History Class Horror Stories

[@EmperorTigerstar]

I put this fun video out so I could focus more on the SE Asia video. I really want it done by next Friday. Hope you enjoy!

[@hapetE]

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[@ekmalsukarno2302]

Hi EmperorTigerstar, you should do a video on the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation. I bet a lot of your subscribers would be very interested in this topic.

[@ReconPro]

I want an Emperor Tigerstar plushie.

[@haydenfronek3810]

Furry dad

[@mountainlover8167]

You kinda sound like Jason Lee

[@yessirjovan]

I had a teacher who thought the Berlin wall was around all of the soviet union

[@CDexie]

But.... it's the *Berlin* wall?

[@Violetenist]

@@CDexie Berlin is obviously one large city, it reached from Metz, Belgium to Vladivostok, Manchuria

[@nerodino5508]

@@Violetenist And it had a huge and beautiful wall. We must build it again.

[@50shekels]

he mustve confused it with the iron curtain, an actual fence

[@thespanishinquisition4078]

Logistics be damned!

[@PSIponies]

A girl in my 9th grade English class asked if Greece still exists, so I told her that it hadn't existed since 1967 when the Danish nuked it in the Greco-Danish Hyper War. She just said, "Oh."

[@markgable1280]

Lt. Daffy 😂. I can’t help it.

[@anthonyrando6447]

My dad remembered seeing the mushroom cloud from Italy

[@gaveferia1421]

Her history is wrong It's the finno-korean hyperwar, duh

[@felixleidinger1670]

@@gaveferia1421 no no no you got it all confused the civil war of the finno-korean khanate from 1976. Same casus belli, different war. I mean it's rather easy to fall for this, the factions in both wars relied heavily on the use of battle kangaroos...

[@jandlyt]

@LEGI0N Wolf I mean we all think about that,like if for example,Canada gets attacked by greece,canadians would hate greece,if our family members were imvolved

[@vector2799]

My teacher said once that Hitler started ww1 Yea not joking

[@sciblastofficial9833]

vector WW1 started WW2

[@masterspark9880]

Didn’t you know that?

[@sojourner.]

That damn German Army mail courier, he was the one who hired the Serbian national!

[@sciblastofficial9833]

Alos I thought he was an artist Oh wait

[@tmwombocombo4115]

vector my teacher said he was just getting started then

[@Lucas-oe1uu]

One of my History teachers was explaining the Franco-Prussian War and said with all conviction: "The War ended when the Germans invaded Moscow and defeated the Russians"

[@SiberianScytheYT]

Russia didn't even prepare anything for the war.

[@whafflete6721]

Nah it was ended when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth invaded Stockholm to stop Icelandic support against the Estonia-Russian Alliance

[@gamerito100]

in Stall Nah, mate, the Commonwealth was defeated at Beijing when the Ottoman Winged Hussars defeated them with their new Ballistic Missiles

[@SuperStar-if9wx]

Gary Romano OMG YOUR GOT IT SUPER DUPER WRONG, the war ended when the Finnish-Bhutanese Union Sent robot-emus to nuke Prussia, who was a puppet of Liechtenstein, then the Communist Republic of Austria sent 20B troops to do an oblique maneuver, which angered the Russians which made them declare on them. Then the American-Paraguayan Union got angry and sent 200000000000 tons of Oil to drop at the Russian capital. Learn history omg

[@SuperStar-if9wx]

Gary Romano yeah!

[@EpimetheusHistory]

The silliest thing I have heard in class (in university) was when the teacher said the Great Pyramid of Egypt was completely made out of marble

[@udoudo6355]

it actually was made of marble, originally the pyramids were white, the only reason they don't appear to be now is because they've faded so much with time that its impossible to tell just by looking at them

[@EpimetheusHistory]

@Udo Udo The outer casing of the pyramids was comprised of polished white limestone, not marble

[@udoudo6355]

@@EpimetheusHistory perhaps im wrong then, i havent done much research on the pyramids, it was merely something id seen in a video a while ago, im probably remembering it wrong, thanks for replying!

[@BichaelStevens]

@@udoudo6355 "Um Achshually!!!" "Oh sorry I'm just reciting something I heard through the grape vine years ago in some place I don't remember" Fuck off, yeah? People like you is why fake news exists and has power.

[@christosvoskresye]

Well, as long as you know it was used as a grain silo. ;-)

[@sulfuricacid951]

One of my 7th grade social studies teachers said that the Germans did the holocaust in *WW1*

[@MrMoron231]

Technically he could of made a mistake based on entente propaganda as that is something they said in propaganda

[@unepintade]

@@MrMoron231 yeah or maybe switched it with the armenian genocide

[@mikegibus]

@@orzyszindustries i mean, everyone did it at least once

[@carsonclashed8860]

Can’t wait for the year to start kicking off my history teacher is gonna hate me I’ve corrected/added in to her presentations like once per week 😂

[@orzyszindustries]

@@mikegibus nope tell me one example of Polish historiy

[@apieceofpaper8976]

Once in art my teacher said while talking about the Franco Prussian war said Prussia was a coalition between Russia and Germany

[@westhuizenarchives2614]

A piece of Paper I’m going to scream in a pillow after I finish typing this because this is too insane.

[@SiberianScytheYT]

... PRUSSIA IS IT'S OWN THING NOOOOOOOOOO!

[@panzertee9790]

As you can tell by my profile picture, I am very disappointed

[@mam0741]

*hand flies into face and makes a loud clap noise*

[@sefhammer6276]

A piece of Paper he had bad education...

[@phoenixdemarino1714]

"Antarctica isn't a desert, deserts have to have sand"

[@rexdaylawn1609]

My history teacher says the same but her reasoning is just to good to get pass she says that a desert is a piece of land that no plants or mid temperature animals can live on and the plant are also mid temperature

[@imperialremnant3393]

Tell her it has to be dry to qualify

[@shadysam7161]

Apparently beaches and the Gobi are the same to whoever said that.

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

😓

[@bijntjeveenstra2455]

wait what qualifies as a desert? does it just have to be warm,dry and able for plant or creatures to live in or are there more qaulifications?

[@electroflame6188]

This isn't a horror story but it's still hilarious. Ok, so, while learning about the Russian Revolution, I had this history teacher who was staunchly anti-communist. Thing is, he looked *a lot* like Lenin. So, here I was in this history classroom, watching the spitting image of Lenin tell us why communism was evil. Needless to say, I had a very hard time controlling my laughter.

[@serglian8558]

Lenin's anti-communist twin: Rimidlav Ninel

[@heroomori3819]

@@serglian8558 don't forget his allies Hpesoj Nilats and Noel Ykstort

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Now get someone who looks like Ben Shapiro praise communism

[@petermartinez4399]

Did you ever tell him that? If so how did he respond?

[@citywokbesitzer6834]

@@heroomori3819 In which universe was Stalin an Ally of Lenin

[@jjmav9]

I remember when my 8th grade history teacher said that WW2 started over Denmark and Sweden having a border conflict. I corrected him and he sent me to the principal’s office. Good thing he isn’t teaching anymore.

[@alimneimne]

WW2 was caused by Denmark Of course

[@mojoforthewin3069]

“My one dream is of a world without Danes.” -Winston Churchill

[@sciblastofficial9833]

jjmav9 WW2 Alternate History Sep. 1939 - Border conflict in Denmark and Sweden. Sep. 1939 - WW2 begins Sep. 1939 - Norway joins Sweden's alliance, forms the Nordic League Oct. 1939 - Germany joins Nordic League, NL renamed to Axis Dec. 1939 - Russia invades Finland, Winter War starts. Feb. 1940 - Germany invades Denmark, Finland joins Axis Mar. 1940 - Tripartite Pact signed by Germany, Norway, and Sweden. Apr. 1940 - Finland signs Tripartite Pact. Jul. 1940 - Germany invades Poland, Britain and France declare war Sep. 1940 - Axis invade Scotland, British surrender 9 months later Dec. 1940 - Germany invades France and Benelux. Feb. 1941 - Italy joins Tripartite Pact Apr. 1941 - Axis invasion of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania join Tripartite Pact May 1941 - Operation Barbarossa begins Jun. 1941 - Soviet Union bombs Alaska, blames it on Germany. USA joins Allies. Jul. 1941 - Japan joins Tripartite Pact. Sep. 1941 - Battle of Leningrad, Allied victory Dec. 1941 - On the Eastern Front, the Axis begins to be pushed back Feb. 1942 - Battle of the Arctic, Allied victory Feb. 1942 - Svalbard occupied by Allied forces. D-Day occurs in Northern Scandinavia. May 1942 - Finland surrenders to the Allies Jun. 1942 - Germany attempts invasion of South America but fails. Brazil declares war on Germany Jul. 1942 - Africa liberated from Axis rule. Aug. 1942 - Scandinavian countries surrender to the Allies Sep. 1942 - Germany pushed back on all fronts Dec. 1942 - Germany surrenders

[@velenteriushendeneros3251]

No Norway invaded Venezuela with the help of Albania

[@McKayla923]

No you are all wrong it was clearly caused by Switzerland

[@shahnazmirza2348]

Once my teacher said that Asia covered 1/3 of the Earth's land area. While that is true, when the teacher drew on the board to explain it to the students, she drew a circle, divided it into four parts and marked 3 parts as Asia........

