Why did the Entente betray Italy after WW1? (Animated History Documentary)

Italy was promised a lot to enter the First World War on the side of the Entente. But when it came time to pay up, Britain, France and the United States all had other ideas and the territories promised to Italy mostly went to Yugoslavia. So why did this happen? Why did the Entente go back on their word to Italy? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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[@eggy6815]

Imagine losing promised land from your enemy because they were so thoroughly defeated that they lost the land they were supposed to give to you.

[@HipFire1]

not a rare experience on EU4

[@anonymous-hz2un]

In the end it was better this way. Dalmatia is strictly populated by croats. Now losing Istria after WW2, however...

[@GenovaYork951]

​@@anonymous-hz2un Istria is populated by Serbo-Croatians and Romanians. Nothing to do with Italy.

[@chozer1]

@@GenovaYork951not totally true. Back then there was alot of Italians

[@GenovaYork951]

@@chozer1 Proof?

[@danielrichwine2268]

The "Soon" sign is such a great long running gag.

[@balabanasireti]

Meh

[@Longshanks1690]

@@danielrichwine2268 Running through the fields of flowers smiling is a personal favourite of mine.

[@SteveInLava]

​@@Longshanks1690 🌸We won!🌸

[@fatdaddyeddiejr]

Also characters with crossed eyes.

[@BenZedrene]

I like the "You suck" sign best

[@Longshanks1690]

1:15 “But that was a problem for the next generation” with an old man saying “All the best” to a literal baby can be applied to so many scenarios and events on this channel. 😂

[@Lennox-vr1sj]

Totally fucking missed the baby first time round

[@barsukascool]

Pfwhaaaa-😂

[@rodrigodepierola]

I died when I saw the baby in swaddling clothes.

[@Bruhdaughhh]

Literally all of world history be like:

[@xELITExKILLAx]

The baby was Kelly Money Maker

[@toastyanon8902]

The Entente: “it’s not you, Italy. We’re reneging on just about every other promise too!”

[@magnusbjarni]

"be happy with what you get, at least you're better off than the Middle East... Which we will solve at some point. Maybe. Probably not. Actually, scratch that. They can solve their own problems. That we may have created."

[@jwil4286]

And people say the Entente were the good guys in that war, especially when they (specifically Serbia) started it!

[@scapeagoat2520]

@@jwil4286 “it appears you accepted 9 out of 10 of my absurd demands, I have no choice but to destroy Europe now”

[@scorpixel1866]

@@jwil4286 Because Serbia was obviously responsible for some dude with a pistol and should have just gotten annexed by Austria, and it's not like everyone in Europe has been itching for a fight for a decade already.

[@Diedwhilemakingwaffles]

@@scorpixel1866 they did supply the Black Hand.

[@JA432123]

Stop reading my mind history matters I just watched your “why did Italy join the Entaunte” video yesterday and was like “why didn’t Italy get the land it was promised”

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hi

[@bartholomewone]

bye

[@EnergeticSpark63]

@@bartholomewone hey

[@anonymustypewriter6670]

It got way too much

[@iMajoraGaming]

@@JA432123 because it didn't deserve it they let cadorna casually widow hundreds of thousands of wives and ignobly yielded swathes of land through military incompetence typically rewarding things like that leads to statements like mussolini's statement that all he needed to do to demand great prizes was "spend" a... few... hundred thousand... "lives" to "sit at the table of victors as a man who fought." italy's entire ww1 contribution is one it ought to look at with shame, instead modern fascists still genuinely think that wasting human lives in the millions entitled them to concessions. nevermind how casually a million lives were *wasted* by incompetent staff, nevermind that in a lot of the territory the population, dalmatian and slavic, voted to join yugoslavia, nevermind that italy got *essentially every* area with an italian majority in the end, nevermind that their casual consignment of millions to death in the dozen battles of the isonzo and the like was *beneficial only to the central powers,* people died! so we deserve stuff :)

[@matthew416811]

3:04 THE NOT-YET-FEZ-WEARING ITALIAN MAN

[@scapeagoat2520]

Foreshadowing

[@_0______00__________0_______0]

A.k.a. no moustache Italian man.

