What if Serbia Accepted the Austrian Ultimatum? 

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Serbia: Accepts the ultimatum Conrad Von Hötzendorf: You weren’t supposed to do that

Austria-Hungary: We’ve got a list of demands we need you to accept. Serbia: Ok, done. What now? Austria-Hungary: I don't know, I never thought I'd get this far

In case someone is not aware of some history facts. 1. Serbia actually accepted the ultimatum! It did not reject, it just asked for clarification for the 6th point, and it offers a Court in Hague as a mediatory to help with the clarification (after consultancy with France and Russia how to avoid the war, as it just came after two Balkan wars with a lot of casualties, it wasn't realistic to fight someone 15times larger than you). 2. As a matter a fact, K&K (AH) at first accepted the response! A trivia: Serbia's intelligence informed Austro-Hungarian intelligence just before the assassination that they have information about the assassination plot (*another complexity is that the assassination was plotted by an organization called "The Black Hand", a very dangerous organization that the King of Serbia could not have control of, since they already killed a previous King of Serbia, Aleksandar Obrenovic. Another fun fact is that the King of Serbia Petar Karadjordjevic then had a parallel counterintelligence called "The White Hand". Go figure.) Austrian intelligence disregarded those treats about the potential assassination of Duke Franz Ferdinand (later confirmed to be truthful), as an insult to their superior intelligence service. 3.Just after the Germans intervened Austro-Hungary declared the war! Cheers! ps. now 100+ years after the Great War we have amazingly good Dumpling Shop called "Ferdinand" in a street called by his assassin Princip in Belgrade. Very droll.

Serbia : accepts the ultimatum. Austria-Hungary : that's not how you're supposed to play the game

Austria-Hungary: help me!!! Germany: Ok Germany: Help me!!! Austria-Hungary: meh.. to busy

This is a very interesting way to do alternate history, I wasn’t sure how the oversimplified part would go into but it is awesome! Keep up the great work!

Loving the new style where we have military officers, monarchs, peasants etc talk, it really helps bring more life to the video haha Great video as always!

As a Serb, this will be fun to watch, I'm interested to see this

I have an Austro-Hungarian Passport from the Slovenian portion of the empire dated to the year 1918

Britain never guaranteed Belgium they just had the right to intervene if they were invaded if they thought it was in their interests to do so. However they weren’t obliged to do so

It did not happen like that. Serbia was issued an ultimatum by AH and urged by Russia and France to accept it, which it did, in totality, including the sixth point you claimed they didn't accept, but they did. And in accordance with Russian and French suggestions, they asked for Russian, French, British and German prosecutors to be included along with the AH prosecutors in finding and prosecuting the perpetrators of the assassination. German Kaiser was pleased with the Serbian response and went on a vacation in the Baltics where he was unpleasantly surprised by the news that the AH has decided not to accept the Serbian response and declare war. This prompted the chain of events that lead to WWI.

i love how in litterally every video you just show random coins for no reason

Alternative title could maybe be "What if WW1 was prevented?" Also this looks like a good vid

Grandpa Milorad singlehandedly liberates Serbia from the Austrian criminalism

I have a suggestion: what if the emus decided to annex all of Australia after the great emu war?

I find it funny that halfway through every video he just shows his coin collection

I love how he always says "worold war" in the most stereotypical Slavic accent instead of just world war (most probably by accident)

3:51 bro has enough coins to reach the moon if we pile them up

Fun fact: In reality, Kingdom of Serbia did actually accept the ultimatum, but A-H monarchy did not care. Mr. Stojan Protić wrote the answer to Vienna. His great grandson Milan St. Protić is a historian in Serbia and he told this story in 2017.

Austro-Hungarian Czechoslovakian Yugoslavian empire What a national combo

Really fun watch. PROS: No hatred, minimal biases, intellectual what-if scenarios CONS: No mention of central bankers, the "Money Power", and the effect of the time period (1900-1920) post British World Empire, with still dozens of remnant major UK secret societies still influencing elections and events worldwide

The new funny style and those skitzes at the start are great. Please make this your new style and do more like this.

Serbia would cease to be an independent country.Simple as that. Everything our ancestors have done from the beginning of Serbian revolution in 1804 would mean nothing.

The problem was that the Austrian government never wanted to accept any answer. Also, don't forget that Konrad von Hoetzendorf asked over 20 times for War with Serbia years before the assassination.

Very happy that is back up! Love your Habsburg videos 😊😊😊😊

It still baffles me that people put blame on Germany for giving a blank cheque, like sure, it gave them the confidence to pursue war, but ultimately it was their decisions to do it, not Germanies. That is like blaming the husband for giving his wife his credit card, when she was the one that spends all the money on it within a week. Like sure it might have not been a great Idea, but he is not at fault for her decisions with the card.

