WW2 - @OverSimplified (Part 1) Reaction

[Music] are you ready for history class you see this pitch she's trying so hard not to give the pissy face not to be upset about this but y'all keep recommending that we do oversimplified history videos why i'm ready to react to this nikki hates it nikki i don't know if i hate oversimplified i probably won't i just i and i don't like to admit this because it's just like a defect in me i freaking hate history and that's so messed up i wish that i loved it i wish i knew more about it i wish that it could hold my attention but i have come close to flunking many a history class well today we're learning about one of those events that has um shaped the world as we know it oh yes i'm talking about the big wwii world war ii baby oversimplified part one are you ready to just jump right into this i mean yeah sure i'm so excited i feel like i know enough about this one okay here we go this video was made possible by skillshare churchill was a man with many talents he was an artist a butterfly 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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] verse simplified 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 one hundred thousand 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 to germans on 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 attended 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 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 on doing 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 ryland 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 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 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 good this new line 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 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 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 keyboards 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 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 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 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 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 added 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 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 rate 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 luftwaffe 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] did you learn anything winston churchill likes butterflies and you learned the finger thing yeah so how do you know that i've never heard of i'm not 100 sure but i have a roundabout kind of understanding supposedly like you couldn't shoot a bow and arrow unless you had your two fingers and so there was some kind of like scuffle going on in english history where like to show the enemy you know you haven't caught me and i can still shoot my two [ __ ] fingers so like [ __ ] you with the two fingers so where does anybody know where like the middle finger came from i learned it from the rubber bandits the middle finger or the two fingers yeah because they said look them [ __ ] up and down and give them one of these honda civic i have a horse outside if you don't know who the rubber bandits are do yourself a favor and look them up they're wild pretty funny um but that makes sense yeah yeah it's uh it's their way of giving the finger it's two fingers interesting yeah this is you know peace and this is get aft you know but they were backwards so maybe i don't know no winston churchill was definitely do winston churchill was a absolute savage you know he was a big imperialist which is not cool because you shouldn't be out there colonizing people and [ __ ] on people but as far as not giving a [ __ ] and being a hard-ass [ __ ] like from what i understand people in england were just like wow this warmonger and winston churchill's always trying to fight people we just got out of world war one shut up and then he was like [ __ ] no kill hitler do something now and they were just like dude you're crazy like stop and then eventually they were just like damn it we should put winston churchill in charge makes sense yeah so and then immediately after you know world war ii they're like can we get winston churchill out of it yeah yeah right but he was good for that period right um definitely not a not a uh guy that i'll look up to when it comes to social issues um but yeah lots of stuff did you see anything that you didn't know before other than the middle finger so i just don't even want to talk about it like all that i know about mussolini is like his name is cool i don't know [ __ ] about mussolini yeah he was just uh pretty much all about socialism and then he became like one of the leading nationalists and first nationalist like kind of dictator dudes who um inspired the way that hitler kind of did things and was totally he went from being socialist to like the complete opposite and completely against socialist and don't worry he gets his just due um but pretty much germany getting screwed over in world war one caused almost all of the problems in world war ii was the kickoff and then you have the um japanese breaking out of their shell and instead of being like oh we're one with the world now it's like now the world is one with us [ __ ] yeah you know and so those two powers combined well three if you want to count italy whatever they uh you'll see later on in the story mussolini got to get there for pretty [ __ ] made but yeah it was just all out [ __ ] crazy and then here are all these you know countries who hadn't developed to the level of all these people that were fighting that had their countries turned into literal battlefields for other people all just for these fighting ideologies of like what it should be who are super weaponized and like you know they had just started having machine guns planes that could actually do work like we know now and well obviously not as good as the ones but like actual fighting planes and just bad bad stuff going on but was that easier to digest than yeah i mean i wish that i would have had something like this when i was in like my college history classes just like [ __ ] man i don't know i don't know what's going on i've been listening to you talk for like two hours somebody's shooting guns somebody's flying somewhere somebody's getting [ __ ] up that's all i know i like the text messages between countries when they were talking about like that there was stuff that was like misspelled too did you notice that yeah yeah and then the uh i pay more attention to the english and the grammar than my god they misspelled that in the text oh totally the opposite of me yeah but anyway math and history good stuff just you know if we were ever on a team that we had to like do some sort of like trivia like you can get the history we might can do the math together and figure something out hi give me all the english and sciences hi hi shorty hi say hi so oversimplified we got part one down part two we'll watch that next time this is a great channel i i really enjoyed what he did here whoa almost million views on this video it's a few years old so that's really good i'm gonna give them another like though for that because that was a really good video uh oversimplified i'm gonna go ahead i've already subscribed uh yeah we'll be checking out more of these videos getting a little history lesson going on every once in a while don't give me a pop quiz if you guys have any more suggestions for videos you would like us to react to just drop those in the comment section because we love to see what you guys are thinking and plenty of the suggestions we've used so we definitely look at those if you would give us a like a subscription hit that notification bell that would be awesome what do you think nikki that would be really nice i would really appreciate that i really appreciate that but i think that'll do it see y'all next time

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