On the 100 year anniversary of the end of WWI, I look at how the world map has changed in those hundred years. I've tried to be as thorough as possible but obviously this is not an exhaustive list. This was an absolute monumental task, and getting it finished in time for today was no easy feat. To say I've been working overtime would an understatement. The video isn't as polished as I would have liked, and I'll admit I cut a few corners at times, relied a little too much on Wikipedia maps and stuff like that... but I hope you'll forgive me just this one time if this video is a little rough around the edges. If you've already seen all of my previous videos, you'll see a lot of the same themes come up in this video. I've even used a lot of the same graphics. I hope the video doesn't get too boring if you're already familiar with most of the history. Despite cutting the script time and time again, this is still my longest video to date. I'm not sure whether or not this was a good idea for a video, but I think it's always worth taking risks and trying new things. If this video wasn't your thing, hopefully the next one will be your cup of tea. Anyway, thanks for all the support, I really appreciate it. Please give some love to the awesome Squarespace for yet another video of mine sponsored. Go to squarespace.com/wonderwhy for a free trial and get 10% of your first purchase with offer code WONDERWHY. It really helps out the channel. Also want to give a shout out to AP for once again allowing me access to their archive content. It is very much appreciated. See you next time! Chris.

@hoodclassicsofcalifornia

5 жыл бұрын

Thank You for the creation of this video P.S. I didnt know Austria was also occupied by the allies, nice fact.

@Jamie-kv9eg

5 жыл бұрын

MON THE RANGERS

@Samm815

5 жыл бұрын

I write this at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month, today all the guns are at peace.

@safetyinstructor

5 жыл бұрын

You're making great videos ...keep it up...!

@tendion8634

5 жыл бұрын

Show us your face #WonderWhy :P

If I don’t see Prussia return by 3018, I will be furious in my grave.

@WWSzar

4 жыл бұрын

We've had a Prussian Prussia, German Prussia and now a Russian Prussia. Perhaps the Russians will call themselves Prussian too.

@TermlessHGW

4 жыл бұрын

You're really daft

@leonardodavid2842

4 жыл бұрын

W.A. Szarkow. We have had old Prussians and Prussians. Two.

@WWSzar

4 жыл бұрын

@@leonardodavid2842 The German Prussians would be called the young Prussians in such a case, tbh if a Russian from Kaliningrad called oneself Prussian, I wouldn't see how that would be different than what the German Prussians did.

@leonardodavid2842

4 жыл бұрын

@@WWSzar Old Prussian is an historical term used for the once native baltic population. Today this population has dialuted into the German one, trough the migration. Thus, this people took the local name of the region (called after the natives) Prussians and became called as such (when the Teutonic order converted to protestantism in the 16th). Historically were always called as such after the region (despite the fact that the people who the region is called after, are gone). For the same reason we don't call modern day Americans, "Foreign Americans" (since the natives are called, Native Americans) we just call them Americans.

The map of Europe has changed all because a Serbian guy was mad over Bosnia

@mikebather6688

4 жыл бұрын

What about world war two

@lyndonbjohnson2865

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikebather6688 because of ww1 soooo

@TheWeljash

4 жыл бұрын

@1788896522991886621 no u

@tomasroma2333

4 жыл бұрын

No. War was inevitable. That was meerly the catalyst for war not the causation.

@ryanmurray7941

4 жыл бұрын

Tomás Roma exactly. It was the catalyst. It ignited the war, therefore, was the reason why so many border changes have occurred from ww1 which later set up the stage for nazi Germany and ww2

Just imagine, if the driver hadnt taken a wrong turn the map would have been so much different

@williamsantos9471

2 жыл бұрын

@@themanbehindtheslaughter7633 Austria wouldn't stay neutral, they would very likely join Germany in any war anyway, the Ottomans maybe could still survived since they were very divided in joining the war or not

@UnholyWrath3277

2 жыл бұрын

@@roborbiettinoisgone392 while it would happen it becomes so unpredictable its just nuts. No garuntee of how extreme the war gets or how long it gets delayed. A few years would mean an extremely different style of war and technologies available plus different leaders for a few countries involved. While the war happens it could be any other possible endinh

@themanbehindtheslaughter7633

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamsantos9471 I meant that if the war happened Conrad von Hotzendrokmuffin would be kept aside by Ferdinand, if Josef is still in power and most likely fired if Ferdinand is, thus neutrality.

