1945: What Happened At The End Of WWII? | The Year That Changed The World | Timeline

The series’ narrative thread is an examination of the power struggle over who will win the peace. The fight takes place between the big three wartime allies: The Soviet Union, Britain and America. Each country and leader is embedded in each programme as central characters; we become familiar with their approach and their particular cocktail of double-dealing.
The five programmes follow a chronological order which enable us to track the shifting fortunes of the big three as a new world order is established. At the start of 1945 the Allies know that the war will be over - it is a matter of time - so while the actual military victory still has to be won the real intrigue takes place behind the scenes as World rule for the next 50 years is thrashed out.
So while the first two programmes deal with the military campaign in Europe and the Pacific this is set against the political infighting among the big three allies to cast the post war world in their own separate images. The outcome of these negotiations was to define the way we live around the globe for the next half a century.
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Just in time for bed! Love falling asleep to these!

[@lizardking89]

Me too,!

[@OLDGOLDDREAMER]

Me too , but if you don’t with this almost 4 hour vid .. your gunna need a long sleep in 😁 all those wasted adverts talking to ya pillow whilst your phone fry’s your brain!

[@tylermarier2034]

I thought I was alone w this 😂. I wish Mike Rowe had an hour + history special

[@montrelouisebohon-harris7023]

Me too!!

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Yah but every so often you randomly wake up and some weird alien vid is playing lmao.. that’s why I turned off auto play at night

[@johnthedespicabledutchman7406]

A sincere thank you...As a history lover...This was a brilliant and exceptional documentary ...A lot of people don't realize how brutal the Second World War was.

[@BradWatsonMiami]

Fuhrer(6 letters) Adolph(6) Hitler(6) was the "666" Antichrist. He was reincarnated as George Walker Bush Jr: the "2nd Beast"/Antichrist to Ronald(6) Wilson(6) Reagan(6).. Soviet(6) Joseph(6) Stalin(6) became the "666" Antichrist. He was reincarnated as Kim Jong Il. See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the Returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'.

[@stevenspirito5672]

and what has it changed? Nothing! Look at our disgusting Godless world!! America the beautiful; corruption, and conquering at it's best!! 🖕

[@chrispacer4231]

I like to listen to these while I work on my MODEL BUILDING the Narration is good, perfect for me just too listen to KINDA LIKE A OLD RADIO PROGRAM…. And, it sets the stage for the models I build……….

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What MODEL BUILDINGS are you signing on, Chris?

[@chrispacer4231]

@@Naltddesha I’m talking PLASTIC MODELS…. Aircraft, Tanks, Ships……. A lot of models that deal with MILITARY HISTORY……. Thanks for commenting See Ya 👋🏻

[@rf4969]

So many lessons pertinent to our times. This should be required viewing for every American student.

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I love the advert coming up explaining AD FREE VIDEOS

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8:46 am 4-30-2024 My brother served in Vietnam and I am proud of his service .. thanks for this film .. its is happening again

[@sseddupaul9832]

Who is the narrator ? This doc is a gem ...the 3 hrs just flew by

[@tylermarier2034]

I could listen to this guy, and Mike Rowe talk about anything for hours… (no joke, I do it most nights to sleep)

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Wow. Btw do you know his name, kindly share if so ?@@tylermarier2034

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[@MrNiceGuyHistory]

There are solutions to this that don't cost anything. YT is unwatchable with ads.

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KZbin should be a witness to the scenes of the past, no matter how graphic, not a censor of truth. (Referring to the blurred frames of this upload.)

[@socialmediaaccount404]

Yeah but it seems like this channel is pushing back against the censorship. There were a few blurred scenes at the beginning but as it went on there were many scenes that could have been blurred but were not and I've seen this channel put out other uncensored documentaries recently.

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my father was drafted following pearl harbor. I miss my father so much !!!

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[@pamartin]

At first, I was alarmed by seeing this was almost 4 hours long. Fortunately, it fit into my schedule quite nicely. Interesting viewpoints I had not considered before gave me cause to think more deeply about various aspects that I had not previously been exposed to. Thank you. Well done.

[@averagesurfer5135]

Excellent. Thank you for this.

[@BOBSMITH-YouTubeStoleMyHandle]

I hate how they blur these historical documentaries. He whole purpose of them is so you can see the atrocities, and not just hear about them. I like the video!!!!

