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World War I started pretty much how you'd expect, plenty of scheming, a couple of assassinations, and a few people none too happy about their lack of OKCupid dates. Or, you know, something along those lines.

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Time to talk about World War One also known as the Great

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War and not because it was all that great because it was a massive conflict [Earth spinning and explosion occurs]

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that was literally fought all over the world short list of ww1

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accomplishments includes killing about 37 million soldiers and civilians ending [World War I accomplishments appear]

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and expanding whole empires igniting later revolutions ramping up the pace of

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technological change to clean and warfare and of course sowing the seeds

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for its sequel world war heart dude well how did it all get started what was all

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the bloodshed supposed to be about well in the early 20th century trouble was de [Trouble cooking in Europe pot]

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bruin in Europe European empires had been jockeying for power for a while it

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was like a free-for-all wrestling match but to speak here the British French [Dogs fighting]

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austro-hungarian German Ottoman and Russian empires all of them had one

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thing in common their OkCupid profiles listed scheming for power and domination [Germanys OkCupid profile appears]

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as a favorite hobby that in long walks on the beach

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typical well all these empires were also becoming more and more nationalistic [Man shivering in a blizzard]

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this means there was even more flag waving and army building than usual

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everywhere people were being whipped into a fervor about the being from

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wherever they were from if anybody else had a problem with it or tried to step [Men hitting each other with bags]

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on their country well the citizens were ready to fight the courts most dangerous

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thing might not have been the fact that the empires were getting super excited

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about being themselves a self-esteem is supposed to be a good thing right the

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truly dangerous thing was that country started forming a web of alliances [Spider and web appears from Europe]

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across the continent it's nice to have a group of friends but it lasts nice when

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cliques unleash devastation never before seen on

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earth well in 1914 all this came to a head when the heir to the

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austro-hungarian Empire was assassinated yeah it was like throwing a lit match [Lit match thrown into gas tank]

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into a gas tank that single event sent Europe on fire as

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these international cliques dragged each other into the inferno well soon over a [People screaming into an inferno]

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hundred different countries were involved and World War one had begun and

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what was dear America doing well you know hanging out catching up on the new [Boy playing videogames]

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Game of Thrones episodes the signing petitions have Justin Bieber deported

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you know all the usual the US was in its isolationist space we were like The

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awkward kid playing alone in the sandbox with his Tonka trucks refusing to join [Kid playing with truck in a sandbox]

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in the giant game of freeze tag everybody else was playing but then the

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freeze tag came grew so massive and so violent so important that America just

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couldn't ignore it anymore well US involvement in the war was

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costly but it did end up raising America's street cred plus it could put

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the official world superpower on its OkCupid profile which seriously upped [USA OkCupid profile appears]

02:46

its member of date

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