@themanbehindtheslaughter7633

2 жыл бұрын

@Billy O'sullivan I meant that if the war happened Conrad von Hotzendrokmuffin would be kept aside by Ferdinand, if Josef is still in power and most likely fired if Ferdinand is, thus neutrality.

@williamsantos9471

2 жыл бұрын

@@themanbehindtheslaughter7633 The assassination was what needed to start a conflict, it would happen eventually

From 1919 to 2019, has seen the most change of any century in history. If someone were to travel forward from 1919 to now, they'd think they had travelled five centuries into the future, not one.

@jpok626

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know about that one. The 19th century can really give it a run for it's money. The unification of both Germany and Italy, the independence of Balkan nations from the Ottoman Empire, the independence and divisions of much of the Americas, the carving up of Africa and sections of Asia by European nations, etc.. The world in 1800 looks nothing like the world of 1900. I don't think any subsequent changes would seem all that surprising, given how rapidly they occurred during the 19th century.

@ssreekumar3707

4 жыл бұрын

Poor Steve Rogers

@dorthusiast

4 жыл бұрын

I would have to disagree. Especially Europe. It has mostly preserved its disposition from early 20th century. Spain, Portugal, France and UK have literally not changed at all, Germany is the same industrial, nationalist powerhouse it was back then, Poland experienced some change but it is still controlled by Warsaw, Italy hasn't changed except for minor territory loss to Yugoslavia and the Dodecanese to Greece, Yugoslavia might have split up but the independent countries are still very similar, Bulgaria and Romania have also had minuscule border changes, Turkey has been exactly the same, etc. I could go on.

@dorthusiast

4 жыл бұрын

@@jpok626 I agree with you except the Balkan Wars happened in the 20th, not 19th.

@serugolino7867

3 жыл бұрын

@@jpok626 nations went wild after the industrial revolution

Dude, that was way neater than any history class.

@Evzone1821

5 жыл бұрын

Quick Fix - Thought Provoking Videos Hey! I saw you on simple history! Small world!

@Miquelalalaa

5 жыл бұрын

Quick Fix - Thought Provoking Videos Stop using bots to promote your channel.

@flybeep1661

5 жыл бұрын

And also way more superficial.

@AngelOfMusic20

5 жыл бұрын

My history teacher did this before KZread was even a thing.

@weatherphobia

5 жыл бұрын

Quicker too! And you didn't have to witness ho's offering/giving BJ's/HJ's in the JR/HS classroom either!Public[GOVERNMENT] school system, aint it wonderful?

Other KZreadrs: I don't wanna mention this international dispute, it's too controversial WonderWhy: I'll mention all of them.

@yogurtclosetok

2 жыл бұрын

The Legend

@bronball7881

2 жыл бұрын

@@yogurtclosetok i just got rick rolled becaused of your name ;-;

@yogurtclosetok

2 жыл бұрын

@@bronball7881 bruh

@asheep7797

2 жыл бұрын

@@bronball7881 ?

@user-zz4kj1ge9j

2 жыл бұрын

@@bronball7881 you are ukraine?

How about a video explaining what was each super power country throughout history. Like from Egypt to modern day USA.

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897

5 жыл бұрын

Do you mean "empires" throughout history? The term "super power" requires refining. After all, China became unified, but didn't incorporate outside of the mainland. So, did it become a superpower when it unified China? That's and example of what has to clarified. How far does an empire have to extend to be considered a "super power?"

@Samuel-dg4jv

5 жыл бұрын

GaslitWorld f. Melissa B the us isn’t really a empire

@alphaplenn

5 жыл бұрын

@@gaslitworldf.melissab2897; just call them the BIG BOY ON THE BLOCK _OK?

@randommonkey4900

4 жыл бұрын

thatd be cool dance

@omnipotence8826

3 жыл бұрын

Egypt was never a superpower.

