World War I Battlefields: Crash Course European History #33
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4 жыл бұрынEurope's system of alliances and centuries-old tensions erupted into war in August of 1914. This week on Crash Course Euro, we're talking about the military history of World War I, and taking a look at the broad strokes of how the war unfolded. We'll take you from the guns of August through gruesome battles like Verdun and the Somme, and follow the thread all the way through to the Armistice in 1918. It didn't turn out to be the War to End All Wars, sadly, but there is a lot to learn from it.
Sources
-Engelstein, Laura. Russia in Flames. War, Revolution, and Civil War 1914-1922. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1918.
-Hunt, Lynn et al. Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, 6th ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s 2019.
-Sanborn, Joshua A. Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
-Suny, Ronald Grigor. “They Can Lie in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
-Watson, Alexander. Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I. New
York: Basic Books, 2014.
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#crashcourse #history #WWI
@TheMattastic 4 жыл бұрын
"Yes. Clearly, Field Marshal Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin."
@edwinnivens6207 4 жыл бұрын
"You know how there's a saying that somewhere there is a bullet with your name on it?"
@TheCheck999 4 жыл бұрын
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@MRFlackAttack1 4 жыл бұрын
Darling: In short, a German spy is giving away every one of our battle plans. Melchett: You look surprised, Blackadder. Blackadder: I certainly am, sir. I didn't realise that we had any battle plans. Melchett: Well of course we have! How else do you think the battles are directed?! Blackadder: Our battles are directed, sir? Melchett: Well of course they are, Blackadder, directed according to the grand plan. Blackadder: Would that be the plan to continue with total slaughter until everyone's dead except for Field Marshall Haig, Lady Haig and their tortoise, Alan? Melchett: [horrified] Great Scott! Even you know it!
@seneca983 4 жыл бұрын
At least Haig learned to be a better commander.
@EcceJack 4 жыл бұрын
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@zflowes 4 жыл бұрын
I find the lack of indy neidell disturbing
@Green-tf8uw 4 жыл бұрын
Same, to me WW1=indy
@michaelaburns734 4 жыл бұрын
I respect Professor Nidel for doing that for 4 years. Professor Alexander is great too for the post Great War content. I like the both of them. Professor Green is okay at simple history, The Great War channel goes in details.
@pnutz_2 4 жыл бұрын
This Is Modern War
@mav8535 4 жыл бұрын
Your sad devotion to that ancient channel has not helped you conjure up the stolen ad money for history channels, or given you clairvoyace enough to find the hidden youtube CEO.
@dmnemaine 4 жыл бұрын
This was not meant to be an in depth history of WWI, but an overview as a segment of European history. If you're looking for the former, you came to the wrong place, and you're comparing apples to oranges.
@TheOsis181 4 жыл бұрын
It's kinda weird to think about it but The Great War was the most significant event of the 20th century. We are still living in the aftermath and effects of it even to this day more than 100 years later
@magnuspeacock5857 4 жыл бұрын
You can say the same about most major historical events. The seven years war (French and Indian war in the USA) was perhaps the most important event in the past 300 years as it set the stage for British domination world, the US and French and South American revolutions, Russia's rise as a world power, the rise of Napoleon, Prussian supremacy in Germany, European intervention and later colonization of Africa and so much more, yet it is so rarely taught in schools. The Seven Years war was the first truly global war, with fighting in North and South America, Europe, India and Africa. It is impossible to overstate how much it shaped the world.
@mcdrums87 4 жыл бұрын
Magnus Peacock but WWI is the most recent event that got its fingers in...everything. I mean it basically ended four empires, led to the rise of Nazi Germany AND Soviet Russia, made the US a global superpower via economics, virtually erased a generation of French men, divided the Middle East up by external interests, set the stage for Irish and Indian independence... Imagine if the Central Powers were beaten sooner. Imagine a Russia without Communism. Imagine if the Weimar Republic actually having a chance to succeed, or (at the very least) without the fear of a Socialist takeover. Imagine...basically every country without Communist fears.
