A History Teacher Reacts | "10 Bizarre Wars History Completely Forgot" by All Time 10's

[@heddadybvadskog-nebb5603]

"...Think the only landlocked country in South America?" Bolivia who legit is right next to Paraguay: "It worked!!! Being a landlocked country with a Navy has tricked people into forgetting we're landlocked!!"

[@madogthefirst]

In fairness they used to not be landlocked.

[@Strodie567]

@@madogthefirst Yes, Bolivia has been landlocked only since 1883. I mean, how can you expect a history teacher to keep up with such last-minute events? ;-) Though to be really fair, that was _after_ the war that was being discussed (1864-1870), so at the time Paraguay was indeed the only landlocked country in South America.

[@judasdechariot9843]

Hahaha. You beat me to it!

[@KristerAndersson-nc8zo]

Well they do have a navalstation at lake Titicaca. Why did he not mention the footballwar?

[@lapisleafuli1817]

Paraguay was actually going to be partitioned and wiped off the map completely until US president Rutherford B Heyes stepped in and saved the country. To this day Heyes is seen as a hero in Paraguay and even has a province named after him.

[@ShahjahanMasood]

"Ratherfraud Heyes"

[@Smogne]

Emperor Pedro II also was not keen on annexing everything

[@cassianoneto1553]

Paraguay was not going to be wiped out, it was in danger of needing to make even more territorial concessions to Argentina until the U.S. imtervened. Paraguay was never going to be annexed, because the agreement between Brazil and Argentina from the start of the war forbade the partition of Paraguay.

[@abrahamperez1653]

Cassiano Neto lets not forget the racial undertone to the war for all sides

[@Smogne]

@@abrahamperez1653 what racial undertone?

[@Xaiff]

Personally, I think this is easily one of the best "reaction" channel. Really glad that you always give your own take on the topics. I wish I had history teacher like you back then. Cheers.

[@turbowolf302]

Mr. Terry: It had to be Texas, hadn't it? Me, a Texan: YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT!

[@wisemankugelmemicus1701]

Van Zandt is still technically independent

[@ciaranvaille7531]

I’m a Texan and this is exactly how I reacted. 😂

[@turbowolf302]

@Jenn Massey [STARES IN TEXAN] ....alright, then.

[@cn7449]

Jenn Massey Seems safe. I’ll stick to living where everyone around isn’t carrying a killing machine.

[@ciaranvaille7531]

Cody Niles I haven’t ever seen anyone carrying a gun in public in Texas. Usually people keep them in their vehicles just in case they need to defend themselves. For example, when one man walked into a church in Texas with a machine gun, people in the church went out to their trucks to get their guns and shot at the criminal. Also, in the time that the number of firearms in the US has quadrupled, the number of murders has been halved.

[@onorioneto3798]

The Paraguay war is actually very known here in Brazil, we learn it in the school as the biggest war in south america

[@hiplsnols4394]

ofc its more known in the countries involved

[@AliceObscura]

That's so interesting. It's always interesting to see how different peoples learn about history and what they learn.

[@abdelrahmanwael2551]

If i hear about the emu war one more time...

[@abdelrahmanwael2551]

@Ron Lewenberg what's that?

[@abdelrahmanwael2551]

@Ron Lewenberg oh nice gimme some

[@perjulianlundbergtande8956]

Sign me up for 2 liters 💵

[@JesusChrist42000]

Australian version of snake oil

[@csweezey18]

Found the Australian.

[@Crazael]

My favorite is Scilly vs the Netherlands. Mostly because the whole thing basically started on a whim of the Dutch, and then they forgot all about it for three and a half centuries.

[@gabber1209]

The fact that our fleet admiral was called Tromp can't be coincidence :o

[@a.grimes4202]

The “War of the Bucket” is actually quite a misnomer for the one battle conflict. The Italian city-state of Modena defeated the fellow Italian city-state of Bologna at the Battle of Zappolino. The bucket may not even exist, as although some accounts say the Ghibellines defeat of the Guelphs caused them to take the _alleged_ bucket after Modena captured the Bolognese castle of Monteveglio, the rumor has never been substantiated after literally almost 700 years (the conflict began and ended in 1325).

[@Schmidty1]

Yes Transnistria is an independent country to this day but it is only recognized by Russia.

