How WW2 Began

0:00World War I

0:01Well, that was pretty bad.

0:02But World War II, it's the reason we know how the world ends today.

0:07But I'm not going to tell you what happens in World War II.

0:09We just covered the First World War. Give me a break, man.

0:12Come on, let's touch some grass.

0:22[OOH IT HAPPENINGS ] [right?...]

0:22Pssst- Hey kid

0:24this painting is called The March on Rome.

0:27by the most-priced museum exhibit because this is where the story of World War II begins.

0:33Take a closer look.

0:34come on don't be shy!

0:41[me when a random strnager tells me to get closer to him- whats the worst that could happen?-]

0:44*evil laugh track plays* Bye-bye.

0:46Historically facts part 18.

0:53NUMBER 20 COMING UP OOOO [WEEEEEEE]

0:53Oh my god. Are you okay?

0:54My name is Italian Jojo Oliver.

0:57What's your name?

1:00[oh I'm so glad you asked its actually-] What a nice name.

1:01Anyway, bad time to jump out of a painting, buddy.

1:04Things ain't how they used to be around here in 1922.

1:07Let me explain.

1:08Turns out the Great War really wasn't that great.

1:11And specifically, Italy after the First World War was in a rough shape.

1:16They joined the First World War because

1:17they were promised all these juicy lands if they did so.

1:20But turns out Britain and France kind of lied to us Italians.

1:23At the Treaty of Versailles, the agreement that ended the war

1:27we only received a teeny tiny amount of what was promised to us

1:30which made the winners, not at all, feel like winners.

1:33Some of the local Marios wrote it off as a minor nuisance.

1:37But the Luigi's, those Italian nationalists, took the betrayal to heart

1:41and felt humiliated by the entente powers to the point they called their victory in World War I

1:46Victoria Mutila.

1:48A mutilated victory.

1:50Might sound a bit extreme or childish, but it kind of made sense that they were this butt hurt-

1:56They sank their whole economy, all their men and trade into the first

2:00world war effort because they thought they would be heavily rewarded for it.

2:04But when they didn't get all of that land, all they were left with was hyperinflation

2:08a whole lot of debt, and a couple of dead husbands.

2:12By the way, get off the floor, man. Look around you, Amico Mio.

2:15Unemployment, political instability, factories occupied by unions.

2:19Things around here are going heavily downhill.

2:22And I guess what's going to happen any second now is the reason that

2:25magical painting brought you to specifically 1922.

2:29Even though the big war is not going to happen for another 17 years.

2:34See that fat guy?

2:36No, no, the one without the hat.

2:38That is Bonito Mussolini.

2:40Once a socialist and anti-war guy during the First World War

2:44he felt the war was actually necessary so Italy could become stronger.

2:48So he became a pro-war guy, which was highly unpopular among the socialists.

2:53So he got thrown out of the group.

2:54That's it.

2:55I'm starting my own thing.

2:57And he did.

2:58It's called fascism, a word your modern politics seems loaded with,

3:02yet most people don't even know what it truly is.

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4:37So, what is fascism really?

4:39It's a political ideology built around one main idea.

4:42The nation comes before everything.

4:44Before your political party, before your personal freedoms,

4:47before your opinions, and before even yourself.

4:51According to fascism, people fighting each other over class,

4:54wealth, or politics only makes the country weaker.

4:57In fact, Mussolini thought Italy had become weak

5:00because everybody was too busy arguing and protesting

5:03instead of working together for the nation.

5:05So, his solution was basically, stop fighting each other.

5:08We are all Italians.

5:09Now, on paper, fascism sounds kind of wholesome.

5:13But there is one teeny tiny little problem.

5:16Who actually decides what's best for the nation?

5:19Yeah, this guy.

5:21Fascists believed democracy was weak because politicians

5:25spent too much time debating things instead of actually doing things.

5:28There were too many elections, too many parties, and too many old dudes yelling in parliament.

5:33Instead, fascism believed the country needed one

5:35strong leader who could just take control and fix everything quickly.

5:39So far, fascism doesn't seem too bad.

5:42If anything, it seems like calling someone a fascist might actually be a compliment

5:46but that's because you're not looking at the fine print because this all so far seems somewhat fine

5:52until it turns out your leader is actually insane. Now,

5:55remember those factory occupations and communist movements I mentioned earlier?

5:59A lot of Italians were terrified of communism at the time, like genuinely terrified.