[@SaveTheKidsD2P]

That’s KZbin censorship …. Not the person uploading the video….

[@BOBSMITH-YouTubeStoleMyHandle]

@@SaveTheKidsD2P oh, I'm aware. It just sucks. Its kinda like they want to erase history. As bad as it is to see, the public needs to see it. That's part of history.

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I love Time line, this time , the black and white video is very stunning, overwhelming, frightening. Especially, Holocaust, I have been heartbreaking at the sight of atrocity for a while. Why our stupid human has repeated again and again ? This is our long quest.

[@j-man6001]

This was a very good video! So many pages seem to have been left out of the history books!

[@Crimeiskoolforkidz]

Just wait until you hear about the real crimes of the Victors! Haha jk, you will never.

[@j-man6001]

EXACTLY!! So many pages have been ripped out! haha@@Crimeiskoolforkidz

[@kohl57]

One can quibble about bits of this (it's way too docile in its assessment of Emperor Hirohito's role in Japan's wars of aggression) but my goodness, this is exceptional... comprehensive, scholarly, nuanced and yes, "entertaining" if you relish a year that never seems to have ended and still influences our world today.

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Thanks!

[@jeanettelowe6672]

If everyone saw this documentary, people would realise how history is repeating itself on our screens in real time in 2024. The horrific scenes back in 1945 are as relevant as ever. 🤐 Mankind NEVER learns and rests on its laurels when times are good. The elite always say that "We need a good war to rid ourselves of the fodder". Still holds true today 🤨🤑🤐😭😢

[@smokeykitty6023]

I just watched an amazing movie called "Downfall" on Tubi. It's about the end of the war from the viewpoint of Hitler's secretary who was in the bunker with him. It's long and u have to read subtitles but it is worth it! Who knows how much of it is true but...

[@SaveTheKidsD2P]

Most of it is true. It’s a great movie glad you finally seen it

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You should Google "Downfall memes". A good portion of those on the Internet are very familiar with this movie without having seen it.

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Super informative and long-time documentary about ( global dominate ( victory ✌️) at any prices...at the end the Europe divided between the USA 🇺🇸 and USSR. While the whole world 🌎 suffered from the first cold war consciousness

[@OLDGOLDDREAMER]

Nearly 4 hours OMG 😳

[@mercedyzmarieguion292]

At the beginning a naked man tied to a tree and his eyes were burned out... Unbelievable!! Hope they put the man out of his misery. My goodness!

[@tradition180]

Best picture then and now

[@simong794]

Can't watch blurred videos.

[@alvarofonsecadelosreyes9259]

Question is, why does the documentary blurs the images. I find this absolutely absurd and disrespectful.

[@SaveTheKidsD2P]

KZbin’s censorship

[@krisfrederick5001]

The Allies became enemies...

[@nerdvana101]

Everyone gave a sigh of relief

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That one guy has legendary eyebrows

[@jeffersonwright6249]

Minute: 2:48 a totally mistaken historical representation: Japan never accepted full incondicional surrender - they accepted the Potsdam Declaration. And minute 2:45? The Soviet Union RE-occupied the Sakhalin Islands which they’d had to concede to Japan in 1908

[@revalesq]

The complete destruction of Würzburg was a crime.

[@bearlutz8114]

Why are censoring? If thats how you wanna present your ok fine it is you whom put it together for anyone to watch! (Thank you btw), imo it be better to just show anything that needs to censored, blurry screens suck

[@youtubehatesus2651]

This was very interesting. Thank you. The war didn't end at D-Day. 0.0

[@andreitimakov9392]

I don't understand why some people who call themselves histories, talk about reacupation of the USSR of Ukraine and the Baltic countries when some of those countries already belonged to Russia since Tzar time and some where agreed to become part of the USSR after the end of WW2.

[@Wombat343]

My great uncle Len was taken prisoner by the Japanese, when he came home he never ever had anything Japanese in his house and hated hated right untill he died 😢

[@dudemakememes878]

Stalin at the thumbnail look like that one kid who is socially awkward

[@dravidmills2328]

History repeats.

[@robsmith4434]

Wonder if anyone will say about the bombing of german civilians and the camps were full of civilian German's no red bloated body's from gas strange

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They're wrong about Gorings take over attempt. He asked, he didn't demand.

