Four Iconic Battles That Decided The Fate Of Europe

[@twipzzz1369]

You ever heard of battle of Stalingrad or Kursk?

[@fadfsdfasfsa]

and 27 milions of Russians, epic layers and freuds, this is shame towards all that milions and milions who sacrificed their lifes to win that evil nazism.

[@legacyvaultchannel]

The way battles like Tours and Hastings shaped Europe is fascinating, not just for their immediate outcomes but also for their long-term cultural and political impacts. It’s incredible to think how a single clash could alter the course of an entire continent.

[@zmaint]

Tours and the Seige of Vienna should be on this list.

[@kevinhaynes9091]

What about the Battle of the Tollense Valley (c. 1300 BC), the Battle of Alesia (52 BC), the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9 AD), the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451), the Battle of Soissons (486), the Battle of Tours (732), the First Battle of the Marne (1914)... Three battles from WW2 is a bit blinkered...

[@NotSimpleHistory]

It’s incredible how a handful of pivotal battles shaped the course of European history. Each of these battles wasn’t just military events but turning points that defined nations and ideologies for centuries.

[@normanhines5189]

One of the reasons why Operation Sealion failed was that he was wasting too much effort on Operation Barbarossa.

[@twipzzz1369]

Wtf you talking? Condition for operation Sealion was full air supermacy...

[@twipzzz1369]

Wtf you talkin about? Condition for Sealion was full aerial supermacy...

[@stonebear]

You missed the biggest and most critical one. The Battle of the Atlantic. It was longer, covered FAR more territory than any other battle, and involved every branch of service; even the American and Canadian Airborne divisions crossed by sea (since by late 1943 it was safe enough to do that)... and it was won by women. Jean Laidlaw, WRNS, and her colleagues designed the tactics that, even before Liberators and Jeep carriers, make the Kriegsmarine pay *dearly* for every transport lost. Without the men and materiel those transports brought to Britain and to Russia and to North Africa, TORCH, OVERLORD, and the Russian counteroffensive after Barbarossa Pytor'ed out would have _never happened_. It it said that junior officers study tactics; senior officers study logistics. In this case the Wrens studied the tactics necessary to make the logistics _possible_... The ships upon which they never set foot were the _sine qua non_ of winning the war. It's not iconic, it's not glamourous atall; it's a bunch of really sharp women kneeling over a game board racking their brains, and then teaching what they come up with to a bunch of junior and midlevel officers who then had to go out in the freezing Atlantic and fight a frustrating war with both the Reich and Mother Nature... and your true measure of success wasn't how many of Jerry's whatsises you sent to the bottom, but how many of your own folks they *didn't*... Of course, a heck of a lot of that stuff involved signing the Official Secrets Act, which meant it didn't come to light until this century, but twenty-five years after it did has been more than long enough, don't you think?

[@esamottawa]

🎯 No success in BoA, no N. Africa, Sicily, Italy or D-Day and no re-supply of Russia.

[@rationalbasis2172]

D-Day was inconsequential. Germany was well on the way to losing the war by the time of D-Day. The historical impact of D-Day was the location of the East/West division in Europe after the war, not the defeat of the Nazis. That was determined at Stalingrad. Dan Snow's "History Hit" network is you traditional Western-centric/bias history channel. If you were educated in the West, you won't learn anything new, nor breakout of they mythology that system imposes on you. I'm not sure if Mr. Snow has oriented things this way intentionally, or if he believes the mythology himself.

[@sdstewart87]

Sorry but this is not a rational statement. If resources are having to be divided to fight on 3 fronts.... East, West and in southern Italy, coming from Africa, then they were never going to win or be able to defend from the Red Army. If those other two fronts weren't opened then they could devote all resources/manpower to the eastern front. It's very simple stuff

[@rationalbasis2172]

@@sdstewart87 What are you talking about?

[@davidlafranchise4782]

I was thinking Stalingrad would be the last battle, but no, not even WW2

[@ViN-kr3ri]

WW2 was decided on the Eastern Front, not the Western Front.

