The History of the Baghdad Pact: Every Year

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  • Опубликовано: 13 июн 2023
  • There was an attempt during the Cold War to make a NATO-like alliance but for the Middle East. It did not turn out well.
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    Sources:
    US Department of State Archives: 2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/t...
    Wikipedia (for the list of General Secretaries)

Комментарии • 97

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar  Год назад +111

    Here's an extra bonus video. Expect a normal video Friday!

  • @greyghost2492
    @greyghost2492 Год назад +344

    "We have NATO at home"
    NATO at home:

  • @Militaria-pr9rj
    @Militaria-pr9rj Год назад +149

    Britain withdraws in 1974
    Turkey: “hold on, this whole operation was your idea!”

    • @brad5426
      @brad5426 Год назад +14

      It probably would have still been if Turkey hadn't invaded Cyprus

  • @SnapplyPie
    @SnapplyPie Год назад +536

    I love how it starts with Iraq leaving it immediately... great success!

    • @GWfan
      @GWfan Год назад +10

      I believe they left though due to independence from the UK.

    • @SnapplyPie
      @SnapplyPie Год назад +8

      @@GWfan you're right, I completely forgot 😂

    • @ilhandiril5268
      @ilhandiril5268 Год назад +41

      nah, iraq was already independent, they left after a coup

    • @SnapplyPie
      @SnapplyPie Год назад +1

      @@ilhandiril5268 I edited the comment, I had phrased it differently before

    • @user-zz8ll5ry7r
      @user-zz8ll5ry7r Год назад +14

      Imagine having a "Baghdad Pact" without the country whose capital is Baghdad...

  • @SorceressWitch
    @SorceressWitch Год назад +110

    It's called the Baghdad pact and Iraq leaves early lol.

    • @michaelkirschner7471
      @michaelkirschner7471 Год назад +29

      Imagine if Poland left the Warsaw Pact early but they just kept the name

    • @user-fj5wn9iq5r
      @user-fj5wn9iq5r Год назад

      in 1958 a coup end pro West monorchy and been replaced by military Republic led by General Qasem and the king and his male relatives brutally killed and even the crown prince and Maternal Uncle of king Faisal ii striped naked dead body dragged on steets and later Attached to a ropeand actually the monarchs in Iraq were hated because seen puppets of UK

    • @casteddu6740
      @casteddu6740 Год назад +1

      I mean, if the pact is signed in a city, the country that owns it leaving does not change that

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 Год назад +7

      The Roman Empire, featuring an empire without the city of Rome from 747 CE onwards.

    • @deqwek99
      @deqwek99 Год назад

      Ankara Pact maybe would work?

  • @8is
    @8is Год назад +107

    Damn, I’ve never heard about this attempt.

  • @donpollo3154
    @donpollo3154 Год назад +43

    Why am I suddenly seeing CENTO everywhere now? I hadn't even heard of it until a few days ago and now I'm seeing it pop up everywhere I look

    • @Punker85_YouTube
      @Punker85_YouTube Год назад +13

      I think it is because of a recent plan to combine the navies of many gulf states

    • @Normal_user_coniven
      @Normal_user_coniven Год назад +5

      A proof that History-geography RUclipsrs are getting the ideas from each other.

  • @tommy-er6hh
    @tommy-er6hh Год назад +146

    A little explanation of WHY various states left would be nice. I assume most of African states left because they got Independence from British Empire.

    • @advocatusdiaboli4861
      @advocatusdiaboli4861 Год назад +75

      Iraq left because of a republican revolution in 1958, Iran because of an islamist revolution in 1979, Britain is explained, Turkey and Pakistan left last when there was no point anymore, and everyone else was British colonies gaining independence.

    • @tommy-er6hh
      @tommy-er6hh Год назад +11

      @@advocatusdiaboli4861 Thank you for that info - it would have been nice to have it briefly alongside the map.

    • @user-fj5wn9iq5r
      @user-fj5wn9iq5r Год назад +17

      ​@@advocatusdiaboli4861 Pakistan left because they got no help in 2 wars against India in 1965 and 1971 and turkey have an problematic relationship with UK over Cyprus

  • @CitySeventeen17
    @CitySeventeen17 Год назад +20

    I love the good old style of intro that you use.

  • @Daniboy0826
    @Daniboy0826 Год назад +19

    I guess the UK was there because of its colonies? That explains why Sudan left so fast.

  • @Qwerka
    @Qwerka Год назад +37

    Imagine this turning into an economical alliance.

  • @waffle6376
    @waffle6376 Год назад +24

    Could you do the history of oman

    • @XYZ_55
      @XYZ_55 Год назад +9

      Oh man, that would be interesting!

    • @GWfan
      @GWfan Год назад +1

      that would be pretty interesting tbf

    • @foakjljrwajkltawtrawtwa441
      @foakjljrwajkltawtrawtwa441 Год назад +1

      Yep, especially the big Muscat and Oman

  • @skawary2569
    @skawary2569 Год назад +6

    Never heard of that!

  • @marcello7781
    @marcello7781 Год назад +2

    "That escalated quickly"

  • @lolnoobthemapper
    @lolnoobthemapper Год назад +2

    Ohh that's what the question in the community tab was for

  • @spaghettiking7312
    @spaghettiking7312 Год назад +8

    An interesting, alliance. A reminder of a now-dead geopolitical arrangement.