[@MuyenKamran1nehal]

I think my jaw just dropped by the sheer stupidity of that.

[@christiancinnabars1402]

She actually mistook her own statement of 1/3 as 3:1. Good thing she wasn’t a math teacher.

[@jonahgraham157]

Oh she definitely failed math

[@glumbortango7182]

I never considered how wrong you could be with a true fact, but this has definitely opened my eyes to that.

[@triangulum8869]

yea this is big brain time

[@joeyacevedo5267]

My teacher said the Colossus of Rhodes was in Alexandria. The Colossus of *R H O D E S .*

[@mitsvanmitsvanio6106]

And the Lighthouse of Alexandria was of course in Rhodes and the Library of Alexandria was in the Alexandria in Drangiana (Western Afghanistan).

[@OMGUKILLKENNY2]

No it isn't. It is obviously in Beijing. Civ 5 taught me that much.

[@mroof523]

@@OMGUKILLKENNY2 bruhus momentus

[@Sovietube]

@@OMGUKILLKENNY2 no that's the statue of liberty, The Collosus of Rhodes was built by the Australians in Paris 😒 China had been conquered by the Dutch in 100 BC

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

what

[@CheeseBurgerJesus]

"Okay class, what began in 1914?" *I raise my hand* *"The Great War?"* "No, you over there?" -"World War One?" "Correct!"

[@TheDragonCat99]

CheeseBurger Jesus LMAO

[@TrocaTheNero]

You should've said that they're the same goddamn thing.

[@adrianh9326]

CheeseBurger Jesus 😂

[@wxntersoldier]

Wtf!

[@arshamir3055]

Lol

[@joyempire462]

In my history class a student once asked, "Isn't Japan the capital of China?"

[@sciblastofficial9833]

J.O.Y. *GEACPS intensifies*

[@tmwombocombo4115]

J.O.Y. My sisters teacher gave her a paper that said famous first Americans and there was a picture of a cosmonaut

[@Htxfleon]

J.O.Y. I had a classmate ask if Japan was the capital of Tokyo.

[@willmiller5043]

someone in my class thought the missouri compromise line was the equator.

[@EdoardoLusuardi]

Japan is my city.

[@comradeseebart5369]

When my class was talking about Stalin and someone asked "Wasn't he the president of Britain"

[@kazooplayer3]

oh gosh no

[@Violetenist]

Yes, and Oswald Mosley is the president of _The Kingdom of Wales and Northern Ireland_

[@sb_8aj]

churchill the red

[@Sovola]

Churchill drank some vodka and became Stalin

[@cowboymooman8776]

*hello good chaps it is i, Joe Stall, Leader Of The British Labour Party*

[@tip4307]

My teacher said “Stalin was the leader of Italy during world war2”

[@manuekhuntyk2563]

Still better than my teacher saying that alexander the great led the French revolution

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

@@manuekhuntyk2563 what

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

How

[@stantorren4400]

@@manuekhuntyk2563 wtf

[@user-un2pf4ht9l]

I see some cursed thing here

[@alicebrown6215]

I think probably the worst thing I had ever heard was a fellow student ask my 8th grade History Class, "Wait, Vietnam is an actual place?"

[@DonetskiLetsplayshik]

Will Brown what did he think it was?

[@alicebrown6215]

rogbel She thought it was just a name made up for a war.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

Wow. Just, wow. I would get that with a not well known place, but VIETNAM!!! It’s... AACAMFJQRIYLWJRQRJWTLWULPUWEHEQDASSAJSKJSBEH

[@chewchewtrain]

Get the napalm

[@Ida-xe8pg]

one day i told my friend today is stalin`s birthday and my friend asked who is stalin and then i told him that he was the second leader of ussr during WWII and then he asked where is ussr

[@henriquepacheco7473]

I had a teacher who kept calling the Central Powers "The Axis" and the Entente powers "The Allies" and it almost made me go ballistic.

[@DOCTORKHANblog]

The Entente powers were also call The Allies so that's not wrong.

[@gavindodd133]

I know what you mean, it irks me when people constantly confuse ww1 and ww2

[@bumpkinbee1524]

I’m currently cringing right now because i used to think the entente was called the allies and only recently learned otherwise

[@thathistoryiscoolguy]

Ikr

[@tip4307]

DOCTORKHANblog yea but the axis lol

[@PieDoesRoblox]

My teacher insisted that Stalingrad = Moscow...

[@chiangkaishrek5123]

My history teacher said that the Germans were at the gates of Moscow in 1939

[@shaywright6608]

Actually literally hitler I skimmed over that sentence and sat there for like a minute trying to find the mistake

[@dangerjoe8911]

Pie Does Roblox Same

[@basilecambou2487]

well it was in 1942 but yes, the germans did take moscow

[@martinsriber7760]

No, Germans didn't take Moscow.

[@xertophilios3695]

One time my history teacher, when talking about the Yugoslav wars was going over the countries' leaders and a classmate in an obvious attempt to troll the teacher, asked about the Bosniak president's name, thinking her thick Indian accent would make her unable to pronounce the name. To his horror, she smoothly pronounced his name and then in Bosnian, called him a smartass(his smug expressions had bluntly told her his true intentions). Later discovered she had learned Bosanski during her teenyears. Probably the most memorable momemt in history class for me.

[@marinerproductions1315]

Damn, son. That is crazy.

[@gonzostrangelove6107]

Not many things in life as satisfying as seeing a smug fool hoist with his own petard.

[@Adonnus100]

In year 8 we had a teacher who was teaching us about WW1, and she pointed to a map of Poland and said "Now the Battle of Stalingrad happened somewhere around *waves around vaguely* here..." The whole front row of the class just yelled out at that so at least there was that.

[@sciblastofficial9833]

Adonnus100 Battle. Of. *STALINGRAD.* Are you talking about WW2 or something? The Central Powers never got that far. Probably they did but I don't know that so correct me if I'm wrong.

[@Adonnus100]

they didn't

[@strategossable1366]

SciBlast Official / New Videos the central powers beat Russia in ww1. Look up the treaty of brest-litovsk

[@MajinOthinus]

SciBlast Official / New Videos They did get that far, but at that point the war was pretty much over for Russia and no major central powers units got there.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

Battle of Stalingrad was IN STALINGRAD!!!

[@memebrowser_6249]

I was having a History exam and one of the questions was “Name one country that was allied to Germany in ww1, I wrote down Bulgaria and when I got the test back it was marked as wrong...

[@seomi4657]

did you ask the teacher after you got the test back?

[@chevrolet-poitiers9507]

Did you write Bulgaria with a CAPITAL AT THE START!???????

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

Did you correct her

[@Killerbee4712]

*throws chair*

[@australiananarchist480]

@EuropeBall Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Japan (nominally) and Finland. Six, however you could include Vichy, but if you do that you should include Yugoslavia as well, so eight

[@matthewkearney833]

I’m not even joking but my history teacher once called Nikita Khrushchev the Prime Minister of America. I’m just gonna let that sink in for a minute

[@somebodysomewhere9253]

AHAHAHA YES

[@mcveigh1579]

Wtf

[@linklgas1691]

well theyre not wrong

[@Imjustasimpleman5310]

What country are you & your teacher from?

[@lewisirwin5363]

Hey now, a body can dream, can't they?

[@jo8422]

I remember a teacher when I was 10 or 11 told me planes were invented in WW2, unlike tigerstar I wasn't overly concerned with being polite and talked about the red baron and flying circuses in WW1 bcs I knew about them from WW1 documentaries I used to watch as a kid.

