You know what's crazy, each one of those numbers from both sides, every single soldier had a life, family and passions. All sent to die and fight for someone else.

@SeraphRyan

Ай бұрын

It was essentially a family feud (since nearly all the country leaders were related to each other) of royalty. Peasants die for the wargames of the european royal family.

@azseal2669

Ай бұрын

Like every other war in human history then.

@lechopuT

Ай бұрын

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."

The language barriers within the Austro-Hungarian empire had to be a nightmare for sure 😄

@BHuang92

Ай бұрын

With that many ethnicities within the empire, there was no way it was going to last in the long term.

@user-ek9vo2ub9b

Ай бұрын

Austrian Officer: *in Austrian* "You Croatian Shock Troops! Go assault that enemy position in support of your Battalion!" Croatian Subordinate: *in Croatian - in thought* "Wonder what this Austrian dude is screeching at me for."

@kylezdancewicz7346

Ай бұрын

@@user-ek9vo2ub9bthey were trying to work on that with army slav, I think that was the name. But it also didn’t help that not only with the languages but the command structure system, with 3 armies. The Austrian one, the Hungarian one, and the imperial army which was an empire wide army for unity. So the imperial army was given minimal amount or resources by the crowns and each one focused on their individual armies.

@EmmanuelEkem-tc3pr

Ай бұрын

@@kylezdancewicz7346I mean they were scared of potential civil wars I don’t blame them for allocating resources to their own

@tuskular

Ай бұрын

@@BHuang92 I mean surprisingly, the empire ran very well and was exceptionally progressive in terms of ani-discrimination laws after the Austro-Hungarian unification, the may laws are a good example of this, so tbh it probably would work out since the cultures are quite similar and had already built a tolerance for each other and Austrian supremacy had mostly been stamped out, many of them had a pride of being part of the empire, but it was mainly the Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Croatian peoples who believed this, and ofc Austrians, although the start of the collapse was in bohemia, but I think this is mainly due to it being the most populated part of the empire, but huge parts of the empire were given a high amount of autonomy to the cultures that lived there which is very progressive for the time, so if it survived I wouldn't be surprised if it would have been a beacon of multiculturism in the modern day.

The audio at the beginning is Kaiser Wilhelm ll giving a speech to the German people at the beginning of the great war.

Just a detail, the October revolution was in November. It was October according to the Julian calendar which Russia still had

@Sum41rthe1

Ай бұрын

Quite astonishing a history teach doesn't know that.

Mr Terry, I will never thank you enough for being this YT version of every good teacher I've had in my life! While clearly coming from an American/western/democratic perspective, you still provide a fair analysis of history that takes into account the different perspective of all belligerents. Thank you again for (it seems) doing your best to educate your watchers without an unfair judgement. ❤

Oct revolution is named follow the old calendar, so it actual in November

Honestly when I saw the video you were reacting to, I thought this wouldn't be very exciting. Informative, but not exciting. you absolutely proved me wrong! Your input made this an exciting video, and I also feel like I understand a little better seeing the troop numbers and lines play out on a map. Great video, thanks

WWI was such a mess, but god if all sides did not learn the most about tactics and technology than any other war in history. It’s what makes it the most intriguing to me. The jump from 1919 to 1936 is unbelievably astounding.

It feels insane to have actually watched the video shortly after it came out now

Since you asked on Portugal, we had like one major battle in La Lys with the expeditionary force. Not so much as a footnote, but the Portuguese were not too keen on getting too involved back then given the internal turmoil

Now I could be wrong, but the audio I believe is Kaiser Wilhelm II giving a speech to motivate his people during the beginning of the war.

The Ottomans and Austria were rivals for centuries but they fought not each other but together for their final days as empires

@kylezdancewicz7346

Ай бұрын

To be fair the young Turks were the only ones that would have joined the central powers. Every other faction wanted to stay neutral or join the entente.

@seionne85

Ай бұрын

Well that's pretty cool, I had no idea. thanks for sharing!

@mughalempire3118

Ай бұрын

​​@@kylezdancewicz7346JOİN ENTENTE LİTERALLY OTTOMAN CONQUERED BALKANS AND BUT OTTOMAN JOİN CENTRAL POWERS BECAUSE OF RUSSİANS THREAT CAUCAUS OTTOMAN VS İTALY FRANCE UK RUSSİANS SURVİVE THİS TURK.S

@poil8351

Ай бұрын

​@kylezdancewicz7346 not quite true alot of factions wanted to regain territory lost in the balkan wars also the germans had been training the ottoman army for quite awhile. The bigger suprise was that the otttomans and Bulgarians were allies and didn't attack each other. Which oddly enough the Bulgarians and austro hungarians nearly did get in a conflict over serbia. Which the germans managed to defuse.

@kylezdancewicz7346

Ай бұрын

@@poil8351 I’m mean if you think about it the Bulgarians and ottomans had the same motivates to regain what they lost from the Balkan wars. And that’s kinda why the young Turks were pretty unique because the obvious option for them to regain territory would be to go to war with the central powers for Bulgaria because Bulgaria has Balkan claims on most of what the Turks want and at best the Turks are allowed Greece, but even Bulgaria has claims on Greece.

