Understanding The Global Unease After WW1 | Impossible Peace | Timeline

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  • As the first World War ends in 1919, the infamous Treaty of Versailles is signed in France to impose global peace on the defeated nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Explore how the far reaching consequences of this move set in motion the inexorable march to another World War...
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  • @poodtang2104
    @poodtang2104 Před 3 lety +625

    It's almost like 1914-1945 was one big war with a brief pause in the middle.

    • @edwardoleyba3075
      @edwardoleyba3075 Před 3 lety +45

      That about sums things up succinctly.

    • @michaelplunkett8059
      @michaelplunkett8059 Před 3 lety +70

      Supreme Allied Commander Marshall Foch said at the time: “This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years”. From that day in 20 years and 65 days, the Second World War started.

    • @christopherqueen3194
      @christopherqueen3194 Před 3 lety +39

      I would say rather that this long conflict began in 1870 and didn’t resolve until 1945. And without the overarching Cold War of the second half of the twentieth century, the animosity may have continued. A lot of the impetus for WW1 was the desire for “revanche” in France. And WW2 was equally a result of German anger over a perceived “stab in the back.”

    • @poodtang2104
      @poodtang2104 Před 3 lety +33

      @@christopherqueen3194 It's been a merry go round of European countries pissing each other off, since forever.

    • @d.t.7819
      @d.t.7819 Před 3 lety +15

      All of history is one big war with respites in between. War existed before humans and it will out live us.

  • @howl_with_the_wolves2861
    @howl_with_the_wolves2861 Před rokem +121

    The period between WW1 & WW2 is endlessly fascinating to me precisely because when learning about it you can understand it didn't have to play out the way it did and also,how it very easily happen yet again.

    • @ThillerKillerX
      @ThillerKillerX Před rokem +1

      History is going to repeat itself very soon. Just a few years now.

    • @dabidibup
      @dabidibup Před rokem

      @@ThillerKillerX almost like history keeps running on the same hardware (humans)
      I think they’re trying to make it so history repeats itself perfectly every 100 years.
      Nobody’ll have to search for meaning if you know what year it is.
      It’s 67? better drop acid
      It’s 32? Better work in a factory
      It’s 07? Who cares, communism will save us

    • @Rowlph8888
      @Rowlph8888 Před rokem +7

      No, because the Treaty of Versailles was so lenient, compared to The vast majority of reckonings, on previously losing powers, before it

    • @VonJay
      @VonJay Před rokem +4

      @@Rowlph8888that’s interesting. Care to go further. I know absolutely nothing about this period.

    • @plush_rabbi
      @plush_rabbi Před rokem +7

      @VonJay a bit late to the party but the treay of Versailles, league of nations, stresa front etc were all very, weak in the least. They did almost nothing to emforce their demands and basically let things go the way they did. Germany was to lose territory and its colonies, pay war reperations, demilitarize the rhine etc. One of the biggest red flags was the the UK letting the germans increase the size of its nazy, which weakened the stresa front, an agreement made between the uk, France and italy to basically further guarantee the independence of Austria and resist any future german ambitions. After italy saw that the uk just caved to Germany they went with their invasion of abyssnia, Mussolini basically felt betrayed and that the treaties didnt matter at that point. There is of course much more, but thats a tid bit and in my opinion, what even pushed things in the direction they went.

  • @wolfu597
    @wolfu597 Před 3 lety +129

    One french officer, marshal Foch if I remember correctly, had this to say about the treaty of Versailles, which was signed in June 1919
    "This is not eternal peace, it's only 20 years of armistice".
    He was off by 60 days.

    • @bolivar2153
      @bolivar2153 Před 3 lety +6

      Because he thought the treaty too lenient on Germany.

    • @JRobbySh
      @JRobbySh Před 3 lety +1

      Interesting that the Cordon Sanitaire was occupied by the Bolsheviks after World War II.plus most of Prussia.

    • @robertleigh559
      @robertleigh559 Před 3 lety +12

      Foch also said, of the Danzig corridor, "There lies the cause of the second world war."

    • @Merlin-lc4zu
      @Merlin-lc4zu Před 3 lety +13

      Indeed he did.General Pershing also remarked "Unless this lot are pushed all the way back to Berlin and a full unconditional surrender is obtained we will have to do this all over again within 20 years".Very prophetic from both men.

    • @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin
      @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin Před 2 lety +4

      The old lady who was watching Versailles go down shook her head and muttered, "I do believe this whole dance will last only 20 years." Fortunately it was close enough for a reporter to hear and write down her mutterings. Everyone in the world knew that Versailles was a shambles, except the people at Versailles.

  • @campbecw
    @campbecw Před 2 lety +77

    Timeline is what the History Channel should be. I love their documentaries and in depth looks. Some of my favorites are the war factories series. Great content!! Keep up the great work!

    • @jimr9499
      @jimr9499 Před rokem +1

      Heck yeah! War Factories, and then the (WWI, WWII) "In Numbers" series are my two favorites.

    • @aidanokeeffe7928
      @aidanokeeffe7928 Před rokem +1

      Imagine, 10 years from now, if this channel becomes what the History Channel is now

    • @ThillerKillerX
      @ThillerKillerX Před rokem

      @@aidanokeeffe7928 Everything eventually finds its way to corruption. The human curse.

    • @RobBCactive
      @RobBCactive Před rokem +2

      Many of these documentaries first appeared on British TV decades ago. I can't be sure about all of them but some I remember when they were first shown.
      Sometimes they miss out secret info that only trickled out as it was released after 50 years or so.

