Italian front in World War I | The 20th century | World history | Khan Academy

[@patdemarte5236]

My grandfather ( Patsy Anastasio) fought on this front from 1917-1918. When my mother was born (November 18,1917) in Molochio, which is in Calabria, my grandfather was refused a pass to return to his wife and child. He went AWOL, was arrested and returned to his unit. Ultimately the sergeant who refused to give my grandfather his pass was demoted. Grandpa immigrated to the USA in 1920. Seven years later my mother, her brother and my grandmother came over.

[@DelightfulCarrotLord]

My great grandfather fought at caporetto, and was one of the "few" survivors.

[@schlam9320]

as well as finding all the locations and accurately putting them in a visual medium for us to sit back and enjoy? i say great job!

[@idontknowhatmynameshouldbe]

People that are hating on Italy shut up if Italy fell France would’ve fell and they had no help from there allies

[@lujzavujza]

Hey i just wanted to say your academy is great and since you are making videos foe wwl, you should mention the battles in serbia there were a few but there was this manouvere where the whole serbian army and the majority of the citizens relocated to the island in greece just so it would avoid capitulation, and with the help of allies planned the liberation of serbia. It also fetures THE first batlle of the wwl in august 1916

[@Jack7967]

I love your sense of humor.

[@ABN-Bobber1133]

You know they have updated battle maps of this??

[@TheKuangr]

Also do a video on the tertiary theatres of WW1, in the Pacific, Asia, Mesopotamia and Africa!

[@ANSARI5X5]

Thank You Salman

[@xmaniac99]

Also don't bother looking for Caporetto on a modern map; it's called Kobarit and it's part of Slovenia.

[@brucermarino]

A note about the transformation in the Italian command structure might be helpful.

[@JasonXuVegan]

Rommel captured over 9,000 prisoners in the Caporetto Offensive with only 36 casualties. It foreshadowed his military flair as the Desert Fox.

[@fonribb1]

You have to study something on ww1

[@Melthornal]

Basically, this is what happened: Holy Roman Empire was a pathetic 'empire', and Austria, which was 'part' of it, was essentially independent. The kingdom of Hungary was split in half, half went to Austria and half to the Ottomans. The Ottomans were then kicked out, and Austria took over. Then the HLE disbanded, Austria became its own empire, and Hungarians weren't thrilled. They attempted a civil war, lost, and the resulting treaty made the Austrian-Hungarian Empire as a compromise.

[@emilmemmedov2500]

Thanks for information,i liked this,once again.

[@kijiji93]

These videos are great. I really hope he carries on to WWII.

[@ocendo1]

Back to class.Wider picture is missing.

[@Menegoth]

The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire :p

[@HigherPlanes]

crazy world we live in brother.

[@abdihalim7788]

Peaky blinders brought me here . How can italy recruit soldiers from UK to help the war ?

[@user-jc3vy6tc1n]

04:30 Kobarid, I mean it's not an Italian town, why pronounce it in Italian, also there are inaccuracies in this video as others have pointed out

[@mattiatedesco7227]

Isonzo is italian,so why do you call it Soca river?

[@markoslav2239]

because its slovenian river

[@user-jc3vy6tc1n]

Mattia Tedesco The Soča (pronounced [ˈsoːtʃa] in Slovene) or Isonzo (pronounced [iˈzontso] in Italian) (other names Friulian: Lusinç, archaic German: Sontig, Latin: Aesontius or Isontius[2]) is a 138-kilometre (86 mi) long river that flows through western Slovenia (96 kilometres or 60 miles) and northeastern Italy (43 kilometres or 27 miles)

[@user-qr8js8nq5z]

Žan Uršič So? The estuary is more on italian part.Does this means something? He's right.The river is called Isonzo and the city CAPORETTO,since it was italian before being Slovenia

[@user-qr8js8nq5z]

Marko Slovenec Is italian

[@pandouslyfil4569]

Even though i'm quite late for saying anything about this video, I still feel like I should. I am italian, and I'm sure no italian or any person at all could argue the fact that in both WWs, Italy didn't do pretty much anything really valuable. Seeing the comment of my compatriot, I have to disagree completely. The origin of something does not make future generations of it as the first. We may be descendants of the all-mighty roman empire, but that does not mean we have all got a roman spirit inside, just as the fact that Germans now aren't nazis just because Hitler was. You know what i'm saying? I have to apologize for those incredible stupid and useless things which my compatriot said, apologize to all who he might have offended. And about that slave guy, something tells me slaves might even be better than us, you know? Just look at all the bad data about teens in Italy, and i dont think i have to say much else. I'm italian, but i have an international spirit. Goodnight everyone.