[@zibbitybibbitybop]

I immediately heard that line in the narrator's voice when he appeared. 😂

[@UnitedArabRepublic69]

wait the fez wearing Italian man in 3:04 doesn’t wear a fez… :(

[@MrGrey2727]

Dang it. You beat me to it lol

[@markmarano913]

The newspaper gags on this channel never cease to entertain! Actually, come to think of it, NONE of the gags on this channel ever cease to entertain... Well, in that spirit, I'm going to go romping through a field of daisys while communicating with large hand-held signs.

[@howiehall4622]

I fancy the "Nerds" sign.

[@markmarano913]

@@howiehall4622 My personal favorite is "Your mother"

[@Ghost_Mast07]

I love that Mussolini has a italy belt

[@garethaethwy]

It's little details like that which keep me coming back and rewatching videos multiple times, just to spot the throw-away jokes!

[@albevanhanoy]

I think you mean the FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN

[@anonvideo738]

Should've made it show Italy with the land promised

[@GuyIncognito-111]

I have a legit Italy belt

[@thepatriarchy819]

Ritorneremo

[@liat5443]

Albania is such a lucky country. At nearly every point something happens in the balkans they nearly get annexed but they manage to survive

[@braylen5830]

Albanian Glory 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@markobucevic8991]

It simply was not worth the hassle, like today. A reason why they are economically at the bottom

[@pewialmostdie3631]

we did get annex in ww1 by italy but they drove out because they were broke and americas self determenation for minor countries.

[@VojislavMoranic]

@@pewialmostdie3631 And before that by Serbia. But we also left because firstly its a mountain shithole. Secondly Austro-Hungary was going absolutely shit insane at the thought of Serbia getting access to the Adriatic and literally made Albania not because the Germans give a ounce of shit for you savages. But just out of spite because Serbia said "Fuck you kaiser, the Tsar is my best friend now." And AH took that statement "Well"

[@fotisexarchos5418]

We liberated Southern Albania mostly known as Northern Epirus (where mostly Greeks still live), three times in the course of 30 years between 1914 and 1944 but the Allies always wanted to save them for no real reason.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

There were so many conflicting "promises" that many of them were doomed to not be filled

[@NewtypeCommander]

It really does seem like the Entente powers overpromised what they could actually give away to their allies before the dust could actually settle, and I think this is one of great failures to learn from out of WW1: don't make territorial concessions until *after* the dust from a conflict has settled.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

@NewtypeCommander Not really. Often everyone meant to deliver but there were conflicting promises from allied states. I.E. Britain promised self-determination, Russia promised to annex parts of Turkey

[@amk4956]

0:38 I don’t know why but my favorite part of these clips is always the newspaper headlines… They’re just so charming and if you aren’t paying attention, you miss a lot of humor. Bravo

[@MustacheCashStash125]

Because James Bissonnette took away the territories before Italy and the Entente could take them

[@toonistiny]

HOW DARE HE 😂

[@seloimperija]

He bought them 😂

[@MustacheCashStash125]

@@toonistiny And they were too scared to take them from him because his massive army would destroy them

[@sikey8154]

Bissonnette irredenta

[@tashantimothy6180]

Somebody get Kelly Moneymaker on the line!

[@rorywhyte6722]

Jesus, watching European territories change hands over the course of the 20th century is a disco lightshow. I love it every time

[@JeroldBoateng]

Real

[@makutas-v261]

It wasn't fun for them.

[@AquaTomMovies]

It's silly but not worthy of blasphemy

[@zeljkomikulicic4378]

We didn't enjoy in this trust me. My father, still alive live in his fifth state. On same address. He survive communism, fascism, monarchy and democracy. Basically every political system. He said, it wasn't fun. Also says that this EU democracy is worst system. Probably because he is old. For me this is second state after I survive one war. But I hope not last.

