History Abridged with Jack Rackem

 (So too start off, hey everyone, welcome to my blog. I will be covering history YouTubers. I'll cover their overall content as well as my favorite videos and things you learn from them. There will be one older and one newer video on each post.)

 History Abridged with Jack Rackem, a historian known for his comedy and for how he portrays history in a modern comedic light. He loved to cover the funny and stupid sides of history, while he loves history. You can learn some facts about historical figures in history, for example, Teddy Roosevelt. 

https://youtu.be/pnFmrgYh1fw?si=jV9wgapc44dkCQ4o

In this video, you learn little facts like the fact that he has asthma and that he brought a fist to a gun fight and won. He was a Harvard graduate and became a published historian and ornithologist. He also had crippling asthma, but still joined the rowing and boxing team. He decided to refuse his doctor’s warnings.  Shortly after his daughter was born, his mother died before his wife. Then he decides he wants to fight for justice, he becomes a politician in NYC fighting corruption, and he loses. Then became a cowboy in Nebraska, dropping 14k on a cattle ranch. During that time, he got into a fight in a bar man drew a gun, teddy punches him and knocked him out. A bad winter killed all his cows, so he headed back to New York becomes the police chief, and sought to reform it. Made campaign speeches for McKinley, then became assistant secretary of the navy. Pushes to take Cuba. Went to war with Spain quits the navy to fight on the front lines, becoming a war hero. Then becomes the governor of New York. The party boss wanted him out of the governor's office nominates him without his consent as a candidate for VP wins and became the vice president of the United States a job, he didn't want VPs do literally nothing. McKinley dies, and now he's the president of the United States. Passing sweeping reforms improving the general welfare of Americans broke up trusts and did a lot of different things passed more executive orders than all the previous 25 presidents combined, and then the Panama Canal, which can be debated on whether that was a good thing or a bad thing he did. 

https://youtu.be/L344xvU6mmE?si=ruRURiXnw3zz0zTD

ahh the Axis powers. The history of how they formed and what came before it is wild. Hitler really wanted Austria and for a while, it wasn't the Allies that stopped him; no, it was fascist Italy. Italy had made an alliance with France and Britain against Germany to the point that there were plans that fascist Italy would spearhead an invasion into nazi Germany. Hitler was thinking at this time to try to align Britain against the USSR and France. There could have been some weird and wild things that could have happened in history. Italy decided it wanted an empire in Ethiopia. This goes against Britain and Frances clearly stated morals, but they were scared of another WW1, so they just did lip service and light sanctions and still let Italian troops pass the Suez Canal. Basically, this ended the alliance with Italy. So in 1936 Germany and Italy officially aligned. Two main actors in the circus that were the axis were involved. meanwhile in Asia, Japan was aligned with Britain for 20 years. But fears of the USA and Japan going to war broke apart the alliance. Japan takes Manchurian start having border disputes with the USSR. Turns out Hitler didn't like the USSR all that much either. Japan still wanted to take all of China, but Germany had a lot of investments in China. The German population liked China. But Hitler didn't really care, so Japan basically joined the axis which was an anti-communist pact at the time. And Hitler, being a nazi and a pathological liar, a week before WW2 signs a non-aggression pact with the USSR, screwing over both his major allies. Hitler made up a story that the anti-communist alliance was actually against Western democracies. A pact literally called “the agreement against the communist international.” So, Hitler invades Poland with support not from his Axis allies but from the communists. World War II was a horrible tragedy. But it's funny how much of a clown show it really was from a geopolitical standpoint.