Europe border changes omitted: Finnish border changes after the Winter War Trieste Shenanigans Free/Yugoslavia/Italy (cred. Ottoman Empire) Minor: Vatican City Lateran Pacts (cred. Ottoman Empire) Minor: Dodecanese islands transferred from Italy to Greece (cred. Manpet Epetrop) Middle Eastern omissions: Yemeni-Saudi border dispute (Jeddah treaty 2000, cred. denzal689, Ottoman Empire) East Asian omissions: Minor: Japan also lost half of Sakhalin after WWII Chinese annexation of Tibet Indian annexation of Portuguese Goa Indian annexation of the Kingdom of Sikkim (cred. Uncle Podger) America and ROTW omissions: Minor: Costa Rica / Nicaragua border dispute resolved Not exhaustive, but for the number of facts in the video, so few mistakes is a testament to good research :)

@Gallo4

5 жыл бұрын

He also forgot the Independence of Somaliland.

@ThePrinceofParthia

5 жыл бұрын

@@kablammymog You're right, I'll edit my comment

@unclepodger

5 жыл бұрын

Gallo 4 Also the inclusion of the Kingdom of Sikkim into the Indian Union, but hey even many Indians don't realise that Sikkim was an independent kingdom once

@unclepodger

5 жыл бұрын

Someone else in the comments asked about Goa too, WonderWhy replied to them saying that while Goa was included in the list, it was omitted due to time constraints.

@denzal689

5 жыл бұрын

There's also a border change between Yemen and Saudi Arabic in 2000.

This is a brilliant video, really well put together ;-)

@flores332

4 жыл бұрын

omg im a big fan

@TheJsaroukos

3 жыл бұрын

Omg hi I love your vids 🤩

@jameszbc

3 жыл бұрын

yes

@auritro3903

2 жыл бұрын

ikr

It kinda bothers me that Finland was completely ignored in this video.

@ariee7089

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah same

@muanofuny7457

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know a lot about Finland but i know that it had his independente After ww1

@mrniba7280

3 жыл бұрын

@@muanofuny7457 actually during ww1 in 1917

@muanofuny7457

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrniba7280 oh thanks

@timflatus

3 жыл бұрын

I doubt it was deliberate, omissions are inevitable when you try to cover the entire world.

You forget that Italy give Greece the Island of Rhodos

@jjgreek1

5 жыл бұрын

actually, all the Dodecanese

@g3org3yo7

4 жыл бұрын

yep we traded northern Epirus for the Dodecanese to Italy and italy gave it to Albania

@cobbercube

4 жыл бұрын

Guys they gave you a reminder at the start of this video

@williamhu2630

4 жыл бұрын

jjgreek1 what if those lands became the land of Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta？

@dorthusiast

4 жыл бұрын

@@cobbercube To be honest the reminder doesn't apply. WonderWhy explicitly mentioned the minor territoıry loss to Yugoslavia as the only land change for Italy post-WWII. The cession of the Dodecanese Islands to Greece should've also been noted.

*sees thumbnail* "FRANCE TURNED INTO POLAND?! Man World War One was crazy"

@grunpelz6773

5 жыл бұрын

I dont get it

@vexxcon8125

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@jacoby3070

4 жыл бұрын

@@grunpelz6773 well what do u not get about it

@grunpelz6773

4 жыл бұрын

@@jacoby3070 WHow did France turn into Poland?

@jacoby3070

4 жыл бұрын

@@grunpelz6773 on the thumbnail and the left side you see France and the other side Poland

Today is also the 65th anniversary of the armistice that ended Soviet and American occupation of the Korean peninsula

@abyssstrider2547

5 жыл бұрын

Korean war never ended, there was just armistice.

@crunch9876

5 жыл бұрын

Edin743 is that not exactly what he said

@speedy01247

5 жыл бұрын

WW1 also didn't truly end in 11/11/1918 either, it was an armistice as well, hence the term armistice day (US Veterans day)

@user-qs1wm9tx6n

5 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather was Sargent in the Korean War he was in the frozen chosen 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 U.S. Army

@e1123581321345589144

5 жыл бұрын

I would argue that soviet occupation of the Korean peninsula is still ongoing, but I guess that's a matter of perspective

Well done. I'd like to add that Japan lost the Sakhalin island and the Kuriles to Russia in 1945. A joint declaration was signed in 1956 but no peace treaty between Russia and Japan has been signed due to the Kurile islands dispute.

i have been watching youtube for 11 years and i have to say this was the most educational and well done video i have every seen. great content, well done!

That was a ridiculously simplified explanation of the situation in Southern Rhodesia but I’m glad we got a mention at all - most people don’t know about it’s history unfortunately. Also, apart from it being armistice day, today happens to be the 53rd anniversary of UDI!

