Who started World War 1? - Part 1
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2022
- The beginning of World War 1 was a nightmare of alliances. Three empires - Britain, Russia, and Austria-Hungary - were trying to hold on to their power, and the German Empire had recently come into its own power. Everyone was suspicious of each other, but a network of alliances made it incredibly easy for the entire continent to end up in a massive war.
When Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was assassinated by a young Bosnian Serb freedom fighter who believed that Bosnia should be independent of Austrian rule, everything quickly toppled in a geopolitical domino effect.
Follow this epic tale of how World War 1 really started, as told by a couple of soldiers on the trenches.
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it took a year to make part 2 💀💀💀💀💀💀
No they were focused on other stuff @iwillfind
VTH sent me here! 😊
ok
WW1 Germany: “Are we the baddies?” “No, of course not! We’re just doing our duty and defending our allies!”
WW2 Germany: “Are we the baddies?” “Of course we are! What a stupid question.”
WW1 Germany: let’s dress like the baddies
WW2 Germany: let’s act like the baddies
@@BananaWasTaken In WW2 They Got Some Style With Hugo Boss But Became The Baddies.
In WW1 They Were Just Standard.
They Weren't Bad.
Nobody Was Actually "Bad" In WW1.
@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 I was just pointing out how they dressed with spikes on their hats and painted skulls on their planes making them look evil (even though no one was ‘bad’ in WW1)
@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 psst im on wrong timeline
The 2 reasons why N@zi became power.
(1) They got too much bullied by allies in Tready
(2) definetly hate jews
WW1: a Austrian got killed
WW2: a Austrian get rejected from art school
WW3: a Austrian got punched by a Russian
Wait a minu.......
@@ayushpurohit8266 It's all coming together
Hmmmmm……
And in the end germany loses
@@maximilianarold *the world blows up
This video was made as a parody of ww1, but I'm still left in tears by that ending
Some random dude: let’s kill this dude I don’t like him
Allied Powers: Germany why did you do that?
Germany: I might have caused a lot of damage but I didn’t kill Franz!
Allied Powers: It was Germany.
Fun fact:
There is a joke in Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia that goes:
Mujo caught a golden fish and she promised to grant him one wish if he lets her go. Mujo said he wants to be rich, have a good wife and have everyone listen to him. The fish promised that the wish will be granted the next morning when he wakes up. Mujo went to sleep and next day woke up in a beautiful palace with a hot woman telling him: "Get up, Ferdinand, we are going to Sarajevo today"
😁
I had no idea this was a joke in our countries... I mean okay almost everyone heard that story but I swear I never heard this.
@@amyrose_woods I can't blame you considering they are thousands of Mujo and Haso jokes, no way you could hear every single one😂
@@lilyevans5198 my favorite one is Mujo goes to the UK turns on the radion in his car, then he hears "Danger one idiot is driving on the wrong side of the road" then Mujo screams at the radio "Not just one every one is driving on the wrong side of the road"
@@perapapic3683 Yeah, that one is great too😂 I prefer the one where Haso met Mujo and was surprised to see him. He said: "Mujo? Why are you here? You got a visa, you were supposed to go to the UK" and Mujo replayed "Yeah, but I gave up". "Why?" asked Haso. Mujo just shrugged: "It's too dangerous. I heard they are driving on left side of the road so I decided to practice from Sarajevo to Tuzla. I almost died"
WW1 was inevitable, so many powerful countries, so many people, much advancement in weapons, 3 empires on the verge of collapse and 1 only just starting to rise, so many countries had nothing to win but everything to lose, that means they were all extremely suspicious of each other. It just all came together at a horrible time. So many coincidences, so many mistakes, so many times the war could have been avoided, but if it was, another time would come up to make it happen cause the countries involved wouldn't change.
Dude I LOVE this comment!!!
Agreed. I wonder if Wilhelm the Second kept the Bismarck Diplomacy that his Father (Wilhelm the First) and stayed friendly to both UK and Russia...maybe the alliance network that escalated into WWI would never occurred.
