Why did the Entente betray Italy after WW1? (Animated History Documentary)

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
  • Italy was promised a lot to enter the First World War on the side of the Entente. But when it came time to pay up, Britain, France and the United States all had other ideas and the territories promised to Italy mostly went to Yugoslavia. So why did this happen? Why did the Entente go back on their word to Italy? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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  • @eggy6815
    @eggy6815 3 місяці тому +5006

    Imagine losing promised land from your enemy because they were so thoroughly defeated that they lost the land they were supposed to give to you.

    • @HipFire1
      @HipFire1 3 місяці тому +425

      not a rare experience on EU4

    • @anonymous-hz2un
      @anonymous-hz2un 3 місяці тому +145

      In the end it was better this way. Dalmatia is strictly populated by croats. Now losing Istria after WW2, however...

    • @GenovaYork951
      @GenovaYork951 3 місяці тому +33

      ​@@anonymous-hz2un Istria is populated by Serbo-Croatians and Romanians. Nothing to do with Italy.

    • @chozer1
      @chozer1 3 місяці тому +241

      @@GenovaYork951not totally true. Back then there was alot of Italians

    • @GenovaYork951
      @GenovaYork951 3 місяці тому

      @@chozer1 Proof?

  • @danielrichwine2268
    @danielrichwine2268 3 місяці тому +1821

    The "Soon" sign is such a great long running gag.

    • @balabanasireti
      @balabanasireti 3 місяці тому +1

      Meh

    • @Longshanks1690
      @Longshanks1690 3 місяці тому +103

      @@danielrichwine2268 Running through the fields of flowers smiling is a personal favourite of mine.

    • @SteveInLava
      @SteveInLava 3 місяці тому +7

      ​@@Longshanks1690 🌸We won!🌸

    • @fatdaddyeddiejr
      @fatdaddyeddiejr 3 місяці тому

      Also characters with crossed eyes.

    • @BenZedrene
      @BenZedrene 3 місяці тому +12

      I like the "You suck" sign best

  • @Longshanks1690
    @Longshanks1690 3 місяці тому +3788

    1:15 “But that was a problem for the next generation” with an old man saying “All the best” to a literal baby can be applied to so many scenarios and events on this channel. 😂

    • @Lennox-vr1sj
      @Lennox-vr1sj 3 місяці тому +83

      Totally fucking missed the baby first time round

    • @barsukascool
      @barsukascool 3 місяці тому +14

      Pfwhaaaa-😂

    • @rodrigodepierola
      @rodrigodepierola 3 місяці тому +30

      I died when I saw the baby in swaddling clothes.

    • @Bruhdaughhh
      @Bruhdaughhh 3 місяці тому +49

      Literally all of world history be like:

    • @xELITExKILLAx
      @xELITExKILLAx 3 місяці тому +21

      The baby was Kelly Money Maker

  • @toastyanon8902
    @toastyanon8902 3 місяці тому +2463

    The Entente: “it’s not you, Italy. We’re reneging on just about every other promise too!”

    • @magnusbjarni
      @magnusbjarni 3 місяці тому +247

      "be happy with what you get, at least you're better off than the Middle East... Which we will solve at some point. Maybe. Probably not. Actually, scratch that. They can solve their own problems. That we may have created."

    • @jwil4286
      @jwil4286 3 місяці тому +78

      And people say the Entente were the good guys in that war, especially when they (specifically Serbia) started it!

    • @scapeagoat2520
      @scapeagoat2520 3 місяці тому +180

      @@jwil4286 “it appears you accepted 9 out of 10 of my absurd demands, I have no choice but to destroy Europe now”

    • @scorpixel1866
      @scorpixel1866 3 місяці тому +110

      @@jwil4286 Because Serbia was obviously responsible for some dude with a pistol and should have just gotten annexed by Austria, and it's not like everyone in Europe has been itching for a fight for a decade already.

    • @Diedwhilemakingwaffles
      @Diedwhilemakingwaffles 3 місяці тому +40

      @@scorpixel1866 they did supply the Black Hand.

  • @JA432123
    @JA432123 3 місяці тому +692

    Stop reading my mind history matters I just watched your “why did Italy join the Entaunte” video yesterday and was like “why didn’t Italy get the land it was promised”

    • @EnergeticSpark63
      @EnergeticSpark63 3 місяці тому +5

      hi

    • @bartholomewone
      @bartholomewone 3 місяці тому +5

      bye

    • @EnergeticSpark63
      @EnergeticSpark63 3 місяці тому +6

      @@bartholomewone hey

    • @anonymustypewriter6670
      @anonymustypewriter6670 3 місяці тому

      It got way too much

    • @iMajoraGaming
      @iMajoraGaming Місяць тому

      @@JA432123 because it didn't deserve it
      they let cadorna casually widow hundreds of thousands of wives and ignobly yielded swathes of land through military incompetence
      typically rewarding things like that leads to statements like mussolini's statement that all he needed to do to demand great prizes was "spend" a... few... hundred thousand... "lives" to "sit at the table of victors as a man who fought."
      italy's entire ww1 contribution is one it ought to look at with shame, instead modern fascists still genuinely think that wasting human lives in the millions entitled them to concessions.
      nevermind how casually a million lives were *wasted* by incompetent staff, nevermind that in a lot of the territory the population, dalmatian and slavic, voted to join yugoslavia, nevermind that italy got *essentially every* area with an italian majority in the end, nevermind that their casual consignment of millions to death in the dozen battles of the isonzo and the like was *beneficial only to the central powers,* people died! so we deserve stuff :)

  • @matthew416811
    @matthew416811 3 місяці тому +1178

    3:04
    THE NOT-YET-FEZ-WEARING ITALIAN MAN

    • @scapeagoat2520
      @scapeagoat2520 3 місяці тому +32

      Foreshadowing

    • @_0______00__________0_______0
      @_0______00__________0_______0 3 місяці тому +21

      A.k.a. no moustache Italian man.

