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From an archduke getting shot at point -blank range, to a battle that killed a million men over a plot of dirt nobody actually wanted,
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to a peace treaty so brutal it accidentally lit the fuse for an even bigger war.
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This is World War I, the war they called the war to end all wars.
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But spoiler alert, it didn't.
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In fact, it might have been the most important four years in human history.
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Because empires fell, modern warfare was born, and by the time the smoke cleared,
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somewhere between 16 to 20 million people were dead.
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So strap in, soldier, because today we're going all the way back to 1914, when Europe blew itself up.
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Because for decades, all the major European powers have been doing four really stupid things at the same time.
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Number one, they were obsessed with their militaries.
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Every country was building bigger armies, navies, and guns.
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Britain and Germany were locked in an arms race so intense, they were basically two kids at recess yelling, my battleship's bigger than yours.
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Number two, they tangled themselves in alliances.
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On one side, the Triple Alliance had Germany, Austria -Hungary, and Italy.
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On the other side was the Triple Entente, France, Russia, and Great Britain.
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Imagine if your friend group made a pact that if anyone punched anyone, everybody had to throw hands.
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Number 3.
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They were sprinting around the globe grabbing colonies.
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Africa, Asia, the Pacific.
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Every empire wanted a bigger piece of the map, and they kept bumping into each other doing it.
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And number 4, there was nationalism, especially in the Balkans.
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That little region southeast of Austria where the Ottoman Empire had just collapsed.
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Suddenly, you had a bunch of tiny ethnic groups all wanting their own country,
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all hating each other, all backed by bigger empires playing chess with their lives.
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So, yeah, Europe was reaching a boiling point.
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But the United States?
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America was sitting on the other side of the Atlantic going, y 'all have fun with that.
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Because back then, America's foreign policy was something called isolationism.
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Basically, let Europe do European stuff, we got our own continent to build.
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And honestly, it was a pretty smart playbook.
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But all that boiling going on in Europe needed a spark.
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And on June 28, 1914, it got one.
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Cause picture this.
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It was a sunny summer morning in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria -Hungary,
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was riding through town in an open -top car with his wife Sophie.
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Good day, sir.
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Madam him?
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He was basically the old version of Prince William, next in line for one of the biggest empires on Earth.
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But here's where it gets insane.
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A group of Bosnian -Serb nationalists from a movement called Young Bosnia, armed and trained by a Serbian secret society called the Black Hand,
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had planned to assassinate him.
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And during the first attempt, a conspirator threw a bomb at his car.
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And it bounced off, exploded behind him, and the Archduke survived.
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You'd think they'd cancel the parade, right?
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Nope.
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They kept going.
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And later on, the driver took a wrong turn, got lost, and the engine stalled when he tried to back up.
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And right there on the curb stood Gavrilo Princip, a 19 -year -old who'd been waiting on the original motorcade route, thinking his chance was gone.
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But he couldn't believe his luck.
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He pulled out his pistol, walked up to the car, and fired two shots.
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One hit the Archduke in the neck.
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The other hit Sophie in the stomach.
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Both dead within minutes.
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Yikes!
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And just like that, the world would never be the same.
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Because what happens next is what historians call the July Crisis.
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Basically, a month of european leaders sending each other increasingly insane telegrams austria -hungary blamed serbia
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so germany handed austria a blank check meaning do whatever you want we got your back
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and austria sent serbia an ultimatum so harsh it was designed to be rejected so as expected serbia rejected it
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But then Russia mobilized to defend Serbia.
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So Germany declared war on Russia, then on France.
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And Germany invaded neutral Belgium to get to France faster, which dragged Britain into the war.
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So in a matter of 30 days, a regional dispute in the Balkans had spiraled into a continental war involving every major power in Europe.
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Sir, how did this escalate? escalate so fast.
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But Germany kicked off the real fight with the Schlieffen Plan, a plan to sweep through Belgium, knock out France in six weeks,
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then turn around and deal with Russia.
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For about a month, it almost worked.
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Until they ran into French and British forces at a river called the Marne, just outside Paris.
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The First Battle of the Marne stopped the German advance dead in its tracks.
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And what happened next changed warfare forever.
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Cause both sides started digging.
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I'm talking trenches.
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Miles and miles of them.
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From the English Channel all the way down to the Swiss border.
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A scar over 400 miles long carved across France and Belgium.
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In between the trenches was something called no man's land.
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A hellscape of barbed wire, mud, shell craters, and dead bodies.
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And here's why it became a slaughterhouse.
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The technology of killing had outpaced the technology of moving.
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Machine guns could fire 600 rounds a minute.
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Artillery could level a city block from 10 miles away.
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And poison gas could roll across a field and dissolve a man's lungs from the inside.
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But to attack, soldiers still had to climb out of the trench, walk across no man's land, and try to take an enemy trench on foot.
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It was a death sentence.
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Man, these poor guys.
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Meanwhile, way over in the east, Germany was hammering Russia.
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At the Battle of Tannenberg, German General Paul von Hindenburg and his chief of staff, Erich Ludendorff, completely destroyed a Russian army.
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Although Germany lost about 13 ,000 men, the Russians lost 30 ,000 killed or wounded and another 92 ,000 taken prisoner.
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Sheesh.
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Russia was huge, but disorganized, undersupplied, and bleeding men by the millions.
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Cracks were forming in the empire that would eventually break it.
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And back on the Western Front, the meat grinder was just getting started.
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Because two battles in 1916 became the defining horror stories of the entire war.
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Battle 1, Verdun, where German General Eric von Falkenhayn had a chilling idea.
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He picked the French fortress city of Verdun, a place the French would never surrender out of pride
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and decided to attack it
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but his goal wasn't to capture it his goal was to bleed france white in other words kill
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so many french soldiers that france would just give up
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so the germans opened with 1200 artillery pieces firing one million
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shells in the first day alone the earth shook forest vanished and entire villages were erased.
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But the French refused to break.
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Their commander, General Philippe Petain, organized something legendary called La Voix Sacrée,
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the Sacred Way, a single road where over 3 ,000 trucks rotated supplies and men into the city 24 hours a day.
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Their motto, Ils ne passeront pas.
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Translation, they shall not pass.
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The battle lasted 302 days.
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10 months!
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It was the longest battle of the war.
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And when the smoke cleared, the French had lost 377 ,000 men.
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And the Germans lost 337 ,000.
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That's over 700 ,000 casualties combined.
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And neither side gained much of anything.
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I can't believe it.
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But while Verdun was still raging, the British launched their own offensive to the north along the river Somme.
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The British figured they'd just artillery the Germans into oblivion for a week, then walk across no man's land like it was a Sunday stroll.