    • @FreejackVesa
      @FreejackVesa Před 10 měsíci +3

      The history channel used to be like this. Now it just helps creates idiots. Fortunately the internet is available to answer any question a person might have. To be fair, reality tv was the only model that would save them from going out of business.

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas9193 Před 2 lety +26

    I was born 17 years after WW2, served in the 'cold war', am still scratching my head on the 20th century...

  • @henryrusch9475
    @henryrusch9475 Před 3 lety +34

    This and the other "Timeline" documentaries are the best I have seen recently. They concentrate on a specific period of time and yet are comprehensive and show the relationships between events. The commentators are of the highest quality, make concise points, and you integrate them well into the thematic of the subject matter. The quotations are well chosen, and your putting them up to read is very helpful. I look forward to enjoying and learning much from viewing the next films in the series.

    • @AdamMGTF
      @AdamMGTF Před 2 lety +1

      This was made for TV years ago. Just seeing Richard Overy is the giveaway.
      So sadly you won't see a follow-up. But at least these old documentaries are available online. :)

  • @janetwebster5099
    @janetwebster5099 Před 2 lety +15

    Thank you so much for this magnificent series! Between Timeline on CZcams and History Hit there is really no need to look for anything else to watch. These programs give my life new meaning - There is ALWAYS more history to learn!

  • @Teebone211
    @Teebone211 Před 3 lety +206

    I enjoy these documentaries here on You Tube, thank you for the effort, these are good enough quality to be on The History Channel, oh wait, that is no longer viable as "The History Channel" now shows us Hillbillies, Duck Calling people, Truck drivers and lumberjacks....

  • @Sammydx1
    @Sammydx1 Před 9 měsíci +8

    I love the timeline of Germany from the end of WW1 to the start of WW2. So fascinating

    • @montrelouisebohon-harris7023
      @montrelouisebohon-harris7023 Před 8 měsíci +2

      I do also even though the entire time frame was just so heartbreaking for so many people. War is profitable for businesses in government, because the money goes in a big circle and it’s harmful for taxpayers and the poor & working class you end up fighting the wars. It’s a vicious cycle! It’s our government who starred in the flights were the ones that I actually got into a fight in the war that would be fewer of them.

  • @thehealthychefri
    @thehealthychefri Před 3 lety +21

    One thing I've learned in 50 years, is humans don't seem to like each other very much!

    • @j1972w
      @j1972w Před 3 lety +4

      No, they like power very much.

    • @est9949
      @est9949 Před 3 lety +3

      @@j1972w That is true. And we were pulled into fights for the aristocrats (the 0.1%) to carve out the cake among themselves. We fight each other, fooled and divided by nationalism, royalism, and religious propagandas controlled by these aristocrats and institution heads. We common people are simply pawns -- we get nothing from these fights except death and inflation.

    • @falkenvir
      @falkenvir Před 2 lety

      No, they're just so greedy, they'll do anything

  • @rebeccaherschman1635
    @rebeccaherschman1635 Před 3 lety +28

    I always notice how carefree and happy everyone was in old film pre WW1. After the sad it's like a little bit more of evil came out every year.

    • @konkystudios
      @konkystudios Před 3 lety +1

      PLEASE PLAY FORTNITE WITH ME

    • @Hexbox117
      @Hexbox117 Před 2 lety +1

      The evil was always there, thats the even more messed up part.

    • @maxpowers9129
      @maxpowers9129 Před 2 lety +1

      The evil was hidden, or excused back then, and those in power don't like talking about it today. The Nazis actually thought the democrats were too racist. That's how bad the hate was in some places. The US Supreme Court back then even ruled it was okay for the government to impose sterilization on the citizens. We just don't hear about that sort of thing today.
      Had the Germans not walked down this path first, other countries would have done so instead. Hate was everywhere.

    • @rebeccaherschman1635
      @rebeccaherschman1635 Před 2 lety

      @@maxpowers9129 I don’t know there is a lot of hate today im just saying that the people of that time did not have misery written all over there faces as they do now.

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy Před 2 lety +1

      @@rebeccaherschman1635 It's about the priority of the filmmakers. If they want to show happy people then that's what you'll see and conversely for sad people.

  • @mattbrown5949
    @mattbrown5949 Před rokem +3

    This is a great program. The roaring 20’s and Great Depression sandwiched between two colossal world wars! Amazing 40 year period.

  • @insurancdude
    @insurancdude Před 3 lety +144

    Absolutely mesmerizing. Endlessly fascinating, I can watch these repeatedly and never tire. One of my favorite aspects is the uncredited narration of Jeremy Irons, continuing in the long tradition of British war documentaries narrated by luminaries such as Laurence Olivier - great script, leavened with humor, he’s fully engaged and really elevates the material. Took me awhile to put the two and two together, but he starred in Brideshead Revisited in the 80s - which covers the same time period. I’m sure he immersed himself in the period history for that role, and he truly brings it alive in this narration. Brilliant production all around, the echoes ripple to our current era to haunting affect.

    • @lennymccarthy4951
      @lennymccarthy4951 Před 3 lety

      ⁰⁰

    • @johnavast5939
      @johnavast5939 Před 2 lety +5

      Wow- narrator sounded familiar but i could not place it :) Thank you!!

    • @johngreen3543
      @johngreen3543 Před 2 lety +5

      Are you sure it was Irons? To me it sounded like Alexander Scourby did the narration

    • @Romin.777
      @Romin.777 Před 2 lety

      Indeed! Like "The World at War" series. Awesome.

