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How Did the Anschluss Actually Happen? | Why Austria Fell to Germany in 1938
How did Germany annex Austria?
In 1938 the German army faced no resistance when it invaded Austria. Within two days the 'Anschluss' or 'Joining' of the two countries had been decreed and many newly minted Germans believed they could look forward to a prosperous future. But it had taken two decades of social chaos in Austria - plus a coercive pressure campaign by Berlin - to bring most Austrians into line. The ease of the Anschluss of March 13th, 1938, was due to both the virulence of a Germany readying to march to war and the ineptitude of the Austrian regime.
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Sources Consulted:
Bukey, Evan Burr. Hitler’s Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-45. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. archive.org/embed/hitlersaustriapo0000buke_n8x4
Miller, Stuart T. Mastering Modern European History. London: Macmillan Education LTD, 1990.
Pauley, Bruce. Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini: Totalitarianism in the 20th Century. 4th ed. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.
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What Began the Spanish Civil War? | How Extremism Scarred Spain
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Why did Spain descend into civil war? In the mid-1930s, most European countries were wary of war with their foreign neighbours but in Spain war was about to break out on the streets. Political issues ranging from the place of an established Church in society, to pay concerns, unemployment, and land ownership tore Spain apart. The left and right became increasingly polarised, and eventually spli...
Why Does Luxembourg Exist?
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Why Did Italy Take Rhodes? | Italian Colonization of the Dodecanese
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Why did Italy colonize the Dodecanese Islands? The 1912 Italo-Turkish War saw the island of Rhodes and the surrounding Dodecanese claimed by Italy. For the next three decades, the Italians ruled the islands but their outlook on the colony and the people of Rhodes shifted dramatically over time as regimes rose and fell in Rome. Subscribe for more history: czcams.com/users/LookBackHistory More Vi...
How Did Atatürk Beat Greece & the Entente? | The Turkish War of Independence
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How Did Bulgaria Unite? | The Bulgaria Crisis of 1885
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Komentáře

  • @AndrashYT
    @AndrashYT Před hodinou

    FIRST FOREIGN CZcamsR TO SAY A ROMANIAN NAME CORRECTLY 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

  • @bluegaming002
    @bluegaming002 Před 3 hodinami

    Can you do treaty of gullistan please ❤

  • @Johnny-zi6lw
    @Johnny-zi6lw Před 4 hodinami

    As a Croatian, I would certainly be happy with returning to the Empire. As long as we don't answer to the Hungarians :p

  • @comradecamarada6725
    @comradecamarada6725 Před 10 hodinami

    It's unbelievable how a small nation like Greece pushed another nation 10 it's size 50km outside Ankara. The Turks still can't digest it. They still wonder and say "But we pushed you to the sea!!" and the Greek are still waving with their hands and say " Yes and we still exist to remind you that we did the same from 1821-1922"

  • @rafaelgomez1284
    @rafaelgomez1284 Před 17 hodinami

    It does not !

  • @earth2006
    @earth2006 Před dnem

    Bolshevic's nope, no jokes here.

  • @mohammadgholami02
    @mohammadgholami02 Před 2 dny

    fair enough

  • @viv1dre4m33
    @viv1dre4m33 Před 3 dny

    Hey

  • @nickgreu4ever
    @nickgreu4ever Před 3 dny

    Good riddance!

  • @PerumPalli
    @PerumPalli Před 3 dny

    2:25 *Nope he's a TELUGU who was from present day Tamil Country (TAMIL NADU)*

  • @chingatumadregoogle1344

    A secular monarqui and a theocratic republic

  • @Thememesbringer-hk6vc

    Maybie they where only 21years but they where the best years for us as culture

  • @landon8214
    @landon8214 Před 3 dny

    Greece is so sigma, like what the skibidi? Fanum tax rizz in Ohio?

  • @MuddieRain
    @MuddieRain Před 3 dny

    Because they were stabbed in the back

  • @adamnordinrogers
    @adamnordinrogers Před 4 dny

    Menilik was in Berlin conference to participate as pro UK france

  • @wolfa5151
    @wolfa5151 Před 4 dny

    What sent the Habsburg empire into the Bin? Idiots at the Top❗️

  • @solodave8349
    @solodave8349 Před 4 dny

    Some of this in incorrect. Transylvania was part of Hungary (and W. Romania) before the Habsburgs took over. .....I find it fascinating though that a group of what were proto-slavs were invaded by Romans and the Romans were barely there for 150 years. Then suddenly these slavs spoke Latin? Most of Hungary was under Ottoman rule for 150 years and very little influence......The Romanians have little "Roman" dna. It seems to me and I do have some Romanian ancestors, is that the Romanians when they started organising as a nation, started pushing this Latin dialect to say that they are the descendants of the Romans.

  • @joshtroufield
    @joshtroufield Před 4 dny

    romania should just be Walachia Moldavia Transylvania and Dobruja.