@concept5631

Жыл бұрын

May Ian Smith rot in hell till the last black holes burn out.

*mentions every major disputed territory* Time to grab the popcorn.

@morbidsearch

5 жыл бұрын

Kosovo is Macedonia

@thescrewfly

5 жыл бұрын

And Macedonia is Greece (jk)

@tripleastacz372

5 жыл бұрын

The Greeks are the most triggered they want to associate themselves with Alexander so much they claim his homeland to be Greek.

@Malos_

5 жыл бұрын

*INDIA IS BRITISH*

@Calebroc9

5 жыл бұрын

@@tripleastacz372 The modern state of Macedonian only exists because of the Soviets, it hasn't existed properly since the days of Ancient Greece and only exists as of now because the Soviets needed to make a country in the region.

2:13 The treaty changed you as a whole and Germany the fat Thanks auto captions

@scottmaloney7198

4 жыл бұрын

HaHaHa!

@g-forcefgt323

4 жыл бұрын

Now i want fat Germany pics

@dorthusiast

4 жыл бұрын

there was also the penis declaration of independence in 1965 (14:11)

Great job covering a lot of history on our earth in a short time. Kudos!

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead; short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

@thescrewfly

5 жыл бұрын

You quote the whole poem with no attribution at all? It's not by Tom Leben, of course, it was written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian army doctor.

@SuperHappyBros

5 жыл бұрын

@@thescrewfly yes it is by him not me.

@moodini99

5 жыл бұрын

Meh. That's a shit poem. Overrated war rubbish

@brucebartup6161

5 жыл бұрын

moodini99 You are saying that all war Poems are overrated rubbish?

@moodini99

5 жыл бұрын

No, just most of them

It’s pretty amazing to look back and see how these events really changed the world. Amazing work. I’ve only been subbed here to a while and so far, I’m not regretting it.

As usual, beautifully done. Great work!

Congratulations on 500K subscribers! Well deserved.

How can you not mention Finland and it's border changes?

@Minetime345

5 жыл бұрын

Because it doesn't exist/s

@merrittanimation7721

5 жыл бұрын

@@f.c.8978 It's a joke conspiracy theory that Russia and Japan made up Finland so they could fish there without impunity. It's really dumb.

@videogamebomer

5 жыл бұрын

@@f.c.8978 That doesn't exist either

@enochliu8316

5 жыл бұрын

@@f.c.8978 9:10

@NotFlappy12

5 жыл бұрын

pretty sure finland became independant when ww1 was still going on

WonderWhy and Bill Wurtz lie at the opposite end of the spectrum yet they both produce the most awesome content the internet had seen.

@andreasmc1

5 жыл бұрын

ιου ςλαη ?

@dougdog1224

5 жыл бұрын

and brains4breakfast

@jalmaritammela8642

5 жыл бұрын

Brains4breakfast is a gem in youtube.

@datfisheboi6519

5 жыл бұрын

I like how nobody questions which spectrum

@TheJJ65

5 жыл бұрын

which spectrum are you talking about?

Hey that was a truly amazing video , good job ! 👍👍👍

This video really sums up everything on your channel. It was wonderful; great job!

13:45 "The Sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now... that's just where he lives."

Excellent review. I need to watch a couple more times for some of this to sink in.

This was such an amazing video! The content was unbiased and interesting and well put together! Kudos!

I know its very minor, but the French and Portuguese territories in India, Pondichèry, Mahé, Yanam, and Karaikal; and Goa, Daman, and Diu respectively, were returned ceded to India in 1958 and 1961 respectively.

@WonderWhy

5 жыл бұрын

They were in the original script, but unfortunately time constraints meant they had to be cut.

@zochbuppet448

5 жыл бұрын

Only the French ceded I think. The rest were Portuguese and were just rightfully occupied and forcefully taken back/ over without much blood shed or a bat of an eye from UK, France and others ...because they world had changed...And everyone knew that it was right.

@canbot1

5 жыл бұрын

@@WonderWhy holy 🐄 cow you've actually replied! Did you have Sikkim in your script? It had joined The Union of India in '75 and this lasted longer than East Timor's 11 day independence.

