wait what? People downplay the german atrocities on the eastern front? I thought it was common knowledge that they were ruthless against the soviets and their civilians.
The Soviets definitely returned the favor
@@catpriest Both were equaly terrible.
@Vandil they literally did the same thing. They're equally bad.
The Axis invading Africa was not only for oil. Italy wanted a big colonial empire and Germany wanted to control the Suez canal, which was incredibly important for the British.
1:18 "this World War"?! Japan was involved in WW1 as well and took over Germany's colonies in the Pacific.
Yeah sure, Japan indeed took German colonies in ww1, but those colonial takeovers weren't as brutal and deadly as the rest of ww1, so it tends to get overlooked and Japan was way more involved in ww2
Japan also rekt Russia and defeated them in war too.
@@arcturionblade1077 yea but that wasn’t ww1 and it was 10 years earlier
Japan wasn't involved in ww1 it was given German colonies as part of the verseilles agreement
they held down the German colonies in the Indian and pacific,
Because during World War One armies were more focused on fighting other armies
There were atrocities were civilians or city were targets of bombardaments but they were not the norm
During world war 2 the bombardment of civilian cities were large and indiscriminate an all the fronts and done by all the part involved
Not to mention the deaths of civilian caught in the middle of fights or the tragedies of the Jews in the lagers
Or the high involvement of partisans and civilian in the guerrilla war against occupation
Ww1 was a world war because it involved nearly every major power of the old world and even extraeuropean like USA and japan
Ww2 was a world war because it involved most of the global nations and because it was a total war without any kind of respect for civilians
Yeah but they played a nice game of footy
Back when I was a military librarian for the US Army, I recall reading an article [in "Military Review"?] about the tragic cultural misunderstanding that led to the Japanese being so brutal to their Western prisoners of war. Apparently, the Japanese were deeply offended that Western POWs behaved as if they were still honorable men, even though they had committed the dishonorable act of surrendering instead of honorable suicide. I wish someone had been able to make those Japanese soldiers understand that, in Western thought, the honorable and dishonorable actions were the reverse.
so giving up and letting the enemy use you as an asset and leverage, is called honorable in USA? gotta justify the slavery somehow tbh
@@MrPaxio Have you fought in a war?
@@annnichols3091have you had SERE training?
No.
@@southwaco23 Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape training? No. Was that available during WWII?
ww2 is so full of millions of stories and I want to know them all. Dark times in World History but still very interesting.
That skull in the thumbnail looked sick .
Cheers from Niagara 🇨🇦. May they all be remembered forever.
I heard somewhere about how deadly WW2 was especialy in Eastern Front: from all of Soviet man that born during 1920's, only 20% of them manage to stay alive in 1946.
It’s crazy to think that nearly 80 years ago the whole world was committing horrible atrocities on all sides. I hope that the higher powers of today are able to look back at history and realize the horror that can come from war 😢
They don’t though we haven’t learned anything all about greed and power very sad really especially for the soldiers and families
it has nothing to do with the higher powers, its about survival
the atrocities are still happening
Russia might be doing some questionable stuff but they don't even hold a candle to the atrocities of world war II Japan. You guys make me question your bias more and more with each video.
I was thinking the same thing .
I thought that both Russia and Japan were atrocious during WWII.
the fact that you think you need a bias to call out atrocities as they happen: mindblowing
@@davidrymwar5812 right over your head David. I knew one of your type would be alone eventually.
@@joshrosenbalm1380 feel free to explain yourself, because from here it feels like you're suffering from a bad case of what-about'ism
Nothing compares to the conditions of WW1’s battlefields, years of war in the same place, unlike the more mobile combat seen in WW2
It's important to note that at 1:25, US also had Philippines under its colonial rule (pretty much most of SEA was colonized) which was at the time posed a very direct threat to Japan as US was already sanctioning them while funding and arming guerilla fighters and rebels. It was the only colonial power in that region that had any real threat to Japan as it had naval and air bases in it. So Japan's perspective at the time was US could attack them anytime and it will ruin their plan to completely take over Indo-China, so they decided that if they wanted to expand they will need to remove European/US colonialists in that region "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere", which inevitably lead to them attacking Pearl Harbor to slow down US reaction before they start their full-scale invasion of southeast asia.
Let's not sugarcost it though. Japan didn't attack the US with the hopes of liberating all of Asia out of some sense of altruism (as the infamous Yasukuni Museum in Tokyo claims). Imperial Japan wanted to kick out all Western colonial powers and supplant them with Japan as the new colonial conqueror of all Asia instead. Replacing one brutal master with an even more brutal one.