    • @zibbitybibbitybop
      @zibbitybibbitybop 3 місяці тому +20

      I immediately heard that line in the narrator's voice when he appeared. 😂

    • @Arabmapperguy
      @Arabmapperguy 3 місяці тому +38

      wait the fez wearing Italian man in 3:04 doesn’t wear a fez… :(

    • @MrGrey2727
      @MrGrey2727 3 місяці тому +2

      Dang it. You beat me to it lol

  • @markmarano913
    @markmarano913 3 місяці тому +324

    The newspaper gags on this channel never cease to entertain!
    Actually, come to think of it, NONE of the gags on this channel ever cease to entertain... Well, in that spirit, I'm going to go romping through a field of daisys while communicating with large hand-held signs.

    • @markmarano913
      @markmarano913 3 місяці тому +6

      @howiehall4622 My personal favorite is "Your mother"

  • @Ghost_Mast07
    @Ghost_Mast07 3 місяці тому +771

    I love that Mussolini has a italy belt

    • @garethaethwy
      @garethaethwy 3 місяці тому +38

      It's little details like that which keep me coming back and rewatching videos multiple times, just to spot the throw-away jokes!

    • @albevanhanoy
      @albevanhanoy 3 місяці тому +49

      I think you mean the FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN

    • @anonvideo738
      @anonvideo738 3 місяці тому +3

      Should've made it show Italy with the land promised

    • @GuyIncognito-111
      @GuyIncognito-111 3 місяці тому

      I have a legit Italy belt

    • @thepatriarchy819
      @thepatriarchy819 3 місяці тому +2

      Ritorneremo

  • @MustacheCashStash125
    @MustacheCashStash125 3 місяці тому +1565

    Because James Bissonnette took away the territories before Italy and the Entente could take them

    • @toonistiny
      @toonistiny 3 місяці тому +29

      HOW DARE HE 😂

    • @seloimperija
      @seloimperija 3 місяці тому +23

      He bought them 😂

    • @MustacheCashStash125
      @MustacheCashStash125 3 місяці тому +9

      @@toonistiny And they were too scared to take them from him because his massive army would destroy them

    • @sikey8154
      @sikey8154 3 місяці тому +16

      Bissonnette irredenta

    • @tashantimothy6180
      @tashantimothy6180 3 місяці тому +43

      Somebody get Kelly Moneymaker on the line!

  • @amk4956
    @amk4956 3 місяці тому +63

    0:38 I don’t know why but my favorite part of these clips is always the newspaper headlines… They’re just so charming and if you aren’t paying attention, you miss a lot of humor. Bravo

  • @rorywhyte6722
    @rorywhyte6722 3 місяці тому +663

    Jesus, watching European territories change hands over the course of the 20th century is a disco lightshow. I love it every time

    • @JeroldBoateng
      @JeroldBoateng 3 місяці тому +3

      Real

    • @makutas-v261
      @makutas-v261 3 місяці тому +31

      It wasn't fun for them.

    • @AquaTomMovies
      @AquaTomMovies 3 місяці тому +11

      It's silly but not worthy of blasphemy

    • @zeljkomikulicic4378
      @zeljkomikulicic4378 3 місяці тому +25

      We didn't enjoy in this trust me. My father, still alive live in his fifth state. On same address. He survive communism, fascism, monarchy and democracy. Basically every political system. He said, it wasn't fun. Also says that this EU democracy is worst system. Probably because he is old. For me this is second state after I survive one war. But I hope not last.

    • @attemptedunkindness3632
      @attemptedunkindness3632 3 місяці тому +11

      @@makutas-v261 Kinda a coin toss when talking about the Baltics, Yugoslavia Major would never of worked out because the Balkans are full of people who assume they are the main character of their story. Clans and bloodfeuds would of torn those lands apart sooner than even with our own timeline. You may have wound up with a large Yugoslav if the dust ever managed to settle, sure, but between the Serbs and Turks and (insert extras here) they would still find themselves surrounded by hostile terroristic rump states.
      TLDR: Woulda happened anyway

  • @liat5443
    @liat5443 3 місяці тому +385

    Albania is such a lucky country. At nearly every point something happens in the balkans they nearly get annexed but they manage to survive

    • @braylen5830
      @braylen5830 3 місяці тому +38

      Albanian Glory 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

    • @markobucevic8991
      @markobucevic8991 3 місяці тому +54

      It simply was not worth the hassle, like today. A reason why they are economically at the bottom

    • @pewialmostdie3631
      @pewialmostdie3631 3 місяці тому +19

      we did get annex in ww1 by italy but they drove out because they were broke and americas self determenation for minor countries.