6:05Russia had already gone communist a few years earlier,

6:08and many rich people thought Italy was next.

6:11So when Mussolini showed up, saying things like,

6:14"I will restore order, stop the communists, and make Italy great again."

6:18A lot of people started supporting him

6:21especially rich businessmen, nationalists, war veterans,

6:24and people who were just tired of all the chaos.

6:28And this is where fascism starts to show its cracks.

6:31See, when Mussolini said,

6:32"Let's all unite for the nation."

6:34That sounded nice. But what if somebody disagrees?

6:38What if somebody says

6:39"Actually, I don't think uniting under one guy is

6:42a good idea because if that Guy's ill intended, we are all screwed."

6:47Well, according to fascism, that thought train is problematic.

6:51The nation is supposed to be united after all.

6:54So under fascism, people who disagree start looking less

6:57like political opponents and more like enemies.

7:00Pretty quickly, Mussolini's idea of national unity starts looking

7:04a lot less like wholesome teamwork and a lot more like agree with me or else.

7:10And the else are the blackshirts.

7:12They were Mussolini's elite group who attacked socialist newspapers

7:17broke up strikes, and intimidated Mussolini's opponents.

7:20And the Italian government was so weak at this point that nobody really stopped those bullies.

7:25Which brings us to October 1922, the March on Rome. Thousands of

7:31the Blackshirts gathered and marched together towards Rome.

7:34Not to take over just yet.

7:36It was mainly a show of force to intimidate the government, which they really did.

7:41The liberal Italian government panicked and wanted to call in

7:43the army to show they were even stronger than the fascist army.

7:47All they needed to issue the order was for

7:49the Italian king to approve the military action, but he didn't.

7:53At that point, the government collapsed. The king wanted to avoid bloodshed

7:57so he called forth Mussolini to appoint him as the prime minister, which actually took a while

8:02since Mousolini didn't even participate in the march.

8:05Yeah, he was chilling in Milan, kind of just eyeing where things ended up going.

8:09So, he hurried over, took the title, and fascism became a very real national ideology.

8:14Over the next decade, Mussolini concentrated more and more power.

8:18He came to rule Italy as its unquestioned dictator and styled himself Il Duce

8:23aka the leader.

8:24He also changed the world map a little bit as he officially made

8:27Vatican City a country and gave them tons of money in return for Catholic support.

8:32So, hey, that's a fun fascist fact.

8:34And he also conquered Ethiopia, which was essentially poor people

8:37with swords and a few guns versus 800 tanks, airplanes

8:41and 330 tons of horrific mustard gas that killed armies, civilians, and water supplies.

8:47A completely one-sided battle for sure, but to the Italian nationalists,

8:51absolute proof that fascism was definitely going to work out.

8:55The Italians also decided to occupy Albania to control the entrance to the Adriatic Sea.

9:00Now, not to be that kind of guy, but since I am here with a white shirt and you are

9:05completely white, it's probably time for you to go before we start this short race war.

9:10Oh, but before you go, here a sticker of approval.

9:12May the Italian Jojo gods be with you.

9:15Bye, my friend.

9:22[is that a jojo ref-]

9:22[actually never mind this whole part of the video was a jojo reference-]

9:22[if oliver is jojo would waldo be dio ?] Hello again. Did you like my painting?

9:26[dio waldo when?] Yeah, they always react like that.

9:28World War II still hasn't happened.

9:30In fact, we are only in 1922. So, why did I push you all the way into fascist Italy?

9:36Well, because history is kind of like a domino chain.

9:39And Mussolini he's one of the first dominoes

9:42but he is not the biggest one.

9:45watch your hat!

9:47[NOOO]

9:48Dund.

9:49Well, this is awkward.

9:51My name is Bear Oliver.

9:53And let me guess, the Italian guy already explained fascism. Perfect.

9:58That saves me like five pages of dialogue.

10:00Anyway, Germany was basically having the same problem as Italy.

10:03But instead of being winners that felt like losers

10:06they were losers that felt like ultra losers.

10:09Unlike Italy, Germany wasn't upset because they didn't get enough.

10:13They were upset because they got stuck with the biggest bill imaginable.

10:17Roughly 5 to10 trillion in today's money.

10:20On top of that, they lost these territories, had to demilitarize the Rhineland

10:24reduce their army to just 100,000 men.