[@nickvance7453]

and a hell of a lot better place than that shithole of corruption called moldova

[@RandomPL69]

Welp Taiwan too its independent but only recognize as a part of China

[@AikerAdvend]

@@nickvance7453 how so when they're equally terrible?

[@TannerWeinberg]

@@RandomPL69 As far as I know most countries in the west view Taiwan as a recognized separate country.

[@Walterwhiteskull]

Of course it is

[@issackaiser]

14:00 His shocked reaction when the Swiss vs Swiss war came up drove me laughing to tear 🤣

[@schwebor]

Me too. Im swiss and i wouldnt have expected to hear about the sonderbundskrieg in this video. 😅

[@VictorSilva-qf2tu]

That last war you saw was the triple alliance war. If you wish to make a reaction video about it, I recommend you "battle of tuiuti" from kings and generals.

[@Alex53Ace]

That'd be great because this video was really misleading.

[@William_Bill_Overbeck]

O paraguai começo a guerra por causa do Uruguai se não me engano

[@Nathalia_Martins]

They also forgot to mention that it wasn’t 90% of ALL population, but really the MALE population. Children and women didn’t fight the war, if I’m not mistaken.

[@pensadorpensante1350]

@@Nathalia_Martins Children and women fight in a battle when the dictator send them as a last resource while escaping, btw, sorry for bad english.

[@leh0rla]

Not a war but the "friendly fight" over Hans Island between Canada and Denmark is pretty funny to look at. You have a great channel!

[@ne5152]

One of the few people who react to things and actually has new stuff to add and lets us learn from it. You rock!

[@MrRuffleNeck]

I'm Canadian, I have a friend who's father was an rcmp officer deployed to Bosnia as a peacekeeper in the 90s. The pictures he has are very interesting to look at

[@bsandey]

How about the "Toledo War" between the state of Ohio and (then) territory of Michigan? I have a friend that live in Ohio, and she jokes about it saying that Ohio claims they won that war because Ohio got Toledo, and Michigan claims they won the war because Ohio got Toledo.

[@a.grimes4202]

As someone from Michigan, and this is not some state pride thing, our state is correct. Ohio got like 10 miles of land we got the eastern roughly ⅓ of the U.P., which Ohio thought was useless. Gotta be rather embarrassing for little old Toledo to only be known for producing glass when the eastern ⅓ or so of the U.P. (Sault Sainte Marie, for example) is known for producing a little mineral known as copper.

[@Korpsman23]

"I guess you're neutral in foreign wars but not on your own". 😂😂😂

[@Galitwo]

And even then there were neutral Cantons. :P

[@delta4900]

Bolivia is also landlocked.

[@organicsaturn4813]

It's so weird hearing someone talk about the mountain meadow massacre other than my old history teacher. The Baker-Fancher train departed about 4 miles from my childhood home and I would always pass the historical marker on the way to town, it's such a weird part of history that my extended family was a part of, it's just odd that the Arkansas Ozarks are really linked to anything other than racism or meth.

[@spathens8225]

Incoming Texas memes Also, pls dumbest wars

[@wilderwein1480]

Spathens CRU3L Everyone?

[@Raptor052]

#1 Football War.

[@aggressivelymemeing]

The British-Zanzibar rule was not exclusively British Imperialism (though that was obviously part of it). The British did not approve of the new Sultan because he was pro-slavery and wanted to restart the slave trade in Zanzibar, which the British had abolished when they took over in the first place. The puppet the British tried to install was pro-British, but also anti-slavery.

[@peacekeeper7778]

Heya, Mr Terry. In case you haven't been told already, there's a couple vids from Extra Credits that may be up your alley covering the events leading up to World War 1. The series is called 'The Seminal Tragedy.' Oh, and you know how you briefly mentioned what if the bomb was dropped in Korea in Oversimplified's Cold War part 1 video? Alternate History Hub made a vid about that called "What if America Had Nuked China?" Anyway, I'm lovin' the content. It's always nice to get more exposition about certain parts of events.

[@crsmith6226]

the Seminal Tragedy series was the only one that made me tear up

[@BrognusBelgen]

20:20 I only know about this because of the Teutonic Campaign for the expansion pack for Medieval 2: Total War. Livonian Auxiliaries and Teutonic Knights are great.