    • @VojislavMoranic
      @VojislavMoranic 3 місяці тому

      @@pewialmostdie3631 And before that by Serbia.
      But we also left because firstly its a mountain shithole.
      Secondly Austro-Hungary was going absolutely shit insane at the thought of Serbia getting access to the Adriatic and literally made Albania not because the Germans give a ounce of shit for you savages.
      But just out of spite because Serbia said "Fuck you kaiser, the Tsar is my best friend now."
      And AH took that statement "Well"

    • @fotisexarchos5418
      @fotisexarchos5418 3 місяці тому +7

      We liberated Southern Albania mostly known as Northern Epirus (where mostly Greeks still live), three times in the course of 30 years between 1914 and 1944 but the Allies always wanted to save them for no real reason.

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 3 місяці тому +152

    There were so many conflicting "promises" that many of them were doomed to not be filled

    • @NewtypeCommander
      @NewtypeCommander 3 місяці тому +14

      It really does seem like the Entente powers overpromised what they could actually give away to their allies before the dust could actually settle, and I think this is one of great failures to learn from out of WW1: don't make territorial concessions until *after* the dust from a conflict has settled.

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 3 місяці тому

      @NewtypeCommander Not really. Often everyone meant to deliver but there were conflicting promises from allied states. I.E. Britain promised self-determination, Russia promised to annex parts of Turkey

    • @JeffEbe-te2xs
      @JeffEbe-te2xs 4 дні тому

      Believe that got a bridge to sell you

  • @ryanmann1416
    @ryanmann1416 3 місяці тому +202

    I guess no one knew the looming rise of the “Fez Wearing Italian Man”

  • @araxiel2051
    @araxiel2051 3 місяці тому +36

    I had to pause the newspaper at 0:39 and read through it... great stuff.

  • @markbendall6794
    @markbendall6794 3 місяці тому +31

    The animation in these videos is a huge part of the appeal of these videos. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for reminding us why History Matters!

  • @ThatRandomGuy0
    @ThatRandomGuy0 3 місяці тому +144

    If it had been a Pinky Promise, none of this would have ever happened. Just saying

    • @elivanto1673
      @elivanto1673 3 місяці тому +7

      Nobody breaks a Pinky Promise!

  • @michaelhoffmann2891
    @michaelhoffmann2891 3 місяці тому +60

    "After finding that a war in which *everybody* was the Bad Guy doesn't make for good movies, we needed to make sure that version 2.0 had some clear Big Evil(tm) for viewers to boo at" - 1914 to 1945 in a nutshell.

    • @exercisethemind
      @exercisethemind 3 місяці тому +16

      Hold your tongue! WW1 inspired some of the very BEST war films ever made!
      - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 version)
      - Paths of Glory
      - Gallipoli
      - Lawrence of Arabia
      - The Grand Illusion
      - Reds
      - Dr. Zhivago
      These are cinematic masterpieces!

    • @alex_zetsu
      @alex_zetsu 3 місяці тому +1

      Most of my friends can quickly find out why WW2 games are more popular than WW1 games after I give 5 minutes of explanation. Yes I skipped a lot. And yet, it's already enough for everyone to know why everyone in the industry knows these games won't sell.

    • @michaelhoffmann2891
      @michaelhoffmann2891 3 місяці тому +2

      @@exercisethemind You're absolutely right, of course. But that would have ruined my quip. 😆

  • @sciencer9830
    @sciencer9830 3 місяці тому +86

    Good that the video didn’t require any mentions of the Fez-wearing Italian man

    • @edwardblair4096
      @edwardblair4096 3 місяці тому +13

      Just the cameo appearance right at the end.

  • @connorb.4790
    @connorb.4790 3 місяці тому +109

    “Go cry to the Tsar” I’m dying 😂

    • @TrocaTheNero
      @TrocaTheNero 3 місяці тому +4

      Yeah so about that...

    • @sebastianjoseph2828
      @sebastianjoseph2828 3 місяці тому +6

      So is the Tsar.

    • @j.a.hernandez9742
      @j.a.hernandez9742 3 місяці тому +5

      Little bit of dark humor if you understand what happened to Tsar by this point 😂😂

  • @giuliore7747
    @giuliore7747 3 місяці тому +28

    There is a tiny but significant issue in the maps of Italy post the Treaty of Versaille in this video: the city of Zara, shown in the post Treaty of Versaille Italy was not given to Italy by the Entante: after the birth of Yugoslavia, the town of Fiume, a city near the borther with Istria, one of the new Italian land, wanted to join Italy because the inhabitants were mostly Italians, but the government had to deal with the new communism riots across the country, so 2500 nationalist, under the rule of Gabriele D'Annunzio, an Italian nationalist poet, invaded Fiume and they occupied it until 1920: the Yugoslavian government new that they needed to solve the issue, so they met with the Italian government: it was agreed that Fiume would become an indipendet city, and that Italy would gain Zara: this is pretty important, because Zara was the most important town in Dalmatia, and knowing that makes the treaty more unfair to Italy.

  • @luisfilipe2023
    @luisfilipe2023 3 місяці тому +14

    “That is a future problem so we don’t care for now” sums up a lot of history

  • @maurogamba9066
    @maurogamba9066 3 місяці тому +54

    D'Annunzio and his legionary:" we take this personally"

    • @aRandomDubstepEnjoyer
      @aRandomDubstepEnjoyer 3 місяці тому +3

      Never ask a woman her age
      Never ask a man his salary
      Never ask d'annunzio what he was doing in Fiume

  • @fiorino4554
    @fiorino4554 3 місяці тому +489

    Italy: but you promised
    Entente: i miss the part where thats my problem

    • @venetostato
      @venetostato 3 місяці тому +65

      Turns out, it became their problem big time.

