World War 2 in 12 Minutes (Extended Edition) - Manny Man Does History

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I thought I’d revisit one of my most watched videos, including my 10 More Things about WW2 and some previously unseen content.
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[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

I still can’t believe no one built a statue of the man that killed hitler

[@Goldrunner1169]

Ikr he was a hero that never got credit

[@torrestheman_3808]

He was even a handsome man too

[@thomasntdt4828]

@Hamdon Nut you've been whooshed

[@Goldrunner1169]

@Hamdon Nut *whoooosh*

[@KolchaksGhost]

It’s r/woooosh you r/ihavereddit incarnates

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

My grandfather fought in WW2, he passed down his coin collection during his travels to me before his passing. He was brave and lived a happy life

[@bungkatbacksom1414]

Avery the Cuban-American there he is again ffs

[@ceneblock]

Neat!

[@acebalistic1358]

May I ask what theater did he serve in?

[@taltoskieron]

My great-grandpa fought as a pilot over Berlin late-war.

[@acebalistic1358]

Aidan is Not a Bully nice. My great grandfather was a merchant marine in the pacific and barley survived his ship getting sunk on its maiden voyage

[@ThatGuy-te9wh]

I feel like we need a history of the Balkans next

[@vladislavbg9307]

Wow that would cause a shitstorm in the comments

[@pretzelstick320]

Димитър Иванов yeah just even mentioning Kosovo to a Serb...

[@thing420]

That’d have to be a 5 hour video...

[@nikolablazevic5739]

Thats too complicated. Maybe a lesson on quantum pshysics would be better.

[@Manning218]

That will be to long

[@Wallyworld30]

The battle of Stalingrad alone had over a million deaths. That battle alone had more death then Vietnam War and both Gulf Wars combined!

[@Mixedcraft]

That's not even remotely true. Sure, a lot of people died in Stalingrad, i don't contest that, but the Vietnam war had anywhere between one and four million dead, easily surpassing Stalingrad, especially if you actually count casualties using the same metrics

[@Wallyworld30]

Vaultboi420 I was thinking allied fatalities. Your right if you consider all casualties though.

[@ottosweden123]

As well as more casualties than the entire western front

[@lotrlmao1648]

@ZombifiedFish Stop boasting and accept the truth please, there are only 700,000 military casualties in western front while russian suffererd 11,000,000 military casualties, what the hell is that 8 million bullshit

[@ry_an.]

@ZombifiedFish 8 million allied casualties on the western front? From who? Mosquitoes?

[@julien.s2002]

Germany : **Invades Poland** Britain and France : *THIS MEANS WAR !* Soviet Union : **Invades Poland a few weeks later** Britain and France : Eh, I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.

[@raymondhamill270]

Poland: Really guys.....

[@acebalistic1358]

Did you know the blue on Poland’s flag represents reliable allies and the green represents having peaceful neighbors?

[@agring8391]

The reason Britain and France entered the war was not because they tried to defend Poland, but because germany violated the agreements created after the First World War. However, they should have done this even earlier, with the Anschluss of Austria or, at least, at the time of German occupation of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

[@jackass5066]

@@agring8391 they were to have done this earlier you say. But how? France and uk were not ready for such a huge war again.the French lost so much men they didn't want to fight a large war anymore.

[@agring8391]

@@jackass5066 in this case, this should have happened at the moment when Germany exceeded the army limit of 100,000 that it was established as a result of the First World War. After all, this limit was made for a reason? Allies could deal with this co-number of troops with ease.

[@romanproductions2160]

Mexican-American War in 5 minutes?

[@ОлегКозлов-ю9т]

What does Ireland have to do with it? =)

[@KolchaksGhost]

Олег Козлов nothing, so what?

[@ОлегКозлов-ю9т]

@@KolchaksGhost AFAIK John D. Ruddy only covers stuff that touch his homeland

[@Tlaloc1]

Олег Козлов A lot of Irish immigrants fought in the Mexican American war.

