Chicagoans React to WW2 - OverSimplified Part 1

[@cjrecio5702]

14:56 Korea was a tributary state to Imperial China, under Qing dynasty, since 1637 until, in 1894, the First Sino-Japanese War where it fell under Japanese influence. Also, Indochina is located on the south of China and was under French control.

[@noblesseraizel3741]

Who is the guy when he says "here's the situation"

[@Jaanpaunic]

@@noblesseraizel3741 mike "the situation" from the show jersey shore

[@noblesseraizel3741]

@@Jaanpaunic oh. Man I completely forgot about jersey shore. I used watch that all the time when I was younger with my cousin.

[@personmanman3071]

By the time of the invasions of China which are mentioned, Korea was already very firmly in Japanese control. Also China actually had the second highest death toll after Russia

[@miguel-h]

15:10 Incorrect. Indochina comprised of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, not Korea.

[@rendalconstantineau1680]

Well, in Chamerlain(and others at the time) defense, these guys had just watched the world tear itself apart about 20 years before, resulting in MILLIONS of deaths during the last great war. Can any of us say that in the same position, we wouldn't be ready to do anything...ANYTHING that we thought might prevent another war? The only other real way they had to take stronger action was to threaten military force...which would mean war....more deaths.... can't say I can really blame them too hard for trying to avoid a repeat of the last war. Also one has to remember, we are looking back on all of this with a great deal of hindsight, of course we KNOW Hitler isn't going to keep his word, but it's mainly because of the fact that he broke these agreements.

[@trappestarrgaming3422]

Any ody with a basic understanding of psychology would have known that witout consequences ppl will do watever they want. Most ppl only stop wen sumthin affects them negatively especially if they think they have already been wronged

[@mingusk1602]

My grandfather lived in the Dutch East Indies during WW2. After the war Indonesia became independent and the Moluccans (my grandfather's people) were seen as traitors because they helped the Netherlands. That is why the Dutch allowed the Moluccas to stay in the Netherlands "for a while". And they still live here!

[@baibac6065]

"seen" They were*

[@richardwani2803]

When he said britian was all alone that wasn't true because we had Canada Australia India and New Zealand also if it wasn't for British colonialism America as a country today wouldn't even exist

[@baibac6065]

That would have been great.

[@Gunsblazin94]

To give you an idea of the atrocities inflicted upon the Chinese by the Japanese at Nanking; I can start by saying that the Japanese sack of Nanking is most often referred to as the "Rape of Nanking." Take the Holocaust, or the mass executions in Russia by Stalin, and that's the level of evil we're talking about that occured at Nanking. Everything from cold-blooded murder of civilians, to actual rape, to unethical human experimentation. Japan did it all. However, Japan at that time and ever since, denied it ever happened, and pretty much wiped it from their history books.

[@mainlt9267]

American (of Spanish descent?) lecturing on colonisation... You really couldn't make this up.

[@johndoe6260]

Bro ? The Descent doesn't matter he wasn't there

[@baibac6065]

Whataboutism

[@lord_wolf_dragon3293]

This is a weird comment. America, since gaining its independence in 1776, has never colonized another country. We did WIN colonies previously owned by Spain after the Spanish-American War but we didnt re-colonize them and left the Spanish colony-decended residents pretty much to their own devices and America only exists because of Great Britain's obsession with colonizing every country it can but we've never done that. Now if you want to throw shade at Americans for financing wars because of a petty beef with Russia (who was financing the other side), or involving ourselves in international incidents we have no business being in, then that's fair but implying America has a history of colonization is of course, wrong.

[@jameseuwen3253]

The guy on the right needs some education ...

[@baibac6065]

He got it right. Germany crossed the line by trying to invade and colonize Europe. Never mind it was the same as what the British and French (and Spanish but no longer at that point) have been doing and continued to do, but to the rest of the world.

[@brian0902]

I recommend epic history Russian history

[@pipercharms7374]

Guy on the right: talk of the British empire me: so we're getting flack for that from an American? Someone should teach him America's history properly. Maybe he wouldn't sound so self-righteous then....

