5 Major Treaties & Alliances in the Build Up to World War One
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- The First World War is often interpreted as fought between two major alliances - the Triple Entente between France, Britain and Russia, and the Dual Alliance linking Germany and Austria-Hungary.
But this oversimplifies the alliances, treaties and agreements that developed throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and drew the Great Powers, along with numerous other countries, into war.
That fucking gunshot at 4:26 scared the absolute shit out of me. Am i the only one??
+drholyshitful me too! xD
haha same
lol same here
the same with me, i guess i have become chicken.
I felt like the Archduke for a second.
That gunshot startled me lol
+Sam Howden me to
+King Marre too*
Lol me to.
Same
Sam Howden me too 😀
Italy: "Don't worry, Triple Alliance, I have a plan!"
Italy: "..."
[Italy has left the server]
[Italy has joined the server on TEAM ENTENTE]
who the hell leaves the server to join the other team
@@IanMalcolm-rw5pn finally someone who studied history with books and not with memes
Italy is that friend that is fake asf
WTF?!? 'you scared the hell out of me with that gunshot!!
Italy was the biggest troll
LOL that's true but to be honest the triple alliance was a Defensive Alliance while Austria-Hungary took the offensive declaring war against the terms of the treaties. Anyway, we won and defeated them in World War I at Vittorio Veneto. I just wanted to add some informations to the video.
+Cecil Holstein But serbia didnt assassinate him- a terrorist did. AH just declared war out of anger at the country.
***** my point was yes the terrorist was serbian however the assassin didnt do it at the request of the government. He made a stupid move and it caused everything.
***** what was the ultimatum? Sorry, im American.
***** fair enough
that gun shot though
The Dual Alliance was a defensive alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary, which was created by treaty on October 7th, 1879 as part of Germany's Otto von Bismarck's system of alliances to prevent or limit war. The two powers promised each other support in case of attack by Russia. Also, each state promised benevolent neutrality to the other if one of them was attacked by another European power (generally taken to be France, even more so after the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894). Bismarck saw the alliance as a way to prevent the isolation of the German Empire, which had just been founded a few years before, and to preserve peace, as Russia would not wage war against both empires.
This is GREAT quality!
almost drop my phone thanks to that gunshot
I nearly dropped harder than the Archduke.
Germany in world war 1 is just such a great lesson. Choose your friends cause if they invade Serbia and lose the war then be prepared to take a whopping from all of Serbia’s buddies.
It's funny how Serbia actually reppeled Austo-Hungarian Empire on it's own....that small country was winning so badly that Austro-Hungary had to call Germany for help and still didn't win..... I love Serbian culture, they are still hated today for the same reason...they just don't want to submit to anyone. Altho west media is having such a strong influence over them that they are losing that battle, sadly.
@@justvlaxx1260 ehhh I agreed with you for a while but I think many hate the Serbs now because of their atrocities in more recent times
@@moealhakani7005 don't forget Sebrenica masacre.
Nice vid!!!
Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
Italy did not 'renege' on their part of the Triple Alliance, the alliance agreement between the three nations was if they were to be declared on by Russia however Germany made the declaration of war against Russia as a result of their mass mobilization and alliance with Serbia. therefore Italy did not feel break the Triple Alliance.
Snakeyboy yes but then they broke it by fighting Austria 😂
Kanoshem the real/better explanation is that Italy sought powerful allies given its weak position, but it was still better to avoid war in any case. So, when it joined the Triple Alliance the agreement for Italy was one of a defensive pact. Should Austria or Germany be attacked, then Italy would either remain neutral or support their ally. Since Austria-Hungary invaded Serbia it was the aggressor, so Italy had no obligation to join technically (sort of a lawyerly excuse but at the same time that was the official stipulation).
Remember, like Germany, Italy was a relatively new nation. Unlike Germany it lacked competent leadership and was mostly unified through war with other Italian states rather than solidified & united by external conflict (as the North German Confederation unified with the south via the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars). Italy was a land of disparity much more so than Germany which still had inter-state disputes but to lesser extent than Italian differences especially in infrastructure and economy. Its peoples all had different cultures. Their military was lackluster. So without an obligation to defend Germany or Austria it was free to pursue more of its own self-interest. Thus, with the realization of the war, it came down to a cost-benefit analysis and in the end the Entente Powers had more to offer, namely territory. They “formally” left the alliance in 1915 with another treaty but they already had no remaining responsibility to the Central Powers the very day Austria-Hungary declared war.