[@nandopassante6888]

+Pandously Fil No, any Italian with basic history knowledge can argue that in WW1 Italy was as valuable as the other main Entente Powers were. Italy kept busy a large part of the Austro-Hungarian army and later (after the Russian revolution) all of it; blocked the Austro-Hungarian surface fleet in the Adriatic Sea; rescued the Serbian Army with its ships; and finally caused the collapse of Austria-Hungary. You should apologize about the incredibly stupid and useless things you have said about Italy. The Italian who commented below was replying to the incredibly ignorant and useless things that a 13-year-old Slovene was saying about Italy. You're not an Italian with international spirit, you are the typical self-hating Italian, ignorant and filled with prejudices about his own country.

[@mattiatedesco7227]

I don't think you are italian and btw you don't know history

[@skatemo100]

Italians tied down huge numbers of troops from the Central Powers

[@wooosaiiii]

Game of Thrones basically :) marriages, battles, wars, treaties.... Actually Austo-hungarian empire was NOT a nation state, but country with mixture of different nations (Germans, Austrians, Czech, Hungarians, Slovene, Croatian,...) living together. In addition to this video, I must say that majority of soliders in this battle front (Isonzo-Soča river) was ethnic Slovenians alongside with all the others. They were defending their homeland (present day Slovenia) agains Italian occupation....

[@xmaniac99]

1.5m dead for a a fossilized mountain range (dolomites) and some mountain valleys with cows and sheep. Such a disaster.

[@dirac17]

I am enjoying this series on WWI, though it feels like you are just reciting Wikipedia articles.

[@camelCaseFTW]

hola!

[@LtStJebus]

The World Wars teach us all a valuable lesson - never have Italy as an ally when you start a war. You can be their friend, but don't rely on them.

[@slavkosmolej243]

reka je Soča in ne Isonzo, preboj je bil pri Kobaridu in ne neko čudno ime Lahov. Dejstvo, da ste Italijani izgubili vojno! POtem pa dobili ogromno našega ozemlja, ter tudi južno Tirolsko. Sram naj vas bo

[@SuperJuvexxx]

there are 2 milion people in slovenia, 60 milion in italy, hehe. -.- your economy is based on farming of cows? lol

[@neetuchaitanya211]

In shorts this was like Italy being a woden boat striking a metal destroyer. And it only helped allies in sulking a bit if central power resources.

[@Melthornal]

HRE, not HLE, sorry.

[@HigherPlanes]

LoL there is something completely fucked up about timing a battle to start at a certain time. Da fuck? Is that how war works? Sorry, gotta run, war's about to start.

[@lujzavujza]

well this all happened and you cant make stuff up

[@Salvor_Hardin_42]

You plan to start at a certain time so all of your units attack at once, rather than having someone start early and tip off the other side that you're starting a major attack and they should reinforce. Obviously if the start time leaks you're fucked though xD.

[@LoserBroProductions]

It's not pronounced Vitorio Venito, it is pronounced Vitorio Venito

[@duduchannel6729]

It is pronunced like it is written

[@LoserBroProductions]

Dudu Channel *written

[@duduchannel6729]

Thanks

[@rufuszufall5753]

To make it shortest as possible... At first the goal among Germans was to unify and create a Nation.Austria, Luxenburg and Lichtenstein included. But 2 States were more powerful than others. Prussia and Austria.Those 2 went to a German civil War. After Prussia won over Austria and later combined Germany over France.The German Empire proclaimed. At first they still wanted to include Austria .But Bismark desided against it.Austria had to create its own Empire and started whit Hungary and later it became a vary unstable mixed national empire. But even Today...Austria is vary much like a German puppet state.60%+ desire for some sort of re, re, reunion. Culture, Tradition, Language and so on. Much like Russia and Belarus or Serbia and Montenegro.