[@ebony61899]

Олег Козлов Actually, there was an entire battalion made up mostly of Irish soldiers who had mostly defected from the U.S. side to join their catholic brethren. They’re called the Saint Patrick’s Battalion, give it a google. :) In Mexico they’re honored as heroes, dunno about Ireland.

[@gnetkuji]

Small critiques: 1) You forgot to mention the fact that the UK and France literally gave the Czechs away. The Munich Agreement was just as instrumental in causing the war as the non-aggression pact between Germany and the USSR because it set the precedent that it was okay to split countries among the great powers as long as it maintained peace between those powers. 2) "Blitzkrieg" wasn't an intentional tactic in 1939. It would later be developed into an intentional tactic over the course of the invasion of France and later in the USSR, but during the invasion of Poland the Germans were following much more conventional tactics and were unexpectedly successful against the Poles. Even by the invasion of France, most of their Generals refused to fully commit during breakthroughs because they simply didn't have a "movement warfare" (as it would actually come to be called) mindset. By Barbarossa, the tactics of move, encircle, and secure had become established doctrine, but focus on this style of warfare ensured that every offensive would come at a heavy cost. Most Generals who would have fit in fine in other nations as men who'd trade away time or land to conserve forces had been sacked and replaced by officers who would advance at all costs. By the time they reached the gates of Moscow, the "at all costs" part of that equation had taken such a toll that further advance against determined resistance had been rendered near impossible. 3) Germany attacked in June. It was the Red Army that stopped the Nazi advance, not the weather. Germans did, in fact, have winter clothing, and experience fighting in winter weather (as they did in Norway in 1940). The Red Army and tactics which prioritized rapid land gain over conservation of strength came together to practically halt the German advance by early November. After all, isn't it contradictory to point out Soviet ineptitude in winter weather when they were fighting the Fins, but then praise them for their skill in winter weather when fighting the Germans? They didn't go from incompetent to geniuses with only two or three months of winter fighting. There are other quibbles, but none that are important enough to warrant the size of bulletpoint required to correct them. Overall a very good video.

[@CitySlicker34]

It was more the winter that stopped the Germans but the Red Army did a lot as well

[@gnetkuji]

@@CitySlicker34 Their advance was halted by early November. Last time I checked my calendar that wasn't "winter." A case could be made that the autumn mud played a big part of halting their advance, but if that were true then they would have begun advancing again once the mud froze over. At the end of the day, "It was winter" is an excuse, and everybody seems to buy it because that's a big part of what killed Napoleon's chances a century prior, but that neglects the full century of mechanization between those two conflicts. I wouldn't blanketly claim the Red Army did it all alone, of course. It's just that "Winter" wasn't the other factor which halted the German advance. Rather, it was the now-fully-adoped German doctrine of "Movement Warfare" which was willing to destroy the Wehrmacht in the name of speed which played the other part of the formula. A slower advance would have given the Red Army more time to regroup and thus defeat the Wehrmacht, but advancing as far as possible as fast as possible wore the Wehrmacht down to the nubs to the point that they could afford to advance on one front (South) the next year and then never advance again thereafter. But if speed cost too much and slow would have taken so long, then how could the Germans win? Answer: The couldn't. The only real bet they had was that the Soviets would fold in the first weeks of the war. They thought this was a sure thing given the Soviet's poor performance in Finland in 1940. They underestimated the radical difference the Soviet people would feel between a limited offensive campaign to try to reoccupy old land broken off from the days of the Czar vs. defending themselves from a literal genocidal invader. The Nazis thought the Soviets were actually pushovers and all of their hopes for victory relied on that assumption being true. Without that, there was never any real hope of victory and most of their brass knew that. "Winter" (among other things) is just what the brass blamed later because they were the ones writing the memoirs-turned-history books.