  • @user-vm2wi8no1s
    @user-vm2wi8no1s Před 4 dny

    An injustice was certainly done to Hungary. As a Serb, I understand why needed land compensation and Vojvodina had a large Serbian minority (now a majority). To us, it didn't matter if it was Hungary or Austria across the Danube border, all that mattered were the spoils of war and expansion northwards. As Vojvodina became more Serbian, Hungarians became a minority and today most of them live far north near the border with Hungary. I have absolutely nothing against Hungarians or Hungary, in fact I like them. All Hungarians I've met here and in Budapest were very polite and good people. I certainly understand how it feels having part of your country unfairly taken from you. I acknowledge we also did you an injustice, but we cannot reverse time. Today we live in peace and our relations have never been better historically, thanks to Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his government. I wish we will continue these relations in the future and never fight another war against each other again, but stand together as allies when the time comes.

  • @richardcaves3601
    @richardcaves3601 Před 4 dny

    Germany in October 1918 was on the brink of economic and military disaster. She was blockaded, her harvest was a failure, civilians were starving, the industries were idle from lack of raw materials, the army was in retreat back to the frontier, and the renewed allied offensive was poised for an American lead invasion of the Fatherland. Luddendorf and Hindenburg knew this, so instructed the civilian government to get an armistice. Then they started the big lie - that Germany was stabbed in the back by socialism. Utter BS, because they knew full well the disastrous military situation.

  • @JudgeJudith
    @JudgeJudith Před 4 dny

    Amazing you discredit yourself in the first 3 seconds

  • @werre2
    @werre2 Před 5 dny

    newsflash: It didn't

  • @cmbbfan78
    @cmbbfan78 Před 5 dny

    The second was not a unite: it was capturing territories with 50-95% Hungarian ethnicity, belonging to Hungary since about 1000 years. So it was a land grab. Since then - expect the few years between 1940-1944 when parts of Transylvania was given back to Hungary - the Hungarian ethnicity is fully oppressed. Of course that does not matter for the EU as these people are no migrants or lgbtqqqxxzz...

  • @FurkanYildiz-tx8no
    @FurkanYildiz-tx8no Před 5 dny

    To the British-American student who prepared this video: You should not make videos about TURKS or TURKISH HISTORY since you are apparently biased towards other nations and give false information. I believe you could do great job at making videos about your own history...

  • @Anti-CornLawLeague
    @Anti-CornLawLeague Před 5 dny

    One dude claimed it was the economic policies of Ludwig Von Mises that might have did it, but tariffs were so high in Austria that that doesn’t seem to be the case. Mises supported free trade. socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2011/03/mises-hypocrite-when-reality-trumps.html?m=1

  • @Truthwelltoldtr
    @Truthwelltoldtr Před 5 dny

    Greek Royals within this context is an exsmple of an oxymoron. Their king was not even a Greek 🤣.

  • @navybro7155
    @navybro7155 Před 6 dny

    the first two images made me think that this video was in romania(the first map is at the entry of every park in Iasi and the second one, I copied that image in art class for like 3 years in a row for 1st December day) btw, I am a moldovan from both parts of the Prut riverand I think we should recreate Greater Romania In Unire e puterea, frati! 💪☦

  • @fabulouschild2005
    @fabulouschild2005 Před 6 dny

    In a short answer: it didn't

  • @raygunforme-alex3861

    Good video but I think you missed one thing. There were actually 3 unions and we learn this in history class. I am talking about Mihai Viteazu(Michael the Brave) . In 1600 he conquered Transilvania and Moldavia under Wallachian rule. It only lasted 2 months but it is seen as the first union of the romanian principalities that was quickly torn apart by the neighbouring powers( Otoman Empire, Austria: under Rudolph the II that also ordered Michael’s execution and Poland) . Anyway as a romanian I really appreciate your effort and interest in our culture and truthfully I tell to you that I respect you.

  • @tomasrosser3433
    @tomasrosser3433 Před 6 dny

    Because they're the armed robbers in the constitution. Then gave it back because it is wrong. Then they assassinated in sanfrancisco. Then we had a queen his sister. Because she was a female they next it illegally.

  • @gtaquizmaster
    @gtaquizmaster Před 6 dny

    Thankss for making this

  • @MrJohansen
    @MrJohansen Před 6 dny

    Packwatch, rest in piss USSR, you won't be missed 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 Před 6 dny

    Another factor in the decline was a financial one. See when they captured Constantinople in 1453,it did 2 things: 1. It gave them control over all trade between the Black and Mediterranean Seas. and 2. It gave them control over all the overland trade routes to Asia(ie China, India, and the Spice Islands). Both of those meant that the Ottomans could tax shipping as they controlled the only routes available at the time. So the European powers had one of 3 options: 1. Cut a deal with the Ottomans,like Venice did,so you could continue trade. 2. Find a new route to Asia 3. Say "screw Asia altogether" and find a new market to exploit Most European powers did a combination of 2 and 3. This had a cumulative effect on the Ottomans as once it was realized you didn't need their shipping routes to get to Asia,it hit them in the pocket book

  • @Gen.berseker25
    @Gen.berseker25 Před 6 dny

    Thanks for this video! I know what everyone thinks about Greece: Everyone: Olympus. Greece: Epanástasi. Türkiye: Yunanistan.