It is not a well known historical fact that Serbia did accept Austrian ultimatum. A grand son of one of Serbia's politician who was present at the moment of writing the response from Serbian delegation notes. Response from Austrians was that it is too late and that the call to go to war has already been made. After the war a part of propaganda was made that the ultimatum was not accepted.

Hey RH sorry I forgot about the live I’ll be Sure to watch it after the live

Sorry for spoiling all the fun but Serbia accepted Austro-Hungarian ultimatum. Serbia accepted everything. Austro-Hungary only needed an excuse to attack Serbia. Ultimatum in 1914. was the fourth Austro-Hungarian ultimatum since 1908. Serbia accepted all of them. In 1914. Serbia was exhausted from the Balkan wars (1912-1913). All politicians and intellectuals talked about 30-50 years period of peace that is needed for Serbia to recover from that. That's the reason why Austro-Hungary decided to strike even if Serbia accepted everything in the ultimatum.

I think the dialogue scenes were cool, but the ones that didn't use AI were way better then the ones that did, for example 0:39 compared to 2:10, the first one is definitely better. Overall tho this was one of your best videos.

the Germans weren't exactly rearing for war. Wilhelm might have been short sighted, but he and many other Germans were looking to avoid a complete implosion. He wrote a letter to Tsar Nicolas trying to de-escalate after he returned to his palace. The blank check was only given because he was on vacation and didn't have all the info yet.

As a serb who was a fan of you when you were making the monaco forms france videos. I can agree the quality of your videos is much better now. Especially in this video.

As a Lithuanian, this will be fun to watch.

This is going to be an amazing video!

Sorry but I had to stop right in the first ten seconds because this misconceptions really annoys me - The Great War couldn't be avoided, just postponed until something else triggers it. Ever since the unification of Germany into the German Empire, multiple cracking points began to show in the Great Compromise (Congress of Vienna) and the fragile peace of Metternich. New weaponry, German inferiority in colonial possessions and aspirations of Austria-Hungary to be more then just a regional player and have colonies of its own mixed with growing hostility of already established imperial powers towards the new players is what ultimately led to it happening, assassination of archduke that not even his family loved was a convenient thing for Austria-Hungary to expend in the Balkans, which could've been local conflict if Austria-Hungary didn't pulled Germany into it and if Russian Empire had fallen into a revolution few years earlier.

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"fun"fact for you my Russian friend - many Serbs lived in Austria-Hungary and they were in fact mobilized and sent to fight against Russia. they were even sent to fight against Serbia in 1914

I watch your videos for a couple of weeks now and I thought you had 100k+ subs. I´m surprised you got so few. Your videos are really really good, keep it up man

As a serb from germany i asked this question my self multiple times

great video, keep up the great work!

Heres a suggestion for the next video: What if the Christmas Uprising (1919) was a succsess. Pretty much this would result in Yugoslavia never to be formed, and maybe it would even result in a war between Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia.

Thanks for subtitles 😂

The problem with your new history of WWI, is that the Shlieffen PLan was based on a weaker Russia needing more time to mobilize. Since Russia is alot stronger in this Scenario, I believe Germany would maintain a defensvie posture in the west along the shorter border. Therefore the majority of German forces would strike against Russia trying to defeat the Russians before they can mobilize their industry for war. With no invasion of Belguim, Britain stays neutral for now. Without war with Britain, there'd be no blockade so that Germany could import the materials they need from America. And they would have good relations as they did historically until unrestricted submariine warfare turned American opinion against the Germans. Without British active support the Allies can't stop Germany. The French fleet isn't strong enough to blockade the Central Powers.

Whether realistic or unrealistic, whichever scenerio happens, this guy never let the German empire on winning/advantageous side. What if the German empire was ruled by a more competent Kaiser during the events?

As Serb i know why Germans don't come to tekerish

If Serbia joined the empire, the Austria-Hungarian map would have a really nice dong

Been waiting since 4am so ready

Idea: Entente: UK, France, Russia, Austro-Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal, Belgium & Luxembourg Vs. Central Powers: Germany, Italy, Romania & Turkey

What If Africa was never exploited

0:45 oversimplified napoleonic wars reference ?

Serbia: Accepts the ultimatum Conrad Von Hötzendorf: Well We Dun Goofed Up...

Can't wait For it! Love your content ❤❤❤❤❤

Hi rewriting history,I am italian ,love your content ,love from italy♥️🇮🇹,i know you are bulgarian and that you hate bulgarian nationalism, but for curiosity, what do you thinck about about a possible peaceful union between the two countries of bulgaria and north macedonia in the future because of language similarities ,do you thinck it could happen?