    • @sergiorodrig
      @sergiorodrig Před 2 lety

      sounds like john hurt to me

  • @ryrify
    @ryrify Před 3 lety +36

    Another excellent installment from Timeline. Thank you for keeping the energy to study and know about this crucial period of modern history alive; how relevant it is to understanding our world today. So much to cover, looking forward to everything you produce.

    • @AdamMGTF
      @AdamMGTF Před 2 lety +1

      Have they started producing their own documentaries?
      This one was pretty good for when it was made

    • @laceylewis3197
      @laceylewis3197 Před rokem

      @@AdamMGTF when was it made??

    • @jimr9499
      @jimr9499 Před rokem +1

      They do produce their own stuff but this isn't one they made. I can highly recommend their podcasts though; History Hit, The Ancients, Warfare.

    • @CYMotorsport
      @CYMotorsport Před rokem

      @@AdamMGTF their updated one is actually even better check it out if you can

  • @artawhirler
    @artawhirler Před rokem +1

    This is the best series you've ever done! Thanks!

  • @workoutfanatic7873
    @workoutfanatic7873 Před 2 lety +2

    quality content. It answers many seemingly inconsequential queries.

  • @ImYourAverageJoe
    @ImYourAverageJoe Před 3 lety +7

    The clip with people dancing is iconic

  • @seanmalloy7249
    @seanmalloy7249 Před rokem +9

    There is a perhaps apocryphal story of an individual in Germany who had received their pay, carrying it in a basket to a store where they bought food, and forgot the basket and its contents when they left. When they returned, they found that someone had stolen the basket -- but left the money.

  • @tommclaughlin4741
    @tommclaughlin4741 Před 2 lety +1

    Very entertaining and well done, and very educational, a must watch these episodes are very important and meaningful, thank you for making these available.

  • @andrewszigeti2174
    @andrewszigeti2174 Před 3 lety +46

    Long and short, like many modern territorial problems, it was caused by empires drawing lines on a map with zero regard for the people living there.

    • @est9949
      @est9949 Před 3 lety +4

      I wish one day the whole world has no more lines. And that we all elect the same common government. Lines were used by groups of aristocrats (the 0.1%) to divide cake among themselves. We fight each other, fooled and divided by nationalism, royalism, and religious propagandas controlled by these aristocrats and institution heads. We common people are simply pawns -- we get nothing from these fights except death and inflation.

    • @andrewkruzienski770
      @andrewkruzienski770 Před 2 lety +2

      We still live in a post WW1 world. Which is really just Act1 of a 30 Years War.

    • @MacJaxonManOfAction
      @MacJaxonManOfAction Před 2 lety

      Cough *British* cough

    • @AdamMGTF
      @AdamMGTF Před 2 lety

      @@MacJaxonManOfAction the BE wasn't the only empire redrawing the maps of Europe. The French empire, and the American empire contributed also.
      Of course, this isn't anything new. It's been happening for 3 thousand years of recorded European history. No doubt it happened long before that, it happens now and will for a long time to come.

    • @rachelk4805
      @rachelk4805 Před 2 lety +1

      I mean, tbf, it has been that way for all of human history.

  • @pinchebruha405
    @pinchebruha405 Před 2 lety +4

    Ok that was pretty great. I’m interested in the events leading up to not the actual battles really, so for me this was super cool

  • @carpediem6568
    @carpediem6568 Před 3 lety +5

    I like the detail and some oddities thrown in. It's what makes history so fascinating.

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup Před 3 lety +15

    “Nothing can be loved or hated unless it first understood.” ― Leonardo da Vinci.

  • @Natalie-iz9sm
    @Natalie-iz9sm Před 2 lety +8

    I enjoy watching Timeline world history documentaries. I love history

    • @AdamMGTF
      @AdamMGTF Před 2 lety

      To think, this is what you'd get to watch on normal TV back when this documentary was made. Before the history channel was obsessed with alians.

  • @oldfan1963
    @oldfan1963 Před 3 lety +24

    Would love to see this series continue.

  • @dirtypure2023
    @dirtypure2023 Před 3 lety +108

    Would love to see this series continue. Very interesting. In future videos, if at all possible, the background music should be a bit lower, it's difficult to hear the narration at times.

    • @johnhenninger1980
      @johnhenninger1980 Před 3 lety +7

      and lose the dude at the beginning and ya sot somethin

    • @scottgeorge4268
      @scottgeorge4268 Před 3 lety +6

      @@johnhenninger1980 He's the 'expert' who pushes his theory that the terracotta worriers of China were designed and made by the Greeks 😀

    • @JoePro1243
      @JoePro1243 Před 3 lety

      I think there's another newer video from this channel about the same topic

    • @sh00000sh007
      @sh00000sh007 Před 2 lety +3

      @@scottgeorge4268 Best description of Dan Snow I have ever heard... he is also David Lloyd George's Great Grandson!!! :D

    • @scottgeorge4268
      @scottgeorge4268 Před 2 lety +1

      @@sh00000sh007 Yes, and I should know😀.

  • @youtubehatesus2651
    @youtubehatesus2651 Před rokem +1

    this is an excellent series, thank you

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 Před rokem +1

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

  • @cardenuovo
    @cardenuovo Před 2 lety +14

    Look up “impossible peace” for all the episodes in proper order. The series comes as a playlist and covers the interwar period (1919-1939)

  • @catchmeifyoucan8684
    @catchmeifyoucan8684 Před 3 lety +39

    Excellent video. Only problem is the background music, which is way too loud

    • @josephus3364
      @josephus3364 Před 3 lety +11

      The number one thing that ruins documentaries is background music

    • @INdifrnve
      @INdifrnve Před 3 lety +7

      @@josephus3364 totally agree. It’s just so unnecessary

    • @konkystudios
      @konkystudios Před 3 lety +1

      fortiet? later okay

    • @gopunkyourself9396
      @gopunkyourself9396 Před 3 lety

      Agreed just a bit too loud.

