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Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I: Crash Course World History #36

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In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an added bonus, World War I changed the way people look at the world, and normalized cynicism and irony. John will teach you how the assassination of an Austrian Archduke kicked off a new kind of war that involved more nations and more people than any war that came before. New technology like machine guns, airplanes, tanks, and poison gas made the killing more efficient than ever. Trench warfare and modern weapons led to battles in which tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in a day, with no ground gained for either side. World War I washed away the last vestiges of 19th century Romanticism and paved the way for the 20th century modernism that we all know and find to be cold and off-putting. While there may not be much upside to WWI, at least it inspired George M. Cohan to write the awesome song, Over There
Date: 2022-04-04

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Comments and reviews: 9

Dan
Central Powers:
Germany - Got all the blame for WW1
Austria-Hungary - Started the war by declaring war on Serbia
Ottoman Empire - Fell and got replaced with modern Turkish state
Bulgaria -?
Is Bulgaria even a central power anymore? Should mention it next time.
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Atlas
im glad our teacher is letting us watch these for school tho bc it's so much easier to get what's going on than through reading an article or something
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education
Does anyone else hate that we had 2 world wars instead of one, like we are forever robbed of using the phrase -the war- like in ATLA, major sad.
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Jesse
-1917- (narrative drama) and -They Shall Not Grow Old- (documentary) are two EXCELLENT recent WW1 movies, for anyone who hasn-t seen them.
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crash_course
omg who else has to watch this video and do a work sheet for ap world history omgggggggggggggggggggggggggggg he is talking too fast
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Athena
Read more from you soon - kind offer - you must not be able you must not use - people who have attached my - you are not available for
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Sallie
Ahaha who-s here rn due to the corona virus so your history teacher sent you these videos to watch as your assignment for the week.
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Jonathan
One of my questions is -What was the old colonialist verse & how was it different during WW1? - I honestly don-t understand it.
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PRINCE
i just realised that this is blues clues but educational and more advance. i mostly got that idea from the letter part haha
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