[@CitySlicker34]

@@gnetkuji in Soviet Russia, winter starts by the end of November, so while yes it is fall, it's widely considered winter

[@gnetkuji]

@@CitySlicker34 "They were halted by the beginning of November, which was still Autumn" is not mutually exclusive with "Winter in Russia begins at the end of November." Even if we took your definition for "winter" the Nazis were still stopped several weeks before then. Winter didn't stop them. The Red Army and wasteful German doctrine stopped them.

[@JigglyJuice-sl4mx]

Dylan Shramko the german supply chain along with the Soviets were the reason they were haulted

[@petersmythe6462]

"It was, and still is, the deadliest conflict in human history." *SO FAR*

[@frogginachos0124]

hmmmm...

[@idahoanmapping9319]

The Vatican-Italian war AKA WW3

[@stephenwright8824]

@@idahoanmapping9319 Pulling out of the Lateran Pact would be, for Italy, like Northern Ireland becoming its own country. Italy would have to (un)officially renounce its Catholicism or have its Catholic population shrink to the level of those in the US or Ireland before that happened. And though the Swiss Guard is competent as an army, it's not nearly big enough to sustain a war even with Italy. A third World War, started between those two? Pull the other one, _it has bells on._

[@vacuumcleaner936]

These videos simply don’t get old.

[@dudebro3573]

Basically, don't listen to people who say they can fix everything.

[@corporalsilver6981]

I was always wondering why the Molotov Cocktail was called that.

[@TheDunnDusted]

You left out one other deadly sniper from this period. Lyudmila Pavlichenko. 309 fascists dead and good friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, who brought her on a tour of the US to encourage more support for the European front. Though I did like how you brought attention to some famous figures of the war, like de Gaulle, Anne Frank and the Chinese Leader.

[@nikko1358]

simo hayha oli parempi

[@beeptherobot9730]

Japanese: *Kicks US* US: *Pulls out Minigun*

[@a-bloke-named-chris9805]

It’s funny that you don’t mention the evil things Japan did

[@MarcMagma]

In the west, people tend to focus more on the Nazis as the primary evil and everyone else as "bad but not as bad as the Nazis". Tbh, I'm not suprised.

[@Schmidty1]

Western historians tend to overly focus on the western front and the eastern front. Not Asia. It is a shame given the very interesting pacific island war and the immensely depth of events of the Sino-Japanese war, and the Burma/Indian theater. This of course includes not talking much about Japanese war crimes as they are focusing on Europe specifically and Asia generally. I'm glad he mentioned the internment of Japanse Americans and bombing of Darwin though. Not talked about often enough.

[@TheValkosuklaa]

I was kinda dissapointed too. The casualties were about the same with the nuclear bombing of the two cities and The Rape Of Nanjing except the other one was wayyy more brutal and isn’t even talked about in most WW2 discussions.

[@randomclouds4404]

Even Bill Wurtz in a summary of the entire world, talked about it while talking about WWII in like 30 seconds.

[@Schmidty1]

@@randomclouds4404 tru

[@police428]

Love the Dr.Who cursed child reference!!! As Christopher would say... “GO....TO....YOUR ROOM!!!”

[@hentehoo27]

4:20 well done, you pronounced his name correctly!

[@acebalistic1358]

That’s a first for historical KZbin

[@carlosg8108]

"Time changes, people changes"... but war... war never changes.

[@trainboyben7718]

Benito Mussolini at 0:51 “HAG” nice HOT FUZZ reference

[@willkp50]

Fun fact, Eamon de Valera (Irish Taoiseach) offered his condolences to the German people following Hitler’s suicide

[@cartermiller853]

2:40 You left out how French troops had occupied the Rhineland (Germany’s industry center) to insure they paid back the reparations. Also, st first Hitler wanted the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia that was mostly German (only later did he invade the entire country which was not entirely German LOL) Not a Nazi apologist you just missing some facts :)

[@Polak-dd7ds]

I have a suggestion for another somewhat lesser known conflict, the Polish-Soviet War, which is an interesting mix of Lenin's style of rule and the tenacity of the Polish before WW2.