@canbot1

5 жыл бұрын

@@zochbuppet448 there was some blood shed and negotiations prior to that. Mexico really wanted to stick it to the Portuguese which is why they'd aligned themselves with India. There was also an Indian passenger boat which had been attacked prior to the annexation because it had been perceived as a threat by the Portuguese. There's probably something about it in this book: isbn:9789728799533 which is entirely in Portuguese and it has been written by someone I don't know anything about but there's something about fishermen being killed "allegedly" in this book: books.google.co.in/books?id=uPx4vb99RUoC&pg=PA185&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false there are also two super long articles on Wikipedia. If the world had really changed so drastically then the Vietnam war wouldn't have happened years later.

@canbot1

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding us of that Prakhar but you've left out Sikkim it used to be 1 of the *3* land-locked countries sandwiched between the PRC and the subcontinent. Prior to that there was an uninterrupted string of countries between in Indo-Tibetan border and I think all three of them must have had open borders with India much like Bhutan and Nepal do today. Oh and you can still find some French stuff in Pondicherry like a baguette.

Nice way to sum up details and eye opener . Kudos to wonder why 👏

Great video as always! I was just thinking: what if you did “Winners & Losers - Episode 4: Languages”? Maybe you can do total number of speakers, total area of land in which it is mostly spoken, oldest & youngest languages, supposedly most difficult/easy to write/speak, etc. This is just an idea I thought of while brainstorming. I would appreciate a response if possible, thank you!

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897

5 жыл бұрын

You'd need to narrow down a time period, since winners and losers change. Now we have new imperialism - economic imperialism.

@gmgunnhildr2711

4 жыл бұрын

China.

@psmsedwinfran501

3 жыл бұрын

You all cry in the corner

@billofwrights7695

Жыл бұрын

SIX

Thanks for another great video. It is really interesting to see how much actually changed over those 100 years.

Excellent presentation and genuinely educational video. Many thanks for your superb research and very informative maps. Kind regards from Ireland

If I had to choose one video to send to aliens so they could understand the Earth, I would send them this

@alessandro-hm9wk

5 жыл бұрын

Handz 0n Trigger or to peapol Who deide in ww 1 Sorie for bad englese

@TheBatonkal

5 жыл бұрын

history of the world by bill wurtz

@Trisaaru

5 жыл бұрын

Batonkal Good choice

@mzal2326

5 жыл бұрын

Either a video explaining memes or the history of memes

@tobakroger7504

5 жыл бұрын

Thats very stupid

This was a wonderful video. Thank you for all your research.

I slowed this down to 3/4 speed and it was perfect! Thanks man. Great job!

I wonder what the next 100 years will be like between now and November 11, 2118?

@malalopreda2483

4 жыл бұрын

WW3, here we come

@mikmirt6405

4 жыл бұрын

Half of world under water due to climate change

@Bigdickulous

4 жыл бұрын

Lol all of these replies are on point!

@somecallmeelvis

4 жыл бұрын

@Supreme Snek downgrade to a theocracy monarchy system

@rydemk4168

4 жыл бұрын

*The Apocalypse*

2 videos less than 2 weeks apart dammmn

@cagedtigersteve

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah but it took 100 years to make this one.

@thumbsup5524

5 жыл бұрын

Caged haha

Very detailed, very comprehensive!!! Thank you!!!

Europe in start of 20th centrury: 10 countries, Europe now: 58 countries

you forgot Indonesia's indepentents from the Netherlands after WW2

@NotFlappy12

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, weird that he forgot that, indonesia isn't exactly small

@filipusandikawicaksana6822

5 жыл бұрын

We're always the forgotten Asian country... It's only in these last two or three years that we're getting noticed at all, although we're quickly on the rise with all those silat movies and the last two disasters on the news lol ------- To be fair, though, the writer also forgot Saudi Arabia, which if I'm not mistaken, is formed after The Great War.

@Sparx632

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe it’s because it didn’t involve a border change.

@risannd

5 жыл бұрын

Indonesia's border at independence inherits former Dutch East Indies borders, except New Guinea and East Timor which has been mentioned.

@iqbalbhayangkara3816

5 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY! how can you forget Indonesia?

This was great! You managed to put 100 years of history, without omitting anything too major, in less than half an hour!

Most youtubers: Make a 3 minute video 10 minutes long. WonderWhy: This video is going to be very long, so lets start immediately!

15:00 the maps at my school still have the ussr on it

@soofjandepr0

4 жыл бұрын

Your history teacher, mr stalin, is he nice?