@SDCLFC1 4 жыл бұрын
Yes - but it would re-evaluate it further by saying that it was one of two significant high-points in thirty years of one big global conflict. For me, looking at it this way brings in the wide-ranging impacts of the first-half of the twentieth century and explains the global political-economy today.
@peculiarpangolin4638 4 жыл бұрын
Nobody: Crash Course: "Verdoon and the Sum"
@abk4202020 4 жыл бұрын
Lool
@user-xq5og9lt8p 4 жыл бұрын
More people died in WWI than people who currently live in Canada Well, to add to that, more people died in the influrenza pandemic than currently live in 3 Canadas
@babscabs1987 4 жыл бұрын
Where are the other two?
@festethephule7553 4 жыл бұрын
@@babscabs1987 Wouldn't you like to know.
@kevinconrad6156 4 жыл бұрын
@@babscabs1987 Paradise.
@loomhigh 4 жыл бұрын
conclusion thus far is that no one lives in canada
@Gyrant 4 жыл бұрын
@@loomhigh Canaidan here. Can confirm.
@mcdrums87 4 жыл бұрын
0:47 "It didn't go that way." Basically everyone's assessment of WWI before joining in...
@danmenard6917 4 жыл бұрын
Przhemysyl especially.
@ethanrepublic 4 жыл бұрын
i haven't heard of "Verdume" and the "some" but they sound deadly.
@dakotawilliams507 4 жыл бұрын
Only somme survived, that's why
@Anaguma79 4 жыл бұрын
I'm conflicted. Mispronouncing things is John's thing. But he also took high school French...
@ethanrepublic 4 жыл бұрын
@@Anaguma79 but he also says he's forgotten everything he's learned
@marcushead9985 4 жыл бұрын
@@Anaguma79 This decides me: during Crash Course World History, I think he pronounced it properly.
@fuduzan5562 4 жыл бұрын
Well let us know when you put out a video of equivalent quality where you pronounce it the way you prefer. I'll wait.
@langohr9613ify 4 жыл бұрын
I am a German and as me and my father were traveling to France we encountered a big war grave. To see all these endless crosses gives you a sence of scale for this horreble war.
@HannesWithoutJo 4 жыл бұрын
Well in german Charlemagne is called "Karl der Große" - Karl the Great. So not an uncommon name for an emperor.
@hpsauce1078 4 жыл бұрын
The true name of Charlie
@thedeadpeatr 4 жыл бұрын
Johannes Translated 'Charlemagne' has exactly the same meaning in French as in German
@schelfie1986 4 жыл бұрын
In Dutch also, just as with Keizer Karel V (Emperor Charles V of the Habsburgs)
@wyacheslawkodanev2107 4 жыл бұрын
In Russia we also call him Карл Великий, so it was a hard for me to get used to the English name for the first 20 minutes of talking about him.
@babitz0r 4 жыл бұрын
In slavic languages, our word for King actually comes from Charlemagne - in Croatian we say Kralj, in Czech they say Kral I think, etc. So to me it was funny because it was like Emperor King.
@harunsuaidi7349 4 жыл бұрын
Stories about WW1 always make me weep. The death, brutality, and especially the futility of it are just maddening.
@christianrodier3381 4 жыл бұрын
During WWI, there was a woman on a train who keep repeatedly counting the fingers on one hand. When the passengers began to scoff, her husband asked them to stop. She was counting the number of sons she had lost, and her husband was taking her to an asylum.
@erikn.7540 4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that Bulgaria wasn't highlighted as a Central Power on the map at 5:34. It joined the war in October 1915.
@josiahferguson6194 4 жыл бұрын
or Greece and Romania on the side of the Entente
@nolearystream 4 жыл бұрын
@@josiahferguson6194 He didn't mention tons of countries involved, at no point did he make an exhaustive list.