[@robobrain10000]

Italy was just pretending to be a World Power in WW1 :P

[@boyidrski]

Hehe on per capital basis more then Italy.

[@boyidrski]

I wont bother answering your defamatory statements..

[@wooosaiiii]

Italy played a game of poker again in WW2 xD Total bluff... ^^ guess it worked out always for them ^^

[@SuperJuvexxx]

because you stay 24h on 24 on your pc, watching videos on youtube. i bet that you've never been in italy or in a foreign country.

[@GostosoSPbr]

Don't agree with the first video I think they didn't want to fight UK, Germany our France but wanted to settle with Hungary and where afraid of Russian. Lol many sad comments from power pc-keyboards that think war is bf3 our mw3

[@whistleblowerkings8928]

GmGm

[@SuperJuvexxx]

your mother.

*rolls eyes* Another American with no idea about the first world war. And he's misinforming the world. @ 3:50 Um actually no, the Austro-Hungarians were not "reinforced by the Germans, they were reinforced by Austro-Hungarians. While the Caporetto offensive included some German artillery and stormtrooper units to help make a breakthrough, the offensive was overwhelmingly Austro-Hungarian. And that's just for starters on why this video is a joke and should be taken-down.

[@Azryill]

Your wrong Austro-Hungarians were actually reinforced by the Germans....stupidity of some ppl.

[@PaquitoRoad]

Isonzo = [ee-son-tso]

[@huntersi1]

soča!

[@rak2495]

I S O N Z O

[@ficopoki164]

I am not happy with the pronounce of the Kobarid because it is a Slovenian town not Italian and Isonzo river that is Soča river. That river is a Slovenian river. Please fix this.

[@ficopoki164]

But it's more Slovenian than Italian. I am angry at him because they don't respect Slovenia (Kobarid)

[@kevinmockford1329]

and you don't respect italian. Then why not bring it back to its first latin name?

[@ficopoki164]

+Kevin Mockford Shut up! You are not a Slovenian or Italian. Slovenian wrote songs about it and the most part of the river flows in Slovenia. And you are tipical American. You have to put your nose where it doesn't belong. sLOVEenia

[@kevinmockford1329]

+Lucky Louke i just wrote you an answer but it was just not worth it.. cya

[@ficopoki164]

+Kevin Mockford Yes it was because we have country for only 25 years and I wont let some one talk like this about my country - patriotism

[@AukeBoerema]

There top priority is surrender, see North Africa in WW II, a state without pride, Food is good-fascists-il sole fantastico-le donne piu belle-politics: Maffia & Mondo Cane. WW IIwe learned:it is better to have Italy as an enemy, than as an ally. Did they bribe the Austrian genera Ethiopia - The book of Italian courage is very very small. How is it possible,that they won this war

[@user-qr8js8nq5z]

Auke Boerema And you are from...? Some defeated country?☺ Lol,you never heard of the battle we won in WWII? Never heard of El Alamein?

[@rak2495]

So much ignorance

[@aalb1873]

Jealous

[@Fractured_Nebula]

The Italians front was jsut a series of useless battles

[@sittingonatoilet2000]

like in the western front was a series of useful battles :'D lol WWI was useless at all.

[@mattiatedesco7227]

Verdun was useless,not the italian front

[@jozebutinar44]

1st of all it was slovenian italian front as you dont know let me teach you this front was fought on sloven teritory

[@Stefan0R8]

At the time Slovenia didn't exist

[@N4TE_94]

it's not Isonzo !!! it's Soča River (Socha) .. and if you dont know Erwin Rommel (yes the famous desert fox) fought on Soča front and because of him and his master tactics half of the valley was taken by germans !

[@nandopassante6888]

+Pixel Junkie It's both. North of Gorizia it's Slovene land and people and the river is called Soča, south of Gorizia it's Italian land and people and the river is called Isonzo.

[@N4TE_94]

Yeah it's both but that's the thing why it's used Isonzo if its also Soča ? and also most of the river runs in Slovenia so it would make more sense...

[@mattiatedesco7227]

+Wble Nope,it was italian more than slovenian,so Isonzo and Caporetto are good

[@mattiatedesco7227]

+Bryan Marco Ahahah poor slav

[@markoslav2239]

on the map but there were more slovenians until war.

[@jyhmie]

Ethiopia