    • @frankblangeard8865
      @frankblangeard8865 Před 2 lety

      A good balance between the music and the narrative.

  • @elenivargis126
    @elenivargis126 Před 2 lety +1

    So good! Well done. Thank you.

  • @stephanebelizaire3627
    @stephanebelizaire3627 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Bravo, Very Instructive !

  • @Merlin-lc4zu
    @Merlin-lc4zu Před 3 lety +12

    Marshall Foch did say in 1919 "This is not the end but an Armistice for 20 years". General Pershing also said that unless the Allies pushed Germany all the way back to Berlin and received a full unconditional surrender then all the horrific slaughter would have to be repeated again within 20 years because Quote "This lot will never accept they have been beaten".Very prophetic from both men.

    • @Tboy439
      @Tboy439 Před 3 lety +1

      In 1919, Lenin stated...the first world war gave us Russia, the second world war will give us Europe. It was already planned. Reasearch the infamous letter Albert Pike wrote to Mazzini on August,15,1871, outlining the plans for 3 world wars that have happened or are happening the exact way they were planned.

    • @mamavswild
      @mamavswild Před 3 lety +4

      That’s because these men knew that the cruelty of the Versailles Treaty was such that eventually it would be answered.
      They tried to turn an armistice into a surrender and push it down the Germans throats.
      The brutal conditions created by the VT paved the way and set the stage for the rise of Hilter and his party.

    • @FOLIPE
      @FOLIPE Před 2 lety

      @@mamavswild Since Germany didn't accept it had lost, there only option they gave was to force others to make them accept. The Germans started a second war because they didn't accept defeat in the first, having become nazis, unfortunately they killed millions

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy Před 2 lety +3

      That is why Roosevelt and Churchill insisted on unconditional surrender from both Germany and Japan in WW2.

    • @seanmalloy7249
      @seanmalloy7249 Před rokem +1

      Not to mention the partition of the Ottoman Empire and its allocation to Britain, France, and Russia, done by drawing lines on a map, with no consideration to the composition of the people living there, which created many of the problems we see in the Middle East today, with Sunni and Shi'a groups jammed together into single countries, or single political ethnicities split across countries -- the Kurds, for example.

  • @farryqaadir8812
    @farryqaadir8812 Před 3 lety +11

    Brilliant documentary, you need an hour though for each country, due to the massive impact on ppl's lives.

  • @artawhirler
    @artawhirler Před 2 lety

    Excellent video! Thanks!

  • @tenbroeck1958
    @tenbroeck1958 Před rokem +1

    This was really well done and succinct

  • @norcodaev
    @norcodaev Před 3 lety +13

    32:07. I've heard Bagdad described as quite a few things in the past few decades, however romantic was never one of those descriptions. My how times have changed, lol.

  • @aquilatempestate9527
    @aquilatempestate9527 Před 3 lety +82

    Mussolini didn't write The Doctrine Of Fascism; Giovanni Gentile did.

    • @josephsmith6777
      @josephsmith6777 Před 3 lety +5

      I didnt say he wrote it said he launched it

    • @JRobbySh
      @JRobbySh Před 3 lety +8

      Did he fail to mention that Mussolini was a leading Socialist?

    • @Imran-ko1xh
      @Imran-ko1xh Před 3 lety

      @Barbara Mulvaney he probably meant to say 'it'

    • @tyronevaldez-kruger5313
      @tyronevaldez-kruger5313 Před 3 lety

      Giovanni Gentile? That wasn't gentle from him

    • @marconius101
      @marconius101 Před 3 lety

      @@JRobbySh So he was a opportunist..

  • @Bamboule05
    @Bamboule05 Před 6 měsíci

    I'm 6 minutes in and already I think this is one of the best documentaries about the subject, covering alot more than expected. Thanks!

  • @DemonKnight1970
    @DemonKnight1970 Před 3 lety

    great video
    one of the best post-ww1 docus out there

  • @louiseowusu246
    @louiseowusu246 Před 3 lety +5

    Very insightful documentaries. I've always been interested in this part of history.

  • @AbuSous2000PR
    @AbuSous2000PR Před 2 lety +8

    what is unique & amazing about WWI..how all parties including the (victorious ones) were so exhausted. that is why the French & somehow the British crumbled quickly
    the recovery of Russia & Germany was breathtaking. honestly, I am not able to comprehend that yet. Both lost big..but managed to recover in less than 2 decades

  • @igor-yp1xv
    @igor-yp1xv Před 11 měsíci

    Great documentary and awesome sound work

  • @richardwhitfill5253
    @richardwhitfill5253 Před 9 měsíci

    I enjoy the history documentaries on CZcams. Thank you

  • @brianthomas8125
    @brianthomas8125 Před 2 lety +9

    Insane. In Italy, it was a VERY rough adjustment. In early 1919, the King sat down for espresso with PM Orlando and asked him if he'd debate anything in Sykes-Picot (Vittorio Emanuele III was a BIG reader). Orlando shook his head and replied, "There's a reason why the Old Romans left, Majesty- too many problems there". Instead, Italy started working on improving conditions in all 4 colonies- Libya, Eritrea, Somalia & Tientsin.

