WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1) REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[Music] hi guys welcome to office sports react time office blog dave i'm a split mike i am office bloke nas like glad to be really obviously we are some of the time we drink beer all the time we drink beer don't we today is one of those occasions it is um and yeah and some of the time we also have a um we have a patreon channel go to patreon.com have a look at that uh putting office post react uh you'll see a lot of different tiers there start just one pound fifty uh go and support the channel and we've got block videos early access exclusive stuff on there got loads of content already on there so uh pop down there have a look and see what you think yeah so uh we did a couple of the over simplifieds it was the brilliant american civil war and i'd loved it yeah it's good one of the best content we've done i really really enjoyed it yeah really interesting the guy who does he's just he's funny he's a genius yeah together it's really good i will guarantee it when my kids are older and learning about things like this i'll be going to videos like this definitely yeah they don't want to learn about world war two and put something like this i think it makes it interesting for me doesn't it you know yeah so uh world war ii oversimplified part one should we get straight [Music] by skillshare churchill was a man with many talents he was an artist a butterfly enthusiast and he had an unpublished manuscript about aliens clearly he was a man with an insatiable thirst for knowledge maybe he could have loaded up his computer and logged onto skillshare an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 well we're not is he he's a wartime prime minister and i thought boris johnson was at the beginning of his stuff it's 1902 a young man by the name of benito mussolini was from italy to switzerland to avoid military service he gets 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 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 world war one came along 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 socialists didn't like his new pro-war 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 [Music] he really is i like his delivery yeah yeah 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 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 withheld the right to walk into the center of berlin pick out any german they wanted and spike the hell out of them i made that last one up but it helps you understand how all this felt to germans on top of that they would have bloody loved it [Laughter] 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 he was austrian he's not even german so he's not patriotic yeah there you go 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 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 unfair we don't think so 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 block a japanese train in manchuria giving them an excuse to launch an invasion and take over so here's the situation nazi germany is that what the term manchurian candidate is is it to do that like a false flag sort of uh i've always heard that term and never know what it maybe it is maybe 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 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 1938 hitler's army marched into austria and just took it with no resistance boom 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 and chief were usually pretty vague and the troop my granddad was a motorbike messenger in the second world war oh really yeah but he was in he was in egypt and he had a pistol unless he wasn't given a rifle it's just a pistol no bullets they genuinely told him that if anyone tries to capture it or anyone comes for you point and shout bang wow yeah it's going to be on this city my grandma was also military in the uh in world war ii he was in burma though oh really really yeah it's madness in there yeah yeah it's not that long ago no some of the stories it's not the stories you told me but crazy yeah they 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 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 refused 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 keyports along the coast but germany had taken control of norway's airfield and their air superiority decided to fight 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 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 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 have you watched the movie don't curse no yes that's such a great movie yeah it really is good completely shows that though it's like it's fisherman going with the little boat just picking up ten guys it was literally that wasn't it yeah literally yeah amazing effort didn't they get something like a million and a half men off the beach that was some ridiculous number yeah it's an incredible job it really was yeah he knows what they're talking about this guy he does indeed he knows his stuff with most of the french forces depleted the germans breezed through taking paris 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 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 allies 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 i remember watching a documentary about that it's a proper scandal it was french ships in a port and it was full of soldiers like they were all on the ships and our navy at this point just went down and just torpedoed all the ships killed everyone well because they didn't want the germans getting hold of the french freight of ships that's not good is it no well yeah madness of war right 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 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 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 the foot for now finally the luftwaffe 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 [Music] i love it yeah good i grew up on like war movies with my dad and stuff so oh yeah yeah yeah loads about in the world movies tons of still love them to this day so far like 1917's the latest one i've watched unbelievable yeah that seems really epic that's how you feel at the moment football on the tv [Music] and then you just put these little bits in there like hitler shooting himself in the fort it's hilarious it's just text messages as well isn't it yeah yeah yeah but yeah yeah little touches like that it just makes it uh yeah again i've never seen anything like this before you know things explained it's so uh so different everything but i like do you think this is a guy or do you think this is like all the research that goes into the smell like this it's just the animation and everything there's like animations to do this yeah but it really is good it's well worth it this sort of guy should be getting commissioned though by the history channel or whoever to actually do this sort of stuff yeah i can imagine this sort of stuff like in schools and everything it would just make it so interesting for kids wasn't it well you just put on youtube don't you yeah absolutely yeah true yeah my kids as a modern day teacher all right kids we're gonna watch youtube no not that little johnny we had one of those lessons where the teacher rolled in and was just you know watching a movie today this was in high school and it was at a time where i was definitely into things that make you quite mellow and that was uh i sat there very mellow in a lesson and the teacher wheeled out the tv and put on friday in a movie with ice cube yeah that was the that was the lesson we watched friday and i was like yeah the modern day teacher yeah i don't know i think they just burned out like at that point teachers they were getting help from certain people proper fist fights with our teachers in school i remember walking into a lesson i was only about a minute late and he just charged me at the door and sort of need me in the chest and punched me in the [Laughter] end yeah that was great though i mean this guy absolutely liked everyone you probably already have but go over to this guy channel like and subscribe stuff because it's a public service it really is funny and it's got everything for me yes yeah i'm sure we'll look at a few more videos as well yeah yeah of course we have very good lots of lots of history to learn from this guy hope you guys like that too join us to part two shortly

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Published: Wed Dec 30 2020