[@jurgnobs1308]

as swiss history teacher: the "Sonderbund" was not a country. it was just an alliance of tiny catholic states (switzerland, tiny as it is, is a union of states). but yes, it was the last active military engagement of switzerland. but is it really surprising? the swiss federal state was founded in 1848, that is 33 years AFTER it became neutral (or more strictly, after the helvetic union that later became switzerland became neutral) and small scale armed conflicts are pretty common when new countries are founded

[@jurgnobs1308]

also: whether it was religiously motivated or not is actually very disputed. the catholic cantons happened to be conservative and the protestant ones were liberal. the catholic ones wanted to keep the old order with the swiss pseudo nobility (we didnt have nobles for ages, but we had patrician families which basically comes to the same) while the protesant ones demanded democracy and citizens rights. so you can just as much see it as a conflict between the political sides.

[@jurgnobs1308]

"Sonderbund" means "special union" or "special treaty". and that is what it was. basically, the tiny states that made up todays switzerland had been allied through various contracts since medieval times (some starting in 1291, some joining later). and the Sonderbund was basically a union within that union. imagine you have 20ish states that have been allied for centuries and were thinking about forming a country together, but some of the states dont want that and instead form an alliance within the bigger alliance to try to stop these proceedings. that was the Sonderbund.

[@douglasfelipebs]

In Brazil, we learn that being landlocked was the biggest reason why Paraguay started the war. They wanted to have Atlantic access by annexing the "Baía de la Plata" (bay of the silver), an area fill of rivers that would make it possible. As a Brazilian, forgive me if I wrote something wrong :)

[@lindala2602]

As a dane, we have not forgotten the crusade against the pegans. That was how we got our flag

[@perjulianlundbergtande8956]

Same! ^Norwegian

[@formicidaeinc.8075]

I'm pretty sure most people living in the countries where these wars actually took place remember them, but the rest of the world doesn't

[@chrisholland7367]

That's an interesting point because over a thousand years ago you were part of the great heathen army when you invaded England as the Vikings.

[@annikamyren3026]

Same , swedish

[@byproductofcheese]

Another crusade!!

[@lonelyheartproductions5237]

As an Argentinian, we are taught about the Paraguayan war or The war of the triple alliance. It's the bloodiest conflict we have ever be involved in and one that left you feeling so hollow on the inside for how much blood was spilled

[@burmy1774]

The Paraguay War is a pretty big topic in history classes here in Brazil.

[@camilox6666]

I'm Uruguayan, and "Triple Alianza" war is still one of the biggest shames in the history of my country. First of all, there was lack of motivation on engaging war with Paraguay, we were inducted by Argentina to take a part in the war. Second main reason, it was a country wipe out without rhyme or reason, even when Paraguay's emperor was a potential risk for the rest o south america, their civilians did not have anything to do with that. Invading forces made sure that there weren't men available to fight in the whole country, that's why up to these days Paraguay has an increased rate of women over men. This is just a peak of what that war was, but you can almost call it genocide (Emphasis in almost). Thanks for this interesting video, and sorry for my english

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

just gonna say it here, Try turning your desk around and use the bookshelf full of NES games as a backdrop. Then make the screen a little bit smaller and center it so that your giving your self a bit more room on the screen and the logo, try shrinking it and putting it in the top left or right corner. Might improve your video setup a bit.

[@jazzthrowout265]

The Swiss Civil War of 1847 cost less than 150 lifes. The General commanding the Federal troops issued an order to all soldiers to spare the soldiers of the other side from unnecessary violence and he planned the campaign in a way, which would end the civil war in the shortest and most unbloody manner possible. So it was a very civil war.

[@markusstudeli2997]

Indeed, General Dufour was a genious in strategy and diplomacy. Mainly thanks to the quick and rather unbloody resolution of the conflict, Switzerland managed to install todays federal democracy in 1848.

[@IffeOnline]

100 years from now a historian will talk about the great console wars.

[@nsaspynetwork3196]

There's a book that's worth reading

[@BZFTech]

Bolivia is also land locked. They use have ports until the Saltpeter War in which Chile gave them to option to disband their navy but keep ports or keep their navy and lose their ports. Bolivia, being proud Bolivians picked to keep their navy, thus, they no long have access to the pacific ocean anymore.

[@MTTT1234]

'I think Paraguay is the only landlocked nation in South-America' - Bolivian sobbing in the background.

[@unknowndane4754]

Worst of all, they had a coast, then Chile stole it. They have had offers of remedy in recent history but doesn't seem like a deal was ever reached.

