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U.S. History 1877-Present 6: The Ingredients for a Great War 83 Views
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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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- 00:00
Time to talk about World War One also known as the Great
- 00:08
War and not because it was all that great because it was a massive conflict [Earth spinning and explosion occurs]
- 00:12
that was literally fought all over the world short list of ww1
- 00:17
accomplishments includes killing about 37 million soldiers and civilians ending [World War I accomplishments appear]
- 00:24
and expanding whole empires igniting later revolutions ramping up the pace of
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- 00:29
technological change to clean and warfare and of course sowing the seeds
- 00:33
for its sequel world war heart dude well how did it all get started what was all
- 00:39
the bloodshed supposed to be about well in the early 20th century trouble was de [Trouble cooking in Europe pot]
- 00:43
bruin in Europe European empires had been jockeying for power for a while it
- 00:47
was like a free-for-all wrestling match but to speak here the British French [Dogs fighting]
- 00:51
austro-hungarian German Ottoman and Russian empires all of them had one
- 00:56
thing in common their OkCupid profiles listed scheming for power and domination [Germanys OkCupid profile appears]
- 01:02
as a favorite hobby that in long walks on the beach
- 01:05
typical well all these empires were also becoming more and more nationalistic [Man shivering in a blizzard]
- 01:10
this means there was even more flag waving and army building than usual
- 01:14
everywhere people were being whipped into a fervor about the being from
- 01:18
wherever they were from if anybody else had a problem with it or tried to step [Men hitting each other with bags]
- 01:22
on their country well the citizens were ready to fight the courts most dangerous
- 01:27
thing might not have been the fact that the empires were getting super excited
- 01:30
about being themselves a self-esteem is supposed to be a good thing right the
- 01:34
truly dangerous thing was that country started forming a web of alliances [Spider and web appears from Europe]
- 01:38
across the continent it's nice to have a group of friends but it lasts nice when
- 01:42
cliques unleash devastation never before seen on
- 01:45
earth well in 1914 all this came to a head when the heir to the
- 01:49
austro-hungarian Empire was assassinated yeah it was like throwing a lit match [Lit match thrown into gas tank]
- 01:54
into a gas tank that single event sent Europe on fire as
- 01:59
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
- 02:07
what was dear America doing well you know hanging out catching up on the new [Boy playing videogames]
- 02:12
Game of Thrones episodes the signing petitions have Justin Bieber deported
- 02:16
you know all the usual the US was in its isolationist space we were like The
- 02:21
awkward kid playing alone in the sandbox with his Tonka trucks refusing to join [Kid playing with truck in a sandbox]
- 02:24
in the giant game of freeze tag everybody else was playing but then the
- 02:28
freeze tag came grew so massive and so violent so important that America just
- 02:33
couldn't ignore it anymore well US involvement in the war was
- 02:36
costly but it did end up raising America's street cred plus it could put
- 02:40
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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