I finished my school life at the start of march just before the Corona Virus pandemic hit my country (Bangladesh) and pretty much had nothing worthwhile to do. As a student of science, I never got to learn much about world history in the last 2 years. In CZcams, I found this series of Crash Course and out of interest started watching. I've almost finished it within 3 days and am looking forward to watch the other serieses as well. So, I owe huge thank you to the Crash Course family for this brilliant series to make the dangerous situation interesting and educative for me.
Thanks for mentioning that China started resisting in 1931 and took 14 years to finally defeat Japan. It is a kind of interesting. I went to summer school in UCLA last year. There was a Japanese boy, and we became friends. When we talked about WWII, I told him that my grand grand father was killed in the battle against Japanese soldiers. He told me that his grand gtand father was a pilot who was dropping bombs in Chongqing, a city in China. At that moment, we did not have any bad feelings about each other. It is just amazing to see how history goes. Our grand grand father were enemies that tried to kill each other, and we are friends. Thanks for living in a respectively peaceful period.
Adding to the summary reasons for the 2nd World War - A big reason for Japan's attack on the USA was that the US stopped giving the Japanese any oil in the hopes of stopping their attacks in Asia.
I think it was about 90-95% of Japan's oil came from American exports, so they got a a bit upset when America went "I don't like what you're doing in Manchuria, say goodbye to the substance that effectively keeps your nation and the war going". And I'm pretty sure the USA was on the back foot for most of the war until they sunk 3 and heavily damaged 1 Japanese aircraft carrier at midway, which forced Japan to go on the defensive as they couldn't supply enough aircraft in naval battles to dominate the sky.
The Japanese tried to cripple the Americans because they weren't planing to stop their expansion so they tried to buy time to continue expansion without serious American intervention.
@@wyattharr6638 Dude, they didn't just sue for peace. Finland had to give up resource rich territory to the USSR because they couldn't continue fighting the USSR. Sure, the war was humiliating to the Soviets, but they still won and got what they wanted at the end of the day.
The US joining also brought all of the pacific into the war as well. But personally I subscribe to September 1st 1939. Oh and the US joining also brought Japan into the wider war, before that Japan was not at war with the rest of the allies only China. So someone arguing for a 1941 start date has a lot of good points.
Hey I can admit to the shitness of Italy early on. Don't forget the hundreds of thousands of confused Italians holding the Russian steppes straight after Stalingrad.
Popthatskittle He's talking about before WW2. Italy tried to conquer Ethiopia and got their asses kicked. Really quite pathetic to be honest. But after that, the technological difference between the two was just too great. I think I remember seeing something that said Ethiopia had only one or two planes, and those planes were decades old. Not much of a challenge; nor something to brag about.
Question: Why did WW2 start Answer (short): Germany Answer (long): The treaty of Versailles, where France was boss, made german economy crash, giving Shitler the opportunity to rise to power
This isn't true and you'll be hardpressed to find a historian who agrees with this. Sure, back in the day this was a popular opinion thanks to John Maynard Keynes' The Economic Consequences of the Peace, but he wrote that in 1919, before the effects of the treaty could even be seen. The fact is that Germany was better off than France and Belgium in the 1920's. Sure, they had to pay reparations, but these reparations were negotiated down several times by the United States through the Dawes and Young plans. The country itself wasn't completely torn by war like France and Belgium was since the war never reached Germany. You can still find dud artillery shells in France to this day. You'll never find them in Germany. In France, the interwar years are known as The Hollow Years due to how many men died and how ravaged their land was. You'll find no such designation in Germany. The real cause was the lack of knowledge the German public had of the events of the war. They had little idea they were losing the war until Germany surrendered, so many Germans so the sudden surrender as a betrayal by those in power and, of course, already hated minority groups.
@General Ender another reason was because Hitler and Joseph Stalin invaded Poland, and when France and Britain told them to withdrawal they didn't so France and Britain declared war on them.
Because there are two sides to the story. Some argue that it never happened or that the numbers are exaggerated as a part of propaganda. Even though there are massive amount of evidence that support that massacre/rape of Nanking did happen.
It happened, that's impossible to ignore, but the numbers, treatment, and other things are hotly-disputed. Either way, Japanese soldiers did something horrific.
Knight of Apollo My grandfather was beaten by Navy seamen for dressing sharp in Los Angeles during the Ziut Suit riots. He wasn't even Mexican. We are Apache and he served in the Army.
This video did the impossible by doing a decent job at summarizing a war that we all know had many details, twists, and turns. I have only one real complaint: The German military during World War II was not completely aligned with the Nazi Party -only the most fanatical officers and generals were actually Nazis. The average grunt on the front lines or auxiliary support soldier was, for the most part, an average German who wanted to serve his country or got caught up in the war effort. The German military was comprised of many components, but the largest ground force (the Wehrmacht) was a fighting force, not the Nazi party. In fact, some soldiers disagreed with Nazi politics (or were generally disinterested in politics), most notably was General Erwin Rommel who famously defied Hitler at times and is considered by both sides to be one of the greatest soldiers and military minds of the 20th Century. Long story short, to refer to all German military forces as "Nazis" shows a gross over-simplification that I can't overlook as a dedicated historian and as a soldier.
people like to say things like this, but never say similar things about the characterization of all Russian troops as communist. In the end the just following orders line of thought falls pretty flat if you accept things like free will.
Alex Riner Both the Germans & Soviets in ww2 had large numbers of fanatics who's sole job was to execute anybody who did not follow orders (& they did it with a vengance!) which kind of takes away the concept of "free will" wouldn't you say? Or would you say "no I won't do that because I don't believe it's right" with a machine gun aimed at you? Because if you did that, I would say well done & bye bye & get on with the job, or you could always blow your own brains out & make it quick. If you don't believe this happened, just do some very basic research!
mickeydiver17 There is great evidence to show (at least for the German side only) that consciousness objectors to genocide or murder were not penalized within the ranks. If a German solider couldn't or wouldn't commit war crimes he was generally assigned to a neutral or unrelated duty and that was generally the end of it. They didn't want the "uncommitted" on the forefront of their ideology -if you were a concentration camp guard or otherwise personally involved in these atrocities you were definitely part of the dedicated who subscribed to Nazi ideals. The Nazi leadership did realize that duties related to mass-murder started to mentally wear on the troops who were doing these things, which caused the Germans to initiate efforts to take the personal aspect out of the killing. They moved away from shooting people and started leaning towards gassing people, first in trucks then in "showers" and so on -this was in an effort to be efficient but also to take the mental strain off their guys. By taking these measures they got less objectors and those who wanted to do it took less of a personal toll in doing so. This only applies to the German predicament -the Soviet Union was an entirely other aspect and they absolutely had people who's sole job was to weed out and kill those who didn't fall in line and do as they were ordered. Everybody talks about the Holocaust, as we rightfully should, but people fail to mention the atrocities committed by Japan and the Soviet Union on its own people -which, numerically speaking, were far worse. This is just one major component to the overall debate about how much the German military and populace really knew about the Holocaust -and I don't think that can truly be answered with a "one size fits all" answer.
Well many peoples, civilisations or how you want to call it have done some sort of murdering particular people, e.g. There were 2 great Persecutions against christians. Its nothing new The thing is that the germans did it with such cruel precision and took it to a new level considering number of deaths in a timespan
I remember watching this and many **MANY** other CrashCorse videos when I was in middle and high school. These actually got me somewhat interested in the class because of how fun they were. Crazy to believe is, and many other videos from this channel by John Green, are 10 years old now
CZcams age-restricting this video should be a crime, because these videos are taught in schools. We're being deprived of education by "Community Guidelines", even though we're supposed to watch this.
When mentioning death counts I’m curious why you didn’t mention that Poland lost over 6 million citizens (about half of them were Jewish but the other half weren’t), amounting to about 19% of it’s pre-war population.
To be fair, this is for American high school students trying to graduate high school with college credits. He's only teaching what they need to know to get an A+
Omer Luxy Actually, this is just someone proving how great crash course is. Everyone care or should care whether or not what they are watching is a waste of time or not. Besides, its the comment section. No one cares that no one cares :/ If you're reading the comments, you sure care so shut your trap. Good day sir~
Its not pronounced Luftwaffa....Its pronounced "luft vaffa"...In German, the "w" makes a "v" sound...Luft means "air", and waffe means "weapon". Also, Japan and Russian never actually signed an official peace treaty, so technically, world war 2 is still going on between Japan and Russia.
ImTheWaffleman true......but the countries that were once part of the soviet union are at war with what was the "empire of japan"..which is still japan.
My grandfather fought in the Pacific theater on the USS Missouri, and my great-grandfather fought in the European theater. He liberated the concentration camps, and he wasn't the same for 20 years after the war.
1. Screw You. 2. If it was not for the men like my grandfather and great-grandfather who fought in war and the women who worked in the factories, we would all be speaking German or Japanese.
The comments section is full of angry corrections accusing John of being insensitive. These videos are supposed to be simple and quick for kids like me to understand.