[@alvinanil6996]

Both equally bad.

[@Web720]

You do realize he would've agreed with you right??? The woke hates America more than anything else.

[@WhenAllTheWarmthLeavesUs]

@@Web720 The woke doesnt hate America, they don't know well enough to hate it. They hate the idea that their limited mind makes them believe America is.

[@pinheadlarry7266]

what he said wasn't wrong, Britain took over the world through conquest like hitler was trying to do

[@CruelestChris]

@@pinheadlarry7266 Hardly the same thing.

[@angellove91150]

Stop acting that way when you see France and the Uk not doing anything, they paid massie tribute not only on the first war but even before thaat France was already in war with Germany you can't blame peoples of this time to want peace and the reason british could retreat is because french and belgium army actually keep busy germans....

[@georgestilgoe4704]

And the Americans didn't do that to the Native Americans? The Phillipines? The Iraqis? The Afghans? The Vietnamese? The Koreans? Just part of life, you either have your own empire or belong to someone else's

[@kaledmasterme]

Did dude on the right roll his eyes at the "balls of steel" comment? Weird.

[@baibac6065]

German civilians, Polish civilians, Russian civilians and those colonized by those same British had "balls of steel" too.

[@berndferret8785]

Congrats for 10k subs

[@ChicagoReacts]

Thank you!

[@TheGravityChannel]

Hopefully the rest of the video you're reacting to talks about how the American soldiers treated the Italian people when they arrived in Sicily and made their way up to the north, it's something I have never heard being talked about and all we ever hear is, America saved the world! And while that might be true in some way I believe the full truth should always be told. The short story is lots of rape and stealing. Again, I don't give fault to everyone who fought, I'm just stating something that happened that seems to have been "covered up" since I've never met someone who knew about it.

[@jermainezinnerman7450]

You want to sit here and talk about everything everyone did wrong. There were piece's of crap on all sides. Duh!!!

[@jameseuwen3253]

@@jermainezinnerman7450 Germany apologized for the holocaust The british apologized for their wrong doing The japanese apologized to china The americans never even acknowledge a thing they do , they haven't even apologised to Vietnam

[@Web720]

@@jameseuwen3253 Except JAPANESE NEVER DID, wtf!??? They made half-hearted apologies and then retract them, because if any political leaders in Japan talk about Nanking, it would be political suicide. Heck even fucking China apologized! To Japan so they could their trade relations going. Not to mention WW2 is barely taught in Japan.

[@joelcabida]

Yeah also how the US bombed Manila just because they got tired killing more than 100,000 civilians in the process...

[@ranjan2004]

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[@thothrax5621]

14:58 Bro he literally says in the video that Japan went to War with China so as to conquer Korea. Korea was essentially part of China at that point. Either listen to the video or actually know anything before spouting your bullshit

[@MikeBD187]

What was your comment at the end all about. I wonder where we would be if Britain had given up.

[@mehulkulkarni3399]

Pls react to second part also soon ,loved your reaction👍

[@Volnas97]

To be fair, Maginot line worked as it was supposed to. it was built to focuse German troops through Belgium, where, according to a treaty, would be French, Belgian and other soldiers waiting on them on a river shore, but Germany forced Belgium to stay neutral, so this whole plan failed.

[@zefyrisd69]

Yes, the video is very biased against France on pretty much all subjects. It glorifies the UK's behaviour past Churchill's arrival which is very typical British propaganda. Oversimplifying is a thing, over biasing it is another.

[@bradywalton1357]

Does anyone else think young Mussolini’s mugshot looks like kitt?

[@nineten5291]

please react fallen of ww2 and eastern front of ww2 animated

[@cjrecio5702]

They’ve already watch the first one but not the eastern front animated.