[@aidenhall8593]

The Soviet Union lost the most men of any nation China: *Am I a joke to you?*

[@cmdrgarbage1895]

It's a yes or no question, the Soviet Union lost more. Period

[@Shirokroete]

China's highest estimate is the Soviet Union's lowest.

[@aidenhall8593]

Including civilian casualties for both sides, which mind you is most of the cost of a war, china pulls out far ahead. At least that is including the entire Sino Japanese war, which a lot of historians dont count as part of ww2, however, even then china might still be ahead.

[@acebalistic1358]

Shirokröte even if you count the 50 million Chinese killed in outright genocide by the Japanese?

[@randomclouds4404]

@@acebalistic1358 Where did you even get a 50 million figure from?

[@RealClutchMcGee]

Its been almost 2 years since your video on the Russian Revolution i think its about time you cover the Russian Civil War

[@louisstevens6877]

This video was fun to watch but here's a list of things I think you ought to have mentioned: 17. The British-Soviet invasion of pro-Germany Iran, and the Tehran conference between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin that followed. 16. The additions of Latin America to the Allied cause and their contributions of resources. 15. The Battle of the Bulge and its significance in American military history. 14. Operation Market Garden for its disasterousness. 13. The failure of the Western Allies to land at Dieppe. 12. The importance of British intelligence, such as that which cracked the Enigma signals code and mislead Germans to believe that beach-landings were going to occur in places that they didn't. 11. The neutral countries of Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Turkey, especially seeing as you mentioned Ireland; your own. 10. The massive war-production in Western Siberia that made the USSR the most powerful country in the world (until the American use of nuclear weapons). 9. The North Africa campaign in more depth than just 'the Allies moved across it'; mainly the contributions of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India 8. The fall of Greece and the Battle for Crete, which showed Britain, Australia and New Zealand fighting together in Europe. The massacres of German paratroopers in their downpour on Crete put Hitler off using paratroopers at all on the Eastern front. 7. The conversion to the Axis of Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, as well as the oppressive invasion of Yugoslavia after the people of the country rejected Axis allegance. This is a big fraction of Europe to not include. 6. The Katyn Massacre, of Polish military forces that ultimately shook relations between the supposed Allies of Poland and Russia 5. The Siege of Leningrad 4. The nightmare of the Soviet advances on the German territory of East Prussia and north-East Germany for the natives, as Soviet soldiers avenged their own citizens by raping and pillaging German citizens. This period also included the Russian seizure of German nuclear secrets. 3. The Warsaw Uprising, for what a show of Polish misery the war was and of Stalin's ruthlessness abroad. 2. The monsterousness of the USSR & its concentration camp system, that effectively meant that by allying with the USSR the Western Allies used one awful country to bring down another. There is also the significance of Soviet judges at the Nuremburg trials sentencing Nazis for use of concentration camps while fully aware that their country was guilty of the same thing. 1. The Battle of the Atlantic. A whole video could be made about the importance of the Atlantic convoys that kept Britain going, the Arctic Convoys that saw freezing Naval warfare between the UK navy and the Kreigsmarine as the Allies supplied Russia, the nightmare of being on a U-boat that is hidden by the threateningness of U-boats, the British invasion of Iceland, attacks on US shipping barely off the Eastern seaboard, and the Atlantic campaign being a huge aspect of Canadian involvement in the war. That's not including the fall of Singapore, the American Pacific Island hopping campaign, the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, the opening of the Yellow River in China to flood Japanese soldiers, the rape of Nanking, the three-way battle for China between the Japanese, Chinese nationalists and Chinese communists, the exhaustion of the Chinese nationalists that lead to the rise of Mao, the many occupations of Pacific islands by Japan, the Japanese alliance with Thailand, the Indo-British jungle war against Japan in Burma, and the attrocities committed by the Japanese against Asians and Westerners alike. But my compliments to what you did show. Jolly good show:)

