Understanding The Global Unease After WW1 | Impossible Peace | Timeline 

That about sums things up succinctly.

Supreme Allied Commander Marshall Foch said at the time: “This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years”. From that day in 20 years and 65 days, the Second World War started.

I would say rather that this long conflict began in 1870 and didn’t resolve until 1945. And without the overarching Cold War of the second half of the twentieth century, the animosity may have continued. A lot of the impetus for WW1 was the desire for “revanche” in France. And WW2 was equally a result of German anger over a perceived “stab in the back.”

@@christopherqueen3194 It's been a merry go round of European countries pissing each other off, since forever.

All of history is one big war with respites in between. War existed before humans and it will out live us.

Because he thought the treaty too lenient on Germany.

Interesting that the Cordon Sanitaire was occupied by the Bolsheviks after World War II.plus most of Prussia.

Foch also said, of the Danzig corridor, "There lies the cause of the second world war."

Indeed he did.General Pershing also remarked "Unless this lot are pushed all the way back to Berlin and a full unconditional surrender is obtained we will have to do this all over again within 20 years".Very prophetic from both men.

The old lady who was watching Versailles go down shook her head and muttered, "I do believe this whole dance will last only 20 years." Fortunately it was close enough for a reporter to hear and write down her mutterings. Everyone in the world knew that Versailles was a shambles, except the people at Versailles.

History is going to repeat itself very soon. Just a few years now.

@@ThillerKillerX almost like history keeps running on the same hardware (humans) I think they’re trying to make it so history repeats itself perfectly every 100 years. Nobody’ll have to search for meaning if you know what year it is. It’s 67? better drop acid It’s 32? Better work in a factory It’s 07? Who cares, communism will save us

No, because the Treaty of Versailles was so lenient, compared to The vast majority of reckonings, on previously losing powers, before it

@@Rowlph8888that’s interesting. Care to go further. I know absolutely nothing about this period.

@VonJay a bit late to the party but the treay of Versailles, league of nations, stresa front etc were all very, weak in the least. They did almost nothing to emforce their demands and basically let things go the way they did. Germany was to lose territory and its colonies, pay war reperations, demilitarize the rhine etc. One of the biggest red flags was the the UK letting the germans increase the size of its nazy, which weakened the stresa front, an agreement made between the uk, France and italy to basically further guarantee the independence of Austria and resist any future german ambitions. After italy saw that the uk just caved to Germany they went with their invasion of abyssnia, Mussolini basically felt betrayed and that the treaties didnt matter at that point. There is of course much more, but thats a tid bit and in my opinion, what even pushed things in the direction they went.

Heck yeah! War Factories, and then the (WWI, WWII) "In Numbers" series are my two favorites.

Imagine, 10 years from now, if this channel becomes what the History Channel is now

@@aidanokeeffe7928 Everything eventually finds its way to corruption. The human curse.

Many of these documentaries first appeared on British TV decades ago. I can't be sure about all of them but some I remember when they were first shown. Sometimes they miss out secret info that only trickled out as it was released after 50 years or so.

The history channel used to be like this. Now it just helps creates idiots. Fortunately the internet is available to answer any question a person might have. To be fair, reality tv was the only model that would save them from going out of business.

This was made for TV years ago. Just seeing Richard Overy is the giveaway. So sadly you won't see a follow-up. But at least these old documentaries are available online. :)

I do also even though the entire time frame was just so heartbreaking for so many people. War is profitable for businesses in government, because the money goes in a big circle and it’s harmful for taxpayers and the poor & working class you end up fighting the wars. It’s a vicious cycle! It’s our government who starred in the flights were the ones that I actually got into a fight in the war that would be fewer of them.

PLEASE PLAY FORTNITE WITH ME

The evil was always there, thats the even more messed up part.