[@AG-xg2lz]

@@cjrecio5702 they haven't. It was a different couple who has been off the channel since then

[@Pyth0n313]

React to Alternatehistoryhub's The Invasion That Changed Everything: Soviets In Afghanistan

[@ethancantwell8549]

I thought it was a reaction video not a watch along

[@MrEaster619]

You reference old colonisation to modernised Britain alone fighting by itself in Europe. Get a grip lad

[@rydacomics]

they weren't fighting by themselves, tho, ireland and iceland were helping them

[@cjrecio5702]

Can you guys react to the Cuban Missile Crisis, or Suez Crisis, by TimeGhost History, please? They’re really good.

[@audibleadventures9004]

You are probably of European ancestry stop being so butt hurt and accept the British empire was the most glorious thing to happen to some of these places, rule Britannia!!!

[@Crazy52]

silly island nation

[@napalmhotdog4365]

@@Crazy52 no

[@Crazy52]

@@napalmhotdog4365 sorry facts are facts

[@jameseuwen3253]

@@Crazy52 silly island nation that managed to conquer 1/4 of the world If that's what silly means then sign me up il take it The british soldiers defended us in Northern Ireland so I'm always in debt to them

[@lemonade_011]

Piss off you embarrass us .

[@TED1980]

You need to get rid of that clown on the right (your left).

[@AleahMartin961]

Yes well the uk didn’t kill full cultures of people and we weren’t racist very different empires

[@baibac6065]

Living in your own little reality. Cute.

[@AleahMartin961]

@@baibac6065 Look up history hunny then come back the media isn’t correct about everything.

[@rydacomics]

Wrong, the uk is responsible for the death of millions of indigenous aboriginals and native Americans when they shared diseases and also raided, pillaged, massacred their villages

[@intello8953]

@@AleahMartin961did you literally say British empire NEVER was racist?

[@AleahMartin961]

@@intello8953 No i didn’t say that at all of course there was racism like every other single nation in the world.

[@zefyrisd69]

this video is just not oversimplified unfortunately, but over biased. The way he explains the Maginot line, Dunkirk, UK's stance when German started winning in France, France's stance when German started winning, his lack of talking about the English plot to take over France that forced France to quickly sign an armistice with Germany to avoid it, or Mers El Kebir, all glorifies the UK (and especially Churchill) and mocks France, while the reality was quite otherwise. It also fails to mention why the RAF could actually fight of the Luftwaffe as well, which was, well, the fact that Luftwaffe was very weakened by the battle of France.

[@informing_]

please react to "We all move at the Speed of Light"

[@infamous_richard8732]

Hello.

[@Лев-ф6г]

Always thought how Germany after loosing wwI became so strong in such short period of time, of course Union did the same in 19 years after winning in civil war and force occupants to go home, they manage to create such a develop country but it is Union with all resources you may need it is in Union. But how Germany could do it? Only one option: Britain feed it to fight against Union, the true creator of wwII is Britain. But after Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, oops Germany turned in another direction and if Hitler was not so stupid and finished war on the west and maybe did not attack Union at all. Germany maybe unite Europe.

[@TrashskillsRS]

Germany was the leading country in the industrial revolution by 1900. The best engineering books was german and STEM science was booming. It was one of the leading factors to the tension leading to WWI. After WWI the german army had to remove about 400 planes and some guns and artillery and less than 20 proto tanks (mostly captured british ones). By 1930 the big companies were already producing a ton of cars, aircraft etc. for commercial use. By 1933 when Nazi's took over, they beefed up military production massively. By 1939 the german state spent more money on the millitary than they earned in taxes, and thus was running and extreme deficit on their national budget. In contast UK and US were only spending a few % of their budget on the military before war broke out. It is how Germany had superior tanks to the allies and more planes, with the Spitfire as the only plane capable of competiting. It is why they wanted these gambled swift victories while they had the upper hand in material. Now USSR had never stopped beefing up their army, as Stalin foreshadowed a conflict with the capitalist world. By 1940 they had the largest army in the world, with the most tanls and aircraft. Of these it was the newly invented T-34 tanks that would surprise the germans the most in 1941, as it was superior to the german ones, while they still had superior aircraft and after smashing 1000's of planes on the ground during early Barbarossa with over 1000 on the first day, they had air superiority. It was only because they moved their factories east in a nightmare logitstical operation, while also keeping production so simple that uneducated farmers could learn it in a couple days, and with multiple corners cut that they started mass production on an insane scale. Also in early 1942 the USSR got aid from the Western Allies in terms of grain and trucks, as the USSR economy basically collapsed as they went into total war production.

