British Guy Reacting to WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1)

yo so guys welcome back to another video and this is another um over simplified reaction quickly i've never posted for a few days i've on my community tab for those who use for those of you who are subscribed you probably do see the community tab posts i've just been trying to let you guys know basically what i've been posting and i've had a few tech technical issues with especially my camera so i obviously couldn't record because my camera just wasn't working which is restrained because i was wanting to do live streams and videos and obviously the timing isn't great because the channel has been going off like the channel's been going crazy and it's the best time to post when your channel is doing so well and it's still doing well even when i'm not posting the amount of support the videos are getting and the amount like new people come to the channel is ridiculous so i mean there's still that the major positives but i just want to apologize for that because i mean for five days i've not had the camera working and i know i posted a few days after those videos were made in advance like for a few days before so that's probably why it doesn't seem as long as it actually has been but yeah it's been about five days since i've recorded a video which is a very long time but we're back with another one and again this is um world war ii oversimplified part one we're gonna check this out again people are loving these reactions and i'm doing the world war one reactions which i've done that now then world war ii then the cold war then more plus other videos from probably other channels that you guys suggest so just get the suggestions in the description or description in the comments and i'll be sure to do so in the coming days in the coming weeks maybe in the coming months however many videos there are out there but let's check this out and see what um oversimplify has for us today this video was made possible by skillshare churchill was a man with many talents he was an artist oh [ __ ] me as loud yeah the last video was very quiet i think because it was one of his first it's just a bit quieter than usual so i apologize why is it so loud and he had an unpublished manuscript about aliens i'm sorry he was amanda all right we're back churchill was a man with many talents he was an artist a butterfly enthusiast and he had an unpublished manchester united millions thirst for knowledge maybe he could have loaded up his computer and logged onto skillshare an online learning community with more than 19 000 business technology and more perhaps he was considering a side career in fashion but get your money honestly i'll write that he would have found courses for all of these really useful and if you'd like to try it out first then i've got a deal just for that using the link in the description and learn something new today now without further ado i love this little segways to his plugs in 1902 a young man by the name of benito 1902 wait world war ii is linked to 1902. he moves from italy to switzerland to avoid military service okay she's big into socialism working for trade unions writing for socialist newspapers advocating a violent overthrow of european monarchies the whole shebang this gets him in a bit of trouble with the swiss police so he gets arrested sent back to italy set free returns to switzerland is arrested again goes back to italy again completes his military service after previously avoiding it and then after a brief stint as an elementary school teacher he finally returns to work as an avid socialist his intentions realistic abilities made him famous among italian socialists he was anti-war so in italy colonized libya in 1910 he rioted and got arrested then world war one came along and once again he protested italy's involvement but then i thought wait a minute this war could bring about the social climate needed to overthrow european monarchies and bring about the socialist revolution everywhere and suddenly he was pro-war his fellow socialists didn't like his stance so they kicked him out of the party so then he said you know what i'm done with socialism we need something new not based on class divisions tearing us apart but based on unity through nationality we'll conquer the mediterranean and reunite all italian peoples just like the days of the roman empire i'll call it fascismo and it will guide the italian nation to greatness that's all well and good mr mussolini but what kind of haircut am i giving you let's go with bold he's a scary-looking don didn't you what the hell his editing is so good man so damn good italy had been on the winner's side in world war one and they hoped they were going to get a lot out of it but in the end they only got a little and they felt cheated on top of that a bad economy and weak governments meant that the italian people were a little unhappy so when mussolini came along and said that he could fix everything his fascist movement gained a lot of support in 1922 he went to the king and said make me prime minister or i'll make me prime minister and the king said you and what army this army fair enough then he went about establishing a dictatorship with himself at its center europe had its first fascist dictator next up germany germany was the second side and they got absolutely wrecked by the treaty of versailles they lost territory had to demilitarize