Flower Girl To simplify understanding of complex subjects inevitably leads to misunderstanding and incorrect beliefs. It is especially dreadful for a kid to realize this when they were taught that the truth about a war that lasted many years is something so simple that it can be summed up within a 13 minute video. In reality, historians have spent these last 70+ years examining and reinterpreting ww2, and there are still people arguing not about little corrections, but massive ideological beliefs that surround this war, a war that is essentially still being fought to this day. In the same way that ww1 led to ww2, ww2 led to all the wars afterward including the fighting happening this very day. In other words, ww2 is anything but simple or quick, and this video is a disservice to humans everywhere, especially when it is targeted at kids, like you say.
the Truth is Beautiful I highly agree with your statement. I think that many problems in today's world are caused by a lack of understanding, an impatience that inevitably leads to conflict rather than peace. I wish people would just talk more, it would help a lot. My only disagreement is like Flower Girl said, this is a video for kids to help us with a class or a particular chapter. it's meant to give the facts so we do well on a test, and enteratin us as well. It is everyone's responsibility to better understand and interpret these events on our own if we are to better understand the world we live in. It's not the first time we've mbeen misinformed either, I was taught that Columbus was a awesome guy who discovered America (I'm paraphrasing of course), and that there are no such things as negative numbers (Or negative even roots of numbers, stupid i). It's a lot of complicated details, too much for kids to comprehend all at once. It's easier to misinform them at first and slowly clarify as the years go on.
LOL, if you ask me, absolutely! as a token of good will, we can had to the mix Nickleback and Celine Dion! we are so generous ;-) we keep Rush though...
Jeerender Chauhan Yup as many as 2 million Indians fought in the British Indian Army, but they were just a colony so I guess, just like Canada and SA, they aren't mentioned too much. The Burma Campaign was important though, and Anzacs are defiantly overrated.
@@kostantinos2297 India was one of the reasons that Britain could fight a large World War due to the resources we got from India without India winning the war would have been more difficult
Russia is the successor and most of the population was Russian and the capital was in Russia. It's like how most British people are considered English because England is the largest and most powerful of the UK.
***** The USSR was a country of countries the biggest and more powerful one was Russia. You're leaving out Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, the Baltic States, Kazakhstan and others. .
Because it wasnt a World War without America??? The Term World War is All the Major Nations Fighting and America wasnt fighting at that time so Technically it was a World War Yet.
gabe johnson Canada declared war 2 years before the US so that argument doesn't quite work. Unless you say that Canada doesn't make America count but then I will argue Europe wasn't in the world war because Switzerland never declared war
i think it because we we the last big entree in the war and we kinda did a lot look at maps of germany before america got there they kinda already on and if it wasnt japan it would all be germany
The US is much stronger and has always been stronger. Saying canadians won the war of 1812 is like saying the US won the 7 years war. Neither were a country at the time.
xDrummerJx If you truly believe that's what Mexican immigrants are doing, or that it has any appreciable effect on the economy, or, MOST IMPORTANTLY, there aren't WAY better things to spend than money on, then only a FOOL would vote for Trump!
On a scale of 1 to 10, (10 being the highest) I rate your video an 8. Your one ENORMOUS problem is that, you don't discuss World War I. You simply cannot discuss the 'causes' of WWII without delving into WWI. Now that I've said that... For everyone reading this: After Germany lost WWI the entire country was destroyed economically, and had rules placed on it so that it could never again build itself. This caused the common people of Germany, to get pissed off. The air was ripe for someone like Hitler to come in and cause an uprising.
If you were to list all the causes of World War One, it would probably by about 300 pages long. The list of causes for World War Two can be summed up with "World War One".
Hayrettin Çağman UYSAL WW1 is "Greater Israel"? You mean, the annexiation of Palestine from a muslim empire by a christian one? Legit stupidity is legit.
Jews were there only the Israel wasn't existed they jews are purchasing those lands they are doing it right know too they are purchasing the lands where isis captured for a very low price its simple as that
I want to add this too in the last 3500 years there is only 230 years passed without any war technology is better these days so i would recommend y'all too get prepared for a war but you must chose your side wisely
You have it half right. The German branch of Coca-cola couldn't continue making products, as the war effort heavily restricted the company's access to supplies. So, they tried experimenting, to create a popular drink out of the limited resources they had. After some trial and error, Fanta was born. Fanta is short for Fantasia (Fantasy in English).
Ivan Katlianik I mean we have Canadian teams also have been trying to introduce American football to the U.K. And Europe by playing football (American foootball) games in London Its just that the rest of the world doesn't seem to interests in American sports like baseball and football well at least the eastern hemisphere
I love how you wanted to make your comment more relevant by saying a percentage that was less than 50% lol. It's ok, we get your point, but you don't need to lie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Ethnic_groups It's a little bit more than 51%. But I agree, this isn't like a company's shares, the one who has the most, doesn't own it.
Because Russia was the main country. The majority of the UDDSR countries didn't want to belong to the the Soviet Union. They were forced by Russia. That's why it fell apart so fast around 1990.
Hayden Snauwaert If im not mistaken Canada was a part of the brithis empire back then and it still the same land i mean before 1830 Belgium was not independent yet but the land was there names maybe changed If so then sorry in de old age Belgium was Just the lower contries so i dont know about Canada but im pretty sure it was part of the brithis and i think they did not hate them so much as the americans did
Britain &France declared war on Germany two days after German aggression toward Poland. Both countries agreed to support Poland but Hitler did not care so he attacked Poland on Sept 1, 1939. Consequently WW2 was underway.
Mary Jean Jones Thanks for the comment, but that’s not the cause. To be fair, a CZcams video on the causes of WWII should probably be it’s own, separate production. But to put it VERY simply, Germany got economically, militarily, and territorially screwed by the treaty of WWI. As their nation began to decline into a horrible state of no hope, the people were desperate for some sign of a positive future for Germany. Combined with the rise and “success” of Italian facism and a man like reltiH flodA (he doesn’t deserve respect of naming) you get the Nazi Party winning over these desperate people. The pride of Germany began to grow again, and with it a strong desire to reclaim the territory it lost a generation earlier. Then the fact that England and France wanted NOTHING to do with another major war in Europe their leaders sat on their hands while reltiH rebuilt the military (German military history and prowess over a 150 years made that rebuilding much easier). By the time the socialist and facist shitheads rearmed their nation there wasn’t a lot any nation could do to prevent another WW. 😞 I know there a LOT of other factors that play into the cause of WWII, but I think this kinda sums it. Maybe?
Princess Nakoruru No, I was agreeing with you. I meant "you" to refer to someone who might think WWII started at Pearl Harbour because they're an American
Research him you Will find out that he was t a bad guy, he never invaded he was liberating Germans, and the holocaust research it more evidence of religion
My grandfather was an Indian soldier for British Army in ww2...He used to tell the stories of air strikes and encounters with many snakes in jungles.He passed away in 2014 at the age of 94.
“Taking land but killing the people that lived there”. Sounds a lot like what the US did to the native Americans. Yet you hear no one talking about that.
TelevisedPork what? so many people talk about it, people even want to remove thanksgiving as a holiday bc of that. And it didn’t even happen. The Europeans came and organized trades and negotiations with the natives and gained land that way. They started fighting for Manhattan bc of a misunderstanding. The natives thought the Euros were renting the land, but the British thought they owned the land. Then the natives got mad and started fighting and the British retaliated. It was very equal. Even in South America, the Europeans came over and saw the disgusting things that were happening (such as ripping out the heart of an unwilling victim and sacrificing them to the sun gods) and rallied natives (who didn’t like having their hearts ripped out) in order to end the terror and win the land. The natives were very willing to help the white people in order to escape the horrifying place. Later on there were more battles, and terrible acts were committed from both sides and the Europeans won. And then the Europeans were horrible (with things like the residential schools and slavery, which undoubtably is disgusting) but the “taking land but killing the people that lived there” didn’t happen. They got land fairly, lived in peace for a while, then there was war.
The "Keep calm and carry on" poster was not officially released in WW2 since it was intended to be distributed if the Nazis actually staged an invasion. The posters lay forgotten in a MoD warehouse until they were discovered in 2000 and became popular.
I really enjoy John's closing monologue about how the pinnacle of Western Civilization and our ideas of a progressive society isn't immune to the savagery of human nature. It scares me to see just how civility, egalitarianism, and humanitarianism are walking a thin line between cruelty, brutality, and viciousness. This is what I love about history because it teaches us the lessons of past mistakes and it allows us never forget the hardships others had to face in order for us to be where we are today.
Or the nuclear bombing from the US to end the war as a desperate attempt to prevent further manpower loss from both sides. Tl:dr There is no good in war, no matter how "justifiable" an own country might proclaim. The further it lasts, the greater the desperation of soldiers, generals, civials is, which prompt them into commiting horrible acts.
It's because just after helping the British they were inmidiately flooded by German and Italian inmigrants, that industrialized the country and generated a huge grown in population but didn't recieve any punishments for their actions at war.
+Franco Vázquez Ancebou Yeah. It pisses me off that they always forget that South America is an actual part of the world and shares its history. Brazil and Argentina are interesting cases to analyse when talking about WWII, because they attempted neutrality, because its governments were actually sympathetic towards Germany and because USA kinda bought their alliance, kinda forced them into war siding the Allies. Brazil actually sent troops to Italy and fought major air battles. No one talks about.
+Franco Vázquez Ancebou American historians tend to forget all other nations of WW-II and other conflicts where they've had plenty of necessary help. They even quickly forgot that without the North American Indians they'd never have won their War of Independence against England. They also conveniently forget the help they had from the French during the War Between The States; without which the North could never have won and held the nation together.