Yeah, the Triple Alliance was a defensive pact.
Italy's leadership was smarter than the German one honestly.
@@AndrewVasirov they basically understood better than others whose side they would have to pick to get what they wanted.
Von Schlieffen* not von Schleiffen.
+Die Wehrmacht Indeed.
Oooo
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am i the only one that has no idea what is going on
no, you're not. I will probably
have to watch this a 100 times to understand
Hi,kindly tell me countries that joined other alliances and which new nations joined in the war.
One problem was the alliance treaties carefully distinguished between offensive and defensive wars, but with the the developments in technology it became unclear whether general mobilization was offensive or defensive.
great video !!!
Anyone here for history
can anyone link me to that map in the beginning of the video? The one where it has states as soldiers. preferably with a source. i've studied/study wwi extensively and would love a high quality image of that map. 0:20
I hope it's still helpful:
publicdomainreview.org/collection/cartoon-map-of-europe-in-1914
images.app.goo.gl/gwqc6r6b55vWH6418
The world would be so different if Britain joined the triple alliance, since that side would have most likely won ww1 when russia withdrew due to the communist civil war, so then germany would not have been destroyed by war repirations and ww2 and hitler rising to power would probably have never happened
Its also funny that the British-French treaty was held in cairo where each side cooked each other a meal and they basically sat down and sorted it our of yorkshire pudding. So basically, fried batter saved europe!
Dylan Le Lerre how did that save europe? If britain sided with germany over france then Europe would have been saved. word war two wouldn't have happened
WW2 would have happened. Either by the Soviet Union or even Japan, though it wouldn't be as bad as it was on real life.
PP Hyjynx so let me get this straight. You think that if Britain joined the Central Powers that would have saved Europe? From what? WW1 would have still happen. But instead of a humiliated Germany that turns into a nationalistic dictatorship, it would have been France or Russia who would try to avenge their mocking defeat.
It is ridiculous to think that the war could have been avoided if only Britain switched sides.
well if germany won ww1 then the kaiser would have still been in power, Hitler would not have been listened to. The only reason the Nazi party were elected was because of the shape of germany at the time, but if they won then their economy would not have been bad.
Russia left ww1 in 1917 with the russian revolution, that event would still take place and france would not be able to rebuild itself like Germany did, it does not have the resources
What a LOUD shot!..bet it was heard around the world lol
May I ask you what software do u use to represent political maps?
there are no good or bad countries just strong and weak ones...read machiavelli
Thomas Owusu-Abayie because they had no chance to win a war against the neighbours.
Thomas Owusu-Abayie what are you talking about? War isn't simple like that. Switzerland has never been a strategic target in the war history of the big countries like France, Germany etc. An invasion would be senseless. Besides that Swizerland did a lot of questionable thinks to prevent Switzerland from war.
Thomas Owusu-Abayie what are you talking about? War isn't simple like that. Switzerland has never been a strategic target in the war history of the big countries like France, Germany etc. An invasion would be senseless. Besides that Swizerland did a lot of questionable thinks to prevent Switzerland from war.
Thomas Owusu-Abayie and swizerland was able to keep their neutrality because they did a lot of money transfers for the German reich. Germany needed a neutral state for the money transfers and the good conditions. And furthermore they gave Germany a lot of armaments. So Switzerland did a lot of questionably thinks to save their neutrality. I mean, it's totally understandable because they had no other chance, but it's not that easy as you said like: "we don't want to get involved, so we can stay neutral"
Sorry for my crappy English, hope you can understand what I tried to say.
-st4ndby- Let me guess... The reason somebody didn't try to invade Switzerland was the mountains, right?
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The gunshot caught me off guard and I almost spilled a gallon of water on myself! lmao
Well, Germany could of probably made a defensive war on the western front, rather than aggressing, Germany could of set up defensive positions in the west, while fighting Russia in the east, then making an offensive war after the defeat of Russia. Just one thing though, always remember, "I will fight against Russia and win in the winter" is beyond comprehension, a bad idea, which is virtually impossible.