  • @NeroPiroman
    @NeroPiroman Год назад +2

    never knew this existed

  • @thebubz7917
    @thebubz7917 Год назад +1

    Very interesting

  • @IRAQI_EDUCATED
    @IRAQI_EDUCATED Год назад +4

    Finely someone talk about Baghdad pact

  • @kingofdefense
    @kingofdefense Год назад +2

    I can't wait for the day you go crazy and add all your maps into a world map of everything.

  • @animehero343
    @animehero343 Год назад +2

    Britain: Why don't we form our own NATO?
    Everyone else: OUT!

  • @theily1724
    @theily1724 Год назад +1

    Look what you’ve done Hulagu. This is now your true lasting legacy.

  • @BritishRoyalMapping
    @BritishRoyalMapping Год назад +3

    Well at least we tried

  • @cavejohnson982
    @cavejohnson982 Год назад +1

    Interesting

  • @Kaisersaurus
    @Kaisersaurus Год назад +5

    I love how Iraq left immediately

  • @christopherellis2663
    @christopherellis2663 Год назад +1

    infighting before insight 😊 thr Offendi Awards.

  • @hamdeath1110
    @hamdeath1110 8 месяцев назад

    0:21 I like the minor details in the map, Pakistan acceded the nearly 5,000 sq km area of Shaksgam Valley to China in 1963 under the Sino-Pakistan Agreement 1963 because of course the territory was under the Qing Empire and then Republic of China from the very beginning.

    • @Username12038
      @Username12038 3 месяца назад

      You sure do like that don't you

  • @peterroberts4415
    @peterroberts4415 Год назад +1

    Well, at least they tried...

  • @muhammedjaseemshajeef6781
    @muhammedjaseemshajeef6781 Год назад +4

    I didn't even heard of it 😂😂😂total failure

  • @muhammedjaseemshajeef6781
    @muhammedjaseemshajeef6781 Год назад +2

    Other countries were turkey and Pakistan

  • @astadas
    @astadas Год назад

    T was short😄

  • @Firmus777
    @Firmus777 Год назад +6

    Imagine an parallel universe where the revolutions in Iraq and Iran never happened so the Baghdad Pact survived and expanded, but also revolutions break out in France and the US causing the dissolution of NATO. Totally unrealistic, but it's funny to think about.

    • @Godzillafan78
      @Godzillafan78 10 месяцев назад +1

      France left NATO for the good part of the Cold War and it survived

    • @shirkam3657
      @shirkam3657 9 месяцев назад +1

      Literally Kaiserreich

  • @chimera9818
    @chimera9818 Год назад

    Lol

  • @user-hd1bi9ts1z
    @user-hd1bi9ts1z Год назад

    Iven Gr.Britain in pact, but not Iraq

  • @emil3f
    @emil3f Год назад +1

    Hellooo

  • @cringechannel01
    @cringechannel01 6 месяцев назад

    eritrea

  • @caiusoof
    @caiusoof Год назад +3

    “3 views”

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Год назад +6

    Baghdad Pact = Failure 100

    • @James-zi5en
      @James-zi5en Год назад +4

      No, it wasn’t a failure. The organization prevented soviet ambitions in the Middle East.

  • @Nevergonnagiveyouup805
    @Nevergonnagiveyouup805 11 месяцев назад

    Lets go i live in iraq

  • @scientificnameofpigs
    @scientificnameofpigs Год назад +1

    My whatsapp groups be like:

  • @unncommonsense
    @unncommonsense Год назад

    Such a big L that I had never heard of this before.

  • @ciambruschiniboys2
    @ciambruschiniboys2 Год назад +3

    Tigerstar can you make an OnlyFans?

  • @jayd6038
    @jayd6038 Год назад

    200th like

  • @davidr1037
    @davidr1037 Год назад

    Comment

  • @Fin4L6are
    @Fin4L6are Год назад +3

    And then Turkey was accepted into NATO

  • @mcanty
    @mcanty 11 месяцев назад

    British tryna fit in

  • @0kisshun0
    @0kisshun0 Год назад +9

    it was a failed atempt to contain the sovietunion from the south.

  • @Normal_user_coniven
    @Normal_user_coniven Год назад +1

    It is like trying to make British commonwealth for the Muslim country.
    As I know by now, there are 5 Muslim nations/ states in the British commonwealth currently, which are: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, Dar-Assalam Brunie sultanate.

    • @lazloe
      @lazloe Год назад +2

      سنغافورة ليست دولة اسلامية

    • @mamoonarshad304
      @mamoonarshad304 11 месяцев назад +1

      My guy put Singapore there

  • @SlavEditor
    @SlavEditor Год назад

    this alliance was quite cringe aye?

    • @hamdeath1110
      @hamdeath1110 8 месяцев назад +1

      Exactly, Sunni majority Pakistan making an alliance with Shia majority Iran and Iraq? Impossible

  • @hakasjsr4
    @hakasjsr4 11 месяцев назад

    Awww Broke Baghdad no one join Baghdad 😢

  • @Julio_cesarfalangista
    @Julio_cesarfalangista Год назад

    Hellooo