[@whafflete6721]

What are the teacher's response? kinda curious

[@marinerproductions1315]

@@Hermitage-xu5dn, I'm pretty sure he was mentioned the Air forces he knew of at the time.

[@ari3903]

@@whafflete6721 "Australlians were just ahead in time"

[@Tigershark_3082]

@@ari3903 "Australians are just further down the tech tree"

[@Colddirector]

Remember when Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as President of the United States back in 1964? I think his running mate was Andrew Jackson and they were elected to fight the Mexico war

[@kylelapointe2289]

That just gave me the mental image of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson in heuy choppers with m16 rifles fighting communists.

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

Plaster the word 'MERHKA on it and hyperpatriots will eat it up.

[@mentalillness1574]

*the mexico war*

[@Colddirector]

Ramses II the Great to be fair I think old hickory would be pretty up for it. But yeah, anyway. Back when the Russians became filthy communists back in the war of 1812, America assumed its role of World Savior to push back the filthy commies, but they, through Fidel Castro, turned Mexico communist. That's what started the Mexico War.

[@amon8562]

and after that, Henry Ford became president with John Adams as Vice President and the helped win the Australian-Persian war in Soviet Canada.

[@chasehammond9308]

This happened in my english class, we were reading othello and the teacher wanted to show us where venice is. She found a screen shot from europa universalis 3 and the map was filled with the weird border gore you found in that game

[@Debre.]

lol

[@theultimatesharpshooter6734]

:D. Would have been more funny if she opened up EU3 to her saved game :D:D

[@ashfromketchup]

Did she even know that was a *video game*

[@markmilks9007]

I once had the principal's daughter, who eventually became her class valedictorian, ask; "Wasn't WWII the day that the Jews bombed Pearl Harbor?" I still hate humanity.

[@sciblastofficial9833]

It's_The_Milkman OMG JEWS AREN'T COMMON IN JAPAN

[@Ida-xe8pg]

lmao

[@tkPuncake]

SuperYoshiFan10090 Studios still justifying on Israel

[@tkPuncake]

Hanz Fox we were already supporting the allies and escorting convoys across the Atlantic

[@numbersstation2]

@@tkPuncake The FDR administration was without a referendum from the public at the time. The public wanted neutrality and the elite wanted war.

[@NullVoid241]

I got in an argument with my teacher about Hannibal when he went over the Alps. She said Hannibal was losing battle after battle and I corrected her and said Hannibal scared the Romans so much they elected Fabius as dictator. It was not a good day in World History

[@ari3903]

@Ho Lam YIU Nice reference

[@Enyavar1]

@Aq Qoyunlu True, Hannibal was a famous loser in battle after battle, like Napoleon, Caesar, Motors and Jefferson were, and that's why these men are among the most iconic generals in world history.

[@jacobhinds1372]

My US history teacher said that the Mongolians introduced the horse to Europe 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@lfricmunuc4534]

That is very sad. However, maybe she meant a specific breed or type of horse, e.g. one suited for the steppe-lands. However, even still, I cannot think of one.

[@hanscherokeelaoluntok8803]

barbaric tribes

[@gusty_scarf]

Did the Proto-Indo-Europeans walked all the way to Western Europe and South Asia?!

[@BewegteBilderrahmen]

That's true though, I saw it in a documentary about King Arthur once. Before the Mongols they simply hopped around and used coconuts to make the sounds.

[@grzegorzkonieczny2682]

@@BewegteBilderrahmen I saw it too

[@novustempestus3389]

I had a teacher in 7th grade who was so adamant that Hungary was spelled Hungry he sent a kid out of class for correcting him.

[@fehervari98]

NovusTempestus When the jokes become reality...

[@atorCibbon]

NovusTempestus I am a Hungry nationalist

[@smigly6856]

I remember when my 4th grade teacher told us that pompeii was in Greece so I called her out in class, she never liked me again after that

[@mitsvanmitsvanio6106]

Well that's what you get when correcting teachers most of the times, that and bad grades.

[@torcaace]

@@mitsvanmitsvanio6106 i don't

[@mitsvanmitsvanio6106]

@@torcaace It depends on the teacher.

[@newstartyt3700]

Teachers don't like students being smarter because it's "rude"

[@shadowguardian3612]

@@newstartyt3700 idk when i was in school that never was a thing.

[@fds7476]

So... I'm German, and my German teacher once talked in class about the GSG-9, Germany's police special forces unit (and I don't know how we ever got to that topic), mentioning that they were very secretive - so secretive, in fact, that nobody really knows what "GSG-9" even stands for. The thing is, _I_ knew that wasn't true, in part because my family knew people who knew GSG-9 members, to the point that we even had an official _souvenir plate_ back home with the whole name spelled out in black and white. The answer is really just a short Google search (or Counterstrike game) away. So I raised my hand and said, "Actually, the name means 'Grenzschutzgruppe 9', or 'Border Defence Group 9". So my teacher gives me that arrogant kind of sideways glance and replies, "No. Nobody knows what it stands for." I was left absolutely speechless. That's what the cream of the crop of Germany's education system looks like, clearly.

[@DogeickBateman]

Least insane German teacher moment.

[@drkclshr]

I guess a lot of education systems are like that then I think I’m done reading these most of them are about girls thinking stuff and probably never studied a map before

[@alcedob.5850]

that is innocent compared to my experience in school

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Ok so we were learning about WWI, and my teacher said "the alliance between the Soviet Union and Germany in 1914 to invade Poland was carried out, but it failed so Germany then went straight to Belgium" Wait what? The Soviet Union didn't even exist in 1914. I asked if he meant the Russian Empire and he said "that fell in the 1800s" WTF Also that's not why Germany invaded Belguim, and Germany did NOT ally with Russia at the time, and Germany didn't want to attack Belguim they wanted to pass over it. What a day that was

[@brothekid1072]

That’s so wrong...my soul...is gone.

[@TheHyperTuber-VantaBlack]

This dude just described WWII during the topic of WWI.

[@pomaranczowykrol468]

Also Poland didn't exist back then lol

[@captainvanhorn773]

My brain, its melting

[@Lukas-ht8sg]

So your history teacher said the start to ww2, because at that time the Russian empire controls Poland not to mention that he said the Soviet Union like what

[@merrymerryjerry6736]

"General Napoleon was nawt actually Friench, he was born in CORNWALL" I burst out laughing.

[@AholeAtheist]

All these stories are horrific, but at least that one is kind of funny, because of the character portrayal of the teacher and the hilariousness of mixing up Cornwall and Corsica.

[@qerwerg2341]

He was born in CORSICA!

[@fiyum333]

no, he was born in CONNECTICUT

[@fiyum333]

I meant china

[@plumjet09]

@@fiyum333Nah, he was born in Colorado

[@iainhansen1047]

Did you know that America won its independents from France in 1812? Trust me I’m a historian

[@jeremycalderon2313]

No no no, it was Belgium

[@kevinrendon8397]

I thought it was in 1865 where they won their independence in the American civil war

[@iainhansen1047]

Godzilla's Wrath no no no that is a common misconception. The American civil war was when America split between north and south over a disagreement about wether or not to join the Soviet Union.

[@linklgas1691]

wrong again, it was whether or not they should depose the queen of antarctica

[@olympia5758]

America got independence from Germany in 1836 you idiots.

[@alextwigg1711]

Someone in my class once thought that Quebec was a city in Brazil

[@the11382]

Not even a case of cities being named after countries. See Holland, Michigan or Brazil, Indiana or Florida, New York.

[@xavier4503]

That map of the Ottoman Empire fills me with pain on levels I cannot even fathom ways to describe

[@jsmith4liberty]

Andem What's worse is that there are several innacuracies with that map as well

[@qerwerg2341]

No, it is the "EGYPTIAN" map

[@henriquepacheco7473]

@@rnrailproductions5049 Ceddin deden *neslin* baban, ackchyually.

[@marvelfannumber1]

I once had a teacher tell us about the alliances in World War I by using a colored map of modern day, post Cold War Europe....let that sink in for a minute.

[@goldenfoxa1810]

marvelfannumber1 that happens quite often

[@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447]

*Slow clap*

[@icantcomeupwithagoodusername]

"The central poewers of ww1 consisted of germany, austria hungary, the ottaman empire and bulgiaria" shows map of NATO with hungary,germany,bulgaria and turkey in NATO

[@marvelfannumber1]

+xXsniperXx roblox It didn't show NATO or anything like that. It was a blank modern map with Germany and Austria colored red and France, UK, Serbia and Russia colored blue. Turkey and Bulgaria weren't shown I guess because it was trying to show 1914. There's of course the unfortunate fact that Russia and Germany today don't even border eachother...and neither do Austria and Serbia.

