ok im seriously confused here:what the hell is this?!?!??!why is this first part talking about 6000 japanese taking over tsingtao when millions of french and germans and russians are dying in europe?????
@ulongkoror: What's there to be confused about. It simply reflects the fact that besides the well known western and eastern European fronts there were smaller theaters all over the globe. I personally like to know a bit about those as well.
well i think this documentary should be named something like"World War One:The Forgotten Battles" or something,because its pretty odd and confusing to jump STRAIGHT into the less famous and less important(to the actual war) events of the war in the other side of the world
@ulongkoror: I understand what you mean and I would absoluteley agree if this was all there was to the actual documentary. But the fact is that this part (Global War) is just one of a 10 part series entitled "The First World War". This is however not a standalone documentary.
@kepler1000 Better than the Russians attempting to invade British India with 150,000 soldiers. Also, the United States had one of the smallest armies in the Western Hemisphere and certainly not an army as trained and well-equiped as the German army and navy. It was a plan that didnt have much of a chance, but it had the ability to humiliate the United States and definately change it forever in the way that would have been unpredictable at the time.
The outcome would have been a American superpower 50 years earlier. America had a huge industrial complex by this point, not just the east coast, but in Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, etc. Once the Americans mobilized their nation the German army and navy would have been obliterated in a war of industrialized attrition, and an American army (and probably French army also) would be marching down the streets of Berlin by 1914. It would have changed the future alright!
@kepler1000 "America had a huge industrial complex by this point, not just the east coast, but in Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, etc" -THe Industrial base of america was set by the 20th century this is true, but the Ruhr industrial base of Germany could have easily have matched it as it matched the industrial worth of Great Britain and France. And do you know how long it would have taken the US to mobilize? Enough time for manhatten to be shelled and boston captured.
@kepler1000 However, you're correct the German army and navy would have been destroyed in an invasion, but Operational Plan 3 WASNT an invasion plan, it would a quick interdiction to force America into diplomatic negotiation, it was never the PLAN to STAY on the east coast for more than a few months or so.
I had to watch this for history homework... -_-
AfterMath428 3 weeks ago 3
ok im seriously confused here:what the hell is this?!?!??!why is this first part talking about 6000 japanese taking over tsingtao when millions of french and germans and russians are dying in europe?????
ulongkoror 1 month ago
@ulongkoror: What's there to be confused about. It simply reflects the fact that besides the well known western and eastern European fronts there were smaller theaters all over the globe. I personally like to know a bit about those as well.
janruuds 1 month ago
@janruuds
well i think this documentary should be named something like"World War One:The Forgotten Battles" or something,because its pretty odd and confusing to jump STRAIGHT into the less famous and less important(to the actual war) events of the war in the other side of the world
ulongkoror 1 month ago
@ulongkoror: I understand what you mean and I would absoluteley agree if this was all there was to the actual documentary. But the fact is that this part (Global War) is just one of a 10 part series entitled "The First World War". This is however not a standalone documentary.
janruuds 1 month ago
Only the Germans could come with idiotic schemes like a full scale invasion of the eastern United States using only 100,000 soldiers.
kepler1000 2 months ago
@kepler1000 Better than the Russians attempting to invade British India with 150,000 soldiers. Also, the United States had one of the smallest armies in the Western Hemisphere and certainly not an army as trained and well-equiped as the German army and navy. It was a plan that didnt have much of a chance, but it had the ability to humiliate the United States and definately change it forever in the way that would have been unpredictable at the time.
GermanConquistador08 1 month ago
@GermanConquistador08
The outcome would have been a American superpower 50 years earlier. America had a huge industrial complex by this point, not just the east coast, but in Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, etc. Once the Americans mobilized their nation the German army and navy would have been obliterated in a war of industrialized attrition, and an American army (and probably French army also) would be marching down the streets of Berlin by 1914. It would have changed the future alright!
kepler1000 1 month ago
@kepler1000 "America had a huge industrial complex by this point, not just the east coast, but in Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, etc" -THe Industrial base of america was set by the 20th century this is true, but the Ruhr industrial base of Germany could have easily have matched it as it matched the industrial worth of Great Britain and France. And do you know how long it would have taken the US to mobilize? Enough time for manhatten to be shelled and boston captured.
GermanConquistador08 1 month ago
@kepler1000 However, you're correct the German army and navy would have been destroyed in an invasion, but Operational Plan 3 WASNT an invasion plan, it would a quick interdiction to force America into diplomatic negotiation, it was never the PLAN to STAY on the east coast for more than a few months or so.
GermanConquistador08 1 month ago
What a lot of shite.Naturally the germans caused it all not the greedy money people behind the scenes .
halbschuh 2 months ago
thanks for sharing
The176407 3 months ago
your video quality for this documentary is the best on youtube! Thanks for sharing
TheWhoaDude 3 months ago
excellent video
OrgulloSox 6 months ago
wow...i like it. From : Jakarta - Indonesia
meidiiiiiiii 7 months ago
Thanks for the video I been waiting for this episode thanks!
mellowcloudhugger 8 months ago