First time watching Geo History! | World War 1 | A Historian Reacts

hey youtube i'm mr terry a high school history teacher and welcome back to another history teacher reacts video all right today's video is coming from our awesome patrons over at patreon now this week what we did is put up a brand new channel i have not seen before into the poll this week and i went through and found some of the popular ones and this channel is called geo history now the video that won this week was world war one so i'm excited to do this world war one is one of my favorites of modern wars actually my favorite to teach and to learn about so i think this is awesome thanks patrons for voting for that because i know i'm gonna like the topic anyway we're gonna go ahead and get started now if you would like to vote on future videos you can check out our patreon down below and all pledgers get to vote in weekly polls so if that's something you're interested in the link's down below and you can go ahead and join now the original video link is gonna be down below let's support this channel so make sure you give that the view like subscribe and if you like what i'm doing here love if you like the video and subbed as well all right with that let's go and get started [Music] [Music] we begin in the middle of the 19th century okay in europe the rise of nationalism undermines the dominant powers the kingdom of sardinia ally to france defeats the austrian empire by the way this time period is something that i need to do much better of someone studying history is the 18th century basically like between the french revolution and world war one i have general knowledge but there's a much deeper level that i need to get into and it's mostly because this stuff didn't get taught to me that much in high school or really in into like my university work and it's not something i i took specific classes in was this time period so it's actually kind of weak for this so i'm glad they're actually starting off with this the kingdom of sardinia ally to france defeats the austrian empire and obtains italian unification prussia which eyes the german also defeats the austrians to create the north german confederation five years later it allies with the southern german states defeats france and obtains the creation of the german empire so it seems that this channel is i mean it's called geo history it's it's a lot about geography into history which is great i love uh geography geography was um an early love of mine i minored it and i'm actually licensed to teach it so i love when you can do this i love cartography i love maps so like this stuff is like this is awesome for me i love to see this kind of thing which is proclaimed in versailles the new country takes over alsace loren to discourage french revenge that will be a major part of world war one negotiations is that region right there alsace lorraine big uh point of contention between germans and the french attacks germany moves diplomatically closer germany hungary and russia and it rapidly develops its industry and army in the southeast of the continent insurgencies threaten the ottoman empire russia its historical enemy takes advantage of the situation and after a war sparks the independence of balkan states and caesar's territories however russia's rising status is frowned upon by western powers who meet in berlin to review the treaty this worsens russia congress of berlin yeah was enormous but yeah the the this is a very aggressive time um in russia this is when russia is really becoming and attempting to become a real uh european power but that's also they're going to be knocked in their teeth in a couple decades from now when they basically get their butts kicked by the japanese in the russo-japanese war so but you can see this is when russia's really trying it had been like this for about the last century before this but really trying to become relevant in europe chin public opinion about germany the latter then signs a defensive military alliance with austria-hungary italy joins the alliance so that's by the way when it goes back we're talking about world war one alliances you can see this uh austrian and german alliance going back expensive military alliance with austria hungary of course it's gonna be the major alliance you know for world war one what what maybe we can get into and we'll see if they get into too is how because we know ottoman empire is going to join the central powers so like what what is the history of that relationship maybe outside of the balkan wars or something you know what i mean but uh more closer to world war one italy joins the alliance after france seizes tunisia which it long covets to the three parties that form the triples or the triple alliance yeah that's everything people forget right italy was part of that alliance they switched later [Music] germany now a major power embarks upon a colonial policy the country brings together european powers in berlin to establish rules around colonization specifically around africa um the 18th century saw a massive free-for-all in africa by european states looking to increase their empires you know africa was like one of the last colonial prospects i should i guess you should say in this age of imperialism and what is it seven or eight different european nations established colonies there and it could have gotten really bad uh between the european nations if they started fighting each other for these african colonies and one thing the berlin conference did is basically they set up the rules and try to uh avoid any kind of confrontation by saying okay what are what are going to be the rules about about who gets what and that kind of thing and i know some of the rules were like hey you can colonize a place that hasn't been colonized before which is so interesting it's so dumb because what about the