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

@@makutas-v261 Kinda a coin toss when talking about the Baltics, Yugoslavia Major would never of worked out because the Balkans are full of people who assume they are the main character of their story. Clans and bloodfeuds would of torn those lands apart sooner than even with our own timeline. You may have wound up with a large Yugoslav if the dust ever managed to settle, sure, but between the Serbs and Turks and (insert extras here) they would still find themselves surrounded by hostile terroristic rump states. TLDR: Woulda happened anyway

[@ryanmann1416]

I guess no one knew the looming rise of the “Fez Wearing Italian Man”

[@connorb.4790]

“Go cry to the Tsar” I’m dying 😂

[@TrocaTheNero]

Yeah so about that...

[@sebastianjoseph2828]

So is the Tsar.

[@j.a.hernandez9742]

Little bit of dark humor if you understand what happened to Tsar by this point 😂😂

[@ThatRandomGuy0]

If it had been a Pinky Promise, none of this would have ever happened. Just saying

[@elivanto1673]

Nobody breaks a Pinky Promise!

[@kidfox3971]

UK & France: You can partition Albania with Serbia. USA: No he can't. UK & France: No he can't.

[@Hundredyacrewoods]

Correction UK & France: You can partition Albania with Serbia. USA: No he can't. France: No he can't. UK: I don't care.

[@kidfox3971]

@@Hundredyacrewoods Oh yes of course, when the British lose a geopolitical struggle it's always because they "don't care". Just like how they fought a rebellion in America for 8 years and surrendered after all that because apparently they just "didn't care".

[@Godzillahistoryfan34]

@@Hundredyacrewoodsand then the US just leaves

[@felonyx5123]

@@Godzillahistoryfan34 America: Let's throw away all the things everyone was promised before the war and create the League of Nations instead. Also America: Doesn't join the League of Nations.

[@Josh-iv2bw]

​@@felonyx5123 americans have an isolationist streak. We just don't really care about europe as a people.

[@fiorinopizio4554]

Italy: but you promised Entente: i miss the part where thats my problem

[@venetostato]

Turns out, it became their problem big time.

[@superyamky]

Bully maguire reference 😂

[@petersmulders8058]

Bad move by the Entente it just helped Italy join the axis in ww2.

[@emberfist8347]

@@petersmulders8058Italy is also at fault. They could have gotten out with some land they were promised if their delegation didn’t rage quit during the Versailles negotiations.

[@radudaniel7136]

​@@petersmulders8058Honestly it's hard to justify that being hurtful for the Entente in the long run. What did Italy do towards the war effort of the Axis? It opened another front for Germany to worry about, it got itself naval invaded, it went through a civil war, it increased the morale of allied soldiers after their complete fuck-up in Africa (not only in front of the british but also Ethiopia), it gave almost free (casualty-wise) army experience to the enemy in their african campaign, they betrayed the Axis, and they mostly served as an annoyance or distraction to the germans. I'm not sure if they did, but if they gave Germany equipment, it was definetly not nearly enough comparred to the hassle they created as the Axis still suffered from major equipment deficits well into the war. Oh yeah: because of them there is the possibility of the Allies being better equipped than without them in the war, as their deaths in Africa also resulted in free equipment for the Allies. I personally see Italy as more of a trojan horse to the Axis.

[@michaelhoffmann2891]

"After finding that a war in which *everybody* was the Bad Guy doesn't make for good movies, we needed to make sure that version 2.0 had some clear Big Evil(tm) for viewers to boo at" - 1914 to 1945 in a nutshell.

[@exercisethemind]

Hold your tongue! WW1 inspired some of the very BEST war films ever made! - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 version) - Paths of Glory - Gallipoli - Lawrence of Arabia - The Grand Illusion - Reds - Dr. Zhivago These are cinematic masterpieces!

[@alex_zetsu]

Most of my friends can quickly find out why WW2 games are more popular than WW1 games after I give 5 minutes of explanation. Yes I skipped a lot. And yet, it's already enough for everyone to know why everyone in the industry knows these games won't sell.

