WW1 - Oversimplified (Part 2) 

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Driver:* takes wrong turn * 17 Million people died

UK: Wants oil from other countries US: Wants oil from other countries too UK: *I raised that boy*

Germany is the definition of carrying your team

Fun fact: When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, Marshall Foch (who was present at the signing), said of it, “It is not a peace treaty, it’s an armistice for twenty years.” He was right.

Ottomans: "How many countries are we fighting?" Germany: "Yes".

Driver: *takes wrong turn* Ferdinand: Oh, looks like you took a wrong turn. Driver: Oh sorry. But hey, its not like 17 million people are gonna die because of it

The British had promised India would get independence if Indians got conscripted in the war. The number of Indians who participated in the war was immense as a result, with even Mahatma Gandhi encouraging everyone to get conscripted. And when the war was over, the British gave India a masterpiece: A gate in New Delhi with the names of all the soldiers martyred on it.

It's actually kind of surprising that both of these videos really don't have that many jokes like watch this and the most recent over simplified video back-to-back and you'll realize a huge difference in the amount of jokes

"And there was never such a terrible war again" Hitler: *laughs führiously*

Everyone: **war** Switzerland:"hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil"

I love seeing the evolution of your channel. You've certainly become more confident with your sense of humor. Thanks for all the great content!

It’s crazy how much oversimplified has evolved.

Almost every attack on Russia in a few words: They weren't prepared for the cold.

The world learned it's lesson and never had such a terrible war again. For about 20 years.

How to win at Trench Warfare: (1.) Tunnel under your own Frontline Trenches. (2.) Bait enemy to attack/ advance. (3.) Pour out like Army-Ants and delete them. Long version: Build large systems of tunnels _underneath_ Your trench system, with many well-concealed entrances/ exits to the tunnels all throughout your trench system. Keep up the ruse, fighting up in the trenches, keeping the trenches fully-manned, for months, making sure the stand-off is believable, and that there's time to dig/ build the tunnels, plus enough barracks rooms and command facilities, ammunition storage, etc. Use counter-intelligence operations to make the enemy think they can pull off a major attack. You'll want their attack to be as large as possible, but not so large that they continue advancing past your first, Frontline trenches. You'll want a bit of a second no-man's land dividing your Frontline trenches with your second line of trenches that you can retreat to. If you have to, you can build the tunnels under your Frontline trenches very quickly, like Viet-Cong style. But if there's more time, then larger, cleaner, more spacious, more structurally- sound tunnels would be good, not just for troop morale, health, and safety, but also for increasing the effectiveness of quickly moving large numbers of troops, and also staging a sizeable force down there. You'll also want multiple tunnels that connect back to your secondary line of trenches, so your forces can be moved in to the tunnel without detection, stay well-supplied, and retreat if necessary. As for above-ground connecting trenches between you Frontline trenches and your second-tier trenches, you'll want to close those off or fill them in, so that when the enemy takes the bait and occupies your Frontline trenches, they won't be able to advance to your second-tier with cover. You'll be connected by tunnels, so filling-in the connecting above-ground corridors will help further-sell the idea that your line was vulnerable, and you were planning a retreat. You'll need that second No-Man's land to keep the enemy from advancing further. When the enemy advances, feign an above -ground retreat in the trenches, so that the enemy moves into your Frontline trenches in-force. Let them settle in, while lightly peppering them with small-arms fire from your secondary-line of trenches. But only shoot enough to keep them where they are. Hopefully they'll bring in reinforcements on top of their initial assault troops. All your extra troops who've been in reserve down below in the tunnels will wait for one of two things to happen, to then attack in a massive, close-quarters ambush: (1.), an enemy soldier accidentally bonks his helmet or rifle on the wall of the trench, and hears it strike wood, instead of the dirt that's covering the hidden door/ hatch, and he's about to investigate. If half of your troops below are constantly standing by, ready to pour out, then the other half that's sleeping, would have just enough time to grab their weapons and rush to their designated attack-point. If one of the concealed entrances is discovered, and this instantly triggers your ambush, you'll still have the element of surprise. (2.) If none of the concealed entrances are discovered, you can intentionally plan the attack however you like. Let the enemy get comfortable, hit them while they're sleeping, or hit them while your retreated-trench-troops have a firefight across no-man's land with your house-guests above; or hit them during an artillery bombardment when the enemy think there's no possible way anyone is crossing no-man's land; etc., whatever you want. If you can manage to prevent even a single enemy troop from escaping your ambush, you can do this more than once, and take some serious chunks out of the enemy's total forces. But your ambush would need to have enough tunnel-egress points into the trenches, to instantly occupy every last enemy soldier, so that none of them can Get a radio message off before they die. Any enemy weigh a radio would be the #1 target. That would be the ultimate battle-victory, if the enemy leadership, back behind their own lines, thought their Frontline trench-troops all died under the normal circumstances of trench warfare. They'd move more troops to the front and you could start over with the same plan. Depending on the original layout of your Frontline trench system, you could have all the tunnel entrances in places where soldiers would be unlikely to hang-out, like little, recessed, dead-end split-offs from the main walkways. You wouldn't want your ambush troops to open their concealed hatch right in the middle of a main trench walkway, where there could be dozens of soldiers within a few meters, all ready to fight. Maybe you could _only_ put rain coverings over parts of the main sections of the trenches, and do the ambush during a heavy rain, when the exposed little dead-end inlets won't have a bunch of enemy soldiers sitting around smoking or whatever. The more troops you can get through and out the concealed doors, without instantly getting shot at, the more overwhelmed the enemy will be. You'd have to get creative though, because the enemy will be using your own trench while facing backwards. So what used to be rear-wall storage-inlets, are now on the side that's facing your retreated forces. So your Frontline trench has to have at least two main, parallel trenches, so that you can count on where they'll mainly be. But if you dig these storage inlets into the front (what's originally the front) of your trench, that might look very suspicious. So your Frontline trench would have to be engineered specifically for this strategy, with a connected, parallel, rear-main trench that the enemy would naturally use to face your retreated troops. That would leave your original Frontline trench at their backs. This would've been so much shorter if I could just draw a picture!

