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✔️ European Reacts to WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 2) - Reaction For the First Time
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My great uncle, a first generation Ukrainian-American, died in Okinawa as he was leading his men. Though he was injured and was able to leave the line for treatment, he refused to leave his men. He gave his life near the very end of the war.
the amount of people that died during World War 2 is mind-blowing....if its not taught in an interesting way then people won't learn it....the invasion on the beaches of Normandy is more well known over here in states than the battle of Stalingrad....that picture of the soldier kissing the woman is one of the most popular pictures from the end of the war
Wasn’t he a sailor?
The death toll of ww2 is heartbreaking
Most people dont understand that the Current Ukraine War is a result of the Russian PTSD from WWII. Everyone keeps talking about Russia losing 200k+ troops. Like that matters at all to Russia. If you study history you realize Russia will gladly sacrifice 30 million troops if they have to.
@@medarby3066 The war in Ukraine should've been to liberate the Donestk region, Putin never should've sent troops to Kiev and other parts of Ukraine. Military mission would've made sense if it was only focused on the Donetsk Region. He got greedy. From videos I've seen people in the Donetsk region are glad that the Russians came. Yeah Zelensky was put in as the president of Ukraine rather than the rightful elected president, but he should've just stuck with the Donetsk region rather than going for Kiev and all of Ukraine
Poland lost 10% of its ENTIRE population in WWII. That would be like modern-day US losing 34 million people.
I am a big fan of Eisenhower, but his contribution was not so much in tactics, as it was in organization and balancing the diplomatic side of leading a multi-national Theater of Operation with Armies from the US, UK, Canada, and France, with smaller contingents from other countries as well. People debate endlessly the merits of Eisenhower's broad front strategy, the strain it put on his own logistics (Germans held onto the major French ports for month after most of the country was liberated), and delay it caused for the advance into Germany at several points. On the flip side, their were reasonable justifications for that approach as an alternative risked being cut off among other dangers.
Yeah Eisenhower was really what we needed in that position. Logistics and diplomacy were often ignored by generals to disasterous results. And Eisenhower unlike several other well-known generals, was not a complete narcissist and could work with others effectively.
My grandfather nearly died in Argonne Forest during WWI. He was a brilliant engineer and was drafted!!! Came back home disabled. Died young from lung problems. I didn't even get to meet him because he died well before I was born.
You mean great-grandfather. My grandpa fought in world war II.
10:56 This is the quality of a Good Teacher. Being able to take something you might have no interest in learning about, but still finding a way to make it engaging and educational and get everybody involved and having fun and taking part in the conversation... That takes true talent, and this guy has it.
First. I love that he is illustrating with all the allies, Africa, Canada, all over!
And he brought up Dakar, I was raised in Dakar, never knew that Dakar was part of ww2
"biggest moment in the history of the war" Probably the most important moment in world history.... Rest in power to those who were lost.
A total of 8 men served in WW2 from my family. My Grandfather, his 3 brothers, and my Grandmother’s 4 brothers, all volunteered, they were not drafted.
All but the youngest of my mother's brothers fought. Her twin brother was shot down over Germany.
Lets go Andre i didnt know you had 2 channels!? Good for you, man. I love to see how much Euro Reacts numbers go up and up. Lets do the same with this one. You're an awesome person and you deserve it.
I am very happy that Andre reacting to OverSimplified WW2 Part 2! I love it!
The Kwantung Army was the largest grouping of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. It was prestigious to serve in the Kwantung army, soldiers and officers were given the opportunity to quickly advance in the service and have a good salary. The Kwantung Army was assigned the role of the main enemy of the Red Army in the event of a war between Japan and the USSR. In addition, the Kwantung Army, along with the Korean Army, was an exception in the Imperial Army, since, among other things, it had a very large numerical composition relative to other formations. The Soviet Union began the war against Japan, fulfilling the Yalta agreements with the allies. The offensive as part of the Manchurian operation began on the morning of August 9, 1945. The day before in Moscow, the Japanese ambassador to the USSR was notified of the outbreak of war between the USSR and Japan. And although a Neutrality Pact was signed between the two states before the start of the Great Patriotic War for a period of 5 years, Japan, which was an ally of Hitler's Germany and fought with the allies of the USSR, inevitably became an enemy of the Soviet Union. And the Neutrality Pact was denounced by the USSR in advance. Thus, the Japanese side was warned. There are disputes regarding the date of August 19, 1945 and the surrender of the Kwantung Army. Their essence can be reduced to the fact that 64-year-old Japanese General Yamada Otodzo on that day actually signed the act of surrender of the Kwantung Army, obeying the decree of the Emperor of Japan on surrender of August 14, but to what extent the order took effect and whether by that time the main forces of the Kwantung army had been defeated by Soviet troops or only a smaller part of them is not a fully resolved question. In any case, the Japanese continued to offer some resistance to the Soviet troops in Manchuria, but mostly surrendered everywhere under the onslaught of the advancing Red Army troops, who had passed almost a five-year school of the fiercest war in the history of mankind. The defeat of the Kwantung army made further resistance to Japan pointless. Many historians, including Japanese, agree that even the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the American side did not have the same impact on the Japanese emperor's decision to surrender as the defeat inflicted on Japan by the Soviet Union in Manchuria.
