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now I haven't mentioned in my previous
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videos but World War one was first known
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as the Great War or the war to end all
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war but the fact that we know it as
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World War one makes the spoiler pretty
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obvious there was in fact a World War II
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now we're going to deal with that war in
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the next video but in this one let's
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look at the factors that made the war to
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end all wars just an appetizer to the
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next great one so if you're ready to get
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them brain cows milked appeasement style
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then let's get to so coming out of World
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War One there were a lot of complex
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factors that allowed fascist States both
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to re-arm themselves and expand their
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Terror now remember Germany was on the
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losing side of world war one and part of
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the Treaty of Versailles mandated that
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Germany demilitarized and another part
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shrank their territory so reversing
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either of those realities was a
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violation of the treaty and if Germany
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violated that treaty it would likely
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lead to another war and yet under the
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leadership of Adolf Hitler Germany
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significantly rearmed itself and began
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conquering territory like a madman so
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how did he do it the first reason this
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could happen was because of the policy
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of appeasement towards Germany and
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Britain and France were the main
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appeasers as I mentioned in the video on
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World War One the human and capital cost
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of that war was staggering to all
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involved so when Hitler began publicly
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re-arming Germany in 1935 and taking
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territory thereafter Britain and France
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were not too eager to start another War
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to stop so the policy of appeasement
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essentially became let Hitler do
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whatever he wants because we're not
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destroying ourselves in another
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cataclysmic battle yet again in other
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words Hitler faced no consequences for
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breaking the provisions in the Treaty of
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Versailles that kept Germany powerless
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in the interwar period now the second
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reason Germany was able to re-arm and
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start expanding was because of the
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growing antagonism and distrust between
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the Soviet Union and the Western
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European state slash the United States
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recall that the Soviet Union was an
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authoritarian communist state and that
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was diametrically opposed to the U.S and
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Western Europe which represented
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capitalist democracy we'll get more into
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that antagonism and distrust in unit 9
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during the Cold War but for now all you
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have to know is that these two entities
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were so opposed to one another that they
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could not work together to present a
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united front against expanding fascist
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States and I say States plural because
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even though I've only been referring to
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Germany fascist Italy was expanding two
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and you know let's talk about that okay
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and here we need to talk about this
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specific actions that led to World War
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II first let's get specific with
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territorial expansion in 1935 Italy
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invaded Ethiopia which happened to be
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only one of two African States that had
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never been colonized by European if
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you've been around since we talked about
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the Scramble for Africa then you know
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that is a big deal anyway Italy was
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ultimately successful in conquering
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Ethiopia and that Victory made Britain a
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little sweaty because it threatened
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their control of the Suez Canal in Egypt
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and remember nobody wants to start
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another war and so the only reprisal
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Mussolini face for this attack was a few
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lame economic sanctions imposed by the
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League of Nations but Germany's
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territorial expansion made Italy's
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efforts look like Hitler began by
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re-militarizing the Rhineland which is
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this little strip of land right here
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this act was kind of like an experiment
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for Hitler like the Treaty of Versailles
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specifically prohibited German Armament
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of this territory so Hitler wanted to
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see if Britain and France were up for
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fighting so in 1936 Hitler sent troops
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to occupy the Ryan land and because of
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the policy of appeasement that I
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mentioned earlier all he heard from
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Britain and France was Hitler
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stop as I was seeing that Britain and
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France would do nothing to enforce the
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treaty Hitler was like oh it's all so
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next in 1938 Hitler annexed Austria a
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move known as onschluz on account of all
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the Germans living in Austria and once
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German troops came into Austria they
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decided to hold a little vote to hear
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from the austrians whether or not they
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wanted to be absorbed into the German
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right and when you know it like 99 of
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austrians voted yes to the annexation
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hold on you're trying to tell me that an
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independent nation in the age of
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self-determination decided by a margin
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of 99 that they wanted to be taken over
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does that spell funky to anybody else I
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mean think about it when have you ever
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heard of 99 of people in any country in
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any age in any part of the world
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agreeing on something that does not
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happen so that vote did indeed smell
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funky and here's why first of all look
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at this ballot you don't even have to
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speak German to know that the yah circle
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is a little out of proportion to the
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nine Circle second this was not a secret
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battle in order to vote you had to hand
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it to a German military officer who
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would then place it in the box so it was
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a rigged vote without a doubt but Hitler
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was successful nonetheless and then he
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went on to take over the sudeten land
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and a few States in Czechoslovakia as
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well and in all of this Britain and
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France essentially did nothing to stop
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it but what they did is to gather at a
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meeting and create the Munich agreement
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in which Britain and France agreed to
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all of Hitler's territorial demands but
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made him promise that he would take no
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more and Hillary was like yeah
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additionally Hitler made peace with the
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Soviet Union in something called the
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Nazi Soviet non-aggression pact in which
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they agreed to choose stipulation first
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neither would attack the other for a
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decade following the agreement second
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they agreed to split Poland between the
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two powers and that second stipulation
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gave Hitler the confidence to invade
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Poland knowing that the Soviet Union
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would not oppose him in 1939 that is
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exactly what Hitler did and why wouldn't
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even though he committed in the Munich
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agreement that he would not seek any
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more territory he had been taking
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territory all over Europe and no one was
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stopping him so why would it be any
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different in Poland but here's where I
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tell you that it was different in Poland
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because that invasion was the last draw
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for Britain and France so as a result of
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that Invasion Britain and France
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declared war on Germany and that is how
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