[@candlelight_8182]

Don't make me cringe!

[@joshou3759]

When your history teacher calls the mughal empire the mongol empire

[@klobiforpresident2254]

They're literally the empire in the pic.

[@belkYT]

Klobi for President I lost all faith in humanity

[@shahnazmirza2348]

@@blukumul7889 the mughals ruled Bengal too

[@thehucklebillyfenn]

Joshou I mean technically.... Mughal/Mogul is just a Persian form of mongol. Sure they were 2 different empires with one being a kind of Muslim succession of the other, but I could see where the mistake came from.

[@thathistoryiscoolguy]

Lol

[@tescomealdeals4613]

I had a WWII unit and my teacher said so many inaccuracies that I nearly passed out. I forgot most of them but I remember a specific one. She gave us a presentation on the Battle of Berlin, this is all well and good until she actually spoke about it. I am a huge geography nerd and a history buff for background, in fact, I even won my entire state Geobee, so I was very well informed on what she was about to say. She stated that there was an order for the German soldiers to blow up all the bridges on the Rhine River but the Allies were able to secure one bridge, what she said next is the kicker just trust me, she said that the Rhine River was the river right outside Berlin and that once they crossed the Rhine River the Western Allies were inside Berlin. That's right, she said that the battle of Berlin was between the Western Allies and the Germans. She later asked me a question about the pronunciation of the bridge, (I was the only person at the time who knew a decent amount of German) and I passive-aggressively made it clear that the Rhine was nowhere near Berlin, and was actually what made up most of the French-German border by saying things like "the name of the bridge actually looks French after all the Rhine makes up a lot of the Franco-German border" (or something along those lines). It may not have been the best way to go about it but I was an 8th Grader so that was the best I could do.

[@NapoleanBlown-aparte]

That just stunned me so much i completely forgot where the rhine was for a solid 20 seconds wtf-

[@decades1912]

My "history" teacher is trying to tell us all this stuff on Africa, & how impressive afrucans were, but instead of talking about the Kingdom of Kongo, or the Mutapa, or even Kilwa, she talked about black people sailing across the Atalantic to start Olmec civilization, & that they were the natives of Ireland. I'm trying to correct her absolute idiocy, & I told her I felt sorry for the students who all had weak constitions & didn't care to confirm if it was true or false.

[@wylinder8402]

Decades you have to mention Carthage if you’re talking about awesome Africans

[@drex6347]

There are Olmec stone heads who resemble sub-Saharan people, and the two emperors who preceded Mansa Musa of Mali both set sail with a huge fleet to see if it ended somewhere (and may have actually landed somehwere in NE Brasil)... apart from that, your teacher says bullshit.

[@MFvanBylandt]

They wuz kangs and shiet man

[@user-do4nm6it3k]

*Africans *Congo *Atlantic *idiocracy

[@MsPaintMr]

wylinder Carthage was Phoenician.

[@jacobgarrison1510]

You should speak out now that you are in college. If the professor is worth anything he will be thankful that you stopped him from teaching misinformation.

[@TedinLasVegas]

Most of them got REALLY angry with me even though I was polite about it.

[@jacobgarrison1510]

Elan Cook Exactly! They aren't just teachers in most cases they are academics who publish papers of their own, if they have a mistake someone pointing it out is really helpful.

[@kutchinka4062]

the only thing you should be careful of is not calling out truth as mistakes. i did that once in class and while the teacher wasn't angry at me it made me look like an idiot. on the other hand, there where several other ocassions in which i corected teachers.

[@jacobgarrison1510]

Theodore Sell What country are you in? In my experience all over the states professors are receptive to correction.

[@kessler_could_not_care]

I agree, but one should be cautious, as college professors are heavily stressed and easy to piss off

[@pirsicolatortellini3801]

I remember when Cornish Napoleon took charge of the New Kingdom of Egypt and expanded it to go as far as Algeria and the Balkans. He did it with the help of his two best generals George Jackson and Frederick X

[@michaelkaminski1166]

pirsicola tortellini I thought it was General Thomas Washington.

[@pirsicolatortellini3801]

@@michaelkaminski1166 no no that was the 23rd president of the New Kingdom of Egypt, he was born in Corswall like Napoleon

[@nikitahichoii482]

But Algeria is in the Americas, and they werent discovered until the XIX century. Napoleon was born in 1489. Learn history please

[@LOrco_]

After eight months, still waiting for someone to r/woooosh

[@FlendarGaming]

@@LOrco_ It will come eventually, i respect the dedication

[@matthias2756]

I remember one time a guy in class claimed that the Viet Cong were able to escape American bombing because the trees stopped the bombs 😂

[@laddiewink9895]

Defonc

[@ricefarmer4180]

A person with Vietnamese parents I can say it is "true"

[@jamaicanball6285]

I mean………:::

[@bno6156]

Didn’t stop it, but at least concealed it

[@ironhorsehistorian9871]

LMAO

[@MinesomeMC]

My teacher said Mussolini was a communist dictator

[@TrocaTheNero]

I mean he failed quite as much as communism has so not completely wrong. :3

[@_imperiumromanum]

To be fair, he was part of the communist party before he created fascism.

[@BattleDroid739]

Though he was kicked out later (and then killed by the communists)

[@hemag3895]

MinesomeMC Maybe they play Kaiserreich

[@sinan5615]

MinesomeMC He was, but then he supported war, which commies didn’t. He got kicked

[@thomassassojr.6694]

"the Boston Massacre was the Shot Heard Around the World" --my 5th grade teacher If you don't know the shot heard around the world was the battle of Lexington Green.

[@ivlivscaesar5898]

I feel hurt by that person's stupidity

[@usbcgaming776]

Wasn't the massacre like 5 years before

[@delidumrul31]

Wasn't the "shot heard around the world" Princip's assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

[@sciblastofficial9833]

@@delidumrul31 That's another interpretation, but the Boston Massacre definitely *wasn't* the shot heard 'round the world.

[@sciblastofficial9833]

@@thinkingboi9508 In the same way, the Balkan Wars and the Bosnia crisis were the powder for the July Crisis lighter to set on fire. There's an extra fuse before Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia.

[@mmmmmmmm2472]

The worst one I ever experienced was a few days ago when my teacher said that Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria were part of the Allied Powers in WW2

[@sagnik2693]

they side swapped tho. if you're an winning power at the end of the war you're the winning power forever

[@mmmmmmmm2472]

didnt juj mi by mi grammer nd my foto But They Did Sign The Tripartite Pact.

[@mcveigh1579]

Well, Romania joined the allies in August 1944, Bulgaria in September, and Hungary in December.

[@thefreshpeepsarchive8913]

Aidan, Commander of Nerdy Army. But until then, they had been apart of the Tripartite Pact.

[@mcveigh1579]

Shea McCleary I know. I'm saying they switched sides.

[@caseyreed9726]

8th Grade History Teacher: "Prussia was Pre-Russia and was the kingdom that formed the Russia we know today." I told him that he was wrong and started teaching the class some basic European History. The next week the teacher forgot I was in his class.

[@brandonwang4270]

This is exactly what I thought prussia was when I was a kid. I forget if a teacher taught me that or I just made that myself lol.

[@user-gb7cl8np3p]

he forgor ☠

[@lixobounce6588]

@@brandonwang4270 same lmao i thought Prussia was a Russian kingdom or something before knowing it was the one that unify Germany then i realized it was German all the time

[@Enyavar1]

The confusion about (P)Russia only exists in the English world, I think. In German, 'Preußen' (Proiss-An) and 'Russland' (Roos-Land) cannot be confused with each other.

[@lixobounce6588]

@@Enyavar1 well in Indonesian we call Prussia and Russia the way they did in English

[@taylorwiseman8078]

You said Balkans and I went "Oh, no it's the Ottomans, isn't it?"

[@milutin.mp4]

When I saw the Ottoman map, I wanted to strangle someone, recognized it before he said it.... Context: I live in Balkan

[@mitsvanmitsvanio6106]

@@milutin.mp4 Well it could have been easily Alexander the Great's, Roman or East Roman (Byzantium) Empire.

[@milutin.mp4]

@@mitsvanmitsvanio6106 It could have, but I've been looking at this map for years in school, almost anyone from (central/northern) Balkan would recognise it's Ottomans

[@mitsvanmitsvanio6106]

@@milutin.mp4 I am from Greece and I recognised this cursed image that the Ottoman Empire is. Though I thought you were refering that you thought it was the Ottomans before he showed the image.