    • @superyamky
      @superyamky 3 місяці тому +6

      Bully maguire reference 😂

    • @petersmulders8058
      @petersmulders8058 3 місяці тому +19

      Bad move by the Entente it just helped Italy join the axis in ww2.

    • @emberfist8347
      @emberfist8347 3 місяці тому +8

      @@petersmulders8058Italy is also at fault. They could have gotten out with some land they were promised if their delegation didn’t rage quit during the Versailles negotiations.

    • @radudaniel7136
      @radudaniel7136 3 місяці тому +5

      ​@@petersmulders8058Honestly it's hard to justify that being hurtful for the Entente in the long run. What did Italy do towards the war effort of the Axis? It opened another front for Germany to worry about, it got itself naval invaded, it went through a civil war, it increased the morale of allied soldiers after their complete fuck-up in Africa (not only in front of the british but also Ethiopia), it gave almost free (casualty-wise) army experience to the enemy in their african campaign, they betrayed the Axis, and they mostly served as an annoyance or distraction to the germans. I'm not sure if they did, but if they gave Germany equipment, it was definetly not nearly enough comparred to the hassle they created as the Axis still suffered from major equipment deficits well into the war. Oh yeah: because of them there is the possibility of the Allies being better equipped than without them in the war, as their deaths in Africa also resulted in free equipment for the Allies. I personally see Italy as more of a trojan horse to the Axis.

  • @GuyIncognito-111
    @GuyIncognito-111 3 місяці тому +7

    Just want to point out how much better the animation has gotten. The contrast between the French Revolution vid and this one shows that HM has made a lot of progress in his Artistry, and I’m real damn proud of him for that.
    Just wanna say, Great job, man!

  • @philipott4970
    @philipott4970 3 місяці тому +16

    The paper article about "Our source has told us the campaign in Gallipoli will be 'largely bloodless'..." almost made me spit my tea out.

    • @DardanellesBy108
      @DardanellesBy108 3 місяці тому +1

      That caught my attention more than the other parts of the newspaper! Haha! Good job by History Matters.

  • @kidfox3971
    @kidfox3971 3 місяці тому +182

    UK & France: You can partition Albania with Serbia.
    USA: No he can't.
    UK & France: No he can't.

    • @Hundredyacrewoods
      @Hundredyacrewoods 3 місяці тому +38

      Correction
      UK & France: You can partition Albania with Serbia.
      USA: No he can't.
      France: No he can't.
      UK: I don't care.

    • @kidfox3971
      @kidfox3971 3 місяці тому

      @@Hundredyacrewoods Oh yes of course, when the British lose a geopolitical struggle it's always because they "don't care". Just like how they fought a rebellion in America for 8 years and surrendered after all that because apparently they just "didn't care".

    • @Godzillahistoryfan34
      @Godzillahistoryfan34 3 місяці тому +1

      @@Hundredyacrewoodsand then the US just leaves

    • @felonyx5123
      @felonyx5123 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Godzillahistoryfan34 America: Let's throw away all the things everyone was promised before the war and create the League of Nations instead.
      Also America: Doesn't join the League of Nations.

    • @Josh-iv2bw
      @Josh-iv2bw Місяць тому

      ​@@felonyx5123 americans have an isolationist streak. We just don't really care about europe as a people.

  • @RaffaeleMigotto
    @RaffaeleMigotto 3 місяці тому +16

    Many people in dalmazia especialy the citys where ethnicly Italians, people usually forgot why italy whant those lands

  • @victoraguirre5545
    @victoraguirre5545 3 місяці тому +7

    The real treason was the lack of classic "well, no" animation at 1:37

  • @AFGuidesHD
    @AFGuidesHD 3 місяці тому +144

    Everyone likes to blame Britain for breaking agreements but no one actually blames themselves for signing an agreement with Britain lol

    • @voland6846
      @voland6846 3 місяці тому +49

      Agreed, you trust Perfidious Albion at your own peril!

    • @exercisethemind
      @exercisethemind 3 місяці тому +8

      ​@@voland6846 that's a burn.

  • @nyguesswho
    @nyguesswho 3 місяці тому +23

    Dude I remember your channel back when it was “10 Minute History” and you only had a few hundred thousand subscribers. Now you’re getting closer to 2 million, and I’m so happy to see that you’re doing so well. It’s been a pleasure to watch this channel grow. Thanks for all the good memories, and here’s to years more of great content.
    Oh and please bring back “End of year Q&A” one of these days please!

  • @macplayzvc2889
    @macplayzvc2889 3 місяці тому +12

    Love these videos man.

  • @Dubnoreix
    @Dubnoreix 3 місяці тому +3

    I can’t be the only one who always paused the video to read the newspaper, right? They’re always a work of art.

    • @DardanellesBy108
      @DardanellesBy108 3 місяці тому +2

      I read them all. They are always brilliant work by History Matters.

  • @emilianohermosilla3996
    @emilianohermosilla3996 3 місяці тому +2

    Always answering the questions that I didn’t know I needed! Great video!

  • @anto8375
    @anto8375 3 місяці тому +27

    Finally someone explains what happened during the ww1 from an Italian point of view.
    Italy spent money, corpes and had barely nothing of what was promised.
    That brought to a general turmoil, look at the "Vittotia Mutilata" of D'Annunzio. This sentiment helped the birth of the fascism, the alliance with the Third Reich and so on.
    Germany was humiliated because it lost the war, Italy was humiliated despite winning the war.

