World War 1 (All Parts)



All 5 parts of Epic History TV’s history of World War One in one place (re-edited in 2022). From the Schlieffen Plan to the Versailles …

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  1. I hope you enjoy our complete history of World War One – 'the war to end all wars'. This series – produced in 2015 – has been re-edited and re-released in 2022, as previous versions were age-restricted by YouTube (presumably because human remains were visible in a few photographs – though always in a clearly historical, non-sensationalist context. The precise reason is never given by YouTube. For those interested in what an 18+ history video looks like, you can watch the previous version here: https://youtu.be/GG0LY8OLBG8). Unpredictable decisions by YouTube can make life quite uncertain for military history creators, which is why we are so grateful to all our supporters at Patreon – please consider joining their ranks! https://www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV

  2. Great video. Best "summary" of WWI I've seen so far. But it's missing a few things imo.

    1. Big private US banks (mind you, this was before the existence of a federal bank in the US) like JP Morgan had loaned millions to the nations at war, but thanks to Germany's own economy and the British naval blockade, a comparatively miniscule sum to the Central Powers and most of it to the Allies, primarily Britain and especially France, whose war industry could not have kept up otherwise. These banks put heavy pressure on the US government to enter the war and secure the victory for the allies so they wouldn't lose their investments.
    2. In parts, thanks to this pressure, the US government planned to enter the war, even against its own population's anti-war stance. They even considered forced subscription. In the end, they instead decided to hire Edward Bernays, cousin of famous Sigmund Freud, to create a program that would convince the US population to enter the war. This was the birth of modern propaganda based on psychological ideas. The program he called "public relations" was so successful, it took less than a year to completely turn the people's opinion en masse.
    3. The Germans had warned the US they'd shoot down any ship entering British waters, thus breaking their blockade. The US government, knowing full well their civilian ships would be sunk, sent them anyway, and used the tragedies to bolster anti-German sentiment and further aid their PR program.

    On a sidenote, these same psychological principles to form public opinion were later used in the Third Reich's propaganda, and worked just as well in turning the Weimar Republic into a dictatorship keen on total war of elimination. Furthermore, post war, corporations explored how this PR could be used to make people want to buy their products, and these days it is absolutely everywhere, every big corporation has its own PR department.

  3. Listening to this video again today, it struck me just how often you threw around causalty numbers at a quarter million or thereabouts. The scale of death for so little is terrifying. Thank you for continuing to make these educational videos.
    God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️

  4. Think of how better the world men & women would be today if we weren't left with all the men that couldn't be drafted 😭 I will die on this hill but due to the world wars we lost so many men whose genes are needed today. Great men & boys sent to die before they had a chance to even create legacies or future generations.

  5. this is what commonly the world knows how WW1 started, but there are more complex and driven power monger stories behind the WW1….the assasination is just the a hypocritical pretense to start the war…fufufufuf

  6. Balkan countries wanted independence, and serbia started the fight.
    Russia got involved to help their slav brothers, germany had to back austria and hungary up.
    France and britian were afraid that germany would take russia and then the entire west?

  7. At 54:18 there is a correction to be made. The line that the Germans punch through were held by Portuguese troops who were on the front lines for the better part of a year. They were overrun and the survivors were melded into the British forces.

  8. हिंदी का डबिंग ठीक से नहीं किया है। सारे अंग्रेज़ी के शब्द घुसेड़ दिये है।

  9. You are way too one-sided explaining this blodshed of a war. It's not Constantinopole, that's first. Ottomans didn't start to attack Armenians just for fun, they REBELLED against Ottomans, that's second. There weren't even 2 million people living in Anatolia back at the time, howcome 1-1.5m Armenians were killed? Did Anatolia belong to Armenians? 🙂 Stop telling lies and focus on the truth if you can 😉

  10. Covers the full scope of World War I—from its complex origins to the battles, politics, and aftermath that shaped the modern world. Which event or moment do you think had the most lasting impact? Always keen to hear different reflections on this global turning point. ⚔🌍📜

  11. There is no such thing called armenian genocide u a***… turks do not do genocide, if armenians supported our enemies in war, of course we will kick them out.

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