Small Mistakes in History That Caused Huge Disasters - Chat History Reaction

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[ItBeHurka]

That king of Scotland story sounds like something out of Crusader Kings.

[adamantu]

Mistakes with big consequences? Allegedly King Croesus of Lydia asked the oracle of Delphi if he should go to war with persia. However he made a tiny mistake. When the oracle answered "You will destroy a great empire" he didn't ask "Which one?" So he went to war and got his empire destroyed

[jeffslote]

The Soviet Union’s pacific fleet lost most of its senior officers in one plane crash. 28 admirals and generals died because the flight crew failed to balance the load weight

[iammattc]

Fun Fact: when Stalin died, the Americans intercepted the message that was sent to the Soviet military
The Airman who deciphered and translated the message, and so became the first Westerner to know Stalin had died, was Johnny Cash, the Man in Black himself.

[SkyHighForever]

13:36 the Pokémon Unown scroll is funny

[Edax_Royeaux]

After the failed assassination attempt on Archduke Franz Ferdinand, they decided to change their announced route of the motorcade for safety only they forgot to tell several of the drivers this important detail.

[genericyoutubeaccount]

By the 1980s, the Soviet Union was increasingly led by a slew of elderly, out of touch leaders. Brezhnev died in 1982. Andropov died in 1984. Chernenko died in 1985 handing power over to Gorbachev.

The thing is that Chernenko was not that old when he died. He was only 73 years old which is younger than both Biden and Trump. But Chernenko started smoking at age 9 and never stopped. He died on lung disease. So a nicotine addiction lead to the rise of Gorbachev to become dictator of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev nearly singlehandedly caused the collapse of the Soviet Union.

[lorisuprifranz]

12:32 Here it's implyed in the video that the mistranslation of the treaty was an accident. As I studied it here in Italy, it was instead a deliberate attempt to put Ethiopia under Italian protectorate on paper, and to potentially have a casus belli for further expansion in the region. Of course that was unacceptable for the Ethiopians, but Italy wasn't the first and certainly not the last colonial power that had the idea to be duplicitous in it's treaties with the natives. It was just the only one that didn't subsequently win and silence the native's opposition. Just to be thorough on the argument: You also have to consider that Ethiopia had the strong support of the British during the war, and that thanks to them Italy had to face a fairly modern standing army. Being on almost equal technological footing, the more numerous Ethiopians had all of the advantages. In 1935 instead the Fascist won because of the lesser involvement of the British and because of the Fascists free use of gas and war crimes against civilians

[coxmosia]

Extra History's videos on the Viking Expansion, ( the long one) and Hypatia are relatively new and good. Check them out

[svenrio]

The O real seal failing, causing the Challenger Space Shuttle to crash is another one.

[IgnoredAdviceProductions]

The channel Ocean Liner Designs explains very well how the binoculars wouldnt really have mattered, among other misconceptions. I'd like to see a reaction to one of his videos someday.

[RealJMAC]

C'mon VTH. While sailing to the states with his cylinder in one hand and the kilogram in another. Pure comedy gold that went right over your head.

[williamsalters]

“A disaster that happened, and it seems like it was preventable, people start looking for anything, or look for alternate scenarios… more often than not, the simplest explanation is the explanation.” I agree with you very much on that statement. The Kennedy assassination is a perfect example. People don’t want to believe it was possible for a man like Oswald to be able to take 3 shots and to hit the target. There must have been something more.

[AMPLP]

8:00 the better "mistake" actually sounds insane. Seeing the iceberg in the first place. Had they actually not seen it, and then attempted to dodge it far too late, titanic would have hit the berg square, crushing the nose and killing anyone in the forward compartments. The ship itself however almost certainly would have stayed afloat and still made it to port, as evidenced by multiple other ships throughout history that have done the exact same thing. So in truth, the mistake was attempting to dodge it, which only happens because it is seen at the last second

[bazookacantgame]

Mistranslation is so real, multiple mistakes in the translation of my countries founding document led to land wars and general bad blood (New Zealand)

[PalmelaHanderson]

The reason the US never adopted the metric system is because Congress would have had to enact a law to standardize it, which never would have happened. Britain and Canada still use imperial for some things and metric for others. In Britain, for example, most of the time I've heard someone describe their height, they use feet and inches. When describing how fast they're going in their car, they'll use kph, but when describing how far away something is, they'll use miles. Beer still comes in pints. There are a few other oddities like that.

[brettwillard]

Never would have gone down that way, while talking about the Titanic... I love that.

[joshuawells]

In point of fact, if the lookouts on the Titanic had binoculars, it would have delayed their responses to seeing the iceberg because they would need to verify it and then rung the bell and called down to the helm. In comparison, without the binoculars, the lookouts immediately range the bell and called the helm.

[xenialafleur]

One thing to think about with Alexander III is that he was on good terms with Edward I. If, because of Alexander III surviving, Edward I had decided to not mess with Scotland at that time, he could have focused more on France.

[orwellboy]

I'd like to add the gunpowder plot 1605. A letter sent to "a friend" lead to the capture and execution of Guy Faulks and co-conspirators.