A Historian Reacts - The Causes of World War I Rap
Вставка
- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- See the original video here - • The cause of World War...
Links:
patreon - / vth
travel gofundme - www.gofundme.com/f/hgg-vth-tr...
Discord - / discord
Twitter - / thehistoryguy25
For business inquiries contact: vloggingthroughhistory@gmail.com
my history/strategy gaming channel - / @thehistoryguy
Special Thanks to the following who are the official sponsors of this channel:
Tier 6 - Mike Tasset, Insane, Daniel Nimko, Ziv
Tier 5 - Kai Stasch
Tier 4 - Graham Brown, Sandor Nagy, Derek Wohl
Tier 3 - Matthew Calderwood, Kyle Hosea, Brandon Grams, Qethsegol, Robin Svensson, Austin White, Chris Curtis, John Molden, Peter Gadja, Raoul Kunz, Typhon, SGTMcAllen, David Storey
#History #WW1 #WWI
If Tsar Nicholas II was this intimidating in reality there would not have been a revolt
the guy, were just, incompentent.
He was a child tsar,who...DIDNT learn
@@APersonOnUA-camX didn’t his father refuse to teach him?
@@artembentsionov His father feares Nicholas won't have the guts yet never taught him how to rule whatsoever. If anything, Alexander 3 clearly deserved being massacred at Yekaterinburg or being assassinated the most more than his father and own son.
It's somehow haunting why Russia can't ever catch a break despite how many times people try.
He would make his executors afraid to shoot
"Did Joffre even speak, he just kinda stood there and watched..."
That's the joke...
But why ?
@@ebenezer576 Because Joffre was calm even through the worst times, while the others were trying so hard to do different things
@@exoticdachoo007 Oh. I thought maybe the writer at the BBC was trying to insult the French.
@@wcdeich4 considering how amazingly propagandistic this is, that was a reasonable assumption. I mean, this propaganda was like the one when the war was fought!
@@bierwolf8360 How is this propaganda?
Tsar Nicholas looks more like his father Alexander III. The guy was a bear of a man (6'3) and he was so strong he could bend iron pokers with his bare hands.
what is that in non retarded units ? 6'3 ?
@@semiramisubw4864 190 cm
That moment you can't even google the conversion
@@semiramisubw4864 a bit above 190 cm
@@semiramisubw4864 3.6 diamond swords if thats consider “non retarded” to you
The C Word is not as bad in the UK. It can be use a term of endearment with phrases like “you cheeky C***’
Yeah that's kinda what i thought.
@@VloggingThroughHistory And here in NZ & Aus, it's used in everyday conversation.
Yep
Or, as I recall in Shaun of the Dead, "Any of you c----s want a drink?"
I´m from Germany but i have no idea what the C word is
Can someone help me please?
So I found out Franz Josef 5'10 interestingly enough I always thought he was short. Thanks for helping me find that out.
Anything under 6ft is basically 3 chihuahuas in a trenchcoat
@@MultiArch1 Hahaha that's a good one!
Isn’t 5’10” short? For Europeans at least?
@@Aconitums_Poisoned_Art Nicholas II and the Kaiser were both 5'7". George V was 5'6". Not sure about Gavrilo Princip. I think Hindenburg was 6'5" (taller than Lincoln) but he was a general not a head of state.
@@stanleyrogouski well, technically Hindenburg was a head of state, but 10-15 years after WW1
Lets go! WW1 is extremely understudied especially here in the US. Not sure how I found this channel but ive been subscribed for a few weeks and im loving everything so far. Keep up the great work!
And it also depends on where you are in the US. In my school, WW1 and WW2 were big in content. While in other schools, WW1 isn’t as massive since it didn’t really affect the US outside of giving our economy a bigger and not-so required boost.
@@WarriorLionstripe I went to school mostly in the South and WW1 could be summarized as Ferdinand is assassinated, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, The US joins in 1917, something something Treaty of Versailles. I'm not even joking, it was always like 2 pages at most.
@@JABRIEL251 Yeah, the education department of the United States is all over the place. It’s part of why it sucks so much.
Yep, didn’t know much about WW1 until BF1 sparked my interest. Then one thing lead to another and I found Indy’s channel “The Great War”.
