Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210
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In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one of the nations involved. Did the fault lie with Austria-Hungary? Germany? Russia? Julius Caesar? One thing we can say for sure is that you can't blame the United States of America for this one. Woohoo! Well, you can hardly blame the US. You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content.
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u r sooo anti German
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the stupid serbians started it
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I think Germany's militarism and Austria-Hungary's war with Serbia was the cause of the Great War, but it's difficult to clear cut it. I predominantly blame Germany's rise to power and jealousy of the British navy for it though.
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1:53 =D lol
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Do a Swiss video :)
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You're missing most of the points...
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For me, it was Serbia who started the war (and the Austrians but less so). There is pretty substantial evidence that the Serbian government supported the Black Hand, the group responsible for assassinating Franz Ferdinand. The government was also looking to annex Bosnia.
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the serbs started ww1 the end. germany gets smashed for everything...smh
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world war one was pretty much pointless
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Everything he said is right he just forgot the main one about the assanation of the Serbian president so hungry started a war but Germany and Russian started a world war .
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Tell me rationally - why the jabs at Putin?
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It was largely Austria-Hungary's fault, but if the Serbian terrorist was supplied by the government, then it was Serbia's fault. We just don't know what that was
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Subjective idiot
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no acutlly Serbia started WW1
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THAT SWISS CUE! My sides!
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One of the large reasons why Russia was so ready for war was it's massive modernization it was going through, to eh completed in 1917. Had Russia had a working railroad system and the massive army it had, there would be little hope for an Austrian, or even German victory over the Russian empire (as Russia had almost knocked Austria out of the war in the Brusilav Offensive of 1916)
This brings me to my second point, the Russian army was massive in the 1900s. Russia thought this as necessary, after it's humiliating defeat by the Japanese in the Ruso-Japan war. Why would anyone take Russia serious, if it's massive army couldn't take on that of little Japan's? The Germans didn't think so, especially after it had DESTROYED Russia in the battle of Tannenberg. At the start of the war, Russia's railroad system was pitiful, and Germany and Austria certainly knew this. The mentality was the war with the Russian Empire was inevitable, and better now in 1914 than in 1917 when Russia had industrialized. The Central Powers were right, as they did not steamroll Russia in 1914 as easily they had planned.
This brings me to my third point. If Russian diplomats couldn't depend on its army to prevent wars, the natural response was to depend on diplomacy to stop wars, specifically allies. Russia at the time was allied with both France, and Serbia (it's only ally in the Baltic). Had Russia let Serbia been defeated, none of the Baltic States would have allowed Russia any access to thier seas, something Russia needs, and still needs today. Russia had to protect its ally Serbia, to seem actually competent and relevant, and to protect it's national interests. Preventing war was a must for Russia, and nothing prevents war like the threat of a massive one. Had Russia not have been humiliated in the Ruso-Japanese war, there's a very good chance Germany would not have declared war on Russia. -
George Bush shade at 3:53 lol
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When has San Marino started a war recently, or Andorra, or leitchenstein, or Luxembourg, Belgium, Sweden, post 1600 Spain, monnoco ect
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Serbia or Austria hungry
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Okay this might be a stupid question, but should we not put full blame on Serbia? I mean if the assassination of Franz Ferdinand never happened, then he would of came to power, and with his modest outlook towards Serbia it could of at some point in his rule become a free nation. But they assassinated him which brought all the dominos down.
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