[@michaelhoffmann2891]

@@exercisethemind You're absolutely right, of course. But that would have ruined my quip. 😆

[@araxiel2051]

I had to pause the newspaper at 0:39 and read through it... great stuff.

[@markbendall6794]

The animation in these videos is a huge part of the appeal of these videos. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for reminding us why History Matters!

[@sciencer9830]

Good that the video didn’t require any mentions of the Fez-wearing Italian man

[@edwardblair4096]

Just the cameo appearance right at the end.

[@maurogamba9066]

D'Annunzio and his legionary:" we take this personally"

[@aRandomDubstepEnjoyer]

Never ask a woman her age Never ask a man his salary Never ask d'annunzio what he was doing in Fiume

[@AFGuidesHD]

Everyone likes to blame Britain for breaking agreements but no one actually blames themselves for signing an agreement with Britain lol

[@voland6846]

Agreed, you trust Perfidious Albion at your own peril!

[@exercisethemind]

​@@voland6846 that's a burn.

[@giuliore7747]

There is a tiny but significant issue in the maps of Italy post the Treaty of Versaille in this video: the city of Zara, shown in the post Treaty of Versaille Italy was not given to Italy by the Entante: after the birth of Yugoslavia, the town of Fiume, a city near the borther with Istria, one of the new Italian land, wanted to join Italy because the inhabitants were mostly Italians, but the government had to deal with the new communism riots across the country, so 2500 nationalist, under the rule of Gabriele D'Annunzio, an Italian nationalist poet, invaded Fiume and they occupied it until 1920: the Yugoslavian government new that they needed to solve the issue, so they met with the Italian government: it was agreed that Fiume would become an indipendet city, and that Italy would gain Zara: this is pretty important, because Zara was the most important town in Dalmatia, and knowing that makes the treaty more unfair to Italy.

[@GuyIncognito-111]

Just want to point out how much better the animation has gotten. The contrast between the French Revolution vid and this one shows that HM has made a lot of progress in his Artistry, and I’m real damn proud of him for that. Just wanna say, Great job, man!

[@luisfilipe2023]

“That is a future problem so we don’t care for now” sums up a lot of history

[@philipott4970]

The paper article about "Our source has told us the campaign in Gallipoli will be 'largely bloodless'..." almost made me spit my tea out.

[@DardanellesBy108]

That caught my attention more than the other parts of the newspaper! Haha! Good job by History Matters.

[@RaffaeleMigotto]

Many people in dalmazia especialy the citys where ethnicly Italians, people usually forgot why italy whant those lands

[@victoraguirre5545]

The real treason was the lack of classic "well, no" animation at 1:37

[@nyguesswho]

Dude I remember your channel back when it was “10 Minute History” and you only had a few hundred thousand subscribers. Now you’re getting closer to 2 million, and I’m so happy to see that you’re doing so well. It’s been a pleasure to watch this channel grow. Thanks for all the good memories, and here’s to years more of great content. Oh and please bring back “End of year Q&A” one of these days please!

[@macplayzvc2889]

Love these videos man.

[@anto8375]

Finally someone explains what happened during the ww1 from an Italian point of view. Italy spent money, corpes and had barely nothing of what was promised. That brought to a general turmoil, look at the "Vittotia Mutilata" of D'Annunzio. This sentiment helped the birth of the fascism, the alliance with the Third Reich and so on. Germany was humiliated because it lost the war, Italy was humiliated despite winning the war.

[@Heldarion]

Italy's MO since before the unification has been to suck at war and rely on their powerful allies to get what they want anyway because they participated (see: Crimean war 1856, Magenta&Solferino 1859, Lissa&Custoza 1866, WW1 1918). It's hilarious to see whining how it's not fair they got so little when they objectively sucked at fighting for it. Not to mention the "that's how we got fascism" line. JFC

[@Dr_Eggman_2]

Exactly, however is " Vittoria mutilata".