The evil was hidden, or excused back then, and those in power don't like talking about it today. The Nazis actually thought the democrats were too racist. That's how bad the hate was in some places. The US Supreme Court back then even ruled it was okay for the government to impose sterilization on the citizens. We just don't hear about that sort of thing today. Had the Germans not walked down this path first, other countries would have done so instead. Hate was everywhere.

@@maxpowers9129 I don’t know there is a lot of hate today im just saying that the people of that time did not have misery written all over there faces as they do now.

@@rebeccaherschman1635 It's about the priority of the filmmakers. If they want to show happy people then that's what you'll see and conversely for sad people.

No, they like power very much.

@@j1972w That is true. And we were pulled into fights for the aristocrats (the 0.1%) to carve out the cake among themselves. We fight each other, fooled and divided by nationalism, royalism, and religious propagandas controlled by these aristocrats and institution heads. We common people are simply pawns -- we get nothing from these fights except death and inflation.

No, they're just so greedy, they'll do anything

That duck calling people tv show was quite fun actually.

Lido Shuffle that’s terrible!

and aliens

Yes more reality mumbo jumbo

Don't forget about Aliens visiting the first tThanksgiving!

Snow equals nepotism. Sorry. love/

I’m glad this is public. Everybody can watch

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Wow- narrator sounded familiar but i could not place it :) Thank you!!

Are you sure it was Irons? To me it sounded like Alexander Scourby did the narration

Indeed! Like "The World at War" series. Awesome.

sounds like john hurt to me

In 1919, Lenin stated...the first world war gave us Russia, the second world war will give us Europe. It was already planned. Reasearch the infamous letter Albert Pike wrote to Mazzini on August,15,1871, outlining the plans for 3 world wars that have happened or are happening the exact way they were planned.

That’s because these men knew that the cruelty of the Versailles Treaty was such that eventually it would be answered. They tried to turn an armistice into a surrender and push it down the Germans throats. The brutal conditions created by the VT paved the way and set the stage for the rise of Hilter and his party.

@@mamavswild Since Germany didn't accept it had lost, there only option they gave was to force others to make them accept. The Germans started a second war because they didn't accept defeat in the first, having become nazis, unfortunately they killed millions

That is why Roosevelt and Churchill insisted on unconditional surrender from both Germany and Japan in WW2.

Not to mention the partition of the Ottoman Empire and its allocation to Britain, France, and Russia, done by drawing lines on a map, with no consideration to the composition of the people living there, which created many of the problems we see in the Middle East today, with Sunni and Shi'a groups jammed together into single countries, or single political ethnicities split across countries -- the Kurds, for example.

wow

I wish one day the whole world has no more lines. And that we all elect the same common government. Lines were used by groups of aristocrats (the 0.1%) to divide cake among themselves. We fight each other, fooled and divided by nationalism, royalism, and religious propagandas controlled by these aristocrats and institution heads. We common people are simply pawns -- we get nothing from these fights except death and inflation.

We still live in a post WW1 world. Which is really just Act1 of a 30 Years War.

Cough *British* cough

@@MacJaxonManOfAction the BE wasn't the only empire redrawing the maps of Europe. The French empire, and the American empire contributed also. Of course, this isn't anything new. It's been happening for 3 thousand years of recorded European history. No doubt it happened long before that, it happens now and will for a long time to come.

I mean, tbf, it has been that way for all of human history.

It actually isn't a LOL matter.

@@robertdore9592 The raiders are an LOL matter

I thought the same thing about this

The number one thing that ruins documentaries is background music

@@josephus3364 totally agree. It’s just so unnecessary

fortiet? later okay

Agreed just a bit too loud.

A good balance between the music and the narrative.

and lose the dude at the beginning and ya sot somethin

@@johnhenninger1980 He's the 'expert' who pushes his theory that the terracotta worriers of China were designed and made by the Greeks 😀

I think there's another newer video from this channel about the same topic

@@scottgeorge4268 Best description of Dan Snow I have ever heard... he is also David Lloyd George's Great Grandson!!! :D

@@sh00000sh007 Yes, and I should know😀.