Roughly 30 people were killed every minute for 6 years during WW2.
I think that D-Day is more important to the post war environment than to WW2 itself. By the time the allies landed in Normandy, Germany was already destined to lose the war. It was only a question of time. However, if the western allies wouldn't have landed in Normandy or would have been defeated by Germany, the Soviet Union would have captured pretty much most of Europe themselves from the east. This would have meant, that in the resulting Cold War, the Soviets would have been in control of large parts of the continent and would have been even stronger. The USA and as such "the west" could have "lost" the Cold War under these circumstances and the Soviet Union wouldn't have fallen apart.
Portugal was lucky to be neutral. Spain was recovering from a terrible civil war.
Switzerland remained neutral too
Stalingrad was the most important battle of WWII. Hitler never recovered. It was a massive error in judgement on his part. Midway was probably the second most important. Throw in El Alamein and it was the turning point. Those battles weakened the Axis, Normandy became attainable once they'd accomplished the other battles. The Battle of the Bulge was the blow that Hitler didn't expect. With the Soviets closing in, it was all but lost. And, let's not forget about the accomplishments of the British, Canadians and Australians.
Stalingrad battle, psychologically yes! In terms of material, the Battle of Kursk was worse for the Nazis. fatal
I went to high school with the grandson of General Nimitz.. he introduced me to heavy metal LOLOL
Love your channel man. I subscribed.
Andre is awesome. Check out his other reactions
It's funny you mention how the US is also supplying Ukraine, because last year we signed a Lend-Lease Act with Ukraine, the only other time we signed a Lend-Lease Act was with Britain during WWII.
When will they ever learn "Don't touch American boats."
The Japanese navy was very good going into ww2 and American damage control was found to be legendary
Hey Andre! If you're interested in WW2, I highly recommend World War 2 in Numbers on the channel History Hit. I'm not sure it's something that would do well as a reaction, but as far as making WW2 interesting, it is on par with Oversimplified. It goes into so much more detail and is presented in an engaging way.
Also, remember what the USA did for Western Europe. f'ing brutal.
Love and light to the world. God bless you for sharing this.
Have you heard about sanatoriums for German machine gunners? they went crazy from the number of Soviet soldiers that they had to kill, whom the Soviet butchers generals sent to the slaughter
It's Admiral Nimitz.
cant remember if i've said this before but if you want to learn about the Pacific theater of the war i'd recommend watching Battle 360
Never seen that one. I love ww2 history, my grandfather served in the Pacific
@@WolfLove89 its focused on the career of Enterprise
Andre, I learned a lot from your two reactions concerning World War II. Thanks much. (However, I wish to bring your attention to a grammar point that, unfortunately, a great NUMBER of people are ignoring of late. We should use the qualifier "number of" with countable nouns and "amount of" with uncountable nouns. I sincerely wish that people speaking English would pay closer attention to this .))
We never stopped selling weapons after we started the military industrial era in the states to help in WW2. Since then the atmosphere is basically this: If we like you, buy our weapons, no questions asked. Blam blam blam! Get your freedom sticks here!
As for D-Day/Normandy, it tends to get all of the attention in the West and it certainly impacted the post war dynamic, but I don't think it was decisive. The Battles for Moscow and Stalingrad were probably far more decisive and a far larger number of German troops were on the Soviet Front.
There are very good videos about the decisive battle of Midway .
What gets overlooked about Pearl Harbor aside from not destroying the repair yards & the oil reserves is that Japan had three aircraft attack waves and only sent two of them before they decided to withdraw and end the attack however had they sent the third wave they would’ve sunk all four Pacific Fleet carriers of the US Navy they also would’ve destroyed a fleet of B-17 bombers and they had enough military manpower to occupy the Hawaiian islands completely and not doing so in the long run cost Japan war
That actually would have been fine, the bad thing that happened was Japan bombed Hawaii, even with the USA trying to stay out of that war.
Also, regarding Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union...hindsight is 20/20. He attacked while the iron was hot, so to speak. And they had an absolute advantage at the start and throughout. If not for western support and certain tactical miscalculations on the german side, they could have won. And then everybidy would be saying, what a genius move it was.