[@anto8375]

@@Dr_Eggman_2 Thanks Dr Eggman for the correction, you are a nice guy. ;D

[@elduquecaradura1468]

To be honest, nothing went as planned in ww1, and probably if Italy had what demanded then it would had to slaughter hundreds of thousands of slavic people to keep those lands, but I guess you don't mind to look elsewhere else in that case

[@iMajoraGaming]

caporetto definitely didn't do them any favours when it came to convincing the capricious whims of perfidious albion to give them things

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

Always answering the questions that I didn’t know I needed! Great video!

[@bonwatcher]

The chalkboard reading, "Betrayal Time" is too accurate. 🤣

[@PeterT-i1w]

- Circumstances have changed. - The nature of promises is that they are immune to the changing circumstances.

[@V1489Cygni]

- nature has changed -pray I don't change it any further

[@justinweber4977]

I'm here before the obligatory "Because James Bisonette-" answer to the title question, neat!

[@jamesbissonette8002]

Lucky for you!

[@angelb.823]

There is also another reason to point out for southern Anatolia. During the Turkish War of Independence, the Italians withdrew from southern Anatolia and left behind their weapons for the Turkish nationalists to arm themselves, essentially becoming their neutral allies. The reason for their withdrawal was that the Italians didn't want the Greeks to succeed against the Turks and have a strong presence in Smyrna (modern Izmir; which the Greeks had occupied on the request of the Allies) and, by extension, the rest of Asia Minor.

[@islammehmeov2334]

Way the heck will Italy sport a cuntry that they waged 4 years of bloody war against it's allied?

[@its_pantazhss2134]

Correct, as a Greek, I’m very glad to see people that know what actually happened in that war, all of the Europeans turned against the Greeks, I only maybe kinda respect the British, who didn’t turn and support the Turks, but after everyone had done so, they stopped supporting Greece too… they just watched

[@dah0heavy]

@@its_pantazhss2134 if the only way for you to prosecute your little ethnic clensing/genocide campaign is with the support both material commercial and militarily of ALL the major powers of Europe, you just didn't deserve it.

[@angelb.823]

@@its_pantazhss2134 Yes, but the Greeks were also at fault to some extend. They had the chance to show their might as a united force, but they were caught in the polarizing scale of the National Schism, which eventually led to restoration of the Germanophile-Greek court under Gounaris and the expulsion of Venizelos (which was also the pretext for the drop of support from the Allied cause). Had Venizelos remained in the premiership, the future for Greece would have been much different than it is currently now.

[@its_pantazhss2134]

@@angelb.823 yeah yeah I know, I actually mostly blame the Greeks themselves too, we were doing so perfectly since the start of 1900s to the balkan wars and the Great War but we had to fuck it up by not getting along with each other in the end

[@Nyx773]

0:39 "The London News" needs to hire a new redactor. 🤣 One of the best easter egg newspapers yet

[@Donald_the_Potholer]

With censorship decisions that shortsighted, it's no wonder that the "Great War" went on for 4 times as many Christmases as was originally planned.

[@XMarkxyz]

0:11 Forgot to paint Libya green too, was part of Italy since before the war

[@Wolfeson28]

"But that was a problem for the future." Homer Simpson in WWII: "It's not the future yet. It's just lousy, stinking 'now'!"

[@dawesome_sauce]

The Fez-Wearing Italian Man tease at the end was *chef's kiss*

[@rockoorbe2002]

Well, I'm aware that Greece was also trying to take that southern portion of Turkey that Italy wanted, not to mention Constantinople and Adrianople. That would have been an interesting three way comflict between Turkey, Italy, and Greece.

[@JefftheEvilRombaSchmidt]

I love your channel, its very informative and entertaining! Nice job existing =)

[@347Jimmy]

Last time I was this early, Italy hadn't been unified yet

[@garethaethwy]

Snap

[@ilFrancotti]

Must have been a long time ago since Italy's first unification was in 89 BC.