This is a little misleading, Japan saw the US as a threat because of oil embargo on them and their belief that the us would stop them from expanding any farther. Japan at this point was brutally rampaging through China and had taken French Indochina which caused the embargo. The Philippines at this point we’re a colony with a great deal of autonomy and with Philippine independence act of 1934 it set the stage for future independence. Japan also saw the British as a big threat and attacked them and the Dutch colonies around the time of Pearl Harbor. Japan wasn’t doing this to liberate Asia, they were doing it for there own gain and in fact they were far more brutal then the other colonial powers. If you need proof look at Burma, some of their people originally supported Japan but after seeing through them and their fake promises, they began to support their former colonizer the British in their fight against Japan. To end off I never heard of the us arming guerrilla fighters before Pearl Harbor, so I’d like to know your source on that.
@@brodyroop6872 I used to live in Philippines then Indonesia before our family settled in Australia. So my high school and college history textbooks and professors taught us both sides’ perspectives so my sources were a lot more uncensored. Sorry, but I’m not gonna rummage through my basement and storages to look for sources that I learned and read a decade ago. Apparently, I didn’t know it was a secret that US supported the Chinese government and its rebels at the time, that the country was already in a state of cold-war before pearl harbor. My comment didn’t mean to imply Japan was there to liberate at all, I am quite aware of their cruelty but I’m also informed about the 100-300 years of immeasurable cruelty, slavery, and brainwashing their first colonists have done as well, and to think the European colonists are kinder is an explicit sign of ignorance about this region’s history. And besides, the comment was hardly about that topic to begin with. As I said earlier having the colonists there including US and their bases was a threat to the Japanese plan of taking over east asia, to truly control east asia meant they need to eliminate western influence and pressure as well, which happened to be mostly at SEA.
@@brodyroop6872 he's referring to US support for Nationalist Chinese before the US officially joined the war
They already took Indochina before they planned on invading the Dutch East Indies or Philippines.
Imagine how deadly world war III would be
Nuke
Will be, fixed that for you
Probably going to end humanity
It would be U.S to start it this time 🤣
*will
Australian and New Zealand fought at both ends of both world wars especially the pacific I don’t believe these soldiers get enough credit for fighting in Europe and the pacific
Canada, British India etc as well.
South Africa too.
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I honestly didn't even know some of this information! I had no idea so many civilians were killed! Oh my God can you imagine a world war III were to break out? This is absolutely horrifying
anticipate it
I had no idea how world war 1 even started and what happened
If japan isn’t in WWIII then civilians might be saved
Look it up yourself, this is a propaganda machine.
By the Gods fear it
World War 2 is unique in warfare in that the losing side inflicted more fatalities than the victors.
True.
Russia was brave fighters not smart fighters.
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It was way more horrible for the average grunt in WWI.
Ya without a doubt
WWI was the worst for the average grunt
WWII was the worst for the average civilian
The key difference was the implementation of the concept known as Total War
They didn't get the stars on the US flag right. They drew it with all 50stars, but back in ww2 their was only 48 stars
I believe the reason Japan finally surrendered was that the Soviet Union declared war on them. And William Tecumseh Sherman was the inventor of modern total war as he moved on his march to the sea in the Civil War. He truly made Georgia howl.
that was definitely part of it but I think they knew that they were done for with the nukes.
@@shaansingh6048, no doubt about that with the atomic bomb. But Japan didn't want to fight both the US and the UK I'm the Pacific, but also Russia from the North.
@@dustylover100if the nukes were never invented then Japan would've been invaded.
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Aerial duels with pistols; now THAT...would be something to see.
Can we all respect that all of his content is top tier!
Well its actually a team of animators, voice actors, editors etc
It's actually very misleading in nature as facts are disregard and US propaganda is shipped in name of history.
Yes this channel is pretty tip tier
Not really, a bit more accuracy would be nice
Propaganda content isn't top tier.
I'm slovenian and I didn't know that number, I only knew about slovenian/yugoslave partizans. Thou it would be interesting to see your take on national rezistance groupes in WW2 like the french, greek, and yugoslav because this acpect of the war it's so often overlooked.
vise smo se medjusobno ubijali nego sto smo se borili sa nemcima bilo je na milione mrtvih jugoslovena
They don't like to discuss it, because only small percent of french were in resistance. Most were even helping to send jews to germans. Even dutch did so. Even in german speaking Austria more jews survived than in some countries.
Nicely informative video
WW1 wasn't just fought in Europe. It was fought in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the North Sea
@R J Japan fought on the Allied side against German Pacific colonies
@R J ww2 aswell as mainly european countries and its colonies
@@stanbrule9357 exactly
“I do not know what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert Einstein.