10:27weren't even allowed to have an air force and were forced to watch our

10:30Deltton Heist video three times per day as punishment for being a bad boy.

10:34Needless to say, the Germans were not having a wunderbar time.

10:38Suddenly, a lot of Germans started looking for somebody to blame.

10:42See that angry guy over there? That is Adolf Hitler,

10:45a failed artist and Europe's next big headache.

10:48He fought in World War I.

10:50Somewhat was a surprisingly brave soldier running as a trans messenger,

10:54which earned him two medals and two injuries.

10:57When he was laying blindfolded in bed recovering from his second injury sustained from mustard gas

11:02he finally heard the news. Germany had surrendered.

11:05Hitler was absolutely devastated and furious.

11:08Like many radical German soldiers,

11:10he refused to believe the German military had actually lost on the battlefield.

11:14So he started to give speeches about it. Lots of speeches.

11:18He joined a small political party, took it over,

11:21and transformed it into the National Socialist German Workers Party

11:24or as normal people call it, the Nazi party.

11:28No, they weren't actually socialists.

11:30Despite the name, the Nazis hated socialism,

11:33hated communism, and spent a lot of their time beating up socialists.

11:37Now, before you think Hitler was just a German Mussolini,

11:40he kind of was, but with one very important difference.

11:45While Mussolini mostly cared about the nation, Hitler cared about the nation and race.

11:51He became obsessed with the idea that Germany's problems weren't

11:54just caused by bad politicians, but by entire groups of people

11:58especially Jews.

12:00This is probably the fascism people mean when

12:02they call you a fascist for disliking the color purple.

12:06Anyway, while Hitler was busy giving speeches,

12:08which he was extremely good at, Germany was busy falling apart.

12:12So Hitler looked over to his neighbors down below and decided to copy their homework.

12:17He gathered a bunch of supporters, marched into a beer hall, which is probably why we are here,

12:22and tried to overthrow the German government while downing some Jäger Meister.

12:25Unsurprisingly, it failed and he got thrown into prison and this party got banned.

12:30But then 1929 happened.

12:32The Great Depression hit everyone, but Germany got hit the hardest.

12:37Suddenly the guy over there screaming angrily at the local Jews didn't seem so crazy.

12:42People lost everything due to the economic chaos.

12:45And in desperate times like these, Hitler stopped sounding crazy to a lot of desperate Germans.

12:50As Germany's economy got worse, Hitler's popularity got better.

12:54And in 1933, he finally gathered enough support to become the chancellor of Germany.

12:59And he instantly did all the stuff that Mousolini did.

13:02He bent opposition power, made the place a dictatorship, and named himself the German

13:06version of Il Duce Führer.

13:09Now, remember that giant list of things Germany wasn't allowed to do after World War I?

13:14Hitler looked at that list and basically treated it as a checklist.

13:18No army, let's build one.

13:20No air force, let's build one.

13:22Stay out of the rhinland, let's build one.

13:24I mean, let's just put soldiers there just for good measures.

13:27France and Britain saw what Hitler was doing and did exactly nothing about it.

13:32Yeah, shocker, right? That lack of response made Hitler cocky.

13:36If he can put troops in the Rhineland and not get punished for it,

13:40why can't he also put troops in, let's say, Austria, reuniting the German people

13:45that was a big no no for the entente powers.

13:48So they ultimately decided to give Hitler a very firm talk.

13:53They told him what he was doing was uncalled for.

13:56So Hitler sincerely apologized, promised to never do it again.

14:00And Chamberlain's appeasement policy saved the world from a second world war.

14:04Daddy, I want Czechoslovakia. Damn it.

14:08After annexing Austria, Hitler set his sights on Czechoslovakia.

14:11There was a large German minority inside the

14:14country and Hitler demanded that they should unite with Germany.

14:17However, this territory,

14:19the Sudetenland,

14:20was also vital for Czechoslovakia's defenses.

14:24Hitler and Mussolini met with Chamberlain and the French Prime Minister Daladier

14:28and concluded that Hitler may take those territories if he promises

14:31to leave the rest of Czechoslovakia alone.

14:33Hitler, being a very trustworthy guy

14:36promised to definitely not maybe perhaps take it.

14:39Czechoslovakia suddenly lost all their defenses to

14:42the Germans without having anything to say about it.

14:44And Chamberlain's appeasement policy saved the world.

14:46Daddy, I ate Czechoslovakia.

