NAME EXPLAIN DID A DUMB DUMB . The solider and the stray dig ran from Greece to Bulgaria, not Turkey. The Ottoman empire was involved in the war so I must of have Turkey on the brain. www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wars-fought-stupid-reasons-stray-dog-caused-war-greece-bulgaria-1925.html . Bernard Baruch was adviser to Woodrow Wilson, but not by 1947 as Wilson had the issue of being dead. At this time Baruch was adviser to Harry S. Truman. www.politico.com/story/2010/04/bernard-baruch-coins-term-cold-war-april-16-1947-035862 It's been a long week...
You're lucky. I was just about to correct you on the Woodrow Wilson thing. Though, when you look at a picture of Wilson next to a picture of Truman, there is a very slight similarity.
The Woodrow Wilson in 1947 thing caught me by surprise. You had me thinking I had learned Wilson and Truman backwards! 😂 Honest mistake regardless! Love the channel! Keep it up!
By 1925 the Ottoman empire was no more... Turkey was not involved at all in this border incident. Their only connection is having defeated the Greeks 3 years before in Asia Minor, which left the Greeks with the only option of pushing to the North in their "Megali idea" delusions of restoring the Byzantine empire. Besides, Bulgaria was viewed as an easy prey, as in the aftermath of WWI the army was reduced to a total of 33 000 men and no heavy weaponry. In short, the Greeks invaded with 100 000 men meeting only border guards and the successful resistance of the local population. However, this is the only time where the League of Nations was able to interfere and put an end to the conflict before its escalation to a fully-fledged war.
There is literally a quote from a major comparing the emus to Zulus and another one saying the emus "ordered guerrilla tactics." When you are so bad at killing a bunch of flightless birds that you have to make those comparisons, I'd say the emus won
And now the Great Emu War has been run into the ground by people with no arguments left fighting with an Aussie. (its not funny. used to be funny but after 3 years nonstop of hearing it it gets old okay)
i think "first world war" makes sense. it was called the first because how massively larger it was compared to previous wars and the naming pointed to it being special.
I would add that some wars are named after the ressource they were fought over like the Opium Wars or the Salpetre war. Or after the name of theatre it took place in like the Balkan Wars, the Chaco War or even the Pacific War (it's the same as the Salpetre war and it was fought between Peru, Bolivia and Chile). Sometimes after the people that participated in like the French and Indian War or the Chechen war. Sometimes after the years when they took place like the War of 1812, and in France WWI is sometimes called the War of 14-18. The Napoleonic wars are sometimes called the Coalition Wars, although the first coalition wars started before Napoleon gained a major role (there were the wars between Europe and the French Republic) and in this name category we could include the Triple Alliance War (between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance).
In Mexico there was the Cakes' wars againts France xD It was because of a French baker argued that his bakery was damage after the movement of independece. Weird.
You forgot one type of naming wars, naming them after the wepaons that were used. Such as the "Stecklikrieg" in Switzerland, where the rural forces fought with sticks (steckli) against the (french manipulated) government.
And as you said, some wars have multiple names: the French and Indian Wars in the US is the same as the Thirty Years' War in Europe, fought by the same actors!
The war between Mexico and France in the 19th century was called The Cakes War, because a french baker complained that the mexican government destroyed his bakery and it was the excuse for France to invade Mexico. Lol
You forgot about wars that are named about litterally what they were about. The war of the Spanish Succession? The American revolutionary war? Just to name a few
There are Succession wars; Spanish Succession War, Polish Succession War... There are Wars named from the time they take place in such as Yomkipur War There are some named after directions, like Great Northern War. Many wars named after the contexts they are fought in. Independence Wars, Civil Wars, Revolutionary Wars Some named over objects like Opium wars...
Absolutely brilliant and a fascinating insight into the history of wars and their names. It’s been great working together with you Patrick, hopefully the subscribblers and fans like it as much as we do!
Lol Hilbert, schrok me echt kapot toen ik jou hoorde omdat ik je videos kijk😂. Maar goed je hebt echt een best sterk accentje, ik kon je amper verstaan man!
I was not expecting this. There was no "feat. Hilbert" in the title, so I was pleasantly surprised. You could have snuck in a dig about the Anglo-Dutch war not being used as one of his examples earlier, complete with Wilhelmus, though.