This is a LOT more entertaining than ANYTHING the history channel has done in at least 20 years, this dude needs a big budget, a talented team and his own show on TV re Netflix or Hulu or something, there's certainly no shortage of wars, conflicts and other interesting topics throughout history to cover

Kid: hey grandfather wanna watch a soccer game? Grandfather : who is playing Kid: Austria - Hungary Grandfather : against whom?

*Time traveler: Hey, where am I, what's going on right now? Guy: The World War's happening right now! Time traveler: Which one? Guy: Hold up......

Am I the only one who sees Germany giving a thumbs up at 6:05?

It hits different when you realise how far the channel has improved. The audio quality has become so better.

“The allies friends were Italy and Japan” That aged poorly

So all this happened because a cab driver took a wrong turn Edit: wtf howwwwwwwww did this happen

Oversimplified has come a long way since this video, it's really neat how much better he's gotten at making videos, keep up the good work, man

Thank you! These vids helped me answer my 4th grader’s questions about WWI in a way that was less scary or depressing than most. Cheers to making history as palatable as you do understandable. Having majored in International Studies in college it’s the toughest one for me to explain in terms she can grasp. I’ve always used playground analogies after my favorite professor and seeing the little boxing or slapping stick figures really helped add the flava along with the line “everybody was talking behind each others’ backs”. 😎 Much obliged.

Russia: Guys I have an idea. *Russia has left the game*

0:42 "The Allies' new friends were Italy and Japan" *how ironic*

Imagine if Germany have some friends who could fight.

Imagine expiriencing WW1 then just 20 years later you get to experience another war. Must have been hard for them

2 world wars Switzerland: gonna pretend I didn’t see that

Austrians, remember two things: 1) Hire professional drivers. 2) Admit people who have passion for art into art school.