locals they don't get decided like uh we're here hello um the berlin conference is also notorious for something which was no african nations no no african representation was even at the berlin conference which decided basically the fate of africa which people obviously scoff at now then caesar's territories in africa and asia this causes friction with the british and french colonial empires faced with growing by the way these ones over in asia are things that the japanese are also going to be interested in and why the japanese are going to join the allies the opposite of this alliance because of some of these places that the japanese also had interested in had interest in which were or german colonies at this time so it gave them a reason to side with one group or the other friction with the british and french colonial empires faced with growing german power france and russia sign a secret military alliance france then obtains from italy a secret secret alliance is good and bad there's definitely pros and cons to them in fact one of the things afterwards because well one of the big concerns is when you have secret alliances you don't know who's with who you know i mean that could be kind of bad and it's also easier to if you have a secret alliance with somebody it's also a lot easier to go back on that alliance and it could also cause problems because your allies don't know who you're allied with and that was one of the things by the way that president wilson when he kind of came to the versailles peace conference was saying like we need to end and this was after the war but end secret treaties that was something he wanted to see have happen treaty of neutrality which would avoid it having to manage a second front in the event of war the united kingdom also ignore switzerland by germany's rise especially by its military fleet which can compete with its own royal navy moreover germany moves diplomatically closer to the ottoman empire notably by building a railway line to link berlin we can't build a railway over the the strait there boss first straight that's water so were they going to make a bridge across the street over here constantinople by the way this should be called istanbul it was renamed istanbul in 1453 so mutating access to mesopotamian oil coveted by the british empire sure france the united kingdom and russia then signed a military alliance and create the triple anton a trigger the alliances risk dragging the entire continent into war major powers embark upon an arms race and prepare military plans in the southeast of the continent the ottoman empire is weakened by a revolution austria-hungary takes advantage and annexes bosnia and herzegovina the ottoman empire had had problems in the many of the years leading up to internal problems you have like the young turks who want more like this modernization and that kind of thing and secular rule in a way you can go back these movements happen before but then you still have a deeply conservative group focused on you know anti-westernization and things like that and that's always been a struggle within the powers that be in the ottoman empire this move is opposed by russia and especially serbia which dreams of uniting the slavic peoples of the south and here we know the direct things are starting here this annex of bosnia is huge all this stuff by the way a lot of the stuff had just recently got its independence from the ottoman empire and when this whole like region here when it got uh it independence from again from from the ottoman empire you know the the austria wasn't able to go in and annex these because they're like hey it's free real estate now right they're independent i guess we'll sweep in bosnia basically being the only place that they did have success in officially annexing but i'm sure they're going to get to how this ties to the assassination of the archduke by nationalist groups that are protesting this annexation here this is bosnia and herzegovina this move is opposed by russia and especially serbia which dreams of uniting the slavic peoples of the south two balkan wars pushed the ottoman empire to the borders of the continent on june 28 1914 in sarajevo the heir to the austrian throne francois ferdinand and his wife are assassinated by a bosnian serb nationalist accuses serbia of having organized the attack okay so this is the stuff where a lot of people know what's going on right the whole oh man uh it's complicated i'm not gonna go and talk about all the the snowball effect here i'll let them do it it's such a longer conversation but now we're starting to see like the real like the really the world war one history that most of you probably start to learn which was starting with the assassination and then how it snowballed with the alliance system and all that so this probably we're getting to the the more famous stuff russia defends serbia while germany now the world's leading military power supports its austro-hungarian ally oh yeah blank check right you guys do whatever you want on july 28th austria-hungary declares war on serbia russia reacts by decreeing a general mobilization of its troops triggering germany to launch its military plan this is what germany germany said simultaneously on two fronts germany plans to quickly defeat france by bypassing its army by launching a surprise attack from the north it would then focus on russia whose troops would take more time to mobilize right germany now this is this plan failed um yeah they were able to get i mean the schlieffen plan which is what this is all called they were able to go through belgium which by the way made germany look really bad on the international scene because belgium was a neutral nation and what a lot of people cite is why the british are going to get involved is they really hated the idea which belgium was an ally of the british