Well, it could have been considered that because America's entree brought all of the World's Major powers into the war. ( i dont think it did, but this could be a reason.)
kingofzero100 I don't think so, or that would give indefinite times to every single war in human history. With such logic World War I could have lasted only 1 year, or been two wars, given the USA's late entry and Russia's early exit. Unlike the question whether the war truly started with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, or the German invasion of Poland, the American entree added no theatre to the war to make the 'world' part complete.
World War 2 started in 1941 if you were an American. Not much to it. Just like Europeans would say 1939 because of the invasion of Poland. Or Chinese would say 1937 because of the second Sino-Japanese war.
Ariminua The Chinese don't say that though, generally the Chinese judge the war to have started in 1939. When global conflict broke out. The war may have started _for_ an American in 1941, but the war did not start in 1941 - two completely different things.
It isnt really like that. Nowadays there are historians that write history. They compare events and they get to a logical conlussion that (of course) is based on the events. As for the past, I couldnt agree with you more, but all of that has been corrected today.
All four of my grandparents lived under Stalin. My paternal grandfather was eighteen when Stalin died on March 5th, 1953. He remembers how Malenkov was the pallbearer at Stalin's funeral. He also remembers Molotov's speech, the one where he said; ''Our Great Comrade Stalin has left us. Our dear friend, our wise teacher, our affectionate father has left this world.'' Stalin was a god to my grandparents. It was only in 1956, when Khrushchev made his secret speeches that began De-Stalinization that they learned that Stalin was just a man. However, they still believed Lenin was a god until Perestroika in 1987.
The German forces occupied Rome, but you cannot really call this a "conquering". It was more a reaction on the Italian traitors or hang Benito and started attacking the German forces trying to defend their country against the allied invadors.
Once North Africa was lost to the Allies Germany retreated across the Med to Italy. The Allies' plan was to open another front in Italy, with the British using their naval superiority and air forces stationed on Malta to move troops and supplies across. The Italians they captured almost entirely gave no fucks about Mussolini and so they believed the Italians would welcome them. The Germans reacted, as allowing Italy to fall would open a Southern Front right on their border, all while the Reds were pushing hard from the East, and an ever-present threat of a Western front from the Allies loomed. They captured all Italian personnel and materiel, annexing the country. There are many reports of Italians being found chained to their machinegun positions as they simply did not want to fight on Mussolini or Germany's behalf. The Germans saw them as fodder. Look up Operation Asche and the Massacre of the Acqui. Italy was effectively a hostage/slave country of Germany by this point, and German soldiers executed any who didn't follow their orders. Ultimately the Allies broke through, Mussolini was dragged through the streets of Rome then executed. The Italians eventually got their country back, but the Southern Front was stalled long enough that first the Eastern then the Western front reached Berlin first.
Yes. Italy betrayed Germany. Every country would have acted the way Germany did. It was the only possible way they left to the Germans. Italy opened several fronts and failed there, leaving it up to Germany to "tide them up". Then when Mussolini's power in Italy started to become weaker and weaker the Germans logically had to react, in order not to lose Italy as an ally. They took over most parts of Italy and fortified themselves there. Until the end of the war, the Western allues did not manage to capture all of Italy and only in Spring 1945 they managed to build a bridgehead on the eastern side of the river Rhine. So, Germany did not "invade" or "steal" Italy, they only reminded them that they entered the war on the Axis side and cannot just "switch sides" whenever the war changes its course. Also, don't forget that at that time, there existed two "Italies", one facist and one communist part. Each of them fighting against the other, one lead by the communists and one lead by Mussolini. Mussolini still had several houndreds of thousands of men on his side, helping the Germans to defend their country against the Allied invadors. The term "liberation" does not really fit there.
The commonwealth victory in north africa cut the axis off from limitless resources and control of the Mediterranean. What does that mean? Germany and Italy would never accomplish Mare Nostrum and cemented their defeat. ANZAC-Commonwealth for the win~
he didnt, he invaded russia during the summer hoping they will fall before the winter. "knock down the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down" - Hitler
And it might even have worked if not for the Balkans campaign which delayed the attack on the Soviet Union for a few crucial weeks which, at the end of the year, fouled conditions for the battle for Moscow, which, while not necessarily breaking all resistance, might have seriously reshaped what the rest of the war could have looked like.
Invading russia in the winter isn't the problem. Invading russia unprepared for the winter is the problem. Also the winter of 1941, lucky for the russians, happened to be on record as the coldest fuckin winter russia has seen in the last few hundred years.
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It's probably because he knows that the Treaty of Versailles has long been misaligned by people as a primary cause of World War 2, when it truly wasn't. He points out that World War 2 was caused by a multitude of factors, but one reason he emphasizes as a major cause of the war was expansionism.
theonlylampshade Germany fell into what is probably the greatest economic depression a nation has ever seen thanks to the extremely unfair terms of the Treaty of Versailles, and you say it is not to blame? You could argue that was not a direct reason, since when Hitler comes to power he restores Germany's economy in what was seen as an "economic miracle". But its not like the Germans had forgotten what was done to them.
It's an old video by now, but that last part, about the horrors of WW2, was a very, very powerful statement. I can only hope that more teachers are as good as you are here at conveying how terrible war is. Thank you.
The "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster although created in the early war years for the UK home front ir was never officially used. IIRC it was intended to used if we had been invaded.
ITS JOHN FRICKING GREEN OH MY LORD. I was talking about his novels and my friend was like, he does a crash course in history and I didn’t even believe it.
Emmet Stuart technically it was the Soviet Union and The Japanese Empire that were at war.... the USSR collapsed and became Russia, and Imperial Japan has become a pretty much different country as it is not anything as it was before. Technically two enemies were still at war, but neither of those enemies exist anymore, so there is just a void
Technically, after se S.U. disolution, Russia inherit all its international relationships and obligations, as the State of Japan would do after the end of the Empire. But I guess there was not need for a silly Armistice since the US got the job done
Yes they did sign a peace treaty, and ended the war in the early 1950's, just later there was a dispute over who controls the Kuril Islands, mainly the southernmost ones, and those did not appear on the treaty signed.
Mathew DiGirolamo I wouldn't say that Canadians hate Americans. We just strive for our own identity separate from America. A lot of people view Canada as "Americas Hat", and that's what Canadians dislike. Not America as a whole.
Everyone should watch Hellstorm and Europa on Bitchute for more history. The Balfour Declaration was not mentioned in this one and it played a major role. Question everything!
WWII has a large number of "starting dates" and any one of them are valid, but I feel that WWII started immediately after WWI ended with the Paris Peace Conference, and the Treaty of Versailles. Of course this means that the 2 Wars are tied together, and WWI's origins are a lot more complicated.
Yes. Some people even call the time from 1914 to 1945 the "second Thirty Year´s War" . With all the revolutions after WW1 and the economic crisis, the civil wars in China and Spain, the japanese-chinese war etc. , that´s really a germane (not "german" ... that would be "zweiter Dreissig-Jähriger Krieg" ;-) ) name for that period.
World War 1 was a massive contributing factor to the war, that being said when Germany lost World War 1 the treaty of Versailles was created stopping Germany from starting another war and to pay back what damages Germany had caused. This treaty caused anger in Germany letting Hitler come in to power as you said. Another contributing factor to the beginning of World War 2 was the failure of the League of Nations. Also the failure of appeasement also had a massive contributing factor to the cause of Word war 2. Lloyd George from England, Orlando from Italy, Clemenceau from France and Woodrow Wilson from the US all came together in 1919 after the war to discuss how Germany should pay for this war. They eventually decided to declare a treaty called the treaty of Versailles. France wanted to get revenge on Germany that made the treaty unfair on Germanys behalf. The terms of the treaty where that Germany had to accept the blame for World War 1 they also had to pay for the damages that where caused in World War one which in this case was 6,600 million pounds. Germany also was not allowed to have a big army where they could only have six naval ships. No tanks, no air force and no submarines, Rhineland was also to be de-militarized. Being extremely harsh the people of Germany where very angry at the government which lead to Hitler’s rise to power. Once Hitler came to power he immediately began secretly building up the army. Although France and England where aware of these actions they did nothing to stop Hitler. Hitler then decided to enter Rhineland, which supposedly should have been de-militarized, but France and England did nothing since they did not want to start another war. German land was taken away from Germany in the treaty of Versailles so Hitler's next step was to take this land back. Hitler invaded the land the Austria had taken away successfully yet France and England still did nothing to stop Hitler although they could because Hitler's army was still small and vulnerable. Hitler promised that the part that Austria took away from Germany was the last of Hitler's expansions. Hitler did not keep his word and invaded the sudentland region of Czechoslovakia. Britain not wanting to start a war met with Hitler to reach an agreement that would prevent the war. Eventually they came to an agreement after three meetings that Hitler could have the sudentland region of Czechoslovakia. Hitler again did not keep his promise and invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia. Although Hitler did not keep his promise England and France still took no military action. England and France warned Hitler that if he where to invade Poland they would take military action against Hitler. On the 1st of September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland in result the beginning of World War 2. France and England both saw that the treaty of Versailles was unjust and unfair on Germany, which saw Hitler's actions to be understandable. The main reason France and England didn’t stop Hitler's action to build up the German army was because they thought that Germany had a right to re-arm and defend themselves. In September 1938 the Munich agreement of appeasement was created to stop Germany from claiming more territory. Czechoslovakia was not invited to attend the creation of appeasement in which they had felt betrayed by France and England. Appeasement in 1938 is often viewed as a great war to solve war with negotiation and not war. Although Hitler broke this appeasement by invading the rest of Czechoslovakia and the appeasement had failed. England and France was not prepared for a war and instead they decided to say if Germany was to invade Poland a war would star which they eventually did.