Look for the channel called "The Great War".
Im 21 from England, and it's interesting to think how one of my paternal great great grandfathers named Ernest George Ehren was the same age as me when he joined the British army in 1914. he served till the end of the war on the Western front. my maternal great great grandfather named James Thomas Young joined in 1915 aged 19, he served in the Gallipoli campaign. after that he served during the Somme and ended up getting injured in 1917.
Ok
Damn, the famed Gallipoli.
4:03 You were right the first time. It's George V there not Nicholas II. The logic is explained after the dialogue below:
Franz Joseph: "You're tiresome, you're irksome, like a Slavic Jeremy Clarkson"
Gavrilo Princip: "Huh? Who the hell is that?"
George V: "Nothing to do with us!"
Jeremy Clarkson presented a motoring programme called Top Gear in the UK for years and is renowned for making comments which bother, rile, or otherwise annoy or upset certain sections of society. He can be quite brash and in your face, and some people love him for it, others can't stand him. So, Franz Joseph is telling Gavrilo Princip that he has that same brash, rude manner that Jeremy Clarkson has. Princip responds by saying he doesn't know who that is, because of course it's an anachronistic reference (how could he have known about someone who was born 46 years after this 1914 incident?). George V then pops up and distances himself completely from Jeremy Clarkson by just flatly denying that he's anything at all to do with us in Britain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson#Controversies
Thank you for explaining this. I never really got that line because I had no idea who the dude is and I kinda expected it to be some historical figure from the time period so I thought Google isn't cooperating😂
As a contrast, under the right context the C word is something an Aussie might call their friends. It's a weird cultural quirk of ours.
Definitely wouldn't recommend trying it if you visit though. As I said it's all about context.
That’s very true, I’m an Irishmen and yes
We do that in the UK as well
My great great grandfather served in the austro-hungarian 3rd army at the battle of limanowa in 1914 and his grandson late served in the hungarian army during ww2 as part of the 1st parachute battalion.
I'm so happy to see this one, I asked for it but I didn't know so many others had done so as well. :D It's such a great production, getting the small details into it and managing to deal with such a heavy topic in a lighthearted way without it feeling absurd or super disrespectful. Great to see you react to it. :)
Amazing! This is definitely the historical reading of these videos I have been looking for. Thanks so much for all this information and interpretation, very cool. I'm looking forward to more reactions, especially Medieval, Tudor, Spanish, Black and Latin American history, that's my jam! Greetings for Costa Rica!
You might be that kind of teacher that easily can do a world map in 1936, but will struggle as fuck in present time... xD (With all respect, love your videos)
To be fair, there were significantly fewer nations back then, imperialism and all.
@@MinecraftMasterNo1 True like before Africa was basically just Europe 2.0 and now there are 54 countries
Cant deny what youre saying.
Yo I just want you to know that I’ve been watching since you had around 20k subs and I’m so glad you got recommended to me. You make great content and I’m never bored or uninterested. Thanks for the great videos! Keep it up! 🔥🔥
I haven't seen this in a while! I forgot about this thing and how great it was. Thank you for unearthing this fun memory!
Joffre's verse was the best of'em all.
Loved it.
Would you take a interest to History Bombs’ videos?
Also there is this HH song about Willem, Nic and George and it’s pretty catchy
Love this history bomb channel
@Der Sachse which one?
The horrible histories video or the History Bombs video?
Or both?
We're the cousins who ruled over dossunes
Love your channel! Keep doing your thing, learning a ton and having great fun doing so!
Heard the song before but it's great, and your reaction made it better. Thanks for posting!
Momentum is also a psychological issue. I have wondered myself many times, when I made a decision in a game for example and had to execute by clicking the button, often I realized half a second before the click, that will go wrong, but I did it anyway. It is like I can't stop myself, even if I know 100%, it is false. It feels like I don't care after the decision.
And that is true for bigger decisions too, with much more time to stop it.
Hey Chris, so I have been binge watching your videos for like the past 2 weeks or so. I must say I love it. I love your wholesome attitude and I appreciate all the knowledge and point of views you offer in your videos. In one of them (I think D-day series) you said you were not sure about how they clean the beaches from all the thousands of mines placed. I would like to recommend a Danish movie called "under sandet" about that topic. I think you may enjoy it. If you have seen it, I'm sorry and I'm also sorry for my comment not being about this particular video. Just ending to say I appreciate you and your work. Good luck with life
i whish we had an history teacher like you! love your content!