@colton.421

4 жыл бұрын

Ell My elementary school still used history textbooks from 1976 in 2015. Not sure if they still use them to this day.

@josgretf2800

4 жыл бұрын

@@colton.421 Mine did back in 2007 and 2008. Still had books and maps with the USSR.

@colton.421

4 жыл бұрын

Joshua Green Same here. The USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia were still countries. Hong Kong still belonged to Britain. Germany was still split. etc.

@josgretf2800

4 жыл бұрын

@@colton.421 What a great education we had.

I feel like Finland got ignored fully in this video.

@matthewcoyle9182

3 жыл бұрын

No they got there borders back after the fall of the Soviet Union so there was no point of saying it'

@NiffYT

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewcoyle9182 Have you ever herd of winterwar? Were finland lost alot of land when we had to surrender to russia?

@COYM_1908

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewcoyle9182 What?

@matthewcoyle9182

3 жыл бұрын

@@NiffYT yea I know but when Germany attacked Russia Finland helped Germany for a little while and got it's territory back

@NiffYT

3 жыл бұрын

@@matthewcoyle9182 Mate know your history, I fucking live in finland so I know, We didint get our land back, we are still missing alot, just google finlands map before winterwar and you see how mutch we lost if you compare it to finlands map now.

19:13 Chandler are you still there? 😂

Changes: 1. Poland independent 2. Latvia independent 3. Yugoslavia formed 4. Romania expanded 5. Iceland independent 6. Treaty of Versailles 7. Other Treaties 8. Bulgaria Shrinks 9. USSR Established 10. Ottoman Empire Collapse 11. Ireland Gains Independence 12. Saar Annexed 13. Austria Annexed 14. Sudetenland Annexed 15. Czechoslovakia Partitioned 16. World War II 17. Yugoslavia takes parts of Italy 18. Cyprus gains independence 19. Reunification of Germany 20. Dissolution of the Soviet Union 21. Collapse of Yugoslavia 22. Collapse of Czechoslovakia 23. Indpendence of Montenegro 25. Indpendence of Kosovo 26. Annexation of Crimea 27. Egyptian independence 28. Annexation of Ethiopia 29. Indpendence of Libya 30. Indpendence of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 31. Decolonization 32. Namibia gains independence 33. Eritrea gains independence 34. South Sudan gains indpendence 35. Afghanistan indpendent 36. Splitting of Ottoman 37. Hatay 38. Saudi Arabia 39. Indpendence of Israel 40. Arab-Israeli War 41. UAR 42. Kuwait Indpendent 43. Yemen formed 44. Manchuria annexed 45. End of Japanese Empire 46. Indpendence of India and Pakistan 47. Burma and Sri Lanka indpendent 48. People's Republic of China 49. Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Indpendent 50. Malaysia indpendent 51. Singapore independent 52. Vietnam War 53. More indpendence 54. East Timor indpendent 55. India and Bangladesh

@cresfirc7349

5 жыл бұрын

Romania united. They didn't expanded.

@jovan6706

5 жыл бұрын

25. Never happened 😉

@fatjonraci9453

5 жыл бұрын

A.C.A.B 1312 Kosova is Albania

@cresfirc7349

5 жыл бұрын

@@fatjonraci9453 keep dreaming

@eustache_dauger

5 жыл бұрын

50. Malaysia formation (not independent)

I don't know why but changing borders are really interesting to me, like, I follow the progress of independance/unification movements, not necessarily because I believe that such actions are the right thing, but because I'm interested in seeing how people discuss and react to the prospect of (official) independance

Small correction: Singapore didn't withdraw. They were kicked out of the country by literally everyone else in Malaysia.

@mr.mysteriousspyman4016

5 жыл бұрын

Because they had too many Chinese immigrants.

There was no mention of China annexing Tibet (1950) or the Finnish battles for their borders with Russia.

I enjoyed watching that - thank you for making and sharing it

You’ve passed 500k subscribers!!! Great job Wonderwhy!

Based on this excellent video I've become a first time subscriber.. You picked a complicated subject and succeeded.. Well done WW!!

Thanks for this amazing compilation of werld hestoree =)

WonderWhy has officially replaced CGP Grey.