+david briggs Stfu. Trump is a fine president, and hasn't done anything to deserve impeachment or removal. In fact, he's already done MUCH better than Obama, and better than Hitlery would have done.
3:50 speaking of weird reasons to start a war, you should've mentioned The Pastry War! France and Mexico going to war because Mexico didn't pay for some cakes XD
Wow your pronunication of Weltkrieg and La Grande Guerre were so horrible it hurt my soul to the core. For someone that explains names of things you would think you could find out how to pronounce these things. There are lots of sites out there to help with this. For example forvo.com and dict.cc or hell even google translate will give you a computerized voice version of almost any word in any language.
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The "Cold War" was given that name because at that time there was a lot of talk/fear about a "hot" (nuclear) war, (which was a kind of media buzzword in the 50s and 60s) and because it was the first conflict between nuclear powers. The "cold relationship" thing was secondary to that.
The Pig War! I had a book on this as a kid. I live in Washington State, so it was sort of local history. It is a funny little story that's mainly just about feuding farmers before borders became clearly established in the Islands that are now parts of Washington and British Columbia (and Canada, at the time, was not yet an independent nation). You can still visit the "English Camp" and the "American Camp" on San Juan Island, but there are really only a few old buildings. I'm actually quite impressed by the accuracy you've drawn all the islands. I can pick them all out when I pause it. Vancouver Island, Salt Spring, Galiano, North and South Pender, Saturna, San Juan, Lopez, Shaw, Orcas, Stuart, Waldron, Guemes, Cypress, Blakely, Decatur, Lummi, Whidbey, and my home on Camano.
rakusko33 Let me catch you up. USA and Russia were very mad at each other because Russia was communist. Let me give you 3 weird wars that happened during this time. Korean Korean War was because of North Korea wanting to invade South Korea. North Korea managed to defeat South at first, but South pushed North back to Chinese border with help of UN and NATO.
SciBlast: WRONG, The Korean War happened because the Americans and Soviet Russians divided the formerly Japanese territory of the Korean Peninsula, and an American diplomat misspoke about Korean being outside of our sphere of influence. The North almost succeeded, but were cut off by an American counterattack halfway up the peninsula. The Southern Allies almost succeeded in reaching the Chinese Border, but China (partly in fear of a Southern advancement into China proper, caused in part by General Douglas MacArthur suggesting just that, and partly at the urging of Stalin) joined the war and pushed the Southern Allies south, eventually ending up very close to the original dividing line. The war then entered a long period of time during which neither side were able to advance by much, and peace talks went no where. Finally, in January 1953, Joseph Stalin died, and six months later the truce was signed.
It wasn't a war it was to prevent famine and it was 2 men a shitty ww1 ute (that could only drive up to one third of the speed emus can run) and about 1000 rounds for a ww1 lmg. If we are going to talk about embarrassing loses why don't we talk about how the USA lost to Vietnam because they were so shit at tactics or common sense
The cold war was so named to contrast it with hot wars, where troops meet on battle fields and the like - not as a reference to the state of relationships, which was covered by the "war" bit.
I love your channel, but seriously, please make some effort on the pronunciation of foreign words. Almost every Wikipedia article has a phonetic transcription of the word at the beginning of the article and if it's not there you'll find it on Wiktionary. It takes a minute at most to research it :(
it does matter. It's really annoying when he misproounces words that badly. He slaughtered the word "weltkrieg", i'm not even german, but it still annoyed me greatly.
I'd just like to point out a wee tiny little mistake that kinda needs corrected. You said "Gaelic war" and not "Gallic war", the words mean two completely different things and aren't said the same. Gaelic refers to either the peoples (depending on the time period) or languages spoken in Ireland and Scotland, Gallic refers to the region of Gaul (modern day France) and the peoples of that time period. A bit nit picky I know but when it comes to things like history or geography, simple mistakes like that can change a who thing.
sinancothebest Im glad to have cleared your worries allo im from greek macedonia so... yeah im kinda offended but neverhteless im glad to clear that up
In the category of wars with two names, my favorite is the French & Indian War (in America) or Seven Years' War (in Europe). Which, of course, lasted nine years.
They are named by the politicians. After a lot of young men have died because of the politicians sending them, they decide a name over their dead bodies. The ones who declare and start wars are the ones who live good.. it's the ones who had nothing to do with the wars are the ones who have to pay the ultimate price.