It's amazing how much content Oversimplified packs into 7 mins and 40 secs.

It's Friday night,my friend came and saw me watching random historical videos on RU-vid and asked me about WW1 and I searched for this channel and used it as a reference and for maps and explained him every word mixing it with my previous knowledge.Thanks for the video. Keep it up

Soldiers in WW1: "we fought for our country's future!" Those soldiers 20 years later: "are you serious"

The last living veteran of World War I was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110.

Post credit scene from WW1...a German soldier with a silly moustache coming out of a smoke cloud.....👀

Love this channel 😄 the videos are so informative and funny made at the same time

"and Britain wanted all of that oil" *looks at USA* Like father like son

WW1. Austria: You are doing great! Germany: I'm doing everything. WW2. Italy: You are doing great! Germany: I'm doing everything. No wonder why Germany struggles a lot. It's always facing the whole world "almost" alone. Also the U. S. are always like: Let's wait until everyone is weakened so we look freaking powerful, hehe.

I had an awful time understanding this topic at school, and because of this video I finally understand the situation, thank you so much!

I'd love to see him go back and remake these videos. I really enjoy the long format of the newer ones, the inclusion of humor, and the more in depth bits. He gives a lot more exposition and includes more historical figures in his newer videos and I think it works well.

"And never had such an awful war again...for about 20 years"

World War 1 is started by: an uber driver who took a wrong turn World War 2 is started by: the art teacher who failed hitler

rewatching oversimplified videos over and over is my comfort 😊

Have a document test coming up soon, I’ve watched this twice now, great refresher. Hope you cover more history like this 👍

The US is the kid in a group project who waits until the last second to help

*21 years later* Aw shit here we go again

This the best ww1 video i have ever watched.Good job.keep going!!!!

The last vid that I haven't watched! But honestly, I would do anything for more vids of OverSimplified. He's too good!

One of my favorites facts from history is that the ottomans and austrians spent centuries fighting each other and collapsed fighting together.

Everybody: WAR! Switzerland: *grabs popcorn*

OverSimplified-your vids r just the best, Period

Quick fact about the battle of Jutland, both main fleets had actually been patrolling for months in these waters, accompanied on the british side by seaplanes and german side by zeppelins for air reconnaissance, because they actually did want a fight. Second fact, the battle of Jutland happened literally the one time both sides had no air recon. Both fleets found eachother by pure luck.

World leaders: we shall never have a kind of war like this ever again Meanwhile... Random austrian: ah scheiße! I failed my art class

Germany after 20 years: *Its rewind time*

"Someone's about to get liberated" is my favorite line

I love your channel and find your videos immensely enjoyable! With that said - I feel your take on Jutland / Dreadnoughts in general is rather off the mark. The 1st generation dreadnought era is characterized by the naval doctrine "fleet in being" - the idea that the threat of a fleet sortie, especially an inferior navy's sortie is more valuable than the sortie itself. This is absolutely true, and it is the reason why the Royal Navy was stretched so thin in the Second World War. Neither the Kriegsmarine nor the Regia Marina (Nazi and Italian navies, respectively) could have challenged the Royal Navy, but together, their existence was threat enough to stretch the Royal Navy nearly to the breaking point until the decisive Battle of Cape Matapan took place. By reserving their main battle fleet in Wilhelmshaven, the Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet presented such a threat to Great Britain that only third-rate and outdated vessels of the main battle line could be sent to the landings in Gallipoli (which failed spectacularly). Similarly, the threat of the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow prevented the High Seas Fleet from sailing into the Atlantic with anything other than submarines. And the nature of submarine durability and crew complement necessarily restricts the taking of Prize-vessels, meaning they had no recourse but to sink those ships which carried supplies to the aid of England. This provoked the United States into war with Germany, a fact which proved decisive. In short, it was not the fear of losing dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts which prevented the Grand Fleet and High Seas Fleet from putting to sea more often - it was an appreciation of their true strategic value.