[@milutin.mp4]

@@mitsvanmitsvanio6106 Gotcha, brother. Sending love from Serbia!

[@50shekels]

Had a guy in my class who was absolutely convinced the FBI poisoned Napoleon *Which is entirely true of course*

[@klobiforpresident2254]

But not before Napoleon was used to assassinate Eppstein. They killed him to cover their traces.

[@pythonprogrammer6773]

@@klobiforpresident2254 are you that dumb? Napoleon was obviously executed on the guiloteeen by Hitler himself when he invaded France

[@nikitahichoii482]

Actually, Napoleon was assesinated in turkmenistan in 2009

[@GarkKahn]

I see you morons still believe those fairy tales from your history books In reality the jewish vikings from outer space under the leadership of their president genghis khan did all of that Did i mentioned that they were communists?

[@joeschembrie9450]

@@klobiforpresident2254 Your explanation of Epstein's death makes more sense than the official version.

[@Ben-qs9fw]

I had a teacher that said when the Roman Empire became Christian it was the Holy Roman Empire I wanted to scream

[@andreasjacobsen91239]

The Roman empire did become Christian though

[@SiberianScytheYT]

@@andreasjacobsen91239 but that doesn't mean it became another thing, the HRE and the Roman Empire are totally different things that have completely different history, one is Roman (duh) and the other is Germanic

[@randomswedishboi1450]

Thanks God I never withnessed that horror that you lived.

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

@@SiberianScytheYT Yes

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

@@andreasjacobsen91239 That’s true

[@dranflame_1236]

This one time my teacher told us that Native Americans didn't fight wars before Europeans came. Like the Aztecs and literally every other nation just didn't exist

[@Enyavar1]

The teacher clearly meant more to the North. We all know that the natives north of Mexico never heard of wars until the Euros came along; they all wore feather crowns and smoked peace pipes whenever they were not communing with nature and having the Great Spirit deliver them fresh Buffalo meat to their teepee.

[@dranflame_1236]

@@Enyavar1 lol

[@justanotheranimeprofilepic]

Ah the Nobel savage trope. Remember folks the native Americans were no more or less advanced than European aside from a lack of gun powder so yes they fought wars

[@AchyParts]

​@@justanotheranimeprofilepicIf they were so savage, how did they win so many Peace Prizes?

[@ignacejespers8201]

"But Austria-Hungary...ain't that like two countries?" At least the teacher shared my horror

[@hesseldekraai]

Well I can see that mistake since austria and Hungary are two countries now.

[@jimmu8689]

General Grievious yes it isn’t that bad to be honest

[@BewegteBilderrahmen]

they kinda were two countries ruled by one monarch, like England and Scotland.

[@leftblank1283]

@@BewegteBilderrahmen Yeah that wasn't true until 1603

[@fransandersson4717]

Well yes but accualy no

[@mantasliutkus2605]

My histoty teacher once talked about Ulysses S. Grant leading Confederacy army and Robert E. Lee leading northern armies during civil war

[@mantasliutkus2605]

he mistook names of the two for some reason, I did corrected him after a while, he then paused for a moment and said oh yeah and countinued talking about them, but now using names correctly

[@androzani]

LOL, He must have been remembering his Civ V game for a moment.

[@nicobruin8618]

"you don't just interrupt the teacher and go, well actually.." That's where you're wrong kiddo

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Nico Bruin I had the nerd glasses and said it in that voice

[@betabeatle5340]

“Stalin and Hitler were the same person basically. Stalin was a Fascist. Hitler was a Communist.” -my Gov and Econ teacher. Edit: seeing a lot of people being like “I can see why he’d say that!” Please read population statistics from the 30s, 40s, 50s, then reread my comment. If you honestly think that then I’m sorry but your brain is smooth.

[@alexanderwhite7678]

please tell me this quote was taken out of context in some way. please.

[@nathanboeke838]

There is so much wrong with this quote

[@jacobw6530]

Both were socialists.🤷‍♂️

[@nathanboeke838]

Jacob Weist and Denmark is a fascist regime

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

Well, not quiet. One was a sociopath, the other a psycopath. The rest of it matches though.

[@kurousagi8155]

Not a history mistake. But one class, a teacher put on this video of the Aztecs for about 10 minutes and it has a small segment of an actor dressed as an Aztec pretending to be an Aztec. After the video, one girl raised her hand and asked “how did the history channel get footage of a real Aztec from back then?”

[@thepossum9396]

What disorder did she have?

[@Violetenist]

When did it happened? If its from Grade School+, ill be screaming in my brain profusely

[@kurousagi8155]

Mirza9000 .-. 1st year of high school.

[@kurousagi8155]

ImperialJapanBall none that I was aware of.

[@Violetenist]

@@kurousagi8155 it has to be sarcasm, i dont believe anyone is that dumb unless they have a disorder

[@space126]

My 3rd grade teacher was teaching about world war 2 pearl harbor specifically she told the class that the entire Japanese force flew westwards over Europe, and America to get to Hawaii then flew back over America and Europe to get back to japan without refueling with no resistance

[@Lizardlizard02]

I dont see a problem here

[@FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog]

Well they do drive on the left side of the road so it makes sense that they'd fly in the opposite direction.

[@monkeyt1554]

What else were they supposed to do? Have you never looked at a map? You can't just wrap it around an orb and claim the earth is round!

[@sciblastofficial9833]

That reminded me of a certain meme I saw sometime in 2017

[@ianmichaelbrown7561]

I remember that once in 1st grade, we were labelling a map of the United States, and my teacher said that the United States only shared coastlines with The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. I of course, being a wierd 6-7 year old that was obsessed with the United States asked "Doesn't the US border the Arctic Ocean because of Alaska?" (probably simpler terms as I was you know, 6-7) and she replied: "No it doesn't."

[@TrueFlameslinger]

Ian's Things In Grade School is was told that you can't do things like 3 - 5 or 10 - 12. In hindsight, it was likely as to NOT confuse every kid in the class.

[@jamieLtaker]

Same thing in my SS class in 6th grade where in a test there was a question about which oceans border the USA. I put in Arctic and got marked wrong

[@helixraven8215]

Alphium Films It took me a minute to realize you meant social studies...

[@MenRot]

@@jamieLtaker SS? Did you study how shout "zig hail"?)

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

I was told Canada borders Russia on the EAST COAST. First of all, Canada doesn't border Russia so let's get that out of the way. Next, you can't border something if there's a coast, and third the EAST coast of Canada? REALLY?!?!

[@Penhallam]

I spent my entire childhood in Cornwall. I almost dropped the glass I was holding when I heard the idea of Napoleon Bonaparte being Cornish! Great video! What horrors you have witnessed!

[@equalopportunityoffender1816]

7th Grade teacher confused the Huns and the Mongol Empire, almost got detention for pointing that one out.

[@tmwombocombo4115]

Tyler Keck my friend got mad at me because I was singing “to defeat the hun” and then he claimed the hun were germans and that the song is wrong and its supposed to be Hans

[@Violetenist]

Never knew the Germans are considered "Hans" as their race

[@RazorRyan100]

>Be me >Be 7th grader >In history class >Learning about the Muslim world >Now on the Ottomans >Teacher tells us how the Ottoman empire eventually ended >"The Ottoman empire came to an end in WW1 with the assassination of an Ottoman prince" >Not very popular and worried teacher and students would tell me to shut up >Said nothing and let him continue

[@thomaswilson3827]

Ah, yes. Franz Kebabinand was his name I believe.

[@scarfbandit177]

Thomas Wilson lmao

[@Alice-gr1kb]

It ended in 1923 lol. And it was because the SULTAN HIMSELF was deposed, and the republic established

[@Minlag3030]

I think uhmmm they actually killed prince ferdinand II in poland when he tried to show off his wealth to everyone and call attention to the empire of mali in 1969 but then he got shot by a cuban sniper. Am i wrong?

[@frostberries3881]

RazorRyan100 ah the 4chan way

[@vladimirlagos2688]

I once had a 4th grade social studies teacher claim that Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, was in Alaska. When I tried to correct her she got angry and said she had been to Alaska and seen it. I just let her be and went back to doodling Transformers in my notebook...

[@thesherlockhound]

She probably saw Mt. McKinley

[@vladimirlagos2688]

@@thesherlockhound Yeah, I figured as much myself, but my grade was on the line and I figured embarrasing her wouldn't help with that.