    • @Heldarion
      @Heldarion 3 місяці тому

      Italy's MO since before the unification has been to suck at war and rely on their powerful allies to get what they want anyway because they participated (see: Crimean war 1856, Magenta&Solferino 1859, Lissa&Custoza 1866, WW1 1918).
      It's hilarious to see whining how it's not fair they got so little when they objectively sucked at fighting for it. Not to mention the "that's how we got fascism" line. JFC

    • @Dr_Eggman_2
      @Dr_Eggman_2 2 місяці тому +3

      Exactly, however is " Vittoria mutilata".

    • @anto8375
      @anto8375 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Dr_Eggman_2 Thanks Dr Eggman for the correction, you are a nice guy. ;D

    • @elduquecaradura1468
      @elduquecaradura1468 2 місяці тому

      To be honest, nothing went as planned in ww1, and probably if Italy had what demanded then it would had to slaughter hundreds of thousands of slavic people to keep those lands, but I guess you don't mind to look elsewhere else in that case

    • @iMajoraGaming
      @iMajoraGaming Місяць тому

      caporetto definitely didn't do them any favours when it came to convincing the capricious whims of perfidious albion to give them things

  • @PeterT-i1w
    @PeterT-i1w 3 місяці тому +26

    - Circumstances have changed.
    - The nature of promises is that they are immune to the changing circumstances.

    • @V1489Cygni
      @V1489Cygni 3 місяці тому +6

      - nature has changed
      -pray I don't change it any further

  • @justinweber4977
    @justinweber4977 3 місяці тому +85

    I'm here before the obligatory "Because James Bisonette-" answer to the title question, neat!

  • @angelb.823
    @angelb.823 3 місяці тому +79

    There is also another reason to point out for southern Anatolia. During the Turkish War of Independence, the Italians withdrew from southern Anatolia and left behind their weapons for the Turkish nationalists to arm themselves, essentially becoming their neutral allies. The reason for their withdrawal was that the Italians didn't want the Greeks to succeed against the Turks and have a strong presence in Smyrna (modern Izmir; which the Greeks had occupied on the request of the Allies) and, by extension, the rest of Asia Minor.

    • @islammehmeov2334
      @islammehmeov2334 3 місяці тому

      Way the heck will Italy sport a cuntry that they waged 4 years of bloody war against it's allied?

    • @its_pantazhss2134
      @its_pantazhss2134 3 місяці тому +15

      Correct, as a Greek, I’m very glad to see people that know what actually happened in that war, all of the Europeans turned against the Greeks, I only maybe kinda respect the British, who didn’t turn and support the Turks, but after everyone had done so, they stopped supporting Greece too… they just watched

    • @dah0heavy
      @dah0heavy 3 місяці тому

      @@its_pantazhss2134 if the only way for you to prosecute your little ethnic clensing/genocide campaign is with the support both material commercial and militarily of ALL the major powers of Europe, you just didn't deserve it.

    • @angelb.823
      @angelb.823 3 місяці тому +19

      @@its_pantazhss2134 Yes, but the Greeks were also at fault to some extend. They had the chance to show their might as a united force, but they were caught in the polarizing scale of the National Schism, which eventually led to restoration of the Germanophile-Greek court under Gounaris and the expulsion of Venizelos (which was also the pretext for the drop of support from the Allied cause). Had Venizelos remained in the premiership, the future for Greece would have been much different than it is currently now.

    • @its_pantazhss2134
      @its_pantazhss2134 3 місяці тому +9

      @@angelb.823 yeah yeah I know, I actually mostly blame the Greeks themselves too, we were doing so perfectly since the start of 1900s to the balkan wars and the Great War but we had to fuck it up by not getting along with each other in the end

  • @XMarkxyz
    @XMarkxyz 3 місяці тому +18

    0:11 Forgot to paint Libya green too, was part of Italy since before the war

  • @rockoorbe2002
    @rockoorbe2002 3 місяці тому +6

    Well, I'm aware that Greece was also trying to take that southern portion of Turkey that Italy wanted, not to mention Constantinople and Adrianople. That would have been an interesting three way comflict between Turkey, Italy, and Greece.

  • @JKO._.921
    @JKO._.921 3 місяці тому +5

    2:53 "Go cry to the Tsar" 😭😭

  • @paulcowlishaw
    @paulcowlishaw 3 місяці тому +2

    I've learnt more about history through this channel then my history teacher at high school taught me

  • @emi_again
    @emi_again 3 місяці тому +9

    A Wild Duce appears!

  • @JefftheEvilRombaSchmidt
    @JefftheEvilRombaSchmidt 3 місяці тому +2

    I love your channel, its very informative and entertaining! Nice job existing =)

  • @datdumbguy1067
    @datdumbguy1067 3 місяці тому +6

    "Go cry to the tsar", was funnier to me than it should've been.

  • @dawesome_sauce
    @dawesome_sauce 3 місяці тому

    The Fez-Wearing Italian Man tease at the end was *chef's kiss*

  • @347Jimmy
    @347Jimmy 3 місяці тому +208

    Last time I was this early, Italy hadn't been unified yet

  • @ravenwilder4099
    @ravenwilder4099 3 місяці тому +1

    The "Secret Treaty" and "Problem for the Next Generation" images are just ... *chef's kiss*

  • @familygash7500
    @familygash7500 3 місяці тому +7

    *VIDEO SUGGESTION:*
    Why does San Marino exist?