I'm german and thats the reason for the war in my opinion. We got robed and the allied cut of our nuts^^. The reason for the extermination of the jews was the bad situation of our economy. The german starved while the german jews controlled the banks and high positions of financial things. Invading poland just happened because they massacred germans in the lost territories. Taking all from the defeated was (for me) the biggest MISTAKE in human history. After the WWII we just repeat history because the allied stayed here for a long time. We still haven't got official peace contracts with the warwinners. The USA still have much to many rights over german territory. But we made it again. Being a superior power in europe.
My great grandfather fought in world war two. He just turned 101 this year and is still going strong.
Fair play to him👌
What country was he a soldier of?
Turtle Man Canada
TheShaleco and thats why canada can punch a Nazi in the face and get knocked out in less than a second.
Wow thats very cool :-D
I never thought I would be given a history lesson by the guy who gave us The Fault In Our Stars...
+Olivia Montemayer HAHA! That's actually him?! I never made the connection^^
I always thought there were 2 John Greens
+Flying Spectacles other one is Hank Green
Jajo No, I meant I thought the guy who wrote the book was a different John Green then the one on this channel, I am aware of Hank.
+WorldTripGirl John Green proves that he wrote The Fault In Our Stars in crash course literature.
It all started with a rejection from an art school.
@Anthony Olivera Hitler was rejected from an art school.
@Anthony Olivera Already did :)
I got what you meant, where Hitler was being kicked out in a art school, hahahahaha
@Anthony Olivera yeah and that is what we meant, I guess you did not realize it
Can ppl not jus get a joke?
I finished my school life at the start of march just before the Corona Virus pandemic hit my country (Bangladesh) and pretty much had nothing worthwhile to do. As a student of science, I never got to learn much about world history in the last 2 years. In CZcams, I found this series of Crash Course and out of interest started watching. I've almost finished it within 3 days and am looking forward to watch the other serieses as well. So, I owe huge thank you to the Crash Course family for this brilliant series to make the dangerous situation interesting and educative for me.
Good for you. I'm glad you managed to take a major hardship and turn it into an opportunity to learn.
@@dinohall2595 thank you
Crash course is truly amazing, I'm in the UK and have just been blitzing them as well
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@Xitlalic Chavez Valencia Already subscribed, they are brilliant
Thanks for mentioning that China started resisting in 1931 and took 14 years to finally defeat Japan.
It is a kind of interesting. I went to summer school in UCLA last year. There was a Japanese boy, and we became friends. When we talked about WWII, I told him that my grand grand father was killed in the battle against Japanese soldiers. He told me that his grand gtand father was a pilot who was dropping bombs in Chongqing, a city in China. At that moment, we did not have any bad feelings about each other. It is just amazing to see how history goes. Our grand grand father were enemies that tried to kill each other, and we are friends. Thanks for living in a respectively peaceful period.
“An alliance that would stand the test of time until like 3 seconds after the defeat of the Nazis” 😂🔥
It's like literally true
Top ten april fools pranks that went WAY TOO FAR
It's true
The beginning of the cold war
imagine having android emojis lol
Thanks, we appreciate the shoutout!
-Canada
I am also a Canadian!!
We do indeed
Ahh si, mi hermanos
Canada for the win!
yall are so nice
my teacher: watch this video and fill out a worksheet!
me, scrolling through the comments:
BUT IT'S JOHN GREENN!! John Green is amazingg!!
Adding to the summary reasons for the 2nd World War - A big reason for Japan's attack on the USA was that the US stopped giving the Japanese any oil in the hopes of stopping their attacks in Asia.
to add, the US was (i beleive) the single largest exporter of oil in the world, producing way more than it consumed
I think it was about 90-95% of Japan's oil came from American exports, so they got a a bit upset when America went "I don't like what you're doing in Manchuria, say goodbye to the substance that effectively keeps your nation and the war going". And I'm pretty sure the USA was on the back foot for most of the war until they sunk 3 and heavily damaged 1 Japanese aircraft carrier at midway, which forced Japan to go on the defensive as they couldn't supply enough aircraft in naval battles to dominate the sky.
You are right.
The Japanese tried to cripple the Americans because they weren't planing to stop their expansion so they tried to buy time to continue expansion without serious American intervention.
yea, you are right, they are trying to expand their empire to Southeast Asia and Australia but worried of the American interference.
Wow thanks for that 1.5 seconds mate!
Helljumper 21175-12121-TM nice boomerang
*sentences
Madonnatron Aussies are like honey badgers WE DONT GIVE A F***
Wow, someone needs a fresh tampon.
Looking back on this comment I do seem angry but I'm really not. "it's just game why you have to be mad?"
Man I wish John Green was my History teacher.
Crash corse: nobody beats russia in winter besides the mongals
Finland: am i a joke to you?
overheated potado boy didn’t beat them
@@jacklowe74 they sued for peace whatever, they won
@@jacklowe74 it was embarrassing for the Russians.
@@wyattharr6638 Dude, they didn't just sue for peace. Finland had to give up resource rich territory to the USSR because they couldn't continue fighting the USSR. Sure, the war was humiliating to the Soviets, but they still won and got what they wanted at the end of the day.
@@wojtekthebear4958 finland won our hearts
Why would people assume that WW2 started when America joined at '41? That's stupid.
WasabiPie:P Because from that point all continents were at war. Before 1941 it wasn't a real ''world'' war.
No Canada joined at the very beginning. It's part of NA.
The US joining also brought all of the pacific into the war as well. But personally I subscribe to September 1st 1939.
Oh and the US joining also brought Japan into the wider war, before that Japan was not at war with the rest of the allies only China. So someone arguing for a 1941 start date has a lot of good points.
I agree, well. Since I'm Canadian, not American.
Steven Winters yup the fighting in China was a separate war
Guys don't let this video distract you from the fact that Italy lost to Ethiopia
Ethiopia was a strong country in 19th century. During that war, it was also supported by France and Russia. But facts are too boring, am I right?
But like everyone else also lost to Ethiopia
Sticks are stronger than pasta noodles
Hey I can admit to the shitness of Italy early on. Don't forget the hundreds of thousands of confused Italians holding the Russian steppes straight after Stalingrad.
Popthatskittle He's talking about before WW2. Italy tried to conquer Ethiopia and got their asses kicked. Really quite pathetic to be honest. But after that, the technological difference between the two was just too great. I think I remember seeing something that said Ethiopia had only one or two planes, and those planes were decades old. Not much of a challenge; nor something to brag about.
Question: Why did WW2 start
Answer (short): Germany
Answer (long): The treaty of Versailles, where France was boss, made german economy crash, giving Shitler the opportunity to rise to power
General Ender 😂 i died ‘shitler’
This isn't true and you'll be hardpressed to find a historian who agrees with this. Sure, back in the day this was a popular opinion thanks to John Maynard Keynes' The Economic Consequences of the Peace, but he wrote that in 1919, before the effects of the treaty could even be seen. The fact is that Germany was better off than France and Belgium in the 1920's. Sure, they had to pay reparations, but these reparations were negotiated down several times by the United States through the Dawes and Young plans. The country itself wasn't completely torn by war like France and Belgium was since the war never reached Germany. You can still find dud artillery shells in France to this day. You'll never find them in Germany.
In France, the interwar years are known as The Hollow Years due to how many men died and how ravaged their land was. You'll find no such designation in Germany. The real cause was the lack of knowledge the German public had of the events of the war. They had little idea they were losing the war until Germany surrendered, so many Germans so the sudden surrender as a betrayal by those in power and, of course, already hated minority groups.
@General Ender another reason was because Hitler and Joseph Stalin invaded Poland, and when France and Britain told them to withdrawal they didn't so France and Britain declared war on them.
Shitler😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@wojtekthebear4958 damn man nice explanation
shoutout to the homies that are watching these for the ap world history test lmao
Brandon Luu LMAO
eyyyy
it is tomorrow... RIP
thx
Nathan Sam 2021 bro it’s literally on my birthday UGHHHHH
(Angry comment about his use of the word slaughter)
hahahahahahahahah slaughter
This was what I was looking for
i legit paused the video lookin for this comment
@@rusandifernando2580 HAHAHAHA SAME
Hahaha you can't slaughter without laughter
As a canadian, I appreciate the time you put into your videos to talk about us!
Who's watching this because their teacher made them due to coronavirus?
Edit: Well RIP the AP is over. Thanks for the likes guys
Pretty much yes and also because it isn't very Euro-centric like what I am taught.
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Good luck to everyone taking that AP World History exam tomorrow! Y’all got this. 👍🏼
thanks, hope you do well : ) you can do it!
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Im gonna need that luck😖
Thanks but this is what I get for cramming
Nice try but I already got a -1 even though I haven't taken it.
thanks for the shoutout but please don't mention Justin Beiber
+I Just Watch more of a P!nk fan really.
+Raymond Gao oh yeah
+Raymond Gao Anyone else realize how true it is that we are just happy to be mentioned even if made fun of.