[@AndresLeon-hz5qe]

@@ilFrancottiItalys first unification was in 1861

[@balabanasireti]

Old and lazy joke

[@MichaelThomas-dx8gd]

Old man

[@jonbaxter2254]

Always love your newspaper clippings. Hilarious

[@datdumbguy1067]

"Go cry to the tsar", was funnier to me than it should've been.

[@Dubnoreix]

I can’t be the only one who always paused the video to read the newspaper, right? They’re always a work of art.

[@DardanellesBy108]

I read them all. They are always brilliant work by History Matters.

[@ziroja]

As a Serb, I can only say that we should have implemented the London accords with Italy bilaterally, ignoring everyone else. But, our king wanted a bigger state, so we ended up in Yugoslavia, which was more devastating for my people than any foreign occupation. Italy and Serbia could have easily defined their border without many issues.

[@2djman]

fala lepa al ne slazem se s tim prijedlogom

[@ravenwilder4099]

The "Secret Treaty" and "Problem for the Next Generation" images are just ... *chef's kiss*

[@JKO._.921]

2:53 "Go cry to the Tsar" 😭😭

[@mrniceguy7168]

The baby on the sidewalk with a disappointed look on his face is great

[@bbenjoe]

Per the 1920 treaty of Rapallo, Italy did gain the city of Zara, and a few more islands at the Dalmatian coast. Also the city of Fiume (a part of Hungary until 1918) was annexed by them in 1924. Of course, these gains were nullified per the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947, and were given to Yugoslavia, as well as everything east of the doorstep of Trieste.

[@GenovaYork951]

Rijeka was Croatian. Not Hungarian lol.

[@weirdguylol]

​@@GenovaYork951and Croatia was a part of Hungary 😐

[@GenovaYork951]

@@weirdguylol No. Learn basic history.

[@bbenjoe]

@@GenovaYork951 Wrong. It was a part of Hungary proper, multiple times, lastly from 1868 to 1918, as "corpus separatum" ie. an exclave.

[@GenovaYork951]

@@bbenjoe No. It was part of the Croatia-Slavonia.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Another amazing video

[@familygash7500]

*VIDEO SUGGESTION:* Why does San Marino exist?

[@emperorpalpatine2721]

The newspaper at 0:38 is golden. 🤣

[@Redguns4life]

"Why did the Entente betray Italy after WW1?" Italy couldn't spin three plates.

[@butterw55]

"Betrayal Time" would be a nice title for a TV series.

[@ΚυριάκοςΜαρκάκης-ρ1ε]

0:57 Ikaria, Furnoi and Samos were not part of Isole d' Egee (Dodecanese islands) so they probably weren't discussed at the treaty of London.

[@ScaryEspacio]

YES WE NEED THIS. Thanks History Matters

[@azlanadil3646]

Croatia and Bosnia circa 1918: we want into Yugoslavia. And they would never change their minds!

[@RubberToeYT]

Great video as always

[@Crewman26]

We're so back

[@erdood3235]

Why?

[@lmperlum]

It's joever

[@emi_again]

A Wild Duce appears!

[@CadeVonWilkens3117]

3:04 A problem for THE FEZ WEARING ITALIAN MAN. 😆

[@paulcowlishaw]

I've learnt more about history through this channel then my history teacher at high school taught me

[@svg_apricot4472]

gotta apreciate the effort of actually writing fake articles for the newspaper instead of just repeating gibberish like most media

[@scottabc72]

And well researched fake articles, I was going to nit pick the reference to a Chinese Emperor since the 1911 revolution had already happened but I forgot the new Chinese president Yuan Shikai had briefly proclaimed himself Emperor in 1915

[@idaho_girl]

I've learned I must always stop and read the print on the documents you post! LOL

[@Janny890]

Italy was such a good sport about it that they went against Germany again in WW2 for no gain again.

[@jdotoz]

They gained survival.

[@cchutney348]

They were so incompetent, they might as well could have been enemies.