+Jordo Coro you know germany basically won against russia in the first world war, they signed a peace treaty - but they lost to the west which made the win over russia irrelevant
LordOfNoobstown I know, but when I talked about the winter, I meant trying to capture a city in the Russian winter.
+Jordo Coro in the end of the war the Germans occupied the Ukraine, the Crimea, Poland, Lithuanian and Estonia. a lot of land and 4 russian winters
Marcel Kühne The winters of 1941-2 were the worst in the decade, if not the century.
Well Russia also made the peace because of the revolution...
Amazing just Amazing!!!!!!
German Empire X Ottoman Empire
WW1 Alliance
@00:38 Unless you're Bismarck :P
Wow this is actually really useful because I legit didn't know about these treaties
4:25 It made me scared
that GUN SHOT facked me up while i was playing GAME and pretending that i am studying about history to my MOM
So whose watching this for school
Guys, that gunshot sound woke me up! Jesus, some warning would be great.
Picture at 0:19 is drawed by Walter Trier
"Our shadows will walk across Wienna, roaming in their castles, frightening their gentlemen." G. PRINCIP x)
First of all, I don't know what you learn at schools, but Princip was a member of Young Bosnia, not Black Hand.
Second, he is a hero for all time, representing how small, simple man can stand up against the oppressor.
Third, I don't remember AU empire exist after him... empire that didn't acknowledged basic rights for it's citizens...
So yes, his shadow still roam across Wienna, Berlin, London and Bruixelles and all over the places where someone thinks he can occupy and make parades in foreign land without consent of the host.
And last, you don't get a metaphor.
Had to change my shorts after than gunshot, man! 😵
The first of those damned alliances was signed in 1373, between Portugal and England, which then became the UK.
portugal was neutral during ww1
no they were not, they joined the allies.
scotland & france signed a treaty "the auld alliance".. too in 1403 probably as it was a major rival and emnemy too kingdom of england, wales too had assistance and help from the kingdom of aragon & france in 1405, the "prince of wales owain glyndwr was crowned, often called welsh royal rebellion"...
the kingdom of ireland has had good relations with spain for hundreds of years, often in contrast too the portugese=england treaty... all of these later becoming republic of ireland & the UK...
Its funny that about 100 years ago there were only 23 countries on Europe and after one century the number doubled . (45)
What about 2000 years ago?
+Vlad the Manpire Illyrian tribes , Roman empire , South Balkan states , Carthage ( Had Sicily , Iberia ) , Germanic tribes , slavs in north , idk more :p
I am just saying that that always changes we would be lucky to have less because then there is less conflict :)
+Vlad the Manpire Yep , but some stupid stupid people are hating the EU . We need a global Eu language for 45 Eu countries , and then would be peace ( If Russia changes... )
The EU needs to change the europeans should be directly able to vote for who has a seat in Belgium.
Then there might be hope for this project.
"In 1887, it was inconceivable that a crisis in Austro-Serbian relations could lead to a continental war."
I don't think it was inconceivable. I've read some very interesting books on the lead-up to WWI, and there was a widely-held belief that a "General European War" was possibly on the horizon. Not only that, but the Balkans were recognized as the most unstable region of Europe, and a potential powder keg.
Having Germany as one country at this time is very dishonest no
oh man i would love to know where that carricature is from :p
done.
Why do we have to be sent it watch it
4:24 i literally jumped out my skin
In my social studies class Denmark looks like a duck. See it
Portugal?
I wonder what would happen if England joined the centrals
I'm assuming something around what Italy did
but otherwise I'm sure they'd of eliminated the French
A democracy joining dictators against another democracy...Naaaah that never happens.
+barack brahms what if ._.
+barack brahms You mean a parliamentary monarchy joining monarchs (supported by their people) against a democracy that was their enemy for the last thousand years.
Note: u came here because u need it for school
You misspelt the Schlieffen-Plan.
Wait....wasn't -Triple- Entete Russia, France and Serbia? Britain joined after the invasion of Belgium by German Empire...
entente cordiale is the reason the trio of uk, france & russia is considered in the triple entente. Serbia is not in it.
i am from austria
+pikkulanittaja thx i hope so too
Why did it scare me like that 🥲🤚
where did you learn your history the allies declared war on austria germany went in as allies to help them
paulus121212 russia declared war on austria, germany declared war on russia and france, get your history straight before demanding it from others.