Erm..🤓 actually👆Romania had a treaty with the Entente that promised Transilvania

7:49 I did not expect that 😳

I love the segments with people talking lol. it makes me want an alternative history channel in the style of oversimplified and instead of saying things like “unlike in our timeline” they’d act as if the scenario is our timeline taking a inside view of the various universes. And if the internet doesn’t exist in that timeline? Then the script should be read as if it’s written on paper.

10:00 I think the Entente would do this, but wouldn't promise Montenegro. Montenegro is an independent kingdom at this point, and except if the king of Montenegro isn't brought into the conference, and if he lets them do it, Entente won't be promising Montenegro.

Serbia will never comply to this ultimatum! And it did not!🇷🇸

This is really good!!!! U just got a sub!! Hope to see more of ur videos coming out

What the, this is so Oversimplified’ish, i freaking love it.

serbia: accepts ultimatum vienna university of fine arts: accepts hitler

Imagine playing this on a Hoi4 mod. That would be super cool

What if Austria Hungary didn't Annex Bosnia in 1908 and gave it to Serbia and or Montenegro or to Albania or back to the ottoman

A masterpiece of acting

How do you have so many random coins That Scenario was really fun lol

what if bulgaria and romania united into one country in the 19th century

Not very realistic. If Serbia would accepted, Italy would Focus to the Ottoman Empire to Break their Support for the Partisanen in Libyia. Russia would Ally with Italia forfilling the old Dreams of conquoring Istanbul.

Serbia had accepted all terms of the ultimatum except one, which was damaging to its sovereignty. The ultimatum was written in such a way, knowingly, that Serbia would reject it. The Ambassador of Austria-Hungary to Belgrade left the country even before the ultimatum had been handed over. This means... Austria-Hungary had known of the outcome in advance, and it had been planning to attack Serbia, regardless. Even if there were no assassination in Sarajevo on Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia, it would have found another justification to attack. Proof of this are the events before the assassination - the so-called pig wars, the annexation of Bosnia - knowing that this would greatly upset Serbs, etc. I think WW 1 was unavoidable.

As a Serb this will be interesting to see

Can you do what if William duddly Pelly won the 1940 presidential election

Best video ever (from rewriting)

Me gustó mucho el video compañero, voy a seguir chequeando el canal

Personally I don’t think the British would join the French because they didn’t really care about Belgium they would probably prefer to just meditate a peace even if they technically guaranteed Belgium mostly because the odds are already stacked against Germany and the only thing the brits wanted was no side becoming more powerful than the other on Europe so join a war that is already in France favour doesn’t seem like something they would do

Grandpa Milorad is basically me but in regard to spain

1:17 they didn't reject it as much as asked it to be reviewed by the Hague. Europe saw this as reasonable, Austria-Hungary did not

very interesting way to look how germany and AH meeting be like

Another big difference would be all of Ireland remaining in the UK to this day as the Home Rule Bill would have been implemented on time. Also with Germany’s much sooner defeat in the west conscription would never have been implemented in Ireland, which is why Sinn Féin gained so much support during the 1910’s.

This will be a great video I am sure.

What if the European slave trade never happend.

In our reality Austria when it's two invasions get defeated in Serbia: huh? That wasn't suposed to happen, Germany get your a$$ here In alternative reality: geramny help Ahh some things never change

I love when you show-off your historical coins lol. They are very cool!

Why wouls france begin to update it's military doctrine? They were already behind in 1914 all the way to 1917. What would make france suddenly want to arm up and upgrade their doctrine?

Didn't Serbia accept everything, but one or two minor and unimportant points? They've could even surrender unconditional and offer to join the Empire, to no avail... the Old Man from Vienna just wanted his revenge and blood anyway!!!

I dont think the UK will join, with an extra year Germany can change his diplomacy towards them

0:50 i see what you did there...

Let the games begin

What If WW1 Germany Had WW2 Tatics

Maybe the Bulgarians would form a personal union with Serbia

Special thanks to Jed from the RH discord

In short, it's not Serbs fault

I love your videos bro!!

Nice video, how do you do your maps?

His son: I learn in school that the Austria-Hungary is good and make good things Milorad:You little His son:*gets shoot*

Great video

What if Australia won in Gallipoli?

As a Hungarian, this is the most JUST division of A-H I have ever seen, I wish it was like this, then we would have these conflicts as today. Mainly due to the greed....

Surely the next event that would be a candidate for sparking WWI would be the delivery of the Reşadiye and Sultan Osman (OTL HMSes Erin and Agincourt) to the Ottoman Empire from Britain in late 1914, which would have given the Ottomans naval supremacy in the Aegean (instead of Greece) and would have allowed them to start a Third Balkan War.

What if Japan join on center power