Gotta love whenever the Whatever Podcast does a video that goes expectedly unexpected. This video shows a few women trying to guess when WWI and WWII started. If you couldn’t figure it out by now, they get it fairly wrong. One girl is very honest though. She says what she does for a living to justify why she wouldn’t know something from basic history classes. But hey, at least she’s honest! That’s more than some people can offer. However, these women all need Jesus, that’s a given!
For anyone else out there who doesn’t know when WWI and WWII started, here’s a tiny bit of information for you. And, don’t tell anyone you didn’t know this. Just take the info and move along kindly. 🙂 As noted by History.com:
World War I, also known as the Great War, started in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918. During the four-year conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Canada, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). Thanks to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, World War I saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers had won, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.
World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, involved more than 50 nations and was fought on land, sea and air in nearly every part of the world. Also known as the Second World War, it was caused in part by the economic crisis of the Great Depression and by political tensions left unresolved following the end of World War I.
The war began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and raged across the globe until 1945, when Japan surrendered to the United States after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the end of World War II, an estimated 60 to 80 million people had died, including up to 55 million civilians, and numerous cities in Europe and Asia were reduced to rubble.
