How The World Map Has Changed In 100 Years (Since WWI)

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  • Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2018
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    November 11, 2018 marks the 100 year anniversary since the end of the first world war. In this video I attempt to show how the map has changed in those hundred year!
    Music by Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com/creator
    Another Path - Johan Hynynen
    Yet again a huge thank you to the Associated Press (and especially to the super helpful Jenny) for their continued use of their archive footage.

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  • @WonderWhy
    @WonderWhy  5 лет назад +1154

    On the 100 year anniversary of the end of WWI, I look at how the world map has changed in those hundred years. I've tried to be as thorough as possible but obviously this is not an exhaustive list.
    This was an absolute monumental task, and getting it finished in time for today was no easy feat. To say I've been working overtime would an understatement. The video isn't as polished as I would have liked, and I'll admit I cut a few corners at times, relied a little too much on Wikipedia maps and stuff like that... but I hope you'll forgive me just this one time if this video is a little rough around the edges.
    If you've already seen all of my previous videos, you'll see a lot of the same themes come up in this video. I've even used a lot of the same graphics. I hope the video doesn't get too boring if you're already familiar with most of the history. Despite cutting the script time and time again, this is still my longest video to date.
    I'm not sure whether or not this was a good idea for a video, but I think it's always worth taking risks and trying new things. If this video wasn't your thing, hopefully the next one will be your cup of tea.
    Anyway, thanks for all the support, I really appreciate it. Please give some love to the awesome Squarespace for yet another video of mine sponsored. Go to squarespace.com/wonderwhy for a free trial and get 10% of your first purchase with offer code WONDERWHY. It really helps out the channel.
    Also want to give a shout out to AP for once again allowing me access to their archive content. It is very much appreciated.
    See you next time!
    Chris.

    • @hoodclassicsofcalifornia
      @hoodclassicsofcalifornia 5 лет назад +16

      Thank You for the creation of this video
      P.S. I didnt know Austria was also occupied by the allies, nice fact.

    • @Jamie-kv9eg
      @Jamie-kv9eg 5 лет назад

      MON THE RANGERS

    • @Samm815
      @Samm815 5 лет назад +7

      I write this at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month, today all the guns are at peace.

    • @safetyinstructor
      @safetyinstructor 5 лет назад +5

      You're making great videos ...keep it up...!

    • @tendion8634
      @tendion8634 5 лет назад +4

      Show us your face #WonderWhy :P

  • @rea8585
    @rea8585 5 лет назад +2229

    Dude, that was way neater than any history class.

    • @Evzone1821
      @Evzone1821 5 лет назад +10

      Quick Fix - Thought Provoking Videos Hey! I saw you on simple history! Small world!

    • @Miquelalalaa
      @Miquelalalaa 5 лет назад +8

      Quick Fix - Thought Provoking Videos Stop using bots to promote your channel.

    • @flybeep1661
      @flybeep1661 5 лет назад +6

      And also way more superficial.

    • @AngelOfMusic20
      @AngelOfMusic20 5 лет назад +5

      My history teacher did this before RUclips was even a thing.

    • @weatherphobia
      @weatherphobia 5 лет назад

      Quicker too! And you didn't have to witness ho's offering/giving BJ's/HJ's in the JR/HS classroom either!Public[GOVERNMENT] school system, aint it wonderful?

  • @vioooarora
    @vioooarora 3 года назад +276

    Just imagine, if the driver hadnt taken a wrong turn the map would have been so much different

    • @williamsantos9471
      @williamsantos9471 2 года назад +5

      @@themanbehindtheslaughter7633 Austria wouldn't stay neutral, they would very likely join Germany in any war anyway, the Ottomans maybe could still survived since they were very divided in joining the war or not

    • @UnholyWrath3277
      @UnholyWrath3277 2 года назад +1

      @@roborbiettinoisgone392 while it would happen it becomes so unpredictable its just nuts. No garuntee of how extreme the war gets or how long it gets delayed. A few years would mean an extremely different style of war and technologies available plus different leaders for a few countries involved. While the war happens it could be any other possible endinh

    • @themanbehindtheslaughter7633
      @themanbehindtheslaughter7633 2 года назад

      @@williamsantos9471 I meant that if the war happened Conrad von Hotzendrokmuffin would be kept aside by Ferdinand, if Josef is still in power and most likely fired if Ferdinand is, thus neutrality.

    • @themanbehindtheslaughter7633
      @themanbehindtheslaughter7633 2 года назад

      @Billy O'sullivan I meant that if the war happened Conrad von Hotzendrokmuffin would be kept aside by Ferdinand, if Josef is still in power and most likely fired if Ferdinand is, thus neutrality.

    • @williamsantos9471
      @williamsantos9471 2 года назад

      @@themanbehindtheslaughter7633 The assassination was what needed to start a conflict, it would happen eventually

  • @otterfan65
    @otterfan65 4 года назад +1428

    The map of Europe has changed all because a Serbian guy was mad over Bosnia

    • @mikebather6688
      @mikebather6688 4 года назад +3

      What about world war two

    • @lyndonbjohnson2865
      @lyndonbjohnson2865 4 года назад +130

      @@mikebather6688 because of ww1 soooo

    • @TheWeljash
      @TheWeljash 4 года назад +46

      @1788896522991886621 no u

    • @tomasroma2333
      @tomasroma2333 4 года назад +94

      No. War was inevitable. That was meerly the catalyst for war not the causation.