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But the Germans, they just hid in deep concrete bunkers and waited.
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When the bombardment stopped, the British soldiers, loaded down with 66 pounds of gear, climbed out of the trenches and started walking.
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And the Germans climbed back to their machine guns and opened fire.
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In a single day, the British suffered 57 ,000 casualties, 19 ,000 dead.
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It is, to this day, the bloodiest day in the history of the British army.
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One day.
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And that battle dragged on for four more months.
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When it finally ended in November, the British had advanced about seven miles.
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And the cost was 420 ,000 British casualties, 200 ,000 French, and around half a million Germans.
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Over a million men killed, wounded, or missing for just seven miles.
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Horrifying.
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But on the bright side, The Somme was where the British rolled out a brand new toy, the world's first tank.
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It looked like a metal box on tractor treads, but it could roll right over barbed wire and trenches.
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Or had a new monster now.
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And by 1917, the war had reached a level of misery nobody could have imagined three years earlier.
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Because Russia was breaking.
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The Russian people were starving their army had taken something like 2 million casualties
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and the russian people overthrew their own czar nicholas ii in
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a revolution by november the communist led by vladimir lenin had seized power
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and lenin he wanted out of the war
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so in 1918 russia signed the treaty of brest -litovsk surrendering
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massive amounts of territory to germany just to make the killing stop.
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And that was terrible news for the Allies, because now Germany could move every single one of their eastern troops to the Western Front.
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So what did that mean?
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Well, across the Atlantic, America was slowly being dragged toward the fight.
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It started on May 7, 1915, when a British ocean liner called the RMS Lusitania was steaming off the coast of Ireland.
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A German U -boat fired one torpedo into its side, and the ship sank in 18 minutes.
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1 ,198 people died, and 128 of them were Americans.
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Goodness.
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President Woodrow Wilson, who'd campaigned on the slogan, he kept us out of war, was furious.
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But he didn't pull the trigger.
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He demanded Germany stop sinking civilian ships.
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And for a while, they did.
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But by 1917, Germany was getting desperate.
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They announced they were going back to unrestricted submarine warfare, meaning they'd sink anything they saw, including American ships.
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But that's when fate dropped a plot twist so crazy, Mrs. Flappy thought I was making this up.
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But I'm not, I swear.
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Cause the German foreign secretary, a guy named Arthur Zimmerman, sent a coded telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico.
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The message?
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Hey, if America joins the war against us, we'll back Mexico in a war against the United States.
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We'll help you take back Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
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I'm sorry, what?
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Yeah, Germany was trying to convince Mexico to invade the United States.
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But here's the kicker.
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British intelligence intercepted the telegram, decoded it, and handed it straight to president wilson so
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when the american press published the telegram the country erupted
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and a month later wilson stood before congress
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and asked for a declaration of war the world must be
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Now, let's get back to America stepping into the fight.
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Because the man tapped to lead the American Expeditionary Force was a Tough as Nails West Point General named John Blackjack Pershing.
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Pershing was old school, disciplined, demanding, and smart enough to know one thing.
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He was not going to let America's fresh young soldiers, nicknamed Doughboys, get d*ed fed into the meat grinder under foreign command.
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He insisted American troops would fight as a separate American army, period.
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And by the time Germany realized what was coming, it was too late.
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Cause over the next 18 months, 2 million Americans would land in France.
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And they were fresh, well -fed, well -armed.
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And unlike the Europeans who've been fighting for three years
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and were emotionally hollow shells they were eager to kill
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so the math had officially flipped against germany
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but germany wasn't going down without one final desperate haymaker cause in 1918 germany launched the spring offensive
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and the plan was to use the troops
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they just freed up from russia to throw everything at the western front
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and try to win the war before american reinforcement showed up in full force.
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It started at 4 .40 a .m with the largest artillery bombardment of the entire war.
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Over a million shells fired in five hours.
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It had hit an area of 150 square miles.
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German stormtroopers, which were elite units trained in new infiltration tactics, surged forward through the morning fog.
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And for a few weeks, it actually worked.
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Germany pushed the Allies back further than they've been pushed since 1914.
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They were within 40 miles of Paris.
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But here's the thing about pushing forward in 1918.
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You outrun your supplies.
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Your soldiers get exhausted.
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Your artillery falls behind.
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And the Allies?
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They were rallying.
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For the first time, all
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Allied armies were placed under one commander, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, and reinforcing them every single day were boatloads of fresh Americans.
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The Germans got close, but they couldn't close the deal.
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By July 1918, the spring offensive was dead,
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and the Americans were just getting warmed up because the Allies launched their counterattack at the Battle of Amiens.
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Tanks, planes, artillery, infantry, all coordinated together for the first time in history.
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In one day, they shattered the German line, took 17 ,000 prisoners, and captured 330 guns.
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German General Erich Ludendorff called it the Black Day of the German Army.
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Then came Samuel, Pershing's first independent American operation,
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where over half a million American troops smashed a German position in just four days.
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And then came the big one.
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In September 1918, 1 .2 million American soldiers launched the largest offensive in U .S military history,
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the Moos Argonne.
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The mission was to punch through some of the most heavily fortified terrain on the Western Front,
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dense forests, rugged hills, and four lines of German defenses.
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It was absolutely brutal.
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For 47 days, the doughboys ground forward through machine gun fire, mustard gas, mud, rain, and barbed wire.
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And around 26 ,000 Americans died.
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To this day, it remains the bloodiest battle the United States military has ever fought.
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But by November, the Americans broke through, and the German army retreated in chaos.
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Inside Germany, things were falling apart even faster than at the front.
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A British naval blockade had starved the country for years.
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Civilians were eating turnips and sawdust bread.
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Sailors were mutinued.
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Workers were striking.
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And revolution was brewing.
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So Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German emperor, abdicated and fled to the Netherlands.
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And the 47 -year -old German empire was over.
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So around 5 a .m on November 11, 1918, in a railway car parked in France,
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German representatives signed an armistice across the table from French Marshal Ferdinand Foch.
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There was no negotiation.
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The Germans were handed terms and told to sign.
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And the agreement said, at 11 a .m that morning, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, all hostilities would stop.
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But here's the thing.
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The armistice gave the armies six hours to spread the word.
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Six hours!
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Picture a small French village, north of Verdun.
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Cold November morning.