  • @postscript5549
    @postscript5549 Před 3 lety +4

    Wonderfully done. The narrator had a sense of bemusement, even humor at times.

    • @dixonpinfold2582
      @dixonpinfold2582 Před 3 lety +2

      I thought he laid on the sanctimony and sentimentalism with a trowel far too many times. Like the music, overdone.

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy Před 2 lety +1

      @@dixonpinfold2582 I agree, there are other programmes in this series which I have seen before on The History Channel but I won't bother to follow them up on YT because of the affectations of the narrator.

  • @acadianr2leger
    @acadianr2leger Před 3 lety +1

    great doc 🇨🇦

  • @oldfan1963
    @oldfan1963 Před 3 lety +12

    28:00 - "1920 was a year the world needed a drink.. " much like 2020....

  • @JRobbySh
    @JRobbySh Před 3 lety +28

    Interestingly, the documentary does not mention the Spanish Flu, despite its enormous casualties. So completely did it disappear from collective memory until just a few weaker ago.

    • @AdamMGTF
      @AdamMGTF Před 2 lety +1

      Weaker ago?
      It's a standard part of any history book that covers that time. Had it not been for the war, it probably would have been the most important event of the early 20th century.

    • @wadeadams2775
      @wadeadams2775 Před 2 lety

      I thought that as well

    • @LathropLdST
      @LathropLdST Před 10 měsíci

      Weaker than your comment.
      My father was called Child of the Spaniard, born in mid pandemic. It got me studying the pandemic, and I was prepared when the current one came.
      Some families DID talk about it. The ones like mine, the strong or lucky who lost no one - not even a baby born in the killer second wave.

  • @avd-wd9581
    @avd-wd9581 Před 3 lety +144

    This should've been three times longer - too many important things not covered.

    • @HelicopterHatHacker
      @HelicopterHatHacker Před 3 lety +4

      This documentary was all over place. Like watching the guest host of Drunk History ramble on.

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 Před 3 lety

      @B M-Y 49 minutes X 3 - 147 minutes. An hour = 60 minutes. So, 2 hours and 20 minutes.

    • @fattyarbuckle5001
      @fattyarbuckle5001 Před 3 lety +11

      Hey, they managed to get Fatty Arbuckle in. Not sure that had anything to do with anything.

    • @Jaunyus
      @Jaunyus Před 3 lety +8

      Any length of film is going to be too short, because there is just so much information to cover.

    • @keithscott1957
      @keithscott1957 Před 3 lety +8

      You want the Time Ghost channel's "Between 2 Wars" playlist.
      czcams.com/play/PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG.html

  • @q21wak
    @q21wak Před 5 měsíci

    This was really good

  • @Gettingback997
    @Gettingback997 Před rokem

    Thanks!

  • @Raydensheraj
    @Raydensheraj Před 2 lety +12

    This time is best written about in the masterpiece by Heinrich August Winkler in his phenomenal book "The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914-1945".
    I highly recommend it, for those interested...a hidden, underrated gem of historical writing...

  • @tammyhumphreys57
    @tammyhumphreys57 Před 3 lety +3

    I greatly enjoyed this video, but where is the rest of it!!!!!! This surely is not the end????

  • @jamesthornton9399
    @jamesthornton9399 Před 3 lety

    Really like this.

  • @Nounismisation
    @Nounismisation Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent with a lot of bonus, often ignored information and intersting arguements. Thank you for making this available to everyone.

  • @tinasmith1391
    @tinasmith1391 Před 3 lety +61

    Major General Smedley Darlington Butler had some interesting insights into it. He wrote a book about it when he saw the second world war coming.

    • @salus1231
      @salus1231 Před 3 lety +16

      I have that in a pdf War is a racket. Also a book called Krieg dem kriege , or war against war, by Ernst Friedrich 1924.
      Both are brilliant especially the latter and once read cant be unread but you have to read them to truly understand
      just what a racket war became.

    • @yvonneblocker5618
      @yvonneblocker5618 Před 3 lety +5

      Exactly so. And who would know better than he, Butler?

    • @bordenfleetwood5773
      @bordenfleetwood5773 Před 3 lety +7

      @@yvonneblocker5618 - Considering the hot nonsense that seemed to follow General Butler in his retirement, I'd say no one. He's one of very few historical figures that were set up to become puppet kings and yet managed to see through the plot and stay true to his morals.

    • @freespeechisneverwrong9351
      @freespeechisneverwrong9351 Před 3 lety +6

      @@salus1231 “just what a racket war became” and still is. Trumps dismissal of General Mattis and now Trumps removal which then lead Mattis to state “we cannot have anymore of this America first”.
      Just watch in the next twelve months how the new administration will bring about a war to stoke the war machine in Washington.

    • @bobandbally88
      @bobandbally88 Před 2 lety +1

      @@salus1231 maybe if we can replace crt with Gen. Butler's writing with some others. Drive the teachers union crazy.

  • @jenniferwilcox9759
    @jenniferwilcox9759 Před 3 lety +4

    Thank you for an interesting synopsis of WWI. There are many comments regarding the music being too loud and the narrator speaking in "gibberish". I didn't have any such problems with this video. Just passing my opinion along for those who read comments before watching a video.

