Machines | Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I: Crash Course World History #36
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In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an added bonus, World War I changed the way people look at the world, and normalized cynicism and irony. John will teach you how the assassination of an Austrian Archduke kicked off a new kind of war that involved more nations and more people than any war that came before. New technology like machine guns, airplanes, tanks, and poison gas made the killing more efficient than ever. Trench warfare and modern weapons led to battles in which tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in a day, with no ground gained for either side. World War I washed away the last vestiges of 19th century Romanticism and paved the way for the 20th century modernism that we all know and find to be cold and off-putting. While there may not be much upside to WWI, at least it inspired George M. Cohan to write the awesome song, "Over There." Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set Resources: Over There by George M. Cohan performed by Bill Murray: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbggEGUaE28 The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman: http://dft.ba/~gunsaugust Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @raoulmeyer @crashcoursestan @saysdanica @thoughtbubbler Like us! http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse Look at this! http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com and this! http://crashcourseart.tumblr.com Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse
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Assassination is not terrorism, so WWI did not really begin with an act of terrorism. Behind real acts of terror is a political motive or ideology (e.g., ISIS).
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Ups 7:24 WW2 break in.
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anyone else see the heavy tank at 4:50 and just think Black Bess?
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Try to speak slower for non native speakers, please
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October revolution happened in November according to the Gregorian calendar, it was called the October revolution because Russia still used the Julian calendar at that point.
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Haaaaair
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The war to end all wars will be won - by one side or the other.
And the land will heal itself, as everything does in the end. The Guns will rust, the grass will grow, and there will be nothing else left from this.
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Because behind every gunsight is a human being, we are those people, we will stand, we will look death in the eye, and we will fight. And if history remembers only one in a thousand of us, then the future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.
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This war is like when two little kids got into a fight and eventually their parents were involved and it amplified into a bigger fight lol
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It's nice to see that Meredith is now a script writer.
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Kaiser Wilhelm and his Weltpolitik
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lol - because France
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The brits actually only lost 20.000 men in the first day of the somme
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I'm here to complete my history assignment-.-
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I have to make a board game based on how nationalism/imperialism lead to ww1. Can you explain the connection/timeline. And does anyone have any board game ideas.
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Is anyone else watching this because of battlefield 1
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Happiness is a worm gun (dame Serbs)
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Must... click... X... on next video...
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I blame Austria Hungary because they declared war first and they suck XD
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“WWI was a war fought for no reason. It was just insane.”
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I heard that the soldiers, on Christmas, both the British, French, and Germans came out of the trenches and played football(soccer for Americans) in No Man's Land.