The floor is world wars Switzerland: *Climbs on a wall*

It's the soldiers who lost the most. My heart goes out to them.

Nice & concise presentation. Very enjoyable to watch.

Epic! Just watched this summary before watching "All Quiet on the western front"

we literally spend like a month in school learning what oversimplified teaches us in 12 minutes

Watching old oversimplified videos? *There’s a tax for that*

2:42 Important detail, if I remember correctly it's believed the Lusitania was transporting war materials to Britain, making it a legitimate target.

These are brilliant! Please oversimplify everything!

Imagine how much easier this war could've been, if everyone had twitter.

I like how Switzerland is just yeeting out of the wars.

THANKS A LOT , ive got a test on this tomorrow and it saves tons of time

tbh my fave oversimplified videos are the ww1 ones! I love this guy's content

“Tired of not eating. And upset that a magical homeless guy was calling the shots” -Oversimplified

I like how both during ww1 and 2 Spain was like: Nah it’s cool. You guys do your thing. We chilling.

This was a loooong time ago now, and there's tons of topics for Over to cover, but I'd love to see a vid about the Balkan wars. I tend to forget how close Eastern Europe and continental Asia are, and I find the history of the area somewhat confusing but also fascinating as a result.

Depending on this for my test this Friday.

"and never had such an awful war again." "For about 20 years" Best line right there

"The world learnt its lesson, and never had such an awful war again..." Meanwhile somewhere in austria : "Ahhh fuck, i failed in my art class..."

This great video actually sparks interest to learn about this war. Thank you

1:00 fun fact: this is the one of three times when Italy changed sides. -One in ww1 -Naples in Napoleonic Wars -Syracuse in 1st Punic War. It didn't happen in ww2, because Fascist Italy capitulated and south of Italy was controlled by allies and the north controlled by axis. There was a civil war until 1945 which was the end of ww2. This message was for people, who begin their adventure with oversimplified from this video

6:46 When it hits so hard, it turns a French army American

“Bulgaria wished it was bigger.” Don’t we all, fellas.

6 years and still helping me with my history lessons

It's amazingly described. I loved it.😄

When Germany sends msg to Mexico but British intercepted it, Dude, use NordVPN

Europe: Has Survival mode Switzerland: Has creative mode and cheats

The second america Joined I imagine the generals start cracking their knuckles

This is amazing. As damaging as war is, it is also fascinating.

America: Wants all that oil Britain: Proud dad noises

"Someone's 'bout to get liberated" My side hurts from laughing so hard at that.

I love how Switzerland is just chilling there

The way oversimplified made their videos has changed so much and it never fails to shock me

DO WW2 OR THE COLD WAR! You make really good videos. The mix of funny and education is perfect.

6:45 when the Germans hit so hard they turned France’s troops American

2:38 it should be noted that chemical warfare was used a lot in WWI because the situation just made it more effective than it should have been. First, everyone spent months in small, tight, low laying trenches, which is exactly what you want when you want to catch people in dense gas. Second, chemical warfare is best used against soft targets. If you keep on gasing an enemy army, they will just make gas masks standard issue. However, this was not as much of a problem in WWI, since the French were still in the "bright red pants" phase of the war. So it is hard to be a softer target than the un-helmeted head of a WWI soldier. In comparison, modern use of chemical warfare is only 'effective' against civilian targets that lack the resources and training to deal with it. Of course, even in the 'war is hell' mentality, that is still considered being a jerk.

Wow Oversmplified keep up thee good work i love it

Russia: beats everyone because of the cold Also Russia: Looses the Cold War The irony

America: maybe I should join Germany: Im gonna do whats called a pro gamer move

I watch these a couple times a year

Very well organized snd lucid, thanks

This literally taught me more than my history class will ever.

USA: Sorry i'm late, What did I miss? 20 years later USA: Sorry I'm late....

Wonderful video. Edutainment at its best. Well done