France and England are like those 2 neighbors that had disagreements that would turn into conflicts and hated each other but they will work together to fight a bigger threat
Could you do a video on where the name for China comes from? I imagine it has something to do with the Qing dynasty or Qin, however, what was it called before the Qing dynasty in English, what names has it been known by, was it always just name after its dynasty in the west? Since China calls itself 'Zhongguo', literally meaning 'Middle Kingdom' it just makes me curious how we came to name it. During the Roman Empire era it was the Han dynasty, so what did Rome call this mysterious empire to the East? Did the Huns bring any name of it to the West that has found its way into other languages? Also, another idea for a video would be the names of countries in Chinese. E.g. Britain is known as brave country (yin guo), the United States (mei guo) is known as beautiful country . Though I'm not sure if there is any difference between the names in traditional Chinese and contemporary.
Haha wat Hilbert says is hilarious, i for one am Dutch, and i had to re-listen that part because i was not expecting a Dutch guy in this video, good job Hilbert, teach them the 80 jarige oorlog (80 year war)
I always thought the Cold War was named that way because they didn't use weapons, at least not against eachother. No weapons = no fireball = no heat = cold.
In Mexico we had "La Guerra de los Pasteles" or "The Cakes' War". It was due to some French lads who refused to pay bakers during the First Mexican Empire (yes, we weren't always a republic.) BTW, May the 5th or the infamous "Cinco de Mayo" is not the day we celebrate our independence. It is the day we celebrate the victory of the Mexican army against other French lads who claimed lands from the state of Puebla as theirs.
German flags history (via RU-vid guidelines) Had to edit this one as a joke. 1) An eagle in a yellow background. (Holy Roman Empire) 2) A flag with green white blue in it. Boring tricolor. (Confederation of the Rhine) 3) Today’s flag with flag #1 on the top left. (German Confederation) 4) Black white red tricolor. (North German Confederation and German Empire) 5) Today’s flag. (Weimar Republic) 6) A red background with a white solid circle in the middle and within it, a splashtickie symbol (Noosy Germany) Flag #6 remains controversial, ever since the Noosie party used it. It is banned in Germany. 7) Looks like Thailand’s flag but reversed colors. (Allied occupation) 8) Today’s flag. Variations have flag #1 in the middle. (Federal Republic of Germany/West Germany) 8.5) Today’s flag but with a wreath in the middle, a hammer and compass also in the middle. (German Democratic Republic/East Germany) 9) Today’s flag. For real. (Modern Germany) -10) A flag with another swooshtickie symbol in it and tons of other fascist symbols.-
Okay... Great War / WW1 = Biggest war of its time, and first global war. WW2 = Second global war. Vietnam War = War in Vietnam Korean War = War fought in Korea Revolutionary war = War fought in revolt from the Americans Spanish American War = War fought by Spanish people and American people. Iraqi War = Fought in Iraq Cold War = War with little firing, and including Russia (Which is cold, I don't know I'm not sure on this one) Balkans War = The Balkan Peninsula. Need I say more?
The Seven Years War should really be World War One and the American War of Independence should be the First US Civil War(or British Colonial Civil War? Continental Civil War, point I'm trying to make is that it was a fucking civil war, okay?). Why? Idk, it just makes more sense to me that way.
Except the Seven Years War was restricted to one continent. Both World Wars involved countries from 6 continents and saw fighting in Europe, Africa, Asia/ the Pacific, and the Atlantic.
"Except the Seven Years War was restricted to one continent" WAT Are we talking about the same Seven Years War? The one that's called "The French and Indian War" in North America, the one that saw the British attempt to expand in India meet resistance from the French-aligned Mughal Empire, the one which had a British expedition capture Senegal, Gambia, and Gorée? How about when the British captured Manila or Havana? Are we talking about the same Seven Years War here?
Gee, and here I thought that a "Cold War" is where you face each other "armed to the teeth," but don't fire the big guns or launch nuclear missiles, and a "Hot War" is when you "let fly with everything."
there is another cold war going on between India and Pakistan since last 70yrs. but nobody gives importance to it, because both countries considered as 3rd world countries for American and European countries.
The "Cold War" was given that name because it (the uneasy peace between the Soviets and the West) was ensured by fear of a "hot" (nuclear) war; because it was the first conflict between two nuclear powers.
