Italy in World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
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Italy was a major European country that joined World War 1 almost a year after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Initially, Italy actually had an alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary called the Triple Alliance, but Italy decided to back the Entente powers instead because they were promised disputed land in the Alps and near Trieste. Find out all about Italy in World War 1 in our new special. » PARTNER CHANNELS DER ERSTE WELTKRIEG: http://bit.ly/1wkyt IT’S HISTORY: http://bit.ly/ITSHISTORYSHOW » HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOUR CHANNEL? You can support us by sharing our videos with your friends and spreading the word about our work. If you want you can also support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar Patreon is a platform for creators like us that enables us to get monthly financial support from the community. » WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WORLD WAR I AND WHERE ELSE CAN I FIND YOU? We’re offering background knowledge, news, a glimpse behind the scenes and much more on: Facebook: http://bit.ly/WW1FB Twitter: http://bit.ly/WW1Series Instagram: http://bit.ly/ZpMYPL » ARE YOU PLANNING TO DO A SHOW ABOUT WORLD WAR II? We are getting a lot of requests for a WWII channel every day, so we are definitely thinking about it. » CAN I EMBED YOUR VIDEOS ON MY WEBSITE? Of course, you can embed our videos on your website. We are happy if you show our channel to your friends, fellow students, classmates, professors, teachers or neighbours. Or just share our videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. Subscribe to our channel and like our videos with a thumbs up. We are also happy to get your feedback, criticism or ideas in the comments. If you have interesting historical questions, just post them and we will answer in our OUT OF THE TRENCHES videos. You can find a selection of answers to the most frequently asked questions here: http://bit.ly/OOtrenches » CAN I SHOW YOUR VIDEOS IN CLASS? Of course! Tell your teachers or professors about our channel and our videos. We’re happy if we can contribute with our videos. » WHAT ARE YOUR SOURCES? Videos: British Pathé Pictures: Mostly Picture Alliance Background Map: http://d-maps.com/carte.php?num_car=6030&lang=en Literature (excerpt): Gilbert, Martin. The First World War. A Complete History, Holt Paperbacks, 2004. Hart, Peter. The Great War. A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013. Hart, Peter. The Great War. 1914-1918, Profile Books, 2013. Stone, Norman. World War One. A Short History, Penguin, 2008. Keegan, John. The First World War, Vintage, 2000. Hastings, Max. Catastrophe 1914. Europe Goes To War, Knopf, 2013. Hirschfeld, Gerhard. Enzyklopädie Erster Weltkrieg, Schöningh Paderborn, 2004 Michalka, Wolfgang. Der Erste Weltkrieg. Wirkung, Wahrnehmung, Analyse, Seehamer Verlag GmbH, 2000 Leonhard, Jörn. Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges, C.H. Beck, 2014 » WHAT IS “THE GREAT WAR” PROJECT? THE GREAT WAR covers the events exactly 100 years ago: The story of World War I in realtime. Featuring: The unique archive material of British Pathé. Indy Neidell takes you on a journey into the past to show you what really happened and how it all could spiral into more than four years of dire war. Subscribe to our channel and don’t miss our new episodes every Thursday. » WHO IS REPLYING TO MY COMMENTS? AND WHO IS BEHIND THIS PROJECT? Most of the comments are written by our social media manager Florian. He is posting links, facts and backstage material on our social media channels. But from time to time, Indy reads and answers comments with his personal account, too. The Team responsible for THE GREAT WAR is even bigger: - CREDITS - Presented by : Indiana Neidell Written by: Indiana Neidell Director: David Voss Director of Photography: Toni Steller Sound: Toni Steller Sound Design: Bojan Novic Editing: Franz Jänich Research by: Indiana Neidell Fact checking: Latoya Wild, David Voss A Mediakraft Networks Original Channel Based on a concept by Spartacus Olsson Author: Indiana Neidell Visual Concept: Astrid Deinhard-Olsson Executive Producer: Astrid Deinhard-Olsson and Spartacus Olsson Head of Production: Michael Wendt Producer: David Voss Social Media Manager: Florian Wittig Contains licenced Material by British Pathé All rights reserved - © Mediakraft Networks GmbH, 2015
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What if Italy joined the central powers? How will it impact the war?
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i feel like what happened in Italy between our Rinascimento and basically after WW2 it extremely similar to what's happening now in the USA
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If we compare the situation in Italy to the current US situation, i think they're quite similar.
It's quite worrying thinking that, after the Election of Trump we still might have to do something that really makes the difference -
My compliments,
you made a perfect depiction of the prewar Italy, both very accurate and precise; in fact, I think that not even italian history textbooks are that accurate about the subject (and I do know what I am talking about).
I have question for "Out of the threnches": how did the Catholic Church react to the breaking of the Great War and which was the Catholics and Potestants point of view during the conflict?
From this idea I suggest you develop as well a special episode that could go by the name of: "The Cross and the Sword" or "Religion and the Great War".
Thank you very much.
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Thanks Madeleine.
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Italy joining the war especially on the allied side (since that meant focusing on beating your brains out in the Alps) was dumb as its gets. Stay neutral idiots.
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Next time Europe declares war on another country, first thing both sides should do is destroy Italy get rid off the traitor
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mi bisabuelo peleo por el reino de Italia saludos desde chile
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Damn. People were actually writing to go to war! Now there's something you don't see everyday.
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Dear Italy, one day we will come for South Tyrol. Yours, Austria.
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GIUSEPPI GORBEODI?! ITS GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI! TRIEST?! IST TRIESTE! Y U NO PRONONCE RIGHT! IF YOU CANT PRONOCE RIGHT A NAME! then italy is mostly going to hate you.
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To everyone insulting italy remember they were the sucesors of rome
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Italy had a lot on their mind when they went to war.
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dear indi u did such a great job with the Persian campaign i wanted to thank you so much. however i was wondering if there was anymore info on that topic that you could discuss in future episode.
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I'm italian and you have my compliments for accurate description about italian situation before entering in WW1.
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thanks for this
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It would be nice to get a special on the Iberian peninsula during the war. I'd be happy to help with research.
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You should look up the plans that Cadorna made to invade France and help the Germans. in fact, during the negotiations with the entente, Cadorna still made plans of defense in the western Alps. As a result the tactics to attack an invade Austria we conceived only when there was no left time to organise a better invasion. :)
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What I believe to be the largest war memorial in Europe, is at a place called Redipuglia just below the Karst plateau (Carso) - it incorporates parts of Monte Sei Busi where the Italians came up against determined Austrian resistance in June 1915. Should anyone be interested, I filmed it with some of my analysis (which is not as good as you can see on the Great War channel) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBa2vnIkvdk
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If Italy really proposed that they would join the Central Powers in exchange for various territory from Austria-Hungary, surely the Germans must have been berating the Austrians to accept the concessions right? And in an alternate universe, if Italy HAD declared war on France, how would that have changed the war? Could it have shifted forces enough to win the war for Germany?
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Curious about an apparent conflict in the information, in the beginning you talk about how Italy was so divided ethnically, and linguistically that they didn't even really feel like a unified sense of nationhood. That Italian was only the dialect of Florence.
If this is the case, how could a nation that lacked cohesion within itself feel related to the lands within Austria, and why would their speaking Italian, a language that wasn't even dominant in Italy, be a binding force?
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