@Oxtocoatl13 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah they left out all the little ones, which is a shame, but given their time constraints, I get it.
@DaDunge 4 жыл бұрын
They couldn't even get who mobilized first right. Anything that shifts the blame more squarely on Germany seems to be the way to go that this series goes. John needs a new writer. the guy who did the old crash course world history episodes had a much subtler understanding of history than the person who writes these.
@MattJones-ki6wh 4 жыл бұрын
There were a lot of omissions in this episode
@holaps7620 4 жыл бұрын
Hey, I was looking at one of your videos on capitalism, authoritarianism and democracies and it dawned on me just how much CrashCourse has helped me not only in homework assignments, but in gaining a wider perspective. So thanks, I really appreciate what you're doing, and I'm sure many more feel the same way.
@Argacyan 4 жыл бұрын
Two things I would have added: The Ottoman Empire and then Turkey were in war well into the 1920's still. Also people in Germany by 1918 weren't just rebellious but there were many revolutions for democracy predominantly lead by mutinies of sailors, communists and anarchists which were put down and murdered by the monarchist establishment, but also by a growing amount of ultranationalists and traditionalists who would go on to lay the foundation of the nazi party.
@jaojao1768 4 жыл бұрын
Yes true
@bx8321 4 жыл бұрын
The Dan Carlin “Hardcore History” podcast episodes on the First World War are well worth listening to.
@masudaahmed7990 4 жыл бұрын
Wot pod cast does everyone mean!?!
@Jackson-mm3qb 4 жыл бұрын
It’s so uncomfortable not seeing him at his desk...
@Madhattersinjeans 4 жыл бұрын
Like a news reporter now.
@anaveragegamingchannel1843 4 жыл бұрын
Are you talking about John or an average 1910s schoolboy.
@ciaranreed91 4 жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard “Verdun” or the “Somme” pronounced like that before.
@ludwigvr3212 4 жыл бұрын
Ciarán Reed “verdoon” is definitely a new one
@johnsparrow7050 4 жыл бұрын
Americans...
@user-xq5og9lt8p 4 жыл бұрын
I can't see whoot is wroong
@Green-tf8uw 4 жыл бұрын
@@johnsparrow7050 ikr?
@jannoottenburghs5121 4 жыл бұрын
I mean he excused himself countlessly in the past for his French pronounciations. Probably says something about the quality of French lessons in American high schools. That said I've hardly Verdun being pronounced in a such a manner since the words "un" and "une" are probably one of the first French words people learn at school.
@Dwumper 4 жыл бұрын
The difference between this episode and the civil war episode in the American History series goes to show how much crash course improved over the years. That was just mocking military history, ignoring it's importance; this video is a great introduction to what the war was like and how it affected Europe and gives us a glimpse into it's importance to 20th century European history. This series on the whole has been great. Keep up the amazing work!
@varana 4 жыл бұрын
That was mocking "battle history" - and then they moved here, and regiments XXVI and 478 fought there, and then they moved somewhere else, and did the same again, but now formed a wedge instead of a line. Or stuff like that. This video was very light on these things, as well, and rightly so. The Great War had a much larger impact on all facets of life, not just the belligerent nations, and shaped the 20th century and modern life in a way that the American Civil War doesn't even come close to. Yes, that Civil War episode was a bit silly. But also not wrong, esp. in light of American "patriotic" history.
@oslonorway547 4 жыл бұрын
5:05 That was touching. .. Salute to both the survived and fallen!
@michaelaburns734 4 жыл бұрын
The Back and forth in The Great War of 1914 was MASSIVE. The Christmas Truce 1914 is one of my favorite stories.
@turbobus4983 4 жыл бұрын
Karl=Charles Charlemagne was "Emperor Karl" and so was Charles V and all the other Charleses...
@madshagen5849 4 жыл бұрын
Yup, end of the circle... 1118 years of Empire is good enough...