Lastly, you mention that Hitler made a mistake by invading the USSR, because he got greedy. The simple fact of the matter is that he gave himself no alternative ideologically or economically. In terms of ideology he had to destroy Bolshevism because he saw communism as a Jewish plot and he had to strike while the Soviet Army was still in shambles from Stalin's purges and the Finish War. In terms of economics, Hitler's whole economic strategy was to outsource inflation via conquest. Hitler's 1930s economic miracle was a mirage produced by massive borrowing to fund his military buildup. Going to war and stealing both the resources and labor of the entire continent, meant that he could outsource the inflation/shortages this would cause to the conquered people and isolate Germany from the consequences of his economic policies. By the time the invasion of the Soviet Union came, Germany was on the brink and it needed an infusion of resources and forced labor, otherwise Hitler's whole economic approach would be regarded as the fraud that it was.
not stalins purges but the US's sabotage,Stalin was a hero who removed foreign agents and punished those that served nzi's,in the end though the US sadly managed to bribe to many in the Union and destabilise their government which led to part you call purges(though most where done by the ukranian representative leaders(7 out of 11 in the council)) and the invasion of the soviet union was the main reason US supplied germany but liek with ukr the moment things went sought US switched sides.
My dad was in the 82nd Airborne. He was there on D-Day.
The US sent 400000 jeeps and trucks to the SU,18000 planes,13000 tanks,millions of blankets and boots,communication systems and more.without this...
ahjahahah nice bs but what the US sent was less than 10% of what the soviets made heck the US sent more to germany before the soviets started winning.
Also, it cannot be understated how much America supplied the Soviets and British with supplies through lend lease. Tens of thousands of tanks, trucks, planes, helmets, boots, guns. ammo, food. Without it, they probably would have capitulated.
Yes, and our ships were being constantly harassed by the Uboats before Japan ever hit us.
Wasn't our problem, we never shouldve gone to Europe
@@WolfLove89 I wouldn’t say that. Things would have eventually come to a head anyway. If we hadn’t intervened, Britain would have eventually fallen and then the Nazis would have had nothing stopping them from hitting Iceland and launching attacks off from there, launching out more Uboats and Luftwaffe from British ports and runways. Canada was already actively participating against Germany long before Pearl Harbor Harbor ever happened so there would have been retaliation anyway. And we would not have allowed them to set foot on North American soil without consequence.
Well, only then did the USA become a superpower, before that they only had a relatively large navy.
@@arnodobler1096 We were ranked around 16th for military in the world when we entered.
The White Death. My Father says "you welcome." 3 years of combat. No break. Stay in Europe or Canada. "God help us, but don't send Jesus, This is no place for children." Sgt. At Anzio.
If Russia and the US were allies it would be great for Europe, cheap energy, safety, and it would increase the wealth of countries.
Yeah, then they could go from mooching off the US to mooching off the US and Russia.
Russian mentality will always fail them, it always has, period. It is completely incompatible with Western ideals, standards and morals. "Give a Slav a Mansion and he will turn into a Slum to prove he's a real Man!"
It's a third world country.....not because it's poor, it's wealthy.....that's their mentality.
If Russia could play nice that could happen ! But it wants to see destruction in the west at all cost ! So deal in reality not far fetched dreams please ! If I was a billionaire ID be happy but that shirt wont happen either 😮
@@Cody38Superthe US is heading to third world country status
A lot of death, starvation, sickness, and fear with war. Some people like that because they keep doing it.
It sounds to me from your belief that Hitler made mistakes in declaring wars that you should watch the video "Why Germany Couldn't Have Won WW2" by Potential History... it explains why Germany had no choice to invade the USSR and why the declaration of war against the US was only symbolic anyways.
Was D day the defining single event of WWII? Who is to say. I believe there were an accumulation of defining events......the attack on Pearl Harbor which caused the US to get involved was a pretty BIG event, also, the dropping of the A bombs in Japan, which brought a final conclusion to the bloody war and loss of life. Yes, D day was pivotal, but there were so many other battles that had to be won in order to bring the war to it's end.
Very American selection. Japan and Nazi Germany declared war on the USA.
Watch "The Fallen of WW2"...will blow your mind.
6:40 /// No, it was not a mistake. Technically, the Americans were already fighting the Germans, so this war was a matter of time anyway. Declaring war on the U.S. was good propaganda, but it didn't really change anything.
Hitler did not hate Mussolini. He was influenced by him, actually. But his incompatence must have got to him at some point.
That’s clearly what he meant.
The battle of midway from the Japanese perspective
Sorry ,room in the east was his major goal,it was the whole point.
Did you notice the battle of midway was the game of “Battleship”
My Dad was in Africa
You should always watch the ad. Its the least you can do for the original content creator
epic history if you like a bit more in depth videos its very interesting about ww1
Watch Saving private Ryan
What about a video on the marshall plan from the united states to europe
I've never seen any vid about it, but would love to see a reaction to the Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was not a gift. It allowed European countries to buy US products on credit! Without it, the US economy would have imploded after the war. Win win situation Would be an interesting video if it was honest.