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Have they started producing their own documentaries? This one was pretty good for when it was made

@@AdamMGTF when was it made??

They do produce their own stuff but this isn't one they made. I can highly recommend their podcasts though; History Hit, The Ancients, Warfare.

@@AdamMGTF their updated one is actually even better check it out if you can

I didnt say he wrote it said he launched it

Did he fail to mention that Mussolini was a leading Socialist?

@Barbara Mulvaney he probably meant to say 'it'

Giovanni Gentile? That wasn't gentle from him

@@JRobbySh So he was a opportunist..

To think, this is what you'd get to watch on normal TV back when this documentary was made. Before the history channel was obsessed with alians.

Weaker ago? It's a standard part of any history book that covers that time. Had it not been for the war, it probably would have been the most important event of the early 20th century.

I thought that as well

Weaker than your comment. My father was called Child of the Spaniard, born in mid pandemic. It got me studying the pandemic, and I was prepared when the current one came. Some families DID talk about it. The ones like mine, the strong or lucky who lost no one - not even a baby born in the killer second wave.

I thought he laid on the sanctimony and sentimentalism with a trowel far too many times. Like the music, overdone.

@@dixonpinfold2582 I agree, there are other programmes in this series which I have seen before on The History Channel but I won't bother to follow them up on YT because of the affectations of the narrator.

I have that in a pdf War is a racket. Also a book called Krieg dem kriege , or war against war, by Ernst Friedrich 1924. Both are brilliant especially the latter and once read cant be unread but you have to read them to truly understand just what a racket war became.

Exactly so. And who would know better than he, Butler?

@@yvonneblocker5618 - Considering the hot nonsense that seemed to follow General Butler in his retirement, I'd say no one. He's one of very few historical figures that were set up to become puppet kings and yet managed to see through the plot and stay true to his morals.

@@salus1231 “just what a racket war became” and still is. Trumps dismissal of General Mattis and now Trumps removal which then lead Mattis to state “we cannot have anymore of this America first”. Just watch in the next twelve months how the new administration will bring about a war to stoke the war machine in Washington.

@@salus1231 maybe if we can replace crt with Gen. Butler's writing with some others. Drive the teachers union crazy.

Hypocrites and evil people have a huge advantage over men of honor, because bad people can use any tactic good people can, in addition to unethical tactics, so scum tend to be the ones to get into power.

This documentary was all over place. Like watching the guest host of Drunk History ramble on.

@B M-Y 49 minutes X 3 - 147 minutes. An hour = 60 minutes. So, 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Hey, they managed to get Fatty Arbuckle in. Not sure that had anything to do with anything.

Any length of film is going to be too short, because there is just so much information to cover.

You want the Time Ghost channel's "Between 2 Wars" playlist. ru-vid.com/group/PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG

Don't be so belligerent, bloody foreigner

Bob Terryson lol

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the sound is such poor quality a lot of native english speakers can't hear it either

try switching on your subtitles

Massacre, not genocide. You’re devaluing what genocide actually is.

Lol Those people were trying to harm British people what choice general dyer had ??? He was protecting his people.

@Shane Gallagher Yes you should keep the chip on your shoulder and make sure it weighs down the next generation.🤦‍♂️

@@Crazytechnition What do you call the Bengal famine that killed millions of Indian people? It wasn't due to natural causes, it was because of Great Britain's colonialism. Exactly what is the minimum number of deaths before we are allowed to use the word genocide?

@@SofiaParker777 run away bruh leave the country

That's interesting, though one would submit that often popular culture is often adapted from earlier customs. For instance, religion has oft borrowed from earlier beliefs. So McCoy, likely being Scottish drummed up that old saying but with his name instead, and people of the US wouldn't know any different.

@@brandensilverstar Can you reference a source? That's pretty far back :)

nope you are wrong

Say Uncle!

