Royal Marine Reacts To WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1)

what's up everybody and today we are reacting to world war two over simplified part one this is by oversimplified i will leave a link down below to the original video please go down there click on that link like their video subscribe to him and all that good stuff because i'm sure this video is gonna be awesome world war ii what do i know about world war ii well i know a little bit you know um i know some aspects regarding the royal marines in world war ii but i don't really know the grand scheme of things i don't really know the ins and outs of like politically what went on um i was very young when i was in the royal marines i was 16 when i went in so i did soak up a lot of core history but um a lot of it went over my head as well so it's gonna be really nice to watch this and kind of figure out what the hell happened so with that being said let's shut up let's pull me head up here and let's watch this and have some fun this video was made possible by skillshare hell yeah it was churchill was a man with many talents he was an artist a butterfly enthusiast and he had an unpublished manuscript about aliens wait what he had an unpublished manuscript about aliens also that animation is hilarious i wanna i wanna hear this manuscript i want to read it what the hell clearly he was a man with an insatiable thirst for knowledge yeah maybe he could have loaded up his computer and logged onto skillshare an online learning community with more than 19 000 classes in design business technology and more perhaps he was considering a side career in fashion but didn't know where to start on skillshare he would find courses in fashion design can you imagine churchill or if he wanted to learn improve his photography or just how to make a really good quesadilla he would have made courses skillshare gives you access to high quality classes taught by genuine all right i'm gonna fast forward a little bit i get it i get it skillshare i get it there's a month and if you'd like to try it out first then i've got a deal just for oversimplified viewers the first 1000 he'll share for j now without further ado here we go all right let's find out about world war ii it's 1902. a young man by the name of benito mussolini moves from italy to switzerland to avoid military service okay it's big into socialism working for trade unions writing for socialist newspapers advocating a violent overthrow of european monarchies the whole shebang this this guy seems like an angry guy gets him in a bit of trouble with the swiss police 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 what an elementary school teacher you got arrested twice he finally returns to work as an avid socialist his speeches and journalistic abilities made him famous among italian socialists he was anti-war so in italy colonized libya in 1910 he rioted and got arrested then one came in and once again he protested italy's involvement but then he 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 but his fellow soldiers okay 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 this guy was not a nice guy he was not a nice guy by the looks of it guys also this animation of him looking like this is hilarious that's all well and good mr mussolini but what kind of haircut am i giving you let's go with bold [Laughter] okay [Music] amazing amazing i'm excited for this animation it seems pretty cool 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 dictator is that literally how he went though did he actually go and say make me prime minister because holy you've got to have some you're gonna have some kahunas to do that to a king aren't you bishop with himself at its center europe had its first fascist dictator next up germany germany had been on the losers 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 would held 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 to germans that still happens today top of that a bad economy and weak governments meant that when 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 it's crazy how um something so extreme as hitler and his party was able to slowly creep into government and slowly persuade people and it's scary it's really scary 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 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 gonna trade with us and you're gonna 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 unfair we don't think so oh that's giving a big old dig at europe there but it's true it's totally true it's funny how like um you know people in england people in most of europe and america we all see ourselves as a good people but our countries have done some horrible things in the past especially britain britain has done some horrific stuff in the past like really bad stuff and america is not far from it as well either but it is what it is it is what it is okay see you 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 demilitarized rhineland giving orders to immediately retreat if the allies showed up the allies did nothing with his military re-strengthened he could now move on jazz up the army that's a good way of putting it jazz up the army take over the world question back and then profit all my days 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 more i want that thing and repeat in 1913 wow so it was a gradual thing it was a gradual thing of him pushing the boundary constantly until people got fed up of his crap and decided to kick hitler's ass those army marched into austria and just took it with no resistance 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 wow really yeah wow just like that 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 his signed piece of paper in the air declaring crisis to be averted and 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 of course he did of course he did what he's invading the rest of czechoslovakia oh 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 it's really heartbreaking in there like people why are people so greedy like people are so greedy why can't they just be happy with what they've got like seriously people are so greedy it pisses me off also wanted to control the entrance to the adriatic sea so they occupied albania then in another incident which was maybe staged by the japanese 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 wow japan took over a lot i didn't