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 3 місяці тому +1

    Always love your newspaper clippings. Hilarious

  • @ziroja
    @ziroja 3 місяці тому +4

    As a Serb, I can only say that we should have implemented the London accords with Italy bilaterally, ignoring everyone else. But, our king wanted a bigger state, so we ended up in Yugoslavia, which was more devastating for my people than any foreign occupation. Italy and Serbia could have easily defined their border without many issues.

    • @2djman
      @2djman 3 місяці тому

      fala lepa al ne slazem se s tim prijedlogom

  • @RubberToeYT
    @RubberToeYT 3 місяці тому +2

    Great video as always

  • @ΚυριάκοςΜαρκάκης-ρ1ε
    @ΚυριάκοςΜαρκάκης-ρ1ε 3 місяці тому +4

    0:57 Ikaria, Furnoi and Samos were not part of Isole d' Egee (Dodecanese islands) so they probably weren't discussed at the treaty of London.

  • @muhammadhabibieamiro3639
    @muhammadhabibieamiro3639 3 місяці тому +2

    Another amazing video

  • @Nyx773
    @Nyx773 3 місяці тому +7

    0:39 "The London News" needs to hire a new redactor.
    🤣 One of the best easter egg newspapers yet

    • @Donald_the_Potholer
      @Donald_the_Potholer 3 місяці тому

      With censorship decisions that shortsighted, it's no wonder that the "Great War" went on for 4 times as many Christmases as was originally planned.

  • @michaelchristy506
    @michaelchristy506 Місяць тому +2

    My favorite fact about Italy joining ww1 was the delusion of Italy before the war began
    The central powers promised far more land to Italy, but it didn’t mean anything as they wanted Tyrol and istria as their “unredeemed Italy”. Meanwhile when the war ended and the peace treaties were signed, those said regions didn’t even want to join Italy, nor did they even see themselves as unredeemed Italy as the population wasn’t even Italian, nor did they speak Italian. Furthermore, with the joining of the USA and the push for self determination in the peace treaty, there was no way they would let Italy get land along the Adriatic coast that all wanted nothing to do with Italy, and the only reason they got Tyrol and istria was through massive pressure from England and France to at least give Italy something in return for the half a million dead Italians after the war

  • @azlanadil3646
    @azlanadil3646 3 місяці тому +8

    Croatia and Bosnia circa 1918: we want into Yugoslavia.
    And they would never change their minds!

  • @ScaryEspacio
    @ScaryEspacio 3 місяці тому +1

    YES WE NEED THIS. Thanks History Matters

  • @galboy6117
    @galboy6117 3 місяці тому +3

    Idea for next video- Why did Denmark decline

  • @trickvro
    @trickvro 20 днів тому

    0:38 I love the absurdity of a newspaper being like, "Extra extra, read all about it! Secret treaty! But don't tell anyone!

  • @Janny890
    @Janny890 3 місяці тому +101

    Italy was such a good sport about it that they went against Germany again in WW2 for no gain again.

    • @jdotoz
      @jdotoz 3 місяці тому +29

      They gained survival.

    • @cchutney348
      @cchutney348 3 місяці тому +40

      They were so incompetent, they might as well could have been enemies.

    • @tuluppampam
      @tuluppampam 3 місяці тому

      ​@@cchutney348 Erwin Rommel stated that italians soldiers were good when placed under someone competent (who was not an Italian general because they were useless).

    • @noone-kk2zs
      @noone-kk2zs 3 місяці тому

      The italians truly deserve nothing

    • @Bracus.Reghusk
      @Bracus.Reghusk 3 місяці тому +12

      They even ceded minor town to France and where obliged to give special statut to the Aoeste Region in fact, they also lose Istria, Zadar and Julian to Yougoslavia, without talking about their colony.

  • @butterw55
    @butterw55 3 місяці тому +2

    "Betrayal Time" would be a nice title for a TV series.

  • @svg_apricot4472
    @svg_apricot4472 3 місяці тому +4

    gotta apreciate the effort of actually writing fake articles for the newspaper instead of just repeating gibberish like most media

    • @scottabc72
      @scottabc72 3 місяці тому +3

      And well researched fake articles, I was going to nit pick the reference to a Chinese Emperor since the 1911 revolution had already happened but I forgot the new Chinese president Yuan Shikai had briefly proclaimed himself Emperor in 1915

  • @Mrepicman1001
    @Mrepicman1001 3 місяці тому +1

    Thank you for the video

  • @ROMANTIKILLER2
    @ROMANTIKILLER2 3 місяці тому +20

    Of couse it's easy to say this one century later, but given the way many of the treaties at the end of WW1 were handled by the Entente, from not keeping the promises to Italy to the humiliating conditions imposed on Germany, it was inevitable that the "war to end all wars" would soon lead to an even worse conflict.

    • @stafer3
      @stafer3 3 місяці тому +6

      I mean lets say you scratch those conditions. How exactly do you want to sell to French public that Germany killed or crippled 20% of all men in France, and after 4 years, when the front finally collapsed, and Entente was about to push into Germany proper, that you are just stopping before your complete victory, with getting 0 in return, because you don’t want to hurt German feelings?
      Like seriously, Italy was on winning side, and they turned fascist and hopped on the next world war, just because they got ‘only’ small spoil of war.
      What do you think France would do?
      Like imagine that version of Europe. You have pissed France. You have pissed Yugoslavia, since you also want to accommodate Italy. And you have Soviet union. Congratulation, you have your new coalition of countries who want to destroy the status quo, you have built.
      And unlike Germany, Soviet union and Italy, in our timeline. That coalition would have been much more cohesive. Since France didn’t want to expand into Soviet union.