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So foggy you can barely see 20 feet in front of you.
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Through that fog, you can hear them.
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German machine guns, hammering away from a roadblock just outside the village.
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Pinned down on the muddy road into town is Company A of the 313...
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Infantry Regiment, also known as Baltimore's Own, a bunch of draftees from Baltimore, Maryland.
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These guys had been in continuous combat for almost 60 days.
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They survive the Moos -Argonne, and they are exhausted.
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And then at 10 .44 a .m., a runner sprints up to their position.
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The war is ending at 11 a .m., 16 minutes.
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The men of the 313th look at each other.
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Wait, what?
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But the order from their brigade commander, Brigadier General William Nicholson, comes down clear as day.
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Absolutely no let -up until exactly 11 a .m.
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Translation, keep fighting for 16 more minutes.
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I'm sorry, what?
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The war is over.
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They know the war is over.
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The Germans know it.
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The Americans know it.
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And generals on both sides have already shaken hands.
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But because of one general's order, there were 16 more minutes of killing.
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So, crouched in the mud with Company A is a 23 -year -old private from Baltimore.
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His name is Henry Gunther.
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He's the grandson of German immigrants.
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He grew up in a German neighborhood, went to a German Catholic church,
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and was working as a bookkeeper at a Baltimore bank when he was drafted into the army.
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And when he shipped out, he was a supply sergeant smart kid, organized, and engaged to a girl named Olga back home.
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But weeks earlier, he'd written a letter home, telling a friend that the trenches were horrible and to avoid the draft if he could.
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But the army censors intercepted it, and they busted him from sergeant down to private, took him off supply duty,
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and sent him to the front lines as a rifleman.
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Back home, Olga broke off the engagement, and Henry's been brooding ever since.
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His comrades say he's withdrawn, sullen, and obsessed with proving himself.
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Proving he's a real American, and not some German sympathizer.
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Two minutes left in World War I.
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He sees it, a German machine gun nest just up the road.
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So he fixes his bayonet to his rifle.
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His friend and squad sergeant, Ernest Powell, looks at him and says, Henry, no. But Henry stands up and he charges.
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His comrades are screaming at him to stop.
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Gunther, get down!
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And the Germans see him coming through the fog.
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They wave their arms.
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They yell at him in broken English.
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Go back!
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Go back!
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The war's over!
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But Henry keeps coming.
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He fires a shot or two from his rifle as he runs.
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The German gunner has no choice.
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He squeezes the trigger.
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Across the entire
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Western Front, there's total silence.
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For the first time in four years, Europe is quiet.
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And the last soldier to die in World War
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I was a 23 -year -old kid from Baltimore who wanted to prove he was American enough.
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Man, I'm so sorry, sir.
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The cost of World War I was absolutely devastating.
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Between 9 and 11 million soldiers died.
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Between 6 and 13 million civilians died.
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And the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which spread because of the war, killed at least another 50 million people worldwide.
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Four empires, the German, Austro -Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman, all collapsed.
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Hundreds of years of monarchy disappeared in four years.
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But here's where it gets complicated.
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Because in June 1919, the Allied powers gathered at the Palace of Versailles to write the peace treaty.
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And President Wilson showed up with idealistic ideas, like his famous 14 points, which called for self -determination,
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open diplomacy, and a new international body called the League of Nations that would prevent future wars.
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It was a noble vision.
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The only problem?
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Britain and France weren't really interested in noble visions.
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They wanted payback, especially France, whose entire northern region had been turned into a moonscape.
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So they pushed for terms so harsh even some
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Allied diplomats got uncomfortable.
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The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to accept full blame for the war, pay $33 billion in reparations,
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lose 13 % of its territory and 10 % of its population,
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surrender all overseas colonies, limit its army to just 100 ,000 soldiers, and demilitarize the Rhineland.
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The Germans called it the Dictionary at, the dictated peace.
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And the British economist John Maynard Keynes, who was actually at the conference, walked out in disgust.
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He warned that punishing Germany this severely would guarantee another war within a generation.
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And he turned out to be right.
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Meanwhile, back home in America, the Senate looked at Wilson's League of Nations and said, nah,
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because it would have required the u .s to defend other countries automatically
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and american senators weren't about to let foreign politicians decide
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when american boys would die in foreign wars
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so the senate rejected the treaty
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and the u .s signed a separate peace with germany instead
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and once again america pulled back into isolationism a lot of americans
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and i tend to think they had a point felt like europe had dragged the world into a catastrophic mess.
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And the last thing the United States needed to do was permanently entangle itself in it.
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So what did
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World War I actually do?
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It rewired the entire planet.
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Because new nations were drawn from the rubble, like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Finland, and the Baltic states.
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And the map of Europe in the Middle East was redrawn with borders that we're still fighting over today.
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Oh, and modern warfare was born.
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Tanks, fighter aircraft, submarines, machine guns, chemical weapons.
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Everything we now associate with war started here.
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But here's the part that should haunt you.
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Because somewhere in a German hospital, a 29 -year -old corporal was recovering from a mustard gas attack on the Western Front.
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He had earned the Iron Cross and fought for four years.
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And as he laid in that hospital bed, hearing the news that Germany had surrendered, he wept.
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Not from pain, but from rage.
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Because in his mind, Germany hadn't lost on the battlefield.
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Germany had been betrayed.
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By politicians, by communists, and by anyone else he could blame.
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This man would spend the next 15 years stewing on that rage.
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writing, speaking, and building a movement around it.
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And when the Treaty of Versailles crushed his country with reparations, when hyperinflation wiped out German life savings,
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when the Great Depression threw millions out of work, the German people were desperate for someone to tell them who to blame.
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And he was waiting.
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His name was Adolf Hitler.
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And the war he was about to start would make this one look like a warm -up.
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But speaking of warm -ups, remember that telegram Germany sent to Mexico?
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The one where they promised to help Mexico reclaim lost territory from the U .S.?
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Well, that wasn't random.
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Because decades earlier, America had taken half of Mexico's land.
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And it all started with this war.
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From a wooden leg left behind in the mud, to a 300 -pound American general to 30
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Irish immigrants hanged the exact second the American flag rose over Mexico City.
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This is the Mexican -American War Explained.
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So click this video right here and watch
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Manifest Destiny become Mexico's worst nightmare.

