Historian Breaks Down World War 2 - Oversimplified (Part 1)

Oversimplified is great. This guy is great as well. Like how he may correct a few things but it's not in a accusing way. We all miss things at times. But most of the time he adds to the oversimplification without getting it too far back to over complicated. Both channels are awesome.

Imagine being a student...then you see your teacher become the head of your country and your like.. "Wait...is that Mr. Mussolini!?"

As a Chinese I cannot be more grateful that you mentioned the rape of Nanking (The Nanking Massacre), which is the absolute darkest day in WW2 for Chinese people.

There's a historian who called the Treaty of Versailles "The treaty that started all wars." Virtually every conflict since then has its roots in that mess of a document, from WW2 to African border wars.

Japan: I bombed some ships Germany: who did you bomb Japan: USA Germany: you did what

19:45 yes, he made the French sign their surrender in the same rail car that the armistice in 1918 was signed in. Later he gave the order to blow it up, so that the allies couldn't do the same to him xD

21:39 As a Pole, thanks for bringing it up as it is usually forgotten how much our pilots had done for Brits. In the matter of fact they haven’t even been invited to the post war victory March in London. If you want to learn a bit more about 303 there is a great moovie called “Hurricane : squadron 303” I highly recommend it.

My wife watched your video, and she really appreciated what you said about the atrocities in Nanking. Thanks for taking the time to make others aware.

Can we get a historian breaking down a historian breaking down the video please

4:40 "People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made" -Franklin Roosevelt

“Our Japanese military is completely well equipped to handle the United States.” 5 years later “We bombed one harbor, they dropped the sun on us twice.”

My Grandfather was from Poland and he served in the RAF after serving in the Polish Air Force.

The Treaty of Versailles is why Hans Morgenthau, in "Politics Among Nations" (1947) argued that in the aftermath of a conflict, the victorious party must be benevolent to the defeated party. I wrote a paper once (the literature review was a hassle) arguing that WWII started the day WWI ended. Good paper, though early in my Masters Program

contrary to most people I miss going to class and your commentary sounds like a class lecture. I love it.

Wish I had a teacher like you growing up, very passionate, knowledgeable, and charismatic, keep up the great work

I love Oversimplified. Love the history and the humor.

13:57 You may have already heard about this, after reading 'the rape of Nanking' by Iris Chang I did some further research on the Japanese, their camps, and even came across a unit that experimented on people, similar to the experiments the Nazi's did under the 'Angel of Death' Mengele. It's called Unit 731 and the things humans did to other humans there truly are horrific. I also spoke to my grandmother in law who is of Indonesian descent who told me about brutal torture methods in prison camps that involved bamboo (though I will spare you the details). The Japanese were indeed extremely well taught in the arts of torture...

The Meth you mentioned was in the army known as "Panzerschokolade" (translated from word to word: "Tank Chocolate"). It was also used (my Father told me this who got it told from his Father and so on) from pilotes, to keep them wake and alerted the hole time. Thought it might be fun to know

I freaking love these kinds of videos. Not only you get entertained but you also learned a lot from a 20 minute video than from a 2 hours lecture in class.

I love the duality between you and oversimplified, he gives you the basic knowledge of everything then you go into deeper detail about the thing he says.