that the germans would go through belgium invade belgium to fight france when the fight was supposed to be between straight up just germany and france but yeah the the idea was they could quickly basically basically just want to take out paris to take out paris francis done right and then do that before russia can mobilize their huge army which was the largest in europe but probably six million um so knock out france first and then focus to to russia but what ends up happening is russia mobilizes way quicker than expected and the french or the germans were not able to take paris so they get locked up in a two-front war which makes this thing something that a lot of people were hoping you know a lot of people are hoping that this is now starting in the summer now into the fall that would be done by christmas and now that it's a two front war we know it's not going to happen in fact it's going to go on for years this war on russia invades luxembourg and issues an ultimatum to belgium demanding right of passage for its troops belgium refuses insisting upon its neutrality the following day germany declares war on france and launches the offensive the united kingdom which guarantees belgian neutrality in turn declares war on germany and sends its troops to france what i hope you guys are watching here too is the dates up at the top this stuff all happens within like a week it's it's crazy how fast this moved there was no time for like to go no negotiations or like thinking about it it was no it was just immediate reactions in a few days which is why people say everybody was ready for war anyways otherwise this would have been a much slower diplomatic process but there was no diplomacy at all everybody was ready for war right all european powers as well as montenegro go to war only italy remains neutral at the stage there shouldn't be because they are supposed to be in that alliance right this is why a lesson of how alliances don't always work out i mean alliances and negotiation those are all talk you know but you know you can talk like you're supporting but like when it's time to show up you find out who your real allies are oh now they're gonna actually talk about asia japan which is allied with the united kingdom declares war on germany and prepares for an invasion of its colonies in china and the north pacific ocean on the eastern front russia launches its um japan wants to be taken seriously their age of imperialism is still very new within the last 30 years they beat russia in war they want they want a recognition from the international community earlier than germany expects but fails to gain ground in east crusher while further south austria-hungary retreats in the west the allied armies cannot hold back the german advance the franco-british armies retreat to martin where they reorganize while the french government flees the capital to take refuge in baghdad but the first german army holding the flank pivots away from paris to join with a second army and continue surrounding allied forces first major battle on the western front here really the marn you know um but yeah martin's important because it's it's basically the last physical barrier to the heartland of france here and for paris so like losing this is completely unacceptable for france because you pretty much will lose the war if you lose this this position and so they can't and why so that's why the casualties are going to be so high at this battle is they cannot afford to to do this otherwise the war is over the parisian reserve army attacks further north stopping in its tracks the german advance with this breach in the ranks allied forces rush in and force a german retreat this is the failure of the schlieffen plan when the front stabilizes the two camps attempt to out flank each other and embark upon a race to the sea for germany it is also a question of isolating belgium and seizing ports where british reinforcements and supplies land the belgian army barely succeeds in joining the deadlocked warfront networks of trenches are dug on both sides for about 700 kilometers between the north sea and the swiss border yeah it's unbelievable how many trenches there actually were there but yeah this is going to be a stalemate for years no one people aren't going to move and the cost of a mile as it's often called was um insanity you know and i mean to go a few feet could cost thousands and thousands of people um we'll see if they get i don't know if they're going to get into like military technology because this war is a lot of what a lot of people say is the first post-industrial war so you have new technologies that are devastating but you still have old school war tactics and that just was a recipe for insane death now that the western front is frozen both sides use full force to attack the enemy the war becomes total the mighty royal navy imposes a naval blockade on germany it's important from this perspective to understand what a total war is um because i don't know they don't really explain what there's a total war though is when and a nation's entire resources are prioritized for the war like it it the the scope of the war is so large that again it requires a a utilization of entire resource of a country i mean everyone in the country is is involved you know whether you're fighting or you're not at home the government is taking over um management of resources right they they take over industries they take over economic planning um all that stuff because everything has to be prioritized for the war the war is not something that can just be kind of done on the side and then it's kind of business as usual at home no it takes all of the country's resources and manpower to be a part of it while german submarines are sent to british waters to sink all ships and vessels aviation which is still a recent invention is used first