The Fall of the Monarchies

Published 28 okt 2023

Sean Munger

Between 1905 and 1922, Five of the World’s Most Powerful Monarchies, the Habsburgs of Austria Hungary, the Hohenzollerns of Germany, the Romanovs of Russia, the Osmanlis of the Ottoman Empire, and the Aisin Gioros of China,were All Brought Down by A Spectacular Chain Reaction of Events that were Unprecedented in an Earlier Age. This Deep Dive Video tells the Story of How these Five Dynasties, Who at the Beginning of the 20th Century Controlled the Fates of A Third of the World’s Population, Lost their Power through the Series of Wars and Revolutions that Marked One of the Most Chaotic Periods in Human History, which Included World War I, the Chinese and Russian Revolutions and Much More.

There is A Companion Video to this One, Specifically Dealing with the July Crisis that began World War I https://youtu.be/ZO2Kvr_idPE

Sources for this Video
Edmond Taylor The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order, 1905 – 1922, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1963
Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August,  Ballantine Books, New York, 1994 Edited
Robert K Massie, Dreadnought, Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War, Ballantine Books, New York, 1991
Robert K Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra, Random House, New York, 2011 Edited
Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power, The 1917 Revolution in Petrograd, WW Norton, New York, 1976

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Chapters

0:00:00 – 0:07:50 The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
0::07:50 – 023:35  The Monarchies
0:23:35 – 0:33:57  Age of Revolutions
0:33:57 – 0:45:42  Unbalancing Europe
0:45:42 – 0:54:43  Big Unhappy Family
0:54:43 – 1:05:30  The 1905 Revolution
1:05:30 – 1:15:00   The Young Turks
1:15:00 – 1:26:11     Double Ten
1:26:11 – 1:34:21     The Tinderbox
1:34:21 – 1:43:39    The July Crisis
1:43:39 – 1:54:59   World War I
1:54:59 – 2:05:21   The 1917 Revolution (First One)
2:05:21 – 2:17:21    The 1917 Revolution (Second One)
2:17:21 – 2:22:45    World War I (Continued)
2:22:45 – 2:31:41   The Final Days
2:31:41 – 2:39:33   The Cellar
2:39:33 – 2:45:46 The End of the Ottomans
2:45:46 – 2:57:50  What Happened to Everyone
2:57:50 – 3:00:47  Conclusion

Reacties
https://youtu.be/dmmH8C0PaFg?si=Xm8bKQO-6-wMY_-I

In July 1914, the Assassination of the Heir to the Throne of Austria Hungary, Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo, Lit the Fuse that Burned Down to the Outbreak of the Most Destructive War in History Up to that Time. How did iIHappen? The Story is A Very Complex Web of Politics, Diplomacy, Ethnic Rivalry, Psychology and Technology. In this Video, We’ll Trace Exactly How the July Crisis Developed, What was at Stake, and How All the Major Powers of Europe Got Pulled into A War that Seemed Almost Unthinkable A Month Earlier, at Least, Unthinkable to Some.

This Video is A Companion Piece to the Larger and More in Depth video on the Fall of the Monarchies from 1905 to 1922 https://youtu.be/dmmH8C0PaFg

Text of the Austro Hungarian Ultimatum https://web.archive.org/web/20041030212115/http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/austrianultimatum.htm

Sources for this Video
Edmond Taylor, The Fall of the Dynasties, The Collapse of the Old Order, 1905 – 1922, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1963
Clive Ponting, Thirteen Days, Diplomacy and Disaster, The Countdown to the Great War, Pimlico, London. 2003
Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August, Ballantine Books, New York, 1994, Edited
Robert K Massie, Dreadnought, Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War, Ballantine Books, New York,1991

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Chapters

00:00 – 06:40 The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and Aftermath
06:40 – 11:24   The Alliances
11:24 – 16:01     The Timetables
16:01 – 19:41     The Blank Check
19:41 – 26:18    The Ultimatum
26:18 – 32:43   Germany and Russia
32:43 – 37:31   The Von Schlieffen Plan
37:31 – 42:58   War
42:58 – 44:44  Conclusion

Reacties
https://youtu.be/ZO2Kvr_idPE?si=tA9b9jRrl-35_cdx

The Sandwich that did Not Start World War I

Published 26 sep 2023

Sean Munger

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, A 19 Year Old Bosnian Serb Nationalist, Aassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand on A Sarajevo Street Corner. This Event Ultimately Triggered the Outbreak of World War I. You may Have Heard that the Only Reason Princip was in the Right Place to Kill the Archduke was Because he Stepped into A Deli to Get A Sandwich at A Lucky Moment. The Story Actually is Not True, but It’s Widely Believed and Often Repeated, Especially on the Internet, as If It is. In this Video We’ll Examine the Sandwich Myth, How we Know That it’s Most Likely Untrue, How and Exactly When it Got into Franz Ferdinand Assassination Lore, and Why Setting the Record Straight Matters. This is A Uniquely Seductive Historical Myth, but Where it Came from Might Surprise you.

This Video is A Spin Off of A Much Larger Project about the Fall of the World’s Great Monarchies between 1905 and 1922, Out Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmH8C0PaFg&t=0s

Mike Dash’s Article, which Debunks the Claims about Princip’s Sandwich and Investigates the Origin of the Rumor
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gavrilo-princips-sandwich-79480741/
“The Twelve Fingers” by Jô Soares, Available on Archiv https://archive.org/details/twelvefingers00joso/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/twelvefingers00josorget

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