Dan Snow explains the most destructive war in history. From its origins through the dark days of 1940 through to the defeat of Germany and the dropping of the atomic bomb. World War Two changed the world.
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00:00 Introduction
01:10 When Did WW2 Start?
02:39 1939
05:49 1940
12:11 1941
15:56 1942
17:41 1943
20:31 1944
23:26 1945
26:55 Post-WW2
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lol … History for kindergarten … 😂
PM Chamberlain is being scolded for signing the Munich Agreement in 1938. It is said he should have known better than to believe Hitler was going to abide by this agreement. Yet to my knowledge, no-one ever says the same about Stalin for agreeing to the non-aggression pact with Hitler. Even though he should REALLY have known better. He had the benefit of hindsight, with the Nazi invasion of Bohemia and Moravia just a few months earlier. Instead Stalin is being given a pass, that the German invasion of the Soviet Union was a complete surprise.
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Keep kickin' ass Dan snow! Let the people know…
This is so the Canadian government know what side they were on and who they should be giving standing ovassion to ,
Many historians today, agree, there wasn't two separate world wars, only one, 1914 – 1945. With a lull between.
Many historians today agree there wasn't two separate world wars, but only one. 1914 – 1945. With a lull between.
Well done!
Wasn't specifically only Jews. And they weren't "murder" camps.
They were Labour camps to feed the German war machine. And occupied with all types of prisoners, political prisoners, gypsies, homosexials, war prisoners, anyone who didn't fit the German line.
Essentially a follow on from WWI, with roughly the same powers against each other again. WWII was different in that each side had very different aims – Allies were generally democratic and capitalist, whistl the Axis were fascist/authoritarian.
The kind of video for history teachers to show their students
Innn nut-shell for those who need an education ob the topic – well done.
You could have made a shorter version of this video – "Bam! Bang! Pow! Fuck you Hitler!"
This is one of the best short summaries of WW2 that I have ever seen. Simply brilliant and should be shown in schools worldwide. Bloody well done.
Dan Snow is the best historian ever. Look how excited he is. He's like a kid in a candy store. He is a crazy history man.
I'm 65 and have been fascinated by the second world war since as a young lad watching all our yesterdays in the 1960's . For someone younger this is the perfect thing to watch to get an interest in an absolute fascinating part of world history.
Wow, it realy was 28 minutes too! Thank you for this!
Neat summary, but very western-centric. Much about the Battle of Britain, but nothing about Bagration, the balkans etc.
a superb summery of ww2 for the young to listen to
There was no race to take Berlin. It was decided in advance that the Soviets would take that city. The Western Allies stopped their advance a short distance away so that could happen.
Technically, the USSR did not lose to Finland in the 1939-1940 Winter War. Although they did lose a lot of troops and it exposed weaknesses in the Soviet military after Stalin's purges.
In the intro you forget the fourth dictator critical to the start, also wanting to increase his empire: the Soviet Union/Joe Stalin and the desire for half of Poland, part of Finland, and all of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. Stalin was Hitlers equal partner and resource supplier until Hitler turned on him.
the british havefute trousers.
Why cant i hear
WW3 is coming
Fab post, thank you.
Fantastic 😮
I know this is nit-picky, but Germany declared war on the U.S. on December 10th or 11th, not December 7th. However, I do like that he noted that one could date the beginning of the second world war to 1937.
I'm calling BS on this video. How did Hitler kill Eva Braun exactly Dan?
0:59 – Pretty much one minute gone. If you're to cover it in 28 minutes, it doesn't pay to spend a lot of time on the intro.
4:58 – France gets a free ride on this in much of the literature, but a good portion of the French were sympathetic to Hitler.
7:30 – Not all of France was upset about this, and Churchill should have known it. But then Brit 'security' later delivered us Klaus Fuchs, so we shouldn't be too confident.
9:40 – Some details missing, but good so far.
10:20 – See O'Brian, "How the War Was Won"'; the "Battle of Britain" was a terror effort but had no chance of success.
11:46 – The Nazis never had the economic ability to invade England and a glance of what it took the Allies to later invade Normandy makes it clear
13:58 – They also now had Studebaker trucks and Bell P-39s.
15:19 – Perhaps Goring had offered him some drugs?
17:51 – You've been doing well so far but running the Japanese out of Guadalcanal is not a 'detail' you missed; it marked (along with Stalingrad) the point where the axis was now on the defense; never again to launch a successful strategic offense.
22:31 – No, they didn't "rush" to Normandy; they were subject to allied air superiority. They "crawled" to Normandy under what cover they could find.
22:49 – Monty's fantasy and Ike's folly: An attack with a one-tank front and 200 mile flanks.
23:15 – Ike was right to call for smiles. The losses were horrible, but the Nazis shot their bolt to no avail.
24:24 – By every account, Ike made the decision to let them; they were going to occupy Berlin. Why waste US lives?
26:04 Shame he didn't die much earlier, like during his first term.
26:19 – Name the weapon which saved the most lives in WWII: The nukes.
28:01 – My interest in WWII is a result of the long shadow cast by it and the political acters of the time. Gonna give this a A-minus only from the lack of interest in the Pacific war. Not bad.
You should feature what British & UK military personnel ate in colonial times at the colonies.
New to this channel in general but the presenter (sorry – missed your name) is fantastic.
Tidy summary. Thanks
Great video, though the British didn’t sink the Graf Spee, it was scuttled by its own crew
hi sir i wondered if you have considered making a documentary about the hidden battle of sedgemoor due to the royal families disgust at the area where i am from ,it is said that even on the royal train queen victoria pulled down the blinds when going through somerset .
It is not all I need to know. You forgot not only Italy and Japan were aggressors with Germany, the USSR invaded Poland as Germany's ally on 17 September 1939 and remained allied until June 1941 too, whoops! Blank spot in your history class son?
I thought Kung Fury beat up Hitler with a dinosaur, no…? So confused…
How about the seven year war… which I thought was WW(-)1…
I heard an interesting premise that the first world war actually carried on all through the 20th century, until the collapse of the Soviet state. Seeing as the Nazis and the Japanese were still fighting for the same issues, and the first war led to the communist revolution in Russia.
An interesting premise.