for observations planes would then gradually be used for bombing and air combat planes are one of the things i think of all the the technologies from world war one to world war ii the one that changed the most because again flight has like is less than 10 years old i mean we're like 10 years away at this time from the kitty hawk nor north carolina wright brothers stuff where they would glide a few feet above ground for a few seconds and now it's like it's a much bigger thing but yeah back then planes were not used as bombers they couldn't handle that kind of weight they were used for observation specifically they were really helpful for mapping out trenches which is hard to do from ground level but again eventually comes the point where both sides have planes therefore those planes need to be able to fight than each other and that's where you're going to get the first dog fights and first famous fighter pilots like the red baron or something like that but i mean just think again about how much it changed in 20 years to world war ii was which were the air war was a huge part of the war germans used zeppelin airships to bomb paris twice how dumb are the ones both sides use lethal gases to attack the enemy in the trenches behind the front lines entire populations participate in the war effort including women who are involved in arms factories around the world i mean with with men being so highly utilized in the actual war um like to say and i talked to my class that women are kind of running the country in these countries like they're the ones managing businesses a lot of them are working a lot of them getting out of the house and working in uh some of their first major jobs as well and that's going to be a legacy after the war a lot of those women stay in those jobs a lot of women will push for more push for more women's rights it's not it's not uh unbelievable to think like in the united states for example so many women enter the workplace that that was used as leverage for getting the right to vote which happened the year after world war one ended european colonies and british dominions are engaged in war they seized german british reinforcements of soldiers to the front lines that is why it's a world war because util all these countries have overseas colonies so they're going to fight on multiple continents so it's not just a european conflict because it's empire vs empire cool ottoman empire on the eastern front russia is in trouble with austro-german troops the ottoman empire seizes the opportunity to go to war alongside the central powers a new front opens in the caucasus as britain lands an indian army by the way this is so important the ottoman empire entering the war is so important for the central powers because also what it did is completely blocked france and uh britain to being able to directly connect with the russians because the way you'd have to do that was to go through um here through through istanbul or they're still putting constant at constantinople on this um because you could go through the mediterranean and then hook up with the russians through the blacks meditating to the black sea but since the ottoman empire has totally got this on lockdown it it separated the british uh and the and the french from being able to hook up directly and maybe like outflank them or resupply each other that's why militarily and a strategic point of view why you know so important for ottoman empire to join the central powers mesopotamia with the goal to take control of oil resources in reaction the central powers launch an offensive towards the suez canal to cut supply lines from india but are stopped in their advance in the caucasus after the failure of the ottoman offensive the government accuses of having supported russia in retaliation more than half of the armenian population would be massacred in what is today recognized as genocide by 32 countries but not by turkey still denial about that it's it's it's amazing how there's still denial about that the armenian genocide is one of the most underplayed genocides uh modern genocides as well support geographically isolated russia allies want to open a sea supply route via the dardanelle strait british ships enter the street to bomb ottoman forts but a major idea of a young winston churchill by the way is this uh invasion to try to take the strait of water find the waters full of sea mines forcing a retreat a month later after that april 25 after okay i guess they're still getting after tens of thousands were slaughtered killed and killing each other allies organize a military landing but ottoman defenses hold steady creating another deadlocked warfront [Music] new it's submarine war germany sinks the british ship to lucitania causing 1200 civilian victims including 128 u.s citizens the united states officially neutral until that point right united states doesn't care about this there they'd know american foreign policy going back to monroe dock in the 1800s basically said europe can do their own thing we don't give a crap we're more focused on the western hemisphere because america is doing some imperializing of their own but the lusitania was one of those early things that interested americans because american lives actually dying in the battle waters there even if the lusitania was stupid to board the lusitania because it was very well known that they're going into uh war uh war-stricken uh waters but yeah like you said 100 whatever people died on that there were americans because there was a lot more people that weren't americans most people were not americans on that ship going from new york to uh to england registers protest to prevent the u.s from going to war germany slows its submarine warfare italy after negotiating with a triple on thumb to annex new territories declares war on austria-hungary and launches an offensive