"The Real McCoy" may refer to the "real McCoy railroad oil drip" of the mid 1800s -- it was their (his) marketing slogan, and I believe was an intentional corruption of "The Real MacKay." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_McCoy

Goes to show how much they had. 2 centuries of pillaging India and Africa in the 19th century helped!

I was checking world population in the early 1900's for another question earlier. In 1907, there were 1.75 Billion people in the world. 378 MILLION were considered living in the British Empire! About 23% of the world! Today the UK has about 60 Million! 15% of 1920 UK Money >>>>>>(much, much...greater) than 15% of 2020 UK money

15% is a Great Depression. So it sounds low but it's very bad.

They lost 15% of their wealth, but gained 85% of their incredibility.

And Turkey lost most of its territory and continues to pay the price to this day all because of Britain. Seems like Britain got off lightly.

No, it was merely transferred.

Agreed

Lol what a dahm fool they started this war to create the league of nations and the United Nations that was the point a new world order

@@williamfolts2464 you know the us had nothing to do with the start, right?

Didn't say that they did I said they started the league if nations

I think that he had the right idea, but went about it the wrong way. Congress was sceptical about the benefits of being in an all nations group for collective security, seeing it as surrendering their ability to declare war. Wilson, rather than flattering Congress, persuading them of the benefits the League of Nations would provide, he kept going to Paris, laying out the framework for the League and overstretched himself physically by going on a whistle-stop tour of the nation to sell the League to the American people, leaving himself with the worst Stroke of his life, leaving him unable to govern properly for most of the rest of his term. When his push to have the Nation join the League met its final defeat in the Senate, he said: "they have shamed up in the eyes of the world,"

It could be lowered during speaking, but I personally don't find it so loud that I can't hear the narrator's words.

Better more improve the narrator’s script. It’s utmost gibberish with no coherence whatsoever. As if listening to a demented grandfather.

Ensure the closed captions are correct so we can at least read it which would help for those narrators with accents. So many times it has us guessing ... I do know Thebes...it is not "these" or "bees"or "trees" /Different video-Goliath.// Punctuation would be helpful too. I pity the DEAF for having to read the gibberish that CC displays. You might as well have a Swedish narrator.

@@902d I thought I was the only one that thought it was pure GIBBERISH

@@bunzeebear2973 absolutely I had myself questioning my own senility, ,¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Our now is just as important as their then, austerity anyone?

That should be a hint.... (I agree with what you said.)

Brem. There is a reason it was known as "the war to end all wars". The most famous contemporary history was written by Churchill. But he's just one name we would call "famous" today. Of course there were tough economic times. Not just in Germany and Austria/Hungry. Both the BE and the French were in deep debt, mainly to America. But the idea of 'austerity' or was a minor annoyance to the public, when compared with over 4 years of deprivation and huge loss of life. The mood was positive (I read a lot of the papers from 1920 for university and in them you'd think sometimes that Christ had returned and proclaimed peace on earth).

@@AdamMGTF It was known as such, but that has nothing to do with historians seeing the end of the war a switch from war to wonder.

@@bremCZ that's how it was viewed. Of course they didn't expect an end to all war. Just between "civilised" nations. The people of the time had a very different outlook on the world compared to us today. None more so than politicians and historians (whom were often the same thing. Infact many statesman/politicians wrote their "history of the great war" as quickly as they could. Book sales and what not lol") Which is another good point. Many "history books" written just after the end of the war, were effectively memoirs in wider context. They were popular given the war took over everyone's lives for 4 years and of course censorship meant the public were kept in the dark as to the wider situation. Let alone specific events.

Gut erkannt, die Frage muss immer lauten, wem nützt es und wer verdient daran?!

The implication is it didn’t have to go this way, if things had been done differently at Versailles. This was only further compounded by the Great Depression.