[@tuluppampam]

​@@cchutney348 Erwin Rommel stated that italians soldiers were good when placed under someone competent (who was not an Italian general because they were useless).

[@noone-kk2zs]

The italians truly deserve nothing

[@Bracus.Reghusk]

They even ceded minor town to France and where obliged to give special statut to the Aoeste Region in fact, they also lose Istria, Zadar and Julian to Yougoslavia, without talking about their colony.

[@professorhal8098]

KZbin has a talent for asking questions I dont care for the answer to until the exact moment I read the question, then answering the question in a way that makes me feel like i shouldve guessed it sooner

[@colindaniels945]

The Vittoria Multilada aka the mutilated victory

[@MrLevion]

Mutilata*

[@Mrepicman1001]

Thank you for the video

[@ROMANTIKILLER2]

Of couse it's easy to say this one century later, but given the way many of the treaties at the end of WW1 were handled by the Entente, from not keeping the promises to Italy to the humiliating conditions imposed on Germany, it was inevitable that the "war to end all wars" would soon lead to an even worse conflict.

[@stafer3]

I mean lets say you scratch those conditions. How exactly do you want to sell to French public that Germany killed or crippled 20% of all men in France, and after 4 years, when the front finally collapsed, and Entente was about to push into Germany proper, that you are just stopping before your complete victory, with getting 0 in return, because you don’t want to hurt German feelings? Like seriously, Italy was on winning side, and they turned fascist and hopped on the next world war, just because they got ‘only’ small spoil of war. What do you think France would do? Like imagine that version of Europe. You have pissed France. You have pissed Yugoslavia, since you also want to accommodate Italy. And you have Soviet union. Congratulation, you have your new coalition of countries who want to destroy the status quo, you have built. And unlike Germany, Soviet union and Italy, in our timeline. That coalition would have been much more cohesive. Since France didn’t want to expand into Soviet union.

[@OzixiThrill]

I do recall someone calling the end of "The Great War" a "20 year truce", so it was something that was noted, even back then.

[@feliceabbondante5183]

​@@stafer3small plot of Land? You forgot the fact Italy Lost almost a million troops over coastal Lands inhabited by large populations of italians which in the end they didn't even get ,i guess the self determination of countries which did nothing but create a region wide conflict did not care about those italians who all "disappeared" conveniently After wwii ...

[@feliceabbondante5183]

​@@stafer3the americans went to war for much less

[@iMajoraGaming]

​​@@feliceabbondante5183 also funny thing, italy committed genocide in the balkans during ww2. the italian minorities got to go somewhere other than a mass-grave after ww2, italy. big lmao at "disappeared." any consequences for committing war-crimes are what *actually* "disappeared."

[@Chaiserzose]

At the end, the RIGHT title for this subject.

[@galboy6117]

Idea for next video- Why did Denmark decline

[@akshatsharma1342]

that "go cry to the tsar" took me off guard 😆

[@matteopinamonti1867]

With a final cameo from a young and fezless FEZ-WEARING-ITALIAN-MAN 😂

[@isaacbobjork7053]

Very bold of the Entente to promise Albania to Italy since the country was invaded by both sides although they were not involved in the conflict.

[@ΚυριάκοςΜαρκάκης-ρ1ε]

0:11 I don't think that Samos and Chios would have been guaranteed cause they were part of Greece.

[@davidhehir7378]

Didn’t stop them from keeping Rhodes

[@sup3rAVATARtlafAN]

Lost sleep last night thinking about this, this helped my sleep a lot thanks!

[@capnstewy55]

It's hard to conquer land you don't have any troops on. Italy would have been much better off sitting it out until 1918 or 1919 then going after whatever they wanted. No major power would have stopped them.

[@Quin_Ram]

Happy ninth anniversary History Matters!

[@seapickle4119]

And also Albania won the Vlora war in 1920 securing its independence and it's territory .

[@summerkagan6049]

I love your humorous animation.