the rhineland had to reduce their army to just 100 000 men couldn't have an air force had to pay the allies a huge amount of money that it didn't have and a new rule was established that every englishman withheld the right to walk into the center of berlin pick out any german they wanted and spank the hell out of them i made that last one up but it helps you understand how all this felt on top of that a bad economy and weak governments meant that once a small angry man with a silly mustache came along and said that he could fix everything the german people loved it hitler had been a soldier during world war one and he was crazy patriotic and nobody was madder than him about germany's humiliation he helped start a new political party and in 1923 attempted a march on munich with his boys and then he got arrested but his popularity grew and grew and in 1933 the president made him chancellor he believed he was germany's great destined savior and he went full megalomaniac establishing a dictatorship with himself at its center europe had fascist dictator number two hitler and mussolini had a lot of the same ideas but more importantly they had the same enemies and they started to get along anyone else want to be friends franco no you're good i do who's that it's japan and they've taken over northern china let's rewind a bit japan had isolated itself from the rest of the world for over 200 years until the americans showed up and said you're going to trade with us and you're going to like it then the western powers imposed a bunch of unequal treaties meaning japan's economy was bust they also had no natural resources so they decided to go get some they went to war with china to gain a sphere of influence over korea and they took a bunch of china's stuff but then the west said hey cut that out and since japan couldn't take on the west they said okay i guess we'll just go home wait a minute what are you doing taking advantage of a week in china and setting up spheres of influence but i was the one who weakened them we know and you guys didn't let me have anything we know that seems like oh i'm done okay see ya so japan thought screw this and went to war with russia and stunned everyone by actually winning then they fully annexed korea but they didn't stop there in world war one they took germany's colonies and islands in asia and then in an incident that was maybe staged by the japanese army a bomb blew up a japanese train in manchuria giving them an excuse to launch an invasion and take over so here's the situation nazi germany fascist italy and japan all believe they're racially superior all feel hostility towards the allies and all want to militarize and take over more stuff and so they did let's start with germany hitler hated the treaty of versailles and now he was ready to begin undoing it in complete violation of the treaty the first luftwaffe squadrons were set up conscription was introduced and he pimped up his army the allies did nothing then hitler sent his army back into the didn't rise ryland giving orders to immediately retreat if the allies showed up the allies did nothing with his military restraint he could now move on to step two he wanted to rapidly increase the aryan population and to do so he needed levin's wrong or in other words he would have to take over the world but for now a good portion of europe would do and he began eyeing up his neighbors the allies finally started to get worried so they implemented a fairly useless diplomatic strategy called appeasement and it went a little something like this hitler would say i want that thing and the allies would say you can't have that thing okay you can have that thing but no man i want that thing and repeat in 1938 hitler's army marched into austria and just took it with no resistance this is germany now next he demanded to be given the sudetenland an area of czechoslovakia with many ethnic germans the allies held a meeting with hitler and munich and said look we're going to give you hang on this meeting is about my territory shouldn't i come to the meeting too anyway we're going to give you what you want really yeah just serious yep what's the catch just sign this piece of paper promising you won't invade the rest of czechoslovakia okay then chamberlain returned home victorious waving are you actually man is that really how something on the continuation of world peace and we built a statue of chamberlain in his honor and every day on the 30th of september we celebrate chamberlain hitler's invading the rest of czechoslovakia what he's invading the rest of czechoslovakia jesus christ you lied to me what do you expect i'm hitler not to be outdone mussolini also wanted to get in on the action he thought to himself isn't there a not yet colonized nation somewhere which is so underdeveloped that the people would be defending themselves against our tanks with literal bows and arrows and wooden spears oh there is fantastic and so he took it italy also wanted to control the entrance to the adriatic sea so they occupied albania then in another incident which was maybe staged by the guy i'm not gonna lie i did not have i didn't have such a such a clue i didn't realize just how much italy were involved in the start of world war ii as like as germany were like i thought it was like with me maybe it's just my memory like not remembering but i obviously i thought it was melee or majority was germany and hitler but obviously