10 DEADLIEST Mistakes in Human History
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- These decisions cost humanity dearly. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at ten horrible choices from human history that had disastrous - and deadly - consequences. Our countdown of the deadliest mistakes in human history includes Russia Invades Ukraine (2022-), Moctezuma II Welcomes the Spanish (1519), Stalin’s Terror Famine (1932-33), and more! Did we make a huge mistake and leave one of history’s deadliest blunders off of our list? Let us know in the comments below.
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Japan bombing Pearl Harbor has to be one of them. That single act set in motion a chain of events that directly led to the use of atomic weaponry.
Exactly that was as people call it “poking a sleeping giant”
Unfortunately some parts of history have to happen, if United States was never involved in WW2 , it would have affected our society in big ways, technically, financially and in medicine. Like the cold war between Russia and United States pushed technology because of the competition, people forget South Korea and Germany would be in a completely different situation today even Japan after the war American actions change the country and became technically advanced overtime just like South Korea, history would be completely different today affecting every single country in the world. the butterfly effect it's real en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
@LedHed71 Well that led America into the second world war or more involved in it.
@usagtone I bet we wouldn't see men walking around saying their a girl. And girls want be treated like cats so we have litter boxes in the classroom for them. Our society is so incredibly screwed for a long time and once it's been broken this much it doesn't go back
The Native Americans actually trusting Europeans was an obvious, deadly mistake.
They did trust us at first, but then they began to realize what we were REALLY up to!
Seriously. They can use the wind direction to triangulate themselves but couldn't sense the most obvious threat to their livelihood 😅
@@ElizabethMcCormick-s2nwas too late by then...
@@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n A wolf in sheep skin basically.
@@DirtyMikeandTheBoyz Kindness kills my friend.
The biggest in my opinion would be rejecting Hitler from art school.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand incident should have been number one. This triggered WW1, and WW2 indirectly, along with the events from each war. Also led to the spreading of The Spanish Flu, innovations in engineering (tanks, machine guns, etc.), increase knowledge in health and medicine, and overall living in society.
The war would've started regardless of whether or not the Archduke was assassinated
Yes, Garvilo Princip, The Serb Who started everything And blaming The Germans instead Of Serbia
You kind of played both sides there
Not to mention the Russian Revolution.
@@KingBowser77766 Germans are to blame. They couldn't wait to start the war. Same as Austria
There are two opinions about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Some say it was a mistake, While others say it was justified. But when you really think about it, It was kinda both.
Isn’t it always, since everything has a bad and good side
For example, my maternal grandfather was slated to take part in the invasion of Japan when the bombs were dropped, so if the bombs hadn't been dropped, I most likely wouldn't be alive!
I keep wondering if blockading them would have been the better option to do.
@@buckn5 Naa knowing Japan back then they wouldn’t have given up
Robert Oppenheimer knows that he Made nicknamed himself as *The Destroyer Of Worlds*
America should never have invaded Iraq, regardless of your thoughts about George W. Bush’s supposed 9/11 connections.
We did find WMDs in Iraq though
@@buffnerd82 can't tell em nothing
Actually George Bush was the one who caused the 9/11, because the TV show called South Park has all the answers.
@@buffnerd82dildos aren’t weapons of mass destruction Diddy
Or even any war crimes in general
Genghis Khan's delegation delivered an ultimatum to the Shah declaring the life of Inalchuq to be forfeit for what he did to the caravan. Surviving envoys were given to the governor to have their beards shaved as an act of humiliation.
During the invasion, Inalchuq ended up being one of the first targets, having molten silver poured into his eyes and ears. The surviving citizens of Otrar were forced to watch their governor die in such a horrific fashion.
Never have misinformation and never underestimate your enemy.
When USA Used The atomic bomb against Japan, Many MANY Countries Builded nuclear weapons like Russia, China, France, Great Britain and even NORTH KOREA
Pol Pot in Cambodia
He was supported by the US
@@Grandizer8989 During the genocide China supplied 15,000 military advisors and most of their external aid, although the US did vote for them to retain their seat at the UN so there's plenty of blame to go around.
@@Grandizer8989 The US is well known around the world for supporting communist rule, I guess.