@JoshTheValiant 4 жыл бұрын
I mean be fair, Emperor Charles has very similar energy.
@DaDunge 4 жыл бұрын
@@JoshTheValiant ... What are you talking about?
@danmenard6917 4 жыл бұрын
We mostly call him Emperor Chucky.
@Dayglodaydreams 4 жыл бұрын
Cheerful revisionist history???
@HistoryHustle 4 жыл бұрын
Have someone ever visited the former battle fields? I take my pupils to Ypres each year. Even though my Dutch students have no direct historical ties to this battle (the Netherlands was neutral) is makes a huge impression on them.
@neilgow77 4 жыл бұрын
Yep, I did a backpack trip in 2015 and walked from Amiens to Ypres. Around Loos, farmers were still leaving unexploded ordinance out on the roadside for the police to pick up. If you ever get a chance to visit the museum in Ypres, please do. I ended my trip at the Last Post ceremony at the Menin gate. Powerful trip. That war was inane.
@christopheringram1605 4 жыл бұрын
Great work from the whole Crash Course team! Keep it up :)
@DeusExHonda 4 жыл бұрын
Crash course notifications ALWAYS make a day better.
@casualsleepingdragon8501 4 жыл бұрын
8:20 heck, ww1 was so bad that media says "wars awsome! Exept for ww1" Even though all war is hell.
@downsjmmyjones101 4 жыл бұрын
It either goes unmentioned and if it is mentioned, it's considered to be one of the darkest periods of human history.
@Argacyan 4 жыл бұрын
Also if ww1 is mentioned in media, depending on where you live it's slaughtered for political gains just like any war. For americans that usually means pretending the US won it and no one else, for conservatives it means attacking people who mention it was a global war and not whites-only, for Germans it usually means talking about the failure of Wilhelm the Second and ww1 being the reason for the rise of nazis (as if ww1 was the only reason which nah) as an example.
@jaojao1768 4 жыл бұрын
@@Argacyan very true
@19MAD95 4 жыл бұрын
Because drowning in mud isn’t a “fun adventure” like Liberating Paris
@poep85 4 жыл бұрын
This War is called the Great one because thankfully it ended all wars. Great job guys!👌
@poppop-oj6by 4 жыл бұрын
It's not the first war to be called the great one. It just isn't practical because a bigger wat wil require a name change on the last big one.
@MusicalRaichu 4 жыл бұрын
The only kind of war to end all wars is one where the human race exterminates itself.
@user-xq5og9lt8p 4 жыл бұрын
I guess Russian revolution will be talked more about in the next one? It is still kinda important to the whole world
@cathykeller5113 4 жыл бұрын
Hi, I'm the consultant for the series. Stay tuned for episode 35!
@poi2lkj3mnb 4 жыл бұрын
The russian revolution clearly deserves its own episode.
@Argacyan 4 жыл бұрын
@Amon Ra Don't make yourself look like a fool pretending those are equal. Nazis seized absolute power and went on to do that which the russian revolution *stopped* from continuing to happen...
@cathykeller5113 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Russian Civil War is included in that episode
@kevinlove4356 4 жыл бұрын
@Ordinary Sessel The Glorious October Revolution that took place in November 1917.
@tando6266 4 жыл бұрын
Can you do a side episode talking about how the war effected literature. Where would we be if Tolkien had not created his world to express the horrors that he saw. "Dreary and wearisome. Cold, clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long forgotten summers."
@MarkyMark1221 4 жыл бұрын
Age of anxiety and other effects of the war is prolly next episode.
@mcsmaria28 4 жыл бұрын
Indy Neidell might have one on the Great War channel... might....
@Prutswerk 4 жыл бұрын
Wow, "war effected literature" and "Tolkien". Hahahahaha.
@yearginclarke 4 жыл бұрын
@@Prutswerk Are you aware Tolkien was in the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles in human history?
