WW1 - Oversimplified (Part 1) REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!! 

Apocalypse: World War I is a 5 part documentary on WWI using film taken during the war that is as incredible as it is horrifying. It's not for the faint of heart but you learn a lot and see the absolute carnage that happened during the war. It's even on youtube to watch.

Well, for what its worth, even if the US's educational system is far below expectations, I can say that we learned quite a bit about WW1. Still learned more about WW2 though that's expected.

6:16 Prussia (precursors to Germany) defeated France in 1871 in the Franco - Prussian War and set up the the German Empire. As a newly formed state they were eager to establish themselves as a great world power, that's what the video means by "Germany wanted to take more of everyone's stuff." Germany was very aggressive in its foreign policy so they were eager to go to war when it's ally Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. France were humiliated by the Franco - Prussian War and lost the territory of Alsace-Lorraine. That's why they wanted it back. It's also why there was lots of fortresses along the border, forcing Germany to go through Belgium. As for the prelude to WWI, in Eastern Europe, you had the Crimean War of the 1860s and the Balkan Wars of 1912 & 1913. In simple terms, you had three competing empires trying to assert their power in the Balkans - the Russian Empire, Austro-Hungary & the Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey). There was many different ethnic groups in that region as well who wanted their own independent states. Some were successful in becoming independent with help from Russia. Russia as a Slavic country saw itself as the defender of the Slavic people's in Eastern Europe and also had an incentive to prevent either Austria-Hungary or the Ottomans dominate the region. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the spark that lit the matchbox but you're right, there was other events that led up to the Great War.

I graduated a year ago from high school in America and we did learn about WW1 and 2 over here weird that you guys don’t

I am sorry guys and I love your channel but this is not true that polish army used horses vs tanks during WWII. It was actually german propaganda that we did. Come on, think about it, why would the Poles use horses vs tanks, we are not apes (usually)

been waiting for this!!!

Fighting in the Second World War was often truly horrific depending on where you were...the Eastern Front and Burma were particularly nasty...but for the Allies at least there was a sense that things were moving in the right direction from the end of 1942 on. The Western Front in the First World War was soul-destroying for those who survived it, a seemingly interminable stalemate in ghastly conditions, with futile efforts to break it resulting in hundreds of thousands of casualties at a time. Previous to the war, there was a general consensus that scientific progress was always a good thing, and that those in authority knew what they were doing; in the West at least those assumptions would never again be so widely held.

Dave knows a lot about WWI to be fair. 😂

"In the fall, the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore."--Ernest Hemingway, "In Another Country"

The Battle of the Somme especially is such an absurd battle that encapsulates the WWI experience I'm sure you guys know but the Pals Battalions especially - they encouraged men from the same town & groups like local schools/teams etc to join together in the same unit for morale but in battle you had an entire town's young men be wiped out within minutes

looking forward to part 2

Two uncles were US Marines during WW1, I’m not sure how they came back unscathed. Both guy lived long lives, late 80’s for one 99 years 11months 2 weeks foe my namesake. Wonderful people, a real strong and important generation.

Fam love the channel blokes; keep doing you👌🏿( Mike Ma'z favorite😂🤔 much love from FL)

Love yall. This Virginian has your backs next time those Germans get restless

Your thinking of the Franco-prussian war and the Germans beat the french silly.

The war of 1812

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."--British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey

Armor is an upgrade so i don't understand why people were like thats cowerdess witch doesn't make sense at all, thats like taking armor away from mid evel solder with sabors get hit with the sabors and dying instantly one hit blow

Yessssssss

in both world wars, despite them doing horrible things, what was really an anchor to germany was just bad teammates.

Yeah the Franco-Prussian war happened not that long before WWI. The Germans clobbered the French and imposed a really harsh peace treaty on them including giant payments to Germany, which made France angry and it is one of the reasons that the Treaty of Versailles that ended WW1 was so harsh on Germany.

Is there ever going to be a part 2?

WWI changed nothing? More great takes from the Office Blokes :D Name a more influential event in modern European history than either of the world wars.

If Daz wouldn't fool around with strange women named Nora he wouldn't have gotten the virus.

I went to school in Mexico (got as far as to the equivalent of high school) and what I learned and or study about ww1and 2 was negligible. We did studied world history but it was more about the industrial revolution and ancient history.

Does Mike still keep up with the guys from his old regiment from The Great War?

Hope they do The Russian Revolution...hell, I hope they do EVERY Oversimplified, I love it!!

We Americans teach the history of both WW's in great detail in our grade school systems. We can't forget to remind our youth that we bailed the world (especially the French) out twice. USA, USA, USA! 😉 Side note, we don't like to talk about Vietnam, and most recently Afghanistan 🙄

I think Victoria and Albert would have been very sad to see their grandchildren murdering each other.

You guys should watch WW2 in 39 minutes

Polish horse charging tanks is a German myth.

2:18 - Guys it's not true! Turkey was not in exceptionally friendly relations with Austria-Hungary ... but with Germany.

And then the Americans showed up with shotguns 😆 🤣

Well its about time...

Civil War next please!

Can you guys react to LEMMiNO? He has a lot of interesting videos, super high quality too.

What happened to the Henry VIII video? Couldn't find it

It probably smelled the same as France does now

WWI achieved causing WWII though!

Blackadder was the best!

Hey Office Blokes!

Should react to the Hitler Oversimplified as well

Lusichenko?

Ww1 caused the Ottoman empire, Australia - Hungary empire, the German empire and the Russian empire to fall. That is not nothing

You talking about Belarusian president Lukashenko

Turkey🇹🇷

American education may be pretty shite, but America LOOOOOOOVES to teach historical warfare. (except for the wars we l̶o̶s̶t̶ called a draw)

You aren''t suppose to reupload these videos...

A peacefully sleeping Bishop Hitler was savagery attacked by the infamous British Assassin, Winston Churchill, The German people were forced to heroically defend their home from the British and the French. Then the Americans immediately arrived and won. USA USA USA

Ngl this oversimplified video seems different

Audio was quite off in this one. (Audio on the video you were reacting to) sounds super compressed

The polish Calvary against German tanks in WW2 is a myth. They basically combined a few stories into one and idk what propaganda reason for it all was but it wasn't true. The German army being this big mechanized army is also a joke. They were using horses to do almost everything you can think of for most of the military throughout the war.

Funnily, the allies violated Greek neutrality in the war multiple times while rambling about Germany doing the same to Belgium. Hypocrisy at its finest n

I think this is the very first video Oversimplified did so it’s very basic compared to the ones he’s released since.

8:21 thanks for repeating Nazi propaganda WTF! The Poles had horses like everyone else at the time (WWII) but they didn't fucking yolo charged them in too tanks for fuck's sake! Fact is in this battle the Polish Cavalry armed with AT rifles MG's & rifles, caught a German battalion of only infantry & thus hosed the down, then the Germans counterattacked with Tanks. That's it. But its true what Josef Goebbles said: "Just repeat & repeat a lie over & over again till everyone believes it.

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirst Male at least.