[@bagybf1942]

Swiss here: The "war" was from 3.11.1847 to 28.11.1847 (25 Days). I have other interesting facts: A hero in this civil war (I guess) was Gen. Henri Dufour. The first Swiss General (of two; Switzerland has no General in Peacetimes). He was a remarkable man. On the last battle against Lucerne he said (roughly translated), we shall not only be victorious, but winning with no accusations. What he ment was, that there should no unethical actions to be taken against his fellow countrymen. In his later life he would be one of the founding member of the IKRK (International Committee of the Red Cross). The Result of this war was the Federal Constitution of 1848. 26 Men died on the Sonderbungs side and 60 on the Swiss side. :)

[@bishopthefool]

The Canadians were part of a UN peacekeeping mission (Blue Berets) in Bosnia, so it was really a UN-Croatia battle.

[@BadAssRedneck65]

You remind me alot of my teacher Mr. England. He did biology and something else I forgot. I see some similarities. I always thought he shouldve had a yt channel like this as well

[@lordvader7723]

Siege_Kilo Was he Irish or Scottish

[@BadAssRedneck65]

@@lordvader7723 he was an American?

[@lordvader7723]

Siege_Kilo I was making a joke based off the fact it would be ironic if he was Irish or Scottish because of the conflict between the 3 countries

[@Futureal81]

You missed bolivia with the whole landlocked comment, besides that, great video as always

[@octopii714]

Another great video!! Just one thing I'd point out is turn the audio levels up on the video clips just a tad more. Otherwise great as always!!!

[@artsysabs]

"But, like the Hemsworths" ... savage

[@HardRockMark]

Paraguay is not the only landlocked country in South America. Bolivia is landlocked as well.

[@illiteratethug3305]

17:58 Bringham Young? Bringham Fucking Young?!! Not even trying to disguise it back then were they lol

[@MrGrumblfix]

when you hear a history teacher say "never heard of this" you know its really Completely Forgotten :D

[@Walesball1214]

congrats on 130k

[@gustavomariz7769]

At brazil everyone study about the war against paraguay

[@yoshiki2290]

In Brazil *

[@JackRabbitSlim]

@@yoshiki2290 On Brazil *

[@RyanAcidhedzMurphy]

@@JackRabbitSlim ON Brazil would be everyone studying while somehow on the country, as in standing on a map of it or something. It is, IN Brazil. You are IN a country, not ON a country. You are IN a country, ON the planet Earth. If you were studying a country, it would be simply be studying the country. You would only say ON, if the sentence were something like "I have a test on Brazil" or "when is that essay on Brazil due?" In that context ON, is used as a substitution for ABOUT. You would only ever say AT Brazil, if Brazil were the name of a specific location people had been. Example: "Everyone was AT Brazil, it's a new South American themed restaurant." When speaking about a country, time and place are usually indicated using verbs like WENT followed by TO, or using IN. "We WENT TO Brazil." "Everyone is IN Brazil for Mardia Gra." "What are you doing for vacation? We're GOING TO Brazil." "Where have you been? Brazil. Why? Because I always wanted to GO TO Brazil!"

[@JackRabbitSlim]

@@RyanAcidhedzMurphy Dude, I appreciate the linguistics lessons, but it was a joke...not a very good one, but I was just kidding. But I applaud the effort of everything you said and the fact that you typed it all out.

[@MultiMariana55]

Oversimplified regarding 'free and fair elections' with Stalin. *pointing to a map* "Communist, Communist, Communist, Communist, Communist, Communits. If that's not free and fair, I don't know what is"

[@jonnyso1]

I'm not really knowlegeable about the Paraguay war but i'm pretty sure there was more to it than Lopez being a wannabe Napoleon.

[@rodrigomejia953]

Well, about the Paraguayan war what happened is that Uruguay was undergoing a civil war, Brazil was supporting one of the sides while Paraguay did the same with the other one, however this led to both countries going to war with each other, Solano wanted to cross Argentina to aid his Uruguayan allies, but the Argentine government did not allow it so Paraguay declared open war on Argentina and invaded it, of course Brazil allied Argentina and their supporters ended up winning the Uruguayan civil war, so Uruguay also declared war on Paraguay.