    • @ryanmurray7941
      @ryanmurray7941 4 года назад +19

      Tomás Roma exactly. It was the catalyst. It ignited the war, therefore, was the reason why so many border changes have occurred from ww1 which later set up the stage for nazi Germany and ww2

  • @majorgeneraljohnson8212
    @majorgeneraljohnson8212 4 года назад +1852

    If I don’t see Prussia return by 3018, I will be furious in my grave.

    • @WWSzar
      @WWSzar 4 года назад +144

      We've had a Prussian Prussia, German Prussia and now a Russian Prussia. Perhaps the Russians will call themselves Prussian too.

    • @TermlessHGW
      @TermlessHGW 4 года назад +6

      You're really daft

    • @leonardodavid2842
      @leonardodavid2842 4 года назад +20

      W.A. Szarkow. We have had old Prussians and Prussians. Two.

    • @WWSzar
      @WWSzar 4 года назад +17

      @@leonardodavid2842 The German Prussians would be called the young Prussians in such a case, tbh if a Russian from Kaliningrad called oneself Prussian, I wouldn't see how that would be different than what the German Prussians did.

    • @leonardodavid2842
      @leonardodavid2842 4 года назад +23

      @@WWSzar Old Prussian is an historical term used for the once native baltic population.
      Today this population has dialuted into the German one, trough the migration. Thus, this people took the local name of the region (called after the natives) Prussians and became called as such (when the Teutonic order converted to protestantism in the 16th). Historically were always called as such after the region (despite the fact that the people who the region is called after, are gone).
      For the same reason we don't call modern day Americans, "Foreign Americans" (since the natives are called, Native Americans) we just call them Americans.

  • @BlueLiberty20
    @BlueLiberty20 5 лет назад +395

    How about a video explaining what was each super power country throughout history. Like from Egypt to modern day USA.

    • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
      @gaslitworldf.melissab2897 5 лет назад +21

      Do you mean "empires" throughout history? The term "super power" requires refining. After all, China became unified, but didn't incorporate outside of the mainland. So, did it become a superpower when it unified China? That's and example of what has to clarified. How far does an empire have to extend to be considered a "super power?"

    • @Samuel-dg4jv
      @Samuel-dg4jv 5 лет назад +3

      GaslitWorld f. Melissa B the us isn’t really a empire

    • @alphaplenn
      @alphaplenn 5 лет назад +40

      @@gaslitworldf.melissab2897; just call them the BIG BOY ON THE BLOCK _OK?

    • @randommonkey4900
      @randommonkey4900 4 года назад

      thatd be cool dance

    • @omnipotence8826
      @omnipotence8826 4 года назад +3

      Egypt was never a superpower.

  • @randomnessrules4971
    @randomnessrules4971 3 года назад +49

    Other RUclipsrs: I don't wanna mention this international dispute, it's too controversial
    WonderWhy: I'll mention all of them.

  • @dean1039
    @dean1039 4 года назад +249

    From 1919 to 2019, has seen the most change of any century in history. If someone were to travel forward from 1919 to now, they'd think they had travelled five centuries into the future, not one.

    • @jpok626
      @jpok626 4 года назад +49

      I don't know about that one. The 19th century can really give it a run for it's money. The unification of both Germany and Italy, the independence of Balkan nations from the Ottoman Empire, the independence and divisions of much of the Americas, the carving up of Africa and sections of Asia by European nations, etc.. The world in 1800 looks nothing like the world of 1900. I don't think any subsequent changes would seem all that surprising, given how rapidly they occurred during the 19th century.

    • @ssreekumar3707
      @ssreekumar3707 4 года назад +4

      Poor Steve Rogers

    • @dorthusiast
      @dorthusiast 4 года назад +4

      I would have to disagree. Especially Europe. It has mostly preserved its disposition from early 20th century. Spain, Portugal, France and UK have literally not changed at all, Germany is the same industrial, nationalist powerhouse it was back then, Poland experienced some change but it is still controlled by Warsaw, Italy hasn't changed except for minor territory loss to Yugoslavia and the Dodecanese to Greece, Yugoslavia might have split up but the independent countries are still very similar, Bulgaria and Romania have also had minuscule border changes, Turkey has been exactly the same, etc. I could go on.

    • @dorthusiast
      @dorthusiast 4 года назад +3

      @@jpok626 I agree with you except the Balkan Wars happened in the 20th, not 19th.

    • @serugolino7867
      @serugolino7867 4 года назад

      @@jpok626 nations went wild after the industrial revolution

  • @greyjay9492
    @greyjay9492 5 лет назад +450

    Today is also the 65th anniversary of the armistice that ended Soviet and American occupation of the Korean peninsula

    • @abyssstrider2547
      @abyssstrider2547 5 лет назад +11

      Korean war never ended, there was just armistice.

    • @crunch9876
      @crunch9876 5 лет назад +7

      Edin743 is that not exactly what he said

    • @speedy01247
      @speedy01247 5 лет назад +13

      WW1 also didn't truly end in 11/11/1918 either, it was an armistice as well, hence the term armistice day (US Veterans day)

    • @user-qs1wm9tx6n
      @user-qs1wm9tx6n 5 лет назад +2

      My Grandfather was Sargent in the Korean War he was in the frozen chosen 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 U.S. Army

    • @e1123581321345589144
      @e1123581321345589144 5 лет назад +1

      I would argue that soviet occupation of the Korean peninsula is still ongoing, but I guess that's a matter of perspective

  • @Facts5TV
    @Facts5TV 5 лет назад +20

    That was a ridiculously simplified explanation of the situation in Southern Rhodesia but I’m glad we got a mention at all - most people don’t know about it’s history unfortunately.
    Also, apart from it being armistice day, today happens to be the 53rd anniversary of UDI!