around the izonzo river on the eastern front russia completes its retreat and stabilizes the battlefront bulgaria which wishes to recover balkan territories joins the central powers together with austral german forces serbia in reaction the allies violate the neutrality of greece by using salonika to land reinforcements coming from france such as the dardanelle where ottoman victory is complete hey so we're seeing the allies uh you know disobey a lot of neutrality rules just like germany going into belgium which pissed off the allies now you got the allies i mean now the war started maybe it's like who cares what you know once a war gets going it's like who cares about these neutrality laws and all this you do whatever it takes to win the war so i'm sure that was the you know defense here by the allies here of getting involved in a neutral nation but it is too late for the overwhelmed serbian army that flees via albania troops are landed on the island of corfu from where they will be gradually brought back to the macedonian front on the western front germany launches a massive offensive the german artillery pounds french trenches which exists as best they can in the south of the continent portugal allied with the united kingdom confiscates german ships in its ports in response germany declares war on portugal who then sends troops to france and to its colonies in africa where only german east africa still resists the allied offenses so you can see the border gold's like we don't really care about the european front but we've had these imperial ambitions and these skirmishes or border disputes maybe with germany in place like tanzania mozambique kind of area modern areas and they want to get involved focus on their colonial possessions in mesopotamia the united kingdom after losing its besieged army in kurt seeks support in the region it secretly negotiates with france the partition of territories and massive disaster for the future at the end of the war the two powers those those borders make no actual cultural sense they make sense for okay britain gets this and france gets this but this is going to be horrible for long-term stability in the region when these artificial borders are created that completely separated ethnic groups in in a way that they there would be political instability that you can see today the partition of ottoman territories at the end of the war the two powers then support an arab nationalist revolt which starts in mecca by promising them independence in the north sea doesn't happen german and british fleets face off in one of the largest naval battles in history despite heavy losses on the british side the germans small in number during the night take refuge in the airport while the battle of verdan is still ongoing and italy is under pressure from austria-hungary russia attempts to relieve its allies by launching a massive offensive that succeeds in piercing through opposition defenses in the west another great offensive is launched along the summer with britain spearheading the attack they would use tanks for the first time you know the new inventions that show up during the war always in response to problems of the war like the big problem in these first couple years was you can't get across no man's land that area between trenches so you got to find a way to do and that's what tanks were designed for you know those tanks were not very good offensive weapons they were slow not very good in maneuvers but they were armored and you could get through no man's land potentially if you don't get stuck or the tank doesn't break down which happen all the time um so yeah it was about about responding to a problem of the war and tanks again one of those things of course that totally changes from world war one to world war ii wars going on a long and a long time now we're in year two and three now and there seems to be no end in sight especially on the western front because there's no movement and just hundreds of thousands of people dying over and over and over now we're getting into the millions and with no real point it seems like or advantage given while romania joins the anton the brussel of offensive in the east and the battles of the somme and vardan all end having caused tremendous casualties on both sides troops are exhausted and demoralized in germany the war effort and the allied trade embargo prevent the country from getting enough food causing widespread famine western powers on the other hand can count on a supply of resources via the atlantic mainly from the united states towards whom they are now in debt america in response germany relaunches unrestricted submarine warfare with the objectives of sinking all commercial and military ships and americans were stupidly like stunned by this like surprise pikachu face like what you're attacking the american ships you monsters then you look at the context of what's actually happening the war it makes total sense from that perspective on the german perspective they're getting completely out supplied they're like if okay well if you guys are gonna blockade us you know like london or sorry england you know blockading germany then jeremy's like well we should have a chance of blockading you guys so let's not let ships come into france and britain and germany sends a telegram to mexico offering an alliance against the united states the message is intercepted by britain and transmitted to the united states which then prepares to go to war kind of a last straw in a lot of ways little zimmerman telegram i'm not going to get into it you know too much it's too time consuming but um america's ik germany is going too far now [Music] trying to get mexico involved exhausts the population who revolt the revolution to abdicate a provisional government is put into place which chooses to continue the war in turn declares war