    • @OzixiThrill
      @OzixiThrill 3 місяці тому +6

      I do recall someone calling the end of "The Great War" a "20 year truce", so it was something that was noted, even back then.

    • @feliceabbondante5183
      @feliceabbondante5183 3 місяці тому +6

      ​@@stafer3small plot of Land? You forgot the fact Italy Lost almost a million troops over coastal Lands inhabited by large populations of italians which in the end they didn't even get ,i guess the self determination of countries which did nothing but create a region wide conflict did not care about those italians who all "disappeared" conveniently After wwii ...

    • @feliceabbondante5183
      @feliceabbondante5183 3 місяці тому +5

      ​@@stafer3the americans went to war for much less

    • @iMajoraGaming
      @iMajoraGaming Місяць тому

      ​​@@feliceabbondante5183 also funny thing, italy committed genocide in the balkans during ww2. the italian minorities got to go somewhere other than a mass-grave after ww2, italy.
      big lmao at "disappeared."
      any consequences for committing war-crimes are what *actually* "disappeared."

  • @emperorpalpatine2721
    @emperorpalpatine2721 3 місяці тому

    The newspaper at 0:38 is golden. 🤣

  • @ΚυριάκοςΜαρκάκης-ρ1ε
    @ΚυριάκοςΜαρκάκης-ρ1ε 3 місяці тому +7

    0:11 I don't think that Samos and Chios would have been guaranteed cause they were part of Greece.

    • @davidhehir7378
      @davidhehir7378 3 місяці тому +2

      Didn’t stop them from keeping Rhodes

  • @sup3rAVATARtlafAN
    @sup3rAVATARtlafAN 3 місяці тому

    Lost sleep last night thinking about this, this helped my sleep a lot thanks!

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 3 місяці тому +8

    The Vittoria Multilada aka the mutilated victory

    • @MrLevion
      @MrLevion 3 місяці тому +7

      Mutilata*

  • @Chaiserzose
    @Chaiserzose 3 місяці тому

    At the end, the RIGHT title for this subject.

  • @bbenjoe
    @bbenjoe 3 місяці тому +44

    Per the 1920 treaty of Rapallo, Italy did gain the city of Zara, and a few more islands at the Dalmatian coast. Also the city of Fiume (a part of Hungary until 1918) was annexed by them in 1924.
    Of course, these gains were nullified per the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947, and were given to Yugoslavia, as well as everything east of the doorstep of Trieste.

    • @GenovaYork951
      @GenovaYork951 3 місяці тому +4

      Rijeka was Croatian. Not Hungarian lol.

    • @weirdguylol
      @weirdguylol 3 місяці тому +5

      ​@@GenovaYork951and Croatia was a part of Hungary 😐

    • @GenovaYork951
      @GenovaYork951 3 місяці тому +3

      @@weirdguylol No. Learn basic history.

    • @bbenjoe
      @bbenjoe 3 місяці тому +6

      @@GenovaYork951 Wrong. It was a part of Hungary proper, multiple times, lastly from 1868 to 1918, as "corpus separatum" ie. an exclave.

    • @GenovaYork951
      @GenovaYork951 3 місяці тому +3

      @@bbenjoe No. It was part of the Croatia-Slavonia.

  • @professorhal8098
    @professorhal8098 3 місяці тому

    UA-cam has a talent for asking questions I dont care for the answer to until the exact moment I read the question, then answering the question in a way that makes me feel like i shouldve guessed it sooner

  • @Wolfeson28
    @Wolfeson28 3 місяці тому +5

    "But that was a problem for the future."
    Homer Simpson in WWII: "It's not the future yet. It's just lousy, stinking 'now'!"

  • @idaho_girl
    @idaho_girl 3 місяці тому +1

    I've learned I must always stop and read the print on the documents you post! LOL

  • @CadeVonWilkens3117
    @CadeVonWilkens3117 3 місяці тому +3

    3:04 A problem for THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN. 😆

  • @summerkagan6049
    @summerkagan6049 3 місяці тому

    I love your humorous animation.

  • @bonwatcher
    @bonwatcher 3 місяці тому +12

    The chalkboard reading, "Betrayal Time" is too accurate. 🤣

  • @isaacbobjork7053
    @isaacbobjork7053 3 місяці тому +2

    Very bold of the Entente to promise Albania to Italy since the country was invaded by both sides although they were not involved in the conflict.

  • @Crewman26
    @Crewman26 3 місяці тому +88

    We're so back

  • @mrniceguy7168
    @mrniceguy7168 3 місяці тому +1

    The baby on the sidewalk with a disappointed look on his face is great

  • @seapickle4119
    @seapickle4119 3 місяці тому +3

    And also Albania won the Vlora war in 1920 securing its independence and it's territory .

  • @Quin_Ram
    @Quin_Ram 3 місяці тому +1

    Happy ninth anniversary History Matters!

  • @matteopinamonti1867
    @matteopinamonti1867 3 місяці тому +3

    With a final cameo from a young and fezless FEZ-WEARING-ITALIAN-MAN 😂

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations 3 місяці тому +2

    Fascinating!