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 Год назад

      May Ian Smith rot in hell till the last black holes burn out.

  • @TheSpaceinvasion
    @TheSpaceinvasion 5 лет назад +183

    You forget that Italy give Greece the Island of Rhodos

    • @jjgreek1
      @jjgreek1 5 лет назад +15

      actually, all the Dodecanese

    • @g3org3yo7
      @g3org3yo7 4 года назад +1

      yep we traded northern Epirus for the Dodecanese to Italy and italy gave it to Albania

    • @cobbercube
      @cobbercube 4 года назад +5

      Guys they gave you a reminder at the start of this video

    • @williamhu2630
      @williamhu2630 4 года назад

      jjgreek1 what if those lands became the land of Sovrano Militare Ordine Ospedaliero di San Giovanni di Gerusalemme di Rodi e di Malta?

    • @dorthusiast
      @dorthusiast 4 года назад

      @@cobbercube To be honest the reminder doesn't apply. WonderWhy explicitly mentioned the minor territoıry loss to Yugoslavia as the only land change for Italy post-WWII. The cession of the Dodecanese Islands to Greece should've also been noted.

  • @lorddakr
    @lorddakr 5 лет назад +216

    This is a brilliant video, really well put together ;-)

  • @MonarchyControl285
    @MonarchyControl285 5 лет назад +570

    *sees thumbnail*
    "FRANCE TURNED INTO POLAND?! Man World War One was crazy"

    • @gruenpelz
      @gruenpelz 5 лет назад +10

      I dont get it

    • @vexxcon8125
      @vexxcon8125 5 лет назад +3

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @jacoby3070
      @jacoby3070 5 лет назад +2

      @@gruenpelz well what do u not get about it

    • @gruenpelz
      @gruenpelz 5 лет назад +9

      @@jacoby3070 WHow did France turn into Poland?

    • @jacoby3070
      @jacoby3070 5 лет назад +12

      @@gruenpelz on the thumbnail and the left side you see France and the other side Poland

  • @hreniucandrei3702
    @hreniucandrei3702 5 лет назад +311

    *mentions every major disputed territory*
    Time to grab the popcorn.

    • @morbidsearch
      @morbidsearch 5 лет назад +4

      Kosovo is Macedonia

    • @thescrewfly
      @thescrewfly 5 лет назад +4

      And Macedonia is Greece (jk)

    • @tripleastacz372
      @tripleastacz372 5 лет назад +2

      The Greeks are the most triggered they want to associate themselves with Alexander so much they claim his homeland to be Greek.

    • @Malos_
      @Malos_ 5 лет назад +10

      *INDIA IS BRITISH*

    • @Calebroc9
      @Calebroc9 5 лет назад +7

      @@tripleastacz372 The modern state of Macedonian only exists because of the Soviets, it hasn't existed properly since the days of Ancient Greece and only exists as of now because the Soviets needed to make a country in the region.

  • @mrniba7280
    @mrniba7280 4 года назад +191

    It kinda bothers me that Finland was completely ignored in this video.

    • @ariee7089
      @ariee7089 3 года назад +3

      Yeah same

    • @muanofuny7457
      @muanofuny7457 3 года назад +4

      I don't know a lot about Finland but i know that it had his independente
      After ww1

    • @mrniba7280
      @mrniba7280 3 года назад +16

      @@muanofuny7457 actually during ww1 in 1917

    • @muanofuny7457
      @muanofuny7457 3 года назад +2

      @@mrniba7280 oh thanks

    • @timflatus
      @timflatus 3 года назад +15

      I doubt it was deliberate, omissions are inevitable when you try to cover the entire world.

  • @jacobb7310
    @jacobb7310 4 года назад +9

    Well done. I'd like to add that Japan lost the Sakhalin island and the Kuriles to Russia in 1945. A joint declaration was signed in 1956 but no peace treaty between Russia and Japan has been signed due to the Kurile islands dispute.

  • @JordanBeagle
    @JordanBeagle 5 лет назад +22

    13:45 "The Sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now... that's just where he lives."

  • @ThePrinceofParthia
    @ThePrinceofParthia 5 лет назад +354

    Europe border changes omitted:
    Finnish border changes after the Winter War
    Trieste Shenanigans Free/Yugoslavia/Italy (cred. Ottoman Empire)
    Minor: Vatican City Lateran Pacts (cred. Ottoman Empire)
    Minor: Dodecanese islands transferred from Italy to Greece (cred. Manpet Epetrop)
    Middle Eastern omissions:
    Yemeni-Saudi border dispute (Jeddah treaty 2000, cred. denzal689, Ottoman Empire)
    East Asian omissions:
    Minor: Japan also lost half of Sakhalin after WWII
    Chinese annexation of Tibet
    Indian annexation of Portuguese Goa
    Indian annexation of the Kingdom of Sikkim (cred. Uncle Podger)
    America and ROTW omissions:
    Minor: Costa Rica / Nicaragua border dispute resolved
    Not exhaustive, but for the number of facts in the video, so few mistakes is a testament to good research :)

    • @Gallo4
      @Gallo4 5 лет назад +14

      He also forgot the Independence of Somaliland.