@@arnodobler1096 Marshall Plan was getting rid of European colonies
Having lived in a former French colony in Africa the French disgust me. Been to France and seen the way the French are in that country, no respect for the French
@@WolfLove89 what?
Actually Hitler was inspired by Mussolini.
Definitely not during the war.
@@user-ws3ce5bn6f Yes during the war too until the very end. It’s why he sent Otto Skorzeny to rescue Mussolini after he was captured by resistance fighters.
Anyone else feel like we (USA) always conveniently leave out the fact that we stuck our Japanese Americans and immigrants in internment camps? About 1300 died of disease. I think it's very unfair that they aren't recognized more often.
It was taught in history when I was in school. During war, leaders make tough decisions. There was plenty of spying going on. That's how it was dealt with. It doesn't trump or overshadow what this great nation did to fight 2 evils in 2 theaters. What the U.S. contributed to beat the Axis is pretty remarkable. Nobody cares that you hate the USA.
Yes, it's unfortunate, but what could we have done?
@@Timbothruster-fh3cwI think they just want it to be talked about and not forgotten.
The USA likes to forget that, and forget a lot of things in history
Usa forgets that Japanese Americans were put in camps, that they put Chinese to work on rail roads, made Irish people work for them and were. sold people from Africa, from Africans
Biggest mistake never ever touch American boat - it’s a rule
Battle of the Buldge was a huge turning point as well
I am recommending a video called the Fallen of World War II it puts the number of both military and civilians lost from every counntry into perspective.
I recommended it too
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The World has forgotten what The Americans did in WWI and WWII, GOD Bless America. 🇺🇸
Arrive late and turn out the lights? But want to reap the glory?
@amodobler1096 - They were Europe's wars. The USA is still coming to the rescue in Europe.
@@reindeer7752 They were heavily involved with money and materials. 🤷♂
America is neutral militarily economically oh hell no we picking aside were capitalist man we make money man. There's a huge difference between putting boots on the ground and then helping someone 😂 connect we also provided weapons and stuff in world war 1 before we got involved. Money is money and we are going to make money 😂😂
brother I recommend Iwo Jima Animated - Part 1, D-DAY or The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective (1/3) . You will love it it’s will blow your mind 🙏🙂
My Dad was at Omaha, he was 17yrs old, lied about his age! His brother fought in WW2 too! They both survived, lots of bad memories though!
they messed with our boats
The battle of the bulge and the battle of midway would both be great react videos.
André, we have more US military veterans in our family -- especially on my dear husband's side. His great grandfather fought in the Civil War. He was a runner (message carrier) for Robert E. Lee. He kept a "Mess Journal" -- diary. A family member paid to have it published, decades ago. We have a copy. Most recently, our eldest son served almost 10 years in the U.S. Navy. Submarine Service. Running the nuclear power plant on a fast attack sub. Relevant to this video: my Daddy served in WW 2. He was a bit older, & possibly for other reasons, he was assigned to be a driver for a mobile radar unit. They traveled around Southern California, searching for enemy aircraft & submarines. My understanding is that my Daddy was 1 of the men & women who spotted a Japanese sub off the coast of California. Was kept a secret & I've never researched that. I know there were enemy balloons (high altitude, I presume) that were dropped in the state of Oregon. There is info available about that. Blessings to you & your family.
5:46, it's evident that the title 'OverSimplified' captures just a fraction of the true darkness of World War II. Recently, I watched 'Come and See,' a film set during the Nazi occupation of Belarus. It chillingly portrays the atrocities and war crimes committed by the Nazis, such as the burning of 628 Belorussian villages along with all their inhabitants. It's one of the most realistic portrayals of war and can be a hard watch for some
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After this video, can you react to oversimplified the pig war of perhaps prohibition please.!!!
Pecos Hank scariest tornado footage the man puts his life on the line constantly chasing these storms and helping people as he's able to constantly trying to get more views on his channel also if you ever get into video game or music reviews I'm finally uploading on my own channel now take care my friend
If you liked Peter Santanello's video with Titus, he has two more out now that I think you would also like!
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Please react to "Desert Storm The Air War - Day 1" by The Operations Room. I have suggested this video before. I think you'll be amazed at the scale of the war. It is animated and family-friendly for your channel.
Consider watching The Fat Electrician's video on The Berlin Airlift
Please, could we stop to call the USSR just russia?
@j.j.4150 - It was the USSR at the time.
Um, no.
Please react to James blunt monster
Over simplified is silly and disrespectful. The jokes really suck. Is that respectful enough KZhead?
Hitler and Napoleon both failed to conquer Russia
27million plus we're russians!