  • @l10kingz82
    @l10kingz82 Před 7 dny

    Slavic people came from Russia in Europe

  • @xentris2853
    @xentris2853 Před 7 dny

    I love harald hardada😁

  • @Kaspa969
    @Kaspa969 Před 7 dny

    Fun fact: Romanian language is romance because one of the main groups that mixed into romanians were nomadic sheperds vlachs who migrated from italy.

    • @kamenhristov7756
      @kamenhristov7756 Před 6 dny

      Eh? Vlachs were residents of the (Eastern) Roman Empire, who maintained their Romance language during the Empire's shift from Roman to Greek.

  • @zebra1327
    @zebra1327 Před 7 dny

    Man, to think how many people were complaining about masks, when people over 100 years ago knew the helped, just crazy

  • @patrickjeffers7864
    @patrickjeffers7864 Před 7 dny

    99% of the vote 😂

  • @quedtion_marks_kirby_modding

    (After Stalin) it was basicly a party dictaitorship.

  • @lawrencedaos3481
    @lawrencedaos3481 Před 7 dny

    CUT IT SHORT , HAWAIIANS GOT PLAYED , TOOK ADVANTAGE BY THOSE WHITE GREEDY PEOPLE CALLED HAOLE .NEVER MET OR SEEN HAOLE BEFORE , WHEN HAWAIIANS SEEN MET HAOLE RIGHT OFF DA TOP HAWAIIANS SHOWED DA ALOHA SPIRIT KIND GIVING OPEN ❤ HEART WHATS MIND IS YOURS IN THOSE OLD HAWAIIAN DAYS . WHITE PEOPLE WAS SUPRIZED TOOK ADVANTAGE CLAIM OUR LAND AND TILL THIS DAY NEVER GAVE IT BACK , NOW SERIOUSLY THING EVERYTHING , ANYTHING GOING ON IN HAWAII TOTALLY GOTTEN WORST , GREEDY TYPES OF NATIONALLITY RUNNING DA GOVERNMENT FORGETTING WHO OR WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE WHERE HERE HUNDREDS, THOUSANDS YEARS AGO TOTALLY SERIOUSLY GOT SHAFTED OUT OF THERE OWN LAND . YOU CRITICS GUESS WHO'S LAND IT BELONGS TO THOSE ANCIENT DAYS ? SHAME ON YOU ONLY TAKE, TAKE, TAKE STILL KEEP ON TAKING THAT'S WHY IT'S GETTING F. KING WORSER , THAT'S ONLY 1 OUT OF 900.000.000.000. HAWAIIANS COMMENTS FROM DA START TO NOW . ALL SAID AND DONE SAY NO MORE .

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 Před 8 dny

    Yes, Russia believed that it was Napoleon III who incited the Polish rebels in 1863. The funny thing is it was Napoleon III who raised the alarm bells as early as the mid 1860s about the Prussians uniting the German states

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 Před 8 dny

    The South German states were more culturally similar to Austria than they were to Prussia, thus Bismarck knew that if he used any type of force in them that they'd possibly appeal to Austria for help, which would've made things very messy As you point out in either this video or another, Bismarck had to make a lot of concessions to the southern German states to secure both their help in the Franco-Prussian War and becoming part of the German Empire, concessions the northern states didn't have

  • @kayhoorn
    @kayhoorn Před 8 dny

    Imagine calling your nation 'Eastern empire' aka Österreich. They always knew they belonged to the Germanic tribe. Vienna is an eastern outpost.

    • @fabianauer1986
      @fabianauer1986 Před 4 dny

      It means easter realm. Austria started as a small province and not as a empire

  • @nexxuzthenoble
    @nexxuzthenoble Před 8 dny

    *annexed

  • @hcaslanO
    @hcaslanO Před 8 dny

    "the government collapsed, and exactly why is a contentious matter." Really? Bloody Christmas (1963) 400 Turkish and 200 Greek Cypriots deaths ? You're a joke!

  • @Reichsritter
    @Reichsritter Před 8 dny

    what? they had been separate since 1866, that's 72 years not "hundreds of years "

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 Před 8 dny

    The fact that the South German states were more culturally like Austria than Prussia was probably why Bismarck was reluctant to use military force to get them to unite with Prussia. He probably and correctly feared that had any type of military force to get them to join Prussia that they would've likely turned to Austria for help, which would've made things very messy

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 Před 8 dny

    As I recall,as per the treaty which ended the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 to 1895, Korea entered Japan's sphere of influence. Also,as a result of the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War, not only was Russia forced to recognize Japanese claims to Korea,it also had to withdraw from and recognize Japan's claims to Manchuria

  • @colindaniels945
    @colindaniels945 Před 8 dny

    Technically,South Africa was also independent in 1914 as well. In point of fact: German Southwest Africa became a mandate of South Africa after WW1,had South Africa not been independent at that point,ut would've been made a British mandate