+boss180888 and Austria was the first to declare war. Austria declared war on Serbia.
+boss180888 France declared war on Germany
DePauperGamers no.
DePauperGamers Nope, Germany declared war on France.
more british view point . tired of it. i want to hear german. i want to hear russian. i want to hear austrian. it was austrians that started world war one, not germany. germany just stupidly backed up their allie....austria.
As Bismarck said, "Some damn fool thing in the Balkans."
Hey wait a sec, russia defeated japan or japan defeated russia
t was Japan defeating Russia in that war, becoming the 1st modern asian country to defeat a european country in the 19th century.
@@tauhidershadKUFNAFLORAN thanks for replying 3 years
@@lonelyspeckarp don’t mention it.
It's great weldone☝️👆🤝🤲🖕👏
Hej Chresten
rip headphone users at 4:26
awersome
Russia defeated Japan?
No
@@banzai7772 It was Japan defeating Russia in that war, becoming the 1st modern asian country to defeat a european country in the 19th century.
There was one goal in World War 1: "Hey, take that trench over there."
We would win if Italy was with us 😂
where is ottoman empire ?
Asian country that invaded Europe is centuries in the past
Isn't that a footstool store?
@@matthew5556 Your butthurt level extends to other dimensions
@@markw4udx lmao cry.
to any tenby students wassup lol
Jeeez
just saying you labled the United Kingdom of Great Birtian and Irland as "Great Britian". Great Britian is just the island that hold England, Scotland and Wales.
+Martin Thompson Ireland was still part of Great Britain.
+Brigadier Grammar Nazi Irland is not on the island of Great Britian, google it
Martin Thompson Britain is the Island, Great Britain was the country and British Isles included Ireland.
+Brigadier Grammar Nazi Great Britian is the island, often refered to as Britian, part of the British isle's which includes Irland. "The United Kingdom of Great Britian and Irland" was the contry. Now knows as "The United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northan Irland"
Martin Thompson It was called Great Britain even though it is implied as a Geographical term, as it was still called Great Britain even though the Channel Islands weren't Geographically part of the main Island.
where is Portugal ? Portugal have participate in the war !
+Filipe .Torres Lol, sending a few divisions just to die of attrition in Flanders. Even the Nepalese participation was larger, though it's not mentioned too.
it was 200.000 men ! show some respect ! nepalese just send 70.000 ! LOOL
Filipe .Torres Well, those "Portuguese", by some data, were mostly the population of colonies, first of all originaries from Angola and Mozambique, as the most populous parts of Portuguese empire. That's the same thing as if we counted the Egiptians or Indians as "British". Second, as I've already said, most of them died because of unability of supply organisations. You simply weren't enough economically capable! The Portuguese war contribution was about 0. Yes, that's why I mention the Nepalese.
what ? thats a lie , they were from Continental Portugal ! dont be a liar ! pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalha_de_La_Lys read !
Filipe .Torres Sorry, I don't understand what is written there. Whatever you write in your Portuguese Wikipedia, fact remains fact.
I m so unhapy because you dont see history on second side... Many of you are angry and hate serbian people so much, because some serbian boys in bosnia assasinated franc ferdinand... Do you know why that hapened? Because 150 years before, goverment in viena hate serbs and want destroy all because they dont catolik and they are slavic people... Sorry for my bad english... :-)
nobody cares about that today...besides, history is more complicated than one guy shooting a prince therefore you wage war against the whole country of his citizenship...the shooting has been - at least - an excuse as it was the war in iraq and afghanistan...strongest countries do that ALL THE FKING TIME in order to gain power and dominate
@@TheTerre86 yes strong countries do that.
And with the empires it was MUCH MUCH more worse.
Germany started world war 1
The wrong side won...
***** Hahahah thats funny . Tell me a battle serbs won without russia supporting or intervening? We won by ourselves , A-H told other to not attack us. Good thing that Yugoslavia got destroyed and no longer exists.