[@pretzelstick320]

This would be a 30 min video. But I think the crucial things left out are: Nanking British intelligence(really saved their asses) How important resources were(oil in caucusus, why japan HAD TO invade allied land to keep holdings in Korea and Manchuria) Stalingrad(turning point, not just winter) Soviet war production and recovery

[@jasoncummings7]

I think he could've also mentioned the Bismarck too

[@katyushasnagant6124]

Turkey joined he war on February 23, 1945

[@leomack7625]

Wasn’t expecting the bombing of Darwin to be mentioned as it’s not something a lot of people know about. Thank you and awesome work as always 👍 Best wishes all the way from Darwin, Australia.

[@thegardener365]

The title should be: World War 2 in 20 mins (Reduced Version)

[@TheJeanrenaud2]

Loved the 'fascist' 'hag' hot fuzz reference at 0:49

[@DutchPride96]

No luck catching those dictators yet?

[@brodent]

5:21

[@pretzelstick320]

DutchPride96 the greater good

[@Sumschmuck]

@@DutchPride96 it's just the one dictator

[@NicklasZandeVGCP2001]

I've seen people *cough* D'Souza *cough* who used the two ideologies interchangeably, as if Communism and Fascism are the same ideology. They're not.

[@joaqweri5661]

there's plenty of american conservatives out there who pull horseshit out of their asses to try and say fascism is leftist, it's cute to watch

[@dolanusduk693]

History Teacher: Germany started ww1 Me, a 13 year old intellectual : Sit down young child

[@MermaidTyrone]

cringe but ok

[@thisrandomdude2880]

Germany DID start the war... on a technicality. Basically, if it wasn't for German support for TOTAL WAR as well as giving Austria-Hungary "carte blanche", the Austrians would have NEVER went on the, what was thought to be, a "punitive war" against Serbia (they didn't want to occupy the country, just get the capital and push many political and economic demands). Germany was waiting for such an opportunity to exploit so that it may invade Russia and France and finally establish itself as the dominant European Power. Through and through, in history, the main cause for a conflict is almost never the important one. WW1 was truly a useless war that had one sole goal: seeing who would come to dominate the concert of Europe (and it led to the death of ~20 million people).

[@acebalistic1358]

THANK YOU my 8th grade teacher said the pyramids are currently the tallest buildings in the world

[@ОлегКозлов-ю9т]

I'm not saying allying with Nazis were a good move, but keep in mind USSR also tried pretty hard to find allies in France and Britain, but both refused to create an alliance against fascism as Soviets were in diplomatic isolation

[@aidan-ib7qk]

Yeah because they invaded Poland. Serves them right

[@pyrrhusofepirus8491]

@@aidan-ib7qk it wasn't only because of that, it was also because it was the Soviet Union led by Joseph Stalin

[@vladislavbg9307]

The Molotov Ribbentrop non aggression pact==Appeasement

[@americansupervillain4595]

Fun Fact: Simo Hayha did not use a scope, all his kills as a sniper he used the rifles iron sights.

[@alfy2875]

great video John love the extended versions of your old videos. Keep up the amazing work

[@SNBullen0002]

Your videos are amazing. Never stop.

[@nod5100]

At 12:02 I thought Albania was a Jawa from Star Wars

[@JohnDRuddyMannyMan]

nod5100 ootini!!!

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

5:12 And also still *techncially* having George VI as "King of Ireland"....

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

11:13 I hate to say this but the view of the Emperor being pro-war is inaccurate. See, after the first bomb was dropped, the High Command resolved to keep fighting, and then only convened with the government and Emperor when the second bomb was dropped. The Japanese Generals wanted to continue the war, while a faction of the government, led by Prime Minister Baron Kantaro Suzuki argued for peace. The decision, at the Prime Ministers request, fell to the Emperor, and he voted for peace.

[@thesherlockhound]

Actually it was the Soviet Union invasion Manchuria. Not the second bomb.