    • @ThePrinceofParthia
      @ThePrinceofParthia 5 лет назад +1

      @@kablammymog You're right, I'll edit my comment

    • @unclepodger
      @unclepodger 5 лет назад +13

      Gallo 4 Also the inclusion of the Kingdom of Sikkim into the Indian Union, but hey even many Indians don't realise that Sikkim was an independent kingdom once

    • @unclepodger
      @unclepodger 5 лет назад +6

      Someone else in the comments asked about Goa too, WonderWhy replied to them saying that while Goa was included in the list, it was omitted due to time constraints.

    • @denzal689
      @denzal689 5 лет назад +7

      There's also a border change between Yemen and Saudi Arabic in 2000.

  • @the8thgemmer467
    @the8thgemmer467 5 лет назад +61

    2:13
    The treaty changed you as a whole and Germany the fat
    Thanks auto captions

    • @scottmaloney7198
      @scottmaloney7198 4 года назад +1

      HaHaHa!

    • @g-forcefgt323
      @g-forcefgt323 4 года назад +4

      Now i want fat Germany pics

    • @dorthusiast
      @dorthusiast 4 года назад +2

      there was also the penis declaration of independence in 1965 (14:11)

  • @heistman13
    @heistman13 5 лет назад +11

    i have been watching youtube for 11 years and i have to say this was the most educational and well done video i have every seen. great content, well done!

  • @murojaXD
    @murojaXD 5 лет назад +463

    How can you not mention Finland and it's border changes?

    • @Minetime345
      @Minetime345 5 лет назад +135

      Because it doesn't exist/s

    • @merrittanimation7721
      @merrittanimation7721 5 лет назад +116

      @@f.c.8978 It's a joke conspiracy theory that Russia and Japan made up Finland so they could fish there without impunity. It's really dumb.

    • @videogamebomer
      @videogamebomer 5 лет назад +2

      @@f.c.8978 That doesn't exist either

    • @enochliu8316
      @enochliu8316 5 лет назад +1

      @@f.c.8978 9:10

    • @NotFlappy12
      @NotFlappy12 5 лет назад +6

      pretty sure finland became independant when ww1 was still going on

  • @NWOWCW4Life1
    @NWOWCW4Life1 5 лет назад +19

    It’s pretty amazing to look back and see how these events really changed the world.
    Amazing work. I’ve only been subbed here to a while and so far, I’m not regretting it.

  • @eduardpeeterlemming
    @eduardpeeterlemming 2 года назад +4

    Europe in start of 20th centrury: 10 countries, Europe now: 58 countries

  • @jackzimmer6553
    @jackzimmer6553 5 лет назад +11

    Great job covering a lot of history on our earth in a short time. Kudos!

  • @shunyat9023
    @shunyat9023 5 лет назад +229

    WonderWhy and Bill Wurtz lie at the opposite end of the spectrum yet they both produce the most awesome content the internet had seen.

    • @andreasmc1
      @andreasmc1 5 лет назад +1

      ιου ςλαη ?

    • @dougdog1224
      @dougdog1224 5 лет назад +9

      and brains4breakfast

    • @jalmaritammela8642
      @jalmaritammela8642 5 лет назад +3

      Brains4breakfast is a gem in youtube.

    • @datfisheboi6519
      @datfisheboi6519 5 лет назад +2

      I like how nobody questions which spectrum

    • @TheJJ65
      @TheJJ65 5 лет назад

      which spectrum are you talking about?

  • @sorayacatfriend
    @sorayacatfriend 5 лет назад +37

    I know its very minor, but the French and Portuguese territories in India, Pondichèry, Mahé, Yanam, and Karaikal; and Goa, Daman, and Diu respectively, were returned ceded to India in 1958 and 1961 respectively.

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  5 лет назад +9

      They were in the original script, but unfortunately time constraints meant they had to be cut.

    • @zochbuppet448
      @zochbuppet448 5 лет назад +3

      Only the French ceded I think. The rest were Portuguese and were just rightfully occupied and forcefully taken back/ over without much blood shed or a bat of an eye from UK, France and others ...because they world had changed...And everyone knew that it was right.

    • @canbot1
      @canbot1 5 лет назад

      @@WonderWhy holy 🐄 cow you've actually replied! Did you have Sikkim in your script? It had joined The Union of India in '75 and this lasted longer than East Timor's 11 day independence.

    • @canbot1
      @canbot1 5 лет назад

      @@zochbuppet448 there was some blood shed and negotiations prior to that. Mexico really wanted to stick it to the Portuguese which is why they'd aligned themselves with India. There was also an Indian passenger boat which had been attacked prior to the annexation because it had been perceived as a threat by the Portuguese. There's probably something about it in this book: isbn:9789728799533 which is entirely in Portuguese and it has been written by someone I don't know anything about but there's something about fishermen being killed "allegedly" in this book: books.google.co.in/books?id=uPx4vb99RUoC&pg=PA185&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false there are also two super long articles on Wikipedia. If the world had really changed so drastically then the Vietnam war wouldn't have happened years later.

