The Roads to World War I: Crash Course European History #32
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Date: 2022-04-04
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NBR
Very little in history is inevitable, yet people often gravitate towards war. The diplomatic efforts to attempt to quell the spirit of war were fruitless, and even if they had worked, Europe would've had another excuse, another reason or justification for war. The politicians are often the ones who make the decisions even though they often don't suffer nearly as many consequences as the people. World War One was cause by the scared instincts of dying empires, and the spirit of nationalism and freedom among the people directly conflicted with the desires of hungry empires. The same people would fight and die for these countries in wars that would ultimately be for naught. War is always a lesson people refuse to learn from.
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Very little in history is inevitable, yet people often gravitate towards war. The diplomatic efforts to attempt to quell the spirit of war were fruitless, and even if they had worked, Europe would've had another excuse, another reason or justification for war. The politicians are often the ones who make the decisions even though they often don't suffer nearly as many consequences as the people. World War One was cause by the scared instincts of dying empires, and the spirit of nationalism and freedom among the people directly conflicted with the desires of hungry empires. The same people would fight and die for these countries in wars that would ultimately be for naught. War is always a lesson people refuse to learn from.
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Ronald
Much of this sounds like Barbara Tuchman's books, The Proud Tower and the Guns of August. Reading those two books in that order really explains how the societal instability in Europe from about 1870-1914 created an excellent environment for World War I. Her books demonstrate how the orthodox view of WWI (militarism, imperialism, nationalism and alliances) mesh well with the Crash Course view of World War I. Both historical interpretations work together. Greene's explanation in this video describe some of the distal causes of World War I, while the traditional view can help people understand the proximate causes of the Great War. Both work together to help us understand the road to World War I.
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Much of this sounds like Barbara Tuchman's books, The Proud Tower and the Guns of August. Reading those two books in that order really explains how the societal instability in Europe from about 1870-1914 created an excellent environment for World War I. Her books demonstrate how the orthodox view of WWI (militarism, imperialism, nationalism and alliances) mesh well with the Crash Course view of World War I. Both historical interpretations work together. Greene's explanation in this video describe some of the distal causes of World War I, while the traditional view can help people understand the proximate causes of the Great War. Both work together to help us understand the road to World War I.
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Justin
Franz Ferdinant: Driver do you think it's a good idea to drive in a convertible while there are people trying to kills us here?
Driver: Yep, I'm thinking we should should just keep driving around the city like we don't care. hell, I might even take a few wrong turns, lets see if they can summon up something substantial here, I feel like I really want to see some more action while on holidays.
Franz Ferdinant: Sure, whatevZ
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Franz Ferdinant: Driver do you think it's a good idea to drive in a convertible while there are people trying to kills us here?
Driver: Yep, I'm thinking we should should just keep driving around the city like we don't care. hell, I might even take a few wrong turns, lets see if they can summon up something substantial here, I feel like I really want to see some more action while on holidays.
Franz Ferdinant: Sure, whatevZ
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Robert
The best explanation for WWI is still a Serbian anarchist assassinated Archduke Ferdinand. It isn't as if the royals of Europe, cousins all decided to get together and decimate an entire generation of youth in order to save the divine right of kings. They failed, of course but the idea that that's what really happened is too ghastly to contemplate. Even today uttering the words: -bloody royals, - often has people aghast.
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The best explanation for WWI is still a Serbian anarchist assassinated Archduke Ferdinand. It isn't as if the royals of Europe, cousins all decided to get together and decimate an entire generation of youth in order to save the divine right of kings. They failed, of course but the idea that that's what really happened is too ghastly to contemplate. Even today uttering the words: -bloody royals, - often has people aghast.
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Rkenton48
world history teacher asked me when WWII started. I immediately answered, 1871, with the Treaty of Utrecht. After hearing my arguments/proofs, she had to agree with me, although the actual fighting did begin in early September 1939. History is a tapestry of finely woven threads.
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world history teacher asked me when WWII started. I immediately answered, 1871, with the Treaty of Utrecht. After hearing my arguments/proofs, she had to agree with me, although the actual fighting did begin in early September 1939. History is a tapestry of finely woven threads.
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Riebenzahl
Princip and his friends?
Ah you mean the Serbian secret police, the -black hand-.
Also wasn't Ferdinand not in favor of a system that included not only Hungarian and Austrian people into government to form some sort of -united states- under the monarchy.
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Princip and his friends?
Ah you mean the Serbian secret police, the -black hand-.
Also wasn't Ferdinand not in favor of a system that included not only Hungarian and Austrian people into government to form some sort of -united states- under the monarchy.
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sgtjohnson49
I have to change the speed to 1. 25x whenever I'm watching the European History histories because obviously John Green heard the criticism that he talked too quickly, but it just feels wrong at normal speed
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I have to change the speed to 1. 25x whenever I'm watching the European History histories because obviously John Green heard the criticism that he talked too quickly, but it just feels wrong at normal speed
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Sam
Princip wasn-t having lunch. He decided to wait further along the pre released route. When the Archduke was on his way to the hospital his driver thought they were still taking the original route.
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Princip wasn-t having lunch. He decided to wait further along the pre released route. When the Archduke was on his way to the hospital his driver thought they were still taking the original route.
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Phillipine
Really glad that the Herero genocide in then South West Africa (now Namibia ) by the German colonialists was mentioned. Too often is African history and suffering neglected
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Really glad that the Herero genocide in then South West Africa (now Namibia ) by the German colonialists was mentioned. Too often is African history and suffering neglected
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robtoe10
-I'll remind you I've had 3 years of high school French - it was based on military cooperation and even shared military plans. -
What a strange curriculum.
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-I'll remind you I've had 3 years of high school French - it was based on military cooperation and even shared military plans. -
What a strange curriculum.
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