on germany but it would take several months for the first troops to join the front lines i wanted to say that american military was like a hundred thousand that's it at that time so not even close and i think what those that were trained did immediately go over but it took a year to get training more troops the american military was tiny greece which is under pressure from the allies joined the anton in both camps exhausted soldiers began mutinies on the izonzo front 11 similar italian offensives at the cost of many lives further affecting troop morale austro-german troops counter-attack and push back the front line at the gates of gaza after a victory british armies prepared to enter palestine to gain the support of the jewish community british prime minister arthur balfour publishes a statement addressing lord rothschild a leader of the british zionist federation promising a state for the jewish people in palestine another thing i wish i could go into more this was my senior thesis in college when i was uh wrapping up my my degree my final kind of capstone project was on the balfour declaration look into it definitely do because it'll explain a lot of middle east problems with this in russia the bolsheviks organize a second revolution and seize power this is the one armistice with germany but after the breakdown of negotiations war resumes a lot of people don't seem like unable or don't know the differentiations between the two revolutions that happened in 1917 right um you know the the earlier yeah the the march february march one more about taking out the monarchy and that kind of thing but then the second one is the one that really is going to establish uh the the future you know soviet union you know what i mean there's kind of these two like one to take out you know again the the the regime the the monarchy and then another one to establish the new new austria german forces put the russian army throughout the action forcing the country to accept more security and recognize the independence of new states russia then sees the start of a civil war this is where russia feels like they definitely with russia out of the game germany concentrates on the western front this is massive by the way now that there's a single front war for germany i mean that's huge that was what germany wanted all along and um now they have it except the americans are going to start creeping in now to in a way kind of replace that although it won't create a two-front war it'll have new influx of troops and stuff before u.s troops grow in strength a large-scale offensive is launched lasting four months and german troops pushed their way to marn again but a powerful allied counter-offensive forces german troops to retreat in parallel the allies launch an offensive on the macedonian flag quickly forces bulgaria to sign an armistice the ottoman empire finds itself isolated while arab british forces reached damascus as the french land in beirut austria-hungary retreats to the balkans and to italy the empire is also weakened by minority separatists who proclaim their independence the ottoman great time to declare independence is during a war when the powers that be can't fight back fire followed by austria-hungary signed an armistice with the anton in germany sailors refused to fight the royal navy and start a mutiny which turns into a popular revolt the kaiser is forced to abdicate and germany's new government requests an armistice which is signed on november 11 1918. http when the americans actually landed here which helped really that offensive to push the germans back to the german border which is what happened there i mean the this agreement is basically going to happen this you know the armistice when the german troops are now in the western front push back to their own border meaning if they were to continue the war from this point on it would happen in germany where basically in in mainland germany uh fighting is not happening it's not happening it's fighting outside of germany that's when they agreed to the armistice because anything further would happen in german homeland it's not something they're willing to do and you could see the population was unwilling to do all right this is going to go well victors of the war meet in paris to draw up peace treaties without inviting bolshevik russia who signed a separate peace treaty with germany the united states proposes which includes the creation of the league of nations the united kingdom and especially france another failing territory is devastated want to weaken germany and make it pay heavy reparations june 28 1919 proves to be a symbolic date because five years after the assassinations at sarajevo a peace treaty is signed between germany and the allies at versailles in the same room where the german empire had been proclaimed in 1871. the measures imposed on germany are severe the country loses twenty percent of its territory and ten percent of its population mainly to the benefit of poland which is recreated and which obtains access to the sea and a champion is cut in two while the tsar region rich in coal is brought under international control for 15 years german colonies are carved up among the victims the country they lose all of their overseas colonies army is severely dismantled finally germany and its allies are considered solely responsible for war damages and must pay all reparations now one of the things that usually comes at the end of you know a discussion or any unit if you really get into it high school university level you know will people will after looking at the causes of the war say like wait the central port powers were one as as prescribed by the uh the treaty versailles 100 responsible for the war we just we know that's not the case yeah there's plenty of blame there's a lot of blame to go around and making that the the what