[@thesherlockhound]

@DeeDoubleU Because WWII is very complex. That's why there's literally hundreds of books, movies, stories, documentaries on it. Plus so many points of view, you could spend years studying it.

[@speedy01247]

@@thesherlockhound ever consider that it was both?

[@speedy01247]

@@thesherlockhound ever consider that it was both?

[@EllRatioBozo]

Japanese man: “Lmao that plane called the Enola Gay. Is it gay!” Another person: “IKR like why name it that” Japanese man: Japanese man: Japanese man: Japanese man: “What is that dropping from the sky?”

[@taltoskieron]

Everyone in Hiroshima: ...

[@jack_myers]

Gay meant happy

[@CrowTR0bot]

In all seriousness, it was the name of the pilot's grandma.

[@notenoughmemes1847]

@@CrowTR0bot Nae it was his mother

[@sheep1903]

That FDR is fucking incredible

[@jeffboi7595]

im glad u gave credit to leo szilard, he was very influential in us making the bomb

[@noahbrown625]

Times Change; People Change; But War, War Never Changes.

[@faiqgamer3517]

You should add that Soviet Union war effort in the Winter War was so ineffective because not only because of they don't have winter clohtes, but also the lack of leadership due to Stalin's The Great Purge in 1937.

[@agring8391]

The failures in the winter war were not at all associated with a lack of clothing. Winter in the territory of most of Russia is colder than in Finland. The problem was only in command, as well as greater maneuverability of the Finnish army. + defending is always easier than attacking

[@sirpsychosussy]

0:49 That's a great, or good at least, reference.

[@raven-dq6ox]

Im glad to see that you aren't refraining from showing the swastika. Its a historical symbol which needs to be seen in order for people to understand the hatred and disgust towards it and youtube shouldn't be censoring that. Good on you!

[@ThatGuy-te9wh]

2:07 - Mussolini is just thinking "I'm-a gangsta as-a fuck"

[@mauralcode]

Such a great Video!!! Very informative and you kept it simple. Thanks

[@Spieler521]

*And now the video you’ve been waiting for...*

[@Goldrunner1169]

*ya...*

[@Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

5:07 you gotta love Doctor Who references.

[@KennyMcCormick129]

Make a Remastered of this

[@JamesLintonwriter]

Really great video. Very informative and entertaining

[@pikachewie1124]

4:14 A snake eater reference? Very nice.

[@ziadfadeleddine7704]

Another great video 👍👍👍 Can you do next time Irish civil war

[@neptuneseye7832]

Can you do the breakup of Yugoslavia next?

[@gipsydanger7379]

Could you cover the rise of Imperial Japan?

[@okipro353]

very common misconception.. the winter is not what stopped the germans

[@acebalistic1358]

What was it then?

[@okipro353]

@@acebalistic1358 I mean read an actual good histroy book. It's way to much to explain but basically it was the redeployment of forces to help army group north and south and lost the momentum they had

[@acebalistic1358]

@@okipro353 well it was also you still need to consider that the Germans did not prepare for winter, so Germans freezing to death did not help the situation. i get your point, but the winter certainly did not help them.

[@agring8391]

@@acebalistic1358 The fact that Germany was not preparing for winter is nonsense. it is not viable how strongly they underestimated the USSR, they still fought against one of the most powerful countries of that period. In addition, Germany fought against the same country, only 20 years before. Could they really forget how to fight in these territories for 20 years?

[@acebalistic1358]

@@agring8391 i know right? its so ridiculous, but they did not prepare for winter. Hitler was a egotistical maniac who thought the Russians would give up before winter.

[@Polavianus]

Finally something Finally new About this video He make an extended version For World War 1 now for 2 Isn't it lovely isn't cool And isn't great

[@Polavianus]

*Fine i'll do it myself* Steven Universe Finally something Finally new About how the story ends She doesn't exist now Survived by her son And all of her brand new friends Isn't that lovely Isn't that cool and isn't that cruel Am I a fool to have

[@willbirdseye2911]

Another great video. Keep up the good work!

