Reaction | History Teacher On - World War One - 1914 - Epic History TV

[@kemal1232]

Great Video. Austria-Hungary wasn't the most populated Country, Germany and Russia had more.

[@MarkVrem]

Yah he is doing a great job with his videos. Looking at this video, His editing skills also leveled up.

[@gwolfe333]

If you study wars long enough, you become really good at geography.

[@Al-Johar]

That's so true, I've watched so much epic history, kings and generals, and historymarche videos. I'm just oblivious on American history unfortunately.

[@chaosXP3RT]

Your extensive knowledge and input on this is so enlightening and refreshing! I learned so much from your commentary. Here in the US, even outside public school, rarely does anything go into such detail about WWI!

[@Essek]

Thank you for the kind words. Really appriciate it! Thats why we are here on this channel...to learn something new! :)

[@LindaSchreiber]

Brilliant, Essek. Thanks! I learned more about the situation that sparked WWI in your explanation within the first 5 minutes than I knew before.

[@Parsons360]

Thanks again for the content mate !

[@Alex-df1zf]

Maginot line was created post World War 1, in Alsace Lorraine which was German at the beginning of this war since the Franco Prussian war of 1870..

[@MSTavares]

Something cool was that Otto Von Bismarck told to the prince of Germany that from 20 years after his death (Otto Von Bismarck) the WWI would start because some "stupid" thing on the Balkans

[@milostomic8539]

True.He also said that Balkan isn't worth a life of a single German soldier.

[@MarkVrem]

Hopefully the Germans have learned to stay on their side of the Danube lol... Enough of this Fritigern stuff.

[@MSTavares]

@@milostomic8539 Yeah I've heard that quote of him before also, I was thinking if it was at hte same time as the one I've mentioned or not

[@MSTavares]

@@MarkVrem lol

[@Bayubadu]

This is a very good channel, thank you for the videos

[@susangordon1157]

Very informative video but I guess I'm just an old hippie; make love, not war. Lol ❤ U Adam!

[@lysimaquetokmok6755]

The Maginot Line didnt exist in WW1 and it was located on the fronteer with belgium

[@Essek]

I know. :D To oversimplifie it I said "Maginot" and "Siegfried" line. I ment the defences were already there on the lines between France and Germany. France fortified its borders already with the Barrière de fer. But I needed to be more clear with it. Thanks for the input! :D

[@milostomic8539]

Serbia suffered 28 % losses from its 1914 population, or 1.247.345 dead.

[@susangordon1157]

The thought of that many lives just makes my heart drop.

[@susangordon1157]

@goran stojanovic Yes, so very devastating.

[@ristusnotta1653]

Channel Kings and Generals uploaded a video (Winter War: Finns and the Red Army fight in the Arctic) about one of the most epic battles of Winter War, Battle of Raate road/Suomussalmi which took place in central and northern Finland. The Soviet 44th Division tried to cut Finland in half from the narrowest point, but they found themselves stuck on a narrow long road called Raatteentie/Raate road, they brought so many men, equipment and vehicles that there was traffic jam lasting for kilometers, the men ordered for the job were also Ukrainians who weren't familiar with cold winter and didn't know how to ski and they didn't have nearly enough warm equipment and food with them (even tho they had room in the vehicles for pictures of Stalin and musical instruments for the coming victory parade), meanwhile the temperature dropped to -30/-40 degrees Celsius and the forest on the both sides of the road was full of Finnish ambush squads. Also if you are interested there are many pictures and videos of the result of the battle+the traffic jam and it looks just unbelievable, also the numbers of lost vehicles and equipment which can be found from Wikipedia.

[@k.v.7681]

The thing about Belgium commemorating the First world war compared to the second is because the second was a bit of an odd duck, so to speak. The second, the king surrendered (and became a prisonner of war) which the government refused (on grounds of the Belgian constitution. Every law and decree must be signed by both the King and the Prime minister) and continued the fight from the UK, exiled as they were in London. Belgium was occupied, and suffered a lot from both the occupation and also inside tensions. On one hand there was a resistance, and on the other, there were Fascist sympathisers (a legion of which was among the last defenders of the nazi regime when the entire 3rd Reich collapsed). And although the King's decision of surrender was divisive, he truly had the population in mind when he surrendered. He lobbied a lot from the "gilded cage" he was put in, resulting in the country having very few jewish casualties compared to other occupied nations in the first two years. It's only later that the Final Solution was set in motion in Belgium (the king having spent the majority of his influence beforehand, and Hitler not exactly being the most reliable individual to bargain with.) The first one on the end was easier to swallow. A "never give up, never surrender" mentality from the king, a clear cut ennemy with a unified nation, heroic deeds from little Belgium, with it's queen caring for the wounded right behind the trenches, or in the royal orphanage she opened for the children of soldiers etc... The second, seen by the nation, was a country battered and divided, where dogs under the boot of a harsh master were forced to fight for bones. It's not remembered as heroic but bitter, and people would sooner forget it. Even the elderly that remembered both wars would speak with pride of the first and show bitterness about the second. A "funny" thing to note tho is that for the second, among the most rabid opposers of the nazi regime were a lot of formerly German citizens from the "Fourons" (the small piece of Germany attached to Belgium after WWI) To this day, they are among those with the strongest unity and royalist tendencies when it comes to modern political tendencies in the country.