It's probably down to this being converted from a made for TV documentary. And given how old it is, the production style then was very different. The comments on the issues don't seem to take that into consideration

And even that statistic is made up. In 1920, according to the census, 67.5% were Czechoslovak (since Slovaks and Czechs were counted as the same ethnic group). 30.6% were German.

pleb filtered

You need to wear earbuds, because auto volume levelling equalizes dialogue and music volumes when played on speakers.

@Geddy Schacher it over powers the narration on my tv, how did you play the video?

Even more over-population? Something otherworldly? Death from boredom?

Love, compassion, courage, fear etc..

Permaculture

@@alainarchambault2331 Only boring people are boring.

@@jenniferwilcox9759 No, I related that because much of our history revolves around war.

Don't worry there'll be something else.

@@JaminJim2010 like what?

I’m not sticking around (the US at least) to find out.

@@nathanfaceyahoosux where you going

Inevitable conflict between US and the CCP

Absolutely 100%!

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was hardly benign either. Russia lost 34% of its population, 54% of its industrial land, 89% of its coalfields, and 26% of its railways. Russia was also fined 300 million gold marks. According to historian Spencer Tucker “The German General Staff had formulated extraordinarily harsh terms that shocked even the German negotiator."

France’s harshness to Germany at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 was one of the contributing factors that caused the outbreak of WW2. PM David Lloyd George and President Woodrow Wilson desired leniency and only wanted Germany to disarm significantly for a period of time and reparations that did not cripple the German economy. Lloyd George opposed revenge and attempted to compromise between Clemenceau's demands and the Fourteen Points, because Europe would eventually have to reconcile with Germany.Lloyd George wanted terms of reparation that would not cripple the German economy, so that Germany would remain a viable economic power and trading partner.. But President Clemanceau wanted reparations of the sum of £280 billion from a defeated and bankrupted country. He used emotional blackmail to persuade other allies to adhere by it. Basically stating most of the fighting took place on French soil, and French soldiers had the significant higher causalities. He stated Clemenceau told Wilson: "America is far away, protected by the ocean. Not even Napoleon himself could touch England. You are both sheltered; we are not". Clemenceau intended to ensure the security of France, by weakening Germany economically, militarily, territorially and by supplanting Germany as the leading producer of steel in Europe.British economist and Versailles negotiator John Maynard Keynes summarized this position as attempting to "set the clock back and undo what, since 1870, the progress of Germany had accomplished." He also started it was a “Carthaginian Peace”. Clemenceau was so blinded by revenge, that he completely ignored French history. At the Congress of Vienna 1814, the allies did not impose reparations or on France for the damaged caused to Europe by Napoleon Bonaparte, France got off lightly. Even in the wars of the 18th century, treaties agreed upon by France with the victors, were fair, with the exchange of colonies and vice versa.

Yes. Sanctions too heavy. Thereby ensuring another war

Yeah that's what happens when you try to wreak havoc over multiple continents in some mission of global conquest. That's on Germany not the ones that had to shut them down lmao. Germany gotta tighten up

Dan Snow knows how to snow people.

There are huge oil fields in Syria. They just hadn't been developed.

@@louisavondart9178 Oh really? I wasn't aware that Syria had anything of significance. How much crude are we talking here? Enough to join OPEC?

You think ??????????????

When has “peace ever been around”?

Its pretty annoying how so many people think history is as simple as the one or two things they heard a professor or youtube video say. Its dangerous cause dumb like to apply todays standards to those times and take it out on innocent people today.

@Gayle Elizabeth I've already made my point. No need to repeat myself, other than to say that no major Western power has embraced war so fully as the US - America is virtually ALWAYS at war somewhere in the world ... gotta support the Troops AND the Arms Industry, Huh ?

@@JRobbySh Not often, true enough !

@Darius Kang Yes, America is the "go to" whipping boy.

@Geddy Schacher Well, for whatever reason, I found it intolerable after 11:37, doctor.

@@christophermacintyre5890 I'm not a Millennial.

@@jbt369 Most of the ones complaining about it are.