6:35 For another trivia, the king of Spain back then (Alfonso XIII) was son to the cousin of Franz Joseph, María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena and was married to Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, who was a British princess granddaughter to queen Victoria. Him having blood relation to both Austria-Hungary and Britain was one of the reasons why Spain kept neutral during WW1. By the way, Alfonso was a postumous child, as his father, Alfonso XII, died due to illness while María Cristina was pregnant (by the way, there are two excellent Spanish films about Alfonso XII called "¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?" and "¿Dónde vas, triste de tí?"). Alfonso XII was overall a good king who loved his people (and his people loved him back), and in fact he died young due to that: the reason he got ill in the first place was that Spain faced a typhus epidemic, and he decided to re-purpose a mansion he had for holidays into a field hospital, and contacted the illness while inspecting the hospital. He was also an excellent diplomat, being nicknamed "Pacificador" (Peacemaker) as he managed to get Spain out of a civil war and several revolts thanks to a combination of both diplomacy and military (he was helped on that front by general Martínez Campos, a reformer who upgraded the Spanish army, equipping them with Mauser bolt-action rifles and a training model based on that of the German Empire). Had he lived a longer life, there wouldn't have been a Spanish-American war, and he would have probably managed to solve the diplomatic crisis on 1914, he was just that good at negociating. His son, on the other hand, was mediocre and prone to changes due to mood, and was one of the reasons why Spain turned onto a republic in 1931.
Yay thanks for the WWI content. Your additions were really interesting.
Class video as always mate
By the way love this channel and its content keep it up
8:48 Adding more info, the Teutonic Order was a medieval nation that was in what we would call, Eastern Prussia, or where the Russian Republic controls territory on the border of Poland and Lithuania. The Order was a group of people in a crusade in Jerusalem. The peeps eventually made it to Medieval Hungary where they played somewhat as mercenaries for the people around them. In 1190 the nation was officially formed and later it formed with a state west of Poland-Lithuania, Brandenburg, to form Prussia or Royal Prussia. This was of course what led to Prussia becoming a great power of Europe and form the Northern Confederate after the Austro-Prussian War and then formed Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. This also explains why the great powers of Europe were getting nervous. Germany had defeated Austria and France even before it united and these wars probably were the main reason everyone built more armies knowing that they had to outnumber and out equip their foe for victory.
The Tsar in there looked more like Alexander III, Nicholas’ old man.
You know what I find weird about Joffre, besides him not speaking up? It's why they put him here. He wasn't the head of state or of government in France. Now I understand not putting in the PM, as they didn't do it for Britain or Germany (also all PMs changed throughout the war), but they could have put in President Raymond Poincaré (1913-1920), who was a very influential figure in the war effort despite having limited powers (somewhat like King George V).
Armchair historian has many cool videos about history, would like to see u react to them. Love ur vids btw keep it up, especially the fun facts some times!
Shirt suggestion!
"Gonna have to throw on the Glasses for this One"
I haven't seen you react to any of their videos, so I'm not sure if you have seen the channel, but I think you would like the channel History Buffs, especially his Gettysburg video knowing your background.
Nae, he's alright. Some Videos are clearly biased.
You should watch the extra history series on Genghis Khan, it’s the best one they’ve made IMO
2:25 I found a source saying Gavrilo Princip was 6ft 5ins
Hello Vlogging Through History!! Love your content, especially the Sabaton reaction videos. I was hoping if you could react to Horrible Histories' Cousins Song about Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V and Czar Nicholas II. I would greatly appreciate if you could. I pray for your channel's future success and to more wonderful content.
Loved reading those books during school.
@@thecrimsoncommando3875 Same here. Too bad though I don’t have all of the books.
Oh yes im already loving this❤️
Oh yes i loved that your reaction to that Just genius, keep it up
You should try to react to all 5 WW1 episodes by Epic History TV
great vid man! you shoud do a reaction to Sabaton Ghost Division
He was Karl l. of Austria and Karl lV. of Hungary
I cant tell you how many times i watched this video over the summer
I've been a huge anglophile since I was in grade school from the first time I saw Monty Python on PBS. Love this.