  • @capnstewy55
    @capnstewy55 3 місяці тому +3

    It's hard to conquer land you don't have any troops on. Italy would have been much better off sitting it out until 1918 or 1919 then going after whatever they wanted. No major power would have stopped them.

  • @Shantari
    @Shantari 3 місяці тому

    1:14 Amazing illustration for the concept of letting future generations deal with a problem.

  • @jarnodatema
    @jarnodatema 3 місяці тому +6

    2:28 what are they wearing

  • @Cleverphin
    @Cleverphin 3 місяці тому

    Great Video!

  • @Redguns4life
    @Redguns4life 3 місяці тому +37

    "Why did the Entente betray Italy after WW1?"
    Italy couldn't spin three plates.

  • @michaelowino228
    @michaelowino228 3 місяці тому +1

    Good video.

  • @tariarun5063
    @tariarun5063 3 місяці тому +7

    Also Italy was assigned to occupy the Adriatic coast during the fall of Austria-Hungary waiting for the treatises to be signed but there were many clashes with local slavs so UK, France and USA had to step in and this didn't help the Italian case

  • @foulplayer7812
    @foulplayer7812 3 місяці тому

    Looking forward to the day History Matters says “But fun fact…YES” in a video.

  • @camhabibi2217
    @camhabibi2217 3 місяці тому +19

    Wilson/the US didn't negotiate Italy's entry into WW1, so whatever promises the Entente made to Rome in 1915 were of little concern to the Americans negotiating peace in 1918/1919.

    • @calogerohuygens4430
      @calogerohuygens4430 3 місяці тому +8

      Problem is that Italy requests have been made and accepted before USA entered war. Changing them doesn't make sense at all. Treaty has been written on purpose to avoid "forgetting" it.

    • @gs7828
      @gs7828 3 місяці тому +1

      But the US was not a main actor in the war, nor amongst the top nations by contribution. It was really about France and the UK at that point.

    • @camhabibi2217
      @camhabibi2217 3 місяці тому

      The U.S. wasn’t a main actor in WW1? That’s news to me…

    • @calogerohuygens4430
      @calogerohuygens4430 3 місяці тому

      @@camhabibi2217 as combatant personnel they were irrelevant. They counted about Materials and money loans to Entente.

    • @gs7828
      @gs7828 3 місяці тому +2

      @@camhabibi2217 What do you mean? It literally wasn't: it joined at the end and had no impact before on the blockade of the German industry, goods or strategies. It was a neutral country that did not take part in most of the fighting and for most of the war.
      The war wasn't won by immaterial loans. It was about producing material and fighting. The main effort was of course done by France on land; in the sea by the Royal Navy and Italy secured the Mediterranean.

  • @theskycavedin
    @theskycavedin 3 місяці тому +2

    Italy did get some of the territory they asked for, and Italy officially was satisfied. At least at first. But then the army revolted with the March on Fiume, and the resentment grew from there on out.

  • @Maxfromohio2155
    @Maxfromohio2155 3 місяці тому +26

    Because James bisonette didn’t want Italy to have all that land

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 3 місяці тому

    I like the addition of the horse its neat

  • @Rakagann
    @Rakagann 3 місяці тому +5

    I think it was because USA cancelled the Treaty if London.

    • @adamwarlock1
      @adamwarlock1 3 місяці тому +3

      A lesson that if people are only willing to promise you stuff in a secret treaty maybe they don't really plan to do what they say.

    • @gs7828
      @gs7828 3 місяці тому

      @@adamwarlock1 Well it happened again later: Italy in the 1930s was like "how come the UK and France own half of Africa". I want some colonies too. And yet there were double standards; even the Ethiopian Empire, which colonised its neighbour, was considered more by the UK. Given the standards of the time, these things add up and had a counterbalance: Italian invasions in Africa.

  • @louisduarte8763
    @louisduarte8763 2 місяці тому +1

    0:40 Those news stories are hilariously dark, and now I want to know more about what happened between China and Japan during WWI.

  • @maxwellmueller9384
    @maxwellmueller9384 3 місяці тому +32

    The timelime had to be kept intact. If Italy got what they wanted, no Mussolini and eventually no WW2.

    • @Alexander-lg1pk
      @Alexander-lg1pk 3 місяці тому +11

      I'm not sure . Theyr economy would still be in ruins , theyr politics would still be chaotic and they would still want more like Ethiopia (and maybe Tunisia)

    • @Michiganman800
      @Michiganman800 3 місяці тому +5

      Italy was not the main driver of WW2

    • @Rynewulf
      @Rynewulf 3 місяці тому +6

      Italy's contribution to WWII was being a check on the Allies to-do list

    • @geoffreystill1038
      @geoffreystill1038 3 місяці тому +17

      @@Rynewulfnot necessarily, Hitler held Mussolini as almost a mentor during the late 20s early 30s. With no Mussolini, Hitler possibly could have failed a second time… or succeeded but over a politically divided Germany. Hitler copied a lot of Mussolini’s tactics

    • @Michiganman800
      @Michiganman800 3 місяці тому +1

      @@geoffreystill1038
      Ok but Italy could not have carried the war without Germany. But Germany might have done better with a neutral Italy.

  • @grondhero
    @grondhero 3 місяці тому +1

    Last time I was this early, *History Matters* was called *Recent Events, yo.* 😉