[@tilburg8683]

To bad you didn't have smartphones back then.

[@CHNOPS1000]

What was the transformer that you drew

[@refmors2796]

Once, our history teacher asked a student where the Euphrates River was, and the student commenced to walk to the map, circled the whole world map, and said: *somewhere in this general area*

[@megatiger2755]

I mean they’re not wrong

[@davidmoore1253]

100% Accuracy 0% Precision

[@thedarklrd6714]

@@davidmoore1253 like a shotgun with 1000 barrels, doesn't matter where you fire, you'll hit your target anyway

[@justindie7543]

I had an Earth Science teacher that told us nobody has ever reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench. I raised my hand and said actually James Cameron reached the bottom. She said no he only went halfway down. I said that he collected samples from the bottom and found life down there. This went back and forth until she had to move on. The next day she gave me a candy bar and told the whole class I was right and she was wrong after she went home and researched it. Definitely the coolest a teacher has reacted to me correcting them.

[@beatsbycossack]

I see you everywh - wait a second

[@diegelbeseegurke2116]

Faker

[@kirijocafe7066]

r/thathappened

[@koatam]

I remember seeing it in South Park. He went down there to raise the bar. Made sketti wrestling irrelevant.

[@theorangecouchproductionsr9658]

My art teacher told us Russia used to be Prussia

[@possiblystappert4315]

Oh god, that's bad.

[@fehervari98]

Well, partially yes (Kaliningrad)

[@arshamir3055]

TheOrangeCouchProductions R I DEID LAUGHING

[@inderpreetsingh7429]

TheOrangeCouchProductions R lol

[@sagnik2693]

he probably formed Russia from prussia in eu iv

[@amcolon99]

When you confuse Egypt as the Ottoman Empire. 🤔 RIP my mind.

[@amcolon99]

I still remember that one day when the Russian Empire was portrayed on a PP slide as the USSR and the Warsaw Pact put together in my junior year of high school. xD

[@cherryslat5702]

Loradias oof

[@senpainoticeme9675]

What is worse is that the topic is about ancient egypt

[@cherryslat5702]

Loradias what could've happened if Tsar Nicholas II wasn't such an idiot 😂

[@senpainoticeme9675]

Joe Dolden the kaiserreich would be roflstomped along with A-H and the ottomans

[@2tto.C]

"Netherlands was formed by 17 continents." the other classmates didn't say anything, i laught for one second then turned serious. The teacher didn't say anything and my classmate continued...

[@arturnicaciodeandrade9861]

my gosh, the dutch are too powerful for their own good

[@thedarklrd6714]

@@arturnicaciodeandrade9861 so powerful they're creating more continents than there already are

[@kiyote437]

The famous mutiny aboard De Zeventien Continenten

[@Commietaku]

I mean they got the classic Dutch expansion strategy right...

[@TheYeetedMeat]

Netherlands number 2 country, they dominated the entire earth in the what if?/xkcd draining the ocean scenario. For your information New Zealand is number 1.

[@samrussell2244]

My History teachers have had a bad track record. One at one point said that the Netherlands was Germany in WW1. Another said that the Ottoman Empire was a German Colony in the same war, and went on to say that the Rheinland region wasnt just demilitarised and occupied by France, but was annexed and incorperated as a part of the new French Empire from 1918-1930. I cant make this stuff up, I dont know how this even happens...

[@fehervari98]

Johannes Zorbüch Maybe he came from another timeline

[@ardaylmaz1899]

dimesional travel thing

[@supermagicaldeadguy6205]

You mean to tell me that the Soviet Union didn't conquer the English Isles and Iberian peninsula??? I cannot believe you cannot recall such basic history, it's like forgetting that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1963 while driving a limousine to Parliament. What's next, we dropped only **two** atomic bombs on Japan or something??? Get outta here with your revisionist garbage. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to have to pack up my bags to visit the White House at Washington State. Yeah, that's right- I'm going to experience some real history.

[@qerwerg2341]

Alsace-Lorraine was taken by France!!!

[@inderpreetsingh7429]

Johannes Zorbüch Actually Saarland was economically integrated with France but rest of that bullshit.

[@Bugeye0704]

A girl in my class thought Russia was a city in the US...... I think my soul died that day.

[@klobiforpresident2254]

Everyone knows Russia is a city in Germany right next to the city of America. (look up Russland (Ostfriesland) ans Amerika (Ostfriesland), they're real.)

[@kurousagi8155]

Russia is a town in Shelby County, Ohio.

[@ender7278]

How old was she?

[@Dark_Detective]

It is though 🤦‍♂️

[@cushpnk]

@@klobiforpresident2254 Klobi Kerho

[@ethanrepublic]

My teacher thought East Prussia was a country in 1936

[@qerwerg2341]

I mean, it was a "Free State" during the time.

[@maxSVB]

Mein Unterkampf no

[@qerwerg2341]

I thought there was, no? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Prussia

[@maxSVB]

Mein Unterkampf Only Danzig was a free state. East Prussia, including Königsberg was in german hands

[@maxSVB]

Mein Unterkampf i correct myself: Danzig was under control of the League of Nations. East Prussia was still under german control and nowhere indenpendet or ,,Free“.

[@benedekhorvath7191]

My classmates often invent fantastic alternative histories, the bad thing was they did it while writing exams. Once one of them decided to put Venice in the middle of the Syrian desert. Another one was when one of them has written (jokingly, of course) that the investiture war was fought between Afghanistan and the Aztec Empire. Our teachers have also contributed to a few funny stories, including when my italian teacher has labeled Mussolini a communist while talking about the history of Italy.

[@loldiamond1017]

I mean.... Depends on WHEN when it come to Mussolini.....

[@LOrco_]

Mussolini was a communist, before being kicked out of the party.

[@LOrco_]

@Aq qoyunlu mapper no, didn't even know who he was at the time

[@cozzaronero]

It wasn't that wrong but still wrong

[@bno6156]

I mean, Mussolini labelled himself an “authoritarian communist”

[@puchy110]

I remember I was studying in Japan, and this girl, she wasn't Japanese, she was a gaijin American, said that the Russo-Japanese War was fought between Russia and china. How do you mess that up!?

[@thomaswilson3827]

puchy110 we had a classmate that couldn’t tell you who won the American Civil War. SHE WAS AMERICAN Of course, she could have just been saying that for popularity, but come on!

[@Ida-xe8pg]

0 iq confirmed

[@eednb4257]

boi

[@hotwax9376]

+puchy110 Maybe she meant to say Japan instead of China and just misspoke.

[@HurricaneHunter03]

I mean, you *could* say that Russia fought in China a bit, against the Japanese...

[@cademihalek607]

We were learning about WWI The teacher referred to the Triple Entente as the "Triple Entree" *TRIPLE ENTREE*

[@westhuizenarchives2614]

Shwubble Wubble Would you like an appetizer first? With some Bullshit teacher?

[@triangulum8869]

TRIPLE T E N T

[@apersononlineyes6554]

Well to be fair that was what they were like to the Germans.

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

lol

[@jtg6052]

yum yum 😋

[@sagnik2693]

my history teacher said that the most famous quote of Oswald Moseley was " E V E R Y M A N A K I N G" But I knew that it was obviously "D I R E C T R U L E F R O M L O N D O N". Seriously tho, once my teacher said that Germany "took austria from the combined state of Austria-Hungary" and annexed it in 1938.

[@joshuaashton1929]

Whaaaaaaa????

[@Dearth_Vader]

I shot directly to my feet when i read DIRECT RULE FROM LONDON

[@sciblastofficial9833]

didnt juj mi by mi grammer nd my foto 1) _Huey Long intensifies_ 2) Sounds like Kaiserreich

[@foughtstatue1023]

We made “Every man a king” the official motto of our 7th grade Louisiana history class.

[@burbclavefutur1527]

didnt juj mi by mi grammer nd my foto austria-hungary had already broken up thoooo

[@fakeskyler2305]

A classmate of mine was from Kosovo. Our 11th grade history teacher once said that the Kosovar guy was from "Azerbaijan". It was pointed out that he was wrong, at which point he tried correcting himself to "Albania". Still not the right country, but the shared attitude was "close enough." He was a fine history teacher beyond that, but that was the one biggest notable cockup.