[@rydude123]

What a great video. Keep up the good work!

[@paxromana1841]

Finally the DLC is out

[@DaisyGeekyTransGirl]

1:05 Hear that, Conservapedia?

[@olliemakesvideos125]

First person I've ever heard of talk about China, Australia and the Soviet's undermined significance during the war, bravo.

[@ОлегКозлов-ю9т]

Come on! This "poorly organized" and "USSR was saved by winter" shit again?! No freaking way!

[@KysfGD]

Exactly, even without the winter the soviets had more soldiers than the nazi's by a long shot.

[@thatrandomguy8157]

The poorly organized in the beginning was true but the part about being saved by winter is partially true as this did stop their operation and did allow the Soviets to reorganize and get more forces

[@kristoffermlgaard5492]

like the german army was the best lets take the tiger tank it could kill 9 t34 9!!!!! thats just one thing i can say more so the russians only won because of the winter 100%

[@CloroxBleach-cq7tj]

There is no such thing as just one factor deciding a war

[@akisa7865]

9:14 meanwhile in the soviet union Stalin: EVERYONE TO THE GULAGS literally everyone: but we didnt do anything Stalin: *DID I STUTTER*

[@DarknessBlossoms]

Finally

[@deepanshchaudhary5094]

Nice closure speech man...and the video was articulated too.. keep up the good work and cheers

[@Dillon4599]

3:54 Nice MGS3 reference in the top right lol

[@matthewrichards7832]

You should work with oversimplified

[@Texasishot105]

You are awesome! I love history now. 💜🌍

[@neldatoroc4269]

The Legend of Genji - United States? Manga Messiah - Empire of Japan?

[@Phoenix_The_HeroHater]

Love the extended version

[@oliversherman2414]

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

[@legendgames128]

"What would you like?" She pulled out the menu. "We have lunch combo, the all meat burger, the Molotov meal, the veg-" "The Molotov meal?" "The Molotov meal it is, then." "No wait, that wasn-" But she was already blowing him up.

[@diegobrando1928]

Here’s something interesting In my chemistry lessons a cover teacher would come in sometimes and he told us that his dad was a Wehrmacht fighter pilot in ww2 but was shot down. He is the most popular cover teacher

[@CitySlicker34]

Who would win: One of the most powerful military forces in history A Damp Island

[@wtfwtf1988]

Great Video John! loved the message at the end

[@GamerKid64]

10:09 The Final Battle!!!!!! 10:24 WAIT THE GERMANS WERE DEFEATED I THOUGHT THE WAR WAS OVER!!!!!!!!!!

[@neldatoroc4269]

My Last Day - Nazi Germany? God With Us - Soviet Union?

[@andreipaladi5487]

CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER 2:11

[@danielbishop1863]

Finland really got treated unfairly by the Allies. They were forced to give up a valuable portion of their country (including their second-largest city, Viipuri) and pay war reparations as allies of Nazi Germany. But it's not like Finland *wanted* to side with the Nazis; they were the victims of Soviet aggression, and the "democratic" countries refused to do a damn thing to help them.

[@sagetds1995]

Thanks for including the political compass and not just the spectrum. National Socialism is NOT socialism. There is a left-wing ideology called social nationalism, which might sound like a right-wing ideology. Vice versa and you get National Socialism.

[@tdlf156]

It’s some stupid shit PragerU taught all the 13 year old conservatives. Lemme guess, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea is democratic because it’s in the name? LMAO

[@nottiredofwinning3736]

@@tdlf156 People think socialism and fascism are linked, because socialism and fascism are linked. Mussolini was a socialist, and he developed fascism from socialism. Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy both used the government to heavily control the economy, and had EXTENSIVE social programs. But go ahead and make some straw man argument.

