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Why don't Countries Formally Declare War Anymore? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why are Purple Flags So Rare? (Short Animated Documentary)

What Happened When Kamikaze Pilots Failed or Wimped Out? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Mao Conquer Taiwan? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the USSR Annex Finland (Short Animated Documentary)

How did the USSR React to JFK's Assassination? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does Belgium Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Does Moldova Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why are so many countries called Guinea? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Did the USSR Ask to Join NATO? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does Belarus Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did France Leave NATO? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Mongolia? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Don't People Duel Anymore (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Argentina Decline? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Didn't the Allies Get Rid of Franco After the Second World War? (Short Animated Documentary)

Intro

Why did Russia sell Alaska to America? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why wasn't Japan Split Between the Allies After World War 2 (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Does Britain Own Gibraltar? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Sweden Support the Vietcong? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did France Get Nukes? (Short Animated Documentary)

When Did Britain and America Stop Hating Each Other? (Short Animated Documentary)

The Time the Dutch Ate their Prime Minister (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Was Singapore Kicked Out of Malaysia? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Isn't New Zealand a Part of Australia? (Short Animated Documentary)

Did Ancient Rome and China Know About Each Other? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did the World React to the American Civil War? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Russia Also Scramble Africa? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Greece get Constantinople after World War One? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Spain Decline? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Didn't Britain Make Peace After the Fall of France? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Does Luxembourg Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Didn't the Arab World Unite? (Short Animated Documentary)

When Did the Romans Become Italians? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Somalia fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

When did Persia become Iran? (Short Animated Documentary)

What happened to Rhodesia? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Japan ban everyone except for the Dutch? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the Netherlands gain territory after World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why wasn't Iran colonised? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Turkey fight in WW2? (Short Animated Documentary)

How Did Portugal Happen? (Short Animated Documentary)

What Happened to all the German Kings when Germany Unified? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did the World React to the Annexation of Austria?

Why Didn't the Allies Declare War on the USSR when it Invaded Poland? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Communist States React to the USSR's Collapse? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does Kuwait Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

How Lithuanian was Poland Lithuania? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why were the Yugoslav Partisans so Effective? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was Algeria a part of France and not a colony? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does Lesotho Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why is Cyprus Divided? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary)

Who opposed German Reunification? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was Japan Allowed to Keep its Emperor After World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

How is France on its Fifth Republic? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does Denmark Own Greenland? (Short Animated Documentary)

What did Kaiser Wilhelm do After His Abdication? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Wasn't the British Empire Ruled by A British Emperor? (Short Animated Documentary)

Conclusion

How did Soviet Elections Work? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Rome Conquer Ireland? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did the Holy Roman Empire Work? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did the Soviets React to the Moon Landings? (Short Animated Documentary)

How Terrible was Ivan the Terrible? (Short Animated Documentary)

When Did Passports Become a Thing? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did it Take so Long for Newfoundland to Join Canada? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the Ottomans Colonise the Americas? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Ireland Fight in World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did the Orthodox World React to the Protestant Reformation? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the world let India annex Goa? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Did Kings Stop Leading Troops into Battle? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did European Explorers Speak to Newly-discovered Natives? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why, How and When did Britain Join the EU? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Ethiopia survive the Scramble for Africa? (Short Animated Documentary)

What Happened to the Last Emperor of China? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Isn't There A Kurdistan? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did China Invade India in 1962? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Was Hungary Punished So Severely After World War One? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Mexico React to the Zimmerman Telegram? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why were the sides in the Nigerian Civil War so weird? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Europe React to the Fall of Constantinople? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Europe React to the Discovery of the Americas? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Napoleon Invade Russia? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Didn't Sweden Join World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did the World React to the Unification of Germany? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did South Africa Give up its Nukes? (Short Animated Documentary)

What Happened to Prussia? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Cuba Intervene in Angola? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why is Corsica a part of France? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does the west use Arabic Numerals? (Short Animated Documentary)

How 'Wild' was the Wild West (Short Animated Documentary)

How 'Dark' were the Dark Ages? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Did Ukraine Give Up Its Nukes? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Sweden and Norway Break Up? (Short Animated Documentary)

What did Leon Trotsky do in Exile? (Short Animated Documentary)

What did the Stasi do? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the Virginias Get Back Together? (Short Animated Documentary)

Did the USSR have a 'Blue Scare'? (Short Animated Documentary)

Did the USSR Have Millionaires? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was Churchill voted out of office after WW2? (Short Animated Documentary)?