[@El_Procer_Artigas]

Te mamaste con la explicación

[@ls200076]

very big brain war

[@binaway]

The only Reason Bismark didn't annex Austria when he created modern German was Austria's involvement in the Balkans. The war of the triple alliance (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay) is well known in South America. Bolivia is also landlocked after loss of territory during a war with Chile. Which is why the country still has a Navy, currently restricted to Lake Titicaca, waiting for the return it's coastal territories.

[@1dontknowmyname721]

25:14 "I think Paraguay is the only landlocked nation in South America" Cries in bolivian.

[@LusoOficial]

25:20 Bolivia is a landlock country now but in this time yes you are correct.

[@chottomatekudasai-kun3887]

Bolivia is also landlocked after they loose a war against Chile (giving up the only part of the country with south pacific access).

[@way2sh0rt07grad]

Well dang it I keep getting these videos in my recommended and every one is more intriguing than the last. I would like to add the Toledo War 1835-1836 .Things got so heated between Michigan and Ohio that both governments sent militias to the border. No casualties were taken as the federal government got involved. This is supposedly the beginning of the rivalry between the colleges.

[@cherrydragon3120]

as a dutch person i never knew about this war of scilly XD i laughed so hard knowing we had histories longest yet most peacefull war in human history XD

[@alexanderrobins7497]

Reminds me of how the United States and North Korea are still technically at war.

[@GreakFTW]

21:06 This is still a popular jewerly in Scandinavia today. Called the torshammer, the hammer of Tor in the form of an upside down cross. Most often seen in the form of a necklace. It has kind of gone away from being a religious thing, and become more of a cultural piece. For us on the peninsula it has become more hammer looking. But reading about it, apparently it looks like a cross over on Island.

[@moonkiitty]

"From avenging a pig to fighting over a bucket" Oh!!! I know those references because of oversimplified and this channel! 😂

[@josephgoforth9722]

the Mountain Meadows Massacre many families from where i grew up in Arkansas were part of. The older generation (born at the turn of the last century) still holds serious dislike of mormons due to that period. One thing to note about that attack, several children survived and were 'adopted' into mormon families and were unknown for some time to still be alive and took years to finally be returned to their families.

[@rodneyreinhardt1312]

And only one person was executed for the Massacre, John. D. Lee. The rest of the leaders were never brought to justice.

[@shufflin321]

This is lit as f lol im glad I came across your channel! Defintely subbed UwU

[@ice_springtrap8225]

Bolivia is also a landlocked country making Paraguay and Bolivia the only 2 South American landlocked countries

[@tacticalbacon8552]

I love your channel you remind me of my old ap history teacher 😂

[@Tulikkox]

Northern Crusades not only included the norse religions but also the Suomenusko of Finland and Estonia

[@benbanta2913]

In regards to “when is a nation independent” question an interesting one would of course be Taiwan who China very much says they control even though they don’t have any control of them.

[@airglow4684]

Man looks like a bigger, smarter version of Bobby Hill

[@jyshot]

Airglow Bro That boy ain’t right

[@donnatello3906]

Bolivia is the only other landlocked nation in south America Mr Terry, you were one off!

[@MadTheDJ]

Canadian here. Yeah, we knew about our peacekeeping forces being in Croatia at the time, but I'm not sure that "war" was publicized (I may be wrong, I was only 15 or 16 at the time). I knew there were conflicts and some engagements, those got reported, so maybe the entire incident was downplayed. It was also pre-internet days, so it was a bit easier to shift media focus (or outright ban the reporting). I want to look into this more, because outright media censorship isn't something we'd generally condone as a nation. In this case, our forces were there at the behest of the UN, the mission was to keep the peace and then they were attacked. We weren't there to conquer or overthrow a government. And yeah, our military maybe small compared to other nations, but it's modern and very well-trained. Even US military who have served along side our troops will vouch for that, you don't mess with the Canadians. Re: Declaring independence. That's basically what sovereign citizens do and every government ignores them until they break the law. Then hilarity ensues as they try to explain to arresting officers how the nation's laws don't apply to them. Needless to say, they are wrong.

[@robertadsett5273]

MadTheDJ the military just didn’t publicize the full extent of the battles. No forbidding of coverage by the press as far as I know, they just didn’t tell them what they didn’t already know

[@Saeiyu]

In response to your question about when to declare independence. At least in Latin America we celebrate the date the Spanish signed the independence treaty. Some might celebrate when the colony decided to become independent but at least Mexico and Central America celebrate the signing of the treaty. In my country we also celebrate when the signed documents arrived to the country since the signing was done somewhere else.