***** And what are u then? Russian ? Romanian? Slovakian? Which other country hates A-H??
Absolutely not buddy. Kaiser Wilhelm II was mentally insane and wanted a German Empire across Europe, Austro-Hungary wanted to conquer the Balkans, and the Ottoman Empire was committing genocide and other atrocities against a number of different races and countries. Had they won, a civil war between the 3 would've broken out and resulted in millions of more deaths anyways. The right side won.
Kaeden Herrod why would a civil break out? The ottomans and Austria were probably going to collapse anyways and even if they didn't somehow why would they attack each other?
Crimson Hunter For more territory. The problem with an empire is that they never want to stop expansion.
where the ottomans at in this vid
Yes your teaching is nice, but you dont speek like mee INDIAN english
No mentioning of the Ottoman empire? How doesn't the most powerful empire of 16-18 century and the fourth most powerful empire of the 20. century drastically affect WW1 exactly?..
Ottomans = poor and backwards
King KobiGames You do realize they had the wealthiest empire of the 19. century along with the strongest fighting force of it's time, right?...
Are you sure about that?Not even In the top 5,they were on the the constant brink off collapse,they were not industrialized and ethnic tensions were high and you do realise that the 19th century is the 1800 and that was the peak of the British empire.French,British,Russian,German,Austrian and maybe even the Spanish empires were all above them
King KobiGames Their fall started after the 19th century, they were far stronger than british and their navy at the start of 1800's, they didn't realize how important catching up with new technology is which led to their quick collapse.
They also didn't colonize and steal resources away to their countries like the Europeans did, which was foolish of them, all that vast navy went to a waste.
+Arda "They also didn't colonize" : what about Syria, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Maghreb, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Wallachia, Crimea ?
Its Britain. why "Great"? loitering nd plundering is not greatness
True that lol
It's pronounced "Shlifen-plan" :D
Serbia started WW1 Austria-Hungary attacked them because Sarajevo,And Germany helped them because they were friends and allies & germany wanted more colonies because France and the UK got the biggest
+Icob Serbia did not start the war, moron.
Icob Again wrong, Serbia allowed Austrians to investigate, Serbia agreed to humiliation that Austrian police can freely investigate on its territory.
+Sam Packinpah Serbia is start WW1
+Sam Packinpah you are so wrong My grandfather was in battle of cer and he nows the truth
Zoran Games SRB Brs You are moron. Go read a history book idiot.
Well that was crap
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british empire declared the war on germany before germany invaded belgium :)
TheInsomnio12 no, actually. The German Empire invaded Belgium at about 8:02 am (local time, so it would be 7:02 am for Great Britian). In response, the UK sent an ultimatum which expired at midnight, (so 11pm for Great Britain), and it wasn't fulfilled, thus a state of war existed between Germany and the United Kingdom since 11pm August 4, 1914. Which was 15 hours AFTER Germany invaded Belgium.
+Mac Lazer The local time of Belgium in 1914 was the same as the United Kingdom, therefore 7:02. It was indeed 8:02 in Berlin, local time ;)
François Calvaresi Right, small mistake I guess
Germany did nothing wrong, change my mind. (WW1)
Well, aside from, you know, supporting an offensive war (the Triple Alliance was a defensive pact, not an aggressive one), declaring war on Russia because the Russians mobilized, causing France to come and help the Russian, declaring war on Belgium, whose independence was guaranteed by the UK... They even sunk US ships and sent that telegram to Mexico to attack the USA, which angered the US gov so much it chose to side with the Entente.
Yeah, they did nothing wrong. Aside from everything regarding diplomacy and unrestricted submarine warfare.
@@AndrewVasirovIt kinda was restricted for some time... but then they messed up
You're right.
@@AndrewVasirov 1.France prime minister said to the tsar that he would support Russia in a war against Germany no matter what
2.gb would intervent when German troops would get anywhere near Paris
3.they didn't they killed us citizens on British and Frensh ships
they raped a lot of people in Belgium
rip austria hungary
good nite sweat prince
I miss Austria-Hungary
"Turkish Straights"? *Sigh*
they were still called that
Wrong
I m so unhapy because you dont see history on second side... Many of you are angry and hate serbian people so much, because some serbian boys in bosnia assasinated franc ferdinand... Do you know why that hapened? Because 150 years before, goverment in viena hate serbs and want destroy all because they dont catolik and they are slavic people... Sorry for my bad english... :-)
stop apologizing and fix it. Nerd.