This is 4 years from now that's when Justin was "big"
+Chace Smith (ESF) True. Canadians like anything that just mentions us.
Why was "slaughter" such a taboo word? It's pretty much what they did.
its not, its the topic that is controversial, at least to stupid right wing nationalists in japan.
Because there are two sides to the story. Some argue that it never happened or that the numbers are exaggerated as a part of propaganda. Even though there are massive amount of evidence that support that massacre/rape of Nanking did happen.
It happened, that's impossible to ignore, but the numbers, treatment, and other things are hotly-disputed. Either way, Japanese soldiers did something horrific.
Matthew Messerly Nanking isn't covered in Japanese schools.
Kennan Dunn Same as the Bengal Famine, Bombing of Dresden and the failed Norway offensive aren't taught in British schools.
Cheers for the 1.5 seconds mate
- An Australian
I’m here trying to finish all my work that I procrastinated on.
He's my grandfathers story: he was a cook and people threw stuff at him.
The end
Knight of Apollo My grandfather watched the Swedish border for Nazi's with a rifle but not for long because we allied with the Nazi's.
Here's a story too: My grandfather was involved in The Raping Of Nanking.
Ironically, after the war a group of gay chinese men circlejerked around him.
Knight of Apollo
My grandfather was beaten by Navy seamen for dressing sharp in Los Angeles during the Ziut Suit riots. He wasn't even Mexican. We are Apache and he served in the Army.
No soup 4 u
This video did the impossible by doing a decent job at summarizing a war that we all know had many details, twists, and turns. I have only one real complaint:
The German military during World War II was not completely aligned with the Nazi Party -only the most fanatical officers and generals were actually Nazis. The average grunt on the front lines or auxiliary support soldier was, for the most part, an average German who wanted to serve his country or got caught up in the war effort. The German military was comprised of many components, but the largest ground force (the Wehrmacht) was a fighting force, not the Nazi party. In fact, some soldiers disagreed with Nazi politics (or were generally disinterested in politics), most notably was General Erwin Rommel who famously defied Hitler at times and is considered by both sides to be one of the greatest soldiers and military minds of the 20th Century. Long story short, to refer to all German military forces as "Nazis" shows a gross over-simplification that I can't overlook as a dedicated historian and as a soldier.
people like to say things like this, but never say similar things about the characterization of all Russian troops as communist. In the end the just following orders line of thought falls pretty flat if you accept things like free will.
Alex Riner Both the Germans & Soviets in ww2 had large numbers of fanatics who's sole job was to execute anybody who did not follow orders (& they did it with a vengance!) which kind of takes away the concept of "free will" wouldn't you say? Or would you say "no I won't do that because I don't believe it's right" with a machine gun aimed at you? Because if you did that, I would say well done & bye bye & get on with the job, or you could always blow your own brains out & make it quick. If you don't believe this happened, just do some very basic research!
someone threatening violence has no impact on free will.
mickeydiver17 There is great evidence to show (at least for the German side only) that consciousness objectors to genocide or murder were not penalized within the ranks. If a German solider couldn't or wouldn't commit war crimes he was generally assigned to a neutral or unrelated duty and that was generally the end of it. They didn't want the "uncommitted" on the forefront of their ideology -if you were a concentration camp guard or otherwise personally involved in these atrocities you were definitely part of the dedicated who subscribed to Nazi ideals.
The Nazi leadership did realize that duties related to mass-murder started to mentally wear on the troops who were doing these things, which caused the Germans to initiate efforts to take the personal aspect out of the killing. They moved away from shooting people and started leaning towards gassing people, first in trucks then in "showers" and so on -this was in an effort to be efficient but also to take the mental strain off their guys. By taking these measures they got less objectors and those who wanted to do it took less of a personal toll in doing so. This only applies to the German predicament -the Soviet Union was an entirely other aspect and they absolutely had people who's sole job was to weed out and kill those who didn't fall in line and do as they were ordered. Everybody talks about the Holocaust, as we rightfully should, but people fail to mention the atrocities committed by Japan and the Soviet Union on its own people -which, numerically speaking, were far worse.
This is just one major component to the overall debate about how much the German military and populace really knew about the Holocaust -and I don't think that can truly be answered with a "one size fits all" answer.
Well many peoples, civilisations or how you want to call it have done some sort of murdering particular people, e.g. There were 2 great Persecutions against christians. Its nothing new
The thing is that the germans did it with such cruel precision and took it to a new level considering number of deaths in a timespan
I remember watching this and many **MANY** other CrashCorse videos when I was in middle and high school. These actually got me somewhat interested in the class because of how fun they were. Crazy to believe is, and many other videos from this channel by John Green, are 10 years old now
CZcams age-restricting this video should be a crime, because these videos are taught in schools. We're being deprived of education by "Community Guidelines", even though we're supposed to watch this.
As a Canadian, I appreciate all your comments and hope that your mittens keep you warm through the winter. Also, great video as always!
When mentioning death counts I’m curious why you didn’t mention that Poland lost over 6 million citizens (about half of them were Jewish but the other half weren’t), amounting to about 19% of it’s pre-war population.
More than 6 million (over 3 million ethnic Poles) and it constituted 22.2% of its total pre-war population.
Tbh thats nothing compared to the soviets. 80% of males born in 1921 ended up dead before 1945
@@christianmygind799 wow that's unbelievable. Mostly because of wars. I guess.
Christian Mygind but the war only accounted for a minority of those deaths. The rest because Stalinism sucked.
Christian Mygind it’s also more like 68%
Crash course is where teachers make their students go when they don’t want to teach
it always amazes me how people almost never mention czechoslovakia when talking about wwll. such an important element
Fun Fact: North Korea still believe the USSR exist, and same goes for Yugoslavia and East Germany.
BrainPop mentions it
YES!!! Especially Munich!
@@TheYoinkan1503 Fun fact: Uneducated French people tried to convince me that Czechia was a part of the USSR.
To be fair, this is for American high school students trying to graduate high school with college credits. He's only teaching what they need to know to get an A+
I just learned more about world war 2 in these 14 minutes than in 3 classes at school
Omer Luxy you sure told him!
Omer Luxy Actually, this is just someone proving how great crash course is. Everyone care or should care whether or not what they are watching is a waste of time or not. Besides, its the comment section. No one cares that no one cares :/ If you're reading the comments, you sure care so shut your trap.
Good day sir~
Zimmy Chu Agreed, Crash Course is a great intro to WW2
but 3 classes? Dang that's bad
Zimmy Chu Yeah this guy is great its more interesting my only mad comment is that he likes Justin beiber at that time...........
Zimmy Chu Did you pay attention during those classes?
Its not pronounced Luftwaffa....Its pronounced "luft vaffa"...In German, the "w" makes a "v" sound...Luft means "air", and waffe means "weapon".
Also, Japan and Russian never actually signed an official peace treaty, so technically, world war 2 is still going on between Japan and Russia.
+George Bizos Its pronouced Luft waffle
***** yeah it is.....if your german....if your american/english, its pronounced Luft-vaffe
Well the Soviet Union and the Empire Of Japan doesn't exist anymore so...
ImTheWaffleman true......but the countries that were once part of the soviet union are at war with what was the "empire of japan"..which is still japan.
+George Bizos Actually they signed one in like 2000 or something. It was recent, but Russia and Japan are friends again.
My grandfather fought in the Pacific theater on the USS Missouri, and my great-grandfather fought in the European theater. He liberated the concentration camps, and he wasn't the same for 20 years after the war.
none cares
@@juliuselcheikh5810 what is wrong with you?!
1. Screw You.
2. If it was not for the men like my grandfather and great-grandfather who fought in war and the women who worked in the factories, we would all be speaking German or Japanese.
@@juliuselcheikh5810 disgusting person
Eric Pinteralli what great fear mongering you employed
Soviet Union : *load rocket launcher*
China :*gets in tank*
Germany :*cocks shotgun*
Greece :*looks at gun* “what am I supposed to do wit dis?”
You knew history class was about to be lit when you walked in to see this paused on the screen.
OSU Bucks421 ikr
The comments section is full of angry corrections accusing John of being insensitive. These videos are supposed to be simple and quick for kids like me to understand.
I strongly agree.
Well said.
Let's hope some of the common sense permeates into the minds of some of these commenter's :-)
Flower Girl To simplify understanding of complex subjects inevitably leads to misunderstanding and incorrect beliefs. It is especially dreadful for a kid to realize this when they were taught that the truth about a war that lasted many years is something so simple that it can be summed up within a 13 minute video. In reality, historians have spent these last 70+ years examining and reinterpreting ww2, and there are still people arguing not about little corrections, but massive ideological beliefs that surround this war, a war that is essentially still being fought to this day. In the same way that ww1 led to ww2, ww2 led to all the wars afterward including the fighting happening this very day.
In other words, ww2 is anything but simple or quick, and this video is a disservice to humans everywhere, especially when it is targeted at kids, like you say.
the Truth is Beautiful
Well said
the Truth is Beautiful
I highly agree with your statement. I think that many problems in today's world are caused by a lack of understanding, an impatience that inevitably leads to conflict rather than peace. I wish people would just talk more, it would help a lot. My only disagreement is like Flower Girl said, this is a video for kids to help us with a class or a particular chapter. it's meant to give the facts so we do well on a test, and enteratin us as well. It is everyone's responsibility to better understand and interpret these events on our own if we are to better understand the world we live in.