[@beserkdonkey]

*heavy sigh* it had to be Texas

[@Crazyasian123456]

Could be worse, ot could've been Florida man

[@Longshot441]

@@Crazyasian123456 if it was florida no doubt it would have been worse.

[@HDreamer]

This "we were technically at war for 300 years" thing is such a PR Gag to be honest. I know a lot of people see differently, but you don't need a formal peace treaty to end a war. If you haven't fought in 300 years, then you aren't in a state of war anymore.

[@aidenbar511]

Agreed. If neither side is preparing for conflict or in a state of conflict that should not be counted as wartime.

[@musicalnomad8]

Canada: “I’m so sorry we won.” I guess we really do apologize a lot. 🙃🇨🇦

[@callmeowen]

24:31 Great name for a TV show

[@user-un-known]

Never heard about Utah war, but my friend got a gunshot wound in leg from the Moldovan one. I guess it depends on where you're from, whether you remember or even know a war or not.

[@ServantofÄzrael]

"You dont see a lot of Canadian wars because..." You know he was going to say because Canadians are nice.

[@IrishBiteGirl]

Because they like to appear nice. Canadians have been and and benefited from MANY wars, especially with the allies.

[@acmaiden5236]

@@IrishBiteGirl Benifited how? Enlighten us!

[@felipeneves7260]

So i'm not a historian, so take everything I say with a grain of salt since most of it is from memory from my high school days, but the Paraguay War wasn't nearly as ridiculous as the video made it out to be. The reason Paraguay declared war on Argentina and Brazil (Uruguay came later if i'm not mistaken) was to control the Delta of the Prata river, one of the biggest trade routes in south america, ensuring Paraguay had access to the sea and furthering Lopez's imperialistic plans. Also the Paraguayans had,at the time, one of the most well trained fighting forces in south america, outnumbering its tree adversary armies tree to one at the onset of the war, since surprisingly enough neither Brazil,Argentina or Uruguay had a developed formal army. Eventualy with the modernization of the Brazilian military and the heavy use of slave soldiers Paraguay was overwhelmed, but they were extremamely sucessful in the begining of the conflict. That being said the whole affair was a massive mistake on Paraguay's part, but the war was without a doubt one of the most pivital moments in South American history

[@lucianograff6512]

I'm from Argentina and did not know about that bizarre conflict, nowhere to be found in school books but hilarious

[@kaizermierkrazy6886]

Typical, most countries try to hide embassring things

[@EzequielMinsburg]

I'm from Argentina too and we studied this war during the last year of high school.

[@jonathanallard2128]

90% of Paraguay dies in violence and it's hilarious?

[@zapato6071]

@@jonathanallard2128 that's a myth. It's not sure exactly the %. But they had enough men to populate Paraguay. I'm from Argentina and I never heard of it. I hear it only by my mom and later I research this.

[@jonathanallard2128]

@@zapato6071 What %age of population must be dead for you to consider the thing as hilarious?

[@nickleister1572]

8:38 who else knew it wasnt that war after reading the captions on the video

[@sr.clumsy7802]

There are a lot more wars for independence in mexican territory like: 1- "Yucatan War of Independence" 2- "Republic of Rio Grande War of Independence" 3- "1st Sonorian War of Independence" 4- "2nd Sonorian War of Independence" 5- "Tabasquian War of Independence" 6- "Mexican - Costa Rican War" (This is not a war of independence) 7- "Mexico - USCA War" (This is not a war of independence)

[@DjKorppi]

About combining christian elements to original religions... In Finland you can still find old gravestones that have both the cross and a bird. Bird because in Suomenusko, you have a personal bird that brings you the first third of your soul, "henki", at the moment of your birth and the same bird takes it on the moment of your death and carries it to join the collective "henki" of your family. Even now, some people say "he lost his henki" instead of "he died", but they do not usually know what it means as "henki" can also be translated to "life" or "breath".

[@hannesbaumann8509]

Paraguay the only landlocked nation in South America - The Bolivians certainly wish so.

[@lapisleafuli1817]

*cries in great Pacific war*

[@drinks1019]

Abe Lincoln: “There is only two kinds of people that I hate. People who judge others based on their culture. And the mormons.” Paraphrasing of course

[@michaelgardosreid3458]

Bolívia is land locked, but they do have that Great Lake.