[@ThisIsBoogieJar]

Albania and Kosovo are essentially the same thing

[@fakeskyler2305]

@@ThisIsBoogieJar Linguistically, religiously, sure - but so are Canada and the US. Still worth distinguishing as separate countries. Especially in the Balkans.

[@theastrogamer710]

Let me tell you about my horror story, at history class my teacher said that Columbus discovered that the Earth was round. I of coarse raised my hand and told her that Eratosthenes discovered that Earth was round and calculated its circumference and that Columbus was an idiot because he thought the Earth was a third smaller. She simply responded that she was just reciting what was written in the history book. The next lesson was geography and my geography teacher told me when I showed her that paragraph of the history book that it was the most stupid thing she had ever seen.

[@akmonra]

Yeah, a bunch of people make that mistake. Columbus thought the Earth was pear-shaped.

[@hemidas]

Our education system, everybody!

[@linklgas1691]

didnt he only think it was pair-shaped when he actually reached central america itself?

[@diepiepew12]

The way they teach about Christopher Columbus in american schools is bad.

[@sciblastofficial9833]

A quick recap: Here are the 2 stuff Columbus was “famous” for but were taken by other people. 1) Discovering Earth was round As he said, Erasthothenes was the first guy to determine that Earth was round. The flat Earth myth was simply propagated as a misconception, due to the fact that actual flat Earth-ism originated in contemporary times as a sort of “experiment” to try to create another point of view to the shape of the Earth. Some other Greek philosophers of the time said the same thing. Pythagoras measured the circumference of the Earth with incredible accuracy, and by the time Columbus sailed, it was pretty much common knowledge that Earth is round. What was he wrong for? 2) Discovering the Americas At least he discovered the Americas, right? Well, not exactly. The first people there are still debated due to new fossil evidence, but there is still proof to prove that humans arrived in North America before 20,000 years ago. Well, you could say, that Columbus was the first European to discover America. Err, wrong again! Leif Eriksson was a Viking guy who travelled to a weird land more than a millenium ago, calling it Vinland. That land is now proved to be somewhere in Newfoundland, in Canada. Anyway, back to the point of the last question. Why did he travel again? Well, it’s simple. This may be a bit oversimplified, but anyway, Columbus thought that the Earth should have been smaller than what we believe it today, thus in the process, America didn’t exist. That would mean he could have access to spices straight from Asia. So he set sail for “Asia” and finally landed somewhere... Guesses vary, but they all are in the Carribean, near or in the Bahamas. He named the natives “Indians” because he thought he was in Asia, explaining another misconception: That Native Americans are Indians. Sorry if I lost you there... here’s a summary. TL;DR - Columbus didn’t discover round Earth (a Greek guy did) and also didn’t discover America (ancient humans did) and named Native Americans Indians, and finally thought the Earth was small. Basically, Columbus was not a dumbass, but he definitely was one.

[@Fabramaster]

I had a history teacher say the Berlin Wall was put around East Berlin, not around west Berlin. And that you could just walk in from the west side of east Germany into west Berlin. He said the west Germans could do whatever, and east Germans could go in if they wanted. But not east Berliners specifically.

[@ericdh4184]

It could just be an honest mistake. Sometimes, especially if there are more pressing matters, you mix up directions. At least your history teacher said a wall around Berlin!

[@Pietro-Smusi]

I am in the same situation whenever there is history or geography at school. My teacher doesn't know at all what she's talking about. She thinks that South American countries entered in the US after their indipendence and that the civil war was fought between North and South America. She thinks that Kennedy started the Vietnam war, that the chinese civil war ended in 1911, and that the Berlin wall was built in 1948. She also thinks that NATO is the same thing as the UN, she doesn't know what are the Cuban missile crisis and the siege of Berlin. She makes so many mistakes, that I decided to give up and don't say anything, but I suffer every time for my classmates who have to listen to so many wrong informations.

[@TrueFlameslinger]

FanTasMA3V Oh my... I could never handle such a teacher.

[@josemiguelcaballerorestrep2101]

The only thing that one can argue is the one about the Chinese civil war since that was when the Qing dynasty got overthrown.

[@Alice-gr1kb]

You should tell someone, like the principal

[@Pietro-Smusi]

Akrian Mapping luckily the suffering is over

[@Alice-gr1kb]

FanTasMA3V nice

[@cliffwarden5934]

I actually did correct my senior English teacher a lot. The English teacher last year had challenged us to catch her in a mistake with an automatic A for the year if you did. Nobody did. The senior teacher was an arrogant "I'm older so I'm right" kind of people. (Her response when you disagreed with her her go too was 'do you really have the gall to think I don't know what I'm talking about?') at one point during a discussion of Dante's inferno she said that avarice was wrath, I raised my hand and corrected her, she said 'i read this book every year, you think I don't know better than you?' she challenged me to look it up in the dictionary. I did, and waited for twenty minutes with my hand up as she ignored me. We made eye contact twice and actively avoided me. Frankly she was a coward if she was afraid of something she told me to look up

[@olympia5758]

My history teacher said that Germany was unified in 1783.

[@fehervari98]

Hobbs Charles How?

[@thukututu]

hwat?

[@ТомасАндерсон-в1е]

I mean, the HRE...

[@whophonenewds4805]

+Томас Андерсон A. The Holy Roman Empire was founded, technically, by Charlemagne, who most definitely did not live in 1783. B. The Holy Roman Empire was not a country as much as a coalition of states, a fact that many seem to overlook. It’s more like NATO than Germany in its functioning. C. The Empire was near its end in 1783 and would be destroyed less than a quarter of a century later.

[@ТомасАндерсон-в1е]

Well, you are right, it wasn't a state, but still. At that time it still existed and was something to consider, even though it would soon be disbanded. The german states had an emperor to unite them against common enemies (even though with Napoleon it kinda didn't work out)

[@12345678900987659101]

Once, my history teacher called the first reich the Roman Empire, the second, Napoleon's empire, and the third the Nazi one.

[@robertli3600]

flyingkoopa45 That's impossible ´´´

[@samza360]

My friend used to think that too. I informed him of the mistake.

[@12345678900987659101]

It's true. I was shocked when I heard it.

[@weabootrash5891]

Well technically the first Reich was the Holy Roman Empire, but the Napoleon mix up is really inexcusable

[@12345678900987659101]

Yeah, I could excuse not knowing the HRE, or forgetting they were two different entities. But forgetting the German Empire, the reason the Third Reich even existed is unforgivable.

[@HurricaneHunter03]

For a second, i thought the video was gonna cover Horror stories of history Say... that might make a good video.....

[@bigotes8198]

yeah

[@eclectic_izzys]

My eighth grade teacher (who is one of my favorites) said that Christopher Columbus discovered the Earth was round... no, no, god no... Still, she was a good teacher. She actually didn’t teach us a watered down version of slavery, like other teachers did. Thank god my yeehaw school taught us about stuff most history classes won’t: Japanese internment camps, Ghana and Ancient/Medieval Africa, and the Middle East. Also, Indus River Valley civilization!

[@ABCD-nq3uf]

Oh yeah, I also learned about the Indus Valley Civilisation!

[@DGK774]

My American history teacher once told the class Austria Hungary was part of the German Empire

[@sciblastofficial9833]

**Großdeutschland intensifies**

[@pierreodendaal6519]

Technically the German Confederation, and then only partially. So she might have misspoken, or you misunderstood. PS. The German Confederation was a Union of German speaking countries back when the Holy Roman Empire still existed.

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Great, you’ve turned my Mannlicher M1895 into a Mauser Gewehr M1898

[@SiberianScytheYT]

_Oh if we lived in the Großdeutschland timeline..._

[@gamerito100]

Napoleon's Return Ah, he was a Greater Germany fan, I see xD

[@juanmartinpinos7156]

Once in highschool, my biology teacher started to teach history for some reason and she said that the Russians wanted to conquer the world in WW1 with their nukes...

[@derlasercrafterwally4342]

BuT sHe Is RiGhT

[@Chujoi0]

derLASERcrafter/wally waiting for woooosh after 3 months

[@LOrco_]

@@Chujoi0 still waiting man?

[@breaderikthegreat3224]

Confused Unga bunga

[@Whiskers4169]

Ah yes ww1

[@henrichvonruben9114]

My history teacher in 10th grade thought the Soviet Union still existed, I graduated 12th grade in 2018 so according to her 2016 the Soviet Union still existed.

[@sojourner.]

Oh comrade, the Soviet Union _does_ still exist. Communism forever.