@@MrSpherical noice
A war would have happened anyway.
France wanted absolutly take back Alsace-Lorraine.
This is why in France also, everyone was happy in the beginning of the war lol.
In short, the design was very human ☕
the saddest and most ironic of the war was the treaty of versailles In the treaty, Germany was blamed for everything, they forced it to reduce its army and put multiple economic sanctions on it. And that was exactly what caused World War II.
That is a Myth. The cause of WWII is called CDP, the same Party that now rules Germany.
How was it ironic? But yes, the harsh treaty and fucking Woodrow Wilsons stupid ass points eventually gave way for Hitler to gain power. Oh and ironic would be that germany helped Lenin return to russia... And in ww2 germanys greatest enemy would be the USSR
The unfair treaty, plus poor economic conditions and high war reparations, allowed the nazi party to become well known in Germany. But it was the Great Depression in 1929 that put them on the path to power, and then war.
@@noahrice1472 The point of no return was, when Russia ordered full mobilization. That started the chain reaction. Before that it could've stopped. But the super powers wanted to know who will rule, they all had their interest in a war more or less. No one is free of guilt.
Yes and no the text from the treaty of versailles:
"The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies."
Please note "Germany and her allies" the treaty that the other losing powers sign had similar text
It's great you have put British raj soldier I mean they were fighting in war too most people don't know much about them. Their story's are not much popular.
Imagine being a indian soldier going to be send to África to fight the Germans on behalf of the British because a serbian dude shot the austrian-hungary arch duke
Edit:this could also fit with Australian soldier when the brits invaded turkey
Half million Indians fought in the Middle East to push the Turks
lol
lol
These are confusing times
Literally and still got not credit or praise for that carzy.
Mad respect to the two British dudes who traveled back in time to WW1, just to tell us about Morning Brew. The sponsee of today’s video.
the grind never ends
it was one guy
@@rickeymitok2933 two
@@rickeymitok2933 You didn’t finish the video didn’t you?
W comment
1:20 bro just put his gun in his inventory
Wow Minecraft existed back then
5:23 "get your ass ready for invasion" is the best sentence for every war
Well this will be interesting. Who’s excited for the second collab with PWA and Drew Durnil?
meee
Definitely me
Everyone
Me!
hell yeah!
My bro nearly at 1 million, this will be a 1st time record if this happens not only for mr spherical but also for all of the countryball community
Only 19K away
@@Lm-aYO and then countryballs will pass to the CZcams history. And for the moment only MrSpherical would do it. We believe on him and I will be in the moment when he makes history
@@Castilleta mr Spherical wasn’t the first 1 mil subscriber countryball channel.
DGP Mundo has 1.01 m subs
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i like how after the emotional message with the millions of people that died, MrSpherical comes happy
As an austrian I can confirm that it happened exactly that way.
Also a reason why the war started was because the power every country had because of the resources they gathered from africa so that every country believed they were overpowered.
In austria to this time there also was the say „Serbien muss sterbien“ what means as much as „serbia has to die“.
"Finish the story, I want to know what I am bleeding to death for" now that's a line.
Welp France Ball got most of the things he wanted to know and he probably regretted going to war.
@@phoenix_gamez_.8521 Wanna know something technically the allies triggered Hitler to do WWII
Wow the Forgotten Indian Soldiers are being remembered, thanks MrSpherical 🙏🏻
@@siabye1500 Bro, i'm from Israel, and i'm really sad, that we are not at peace bro, because of islamic revolution in iran now we are enemies, i love persian people very VERYYY much, my grandpa and dad were in iran they said there is great nature. i really want peace with iran and israel. love you dude
Love to both friends of INDIA (🇮🇷🇮🇳🇮🇱)
@@grand2938 Firstly why are you talking about this here...
Secondly Israel is also in a kind of war with Syria and Palestine, so not only Iran...