this is teaching me otherwise and this is actually it's good for me because i'm obviously not as clued up on things that i should really know about as i thought i was about gunfire was exchanged by japanese and chinese troops at the marco polo bridge and the japanese launched yet another invasion against china they swept through beijing and shanghai and then advanced to the yangtze valley to china's then capital nan king it was here that saw the worst of japan's shocking atrocities committed against the chinese people back in europe germany and italy made their relationship status official by signing the pact of steel then hitler turned his eyes towards poland and the hated polish corridor splitting germany in two at this point the allies really had to put their foot down and they warned him that an invasion of poland would mean war hitler had planned to continue his advance eastward but he didn't want to end up fighting a war on two fronts so for now he made an alliance with stalin saying how about we both invade poland and split it between the two of us and i definitely won't not refrain from not betraying you sometime in the future sounds good this new alliance stunned the west on the 1st of september 1939 german troops entered poland and britain and france declared war on germany the poles fought hard but they were no match for the two giants crashing down on them from either side then came a period known as the phony war where everyone just sort of sat around not doing much the french had launched a small invasion into the sarland but they maintained mostly defensive positions and after a while decided to just turn around and call it a day speaking of france the french were still super proud of their victory in world war one and they hadn't really moved on from it they still used horses they dispatched messages by motorbike instead of using radio orders from the commander-in-chief were usually pretty vague and the troops were rarely inspected they built a line of defenses along their german border but didn't bother extending it all the way to the channel and they wouldn't launch artillery strikes against germany out of fear of being retaliated against in a war they didn't want to attack the enemy and at first the uk wasn't much better chamberlain still naively hoped that the war could be ended diplomatically instead of bombing raids the raf dropped propaganda leaflets over german cities which one air marshal said likely did nothing but provide the continent with toilet paper for the duration of the war they also only sent two hundred thousand men to france while the french had mobility that's such a british thing to do man what even what are they hoping both britain and france wanted to avoid a repeat of the first world war and so they wanted to keep the war as far from home as possible so they turned their eyes north towards norway wow mutual sweden was exporting iron ore to germany through neutral norway so the allies asked them if they could please stop exporting iron ore to germany but this request was refused so the allies said how about we land troops in norway and move them across sweden to go help out your good pal finland and along the way maybe take control of all your own fields but norway and sweden still said no so the uk mined the waters around norway to force any transport ships into international waters and they also attacked the german tanker they found in the area hitler realized what the allies were up to and he quickly moved to secure his supply of iron ore he launched an invasion through denmark into norway the allies rushed to land troops at keyports along the coast but germany had taken control of norway's airfield and their heir superiority decided to fight the allies had to retreat after the slightly embarrassing failure chamberlain resigned and was replaced with winston churchill who had a slightly different approach to dealing with the germans hitler's overall strategy was similar to germany's first world war strategy attack france defeat france knocking out the uk in the process then turn on the soviet union and win the war during the phony war the allies had given hitler time to prepare his forces now he was ready to attack the allies had wanted to place troops in belgium but belgium had refused and in a move that surprised pretty much no one killer launched an invasion to get around france's defenses the allies charged into belgium at full speed to meet the german invasion head-on and it looked like a repeat of the first world war was coming but this time hitler had a trick up his sleeve blitzkrieg as the germans advanced they sent thousands of refugees westward slowing down the allies then to the south the french had left an area full of hills and forests pretty underdefended because they thought it was naturally impenetrable well the germans were about to penetrate it with everything they had they smashed 50 vermont divisions through and encircled the allied armies at lightning speed the best of the allied forces were now trapped the germans squeezed in from all sides taking out france's best armies and nearly wiping out the british too but they managed to make a desperate last-minute escape at dunkirk with british civilian ships even making the perilous journey to bring their young men home with most of the french forces depleted the germans breezed through taking paris and france fell what the germans are doing you look at