[@tdlf156]

Not Tired of Winning Go read my other reply, and bring some historical evidence or facts next time. A key concept of the Mussolini essay was that fascism was a rejection of previous models. “Yet the Fascist State is unique, and an original creation” from Mussolini’s doctrine of fascism

[@ronalddino6370]

@@nottiredofwinning3736 if ypu know history Mussolini was kick out of the socialist party And then make a Fascist party and become Anticommunist So stop spreading propaganda

[@nottiredofwinning3736]

@@ronalddino6370 Communist infighting. Because Lenin and Stalin were fighting - does that mean one of them no longer a communist with socialist beliefs? I understand history, I ALSO understand logic - do you?

[@GrassesOn97]

Top 10 anime betrayals: #1: operation Barbarossa

[@mo2gen364]

"Germany got the brunk of it" The Austro-Hungarian Emprie and the Ottoman Empire both literally ceeded to exist after WW1.

[@PrehistoricLEGO]

Love the new extra facts in this video that you haven’t used yet

[@teabagfc]

I'm still amazed at how many people read "National Socialist Party" and say that Hitler was a lefty. Thanks for displaying the chart, it maps it out pretty well.

[@bpdbhp1632]

One mistake, the germans didn't use blitzkrieg in poland, the first time these tactics were used was in france in 1940, and the Brits didn't have air supperiority in 1940. IT was rougly even because germany couldnt use its whole airforce because IT needed to be a bit scattered troughout the reich

[@hoodclassicsofcalifornia]

*The Great Courses Plus* KnowledgeHub memories

[@linda10989]

4:30 At the Malta Conference in 1945, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were given to the Soviets by the West as basically a 'thank you for helping us defeat Hitler' present.

[@franciscomm7675]

I love the artwork. Irish civil war next?

[@greenalleader7685]

I was part of blitzkrieg squadron and also a commander earned me as a blitz killer for destroying 100.000 targets

[@andyhorning8928]

the end is the best

[@WindowsXPMapping1]

Good Lord Finally Also the game "The Americanization of Emily" Reminds me of the Thomas & Friends Character

[@WindowsXPMapping1]

Like Really

[@neldatoroc4269]

Pacific War of History.

[@szariq7338]

I lack here some very important things like Warsaw Uprising, Kursk battle, Bagration and conquering Balkans.

[@superbabybao]

Omg amazing MGS3 camo reference 4:15 😂

[@kingofflamingos4344]

All of this happened because some Archduke got shot

[@iZayaXVII]

king Collins no that was ww1

[@GeneralissimusStalin17]

@@iZayaXVII but German defeat in WWI and the rise of America to being a World Superpower, the rise of Socialism and the Soviet Union, the destruction of 4 Empires and the instability and revanchism from it by either newly Independent nations like Poland on former lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Soviet Union attempting to retake lands lost in the Russian Civil War and Germany wanting to retake lands lost in WWI, Unite the German people and to seize Eastern Europe for more "living space for the Aryans"... Like WWI and everything else above this is the reason WWII happened.

[@JohnSmith-xy3gb]

My grandpa was a sergeant in Burma helping in defending the country against the Japanese.he said Japanese soldiers were brutal and ruthless.

[@LL-cg9uc]

Epic doctor who reference

[@Coolsomeone234]

Top ten youtube videos you weren't expecting

[@teokiernan7409]

Hi i met you at Dublin worldcon I really like your videos!

[@katyushasnagant6124]

You forgot a lot of events like: The German invasion of Scandinavia The Anglo-Soviet invasions of the middle east Battles in East Africa, Tobruk, and Tunisia Battle of the bulge The invasion of the Balkans Japanese invasions of southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Oceania South American involvement in the war Other countries that suffered from the Molotov-ribbentrop pact

[@bubbabluehorn]

National socialist is literally socialism but it’s united under nationalism. That’s the whole point Benito Mussolini was trying to make. HE WAS A FORMER SOCIALIST. When you go towards the right you get closer and closer to anarchism.

[@vladislavbg9307]

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