That is if anyone is left to fight after that.
I prefer slingshots.
There will be people there are more people then you think that know how to survive a fallout just and there is no reason to Nuke Africa so live will go on and there are a lot of Wapoans in Africa they will probably become the next world power if they would unite they have most of the world's riches
He is an timetraveler
As a rule, yes. If you were a soldier on the Western Front, Allied or Axis, WW2 was a walk in the park by comparison.
D-Day was pretty bad tho
@@shaansingh6048 I'd rather get shot on a beach than sit in a trench for 3 years only to go over the top and watch all my mates die only to get the Spanish flu and die
@@shaansingh6048 in terms of deaths, yes. But in terms of pure squalor and the unimaginable terror of prolonged artillery bombardments, the meat grinder on the WW1 Western Front was far far worse. Not even in the same ballpark.
Keep up the good work
I still remember stories from my grandpa back then. Sounds super fun! Can't wait for the III one
The stagnation and attrition like warfare of ww1 and the suffering it symbolizes and the trauma it left on it's players is by far still more horiffic
My grandfather was a mid upper gunner in a Lancaster. He had to fly the Dresden mission. Nobody was happy about it. At all. Broke the minds of a lot of good men.
I love these vides
Fluid front lines increase casualties. Trench warfare is relatively stagnant front lines.
Nice video
Ww2 had more casualties than the deadliest pandemic of all time. That's how you know that that specific war is messed up.
I hope you aren't referring to Covid, right? Because that case of the sniffles was no where near the deadliest pandemic ever....not by a long shot.
@@1216jimmyz The Spanish Flu and Bubonic Plague also had less deaths, I think that is what he's talking about
@@holdenSFZ There are only estimates of the spanish flu but it killed between 50-100 million people, about the same as WW2. 100 million people at the time was 3.4% of the entire global population, Covid should've killed 272 million people to reach that percentage of mortality.
In reality, about 6 million people died from covid related issues, something akin to 0.05% of the total population.
Not true pandemic killed more pople
@@1216jimmyz pretty sure it’s a reference to The Plague
It just struck me that Spain stayed out of both world wars and still it managed to be the poorest country of Western Europe until the seventies.
Spain didn't stay out of WWII, it was it's own front because the Spanish Civil War was happening at the same time and one side was supported by the Allies while the other was supported by the Axis.
@@shaansingh6048 The Spanish Civil War was a few years before the Second World War, so Spain was too weakened to participate in the war, even though Spanish volunteer units fought for the Wehrmacht.
There were spanish volunteers which were mentioned in the video
Can't we just appreciate how hilarious some of the Thumbnails? 😂
You should do a video on western war crimes in the middle East like Iraq and Afghanistan
Not for nothing but don’t take a rocket scientist to understand why a war with a deadly arsenal would be deadlier but still thanks for the breakdown.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!
Zyklon B we’re pellets that instantly vaporized when it met the water in air, gas was not pumped in, pellets were dropped on the floor of the showers.
It’s why the workers needed gas masks. There was still gas emitting from the pellets until the residue was wash away.
It's truly sickening to see what a insane man's twisted ideals can do to the world.
🤡🤡🤡
@@chosenone-akayorubaprince1393 What? Why?
It wasn’t a single man twisted ideals, there was the millions who follow him and those who turned into monsters to fight the monsters
Poland: *cries*
Crazy and intuitive
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If this is so, then WW3 Will be terrible
WOAH WOAH WOAH,that russia and ukraine war reference coming out of the blue
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Id rather be in ww2 than ww1, the amount of lives lost due to just sending them over the edge for no reason in ww1 is horrendous.
I love your videos, so educational
Fantastic video and I’m just wondering and I’m not trying to rush you into anything because it must be hard work uploading multiple times a day with High quality animations but is I survived a nuclear war part 2 coming out and again sorry if it feels like I’m trying to rush you into something
I love that the thumbnail is a nod to the Mr. Incredible meme
Please make a video about the Indian Nationalist Leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
I wonder what Woodrow Wilson would have said if he had lived to see WW2 occur- do you think he would have felt vindicated or been blamed?
Perhaps a bit of both, actually.
Wow! It is good and fantastic video
Can't wait for part 3
Three main differences: It lasted longer, Asia was far more involved in the fighting, and slaughtering civilians was something everyone engaged in. Also a factor was the greater killing power of WWII weapons; the occasional attack from bombers or artillery on civilian targets just doesn't compare with bombers dropping fire and atomic bombs on dense populations.
My great grandpa was in world war II he died last year at 100 but he told me he lost his vision and he was blind ever since
I don't know how he lost his vision all he said was the second bomb dropped and he couldn't see anymore
Sorry to hear about your great grandpa but i'm glad to hear that he at least made it out of the greatest conflict ever fought in Human History.