@@jameshannagan4256 the enemy of my enemy yada yada…
Speaking of invasions, the Soviet union’s invasion of Afghanistan to support the DRA was also a devastating defeat and blow for the Soviets, in fact a led to the fall of the Soviet Union and 1991 and the beginning of the brutal Afghan long conflict not to mention this result in the many massacres of Afghan locals
also the US indirectly led to the rise of the taliban to power when we funded their insurgency against the soviets
If you ask me, declaring war on Russia was one of the worst mistakes Hitler ever made!
Yep history repeats in 2014
It Was Putin's mistake And now Ukraine Is invading Russia starting with Kursk
@@sammycrysis521Maybe.
Yes. And he attacked. Didn't declare war
@@Gor85 Sorry, my mistake!
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Then president Donald Trump downplays covid-19 in 2020 leading to over 2 million deaths from the virus. So many corpses pile up Americans have to use freezer trucks as morgues.
Big respect to the Americans that opposed Iraq War
It was just Americans. Millions of people across the world marched in protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I was one of the 2 million who protested in Australia alone.
@@Idontknow20286The UK did help I'm not sure why.
A lot of us knew Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and in fact didn't tolerate terrorism an any way. It's still puzzling as to the myriad of reasons for the invasion but I doubt it had much to do with WMDs or terrorism.
@@jameshannagan4256 From what I know 9/11 caused a bit of confusion which led to the Afghanistan war and then The Iraq War so it was very complex which I can see why it’s puzzling.
@@josh72456we needed them to help us
Speaking of Iraqi invasion I think it’s safe to say that in my perspective, Saddam is our invasion to invade. Kuwait is the true mistake and fact his decision to invade was the true cause of the Iraqi conflict.
The invasion of Kuwait happened in 1990 and it was stopped. That doesn't justify the invasion of Iraq 12 years after the gulf war had ended.
@@ehtishamkhan2004 if you look at the entire timeline, it is easy to draw the connection between the 2. Had the crazy shoe shine boy not invaded Kuwait, the US would not have built as strong of presence in Iraq. It is not a large leap....
Got to admire Genghis Khan in a way
He never took crap from anyone
This mistake was so catastrophic even when the Shah was already succeeded by one of history's greatest and legendary military general he'd still failed to stop the Mongols.
In economic terms, the craziest thing about Mao's Great Leap Forward was the policy exhorting households to turn useful finished manufactured products such as cutlery, scissors, kitchen utensils, bicycle wheels and frames, etc, back into crude steel in their backyard furnaces.
I heard after the first atom bomb, japan would still not surrender, so another was dropped, THEN they surrendered.... not just a wording mistake....
True was thinking the same thing
All wrong. The bomb was going either way because they wanted to teach Japan a lesson and it worked.
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As a Roman eques, Arminius was assigned to his German homeland by the Roman military. He returned to his German roots and used his knowledge of Roman tactics to destroy 3 legions in the Teutoburg Forest in 9AD. This led to the Romans pulling out south of the Rhine. This ended up having a huge influence on European history because the Germans were never Romanized.
Japan hasn't apologized for pearl harbor ether, apparently.
And not to mentioned the fact that Japan hasn't compensated the victims of Comfort Women.
can I ask something ?? was pearl harbor full of civilians
@@kevinkoech3288 No... Pearl Harbor was full of U.S. Naval Ships.
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of the 2,403 deaths during the attack
2,008 sailors
109 marines
208 Army soldiers
only 68 civilians were killed and 35 wounded
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@@WilliamAfton-bj3ur Killed the franchise worth billions
Wouldn't have mattered... still would've been a flop
Should have just used Grant Gustin from the TV show... or made him an alternate Barry Allen.
China inventing The Coronavirus
Who cares...It's only DC.
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Food For Thought: To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.
Potato famine in Ireland. The English did that to the Irish
Not really, they just didn't do much to help and then exploited it to purchase a lot of land cheaply.
The Chinese guy was trying to light his cigarette 😂😂😂 💥
What’s truly sad about Mao, some of his victims still refuse to think poorly of him. My parents are Chinese immigrants and had to live through The Great Leap Forward. Me being born and growing up in the USA think Mao was a jerk. Every time I insult him my parents tell me he wasn’t that bad. The irony, my in laws are Shar Pei enthusiasts (the extra wrinkly dog) and have owned a few. During Mao’s reign he ordered them destroyed. I was showing the dogs to my parents asking them if the dogs looked familiar. When I told them how Mao ordered them all killed, they scolded me to not insult the man.