[@kazooplayer3]

my teacher thought that the soviet union was china and when i told her it was russia and not china, she pointed to a horrible map in a history book. at the time i was a fequent watcher of real life lore, and if youve ever watched him, you know that the soviet union is a widely discussed topic on that channel, but even they have had some pretty horrible mistakes

[@Bachars]

It kinda does and it is called transnistria

[@coolcorn6777]

Transnistria

[@sb_8aj]

Transnistria is a fake pseudo-Soviet state that purely depends on Russian supplies. It is legally a part of Moldova

[@ahx.21]

I had a story that happened recently. As a Ghanaian I know a lot about my country. My history teacher (she's actually nice) called Ghana during its colonial years, *THE IVORY COAST.* This grinded my gears so I had to correct her. She actually apologised 😅

[@space__idklmao]

It was part of the Ivory Coast area though

[@puffer-wq5wj]

@@space__idklmao ghana and the ivory coast were colonised by the uk and france respectively, ghana was known as the gold coast and the ivory coast was part of french west afriva (if i'm not wrong)

[@KingTyler4ever]

In 7th grade, I had a student teacher say that Issac Newton was the first person to say the Earth wasn't flat. I didn't interept her, but I did have an expression on my face that I wasn't to happy about what she said.

[@jaojao1768]

TBHR Gaming everyone forgets about Eratosthenes

[@AndrewVasirov]

I think the first person to say that the Earth isn't flat didn't even write that down somewhere. ^.^

[@hotwax9376]

@TBHR Gaming To be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people think it was Copernicus or Galileo who proved the Earth was round instead of flat, probably because both Copernicus and Galileo were persecuted for going against the prevailing wisdom but later proven right. However, they weren't persecuted for teaching a round Earth, but rather for teaching that the Earth orbited around the sun and not vice versa.

[@DigiDigiDigiDigi]

I remember I once had a teacher that place Stalingrad on Leningrad.

[@hedgeknight3194]

Yahir Tapia same thing jappened to me, but he told us leningrad was Moscow also, wich made it worse

[@inquisitorowl5215]

Oof/10

[@erykzak8724]

Yahir Tapia I'm shit at geography but didn't Leningrad end when Lenin died and became Stalingrad when Stalin rose to power ?

[@hedgeknight3194]

HarmLessBush Gaming no, leningrad was named leningrad when lenin died to honour him and because they had to get rid of the reference to tzar Peter's name and a religious reference,Saint Peter. While Stalingrad was named after Stalin successfully defended a city with a important train hub in the volga against white armies

[@sagnik2693]

same here lol

[@trevorshepherd6852]

My HighSchool world history teacher said that Constantinople was in Western Spain..

[@possiblystappert4315]

oof

[@ardaylmaz1899]

uh oh

[@eaglefighter1295]

Kill it with fire

[@nadav2003]

Sooo would that mean the Greeks colonized Iberia and built cities, that actually could be an interesting scenario

[@st.6413]

They DID colonize Iberia though, for example Saguntum and Emporiae

[@theyoten1613]

It's not rude to correct the teacher, it's rude to let them misinform your classmates.

[@iankuczura5278]

Don’t be a bystander like the Allie’s in appeasement.

[@SubSero_]

@@iankuczura5278 Don't you mean the axis?

[@SubSero_]

I mean, seriously, everyone knows that Mussolini was incredibly cautious with his involvement in the full-scale British Invasion of Iberia

[@MrDeinonico]

I had a teacher telling us that Italy fought on the side of the Central Powers in WW1 until they switched in the last moment.

[@v4enthusiast541]

JMathias Probably mixed it up with WW2 AND the fact that Italy was allied with Central Powers until right before WW1.

[@fireclaner8774]

Mine said Italy was central powers the whole war and an enemy and no she didn't confuse it with ww2 I was horrified

[@androzani]

Italy was siding with the Central powers, but by the time they entered they where on the Allied side.

[@sciblastofficial9833]

Thought that too

[@afghanistandaily9175]

my librarian said the same thing and when i said Italy fought with entente she got triggered

[@sinanroyal5359]

I remember a test in Geography in the 7th class in Germany. We had to fill in names of countries on a map showing europe and the meditarenean sea. Unfortunatly, the teacher forgot that we have a map of europe in class hanging on the wall next to our board. Ofcourse most people (not me I did not need that) just coppied everything. There was one huge problem though. That map on the wall, was simply about Europe and the North African coast wich was also on that map was simply titled as "Africa". Guess what 70% of my class mates wrote down on the 5 north african lines on the map of our test. They were expected to write down Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Lybia and Egypt and instead simply wrote down Africa 5 fucking times. When the teacher revealed that while handing out the results I could not hold myself from laughing ;D

[@haydarrasyid3051]

Well, probably not .

[@pupitardanub]

Idk what was worst, students writing north africa as africa or the teacher forgetting there was a map of europe in class that im sure were big enough for students to see the names of the countries there

[@soimminionaaa9244]

R/Iamverysmart

[@twinzzlers]

@@pupitardanub Teacher might of done that on purpose.

[@sciblastofficial9833]

Sinan Royal "Lybia"

[@nbksrbija1039]

My history teacher said that Hernan Cortez defeated the Mayans

[@richardroberson2564]

A honest mistake but still pretty dumb. At least he didn't say Incas

[@kingusernamelxixthemagnificent]

She probably used Apocalypto for her info.

[@carl8752]

Thats kinda acceptable

[@magikman481]

Atleast they were both in the same area

[@ghostcat8399]

Did she watch Apocalypto?

[@HerrDeutschBlood]

I remember my history class in the 10th grade. The history teacher stated the lesson by saying “Okay class, today we’ll be discussing the Underground Railroad.” A girl in my who was usually silent got the courage to say “Oh I know all about that.” Astonished by the out of nowhere outburst, my history teacher said “Is that so? Would you like to tell the class what you know?” The girl said “Sure. I rode that through the subway last week.” True Story

[@cupwasneverhere]

Oh my GOD this hurts

[@pzhikcloethaegeslikhrethyi4225]

Some girl in my middle school once said “WAIT, ITALIAN IS A LANGUAGE? I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST AN ACCENT!” Another girl once thought that Cincinnatus, who lived in ancient Rome, met George Washington Also in my 9th grade class some girl thought that Stalin was the leader of Germany.

[@ultra-papasmurf]

Ah yes Furher Stalin

[@adge5182]

oh, my gooood.

[@gery8218]

Let me guess, you are from America;)

[@jjsdumbshit2792]

... I cant

[@beepbop6542]

@@gery8218 Man, America is weird. The kids are either geniuses who spend half their free time watching history videos online, or they are historically and geographically illiterate idiots who think Ancient Rome existed at the same time as the 3rd German Reich.

[@VologdaMapping]

My Finnish history teacher in high school told me Sweden never owned land that today is part of Russia... When I proved her wrong by googling it she shrugged it off and told us ¨they teach different things in Finland¨... Like wtf?? Is she supposed to teach 17-year olds?? At least I told her off in front of the whole class but well... the next lesson when I came 5 minutes late she refused to let me in xD

[@TrocaTheNero]

Yeah, we did own parts of Russia, I mean if we didn't how did we have connecting land from Finland to the Baltic Region?

[@thomaswilson3827]

Yeah, I mean St. Petersburg was once Swedish until the Great Northern War. How does that slip by one’s head?

[@peterii3512]

Thomas Wilson St.Petersburg was never in Swedish hands. It was marshes not worth much. The Russians built up St.Petersburg. It’s like saying the natives had Chicago no just no.

[@thomaswilson3827]

Peter II what I mean is the land where St. Petersburg is was formally Swedish, and was actually where the town of Nyen and its fortress Nyenschanz were. Now, yes, Russia did build it up to a major city, but there was something there.

[@peterii3512]

Thomas Wilson And there was something in Chicago before the Americans came in. The point that irks is that your comment misleads people into believing that Sweden controlled St.Petersburg as in the one that has the same population as Finland. No they once owned the land. I know but other than a insignificant fort and a small village there was nothing there. The only reason St.Petersburg was built from the marshes is because Russia needed a major port in the Baltic.

[@TrocaTheNero]

My "SO" (basically in Sweden it's a middle school subject that includes History, Geography and Social Studies) teacher said that Sweden went away in a war with Finland. What she was talking about was when Russia during the Napoleonic Wars spontaneously declared war on Sweden and took Finland and Åland, but she said that Sweden fought Finland. They didn't exist at that point.

[@henriquepacheco7473]

I mean, Sweden existed, that's like 50% right?