[@jarnodatema]

2:28 what are they wearing

[@williamfrank962]

3:04 Who’s the guy at the last bit? He reminds of “THE FEZ-WEARING ITALIAN MAN” but there’s something different about the guy I just can’t place it.

[@Maxfromohio2155]

Because James bisonette didn’t want Italy to have all that land

[@kingace6186]

LMFAO I am LOSING it over how funny Mussolini's character design look🤣🤣🤣

[@joermnyc]

“Go cry to the Tsar.” 💀

[@Shantari]

1:14 Amazing illustration for the concept of letting future generations deal with a problem.

[@DuxpaOfficial]

The Reason: James Bisonette didn't like Italy so he made the Entente abandon them.

[@michaelchristy506]

My favorite fact about Italy joining ww1 was the delusion of Italy before the war began The central powers promised far more land to Italy, but it didn’t mean anything as they wanted Tyrol and istria as their “unredeemed Italy”. Meanwhile when the war ended and the peace treaties were signed, those said regions didn’t even want to join Italy, nor did they even see themselves as unredeemed Italy as the population wasn’t even Italian, nor did they speak Italian. Furthermore, with the joining of the USA and the push for self determination in the peace treaty, there was no way they would let Italy get land along the Adriatic coast that all wanted nothing to do with Italy, and the only reason they got Tyrol and istria was through massive pressure from England and France to at least give Italy something in return for the half a million dead Italians after the war

[@kingace6186]

1:27 Bruh. I was today years old when I found out that Atatürk was blonde (and apparently also had blue eyes, too).

[@odenat3701]

It is really strange that Westerners don't know how many Turkish&kurdish are blondes with blue/green eyes. My mother and father have green eyes, me and my sister have blue eyes and she is blonde. When i went to south east Turkey, i was shocked to see Kurdish have even more blondes than us 😂

[@alekviktor7822]

All those janissaries marrying Turkish women :D

[@mathieuleader8601]

I like the addition of the horse its neat

[@Rakagann]

I think it was because USA cancelled the Treaty if London.

[@adamwarlock1]

A lesson that if people are only willing to promise you stuff in a secret treaty maybe they don't really plan to do what they say.

[@gs7828]

@@adamwarlock1 Well it happened again later: Italy in the 1930s was like "how come the UK and France own half of Africa". I want some colonies too. And yet there were double standards; even the Ethiopian Empire, which colonised its neighbour, was considered more by the UK. Given the standards of the time, these things add up and had a counterbalance: Italian invasions in Africa.

[@Cleverphin]

Great Video!

[@camhabibi2217]

Wilson/the US didn't negotiate Italy's entry into WW1, so whatever promises the Entente made to Rome in 1915 were of little concern to the Americans negotiating peace in 1918/1919.

[@calogerohuygens4430]

Problem is that Italy requests have been made and accepted before USA entered war. Changing them doesn't make sense at all. Treaty has been written on purpose to avoid "forgetting" it.

[@gs7828]

But the US was not a main actor in the war, nor amongst the top nations by contribution. It was really about France and the UK at that point.

[@camhabibi2217]

The U.S. wasn’t a main actor in WW1? That’s news to me…

[@calogerohuygens4430]

@@camhabibi2217 as combatant personnel they were irrelevant. They counted about Materials and money loans to Entente.

[@gs7828]

@@camhabibi2217 What do you mean? It literally wasn't: it joined at the end and had no impact before on the blockade of the German industry, goods or strategies. It was a neutral country that did not take part in most of the fighting and for most of the war. The war wasn't won by immaterial loans. It was about producing material and fighting. The main effort was of course done by France on land; in the sea by the Royal Navy and Italy secured the Mediterranean.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

2:53 Woodrow Wilson : *THUG LIFE* 😎🔥

[@tariarun5063]

Also Italy was assigned to occupy the Adriatic coast during the fall of Austria-Hungary waiting for the treatises to be signed but there were many clashes with local slavs so UK, France and USA had to step in and this didn't help the Italian case

[@michaelowino228]

Good video.