Thirdly if Israel was more "friendly" towards muslims minorities instead of murdering or stealing there home then the situation would have been better in the first place...
And finally, during the english/soviet invasion of Iran in ww2, only about a thousand died (source : wikipedia)
Well maybe that because of the repression more people died, bit it was extremely low compared to your statement of 10 to 25 millions lmao
*intert literally any colony under the British rule*
@@nicolasiiiletzar7984 agreed
Switzerland 🇨🇭: it’s like watching a movie 🎥
Cool detail: before the archduke got murdered, he was attacked by the Black Hand, but he didnt die, only a few soldiers went to the hospital, then the archduke said to the driver that he wanted to go to the hospital to visit the injured ones, while an specific guy was taking a lunch thinking about failing the murder, but the driver took a wrong turn and ended up infront of the restaurant the guy from black hand was, then the guy killed the archduke
The guy's name is Gavrilo Princip, may the hero rest in peace 🇷🇸
@@JotaroKujo_JJBA Da,Franjo Ferdinand se odmara u miru,dok Gavrilo Princip gori u paklu
@@jokekopter2509 ustaše i ferdinand zajedno čuvaju konje u paklu 😆
Eh bedo, da nije bilo Srba, konjušar bečki bi ti ostao 🇷🇸💪🏻
@@JotaroKujo_JJBA Ja mislim da si se zbunio,Ferdinand se Borio za veča prava Slavena,s Vasa vlada (koja je u paklu) se bojala da će im planovi za velikoj Srbiju uništiti, otišli su i podržavali su teroriste u Bosni.
Dok Franjo Ferdinand je došao na vaš blagdan u Sarajevu,da slavi sa vama,a vi ga ubijete?
Veća je šansa viditi četnike,Karađorđeviće I Vase ratne zločince,nego li dobrodušnog Franju Ferdinanda.
@@JotaroKujo_JJBA usput mi smo sami sebe oslobodili,prije nego li su vam Francuzi i Grci oslobodili Beograd .
SHS je osnovala Hrvatska,ne Srbija.
Austria-hungary: iam declaring war on serbia
Serdia: oh no
Russia: don't worry iam here to help you
Germany: don't even think about it russia
France: i will help you fight germany russia
Germany invades belgium*
UK: hold up
Montenegro was there too declaring war on the Austro-Hungarians on the 7th of August and Germany on the 9th
Switzerland: _Dafuq are they doing over there?_
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Me: triggered cuz u mispelled serbia
UMM DA FUQ
Fun fact: The man driving the archduke's car took a wrong turn, resulting in the murder, so TECHNICALLY, that man is responsible for WWI, WWII, and the Cold war, or pretty much all of modern history (I guess).
It's actually even dumber than that. The original plan was to use bombs, but the 2 of the assassins failed to act, and the third had the bomb bounce away from the Archduke's car, injuring some other people but leaving Franz and Sophie uninjured. After escaping that attempt, they had a very good opportunity to leave or adjust security measures, but decided to to go back out in the same open top car to visit the injured at the hospital. The only security adjustment they made was to decide to avoid the crowded center and adjust the route, but they didn't communicate it to the drivers. So the drivers make a wrong turn, are told to stop and go back, stall the car while trying to do so, and leave Franz a sitting duck in an open top car right in front of one of the assassins, who literally walks up to the car and shoots them at point blank range.
Just a comedy of errors in security planning.
@@e.fideltapiaflores4638 And not only that. There are a bunch of police reports from Austria-Hungary and Serbia that warned that there was a high possibility of an assassination attempt. However, someone at the Viennese court insisted on Ferdinand's arrival in Sarajevo. It should be noted here that Ferdinand was the most hated person at that time in AH for several reasons. I suspect that many people wanted Ferdinand dead in Sarajevo because that way they would kill two birds with one stone.