    • @canbot1
      @canbot1 5 лет назад

      Thanks for reminding us of that Prakhar but you've left out Sikkim it used to be 1 of the *3* land-locked countries sandwiched between the PRC and the subcontinent. Prior to that there was an uninterrupted string of countries between in Indo-Tibetan border and I think all three of them must have had open borders with India much like Bhutan and Nepal do today. Oh and you can still find some French stuff in Pondicherry like a baguette.

  • @luisalmeida1391
    @luisalmeida1391 5 лет назад +1

    As usual, beautifully done. Great work!

  • @danielmorris9627
    @danielmorris9627 5 лет назад +2

    Congratulations on 500K subscribers! Well deserved.

  • @naveenraj2008eee
    @naveenraj2008eee 5 лет назад +31

    Nice way to sum up details and eye opener . Kudos to wonder why 👏

  • @stickykeys2795
    @stickykeys2795 5 лет назад +3

    This video really sums up everything on your channel. It was wonderful; great job!

  • @coopersluka3114
    @coopersluka3114 5 лет назад +87

    Great video as always! I was just thinking: what if you did “Winners & Losers - Episode 4: Languages”? Maybe you can do total number of speakers, total area of land in which it is mostly spoken, oldest & youngest languages, supposedly most difficult/easy to write/speak, etc. This is just an idea I thought of while brainstorming. I would appreciate a response if possible, thank you!

  • @NiffYT
    @NiffYT 4 года назад +51

    I feel like Finland got ignored fully in this video.

    • @matthewcoyle9182
      @matthewcoyle9182 3 года назад +2

      No they got there borders back after the fall of the Soviet Union so there was no point of saying it'

    • @NiffYT
      @NiffYT 3 года назад +7

      @@matthewcoyle9182 Have you ever herd of winterwar? Were finland lost alot of land when we had to surrender to russia?

    • @COYM_1908
      @COYM_1908 3 года назад +1

      @@matthewcoyle9182 What?

    • @matthewcoyle9182
      @matthewcoyle9182 3 года назад

      @@NiffYT yea I know but when Germany attacked Russia Finland helped Germany for a little while and got it's territory back

    • @NiffYT
      @NiffYT 3 года назад +1

      @@matthewcoyle9182 Mate know your history, I fucking live in finland so I know, We didint get our land back, we are still missing alot, just google finlands map before winterwar and you see how mutch we lost if you compare it to finlands map now.

  • @ChiaraWatson
    @ChiaraWatson 5 лет назад +49

    I wonder what the next 100 years will be like between now and November 11, 2118?

    • @malalopreda2483
      @malalopreda2483 4 года назад +4

      WW3, here we come

    • @mikmirt6405
      @mikmirt6405 4 года назад +4

      Half of world under water due to climate change

    • @Hollywood2021
      @Hollywood2021 4 года назад

      Lol all of these replies are on point!

    • @somecallmeelvis
      @somecallmeelvis 4 года назад

      @Supreme Snek downgrade to a theocracy monarchy system

    • @rydemk4168
      @rydemk4168 4 года назад

      *The Apocalypse*

  • @SuperHappyBros
    @SuperHappyBros 5 лет назад +132

    In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead; short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

    • @thescrewfly
      @thescrewfly 5 лет назад +4

      You quote the whole poem with no attribution at all? It's not by Tom Leben, of course, it was written in 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian army doctor.

    • @SuperHappyBros
      @SuperHappyBros 5 лет назад +3

      @@thescrewfly yes it is by him not me.

    • @moodini99
      @moodini99 5 лет назад +1

      Meh. That's a shit poem. Overrated war rubbish

    • @brucebartup6161
      @brucebartup6161 5 лет назад +2

      moodini99
      You are saying that all war Poems are overrated rubbish?

    • @moodini99
      @moodini99 5 лет назад +2

      No, just most of them

  • @damhnaitcockburn2970
    @damhnaitcockburn2970 4 года назад +5

    There was no mention of China annexing Tibet (1950) or the Finnish battles for their borders with Russia.

  • @ChrisLev
    @ChrisLev 4 года назад +2

    Hey that was a truly amazing video , good job !
    👍👍👍

  • @ciarankelly3726
    @ciarankelly3726 5 лет назад +97

    2 videos less than 2 weeks apart dammmn

  • @tychobotter
    @tychobotter 5 лет назад +176

    you forgot Indonesia's indepentents from the Netherlands after WW2

    • @NotFlappy12
      @NotFlappy12 5 лет назад +13

      yeah, weird that he forgot that, indonesia isn't exactly small

    • @filipusandikawicaksana6822
      @filipusandikawicaksana6822 5 лет назад +7

      We're always the forgotten Asian country...
      It's only in these last two or three years that we're getting noticed at all, although we're quickly on the rise with all those silat movies and the last two disasters on the news lol
      -------
      To be fair, though, the writer also forgot Saudi Arabia, which if I'm not mistaken, is formed after The Great War.

    • @Sparx632
      @Sparx632 5 лет назад +14

      Maybe it’s because it didn’t involve a border change.

    • @risannd
      @risannd 5 лет назад +11

      Indonesia's border at independence inherits former Dutch East Indies borders, except New Guinea and East Timor which has been mentioned.

    • @iqbalbhayangkara3816
      @iqbalbhayangkara3816 5 лет назад +1

      EXACTLY! how can you forget Indonesia?