It's not the first time we've mbeen misinformed either, I was taught that Columbus was a awesome guy who discovered America (I'm paraphrasing of course), and that there are no such things as negative numbers (Or negative even roots of numbers, stupid i). It's a lot of complicated details, too much for kids to comprehend all at once. It's easier to misinform them at first and slowly clarify as the years go on.
Oh come on, Age Restricted Video.
Germany just finished paying off ww1 fines in 2010
I'm canadian; you can have Beiber
JP G Na, Us Americans seriously appreciate the offer, but you can keep him :)
Let's just pull a Bir Tawil and say he doesn't belong to either of us
I have an idea. let's give him to Antarctica.
LOL, if you ask me, absolutely! as a token of good will, we can had to the mix Nickleback and Celine Dion! we are so generous ;-) we keep Rush though...
JP G what happened to Canadian friendliness.
War. War never changes.
Smooth. :D
war does change. we make new tools to kill people
Dr Dank i think it means war is a constant on earth. everthing changes bt the occurance of wars never does
Do you seriously not get the reference?
or does it, the war just changed,
John green is our generations social studies Bill Nye
Indian soilders also participated in both the ww's but no one mention them
Jeerender Chauhan Yup as many as 2 million Indians fought in the British Indian Army, but they were just a colony so I guess, just like Canada and SA, they aren't mentioned too much. The Burma Campaign was important though, and Anzacs are defiantly overrated.
Jeerender Chauhan
Numerous countries fought in either or both world wars. India did not do anything special.
@@kostantinos2297 India was one of the reasons that Britain could fight a large World War due to the resources we got from India without India winning the war would have been more difficult
South Asian. Indians aren't an ethnic group. Also he did mention South Asians.
algerians also fought in ww2
Russia didn't participated in WWII. USSR did. That's a very different things. *offended*
lol
Russia is the successor and most of the population was Russian and the capital was in Russia. It's like how most British people are considered English because England is the largest and most powerful of the UK.
Then also Germany didn't participate in WW2. It was the German Reich back then. Also very different.
Drace90 that's also true.
***** The USSR was a country of countries the biggest and more powerful one was Russia. You're leaving out Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, the Baltic States, Kazakhstan and others. .
Why would anyone say that WW2 started with the USA joined the war.
have you met Americans?
Because it wasnt a World War without America??? The Term World War is All the Major Nations Fighting and America wasnt fighting at that time so Technically it was a World War Yet.
gabe johnson Canada declared war 2 years before the US so that argument doesn't quite work. Unless you say that Canada doesn't make America count but then I will argue Europe wasn't in the world war because Switzerland never declared war
i think it because we we the last big entree in the war and we kinda did a lot look at maps of germany before america got there they kinda already on and if it wasnt japan it would all be germany
tommy g Are you now trying to say that if it wasn't for the USA then the Nazis would have won WW2?
US: we are the grater military power
Canada: hold my maple syrup
I love this comment.
Wow XD
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"grater"
Pass the parmesan, please.
The US is much stronger and has always been stronger. Saying canadians won the war of 1812 is like saying the US won the 7 years war. Neither were a country at the time.
7:43 I love how even John Green's face ceases to be red when he finishes his speech by saying "best wishes, John Green". 😂
Dear Canada,
We love you.
From,
The United States of America
-Donald Trump
Dear United States of America,
If you truly love us, please don't vote for that asshat Trump.
Sincerely,
Canadians EVERYWHERE
xDrummerJx Why? So he can build a wall between our countries and completely alienate the whole world?
xDrummerJx If you truly believe that's what Mexican immigrants are doing, or that it has any appreciable effect on the economy, or, MOST IMPORTANTLY, there aren't WAY better things to spend than money on, then only a FOOL would vote for Trump!
+Aurelius R I won't trust me
On a scale of 1 to 10, (10 being the highest) I rate your video an 8. Your one ENORMOUS problem is that, you don't discuss World War I. You simply cannot discuss the 'causes' of WWII without delving into WWI. Now that I've said that... For everyone reading this: After Germany lost WWI the entire country was destroyed economically, and had rules placed on it so that it could never again build itself. This caused the common people of Germany, to get pissed off. The air was ripe for someone like Hitler to come in and cause an uprising.
If you were to list all the causes of World War One, it would probably by about 300 pages long. The list of causes for World War Two can be summed up with "World War One".
***** It would take me 2 words to explain both ww1 and 2(and the coming3rd) Greater Israel
Hayrettin Çağman UYSAL WW1 is "Greater Israel"? You mean, the annexiation of Palestine from a muslim empire by a christian one?
Legit stupidity is legit.
Jews were there only the Israel wasn't existed they jews are purchasing those lands they are doing it right know too they are purchasing the lands where isis captured for a very low price its simple as that
I want to add this too in the last 3500 years there is only 230 years passed without any war technology is better these days so i would recommend y'all too get prepared for a war but you must chose your side wisely
Interesting Fact:-
Fanta Was Created During W_W_2 due to some necessity
Fanta means hope or something in German i think
I'm curious but too lazy to look anything up....
You have it half right. The German branch of Coca-cola couldn't continue making products, as the war effort heavily restricted the company's access to supplies. So, they tried experimenting, to create a popular drink out of the limited resources they had. After some trial and error, Fanta was born. Fanta is short for Fantasia (Fantasy in English).
Also Mercedes-Benz
WWII was hilarious.
-Said Nobody Ever
yup thats what he said
Dabbing Unicorn said me
WW2 is the most memed part of history.
World war three won’t
Obviously never saw McCales Navy.
Love how he calls The Soviets "Russians" even tho only like 49% of the Soviet Union was Russian
Ivan Katlianik Nice generalization. Every American refers to Britain as England? Yea you're right.
(Sarcastic comment is sarcastic)
Ivan Katlianik I mean we have Canadian teams also have been trying to introduce American football to the U.K. And Europe by playing football (American foootball) games in London Its just that the rest of the world doesn't seem to interests in American sports like baseball and football well at least the eastern hemisphere
I love how you wanted to make your comment more relevant by saying a percentage that was less than 50% lol. It's ok, we get your point, but you don't need to lie: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Union#Ethnic_groups
It's a little bit more than 51%. But I agree, this isn't like a company's shares, the one who has the most, doesn't own it.
if you part of sssr, you are russian comrade
Because Russia was the main country. The majority of the UDDSR countries didn't want to belong to the the Soviet Union. They were forced by Russia. That's why it fell apart so fast around 1990.
I think Canada got a "little bit" of help from the British empire back in 1812.
Rob T well i think that britain and Canada still had a good relation ship better then with america so
Canada wasn't even a country yet.
Hayden Snauwaert If im not mistaken Canada was a part of the brithis empire back then and it still the same land i mean before 1830 Belgium was not independent yet but the land was there names maybe changed If so then sorry in de old age Belgium was Just the lower contries so i dont know about Canada but im pretty sure it was part of the brithis and i think they did not hate them so much as the americans did
We were the British empire back then
The grammar in this comment section is killing my brain cells.
Not bad, but you COMPLETELY skipped the CAUSES of WW II.
Britain &France declared war on Germany two days after German aggression toward Poland. Both countries agreed to support Poland but Hitler did not care so he attacked Poland on Sept 1, 1939. Consequently WW2 was underway.
Mary Jean Jones Thanks for the comment, but that’s not the cause. To be fair, a CZcams video on the causes of WWII should probably be it’s own, separate production.
But to put it VERY simply, Germany got economically, militarily, and territorially screwed by the treaty of WWI. As their nation began to decline into a horrible state of no hope, the people were desperate for some sign of a positive future for Germany. Combined with the rise and “success” of Italian facism and a man like reltiH flodA (he doesn’t deserve respect of naming) you get the Nazi Party winning over these desperate people. The pride of Germany began to grow again, and with it a strong desire to reclaim the territory it lost a generation earlier.
Then the fact that England and France wanted NOTHING to do with another major war in Europe their leaders sat on their hands while reltiH rebuilt the military (German military history and prowess over a 150 years made that rebuilding much easier). By the time the socialist and facist shitheads rearmed their nation there wasn’t a lot any nation could do to prevent another WW. 😞 I know there a LOT of other factors that play into the cause of WWII, but I think this kinda sums it. Maybe?
I think he briefly mentioned it at the end if the WWI video.
@@kiksmello3878 He did, but I dont think he mentioned how bad the situation for japan was, and why they had to attack america
Da evil Hitlah
I was just about to say “What about the Canadians!?”, and then you read us a letter. Well, shucks. Sorry, bud. Thanks for the letter!
Why would anybody suggest WWII started when america finally joined?
Princess Nakoruru WORLD war, not EUROPEAN war
Yes, because the ongoing fighting in Southeast Asia and Africa when American joined was soooo European
Owen Jones You presumed I was american from my comment?
Princess Nakoruru No, I was agreeing with you. I meant "you" to refer to someone who might think WWII started at Pearl Harbour because they're an American
Owen Jones Oops. My bad. 😘⛄🌻
You missed the part where I won
an all expense paid trip to hell?
I won.
Research him you Will find out that he was t a bad guy, he never invaded he was liberating Germans, and the holocaust research it more evidence of religion
wait... where is skeletor???
+Hermann Fegelein FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!
My grandfather was an Indian soldier for British Army in ww2...He used to tell the stories of air strikes and encounters with many snakes in jungles.He passed away in 2014 at the age of 94.