Did Pepsi Really Own the Sixth Largest Navy in the World? (Short Animated Documentary)

History

Why didn't the USA annex all of Mexico in 1848? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the French Fail to Annex Saarland? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Czechoslovakia resist the Munich Agreement? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why aren't there any more Caliphs? (Short Animated Documentary)

How Harsh was the Treaty of Versailles Really? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Spain join World War One? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Britain lose Hanover? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Japan Join the Axis? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Mensheviks Lose to the Bolsheviks? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Did Britain Refuse to Annex Malta? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did communist Grenada keep the Queen? (Short Animated Documentary)

How Free was the Free City of Danzig? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does Russia Own Kaliningrad/ Königsberg? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Brazil Join World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

Is Afghanistan Really the Graveyard of Empires? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Dutch Empire Fall Apart? (Short Animated Documentary)

Did Austria want the Anschluss? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Britain Handover Hong Kong to China? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does Andorra Exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Britain Build Nuclear Weapons? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Bulgaria join the axis? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Paris Commune Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Did the Crusades Stop? (Short Animated Documentary)

Life in Alsace Lorraine (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the USA also Scramble Africa? (Short Animated Documentary)

Was Appeasement Justified? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Medieval Banking Work? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why is Ireland Divided? (Short Animated Documentary)

How and why did Switzerland become Neutral? (Short animated documentary)

What did Native Americans do during the Civil War? (Short Animated Documentary)

What Happened to Portugal's Monarchy?

Who Picked the UN Security Council? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why are so many European royal families German? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why aren't Bhutan or Nepal a part of China or India?

Why didn't Britain fight in Vietnam? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Belgium get an Empire? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Medieval Diplomacy Work? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Jamaica join Canada? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why wasn't France carved up after Napoleon was defeated? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Russia conquer Siberia? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Creoles React to the Louisiana Purchase? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why is the Vatican an Independent Country? (Short Animated Documentary)

Who Named the United States? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Britain and France stop fighting and become allies? (Short Animated Documentary)

The French Occupation of the Ruhr (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Japan refuse Poland's declaration of war in WW2? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Italy Abolish its Monarchy? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Did the Ottoman Empire Join the Central Powers? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Gran Colombia Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

How Did Ancient Philosophers Make Money? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was Bonn the Capital of West Germany? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was India Partitioned? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Soviet Calendar fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Denmark gain land after WW1 despite being neutral? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the US give up the Panama Canal? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Britain give up Oregon? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the US Join World War One? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Romania join the axis? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Bulgaria ever join Yugoslavia? (Short Animated Documentary)

How the Ottoman Empire was Carved Up (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Bulgaria lose so much land? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did Ancient/Medieval Borders Work? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why is Croatia split in two by Bosnia? (Short Animated Documentary)

How Were Medieval Taxes Collected? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did China Get Nukes? (Short Animated Documentary)

How Bad was the Spanish Inquisition? (Short Animated Documentary)

Background

Why didn't the USSR stop Lithuania from leaving? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Was the Holy Roman Empire Dissolved? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Vichy France join the Axis? (Short Animated Documentary)

outro

Did the Ancient Greeks climb Mount Olympus to see the Gods? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did it take so long for France to conquer Brittany? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Greece become a part of the Eastern Bloc? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did so many countries get involved in the Boxer Rebellion? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was FDR allowed to serve four terms? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Spain get more in the Scramble for Africa? (Short Animated Documentary)