    • @AdamMGTF
      @AdamMGTF Před 2 lety

      It's probably down to this being converted from a made for TV documentary. And given how old it is, the production style then was very different.
      The comments on the issues don't seem to take that into consideration

  • @Susyw123
    @Susyw123 Před rokem

    The MUSIC in the background!! The documentary speaks for itself, there’s really no need for that background! Please, consider taking it off.
    Wonderful content! Thank you

  • @mrjones7222
    @mrjones7222 Před 3 lety +2

    Thankd

  • @JimSmithInChiapas
    @JimSmithInChiapas Před 3 lety +27

    2:18 "History is interesting only because *nothing is inevitable* ". But from the description: "Explore how the far reaching consequences of this move set in motion *the inexorable march* to another World War."

    • @Sea_ss
      @Sea_ss Před 3 lety +4

      The implication is it didn’t have to go this way, if things had been done differently at Versailles. This was only further compounded by the Great Depression.

  • @laetitialogan2017
    @laetitialogan2017 Před 3 lety +4

    So much horror for people to endure

  • @marciobaterahvoltandoasrai793

    Excelent. . Doc. .. Shalom aleichem

  • @gaoxiaen1
    @gaoxiaen1 Před 3 lety +1

    I agree with "crude cookery".

  • @douglasturner6153
    @douglasturner6153 Před 3 lety +50

    Wilson was out of his depth. A naive, conceited and delusional man at this point. He didn't even include major Republican leaders in his decisions or on the journey to France. Truman didn't make the same mistakes with the United Nations and other key post war issues. He carefully worked to get their support.

    • @alanaadams7440
      @alanaadams7440 Před 3 lety +1

      Agreed

    • @williamfolts2464
      @williamfolts2464 Před 2 lety +2

      Lol what a dahm fool they started this war to create the league of nations and the United Nations that was the point a new world order

    • @twisttwistamigo
      @twisttwistamigo Před 2 lety +3

      @@williamfolts2464 you know the us had nothing to do with the start, right?

    • @williamfolts2464
      @williamfolts2464 Před 2 lety

      Didn't say that they did I said they started the league if nations

    • @SiVlog1989
      @SiVlog1989 Před 2 lety +1

      I think that he had the right idea, but went about it the wrong way. Congress was sceptical about the benefits of being in an all nations group for collective security, seeing it as surrendering their ability to declare war. Wilson, rather than flattering Congress, persuading them of the benefits the League of Nations would provide, he kept going to Paris, laying out the framework for the League and overstretched himself physically by going on a whistle-stop tour of the nation to sell the League to the American people, leaving himself with the worst Stroke of his life, leaving him unable to govern properly for most of the rest of his term. When his push to have the Nation join the League met its final defeat in the Senate, he said:
      "they have shamed up in the eyes of the world,"

  • @edkonstantellis9094
    @edkonstantellis9094 Před 2 lety +5

    The irony of the Treaty of Versaille
    The Alleis, England and France, committing massacres on their colonial subjects while evicerating Germany for the same

    • @maxpowers9129
      @maxpowers9129 Před 2 lety +1

      Hypocrites and evil people have a huge advantage over men of honor, because bad people can use any tactic good people can, in addition to unethical tactics, so scum tend to be the ones to get into power.

  • @boris1387
    @boris1387 Před 2 lety

    Brilliant film,👌

  • @kiohanna
    @kiohanna Před 3 lety

    Excellent as always!

  • @inkyguy
    @inkyguy Před 3 lety +38

    The term “the real McCoy” does not originate from the bootlegger as this documentary says. Instead, the phrase "The real McCoy" is likely a corruption of the Scots "The real MacKay", first recorded in 1856 as: "A drappie o' the real MacKay", ("a drop of the real MacKay"). A letter written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883 contains the phrase, “He’s the real Mackay,” decades before U.S. Prohibition.

    • @alainarchambault2331
      @alainarchambault2331 Před 3 lety +4

      That's interesting, though one would submit that often popular culture is often adapted from earlier customs. For instance, religion has oft borrowed from earlier beliefs. So McCoy, likely being Scottish drummed up that old saying but with his name instead, and people of the US wouldn't know any different.

    • @dirtypure2023
      @dirtypure2023 Před 3 lety +2

      @@brandensilverstar Can you reference a source? That's pretty far back :)

    • @rabby77777
      @rabby77777 Před 3 lety

      nope you are wrong

    • @Ethan.s..
      @Ethan.s.. Před 3 lety

      Say Uncle!

    • @ThrashLawPatentsAndTMs
      @ThrashLawPatentsAndTMs Před 3 lety +3

      "The Real McCoy" may refer to the "real McCoy railroad oil drip" of the mid 1800s -- it was their (his) marketing slogan, and I believe was an intentional corruption of "The Real MacKay."
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_McCoy

  • @lastfirst6626
    @lastfirst6626 Před 3 lety +8

    What a way to open this piece, "Britain lost %15 per cent of her world wealth."

  • @LekkerNootje
    @LekkerNootje Před 3 lety

    Damn good docu

  • @stphnolar
    @stphnolar Před 3 lety

    Nice.

  • @vinayakmangal9641
    @vinayakmangal9641 Před 3 lety +44

    6:13 There were absolutely no warnings which were given to the crowd to disperse. Moreover, the day this genocide took place was a day of festival (Baisakhi) and the garden (Jallianwala Bagh) where the genocide took place was very close to the temple so people naturally came there after performing the rituals etc in the temple. It was the biased, bigoted and racist attitude of the British Governor in Punjab and his puppet Dyer which led to this genocide of innocent people, where children as young as 9 were also murdered. But I must give credit to this documentary for looking into this aspect of British history.

    • @Crazytechnition
      @Crazytechnition Před 3 lety +15

      Massacre, not genocide. You’re devaluing what genocide actually is.