Unfortunately I’m seeing history repeat itself with a particular politician.
So now we hear that the Japanese may not have outright rejected the ultimatum after all. Was *anything* we were taught in History class actually true? Like, anything at all?
It doesn't even matter. Complete surrender was the only way they weren't getting bombed. Even if they said they were willing to negotiate, they were still getting bombed.
The real mistake is thinking they know what we now know. Truman probably knew radiation was bad, but scientists inspected nuclear test sites with bags on their feet to protect against radiation. Truman didn't likely understand how much different nukes were from a really big bomb
It's called "Revisionism"... it's popular today in the socialist-run American school systems to make the US look as bad as possible. Thank the silver-ponytails Carter allowed to come back from Canada.
if you know anything about the imperial Japanese at the time and look at the actions of the Japanese as a whole, the "may not have rejected" nonsense is just that, nonsense. The Japanese were not going to simply surrender. The fought to the death on the battlefield as it was considered disgraceful to surrender and was one of the reasons POWs were treated so poorly. The had no honor in the eyes of the Japanese military. There is also proof that villagers committed suicide rather than surrender their villages as the Allied forces island hopped across the Pacific. The "rejection" garbage is revisionist history and the bombs were a necessity. In the end they saved millions of lives that would have been lost if the allies had been forced to invade the island...
Okay. Thank you for telling me. That makes a lot of sense. 👍
Also, something else occurred to me: even if the Japanese government was willing to wait for another deal, then they might have surrendered to the Soviets, meaning they likely would have stayed our enemies instead of becoming our allies. And I like Japan-I visited there last year-so I’m glad that didn’t happen.
Bomb was going either way to teach lessons in the words of myoki
Princip saw Frank Ferdinand on that street and said “I KNOW THAT AIN’T WHO I THINK IT IS!”
4:21 "dropping two nuclear bombs". "Nuclear" or "atomic"? They're different. The two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were ATOMIC.
The Mongol invasion of Khwarezmian was so catastrophic that even when the Shah was succeeded by one of history's most greatest and legendary military general he'd still failed to stop the Mongols and died along with his empire.
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China inventing Douyin Also Know as Tik Tok
@@hannahlowe794 she had a feeling something was terribly wrong.Female intuittion. Legendary
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Where was Pol Pot's day zero?
Love the thumbnail for this video '10 Deadliest Mistakes In Human History' with a president of the United States
I sorted Watchmojo's videos by oldest and got mind blown, what was this channel about 17 years ago? 😂😂😂
My only problem with this list is most of these we're mistakes. They were done on purpose
Karl Marx inventing Communism
Weird that the U.S. were not involved in a war from 2016-2020 and Putin didn’t invade Ukraine. Wonder what was different during that time period? 🤔
A pedophile was president and that pedophile allowed Russia to build up its troops.
Yes exactly!
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shh telling the truth will make the little leftists heads explode due to their brittle heart syndrome. They don't handle the truth very well if it isn't spewed from one of the propaganda media outlets. Joseph Goebbels would be proud of the democrat party in the US today....
I had to skip pass that lie, they had to throw russia in there even though they stop the biggest threat Germany
None of these are mistakes. Without them - most of us would never be born. Are we all a mistake?
Electing George W Bush over Al Gore.
1 million %
And how exactly do you think Al Gore would've handled 9/11?
Electing Donald Trump
@@Jodi_Johnson9/11 probably wouldn't have happened under Al Gore & he wouldn't have lied us into attacking the wrong country.
@@Jodi_Johnsonhe would have blamed it on Manbearpig and ran around in circles making a whooshing sound, pretending like he's flying.
These are all great mistakes. No regrets.
no Pol Pot's destruction of Cambodja?
2003 Iraq invasion is why we LOST in Afghanistan. We divided our forces and resources unnecessarily and removing Saddam popped the cork off a bottle of chaos in that region that we STILL have not be able to put back in!