“Taking land but killing the people that lived there”. Sounds a lot like what the US did to the native Americans. Yet you hear no one talking about that.
TelevisedPork what? so many people talk about it, people even want to remove thanksgiving as a holiday bc of that. And it didn’t even happen. The Europeans came and organized trades and negotiations with the natives and gained land that way. They started fighting for Manhattan bc of a misunderstanding. The natives thought the Euros were renting the land, but the British thought they owned the land. Then the natives got mad and started fighting and the British retaliated. It was very equal.
Even in South America, the Europeans came over and saw the disgusting things that were happening (such as ripping out the heart of an unwilling victim and sacrificing them to the sun gods) and rallied natives (who didn’t like having their hearts ripped out) in order to end the terror and win the land. The natives were very willing to help the white people in order to escape the horrifying place.
Later on there were more battles, and terrible acts were committed from both sides and the Europeans won. And then the Europeans were horrible (with things like the residential schools and slavery, which undoubtably is disgusting) but the “taking land but killing the people that lived there” didn’t happen. They got land fairly, lived in peace for a while, then there was war.
I mean...we did learn about that in 8th grade. Yet you hear no one talking about that.
Thank-you
That's taught in US history classes.
Dude... Everyone in history had to conquer someone at some point to survive... I mean, come on.
Thank you for the open letter John, we appreciate the acknowledgement of our awesomeness.
(Also you can have Bieber, we don't want him)
dont skip to act 5
What? I don't understand...
it was a very vague reference to homestuck.
Oh ok. (Tbh I wish I could skip to act 5 since the first acts are so boring)
nah canada keep bieber were cool.
The "Keep calm and carry on" poster was not officially released in WW2 since it was intended to be distributed if the Nazis actually staged an invasion. The posters lay forgotten in a MoD warehouse until they were discovered in 2000 and became popular.
Where did you get the ‘this machine kills fascists’ sticker? I love it.
gotta love age restricted assignments 😍😍😍
The US knew about pearl harbour and made Japan do it so they could join the war...
*Grabs popcorn*
didn't america cut off japan's supply of oil or something?
+Phthalo Green
Yep
+Phthalo Green after Japan invaded China.
Vaccines cause autism...
Hoo boy, we're in for a long one!
Slavery didn't cause the Civil War, the CIA killed JFK, and Obama is Kenyan
I really enjoy John's closing monologue about how the pinnacle of Western Civilization and our ideas of a progressive society isn't immune to the savagery of human nature. It scares me to see just how civility, egalitarianism, and humanitarianism are walking a thin line between cruelty, brutality, and viciousness. This is what I love about history because it teaches us the lessons of past mistakes and it allows us never forget the hardships others had to face in order for us to be where we are today.
I'm also amazed that a country like Germany, which is deemed very civilised and cultured, could be so barbaric.
+Joella Z Yeah. Nowadays it's civilised and cultured.
Or the nuclear bombing from the US to end the war as a desperate attempt to prevent further manpower loss from both sides.
Tl:dr There is no good in war, no matter how "justifiable" an own country might proclaim. The further it lasts, the greater the desperation of soldiers, generals, civials is, which prompt them into commiting horrible acts.
You're right :D
Italians watching this video breathed a sigh of relief
i love all the emotion in the open letter, then he just goes straight to monotone for the "best wishes" lmao. totally just ridiculously hilarious
"The history channel before it decided that swamp people were history"
Finally another person who misses old history channel.
I agree to
THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING ARGENTINA. Most historians tend to forget about it when speaking of WWII.
It's because just after helping the British they were inmidiately flooded by German and Italian inmigrants, that industrialized the country and generated a huge grown in population but didn't recieve any punishments for their actions at war.
+Franco Vázquez Ancebou Yeah. It pisses me off that they always forget that South America is an actual part of the world and shares its history. Brazil and Argentina are interesting cases to analyse when talking about WWII, because they attempted neutrality, because its governments were actually sympathetic towards Germany and because USA kinda bought their alliance, kinda forced them into war siding the Allies. Brazil actually sent troops to Italy and fought major air battles. No one talks about.
+Franco Vázquez Ancebou all historians have lied to the world
***** Nope, i guess not.
+Franco Vázquez Ancebou
American historians tend to forget all other nations of WW-II and other conflicts where they've had plenty of necessary help. They even quickly forgot that without the North American Indians they'd never have won their War of Independence against England. They also conveniently forget the help they had from the French during the War Between The States; without which the North could never have won and held the nation together.
im just waiting for a comment that isnt assigned for history and just genuinely like history
"Slaughter" is the right word.
I get what he means and all, but how could you EVER argue that World War 2 started when America joined in 1941?...
Well, it could have been considered that because America's entree brought all of the World's Major powers into the war.
( i dont think it did, but this could be a reason.)
kingofzero100 I don't think so, or that would give indefinite times to every single war in human history. With such logic World War I could have lasted only 1 year, or been two wars, given the USA's late entry and Russia's early exit.
Unlike the question whether the war truly started with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, or the German invasion of Poland, the American entree added no theatre to the war to make the 'world' part complete.
theonlylampshade Hmm True
World War 2 started in 1941 if you were an American. Not much to it. Just like Europeans would say 1939 because of the invasion of Poland. Or Chinese would say 1937 because of the second Sino-Japanese war.
Ariminua The Chinese don't say that though, generally the Chinese judge the war to have started in 1939. When global conflict broke out.
The war may have started _for_ an American in 1941, but the war did not start in 1941 - two completely different things.
History is written by the Victors
Victor who?
+NiggaBlossom okay that's funny i must addmit😂😂
It isnt really like that. Nowadays there are historians that write history. They compare events and they get to a logical conlussion that (of course) is based on the events. As for the past, I couldnt agree with you more, but all of that has been corrected today.
+Lazaros Mazlos believe me there is still place for changing the truth today and it still happens not everything you hear on the TV is real
I dont watch TV for the exact reason. I study people that have proven their theories.
Now that this is showing up on my feed I'm REALLY worried
ww3 coming soon
All four of my grandparents lived under Stalin. My paternal grandfather was eighteen when Stalin died on March 5th, 1953. He remembers how Malenkov was the pallbearer at Stalin's funeral. He also remembers Molotov's speech, the one where he said; ''Our Great Comrade Stalin has left us. Our dear friend, our wise teacher, our affectionate father has left this world.'' Stalin was a god to my grandparents. It was only in 1956, when Khrushchev made his secret speeches that began De-Stalinization that they learned that Stalin was just a man. However, they still believed Lenin was a god until Perestroika in 1987.
"Rome was liberated"? Hahaha haven't laughed so badly for weeks.. :D
Not really the mongols, but the Huns. They were part mongols and part something else.
The German forces occupied Rome, but you cannot really call this a "conquering". It was more a reaction on the Italian traitors or hang Benito and started attacking the German forces trying to defend their country against the allied invadors.
Once North Africa was lost to the Allies Germany retreated across the Med to Italy. The Allies' plan was to open another front in Italy, with the British using their naval superiority and air forces stationed on Malta to move troops and supplies across. The Italians they captured almost entirely gave no fucks about Mussolini and so they believed the Italians would welcome them.
The Germans reacted, as allowing Italy to fall would open a Southern Front right on their border, all while the Reds were pushing hard from the East, and an ever-present threat of a Western front from the Allies loomed. They captured all Italian personnel and materiel, annexing the country. There are many reports of Italians being found chained to their machinegun positions as they simply did not want to fight on Mussolini or Germany's behalf. The Germans saw them as fodder.
Look up Operation Asche and the Massacre of the Acqui. Italy was effectively a hostage/slave country of Germany by this point, and German soldiers executed any who didn't follow their orders.
Ultimately the Allies broke through, Mussolini was dragged through the streets of Rome then executed. The Italians eventually got their country back, but the Southern Front was stalled long enough that first the Eastern then the Western front reached Berlin first.
Yes. Italy betrayed Germany. Every country would have acted the way Germany did. It was the only possible way they left to the Germans. Italy opened several fronts and failed there, leaving it up to Germany to "tide them up". Then when Mussolini's power in Italy started to become weaker and weaker the Germans logically had to react, in order not to lose Italy as an ally. They took over most parts of Italy and fortified themselves there. Until the end of the war, the Western allues did not manage to capture all of Italy and only in Spring 1945 they managed to build a bridgehead on the eastern side of the river Rhine.
So, Germany did not "invade" or "steal" Italy, they only reminded them that they entered the war on the Axis side and cannot just "switch sides" whenever the war changes its course.
Also, don't forget that at that time, there existed two "Italies", one facist and one communist part. Each of them fighting against the other, one lead by the communists and one lead by Mussolini. Mussolini still had several houndreds of thousands of men on his side, helping the Germans to defend their country against the Allied invadors.
The term "liberation" does not really fit there.
Yeah, if only the Italian people saw it that way...
I love how he barely mentioned the North African front...
TBOTB- The Best Of The Best It wasn't as important than some other fronts.
Thats a bit mean m8 ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)
I was thinking the same thing!!!
***** How about you justify your position?
The commonwealth victory in north africa cut the axis off from limitless resources and control of the Mediterranean.
What does that mean? Germany and Italy would never accomplish Mare Nostrum and cemented their defeat.
ANZAC-Commonwealth for the win~
7:37 uNiVeRsAl hEaLtHcArE
Can you please do a crash course history on the Korean world war?