@Prutswerk 4 жыл бұрын
@yearginclarke Are you aware that "Lord of the rings" hardly can be considered as literature? Are you aware of the amount of books that has been written by war veterans that doesn't contain elves, dwarfs and magical creatures?
@nrrork 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's pretty messed up that I learned more about World War I from watching Blackadder than I ever was taught in school.
@juliah8674 4 жыл бұрын
11:08 _are we going to tell him about the Swedish monarchs_
@DaDunge 4 жыл бұрын
Or that the regnal number of this Karl would be VIIIm (cause Austria continued the regnal numbers of the holy roman empire)
@jaojao1768 4 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@rickseffrin3160 4 жыл бұрын
13:41 The one time a CrashCourse episode ends on a dark note...
@dariusgunter5344 4 жыл бұрын
You should have gone more in detail how tragic the start of the war was. There were over a month many chances for peace and all failed because of desprate man, bad luch (litterally a hearth attack), the low confidence of a king and many more.
@pjvish 4 жыл бұрын
Darius Gunter or check out what Extra History did on that exact subject
@hobojeinkins5012 4 жыл бұрын
pjv ish m
@melonlord1414 4 жыл бұрын
People really wanted that war, and their leaders where more than happy to give it...
@dariusgunter5344 4 жыл бұрын
@@pjvish i did that is why I made that comment
@dariusgunter5344 4 жыл бұрын
@Intellectual Ammunition nationalism made it possible incompetence caused it, though there would most likly have been another only later.
@gre81 4 жыл бұрын
@4:54 "Damn, that barbed wire always delays me during the attack...!" 😜
@ShankarSivarajan 4 жыл бұрын
8:32 I don't remember where I heard it, but I like the line "War isn't hell: there are no innocent bystanders in hell."
@TheCaptain14 4 жыл бұрын
Shankar Sivarajan I believe it’s a Hawkeye quote from M*A*S*H
@neutronbob22 4 жыл бұрын
John, you need to smile like you used to. Smiling is contagious. It's also necessary in show biz, of which you are in, whether you like to admit it or not.
@billboyd2009 4 жыл бұрын
He is married now.
@neutronbob22 4 жыл бұрын
@@billboyd2009 OH?! Never mind!
@carsonhunt4642 4 жыл бұрын
Bill Boyd Lmao 😂😂😂😂
@weatherspoonelias 4 жыл бұрын
The Great War KZfaq channel is a must watch series
@escapeartistrecords 4 жыл бұрын
irony is dead. hank and john have revived sincerity.
@thomaswillard6267 4 жыл бұрын
Damn it John. I knew you were going to bring us up. We kick you out ONE TIME for being broke and you never let us live it down.
@whiskeycrusaderwill8699 4 жыл бұрын
Yay! Time for more learning.
@jessicamarshall1975 4 жыл бұрын
As someone who has heard Verdun said a lot (I am a history grad whose dissertation subject was France in WW1, the Interwar Years and WW2) that was a weird pronunciation. And the Somme too. Fun fact: Russia may have mobilised quicker than expected but the front often experienced shortages and they diverted resources from the rest of Russia to the front. It got so bad that at one point factories in Moscow could only open 3 days a week because they didn’t have enough power. Naturally this contributed to the eventual revolutions along with Rasputin, the fact the Tsar’s wife was German by birth and the fact that Nicholas took over leadership of the army.
@greensteve9307 4 жыл бұрын
Great summary, I learnt a lot.
@joelmcfarlane2984 4 жыл бұрын
ooh ooh! Mr Green, let me say on behalf of all my fellow folk that hail from the land of Americas Cowichan sweater, that your show is a treat to listen to. best wishes.
@666ndr 4 жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in Canada, that was a rather intimidating conclusion.
@rationalityrules 4 жыл бұрын
1917 brought me here ;) Best film I've ever seen.