    • @SofiaParker777
      @SofiaParker777 Před 3 lety +7

      Lol Those people were trying to harm British people what choice general dyer had ??? He was protecting his people.

    • @freespeechisneverwrong9351
      @freespeechisneverwrong9351 Před 3 lety +2

      @Shane Gallagher Yes you should keep the chip on your shoulder and make sure it weighs down the next generation.🤦‍♂️

    • @rachelk4805
      @rachelk4805 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Crazytechnition What do you call the Bengal famine that killed millions of Indian people? It wasn't due to natural causes, it was because of Great Britain's colonialism. Exactly what is the minimum number of deaths before we are allowed to use the word genocide?

    • @Unexpectedthings007
      @Unexpectedthings007 Před 2 lety +1

      @@SofiaParker777 run away bruh leave the country

  • @OjitosRM
    @OjitosRM Před 3 lety +45

    The background music is too loud, for us non native english speakers it makes it harder to understand whats being said.

  • @SuikodenGR
    @SuikodenGR Před 8 měsíci

    im curious why the other 2 videos are unavilable? Curious question?

  • @TheGreatResist
    @TheGreatResist Před 3 lety

    This channel is astounding!

  • @ryancoulter4797
    @ryancoulter4797 Před 3 lety +4

    Is Timeline an actual tv show? I keep finding videos with Timeline on the thumbnail but the actual video seems made by someone else and no mention of Timeline

    • @fmcg5364
      @fmcg5364 Před 3 lety +4

      It is, or it was on BBC Two, (being American I don't know if it is still on) but there is a subscription on CZcams for Timeline because I am subscribed to Timeline

  • @MiKeMiDNiTe-77
    @MiKeMiDNiTe-77 Před 3 lety +5

    Yes I'm sure being in the victorious Allies camp at the end of WW1 they would think there's no need for a future war but the losing nations and others like Italy and Japan which had been snubbed at the Versailles table and Russia which was ignored and obviously Germany would see things rather different.

  • @MissesSofia
    @MissesSofia Před 2 lety

    Great documentary! Thank you. The background music when the narrator is speaking about Charlie Chaplin my ear. Great melody - anyone knows the song?

  • @Mindfultranslations
    @Mindfultranslations Před 2 měsíci +1

    I appreciate the opportunity to learn .. regardless the degree of accurate history. At least I’m introduced to the subject or event . I can research on my own continuously afterwards… my opinion regarding both wars is that they were planned to produce the required leadership to match the new industry and products it produced! 😊

    • @tomatojuice369
      @tomatojuice369 Před měsícem +1

      Gut erkannt, die Frage muss immer lauten, wem nützt es und wer verdient daran?!

  • @yourwinismywin_
    @yourwinismywin_ Před 3 lety +10

    I wonder how peaceful things will be after this pandemic.

  • @BoffinGrusky
    @BoffinGrusky Před 3 lety +26

    Study history for decades, and you'll come to understand that you will never "know" history. You will only learn someone's version of history. I have learned several lessons ABOUT history; It is cyclical, and themes repeat themselves. We have always lived in an imperfect world, and the world will never be perfected by the hand of mankind. Run from any "leader" who promises visions of Utopia. If you want a better understanding of history, always follow the rabbit trails. They lead to the most interesting places.

    • @dr2759
      @dr2759 Před 3 lety +4

      Great comment. Boffin, you think we are on a path, here in US, to Civil War, if not a HOT war with China?

    • @BoffinGrusky
      @BoffinGrusky Před 3 lety +5

      @@dr2759 Two good questions. Civil war in the US? Based on publicly available information, probably not for the foreseeable future. My interpretation is that we are witnessing political tantrums from a noisy minority. Unrest to be sure, but minimal bloodshed. The battle will be fought at the ballet box for the time being. We survived the 1960's and 1970's. They were a much more perilous time in our nation's history. Read about them yourself, and do a comparison to contemporary times. I think you'll understand my point. Regarding a hot war with China, again, unlikely, although some very limited military skirmishes seem possible. I have a very limited understanding of Chinese history, but my impression is that historically, they tend to be "introvertive". They have festering political problems internally, they appear to have a massively leveraged economy, they are highly dependent on exports to drive their economy, they lack key natural resources (energy), they are not food independent, almost 9% of their population is undernourished, they have a small deep water navy, they have never faced a modern military force in battle, and the list just goes on and on. My opinion is that China is playing a game of their own making, and we probably don't fully understand it. If they ever decide to get openly hostile, I think we might all be surprised at their strategy. As always, time will tell! :)

    • @mtlicq
      @mtlicq Před 3 lety +1

      ...and run from the "vaccine" and certificate/immunity passport system that "promises visions of Utopia"

    • @BoffinGrusky
      @BoffinGrusky Před 3 lety +1

      @@mtlicq Touchy subject. I don't believe vaccinations should be mandatory, but I fully support their development and use by anyone who wants them. Also, it's easy to understand why governments would impose travel restrictions on unvaccinated individuals. Read the Wiki entry entitled: "History of Polio". You will note that COVID-19 is already more deadly than the worst outbreaks of the 1940's and 1950's. Then read the entries for smallpox and rubella. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life, playing a game of Russian Roulette with a virus? I understand the concerns about the risks of vaccines, but they should be balanced against the realities of contracting a disease that can kill, disable, and disrupt the lives of millions.

  • @pooddescrewch8718
    @pooddescrewch8718 Před 3 lety +1

    Jack Dempsey had brass knucks on in that fight .