@@herzog1857 Especially because he didn't marry one of thé Habsburg and decided to marry an maid. The emperor of Austria Hungarian Empire was secretly happy, because his nephew was more usefull dead than alive because he had now a casus beli against Serbia
@@ad3l547 Yep, true. But that's not all. Franz Ferdinand was hated for other reasons as well. For example, he advocated the creation of a triple kingdom, where the third crown would be assigned to the Slavs (most likely to the Croats), but the Hungarians did not want to hear it.
The famous Viennese writer Stefan Zweig writes in the book Yesterday's World that: "In the morning, when the news arrived, everyone was shocked, by noon they were already a little relaxed, while in the evening music played in all Viennese cafes and restaurants, as if nothing had happened, smiling gently, knowing that power will now fall into the hands of the more beloved Prince Karlo".
This is just how the news was received in Vienna, not to mention the Hungarians and others.
@@e.fideltapiaflores4638 this sounds like one of these „Time Traveler: Sneezes“ Memes 🤣
Great video as always! I'd be really interested in countries history. Absolutely amazing portrayal of the story.
Bro i love this so much! Hilarious to watch and will def share with friends!
WW1 was very emotional and full of tragedy, not many was willing to fight any long as the war rage on.
This was an amazing way to show off the first great war Mr.Spherical!
Wow 9 minutes of animation that’s insane! Can’t imagine how long it took to draw it and edit it and congratulations on 1M🥳 keep up the good work! Lots of love from Iceland 🇮🇸
Lesson Of The Story is Don’t Take A Turn
Found you through vlogging through history. Instantly subscribed. Such good content, well done! 👏👏
7:04 Germany: “Nothing personal kid.”
Henry stickman reference
Absolutely amazing portrayal of the story
I agree, historically accurate with a great storyline and message
„I blame my character development“ best line ever😂
5:58 the French are NOT beating the “all French people are badgers in trench coats” allegations any time soon😭
"I blame my character development"
Nein truer words said
@@SpecialWeaponsDalek ok
3:33 *Time Traveller Detected*
😂
best animations ever
I Love How Educational This Is And Entertaining
This is what I call "top tier content". 1M on its way man! Been here since 26k!
I have been here for 23k
Let’s gooo MrSpherical
(Been here since 8k, they grow too fast :(
Really, I only discovered him today and his content is amazing!
i since been here when he had 10k he grew too fast
I love how he used “Well I think I am OVERSIMPLIFYING it too much” as according to the CZcams channel Oversimplified some dude in an open top car went to see the injured officers but assassins were waiting for him, and they killed him on the way back to his house.
Good somebody noticed
Yeah i noticed that
same here
Great job! This animation is awesome!
The fact that this if my favorite AND it was uploaded at my birthday
This went from funny to tearing up.
Awesome work. 😢
Rest in peace all those brave man and woman and children who died in WW1 and them WW2.
do u know empire german still there..
@@blackmoonover7855 what are you talking about
kid watch countryballs and he doesn't know empire german
Bravo Mr. Spherical!!!
You make incredible videos with a different way to tell the past.❤️❤️
Love your videos ❤️ keep it up!!
good edit bro
Mr. spiracle I love your vids
8:06 oh my god they are soo cute aww
love you mr sperichal
My history teacher said Franz Ferdinand stopped in his car to get something to eat and the person who killed him happened to be on the same street. She titled her History lesson as "How a sandwich started the war" lol
That's bs. They tried to turn the car around because they changed the tour plan.
sandwich 😤😤🤮🤢,Serbs would rather eat a kebab or a burek in Sarajevo than sandwich.
Sorry to disappoint, but both stories are not true, at least when it comes to the sandwich. Ferdinand's driver turned into the wrong street, and at the intersection of the street was Princip, who was neither eating nor going to buy a sandwich. However, the story with the sandwich is interesting, although untrue.
@@herzog1857 He was in the right street as far as he was concerned, as nobody remembered to tell him about the change in the route.
Actually the archduke was gonna visit people who were injured on an Assisination attempt on him and the chauffeur took a wrong turn.