[@Лев-ф6г]

@@TrashskillsRS I think you forgot Versalles treaty: Alsace, Lotaringia to France, Shlesvig to Denmark, Poznan, Upper Silesia, Pomerania to Poland, Memel to Lithuania, was created demilitarized zone, all german navy was sunk, army restriction of 100 000 men, Germany was forbidden to build planes, tanks, armored cars, Germany should pay 132 billions golden german marks. Germany could not pay so Antanta took everything that had some value: machines, livestock, resources. In 1923 France and Belgium occupied Ruhr area. Out of that all german production drasticcaly fell. Inflalation grew every day, high taxes.

[@TrashskillsRS]

@@Лев-ф6г The majority of german industrialiation factories were in Bayern and the Ruhr district. You can even see it today, with Audi, BMW, Adidas, Siemens in Bayern. Ruhr had the steel works, coal mines, and still has Texstile, Food and Chemistry factories, and is the area with highest population density in germany for a reason. It is correct that the German economy was hurt badly by Versalles. But they still had a lot of the industry, and in 1929 after the great depression hits, germany negotiate a deal to delay the reparation payments and it is fully ended in, 1932 with only debts from loans remaining. Fun facts in 1953 the remaining debt was halved and the final debt payment was in 2010. A ton of factories are now to create military equipment and they start the scheme of the MEFO bills that were worthless bonds to get investment into the military build up. Furthermore they take and insane amount of debt to also put in and sustain the larger military, however it is only in 1943 that germany goes all in with total war, something that the USA did almost immediatly, for example USA went from producing 3 million cars in 1941 to a total of 139 from 1942-1945

[@Лев-ф6г]

@@TrashskillsRS The most value factor was that USA offered to Germany a loan 30 billions golden german marks it was far lighter in time than Versallies treaty, now USA can influence on german politics, also not directionally USA could influence on Britain and France cause Germany paid reparations from this loan. But the main question why Britain and France did nothing tham Germany started to break Versallies agreement?

[@TrashskillsRS]

@@Лев-ф6г The US was indeed lending Germany money during the Weimar Republic, but it was certainly not for Germany's sake or for military production. It was one of the things were USA pretty much overstepped the limits of banking, as they had lend a huge amount to UK and France during WW1 which was to paid back, this burden was then laid off to Germany by the reparations, who in turn lended money from the US... to pay back loans to the US. It made the german economy go absolutely crazy, and was partially saved by the events of the Great Depression otherwise the state would have defaulted upon itself as it would lose the ability to lend money from the US. The german state came out relatively on top, despite events such as that, which was basically a pyramid scheme of bank loans. It is very US centric to just see the US as the all creator of eveything, even at that time. France was in ruins after WW1 and started to get internal political chaos which almost culminated in communist revolution, so they did not care much about Versalles and it was mainly UK seeing itself as an empire that lead the way. Almost immediatly and especially after French occupation of the Ruhr they knew that the treaty was not going to last forever. When Nazi germany started breaking it, the UK rushed to try and make concessions so that everyone could live with it. It is why Chamberlain tries to make concession after concession to make the good correct "treaty" as it should have been from the start. Now of course that ends badly after Hitler directly breaks the deal with upholding Czhechoslovakia neutrality after the Munich Conference and the rest is WW2. The US had absolutely no dealings with European politics during the entire 1930's, and the UK had no special feelings towards where the exact borders of central europe should be, as they had played this European political chess game since the Napoleonic wars to avoid major conflicts. That dream of UK empire is utterly smashed during The Big 3 conferences late in WW2 when USA and USSR make deals and suggestions that the UK does not like but have to give in. Churchill would call it 2 and a half later in his life, as the UK lost its global status