it at this point you're just thinking to yourself how because like you just look at this and they're just wiping everyone like just they're just sort of wiping them aside or putting them they just seem to be cruising this at the moment like they seem to obviously have a lot of things in place where they're ready to fight and so far they've won every battle that they've went for so i mean at this point i can't imagine how the rest of the world was looking at this because i mean they're i mean they're like they're they're winning the war by far at the moment in world war one hitler had done just like that hitler hoped that with the fall of france the uk would also lose hope and sue for peace but quite annoyingly it didn't and he needed to secure the western front so he tried to force them into submission with mind games the uk were now all alone and hitler wanted to emphasize that first of all just before france fell italy finally declared war on the allies making the uk situation even worse next instead of just occupying all of france hiller occupied the coastal areas for defense but allowed france to continue its existence as a german puppet state this way it looked like the uk's old ally had decided to switch sides hitler also hoped that the uk wouldn't attack any of her old ally's navy bases or colonies in africa giving hitler an extra line of defense to the south but the uk made sure to respond to this by sailing down to france's navy base in algeria and wrecking a bunch of ships so have at it hitler then began laying down plans for an invasion of great britain before german troops could land on british soil he would first need air and naval superiority across the channel waves of german bombers came while the completely outnumbered raf worked bravely around the clock in an attempt to quell the german attacks at first the luftwaffe targeted british ports and coastal facilities crippling the raf's ability to defend the nation and it looked like hitler's great british invasion was coming but then churchill ordered a small pretty insignificant bombing raid over berlin it didn't do much damage but hitler was furious and he immediately ordered the luftwaffe to refocus its attacks on civilian targets in london children were sent off to the countryside away from their parents to avoid danger and frequent trips to airaid shelters became a daily occurrence but british morale held firm smiling knitting lounging casually these people have balls of steel this refocusing on london also gave the raf breathing space to reorganize so hitler kind of shot himself in the foot there just a foot for now finally the liftoff has sent one massive all-out attack on london and the raf successfully repelled it destroying many of the german aircraft and placing air superiority firmly in british hands hitler's invasion had to be postponed but the bombing of british cities continued for some time is that where the video stops yep world war ii i mean part two we're probably gonna get that tomorrow i'm gonna react to it straight after but probably post that tomorrow but i i do know obviously more more about this war than world war one but i didn't really true i didn't truly realize just how outnumbered like the uk were at certain points and at the point we're at now they obviously seem to be battling it well like but like i didn't realize how it was literally just them against europe at this point so i mean yeah i'm again i do know parts of this i just don't know how the whole water all panned out but we're going to watch this and we're going to be back with the reaction tomorrow and yeah man i'm really just happy to be back with these reactions to be honest where was this guy at during high school honestly man see i would know these kinds of things already if we had just things like this that'll teach us man like obviously i do know bits here and there just because it is a big like part of british education to learn about i think the world wars especially world war ii but like i said in the last video i wasn't the best behaved person in school so i missed a lot of lessons and they just did not make history fun at all man they really didn't so this is it's refreshing to see this man to see like to really learn about what truly happened about in the world war two the awkward moment when your kindergarten teacher becomes your country's fascist dictator imagine being in the class and seeing mussolini being a history teacher coronavirus oversimplified i can totally see this in a few years if you're watching this more than two times you can like this comment germany invades austria austria gets in germany now another german guy gets rejected in art class europe's sweating intensifies i mean again i wasn't i didn't truly know just how involved italy were in this in this war but we're gonna find out more and yeah hopefully you guys enjoy this reaction more on the way in the coming days we're gonna be a lot more consistent there's not gonna be a long sort of two three four day hiatus where i'm not posting as long as nothing messes up which i'm 99 sure it shouldn't but saying that with my knowledge on technology i don't know but i'm pretty sure we're good at like we're good with everything now yeah we will be back with more of these historical reactions but hopefully you guys want to enjoy them next time like subscribe peace

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Published: Tue Oct 13 2020