That audio that you were confused about was a voice recording audio of His Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany giving a message to his people in August 1914

1:55 kaiser speaking about ww1

The Battle of the Somme was set up by the British to relieve Verdun, so it technically was quite successful.

imagine if the treaty of versailles was done with the knowledge of hindsight.

i watched this finally he reacts to it

Hello! Cool video

Ah was wondering where this was after you took it down The DID institute a draft (conscription), with Ireland being exempt

Is this a re-upload or did i smoke to much 💀

Sabaton said it best. The price of a mile of ground is the lives of young men with so much left to live for, cut too short. I am paraphrasing of course.

I really recommend an anime/manga about this war. Saga of Tanya the Evil. I like the novel and manga more since the anime make the MC look like a war monger when all he really want is to retreat to the back line and lose in peace since he known the future. The mage in the series is the one to one to famous striker like red baron, the MC him self is the founder of Silver Wings. The politic is simplified and mostly only care about the tactics. Really great read if you are WW1-WW2 nerd

Please react to the ww1 eastern front from Eastory

Reupload?

@batmi9664

Ай бұрын

Yes but I don't know what happened

Imagine the alt history. No Telegram to Mexico. or just the war of serbia in general. It was said that the Kaiser wasnt around to help with the decisionmaking of the list for serbia. If Austria declared earlier the entire war wouldve been different.

@kylezdancewicz7346

Ай бұрын

The central powers still lose even with a later American entry because the Americans were practically bankrolling the allies by the end of the war so they would want to ensure they got their money back and Germany had generally been upsetting the American populace and by the end it was just Germany and they had been fighting hard for the entire war and it’s much more likely they surrender before the entente. But it would possibly lead to a better negotiating position for Germany so a slightly less harsh treaty. And if the war started earlier then France is in a-lot more trouble but they stopped the Germans in real life so it wouldn’t be too crazy to assume they hold the Germans off long enough for British reinforcements and allow Russian to finish their mobilization as this earlier start could remove months of secret Russian mobilization but in the grand scheme of the war it probably won’t make much of a difference because Germany is likely to be halted in France and even a few extra months wouldn’t be enough to break the French by then.

@SeraphRyan

Ай бұрын

@@kylezdancewicz7346 Curious what would have happened if Germany didnt invade Belgium to get around the French defense. There is a possibility that Britain (and most likely America) wouldn't have entered the war.

@kylezdancewicz7346

Ай бұрын

@@SeraphRyan No Britain had already decided on intervention if it was needed. It could at most delay the British entry by a few months but now the Germans are playing straight into the French strategy to win the war

@SpicyFiur

Ай бұрын

@@kylezdancewicz7346 we are also not talking about the serbian thing. If they didnt take forever to press harsh demands and went a bit easier the others woulndt have intervened.

@kylezdancewicz7346

Ай бұрын

@@SpicyFiur Everyone wanted war anyways so I don’t think Russian wouldn’t support Serbia leading to the entire war but if the demands were significantly less harsh to cause Russia to not support Serbia then their isn’t a war because Serbia only rejected the harshest terms anyways.

German and British soldiers on Christmas day played football not French 😐

@HTS123RK

Ай бұрын

That’s what I was gonna say

@lobsters12111

Ай бұрын

There were several countries soldiers that took part in football that day

@cpj93070

Ай бұрын

@@lobsters12111 NO this guy made a mistake though, the same when he mentions the unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman telegram not once does he mention Britain in any of them, i think this guy has a problem with the British...

@poil8351

Ай бұрын

The french also had a cease fire

Whats up guys Dixies in the house.

Have you seen video about u american bid in Philippines after thay invaded and put them in NATSIS DiD have a look TICH

👍

19:00 so basically germany liberated all these states? yeah you can thank us germans later poland lithuania estonia, latvia etc etc 😎

@EmmanuelEkem-tc3pr

Ай бұрын

Yes thank you can take us back we won’t stop you 😊

why reupload

Yeh. WW1 was like Russia in Avdivka.

Australia was a volunteer army for the entire war.

@poil8351

Ай бұрын

Sort of it was a mix of career soliders and volunteers. The former were basically full time professionals who were in the army before the war started and the latter were volunteers who joined on the outbreak of war. Also intresting Is that Australian navy was still technically a part of the Royal navy in ww1 it was not completely independent and still under British control. It was really just before ww2 that the Australian navy became a fully independent organisation not dependent on the royal navy.

again

German and French soldiers played Football? you serious? it's well known it was Britain and Germany.

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Hi

W saying football

hello :)

You mention Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and not once did you mention the main reason Germany used it BRITAIN, and the blockade of Germany, I swear this guy has something against the British.....

@EmmanuelEkem-tc3pr

Ай бұрын

Dude everyone has something against the British and you know exactly why ,stop acting like your the victims 🤡

Damn, early

Welcome time travelers!

@AdvancedGamer-

Ай бұрын

Hello

Insane! 😃