  • @cii1072
    @cii1072 5 лет назад

    Excellent review. I need to watch a couple more times for some of this to sink in.

  • @epicgayumsproductions7164
    @epicgayumsproductions7164 4 года назад +43

    15:00 the maps at my school still have the ussr on it

    • @soofjandepr0
      @soofjandepr0 4 года назад +23

      Your history teacher, mr stalin, is he nice?

    • @colton.421
      @colton.421 4 года назад +7

      Ell My elementary school still used history textbooks from 1976 in 2015. Not sure if they still use them to this day.

    • @josgretf2800
      @josgretf2800 4 года назад +3

      @@colton.421 Mine did back in 2007 and 2008. Still had books and maps with the USSR.

    • @colton.421
      @colton.421 4 года назад +5

      Joshua Green Same here. The USSR, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia were still countries. Hong Kong still belonged to Britain. Germany was still split. etc.

    • @josgretf2800
      @josgretf2800 4 года назад +8

      @@colton.421 What a great education we had.

  • @captainie1
    @captainie1 5 лет назад +5

    Excellent presentation and genuinely educational video. Many thanks for your superb research and very informative maps.
    Kind regards from Ireland

  • @karolverniani6324
    @karolverniani6324 5 лет назад +149

    😂 turn on the subtitles and go to 14:11

  • @Juniper6
    @Juniper6 11 месяцев назад

    This was such an amazing video! The content was unbiased and interesting and well put together! Kudos!

  • @gaoyexin1230
    @gaoyexin1230 4 года назад

    Very detailed, very comprehensive!!! Thank you!!!

  • @Trisaaru
    @Trisaaru 5 лет назад +731

    If I had to choose one video to send to aliens so they could understand the Earth, I would send them this

    • @alessandro-hm9wk
      @alessandro-hm9wk 5 лет назад +3

      Handz 0n Trigger or to peapol Who deide in ww 1 Sorie for bad englese

    • @TheBatonkal
      @TheBatonkal 5 лет назад +53

      history of the world by bill wurtz

    • @Trisaaru
      @Trisaaru 5 лет назад +4

      Batonkal Good choice

    • @mzal2326
      @mzal2326 5 лет назад +3

      Either a video explaining memes or the history of memes

    • @tobakroger7504
      @tobakroger7504 5 лет назад +6

      Thats very stupid

  • @DevilDaz17
    @DevilDaz17 5 лет назад +12

    Small correction: Singapore didn't withdraw. They were kicked out of the country by literally everyone else in Malaysia.

  • @jeffreydeeds9225
    @jeffreydeeds9225 8 месяцев назад

    Thanks for another great video. It is really interesting to see how much actually changed over those 100 years.

  • @ARKOVZ
    @ARKOVZ 5 лет назад +41

    WonderWhy has officially replaced CGP Grey.

    • @Moonkiller25
      @Moonkiller25 5 лет назад +27

      @SheepBlippy neh grey's channel is more about not uploading

    • @Esmoxe
      @Esmoxe 5 лет назад

      @SheepBlippy What is analytical stuff in this context?

    • @GY-bd9bo
      @GY-bd9bo 5 лет назад +4

      So CGP's gone for good, then? That's a damn shame... What a good channel it was

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 5 лет назад

      GY1415 He's not gone

    • @mtksbctk
      @mtksbctk 5 лет назад

      Same terrible accent

  • @auritro3903
    @auritro3903 3 года назад +8

    Most youtubers: Make a 3 minute video 10 minutes long.
    WonderWhy: This video is going to be very long, so lets start immediately!

  • @sllk2914
    @sllk2914 2 года назад +3

    19:13 Chandler are you still there? 😂

  • @williamhild1793
    @williamhild1793 5 лет назад

    This was a wonderful video. Thank you for all your research.

  • @kaickf.r.goncalves2846
    @kaickf.r.goncalves2846 5 лет назад +3

    This was great! You managed to put 100 years of history, without omitting anything too major, in less than half an hour!

  • @jackjohnson5508
    @jackjohnson5508 5 лет назад +29

    God i remember waiting months per video not less than 2 weeks

    • @WonderWhy
      @WonderWhy  5 лет назад +12

      Please do not get used to it. I pushed myself way harder than is healthy to get this video finished in time.

  • @brobes84
    @brobes84 4 года назад

    Amazing video. Great work!!!

  • @PlagueDoc47
    @PlagueDoc47 5 лет назад

    You’ve passed 500k subscribers!!! Great job Wonderwhy!

  • @cameronw.2775
    @cameronw.2775 5 лет назад +30

    Just think if Czech and Slovakia were still together. The hockey team would be unreal. Too bad they can’t merge

    • @nOOb1hunter
      @nOOb1hunter 5 лет назад

      still wouldn't beat canada us russia finland sweden on a regular basis

    • @armaansidhu8743
      @armaansidhu8743 4 года назад +1

      🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

    • @michisme1509
      @michisme1509 2 года назад +1

      It's not that we can't. We don't want to, and we don't need to. We're two separate countries.

  • @FlyinBlaney
    @FlyinBlaney 5 лет назад +44

    Nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution- Some Guy.

  • @donmackay9315
    @donmackay9315 Год назад

    Great documentary. Thanks

  • @Finnatese
    @Finnatese 5 лет назад

    Awesome video, man, so much research

  • @LoafingtonBloke
    @LoafingtonBloke 5 лет назад +194

    27 minutes of WonderWhy? Sign me right up

  • @totallyaploy1824
    @totallyaploy1824 5 лет назад +56

    100 years and 23 minutes ago, WW1 ended.