@@wesleyjaskulsky9414 thank you
Why is he so joyful about this with the uplifting music and all
Honestly, you explain better than my history teacher
I didnt realise how much evil the leaders of Japan at that era were.
It's easy to be brutal and cruel if one does not consider other nationalities as human beings equal to oneself.
Also random fact a boy born in 1923 only had a 20 percent chance to survive to there 23rd birthday.
*Their*🤓
@@eeeee8363 lol
0:44 when no fire icon on the Isonzo 😔
Very interesting video.
Let’s put something into perspective, Stalin and mao together collectively and systematically ended between 150-165M people. 50-65m in Russia and chinas is a resounding 100m
Misleading Numbers..
If stalin killed 50 million people russians would not be a majoriy right? And in china if a 100 million died they would be in a far worse spot then they were
@@DraskoCobra nope, that’s about right.
Personally I think there were two wars that just happened to occur at the same time.
Great video but man those maps hurt my soul
0:29 I got kinda frustrated that u did not color Brazil Red because Brazil DID fight in the second world war
It's weird you didn't even mention the US taking part in the Dresden firebombings...
Yeah I thought that too. The US actually used considerably more aircraft than the UK.
Yes ww2 was much more deadly than ww1 but I still think ww1 was a harder fight to actually do anything, nobody was really motivated so soilders didnt fight with much force and the psychological warfare of all those war sounds were terrifying knowing they could and probably would die any day soon just to gain a couple meters of land or loose a couple meters, they dealed with this for weeks on end not to even mention all the desises of trenches and stuff so it was more scary but not as "deadly"
i agree
Any chance on a video on the Taiping Rebellion?
"Only the dead have seen the end of the war." - George Santayana
Before watching the video I am guessing the advent of new technology contributed to it. I also believe WW3 would be the end of for almost all of humanity.
World War II had-
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (226,000 people, Japanese soldiers, and POW’s)
The battle of Stalingrad(over 2,000,000 casualties)
The Holocaust (11,000,000 people and POW’s)
D-Day(over 20,000 casualties)
Battle of Bulge (over 100,000 casualties)
The Pacific War (over 6,000,000 casualties )
But percentage wise your chances of surviving ww1 as a SOLDIER were actually much lower than in ww2 (unless we are talking about stalingrad alone) but in general ww1 was more deadly for a soldier. I never said it caused more deaths but I'm saying your chances of dying at somewhere like the somme were almost inevitable. This video is kind of ignorant
Don't forget China
Blame Japan since they were warned about the bombings before they were done. Plenty of time to get people out of the cities.
@@DoctorDeath147 The Massacre of Nanking comes to mind.
Do talk about the Massacre of Nanjing. It was an immoral act against the Chinese and humanity.
1:09 showing Abrams wrecks when talking abouf fighting for oil- cheeky
Very interesting explainations but some inaccuracies appear though. In that order, The shape of china use in the graphics does not represent China as it stood at the time it had claim over tibet at the time but also over mongolia and other regions, but did not control either. American bombers did in fact participate in the bombing of dresden not just the raf. So the comment on how the allies would react to that is a bit dubious. Russia defeated early in ww1 also sounds a bit hollow as they fought the war for three years, bit did suffer a series of defeats fairly early on. However that means that fighting continued on that front for a while and with a lot of casualties too.
They fought for 90% of the war, Brest-Litovsk was signed in March 1918 which is the same year the war ended in November
7:17
Laughs in modern day Russia
yea lol
Some people still find excuses for that
*The thumbnail reminds me of the Mr Incredible uncanny meme xD*
Bro forgot china in ww1
Another reason could be contributed to increase in population. Seeing how there is over 20 years between the end of ww1 and ww2 the population increased so there would be more soldiers which are the ones at most risk
Even taking into account the variability in the population, ww2 was still far more deadly. Population did have an impact, but not one that would make ww2 inherently more deadly than ww1. Therefore, when we talk about why ww2 was so much more deadly, we generally leave out the part about the population because it really is such an insignificant part as to why so many millions died in ww2.
Bigger guns and bigger bombs is the simplest answer. And yes of course the battlegrounds themselves
But ww1 was deadlier for the common infantry soldier lol, you do understand that your chances of dying in ww1 on the western front were much higher than your chances of dying on the western front in ww2. Life in the trenches were awful, the eastern front of ww2 I will admit was very deadly especially at stalingrad, but on average you should know that ww1 was deadlier for a soldier.
"War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing".
This is how we should teach history I learned so much
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