[@TyRuS168]

I've had the same conversation with teachers long ago about declaring independence. You kinda had there opinion but it lacks a key part. U said until the nation your declaring independence from acknowledges it... they had the thought of the rest of the world or at least other strongish nations accepted it. And I think that is more correct. Because the nation your declaring from would hold out the longest. Of course when they accept it then you are. But I believe it happens before that. If your not paying taxes and they are having trouble collecting with force and other nations treat you as indepent accepting loans and trading, accepting currency definitely.

[@IrinaPrietoMaroa1]

How can the Triple Alliance War be in the first place?

[@danielrose7566]

23:17 I remember bald and bankrupt went there

[@WOLVESOFWARGAMING]

I think you are officially independent when you have your own government and economy that can sustain your nation.

[@fanstalingibs5585]

*Bolivia cries in lost land*

[@Lorem_64]

A good point about the whole Declaring your Independence thing is looking at the Belgians, It took 9 years for the Dutch to agree to Belgian independence. The Belgians view the moment of Independence to be after the Independence war (1830-31), when we got our first King, July 21, 1831, but the Dutch didn't accept it until 1839 .

[@corvus1374]

The Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study in Scarlet", is about vicious Mormons.

[@4Astaroth]

Great book. I always thought that the Mormons were portrayed as pretty evil assholes.

[@El_Procer_Artigas]

The Triple Alliance War (the last one) almost left Paraguay without a male population, even until this day they are still recovering, they were one of the strongest countries of the region in that time. I'm from Uruguay and I think if I remember correctly, that Uruguay was the only one that gave some payback to Paraguay for what happened on the war and at the begining we weren't going to enter the war

[@sergioaccioly5219]

About Russia x Japan: a friend of mine convinced me that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were more Truman putting Stalin on notice on the beginning of the atomic age. Thoughts?

[@samuelthomson1004]

This was my history teacher in the 11th grade.... Mr. Terry, I was the kid that never shut up about politics and then showed back up at your class on B day to bug my girlfriend. Hahah 🤙P.S. I failed out of high school lol but if it makes you feel better, when I got my GED I scored high enough to earn a couple college history credits 😬

[@timflatus]

Linguistic diversity in the Balkans - Bulgarian is a different language and Albanian is so ancient that you'd hardly guess it was related. Most of the other differences are political and religious. The Croatian conflict was a particularly messy and politically awkward situation. It doesn't get talked about in the UK very much either. The situation is still unresolved.

[@cheshireseabra7912]

Hey, Brazilian fan here! It was strange to see that people outside South America don't know about the Paraguai x Uruguai, Brazil and Argentina war. It's a thing that we study, at least in Brazil - it's the biggest international armed conflict we have on South America history. It was right after the war between Brazil and Uruguay, when the Paraguayan dictator did not appreciate the brazilian invasion on Uruguay territory. They imprisoned the then president of the province of Mato Grosso, and the guy died in prison. Six weeks after, Paraguayan troops tried to invade Brazil. The conflict lasted for about almost six years, and it was bloody. Of course Paraguay was the most affected country, but Argentina and Uruguay also lost about 50% of their troops, and in the end about 40% of Paraguay's territory was divided between Brazil and Argentina. In total, it's estimated that almost half a million people died during this period, including military and a large number of civilians. And just after six years after the war ended that the nations signed peace, too. If I'm not mistaken, was the fourth war in that region in this time period. (Sorry for the broken English, it's obviously not my first language and I find it really hard to write in it)

[@starrynight1657]

I actually did read about that war, which is clearly important to Paraguay but most of the world doesn't know anything about there.

[@fcardenas184]

Fun fact: the only South American nation to support Paraguay was Colombia, even writing a law in July of 1870 stating that if Paraguay were to disappear as a result of the war any Paraguayan that made to Colombian soil would recieve Colombian nationality. In november 15th 1980, more than a century later, this law was revamped and became a binational agreement that facilitates Colombians and Paraguayans to get the new nationality by simply asking for it. Nobody ever uses the treaty though. Fun fact #2: Paraguay was, for a little while, the first independent republic in the Americas.