@lemonaid2216 4 жыл бұрын
Good to see a crash course video that only states the facts and doesn't descend into biased rhetoric, like the European imperialism video. Congratulations!
@NanoManya8 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing video!
@MrJonLott 4 жыл бұрын
I'm here because I'm here because I'm here because I love these videos. Keep up the great work!
@DerHimmelIstRot 4 жыл бұрын
This is a really excellent video.
@DaniStarEngland 4 жыл бұрын
The point at the end is so true its so hard to imagine that many dead. In the UK for the 100 years remembrance they made ceramic poppies for the British deaths and placed them in the most of the tower of London. The number is insane to look at
@ahouyearno 4 жыл бұрын
What 40 million deaths means, is chills on my entire body. Great episode, terrible war.
@achintyagopinath621 4 жыл бұрын
11:17 I saw the old John Green
@dulandouys3407 4 жыл бұрын
After I just watch the new 1917 movie. Thanks for the perfect detail Sam Mendez, director.
@Vindblain 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you as always for the helpful references. Do you have a specific source for the prohibition of battlefield photography?
@pineir 4 жыл бұрын
Love your vids John green and I use them for school!
@Rhyswithoutherspoon 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making me a statistic at the end 🇨🇦
@sammylove3063 4 жыл бұрын
Your amazing John
@thamizhanraj 4 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video
@PhilipJackson03 4 жыл бұрын
As a Canadian that ending really hit hard.
@patched8789 4 жыл бұрын
I know it's kind of a nitpick but it would have been nice to have mentioned the Italian front.
@Shockprowl 4 жыл бұрын
......no. Nothing has ever hit me harder than that closing line- "more people died in World War One than live in Canada...". That's.... that's terrible... I've never thought of WW1 like that before. That was an education, Crash Course... THANK YOU.
@bryceabell9860 4 жыл бұрын
I gotta be honest, I miss the fast-paced Crash Course videos
@alexey926 4 жыл бұрын
I also felt there were a lot more jokes in the older ones (not to say I don't like the new ones)
@smurfmemez4112 4 жыл бұрын
Y'all need to link your playlists in the description.
@meehleibfamily3070 4 жыл бұрын
It’s amazing to me how much WWI lead into WWII and set the stage for Modern Day.
@JiNKA 4 жыл бұрын
Best channel and host on all of KZfaq
@samspetifore9875 Жыл бұрын
I love how excited John gets over 'Emperor Karl', lol.
@FatemaLiya 4 жыл бұрын
"The old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" - Wilfred Owen
@Beryllahawk 4 жыл бұрын
I was going to do it if someone else didn't quote it first. Good on ya
@festethephule7553 4 жыл бұрын
Translation?
@joelmcfarlane2984 4 жыл бұрын
@@festethephule7553 If I can recall the poem from my memory of my literature 12 class I took...20 years ago *sigh* I believe it translates to "It is right and proper (maybe honerable) to die for ones country" I say this without putting any effort in double checking this, please do and let me know if I'm wrong.
@zackerycooper1206 4 жыл бұрын
joel mcfarlane Some say that it translates to “it is sweet to die for one’s country”, it’s a very rough translation in general but what you said keeps to the meaning nonetheless, that it glorifies death in war as an honorable effort
@ammonjohnson5668 4 жыл бұрын
Correct me if I'm wrong but I swear you said "itawy" after talking about the ottoman empire joining germany. If so I loved that you did.
@ammonjohnson5668 4 жыл бұрын
I dont care if it's a speech impediment, joke, or anything else. I love it and it makes me happy.
@twig9314 4 жыл бұрын
That "Emperor Karl" part had me dying
@rickharold7884 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome.