comes out of the treaty is obviously going to give a lot of resentment and we all know where this heads to a second world war which is basically what the treaty of versailles is going to ensure that there is every reason to hold resentment towards this thing because it wasn't fair at all the treaty is considered a human at least it wasn't perceived as fair humiliation by the german people those empires are gone austria-hungary is completely dismantled czechoslovakia and the kingdom of serbs croats and slovenians are created italy fields agreed it does not obtain all the territories it was promised austria yeah they wanted all that stuff this is a major thing because now italy even though they're on the winning side of the war i'm going to have grief because they were promised in secret treaties a whole bunch of this territory in western croatia and they don't get it so even the allies are not happy with this which is entirely german speaking is denied the right to be attached to germany the ottoman empire is also dismembered during the treaty of sev the uk struggles to keep its word having promised land to the french the zionist jews and independents to the arabs everybody's passed the turks refuse a treaty and take up arms again they gain some territories then sign in lausanne a treaty fixing the new borders of turkey enter out of turk another interesting dude the first world war or the so-called great war was then the deadliest ever with just under 18 million dead including 8 million civilians the weakened population was then hit hard by the deadly spanish flu pandemic no one forgets about that that it started towards the end of the war and then continued after the war um anywhere if about 50 million people died of the flu by the way it really didn't have much to do with spain the spanish king got it which is why i got named after that but did not originate in spain european powers find themselves heavily indebted to the benefit of neutral countries and the united states which strengthens its status as a leading economic power russia becomes by just literally just surviving i mean london was the the economic center of the world and now it's going to shift to new york because uh in the united states simply because the united states didn't have the cost of world war one like these others other nations it and the us made a lot of money um especially in the the years leading up to the war by selling stuff to countries at war then of course we got a soviet union yep ussr a country exhausted by war and frustrated by the loss of many european territories in palestine tensions mount between arabs and the zionist jews who migrate there the new european borders new creation of a jewish homeland is not something the arab community was willing to do give up that territory and something they were not consulted on disgruntled many the fact that some german populations are now living in poland and czechoslovakia would contribute to the outbreak of the second world war angelus unification of ethnic germans which is something adolf hitler is going to be a big proponent of and saying was one of the biggest you know bad things that happened on the treaty of versailles was disconnecting german people from their country all right sweet we did it let's talk about it all right that video was absolutely loaded with history i mean that that's a really really deep history going on there i loved again seeing the uh the the geography of this i think that works really well with something like world war one and world war two is to see the movement see the nations involved i know for me as kind of a visual learner that really helps rather than just going through even just like a bunch of pictures of the war like that doesn't really teach you the concepts of the war maybe it puts you in the perspective of a fighter but like if you want to look at um in a larger scale looking thing through things through a geographic perspective like with cartography here with maps i think that's great i think that's at least for me really settles in my mind what was going on in the war so this was great this is detail i mean i love that i went back to mid 1800s there and then brought in the issues going forward i like that it brought in the global perspective as much as you can in a what is this an 18 minute video again you need a lot more depth because i'm sure people in the comments of this are gonna be like what about this part of the war what about this part of the war well that's always going to be the case right these videos are meant to be more summaries and that kind of thing hopefully these can be launching these kind of videos can launch you into going even more even deeper but i think as a casual uh someone looking at more casually a video like this is i think gonna do you justice um for for learning about the war but again if there was things you want to learn more this lets you know like okay what was that balfour declaration thing okay now i can go look at that or you know really didn't talk maybe much about what happened in asia okay time to get involved in that you know what i mean hopefully that's what these type of videos do um in the end anyway i'm definitely interested in checking out more of this i'd like to see the world war two one but again just seeing the geographic perspective here i love it i love this idea again well done by this channel if you'd like to see more of this channel you can definitely suggest videos a couple places you can do that you can do that on discord which is usually the best if you join our discord server there's a channel or a video 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Channel: Mr. Terry History

Views: 33,735

Keywords: react, history, world war 1, geography

Id: H6JH_Jkp0lg

Length: 43min 19sec (2599 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 18 2021