So I looked up Franz josephs height and and apparently, Elisabeth measured 1.72 m or 5'8". She towered over him by 4 cm, resulting in a height of 1.68 m or 5'6" for the emperor. Which means they staged the photos to make him look taller, lol.
Do you have documentation for that? I considered staging but I found multiple full length photos of them both standing (you can see their legs, no way they're staged) and didn't see any way he was shorter than her. Also the info I found said she was 5'8"
@@VloggingThroughHistory I looked at German-language sources as there is more information about the Habsburgs. Regarding his height, they may have been talking about him at an older age (smaller in statue than when he was younger). I also tried converting it to feet which I could messed up a bit as I personally use the metric system.
@@Hades-gt8ce gotcha. Yeah I found it pretty difficult to find any good sources on it myself. I dug around for a while but couldnt find much.
@@VloggingThroughHistory Thanks for anwering your viewers :)
7:49 in England it’s pretty normal in Australia literally everyone says it all the time
Hey could you do some sort of reaction or talk about the war of 1812? It’s a part of history not often talked about and I’m interested in how our nation was taking shape in between the revolution and the secession.
I literally said to myself "It was 2 bullets" the same moment you did lol
6:55 you are correct sir, it means to be cheeky about something.
6:45 "Take the mick" does mean to make fun of someone, to tease or ridicule them, but used as "Don't take the mick" it can also mean "You're having a laugh!" as in "You can't seriously believe what you've just said". [Apparently it comes from rhyming slang "Taking the Mike Bliss" = "Taking the piss". This is then used as "Taking the mickey/mick" or sometimes even "Taking the Michael".]
This had been completely wiped from my mind. I don't remember when but I've seen this rap before
You've brought up how you believe WW1 lead to WW2 and the cold war in a lot of your WW1 videos so I was curious if you've ever read or watched much about the fall of the Carolingian dynasty? Extra History do a great video on it call The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire. I personally attribute so many of the great conflicts in Europe towards how poorly Charlemagne's Empire was divided and I think that video covers it really well
i know this is about the start of the war but imagine if when things get heated Woodrow Wilson just barges in.
Willhelm: THERE AIN'T NO MYSTERY, WILLHELM THE GREAT WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY!!!
Wilson (barging in): We the free people think you need to chill.
Europe: who are you?
VTH: NO! STOP!
Wilson: Good thing I showed up. You guys were tearing each other to pieces.
I just want to Recommend watching the Timeghost WW2 Pearl Harbor minute by minute even though it is like 5 hours long in total
Taking the mick is when you say something to joke about someone/thing e.g. there was a picture of British troops in Berlin in WW2 and they were stood on rubble mocking Hitler with the yelling and the salute
Hi, I've got a video reaction idea, there is series from extra credits about Suleiman the Magnificent, I think it could be interesting :)
This video was originally made in 2014, on the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the First World War.
Hey just wondering if you could go over Texas history?
the c slur is very common in australia
Can you react to Ancient "Rome in 20 minutes"? it's a very well presented video.
6:50 sort of. It comes from Micky Bliss which is cockney rhyming slang for piss. In the context he used it in it would more mean being silly.
Never thought I would see kaiser whilhelm II hip thrust.
The naval arms race was over by 1914.
The kaiser had publicly given up on trying to surpass the British.
4:05 it is George V since they mentioned Jeremy Clarkson who is also British and he said nothing to do with us.
0:21 kinda sus ngl
Btw, the Jeremy Clarkson comment was tongue and cheek about Clarksons breakdown relationship with the BBC when this was first aired
Since you did this video you should also do Horrible Histories Cousins of ww1
I feel like Australia has more studies of WW1 than most countries, but not really enough still, since they usually only focus on the Aussie version of D Day, which is Gallipoli.
You said something about george and Nicholas switching outfits, that was actually the Kaiser and Nicholas.
4:53 back up
0:57 I don't think so. They are both cousins of George V though. Wilhelm on his father's side and Nicholas on his mother's side.