14:49Damn it. Okay, listen up you little shit.

14:51If you take one more piece of land, me and France are definitely going to

14:54perhaps maybe supposedly declare war on you and World War II will start.

14:59I'm hungry.

15:00[ big chungus Oliver?]

15:02By 1939, war loomed all over Europe. In fact, you could argue it had already started.

15:07Not in Germany, not in Poland, but in Spain.

15:11A failed military coupe in 1936 had spiraled into

15:14a brutal civil war between the nationalists and republicans.

15:18And before anyone knew it, half of Europe had picked a side.

15:22Germany and Italy backed to nationalists

15:24the Soviet Union back to Republicans.

15:26Though the Germans and Soviets were actively trying to kill each other in southern Europe.

15:30Meanwhile, back at home, the two nations signed the Molotov Ribbon Tropact

15:34which established a 10-year no attacking each other pact between the two countries.

15:38Secretly, it also included a segment that divided the entirety of Eastern

15:42Europe from Finland to Romania between the two states in case

15:46you know

15:47they decided to take that for some reason.

15:50Daddy, I want Poland.

15:52Oh, for the love of-

15:55okay- mine point. Got to stop you there.

15:56First of all, I am way over the legal limit of what you should be allowed to drink.

16:01So, take the sticker of being a certified drinking pal.

16:03And secondly, there is one more country that made up the axis force strife, you know.

16:07Okay, so basically what happened was

16:10[and he's dead-]

16:12[guess will never know-]

16:14Well, that was disappointing.

16:16If that wasn't a cliffhanger, I don't know what to tell you.

16:19I personally would never cliffhanger you because, you know, I have morals.

16:23Anyway, look at that beautiful painting.

16:25It's small, I know, but not each painting story has to be big.

16:28I mean, check it out yourself.

16:30Oops.

16:35Oh, hey, Doodly Chan.

16:36My name is Oliver San.

16:38My favorite anime is One Piece and welcome aboard the Mukden Express.

16:42I'm now going to talk normal.

16:43I know you were deep into 1939, but let's rewind a bit to 1931.

16:48Unlike Germany, Japan wasn't angry because of the precise treatment.

16:52And unlike Italy, Japan wasn't trying to recreate the Roman Empire.

16:56Japan had a different problem. The country was rapidly industrializing,

17:00building factories, ships, and an enormous military

17:04but realized rather late that they did not have the resources to feed any of it.

17:08So, naturally, they resourced it from their neighbors by invading them.

17:15Yeah, that idea was surprisingly popular at the time.

17:18Now, before you invade somebody, it's generally considered polite to have an excuse.

17:23Fortunately, the Japanese military happened to find one.

17:26Or more accurately, they made one.

17:29Uh-oh.

17:30Guess that's their excuse.

17:31Looks like somebody blew up the railway, though it was most likely the Japanese themselves.

17:36Japan, though, accused the Chinese and then threw their army at them.

17:39Nevertheless, Japan used the incident as an excuse to invade Manuria,

17:43which was a large chunk of northeastern China

17:46and to say it softly took over the place.

17:48The Japanese, however, wanted to expand more.

17:50So, after another convenient incident at the Marco Polo Bridge,

17:54the Japanese launched a second invasion against China

17:57where they captured the biggest Chinese cities and shortly after the capital at the time, Nan King

18:02where they did such horrible things to the Chinese that if I would explain them in detail

18:06the YouTube senpie would instantly ban our channel.

18:09And uh yeah, Doodly Chan, that's about all you need to know before the Second World War starts.

18:14Sorry about the bumpy train, right?

18:16I really like One Piece, by the way.

18:18Take this sticker.

18:19And I got to tell you what happens in chapter 4,92. So basically,

18:23Luffy gets really strong and then he kills all the enemies.

18:26Hey. Hey.

18:26And with that, you are finally ready, my friend.

18:29World War II.

18:31The video is finally happening.

18:33I I I can't believe it, guys

18:34. We waited so long for this moment. All right.

18:37So, all you have to do now is jump in this painting in the middle of your screen.

18:40You can click it and it will take you straight to the beginning of the war.

18:43Unless it's not there, of course.

18:45Does that mean I promise to not leave you on a cliffhanger? Yet, I did.

18:49Well, if the worst person in history is allowed to lie

18:52surely the second worst person in history is allowed to lie, too.

18:55Hey, see you soon, my friend