[@DesolatedChild018]

This is a really simplistic view on the Triple Alliance War, while Solano did had his “Napoleon” complex, he didn’t just started a war just to show he could be a conqueror and impress his “celebrity crush” (Napoleon was already long gone by the time, like, wtf). Basically, years after there was a civil war in Uruguay, Solano supported one side from a distance, because in return he was promised access to the sea - yes, Paraguay is a landlocked nation and, as one knows, that’s not a favorable position to be - through free passage by the Plate River, but Brazil intervened in the war, in favor of the other side. He then decided to just get access to the ocean himself, and crossed Argentina to attack Uruguay, in order to gain control of the River Plate Basin, and attacked Brazil as what he saw it was a preemptive strike, since he thought Brazil was going to attack him anyway. While to tackle the biggest 3 nations of South America while you are one of the smallest might sound as a dumb thing, I should remind that it was not a war of conquest over those nations, it was about gain strategic control over the Plate River to get access to the sea; ALSO, in the beginning of the war Paraguay had the largest and best equipped army of the war - Solano did was a fan of Napoleon after all and so invested massively into the militarization of the country - and really didn’t expect the war to gain such scale, he thought the 3 countries would let it slide after a few battles, and again, Paraguay did won the first battles of that war. He didn’t count that specifically Brazil would get so quickly prepared with a massive conscription campaign. In the end, it was only Brazil and Paraguay, with Argentina dropping soon after Lopez was repealed back into his borders, and Uruguay soon after. Brazil however wouldn’t settle for anything but Solano Lopez resignation, and hunted him down into the country. Was Brazilian Emperor Pedro II to hold the blame for causing the massacre of Paraguayan population with his unwieldy obsession? Or was Solano Lopez to blame, for putting his power over his own people and refusing to surrender? That’s a question for discussion. But it’s important to notice that hindsight is 20/20 (oh, look, a New Years Eve reference). Nothing is that simple.

[@annieable4649]

a little late, 21:00 but I´ve been told blacksmiths made the cruifix/mjølnir so they could sell them to people of both religions, also that the god Balder was added much later than the other gods to be a sort of jesus figure.

[@kokofan50]

It wasn’t blacksmiths. Blacksmiths work in iron and steel.

[@ArchDuke358]

Around 11:18 talking about the Russian invasion of China in ww2, it was just Manchuria they were driven out of, not all of China.

[@cvatoslav]

I would really love if you react to some video about the history of the Balkans! It is one of the regions with the richest history (and drama) in the world.

[@jeffzaun1841]

I didn't realize the Canadian prime minister had the power to silence reporting on anything, much less on a battle. He can really do that?

[@t3k7]

Yes he can, living in canada since birth one thing ive learned is that in our Canadian Right and Freedoms we have Freedom of Expression, BUT, our Freedom of Expression can be alterd or Supressed, how i do not know (im assuming it has to go through legeslation etc) but yes, it is possible

[@schwebor]

To be honest, when i read the titel of the video i was like: will the mention the sonderbundskrieg (nr. 5 switzerland vs switzerland)? And i was pretty sure they wouldnt because noone outside switzerland knows about it. First things first, this war wasnt about confessions but about the form of government. It was the radical-liberals against the conservatives (most conservativ governed cantons were catholica and most liberals were protestant, but thats aminor detail). The main point of the war was the question: do we wana be a federal state (liberal oppinion) or do we wana be a confederation of souverain states. And mr Terry: switzerland was home for 2 protestantic reformers, calvin in geneva and Huldrich Zwingli in Zurich. But there is 1 truly outstanding story. The general of the swiss troops, Guillaume henry Dufour (later he was the 1st president of the international red cross, and cofounder of it) made his first move against the city of Fribourg (sonderbund) instead of fighting a huge battle and creating a bloodbath he sourrounded the city and wrote a letter to the government of the city, telling them how many cannons and troops he had stationed arround the city, ordering them to capitulate or to force him into atrocitys. 2 days later fribourg was conquered withoud 1 official fired shot. Thanks to doufur this war endet with about 93 soldiers who died and 510 soldiers the were wounded (source: historisches lexikon der schweiz).

[@amandaguenascimento]

Weird how Paraguay War is such a huge deal in Brazil but not known at all outside here

[@riksnoek6068]

I think recognition of an independence used to be signed by treatys. The Netherlands were declared independent through Spanish eyes after the treaty of Westphalia after 80 years of war. But the Dutch already had signed the Plakkaat van Verlaetinge (the Dutch declaration of independence) in the 16th century.