@barlupo6500

5 жыл бұрын

@SheepBlippy neh grey's channel is more about not uploading

@Esmoxe

5 жыл бұрын

@SheepBlippy What is analytical stuff in this context?

@GY-bd9bo

5 жыл бұрын

So CGP's gone for good, then? That's a damn shame... What a good channel it was

@Nugcon

5 жыл бұрын

GY1415 He's not gone

@mtksbctk

5 жыл бұрын

Same terrible accent

Awesome video, man, so much research

fantastic video mate, i applaud you!

😂 turn on the subtitles and go to 14:11

@user-hh2is9kg9j

5 жыл бұрын

nothing was wrong

@karolverniani6324

5 жыл бұрын

The automatic captions

@user-hh2is9kg9j

5 жыл бұрын

@@karolverniani6324 Gotcha 😁

@mlhiii8175

4 жыл бұрын

Penis 🤣

@suzanabodini7525

4 жыл бұрын

Lolz🤣🤣🤣

27 minutes of WonderWhy? Sign me right up

@hfreddy127

5 жыл бұрын

TheBearWhisperer yeah

@TheGreatBritishFarm

5 жыл бұрын

I respec ya pfp m8

@Igxana

5 жыл бұрын

*M E E S E*

@hfreddy127

5 жыл бұрын

Jeese

@atlanticatracking7286

5 жыл бұрын

You haven't done vids in a long time? Are you working on a mega-project?

Très bonne vidéo !! Compréhensible et intéressante !!! Bravo 👏

Well done. You had my total attention. Was curious to see if If in your timeline there would be any mention of Bohemia-Moravia. Still...well done.

Nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution- Some Guy.

I hate that American schools don’t really teach World War I. If we don’t remember history we are doomed to repeat it.

@videogamebomer

5 жыл бұрын

Some do really just depends where you live

@Kyrkby

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I don't know about that. Nationalism is on the rise again despite being the cause of two world wars.

@TXnine7nine

5 жыл бұрын

If they do then it’s usually no more than a paragraph or two which is sad.

@poweroftheztars

5 жыл бұрын

What the hell? Where did you hear this? I certainly learned WWI when I was in school.

@viridianz

5 жыл бұрын

Mitchellville Productions This is from my experience

Amazing video. Great work!!!

Amazing! Thanks! I learned a lot!

God i remember waiting months per video not less than 2 weeks

@WonderWhy

5 жыл бұрын

Please do not get used to it. I pushed myself way harder than is healthy to get this video finished in time.

Just think if Czech and Slovakia were still together. The hockey team would be unreal. Too bad they can’t merge

@nOOb1hunter

4 жыл бұрын

still wouldn't beat canada us russia finland sweden on a regular basis

@armaansidhu8743

4 жыл бұрын

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@michisme1509

2 жыл бұрын

It's not that we can't. We don't want to, and we don't need to. We're two separate countries.

Thanks for my History Lesson :D This is just AWESOME! :3

Congrats on 500k

"Sometimes it's easy to forget that the world map being stable is a relatively recent phenomenon" Not when you play Paradox games for 25 hours a day

@orans_

2 жыл бұрын

bUt tHeRes tWeNtY fOuR hOurs In a dAy nOt tWeNtY fIvE

100 years and 23 minutes ago, WW1 ended.

@sidhantseth007

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but who's counting...😂

@LookHereMars

5 жыл бұрын

Quite fascinating especially watching Videos and literally looking at 100 years in the past and to see how much has changed in a Century.

@alphaplenn

5 жыл бұрын

@/dev/RerunCipher : Lucky you!

Amazing video, thanks so much

Great documentary. Thanks

The last paragraph is so true. Voting is what we catalans wanted to do in october 1st last year, but the goverment of Spain obstaculized this Referendum with the use of brutal force against peaceful people. Peace and democracy for everyone and every nation in the world!

@niccolomachiavelli8763

5 жыл бұрын

Jordi Babot why the fuck would you want independence? You arent even any different from spain.

@ishaand92

4 жыл бұрын

Obsidian Fury *Spaniard nationalist spotted*

@niccolomachiavelli8763

4 жыл бұрын

It’s pronounced e-shahn D. No it’s not nope I even hate Spain myself,but facts are facts

@anemu3819

4 жыл бұрын

@@niccolomachiavelli8763 the ethnic groups in iberia are more than just spanish and Portuguese

The past-WWII redrawing of eastern european borders hurt both poland and my country. Only the Soviets benefited from it.