Could you watch Epic Rap Battles of History Western Philosophers VS Eastern Philosophers?
Britain had best flow
Russia had best lyrics
Germany had best dance
Austria had best rhythm
France had best at getting invaded
France did the biggest job in WWI. Over 15% of entire french population were victims of war(young men). This is why France surrendered that fast in WWII because they don't fully recover from WWI and they didn't want the other mincing machine.
@@canadian_v3ngeance767 Percentage wise Serbia had the most deaths wit around 23% of it's population and around 60% of it's male population dead. And with size in mind Serbia did pretty well also fending off much larger AH army twice and not capitulating even while occupied and liberating it self in the end.
But in general yeah, France did the most...
Not history related but if you want a good bbc tv show that American don’t know about. Is Inside No.9. Its alittle like Black Mirror but more British and dark comedy. Also, there are historical episodes
nice top gear easter egg for jeremy clarkson
Where was Archie Duke.
The one who shot the ostrich because he was hungry.
Never seen this. Quite interesting.
Could you react to Monsieur Z’s “7 ages of America and the presidents behind them” video
You are correct about the word c**t - in almost every English-majority speaking nation (AUS, NZ, UK) the word is not considered nearly as obscene or vulgar or insulting as it is her in the US (and I would guess probably CAN).
Omg I’ve watched this video since 2018 but I never understood the ‘difficult chap.’ It was until today that I found out what the joke was.
You should react to six the musical!
0:25 same, but I don’t watch British news channels
7:44 It is considered rude. That’s why he didn’t say it.
But it can also be used as banter. It only rude if you intend it to be rude or add other insults to the word.
@@A2pattingPod042 I suppose it depends on the level of education and culture of the parties involved.
Do a reaction to Elizabeth’s life and assassination?
Joffre was the only one who couldn’t speak English.
Tbh I’d love to see you play a video game like Verdun or Tannenburg.
He has a second channel where he plays games, History Guy Gaming.
"it was just so frustrating and so sad
To watch things unfold
And realize that"
Is it just me or did my man just unconsciously started rapping for a moment there?
I watched this video when it came out in 2014
Tbh I like this song and its fun really.
My great-great-grandfather, Mendel, fought in the Tsar's Army during World War I. He left the army just after the February Revolution, and even joined the White Army, which he left just after the Russian Civil War broke out. He died of natural causes in 1977, at the ripe old age of ninety-five, surviving the defeat of the Whites and the entire reign of Joseph Stalin.
I would need such a rap battle about WW2
Didn't knew my Tsar was that intimidating 👀
What I find most interesting: Without the assassination of FF and the July crisis, WW1 most likely still would have broken out over one thing or the other. But, the "Nation" that has started it, has a high chance of remaining neutral until attacked in almost any other scenario. A-H had close to no war support until the death of FF, was fighting on finding ways to reform their empire in a way that made it last longer than a few more decades, were nowhere near building up a strong army, and Franz Joseph has allready shown with Russia in the Crimean war that he wouldn't come to the aid of allies if he didn't deem it necessary/useful.
This means, if WW1 happens, there is a good chance that a reformed Austria-Hungary (at that point a huge cultural and scientific center of the world) would end up a dominant force for the years to come.
7:34 it is not. The thing they did there was insinuative swearing. It is quite common in British comedy.
I find it interesting how Franz Joseph lived long enough to call russia for help during the Hungarian revolution, then declare war on them during WW1
You should do a reaction the song " US history" by Flipsyde
Take the Mick is equivalent to don't be silly but with a angry tone
0:20 AYO!!!?
Mic also is short for microphone.
The "C" word does have a taboo status generally within the UK - which is why he doesn't use it in the video - but just alludes to it with the euphemism "difficult chap". Modern generations and certain regions and social groups are more at home with using it. You also sometimes hear comedians use it on the TV for shock value - although that has generally worn off a bit now. So, you could probably get away using it down the pub/rugby club/football club etc with friends you know very well and who don't mind that kind of language, but if you use it at work you may get disciplined or sacked. In general, the less well you know people and the more formal the setting and the older the age group then the less likely it is that you should use it.
4:49 oh crap
you should really react to the british kids show horrible histories, they do songs and little skits etc.
we need more ww1 content