Beautiful video
6:44 This is f*** up why did he do the 👉👈
hes just shy
@@spoiler_warningwhy didn't u tell Me you committed 930 war crimes in Belgium?
👉 👈 I'm shy
@@TheHangars.
uhhhh....I just start blasting and I can't remember the rest of the story.
it's very good of you that you did't forget the contribution of Indian soldier's in this war.
Ive always know a lot about Ww1 and WW2. However, this channel always adds knowledge the my mind.
Even if it's about"Russia wanting my internet...."
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so true
If you didn't know how WW1 started, you propably didn't know much about WW1 to begin with.
@@EPICgamer11 No, I do. There just always seems to be more added to my knowledge. For example, I didn't know Britian was in an alliance with Belgium, I thought they were allied with France.
The animation is so good
This is kind of sad but also so good
*_Ottoman Empire left the chat_*
How is this the top comment for me
Everyone else: "Ottoman Empire?!" "What are you doing here?!" Ottoman Empire: "Im here!"
Better
6:59 belgiums voice haha
I am a class 10 student from Kolkata India.. this video is such a life saver and fun. to watch. hats of 2 u MrSpherical
I love how British Raj just teleports to the enemy and punch him to death
And the enemy guy just comes back to listen to the deep emotional story
2:09
Bah! I'm sure to be fine!
*Famous last words*
I’m so happy now serbia is included in MrSpherical videos i have been waiting a long time for Serbia to be included I really hope to see Serbia in more videos
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yeah i was waiting aswell epic
da
Turkey at that time 🗿
Least nationalistic Serbian
I love mr.spherical and @solarballs
0:00 Intro
0:35 Entente & Central Map
1:18 How WW1 Started
2:12 Assasination Of Franz
7:35 Outro
0:26
Hitler: oh you haven't seen anything yet
This is epic. Now we need a "how WW2 began" as a sequel.
WW Part 2*😛
*laughs* oh no…
WW1 began because of ultra-nationalism, imperial competition, and a complex web of alliances that lit the powderkeg.
WW2 began because fascism.
@@user-cx9nc4pj8w and because everyone wanted their land back
@@czerky1091 and ambition for expansion (which mostly did by Italy, Japan, Germany, and Soviet)
The Earth is MrSpherical in shape.
I agree with the ending. War is hell, and a good soldier doesn't want war
3:25 that guy get technology in middle of battlefield
Wish you included ottoman empire (or what was left of it at the time) as well because there are also very silly stories to be told in ottomans joining the war as well. Maybe you can make a seperate video for it for another time ?
"Ottoman Empire,what are you doing here?"
@@Noobmaster386 i hope the ottomans just say 'i dont know' and germany just go to ottomans site and say 'yea ottomans are my friend' but it did not happen sadly its can be very good comedy
I highly recommend this for history.
i love the “dun dun” in the story where a country appears
7:20
That was great! Thank youMr.Spherical for making your videos entertaining and educational!
4:33 - 4:35 Serbia 🇷🇸
5:03 - 5:04 Germany🇩🇪
5:27 - 5:28 Russia🇷🇺
5:58 - 6:00 France🇫🇷
7:01 - 7:02 Belgium🇧🇪
7:22 - 7:25 Britain 🇬🇧
7:37 - 7:38 Italy 🇮🇹
Looks like the ottomans weren't apart of this war
Decent alt history
Great news guys
Gallipoli didn't happen in this timeline
@@maddogbasil The history of Turks is ignored. Just like always. Sad truth.
@@maddogbasil Allie Entente :
1.Britain 🇬🇧
2.France 🇫🇷
3.Serbia 🇷🇸
4.Russia 🇷🇺
5.Italy 🇮🇹
4.Greece 🇬🇷
5.America 🇺🇸
6.Portugal 🇵🇹
7.Romania 🇷🇴
Allie Central :
1.Austria Hungary 🇦🇹 🇭🇺
2.Germany 🇩🇪
3.Bulgaria 🇧🇬
4.Turkish Ottomans 🇹🇷
@@maddogbasil Because they weren’t part of any alliance?