@DrewPicklesTheDark

5 жыл бұрын

UK & France: We are declaring war on you Germany! We must do it to protect Poland! UK & France: Hands Poland over to Stalin. Here in the west hearing about Soviet atrocities is a rarity, which is shame considering people are unaware of the monster (Stalin, or the Bolsheviks in general) their nations allied with.

@xertophilios3695

4 жыл бұрын

indeed

@Wiktorino1984

4 жыл бұрын

This plans was made in Philadelfia in 1941 and official comes in 1942 calls Gombergs map. All already knows Germany lose war and they originaly plans create USSR more bigger. Something like Poland and Germany in this map not exist only Polish SSR and German SSR.

@dorthusiast

4 жыл бұрын

hurt, -hurted- And yes, that is true. Pre-WWII, Polish and German people lived in the areas their respective countries possessed. Following the Polish and Soviet acquisition of certain territories, Germans living in Silesia and Pomerania were deported to Germany and the Polish living in Ukrainian Galicia, Belarus or Vilnius were also sent to Poland.

@doffer115

4 жыл бұрын

@@DrewPicklesTheDark Not quite true, at least in my part of the west (the Netherlands), since it's quite known that the alliance between the western allies and the soviets was controversial (to put it mildly) from the get-go with Winston Churchill proclaiming that "If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." We already knew the SU was "evil" and have never forgotten it. It was agreed upon by mass that one of the -if not THE- biggest mistakes of WWII was ending it when Nazi Germany fell and not pushing the Soviets back to within Russian borders or even beyond.

what a project! good video

i have a 50+ year old globe lots of changes and you explain a lot thank you .

Me:sees the thumbnail Also me:Man Western Europe changed a lot , it even moved more to the east

@7:57: You list Macedonia as one of the areas of Yugoslavia. It was called Vardarska Badovina, named after the river Vardar which flows through it.

excellent video thank you - using for teaching A level Geography OCR - power Aand borders - as intro

Extremely well explained 🙂

100th anniversary of Poland's Independence

@julz3tt3

4 жыл бұрын

Lol not quite. Yes it's an anniversary but it didn't last as the Germans invaded in 1939 then the cold War which saw Russia take it until the wall came down.

@arfn1973

4 жыл бұрын

Where the anniversary for returning Silesia, Pommerland and Ostpreußen? Prussia territory belong to German and that fact.

@PLKartofel

4 жыл бұрын

@PrawdziwyWarszawiak

4 жыл бұрын

@@arfn1973 What German territory? I think that you don't know that your Pommerland, Silesia and Ostesomething, don't belong to Germans. Those territories have been settled by slavic people. All eastern Germany have been settled by slavic people. You can read names of cities in regions that I mentioned before. If you don't know Berlin has been created by slaves.

@arfn1973

4 жыл бұрын

@@PrawdziwyWarszawiak What the heck? "You can read names of cities in regions that I mentioned before" they are named after German leave the region. Stop shaming Prussian you Austrian, accept already your defeat.

I never thought explaining border changes and talking about peace treaties would be interesting.

Good job mate!

I'm glad you showed us the simplified version

Its interesting to imagine what would have happened had Japan not lost its hold on Korea and Taiwan following WW2

in my class, there is a very old world map on the wall. Its so old that we can see the ussr and the worst part is that its right behind me-

@fullmetaltheorist

2 жыл бұрын

Don't move. Stalin won't attack if you act dead.

alright , almost every sentence in this video deserves its own video ! PLEASE MAKE LONGER VIDEOS

I saw this video called "Alternate Future of the World the road to ww3" by Atelius mapping and it shows South Sudan as a part of Sudan. But it was made in like 2018.

Yugoslavia "how many pieces of me do you want?" NATO "Yes"

@cirquan

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly, truthful...

Is it me or did I miss the Indonesian independence? Good and interesting video btw, thanks for making this!

@gaslitworldf.melissab2897

5 жыл бұрын

He said it would probably not be exhaustive, due to trying to keep the time limited.

Awesome job!

Great video, really interesting.

6:30 That treaty isn't signed by Hitler and Stalin, but by von Ribbentrop and Molotov.

Everyone else: *getting and losing land Kiribati : Hi guys, what time is it?

Well done!

Thank you for the history class answers.