  • @venitarice5721
    @venitarice5721 Před 2 lety

    Nice

  • @fmcg5364
    @fmcg5364 Před 3 lety +44

    Can you lower the music so that we can hear what the narrator is saying or ensure the closed captions are correct so we can at least read what the narrator is saying?

    • @chownful
      @chownful Před 3 lety +4

      It could be lowered during speaking, but I personally don't find it so loud that I can't hear the narrator's words.

    • @902d
      @902d Před 3 lety +4

      Better more improve the narrator’s script. It’s utmost gibberish with no coherence whatsoever. As if listening to a demented grandfather.

    • @bunzeebear2973
      @bunzeebear2973 Před 3 lety +2

      Ensure the closed captions are correct so we can at least read it which would help for those narrators with accents. So many times it has us guessing ... I do know Thebes...it is not "these" or "bees"or "trees" /Different video-Goliath.// Punctuation would be helpful too. I pity the DEAF for having to read the gibberish that CC displays. You might as well have a Swedish narrator.

    • @CourtofRecord
      @CourtofRecord Před 3 lety +2

      @@902d I thought I was the only one that thought it was pure GIBBERISH

    • @CourtofRecord
      @CourtofRecord Před 3 lety +1

      @@bunzeebear2973 absolutely I had myself questioning my own senility, ,¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @CousinPaddy
    @CousinPaddy Před 3 lety +3

    Idk, this doc gives Wilson waaayyy too much credit for my tastes, and they already pointed out how badly he was played lol. But in all seriousness, this was great.

  • @sehnoorsingh1149
    @sehnoorsingh1149 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Dyer's action in Amritsar still makes our punjabi's hearts pain. We visit that place every year on 13 April 😢

  • @thereilneid2868
    @thereilneid2868 Před 3 lety +2

    So happy to read the comments b4 watching. I'm amazed how many world history expert's are out there. Thank's to all of you who THINK you know everything.

    • @janetwebster5099
      @janetwebster5099 Před 2 lety

      The more I learn of history, the more I realize that I don't know .And - the more I want to learn as much as I can (as no one can ever know all of history that is a literal impossibility) Note: I do not claim to know much of anything about other topics!

  • @DP-je7sj
    @DP-je7sj Před 3 lety +4

    Dan Snow is a legend!

  • @d1agram4
    @d1agram4 Před 3 lety +15

    1:39 Britain lost only 15% of their wealth? That’s not so bad.. would have thought it was much worse.

    • @pandora8478
      @pandora8478 Před 3 lety +9

      Goes to show how much they had. 2 centuries of pillaging India and Africa in the 19th century helped!

    • @jeffschlarb4965
      @jeffschlarb4965 Před 3 lety +2

      I was checking world population in the early 1900's for another question earlier.
      In 1907, there were 1.75 Billion people in the world.
      378 MILLION were considered living in the British Empire!
      About 23% of the world!
      Today the UK has about 60 Million!
      15% of 1920 UK Money >>>>>>(much, much...greater) than 15% of 2020 UK money

    • @MrJoebrooklyn1969
      @MrJoebrooklyn1969 Před 3 lety +2

      15% is a Great Depression. So it sounds low but it's very bad.

    • @grandpied
      @grandpied Před 3 lety +1

      They lost 15% of their wealth, but gained 85% of their incredibility.

    • @thetraveller1612
      @thetraveller1612 Před 3 lety +1

      And Turkey lost most of its territory and continues to pay the price to this day all because of Britain. Seems like Britain got off lightly.

  • @WiseCity
    @WiseCity Před rokem

    That brief pause was 20 years. And they were the best for my country of Romania.

  • @harleythebrit6386
    @harleythebrit6386 Před 3 lety +1

    Very good documentary I think ? But could you possibly make the background music louder please ? As I'm pretty sure that there were a couple of times when I could hear what the narrator was saying without having to stick my ear in my laptop speaker .............................................

  • @gregorys6074
    @gregorys6074 Před 3 lety +4

    Love these DOC'S but younger generations have uped the music

  • @AT-wj5sw
    @AT-wj5sw Před 3 lety +5

    1930’s sounds a lot of the world today

  • @JoshuaJetton-hs9kf
    @JoshuaJetton-hs9kf Před měsícem

    Anyone know where to find guided notes for these?

  • @caesar4857
    @caesar4857 Před 3 lety +14

    Recommend anyone to read Hellstorm and The High Cost Of Vengeance.

  • @bigverybadtom
    @bigverybadtom Před 2 lety +4

    I remember a David Low cartoon where "Professor Blimp" asks, "Is man evolving backwards?" And his exhibits include "failure to make generous peace 1918", "failure to treat liberal Germany decently period 1920-1930", "failure to stand up to gangsterism 1930-1940", and finally "present day ghastly prospect".

  • @TheTravellingBuddha
    @TheTravellingBuddha Před 3 lety +2

    At the start of the video I noticed a fantastic collection of books. Would you be so kind to compile a list/video of your top 20 favourite please?

  • @mattematsson554
    @mattematsson554 Před 3 lety +1

    I can't help but think that we need to look very high up in the hierarchy to understand this madness!
    It's 2021 now and the madness continues...

  • @bellasuchoza9653
    @bellasuchoza9653 Před 3 lety +8

    15:26 - 51% of Czechoslovakians were Czech... waiting... ehm.. okay, but I guess it'd be nice to mention Slovaks as well😂

    • @serebii666
      @serebii666 Před 2 lety

      And even that statistic is made up. In 1920, according to the census, 67.5% were Czechoslovak (since Slovaks and Czechs were counted as the same ethnic group). 30.6% were German.