They only joined because the Entente stole their colonies
@@maddogbasil just like bulgaria
8 : 37 im so sad hearing that 😢
I love that Oversimplified reference in the beginning
Honestly this was one of the best videos and unique since most the videos give out a funny humourous vibe and this one a calm and sad vibe
Man! This will be awsome. Thanks MrSpherical for your animations! Im excited for the PWA in the future aswell. I expect Good stuff from you!
Amazing
NICE vid bruuuu!😎💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵
When a MrSpherical video is going to be premiering, you know it’s going to be good
Yes,of course
I feel so bad for that French soldier, he had a wife and even said he'll do his best to survive but then he died. He probably didn't even hear the full story on why the war happened, RIP French soldier :(
2:26 “The smallest one I haven’t met yet, because of the war.” - French Dude
7:46 French Dude dies because of Blood Loss
Poor man didn’t get the chance to go home from the war and meet his one small daughter and his other daughter and wife...
Another thing I need to mention is that you should make a video on why some of the other countries got involved later and why Italy switch sides
This was epic and heart touching video . Well done Mr.Spherical 👏.
Finally!! You drawed turkey first time!! as ottoman empire! Thanks spherical
0:53 I like how Turkey gets a spot in the first like 1 minute for the video even though they don’t get mentioned in later parts of the video.
It was super hilarious when France digged into the palace like it was completely normal
As Serb,ww1 was pretty stupid and lot of lifes were taken :(
But in Serbia we are proud of those who give their lifes for homeland,and freedom that they gave us for their lifes
The war was pretty much innevitable. Europe was a powder keg at the time just waiting to explode
@@Jonqen same as ww2
@@RomaForLife did you start war?
@@sadcatinajar9029 bro you really saying Serbia started the war Austria hungry declare war on Serbia they started it
@@Axrtone500 Its started when a SERBIAN aided by the SERBIAN government killed an AUSTRIAN Archduke.
I absolutely like this video!
Thank you for more information about the beginning of this war!
You should do another one of these videos but for world war two.
Good vid
😥 I hope there's a teacher somewhere using these videos. In fact, I'll use them for home school. My kid is only 7, but these videos are done in such a way that I believe that they will get the point across to someone that young.
Im happy you want to use our content to teach. Our videos are sort of an entry point for many historical moments, so if teachers use our videos to introduce their students to interesting historical subjects, then our mission is succeeding! 🥳
@@MrSpherical It's really hard to find good history videos for younger kids. As a homeschool parent(who finds history VERY important unlike public schools nowadays in the states), I want to make learning fun. Your videos definitely do that!
You're Son/Daughter will be a Historian
@@Footballfans50790 That would be awesome! Gotta another one coming. Hopefully they both will be!
I want to use this video to introduce WWI to my Year 9 students but I am a bit worried about the use of swear words in the video. What do you think?
I think so far this is the best video from MrSpherical really really good.
I am an Australian from Australia 🇦🇺 and g’day mate watching from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
I hate war The reason is that my precious grandpa died. May there be no more wars in this world.
just finished watching it, probably your best 8 min+ videos, so many characters and countries on it, and it was so fun to see the interactions between each country and character. really like how i actually learnt something from this and the overral message of the video, worked super well. good job animators actors and writers, and anyone else who worked on this.
This video was really awesome! It simplifies what really happened, but gives you an idea to how ridiculous it was!
When they all said:WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!
I WAS ROLLING
4:16 alright step grandad I miss your stories from the war
High quality country all content. You are absolutely and always will be awesome! I love the voice acting and how entertaining you make history like, it's really a fun way to educate people like this! So I thank you for making us laugh and feel good.
I didnt Realise at first it was a 9 Minute Video, Great job MrSpherical! Almost at 1 mil!
This dude can make learning history fun.