When did Constantinople become Istanbul? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why wasn't there a Turkish Missile Crisis? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why is Chile such a weird shape? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Weimar Republic Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why wasn't there a Scramble for Australia? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Did the Bay of Pigs Invasion Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies only have one Sicily? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why is South Tyrol a part of Italy and not Austria? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the Tsar Flee Russia During the Russian Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was Kazakhstan the last to leave the USSR? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Alexander the Great conquer Rome? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Middle East's version of NATO Fail? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the League of Three Emperors fail twice? (Short Animated Documentary)

Did Rome know about Scandinavia and the Vikings? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Czechs and Slovaks leave Austria Hungary together? (Short Animated Documentary)

Who decided how Germany would be divided after WW2? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the British Royal Family change its name to Windsor? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the USSR hand over West Berlin? (Short Animated Documentary)

Was the Glorious Revolution a Dutch Conquest? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does America Have An Electoral College? (Short Animated Documentary)

Ten Minute History - The Late British Empire (Short Documentary)

Ten Minute History - Mussolini and Fascist Italy (Short Documentary)

Why didn't Germany invade the Netherlands in World War One? (Short Animated Documentary)

Ten Minute History - The Decline and Dissolution of the Soviet Union (Short Documentary)

Why didn't Britain have a Revolution in 1848? (Short Animated Documentary)

The Anglo German Naval Arms Race (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Korea restore its monarchy after World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why Didn't America Join the League of Nations? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Sparta Have Two Kings? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Poland's border change so much after World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does Monaco Exist?

Why was Texas divided after it joined the USA? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why wasn't Italy occupied after World War 2? (Short Animated Documentary)

Independence

Why did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor? (Short Animated Documentary)

The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR - August Coup of 1991 (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Philippines keep its Spanish name? (Short Animated Documentary)

Hiroshima: After the Bomb (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Haiti and the Dominican Republic Break Up? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was the USA the first to deal with the Barbary Pirates? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why is Antarctica Divided? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Britain Abolish Slavery? (Short Animated Documentary)

Ten Minute History - World War One and International Relations (Short Documentary)

Why did Britain give Heligoland to Germany? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why doesn't France own the Channel Islands? (Short Animated Documentary)

Introduction

How did the Great Depression affect the rest of the world? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Trotsky take over the USSR after Lenin?

Why didn't the USA ever adopt the Metric System? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the USA annex Cuba after beating Spain? (Short Animated History Documentary)

Why didn't the Kingdom of Hungary have a king? (Short Animated Documentary)

Fourth Term

Other Presidents

Did Medieval Knights Actually Go On Quests? (Short Animated Documentary)

Ten Minute History - The Meiji Restoration and the Empire of Japan (Short Documentary)

Ten Minute History - Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire (Short Documentary)

Third Term

Why didn't France try to retake Quebec? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why does The Gambia exist? (Short Animated Documentary)

Was the USSR actually a union or just another Russian Empire? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the USA invade North Vietnam? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't the western powers support the Christian Taiping Rebels? (Short Animated Documentary)

Ten Minute History - Westward Expansion and the American Civil War (Short Documentary)

Ten Minute History - World War 2: Free and Vichy France (Short Documentary)

Why did the Pope ban Crossbows? (Short Animated Documentary)

Ten Minute History - German Unification and Empire (Short Documentary)

Why did Sweden Decline? (Short Animated Documentary)

How did the Black Death affect Africa and Asia? (Short Animated Documentary)

Did Ethiopians or Nubians join the Crusades? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did the Entente betray Italy after WW1? (Animated History Documentary)

How did Denmark defeat Prussia in 1848? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why didn't Puerto Rico become a US State? (Short Animated Documentary)

The Spanish American War: Explained (Short Animated Documentary)

Ten Minute History - The Unification of Italy (Short Documentary)

Why didn't Belgium let the German through in World War One? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why did Albania Side with China After the Sino-Soviet Split? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why was Napoleon exiled instead of being executed? (Short Animated Documentary)

Coup

Ten Minute History - The Austro-Hungarian Empire (Short Documentary)