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If everyone recycled as much as this channel there wouldn’t be any trash left in this world

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LOL

[@behrouzvahid2]

The question I have from the KZbin channel "Timeline" is: Why have you considered Persian subtitles in the caption of the video of the end of World War II?

[@huntsteven5025]

And here we go again ww3 2024 😢😢😢😢 Does anyone learn history

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10:29 tartar?

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UNWATCHABLE ALMOST WITH THE BARRAGE OF ANNOYING ADVERTS … Im never going to buy anything that’s sold this way , plus if I wanna buy anything I’ll look for myself at legitimate websites as there are so many dodgy & dubious sites out there. You’d get more viewers if you turned this pathetic barrage off …

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Jheez

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Hate to break it to you…. but they don’t exist anymore 😂 communism 😂

[@jetholcomb1]

And it wasn’t just because shortages of resources. I think they were also punished during the treaty of Versailles, even though they were an ally. Certain things happen to them, and they were mad about it.

[@drudown76]

Not a fan of the censored parts

[@huntsteven5025]

Uk paid 20/20 debt off usa 🇺🇸 but usa in 34 trillion in debt

[@thepotatofuhrer2991]

That's why NATO can go pound sand, with their own money now..

[@vanjamatic3972]

Also: Maniacs.

[@Carlo42]

The hypocrisy of the Russians at Kiev is astounding in its arrogance. Stalin had tens of thousands of political prisoners massacred at the start of Operation Barbarossa. The NKVD carried out many executions of Russians soldiers, so for them to be so upset by what the Germans did is disingenuous. What the Germans did was reprehensible but the Russians did the same thing. Stalin's gulags and work camps murdered umpteen thousands of prisoners, during his dictatorship it is estimated to have been as much as the 20 million Soviets killed and murdered during WW2.

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Hi everyone

[@tomjones5650]

W.H.G.W. - WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?! OH THE HUMANITY!😮

[@teeprice7499]

The US joined the wrong side in WWI. Im starting to wonder about WWII.

[@kolla5415]

it's not just you that felt that way.

[@richbrockmeier3922]

The US NATO israeli International Crime Organization MUST BE STOPPED PERMANENTLY!

[@pmtspmts8441]

As usual blaming usa for war we did not create yet bailed you out..

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First

[@1600Patriota]

Nice if Next time the "expertos" are not comunists

[@JackSoderberg]

Wen

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Lol

[@waynelittle646]

Us English should have sided with the Germans in ww2. Look at the state of Europe nowadays. Here in England our towns and cities are unrecognisable and our culture is disappearing

[@Acer_Maximinus]

Germany alone is to blame for the devastation of Europe during WW2. They were not ”heroes defending Europe.” They waged war against it, and committed crimes against humanity.

[@kylegoodreau2170]

​@Acer_Maximinus no it isn't the allies treating a defeated Germany like an economic slave that owed them the world on a platter is what caused it all...treaty of Versailles check it out sometime ya might learn something

[@Acer_Maximinus]

@@kylegoodreau2170 I’m not talking about what caused WW2, sleepy. I’m responding to the OP. Try reading sometime, when you learn how.

[@SaveTheKidsD2P]

The UK voted itself into the state it’s in. America is falling right behind you. Luckily we have Poland and Eastern Europe between Russia and this insanity

[@richbrockmeier3922]

WEF forum did that. Not Russia, not China.

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Spoiler : young thug

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Garbage

[@MarekMarciniak]

elaborate? Maybe ?

[@ramonortiz8889]

Many historians, like Hastings, saying that, what happened in Dresden was not right, failed to realize that the Germans( military and civilians alike) got a taste of their own medicine. The atrocities, like those in the concentration camps, were a good example of why the Germans deserve the punishment inflicted on them, and then they got a visit from the mighty Red Army... War is brutal but that just how it is

[@stewiesaidthat]

Many historians leave out the fact that the communists starved to death 10s of millions of civilians after the war had ended. War isn't about subjugating people. It's about acquiring more land and resources for your people to grow and prosper. Like killing all of the buffaloes so that the ranchers could run cattle. Like round up the natives and placing them on reservations so that the settlers could develop the land.

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