    • @sidhantseth007
      @sidhantseth007 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah, but who's counting...😂

    • @LookHereMars
      @LookHereMars 5 лет назад

      Quite fascinating especially watching Videos and literally looking at 100 years in the past and to see how much has changed in a Century.

    • @alphaplenn
      @alphaplenn 5 лет назад

      @/dev/RerunCipher : Lucky you!

  • @rickymartin5747
    @rickymartin5747 2 года назад

    I slowed this down to 3/4 speed and it was perfect! Thanks man. Great job!

  • @doberman2yk
    @doberman2yk 5 лет назад

    fantastic video mate, i applaud you!

  • @freddiet.rowlet525
    @freddiet.rowlet525 5 лет назад +6

    I don't know why but changing borders are really interesting to me, like, I follow the progress of independance/unification movements, not necessarily because I believe that such actions are the right thing, but because I'm interested in seeing how people discuss and react to the prospect of (official) independance

  • @jangelbrich7056
    @jangelbrich7056 5 лет назад +3

    Thanks for this amazing compilation of werld hestoree =)

  • @dawneabdulal-bari9313
    @dawneabdulal-bari9313 4 года назад

    Amazing! Thanks! I learned a lot!

  • @splashyseas
    @splashyseas 5 лет назад

    Thanks for my History Lesson :D This is just AWESOME! :3

  • @lapislazuli3909
    @lapislazuli3909 5 лет назад +54

    100th anniversary of Poland's Independence

    • @julz3tt3
      @julz3tt3 4 года назад +1

      Lol not quite. Yes it's an anniversary but it didn't last as the Germans invaded in 1939 then the cold War which saw Russia take it until the wall came down.

    • @arfn1973
      @arfn1973 4 года назад +2

      Where the anniversary for returning Silesia, Pommerland and Ostpreußen? Prussia territory belong to German and that fact.

    • @PLKartofel
      @PLKartofel 4 года назад

    • @PrawdziwyWarszawiak
      @PrawdziwyWarszawiak 4 года назад +1

      @@arfn1973 What German territory? I think that you don't know that your Pommerland, Silesia and Ostesomething, don't belong to Germans. Those territories have been settled by slavic people. All eastern Germany have been settled by slavic people. You can read names of cities in regions that I mentioned before. If you don't know Berlin has been created by slaves.

    • @arfn1973
      @arfn1973 4 года назад +2

      @@PrawdziwyWarszawiak What the heck? "You can read names of cities in regions that I mentioned before" they are named after German leave the region. Stop shaming Prussian you Austrian, accept already your defeat.

  • @bisalwayswright88
    @bisalwayswright88 3 года назад +7

    "Sometimes it's easy to forget that the world map being stable is a relatively recent phenomenon" Not when you play Paradox games for 25 hours a day

    • @orans_
      @orans_ 2 года назад +1

      bUt tHeRes tWeNtY fOuR hOurs In a dAy nOt tWeNtY fIvE

  • @sebastianlambert8771
    @sebastianlambert8771 5 лет назад

    Amazing video, thanks so much

  • @amanicricket9367
    @amanicricket9367 5 лет назад +2

    Congrats on 500k

  • @fidenemini4413
    @fidenemini4413 4 года назад +7

    Yugoslavia "how many pieces of me do you want?"
    NATO "Yes"

    • @cirquan
      @cirquan 3 года назад

      Sadly, truthful...

  • @victorliue
    @victorliue 4 года назад +3

    in my class, there is a very old world map on the wall. Its so old that we can see the ussr and the worst part is that its right behind me-

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist 2 года назад

      Don't move. Stalin won't attack if you act dead.

  • @leonardhaddrill8842
    @leonardhaddrill8842 5 лет назад

    Based on this excellent video I've become a first time subscriber.. You picked a complicated subject and succeeded.. Well done WW!!

  • @ToastGhost
    @ToastGhost 5 лет назад

    Great video, really interesting.

  • @danielgriffith8911
    @danielgriffith8911 4 года назад +9

    Its interesting to imagine what would have happened had Japan not lost its hold on Korea and Taiwan following WW2

  • @theodorkorner1497
    @theodorkorner1497 5 лет назад +72

    The past-WWII redrawing of eastern european borders hurt both poland and my country. Only the Soviets benefited from it.

    • @DrewPicklesTheDark
      @DrewPicklesTheDark 5 лет назад +33

      UK & France: We are declaring war on you Germany! We must do it to protect Poland!
      UK & France: Hands Poland over to Stalin.
      Here in the west hearing about Soviet atrocities is a rarity, which is shame considering people are unaware of the monster (Stalin, or the Bolsheviks in general) their nations allied with.

    • @xertophilios3695
      @xertophilios3695 4 года назад

      indeed

    • @Wiktorino1984
      @Wiktorino1984 4 года назад +1

      This plans was made in Philadelfia in 1941 and official comes in 1942 calls Gombergs map. All already knows Germany lose war and they originaly plans create USSR more bigger. Something like Poland and Germany in this map not exist only Polish SSR and German SSR.