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trench 名詞/ˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/塹壕, トレンチ
treaty 名詞/ˈtɹiti/条約, 協定
artillery 名詞/ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/砲兵隊, 特科
offensive 形容詞/ˈɔˌfɛnsɪv/攻撃的な, 気に障る
shell 名詞/ʃɛl/殻, 貝殻
drag 動詞/dɹæɡ/引く, 引きずる
casualty 名詞/ˈkæʒu.əlti/犠牲者
telegram 名詞/ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/電報, 針金便り
wire 名詞/ˈwaɪɚ/針金, 線
desperate 形容詞/ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/絶望的な
climb 動詞/ˈklaɪ̯m/登る
sergeant 名詞/ˈsɑɹ.d͡ʒənt/軍曹
meanwhile 副詞/ˈmiːnwaɪl/その間に
defend 動詞/dɪˈfɪnd/守る, 防ぐ
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go back 動詞戻る, 帰る
warm up 動詞/ˌwɔː(ɹ)m ˈʌp/温まる
come down 動詞降りる
fall behind 動詞遅れる
give up 動詞降服する
go down 動詞降りる, 降下する
stand up 動詞立ち上がる
turn around 動詞振り向く

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現在完了進行形 have/has been + -ing — 以前に始まり今も続いている動作have been doing · who've been fighting · Henry's been brooding
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるwas born · were locked · was designed
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているthey've been pushed · has ever fought · have already shaken