@Arlosrep 4 жыл бұрын
The Sausage and croissants sums it all 😂😂😂
@SnipingMachines 4 жыл бұрын
Keep the content coming 🎬
@FloridatedH2O 4 жыл бұрын
Something not mentioned, probably because it would overly complicate things, is that smaller countries were involved as well. Bulgaria joined the Central powers. Romania joined the Allies and was pretty much instantly destroyed. Greece's national autonomy was trampled and they were pretty much forced by the Allies to join the war with them. Also, there were two major and three minor fronts in the war. The major fronts are the Eastern and Western fronts. The minor fronts were the Italian front (Italy vs. Austria-Hungary), the Balkan front (Allies vs. Bulgaria and A-H), and the Palestine/Galipoli/Mesopotamian front (UK vs. Ottomans)
@alexpaul5246 4 жыл бұрын
Any chance of an episode about guilds?
@Schneggie87 4 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for a mention of Canada this whole episode... not quite what I expected but hey we got it!
@MKPiatkowski 4 жыл бұрын
But it wasn't in connection with our huge contribution to the Allied effort. 🤔
@dodid0 4 жыл бұрын
Human technology is truly amazing.
@Superlogie 4 жыл бұрын
In May I have a School excursion to Verdun, I am very excited to see the tragedies of WW1....
@biggiecheese4960 4 жыл бұрын
Damn it’s been awhile since I watched John my boy got old🤧
@schmoab 4 жыл бұрын
The war on the Western Front was quite possibly the most horrific event in human history. Defensive warfare was so far beyond the offensive tactics at the time. The leaders were in total denial of the situation and millions died in the carnage.
@SDCLFC1 4 жыл бұрын
Biggest thing missing from this is the naval blockade - maybe it's in the nest one. And from that how Britain's empire was able to feed their homefront while Central Europe starved
@Boots1164 4 жыл бұрын
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice hereditary succession." LOL
@kevinlove4356 4 жыл бұрын
In my opinion, it would of been much funnier and truer to Sir Walter Scott to have said, "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive."
@TwykoMantis 4 жыл бұрын
To quote Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce from MASH - "War is war and Hell is Hell, and of the two war is a lot worse...There are not innocent bystanders in Hell. But war is chock full of them. Little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the top brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander" Also, it's worth noting that the Spanish Influenza strain mentioned was actually only attributed to Spain because they were the only country willing to report on the flu. All other governments and presses opted not to for fear that it would damage morale and public sentiment. Thus, Spanish Flu is kind of a misnomer.
@welcometonebalia 4 жыл бұрын
Nice to have mentioned the assassination of Jean Jaurès.
@uzairhalimi9676 4 жыл бұрын
wow it's amazing how the commentors have become smarter throughout the years of crash course
@wyacheslawkodanev2107 4 жыл бұрын
It is a really popular misconseption that Wilhelm II was Nicholas II's cousin. They were both first cousins to the English king, but they were not THAT related between each other. George V's father was Wilhelm II's uncle (Wilhelm's mother was Queen Victoria's eldest daughter) and George V's mother was Nicholas II's aunt (there were actually no dynastic marriages between Russia and UK that time -- just both their mothers were Danish princesses). Though at the same time Nicholas II's wife was both George V's and Wilhelm II's cousin (again, through George V's paternal line), so we may say that Nicholas II and Wilhelm II were cousins-in-law.
@wyacheslawkodanev2107 4 жыл бұрын
And yes, the Christmas truce of 1914 happened both in Western Front AND Eastern Front (Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary were all Christian countries and the Russian Orthodox Church calendar switch, which moved Christmas to January 7 /and other religious holidays for 14 days/, happened only in 1918 -- in protest of Bolshevik calendar reforms). The only European front, where Christmas truce of 1914 was not happening systematically was Russian-Ottoman front, 'cause Ottomans didn't celebrate Christmas and kept attacking Russian forces. Yet, this fact is often used by some overly politicized sources to come to the conclusion, such as "Russians were so barbaric that they didn't participate in Christmas truce -- see, they didn't feel European that time and they are definitely not Europeans now", so it seems important to me to correct this misconception (I should mention that Turkish people do not stop being Europeans just because they don't celebrate Christmas, Turkish education as far as I know, for example, is way more focused on European history than on Near/Middle Eastern history).