[@jasonjason6525]

Germany had the second most powerful navy, although Britain’s navy was larger than Germany and USA combined.

[@Odoxon7522]

Almost no-one talks about that Austria-Hungary made their demands ln Serbia unaccaptable.

[@MarkVrem]

Now that I look at this situation again. Turkey is sort of like what Italy was in ww2. A confusing statement, but... Where they made a rash emotional decision to join a war that appeared to be over soon. They got fooled by early German success, thinking that Paris would fall. If it were a rational decision they would have waited until Spring 1915 to join. In the meantime prepare and not have their troops freeze to death in the mountain.

[@miamidolphinsfan]

Excellent reaction video brother !!! Really enjoyed your commentary. Little Belgium, who has nothing to do with any of the original conflict you can see why even today there is lingering distrust of the Germans, it started back then, & then during WW2....it's amazing that Germany & Belgium have such good relations now (governments) but I have a Belgian friend, wasn't even born until 1950, but yet she still hates Germany today & says a lot of family & friends distrust Germans thoroughly

[@chaosXP3RT]

I think it'd be really cool if you watched some American Civil War battles. The American Battlefield Trust has some Animated Battle Maps for battles like the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Gettysburg and the Battle of Shiloh! The American Civil War was our deadliest war, but WWI had eclipsed the casualties in the American Civil War after the first couple years! WWI was extremely bloody!

[@eliasjanssens1247]

in Belgium we commemorate the first world war more since our army and involvement was much greater in the first compared to the second, since our king leopold 3 kind of didn't do much and sided with the germans (the country didn't) in the second word war (he also got captured by them). and we were overrun so fast that we really didn't have that manny casualties in the second.

[@mikestauffer7033]

in the first 4 months of the war, the french suffered 800.000 casualties

[@Essek]

yup, just horrific.

[@reygonzalez4719]

I do love there wwi videos

[@robertguy9553]

I would argue that there’s been 4 world wars, 2 preindustrial, 2 industrial. The seven years war was the first. The French Revolutionary wars and Napoleonic wars really should be counted together to a degree when you consider that major European powers (I’m particularly looking and England and France also fighting for their colonies and India and all that), war was basically all over the world at that point. Then the standard WW1 & WW2

[@pashico7082]

Actually, if I remember correctly Germany had the second most powerful navy at the time.

[@MarkVrem]

I think Japan and even the USA might make an argument counter to that at the time. Note at the time, the U-boats were a secret. In hindsight, you are probably correct Germany was number 2 at the time.

[@jasonjason6525]

Marko Uremovic Germany had the second most powerful Navy eventhough the British was larger than Germany and US Combined.

[@MarkVrem]

@Thib Skywalker The French have 2 fleets an Atlantic and a Meditterean one. So whatever their number is divide it by 2. For the one facing the Germans lol

[@MarkVrem]

@Thib Skywalker Right, especially when the North-of Paris area was pretty much all their Industrial land LOL.. Why they wanted the German Ruhr area after the war, to be under French subjugation of sorts. Somewhat similar to the Soviets taking industrial machinery from East Germany into Ukraine to replace the stuff the Germans broke lol.

[@razkable]

italy and austria were clearly still getting supplies and food to germany in world war 1 and helping them get to africa....its pretty clear

[@ConkerVonZap]

Hey at least Austro-Hungary invaded montenegro without asking germany for help.

[@Essek]

LOL!

[@eugene7145]

LMAOOOOOOOOOO

[@irmacakeshire5262]

I thought Ottomans were called "sick man of europe", not "ill man of bosphorus" (: I am curious (seriously, i did not know) who called turks ill man of bosphorus?

[@saxogrammatikus4195]

Germans because the Turks are not really European.

[@alexandrupreda1994]

In Vojevodina whas olso the ideea of unification whit the Romania, because it whas the half part of the (Banat), so Romania wanted not just to unificate whit its people but olso whit its historical regions from the old state Dacia and Vojevodina whas as well a part of that old state. At Paris in 1918 it's had been made an agreemant whit Romania and Serbia and olso we couldn't send our best politician I.C.Bratianu to negociate whit Serbs and we send somebody else who whas olso good but not the same like I.C.Bratianu

[@klym8_]

Hi, do you play video games? I'm hoping that you could play some Kingdom Come Deliverance 😅 and talk about some history behind it

[@Essek]

I am constly thinking about making a gaming channel with history related games, especially strategy games :D

[@chaosXP3RT]

After you watch the 1917 part of this, you should listen to the US WWI song "Over There"! Sorry, my American patriotism is showing

[@Essek]

Hahhahahaa, sure. Will do...just remind me under the 1917 video in the comments! :)