注意したい発音

話し手はI'm, they'd, wasn'tなど、短縮形や弱形を32回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

  • 「th」の音: math /mæθ/, ethnic /ˈɛθ.nɪk/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, southeast /sawˈθɪjst/, throne /θɹəʊ̯n/
  • 「sh」と「zh」の音: shell /ʃɛl/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/, capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/
  • 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): artillery /ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, associate /əˈsoʊʃi.ət/, ambassador /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/

日本語話者が苦手な音:

  • /r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: artillery /ɑɹˈtɪləɹi/, telegram /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæm/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, rifle /ˈɹaɪfəl/, brutal /ˈbɹuːtəl/
  • /v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: offensive /ˈɔˌfɛnsɪv/, overseas /ˌoʊvɚˈsiːz/, inventory /ˈɪn.vən.tɹi/, civilians /sɪˈvɪl.jənz/, involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/
  • /f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: offensive /ˈɔˌfɛnsɪv/, warfare /ˈwɔɹfɛɹ/, defend /dɪˈfɪnd/, rifle /ˈɹaɪfəl/, infantry /ˈɪnfəntɹi/

この動画での練習方法

  1. まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
  2. 通常の速度で一文ずつシャドーイングし、話し手のリズムに合うまで繰り返します。
  3. 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。trench, treaty, artilleryなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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