realize how much they took over i knew they invaded china but i didn't realize how much they actually took that's crazy 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 line stunned the wow on the 1st of september 1939 german troops entered poland and britain and france declared war on germany hell yeah kicked their ass out holes 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 starland 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 it's crazy how like something's so extreme and it makes you it makes you think about like current the current time like how gradual change can end with something extreme and can really destroy the the ecosystem of what's going on right now um and the whole like i guess the whole economy of everything like if you think about you know the the trade deals between all these different countries and like how effective one little change can be in a lot of like you can it can like have a domino effect on so many other things and obviously hitler had so much like i don't know he had so many warnings and with no repercussions where he just kept advancing he just kept advancing and nothing happened and then started doing this phony war and nothing was happening it's it it really it really me off to be honest with you i can beep stuff out now guys 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 what 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 200 000 men to france while the french had mobilized millions 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 neutral 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 the lads oh these these this animation's fantastic i'm really impressed with this animation one of the best i've seen i think confused then the soviet union attacked finland 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 a 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 keyboards along the coast but germany had taken control of noah's airfield and their air superiority decided to fight it seemed like it was just one little trigger and then boom into motion everything happened real quick that's scary that's really scary the allies had to retreat after this 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 hitler 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 the ardennes an area full of hills and forests pretty underdefended because they thought it was naturally impenetrable while the germans were about to penetrate it with everything they had they smashed 50 vermont divisions throughout the allied armies at lightning speed so this is when dunkirk happened when the british troops had to get off the beach asap or they're all going to get killed 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 which if you haven't seen that film i highly recommend it it's absolutely fantastic like genuinely fantastic with most of the french forces depleted the germans breezed through taking paris wow and france fell what the germans couldn't do 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 never surrender the british never surrender let's go to 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 right 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 the battle of britain over the coast where the british were awesome as per usual 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 then it attacked raf bases 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 entered the luftwaffe to refocus its attacks on civilian targets in london children were sent off to the countryside away from their parents that's so scary if you think about it like imagine being like all right my children have got to go off into the countryside because we're probably gonna get bombed and killed so have at it and i remember i've seen pictures and stuff of like kids and they get issued like a little gas mask and they were on trains and stuff it's like heartbreaking to avoid danger and frequent trips to air raid shelters became a daily occurrence but british morale held firm smiling knitting lounging casually these people have balls of steel this yeah we do yeah we do pre-focusing 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 luftwaffe sent one massive all-out attack on london and the raf successfully repelled it destroying 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 the end of part one no oh i'm gonna watch the rest of this if you guys want me to react to it on the channel let me know in the comments down below i'll certainly do that the british are so stubborn we're just stubborn people that's it we're just happy just to to crack on with things aren't we that's why the british men tell us if you go into the military in england there's this mentality where it's just like everything like you just just crack on just crack on you're fine just crack on make a brew and everything will be fine hence like why have you seen like films like hot fulls where it's like goes to the winchester have a pint and wait for all this to calm down that is literally the british mentality just wait have a cup of tea or if it's in the afternoon sometimes have a pine sit down and wait for it all to just be over with and the british are stubborn they sent out the raf that absolutely took out the germans like an absolute bunch of legends and i guess in the second part is gonna talk about uh d-day but it just shows like look at dunkirk where the civilians came out with all their fishing vessels and all these different boats and went and picked up the troops we could have had a lot of people die and if it wasn't for getting them troops back from dunkirk we probably wouldn't have been able to crack on with d-day and stuff so there's some pretty pretty amazing feast that happened for britain which is just a small island to survive against germany when they would dominate in europe they were absolutely dominating obviously thanks to americans who came over to help us during d-day um we managed to take them back and now we'll find that out in part two i'm pretty sure um and i'm very excited to watch that so let me know in the comments down below if you want me to react to part two i will certainly do it maybe i'll put it up on tuesday or something like that guys but for now members you're amazing i love you i couldn't do this without you i honestly 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Id: IK_SzFbnxKY

Length: 20min 44sec (1244 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 21 2021