Yes id like this too
Sorry to disappoint you guys but this series has ended like years ago. (But it was mentioned in episode 38: The Cold War in Asia)
Hitler does not remember what is the failure of Napoleon: DON'T INVADE RUSSIA DURING WINTER
^^
he didnt, he invaded russia during the summer hoping they will fall before the winter.
"knock down the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down" - Hitler
And it might even have worked if not for the Balkans campaign which delayed the attack on the Soviet Union for a few crucial weeks which, at the end of the year, fouled conditions for the battle for Moscow, which, while not necessarily breaking all resistance, might have seriously reshaped what the rest of the war could have looked like.
+Cherisse Fernandes 😂😂
Invading russia in the winter isn't the problem. Invading russia unprepared for the winter is the problem. Also the winter of 1941, lucky for the russians, happened to be on record as the coldest fuckin winter russia has seen in the last few hundred years.
As a Canadian THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE COMPLIMENTS! Please enjoy the mittens Mr.Green
^^These comments confirm his message x.x
I feel like we should send him some kind of tim hortons
I was thinking timbits and icecaps AND THANK YOU MR.GREEN WE APPRECIATE YOUR HUMBLE REPLY. I understand you are a big fan. Maybe we can ship you Justin Bieber next time. Enjoy :)
You are very fast but informative .Thank you
Teacher: watch this and write 10 facts
Me: imma just scroll through the comments and find the facts.
I can't believe you haven't talk about the treaty of Versaille to explain the roots of the conflict in europe.
my guess is because he had limited time to do so
He totally did talk about that, weren't you paying attention?
It's probably because he knows that the Treaty of Versailles has long been misaligned by people as a primary cause of World War 2, when it truly wasn't. He points out that World War 2 was caused by a multitude of factors, but one reason he emphasizes as a major cause of the war was expansionism.
It's because the Treaty of Versailles is not to blame, it's a common misconception that lets Germany off the hook.
theonlylampshade
Germany fell into what is probably the greatest economic depression a nation has ever seen thanks to the extremely unfair terms of the Treaty of Versailles, and you say it is not to blame?
You could argue that was not a direct reason, since when Hitler comes to power he restores Germany's economy in what was seen as an "economic miracle". But its not like the Germans had forgotten what was done to them.
It's an old video by now, but that last part, about the horrors of WW2, was a very, very powerful statement. I can only hope that more teachers are as good as you are here at conveying how terrible war is. Thank you.
The "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster although created in the early war years for the UK home front ir was never officially used. IIRC it was intended to used if we had been invaded.
ITS JOHN FRICKING GREEN OH MY LORD. I was talking about his novels and my friend was like, he does a crash course in history and I didn’t even believe it.
Technically WW2 is not over
🇷🇺 and 🇯🇵 did not sign a peace treaty
Finally someone noticed......
Emmet Stuart technically it was the Soviet Union and The Japanese Empire that were at war.... the USSR collapsed and became Russia, and Imperial Japan has become a pretty much different country as it is not anything as it was before. Technically two enemies were still at war, but neither of those enemies exist anymore, so there is just a void
Technically, after se S.U. disolution, Russia inherit all its international relationships and obligations, as the State of Japan would do after the end of the Empire. But I guess there was not need for a silly Armistice since the US got the job done
Emmet Stuart same with South Korea and North Korea
Yes they did sign a peace treaty, and ended the war in the early 1950's, just later there was a dispute over who controls the Kuril Islands, mainly the southernmost ones, and those did not appear on the treaty signed.
It was the British and Canadians who liberated Rome, America focused on Operation Dragoon after the Sicily Campaign.
Well said.
Canada like brits, Canada hates Americans
Mathew DiGirolamo I wouldn't say that Canadians hate Americans. We just strive for our own identity separate from America. A lot of people view Canada as "Americas Hat", and that's what Canadians dislike. Not America as a whole.
I don't think of Canada as our hat. More of a sister nation.
MinecraftNow I've been to parlament and they're called embassies
Everyone should watch Hellstorm and Europa on Bitchute for more history. The Balfour Declaration was not mentioned in this one and it played a major role. Question everything!
My teacher made me watch this
I hope you are glad to hsve watched it.
Lucky...
Mr. Random Guy my homework told me to watch this
ChakRaLight it's still enjoyable to watch
Unlike the stuff your teacher puts on a projector in class
Except fot bill nye the science guy
Wow you are a piece of work.
WWII has a large number of "starting dates" and any one of them are valid, but I feel that WWII started immediately after WWI ended with the Paris Peace Conference, and the Treaty of Versailles.
Of course this means that the 2 Wars are tied together, and WWI's origins are a lot more complicated.
sfs2040 I agree
sfs2040 same
A lot of people argue that the two world wars was just 1 long War
SaintsBrees09 I think the same way in that ww1 and ww2 just felt like one big war because there was not much time indeed them
Yes. Some people even call the time from 1914 to 1945 the "second Thirty Year´s War" . With all the revolutions after WW1 and the economic crisis, the civil wars in China and Spain, the japanese-chinese war etc. , that´s really a germane (not "german" ... that would be "zweiter Dreissig-Jähriger Krieg" ;-) ) name for that period.
World War 1 was a massive contributing factor to the war, that being said when Germany lost World War 1 the treaty of Versailles was created stopping Germany from starting another war and to pay back what damages Germany had caused. This treaty caused anger in Germany letting Hitler come in to power as you said. Another contributing factor to the beginning of World War 2 was the failure of the League of Nations. Also the failure of appeasement also had a massive contributing factor to the cause of Word war 2.
Lloyd George from England, Orlando from Italy, Clemenceau from France and Woodrow Wilson from the US all came together in 1919 after the war to discuss how Germany should pay for this war. They eventually decided to declare a treaty called the treaty of Versailles. France wanted to get revenge on Germany that made the treaty unfair on Germanys behalf. The terms of the treaty where that Germany had to accept the blame for World War 1 they also had to pay for the damages that where caused in World War one which in this case was 6,600 million pounds. Germany also was not allowed to have a big army where they could only have six naval ships. No tanks, no air force and no submarines, Rhineland was also to be de-militarized.
Being extremely harsh the people of Germany where very angry at the government which lead to Hitler’s rise to power. Once Hitler came to power he immediately began secretly building up the army. Although France and England where aware of these actions they did nothing to stop Hitler. Hitler then decided to enter Rhineland, which supposedly should have been de-militarized, but France and England did nothing since they did not want to start another war. German land was taken away from Germany in the treaty of Versailles so Hitler's next step was to take this land back. Hitler invaded the land the Austria had taken away successfully yet France and England still did nothing to stop Hitler although they could because Hitler's army was still small and vulnerable. Hitler promised that the part that Austria took away from Germany was the last of Hitler's expansions.
Hitler did not keep his word and invaded the sudentland region of Czechoslovakia. Britain not wanting to start a war met with Hitler to reach an agreement that would prevent the war. Eventually they came to an agreement after three meetings that Hitler could have the sudentland region of Czechoslovakia. Hitler again did not keep his promise and invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia. Although Hitler did not keep his promise England and France still took no military action. England and France warned Hitler that if he where to invade Poland they would take military action against Hitler. On the 1st of September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland in result the beginning of World War 2.
France and England both saw that the treaty of Versailles was unjust and unfair on Germany, which saw Hitler's actions to be understandable. The main reason France and England didn’t stop Hitler's action to build up the German army was because they thought that Germany had a right to re-arm and defend themselves. In September 1938 the Munich agreement of appeasement was created to stop Germany from claiming more territory. Czechoslovakia was not invited to attend the creation of appeasement in which they had felt betrayed by France and England. Appeasement in 1938 is often viewed as a great war to solve war with negotiation and not war. Although Hitler broke this appeasement by invading the rest of Czechoslovakia and the appeasement had failed. England and France was not prepared for a war and instead they decided to say if Germany was to invade Poland a war would star which they eventually did.
well in my opinion, no
I'm german and thats the reason for the war in my opinion. We got robed and the allied cut of our nuts^^.
The reason for the extermination of the jews was the bad situation of our economy. The german starved while the german jews controlled the banks and high positions of financial things.
Invading poland just happened because they massacred germans in the lost territories.
Taking all from the defeated was (for me) the biggest MISTAKE in human history.
After the WWII we just repeat history because the allied stayed here for a long time. We still haven't got official peace contracts with the warwinners. The USA still have much to many rights over german territory.
But we made it again. Being a superior power in europe.
You like to type
Soeren P. E. Ziemens I'm British and I agree with you. Not to mention after the war we were bankrupt and lost our Empire.
Y did u even comment this, that has nothing to do with the video
Slaughter is too easy word for Nanking events
ok lee oswald
@@cam3739 ok cameron
Lee Oswald them being slaughtered is sadly like an understatement
I just came here because I like History
When u need last minute crash course cause the next day you have a kahoot and dont want to throw your face infront of the class
You know Kahoot?! I thought it was indian!
the iron pickaxe its worldwide
CRAMMING FOR THAT AP TEST THE NIGHT BEFORE THO
lmao me too man
same
+susan nam heheeh, so am I xD. Like if you're SCREW LIKE ME :D
+JET FPC Same to all of that
Same 😂
My Grandfather Linus on my Dad's side served in world war II, he was a pilot and his plane was shot down