@imthestein 4 жыл бұрын
"Emperor Karl!?" I genuinely lol'd 😂
@DaDunge 4 жыл бұрын
I don't get it. It's one of the most common names for European kings and emperors there is, the Holy roman emperors had 8 Karls, the Swedes are at their 16th one right now.
@jaojao1768 4 жыл бұрын
@@DaDunge well actually the swedish regnal numbers are based on a false 16th century history of the kings of Sweden, but we have still had a lot of King Carls (actually about 10 I think)
@DaDunge 4 жыл бұрын
@@jaojao1768 Yes you are of course correct. =) But I didn't see the point of making the point more complicated.
@sonorasgirl 4 жыл бұрын
Uuuugh this made me cry...the older I get the more and more war seems like a terrible undertaking, even though I’m not always sure of ways around some of them with how people are...but thanks for not glorifying it 😊
@slothfulcobra 4 жыл бұрын
It's weird to learn about wars in between learning about the social movements that lead into them, because so much of war is practically a mechanical process. People learn and develop all these complex strategies to execute their wars, but either they work or they don't, and tracking that feels like a totally different academic discipline. The social forces that created the war have minimal input on how successful the overall thing is in the long run, and it is only in the pursuit of peace to end the war that social forces start to make the difference again.
@eifelitorn 4 жыл бұрын
6:24 the baddass Gurkhas!
@annarose3354 4 жыл бұрын
I really hope that they do at least one video on the Russian Revolution
@jackiekennedy4902 4 жыл бұрын
Man six years is a hell of a thing
@3zyPL 4 жыл бұрын
5:17 I laughed so hard xD
@aaa-sk6tq 4 жыл бұрын
hey john, i’ve been watching your videos since 2014 and i really miss you smiling in your videos. hope everything is okay. 🥺
@DraeYHU 4 жыл бұрын
Loved the Karl reference..
@yetigriff Жыл бұрын
5:12 John sounds like Kermit when he sings
@marjolainemenard4570 4 жыл бұрын
I live in Canada, very true. Sobering.
@NathanDav42 4 жыл бұрын
For those who want more content on World War I, besides the excellent ‘The Great War,’ channel people already named, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast series on WWI, ‘Blueprint for Armageddon,’ is fantastic.
@MKPiatkowski 4 жыл бұрын
Talking about the Extra History stories on WWI?
@NathanDav42 4 жыл бұрын
MK Piatkowski Yes, if someone wants to learn more about World War I, the ‘The Great War,’ channel and Carlin’s podcast series are fantastic.
@mcsmaria28 4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Both great resources!
@jennabm 4 жыл бұрын
When he said it’s hard to picture 40 million people dying I immediate thought “That’s more than Canada’s population”
@connoissuer_of_class 4 жыл бұрын
Verdun, Ver-done... Really bloody
@AliciaNyblade 4 жыл бұрын
I've always thought of WWI as the adult version of two kids in a playground fight going, "Hey! You can't beat me up because I'm gonna call in all my friends to beat YOU up!" The pettiness and pointlessness of the war, especially when it was begun by greedy, rich aristocrats who never set foot on a battlefield (except Tsar Nicholas, to disastrous results), is just infuriating. It's heartbreaking to see archival photos or videos of the young soldiers. Watching them, seeing how innocently hopeful some of them looked on the march, I thought of a line from the song "The Green Fields of France": "Do those that lie here know why they died? Did they really believe when they answered the call, did they really believe that this war would end wars?" Rest in peace, all lost to such senseless violence.
@gauravdaftary 4 жыл бұрын
So at the end of the video Jhon Green says the the death toll for WW1 was 40m while wikipedia puts that number around 20-25m. Can anyone confirm which number is correct and what is the source for the death toll quoted in the video
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