[@AJ-raps]

Correct. For every 2 people the United States lost in the war, the British Empire lost 3, Japanese 12, Germans 22, Soviet Union 184

[@towgod7985]

The Battle of Britain and Battle of Malta were the first two Epoch events of WWII. The effects of the BoB are well known and documented. The Battle of Malta has an under documented but SIGNIFICANT effect on the eastern front. Specifically, the fall/ winter battles of 1942, and DIRECTLY, The Battle of Stalingrad.

[@Luca.Bruschetta]

Lies

[@kurtvonfricken6829]

@@AJ-raps Stalin look at a people like any other commodity. That number is nothing to brag about….

[@BlueCollaredGrit]

The Western front fought kids and old men with no air power and they still got penetrated during the battle of the bulge 😂😂🤣

[@chrisdeangelo1983]

Idk Napoleon had fought a few battles that changed Europe for over 100 years. Until the First World War

[@MikeLuzzo-qd6jd]

The issue is also that industrialized defence, even in depth, has to be practicle. Both generals in charge argued, listened to a mèglomanic and the of Africa didnt do good logistics or cover hid flanks. Read his Infranty Attacks c 23:37

[@TheBestDog]

Correlation is not causation; thus, no one theatre of war won WW2. Without the West's aid and air power, the Soviets would have been at the Germans' mercy. Without Soviet gains, the West would have lost many more men than it otherwise had. The fact that Stalin ordered his soldiers against the enemy to soak up bullets does not mean the Soviets accomplished more than the West.

[@rationalbasis2172]

This is one of the great myths many Westerners believe - the magical power of Lend Lease. Just so you know, and for your own benefit, the moment you say something like this, people with subject matter expertise are going to immediately mark you as ignorant and incapable of learning. Not a single serious historian of the subject takes the position that the Soviets could not have won without Lend-Lease. Incidentally "Tik" is not a serious historian. The quantity of Lend-Lease in comparison to overall Soviet production cannot sustain this type of thesis. In April, 1941, Eduard Wagner, quartermaster-general of the Wehrmacht (same position held by Ludendorff in WW1), wrote an extensive report on the logistical situation which would obtain in Barbarossa. His conclusion was that, due to logistical constraints which could not be rectified in the near term, the Wehrmacht would penetrate about 400 to 600km into the USSR at which point the campaign would break down into an attritional battle which the Wehrmacht would ultimately lose. Wagner's report was of course ignored - even though it predicted exactly what in fact happened. His paper did not incorporate considerations of Allied Lend-Lease. It is also ignored today by people with a superficial understanding of the war, because they aren't aware of it.

[@TheBestDog]

@ You've already lost if you have to offend people to “win” a debate. There is no way of knowing how the war would have gone without the air power leveling German cities and aid the West provided; we can’t say for sure. You may poo-poo twenty million boots, but they kept soldiers alive. His deputies might have unlived Stalin if he had more significant failures. For you to declare with certainty that history is on your side is the height of hubris.

[@vinhbao9738]

The US only started to put boots on the ground after The Battle Of Stallingard. The UK had the best navy in the world before the war but on Europe soil, the British army was never gonna match the German army. So yeah most of the dirty work was done by the Soviet Union.

[@TheBestDog]

@ I agree with your statement. The assertion that the “war was won by Soviets in the East” is incorrect.

[@rationalbasis2172]

@@TheBestDog Agreeing with yourself now?

[@Unfoldedmysteries-x1j]

😮😮

[@johnbuchman4854]

Jean d'Arc leading the defeat of the English invasion of France wasn't listed?

[@kingmonke4789]

No bruh that shouldn’t be on the list

[@avenger6944]

Poltava 1709....

[@JLHFans]

D-Day decided nothing. Most overrated battle in history. Ever. Absolutely soooo stupid video.

[@finch3562]

Don't watch it, don't waste an hour and a half of your life, problem solved.