    • @dorthusiast
      @dorthusiast 4 года назад +5

      hurt, -hurted-
      And yes, that is true. Pre-WWII, Polish and German people lived in the areas their respective countries possessed. Following the Polish and Soviet acquisition of certain territories, Germans living in Silesia and Pomerania were deported to Germany and the Polish living in Ukrainian Galicia, Belarus or Vilnius were also sent to Poland.

    • @doffer115
      @doffer115 4 года назад +5

      @@DrewPicklesTheDark Not quite true, at least in my part of the west (the Netherlands), since it's quite known that the alliance between the western allies and the soviets was controversial (to put it mildly) from the get-go with Winston Churchill proclaiming that "If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." We already knew the SU was "evil" and have never forgotten it. It was agreed upon by mass that one of the -if not THE- biggest mistakes of WWII was ending it when Nazi Germany fell and not pushing the Soviets back to within Russian borders or even beyond.

  • @charleslatora5750
    @charleslatora5750 5 лет назад +2

    Well done. You had my total attention. Was curious to see if If in your timeline there would be any mention of Bohemia-Moravia.
    Still...well done.

  • @dittbub
    @dittbub 5 лет назад

    what a project! good video

  • @damiantudor7194
    @damiantudor7194 5 лет назад +8

    Me:sees the thumbnail
    Also me:Man Western Europe changed a lot , it even moved more to the east

  • @JordiBabot
    @JordiBabot 5 лет назад +10

    The last paragraph is so true. Voting is what we catalans wanted to do in october 1st last year, but the goverment of Spain obstaculized this Referendum with the use of brutal force against peaceful people.
    Peace and democracy for everyone and every nation in the world!

    • @niccolomachiavelli8763
      @niccolomachiavelli8763 5 лет назад +1

      Jordi Babot why the fuck would you want independence? You arent even any different from spain.

    • @ishaand92
      @ishaand92 4 года назад

      Obsidian Fury *Spaniard nationalist spotted*

    • @niccolomachiavelli8763
      @niccolomachiavelli8763 4 года назад

      It’s pronounced e-shahn D. No it’s not nope I even hate Spain myself,but facts are facts

    • @anemu3819
      @anemu3819 4 года назад

      @@niccolomachiavelli8763 the ethnic groups in iberia are more than just spanish and Portuguese

  • @bhg123ful
    @bhg123ful 5 лет назад

    Awesome job!

  • @douglasholloran6513
    @douglasholloran6513 5 лет назад

    i have a 50+ year old globe lots of changes and you explain a lot thank you .

  • @KennedyOtieno1944
    @KennedyOtieno1944 4 года назад +4

    Everyone else: *getting and losing land
    Kiribati : Hi guys, what time is it?

  • @zimmah
    @zimmah 5 лет назад +9

    @7:57: You list Macedonia as one of the areas of Yugoslavia. It was called Vardarska Badovina, named after the river Vardar which flows through it.

  • @rvx5818
    @rvx5818 5 лет назад

    Great video!

  • @ishanbhanu
    @ishanbhanu 5 лет назад

    Good job mate!

  • @polandballhistorian8537
    @polandballhistorian8537 5 лет назад +3

    I never thought explaining border changes and talking about peace treaties would be interesting.

  • @jubhgioubgob
    @jubhgioubgob 5 лет назад +7

    The sad thing is that most of these borders are still the same for neo-colonial reasons and most of these nations don’t have a true border based on their ethnic distributions.

  • @williamusrex6417
    @williamusrex6417 5 лет назад

    Very thorough.

  • @graadlon
    @graadlon 4 года назад +1

    Très bonne vidéo !! Compréhensible et intéressante !!! Bravo 👏

  • @Uberkatze-
    @Uberkatze- 5 лет назад +55

    World War 2 - Electric Boogaloo

  • @discozula4469
    @discozula4469 5 лет назад +50

    It's like Finland doesn't even exist

  • @XX-gy7ue
    @XX-gy7ue 5 лет назад

    alright , almost every sentence in this video deserves its own video ! PLEASE MAKE LONGER VIDEOS

  • @andrewseligman-segev1637
    @andrewseligman-segev1637 Месяц назад

    Extremely well explained 🙂

  • @pauleff3312
    @pauleff3312 Год назад

    I enjoyed watching that - thank you for making and sharing it

  • @666ZSATAN
    @666ZSATAN 5 лет назад +52

    18:39 Oman that sure sucks for the british.

  • @viridianz
    @viridianz 5 лет назад +181

    I hate that American schools don’t really teach World War I. If we don’t remember history we are doomed to repeat it.

    • @videogamebomer
      @videogamebomer 5 лет назад +38

      Some do really just depends where you live

    • @Kyrkby
      @Kyrkby 5 лет назад +8

      Yeah I don't know about that. Nationalism is on the rise again despite being the cause of two world wars.

    • @TXnine7nine
      @TXnine7nine 5 лет назад +3

      If they do then it’s usually no more than a paragraph or two which is sad.

    • @poweroftheztars
      @poweroftheztars 5 лет назад +36

      What the hell? Where did you hear this? I certainly learned WWI when I was in school.

    • @viridianz
      @viridianz 5 лет назад +2

      Mitchellville Productions This is from my experience

  • @kingofthejungle3833
    @kingofthejungle3833 5 лет назад

    I'm glad you showed us the simplified version

  • @knockshinnoch1950
    @knockshinnoch1950 5 лет назад

    Excellent video