Yup
The creation of Madame Web
The Creation Of Borderlands movie
@@KingBowser77766 the creation of Joker Folie a Deux
@@WilliamAfton-bj3ur Nintendo betraying Sony And The Creation Of The Playstation
Still no punishment for Bush
@AusieGamer834: Nor for Biden, Obama, or ALL THE OTHER terrible crimes and lies by many other presidents.
never will be, despite the whining from the left. He gained congressional approval and that included democrat support. good or bad, he had the backing of the American Government....
@AussieGamer834 That's interesting I find because I would agree on the comment.
Why
I would excuse Hitler thinking he could invade Russia during WW2, due to the fact that he was alive to see his country do the exact same thing successfully in WW1.
That had more to do with the Russian Tsarist regime capitulating to the provisional government and then later to the Soviets.
Not letting Operation Unthinkable happen.
Lead in gasoline should have been number 1
Like Ukraine hasnt lost anything
Amazing video Rebecca from watch mojo of human mistakes made in history,fantastic job.
4:00 atomic not nuclear
Putin does not belong on this list
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The Attack On Pearl Harbor (1941) And not Because of the terrible 2001 film from Disney because It was the Insentive for The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Drop (1945) and we all know the aftermath of the Historical Event
Each mistake is like a domino effect; once it starts, it's hard to see where it stops. 🎉
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Not just Hitler invading Russia *on Winter*
Napoleon Bonaparte did the same thing against Russia *During Winter*
Sorry, but this video has some "anti-Russian" takes. The invasion of Ukraine did not happen without reason, so we don't know if it was a mistake. History will tell that. Enough with Western propaganda.
Also, the reason why Stalin forced collectivism on Soviet Ukraine is not explained here. The Soviet Ukrainians allegedly wanted to form an alliance with Nazi Germany and even asked for their help to secede from the USSR.
To err is human , to forgive is divine
- I forgot who said that
The Halifax explosion? Two boats crashed into each other and one was carrying 2.9 kilotons of explosives and blew up the city
Getting references from BBC is all I needed to stop watching this.😂
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Literally everything you said about Ukraine/Russia is not true. I know there are not many who are hardcore into geopolitics but there are some. Why risk being called out?
Ukraine here)what exactly is not true?)
@MrPukerman all of it.
1) Russia's economy has hardly been hurt at all.
2) Ukraine has lost a generation of young men either through fighting or fleeing. They have resulted to literally grabbing young men off the street, lowering in the age of soldiers, and taking men as old as in their 40's.
3) Whatever the "dent" of damage Ukraine has been able to impose upon Russia pales in comparison to the devastation in Ukraine.
@MrPukerman this is a war that not only could have easily been avoided, but one that could have found a resolution if not for the intervention of Boris Johnson.
Napoleon could not conquer Russia. Hitler could not defeat Russia. Don't let pride and a false notion that Ukraine could defeat Russia completely destroy your country.
Wars ALWAYS end in compromise. The U.S. is taking advantage of Ukraine.
Iraq too
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Was dropping "the bomb" a mistake?
What about the extinction of tainos in 1565?
Putin saying an invasion is a special military operation doesn't make any sense
On some of these, the history you have presented lacks important details. Mao's collectivization of farms had already happened before 1958 and was relatively accepted by the people. The problem was, in his Great Leap he set production quotas extraordinarily high, and threatened farm supervisors with severe penalties for not reaching them. So lots of supervisors fudged on their totals, meaning that when the trucks came to take the food for the cities, there was much less left than official numbers indicated.
Also, his Red Guards were policing everybody to refrain from any behavior deemed bourgeois, with terrible disruption in the cities as well.
And his campaign to use his people to eradicate starlings (ostensibly to preserve grain), caused the pests the starlings eat to multiply and eat far more grain.
Mao would not seek outside advice or comment on his plans, so there was no check on his toxic zeal.
Re: the 1930s famine in Ukraine, I'm not sure whether that was a "mistake," or just an example of Stalin's boorish methods, which held that millions of deaths were acceptable to achieve an ideological end. In the late 50s, Khrushchev's "Virgin Lands" crusade to grow massive amounts of corn (which he was amazed by when he visited Iowa with Eisenhower) in Siberia was a clearer example of unintended terrible consequences. Unlike Stalin, Khrushchev could eventually recognize a mistake, and the corn fiasco soon cost him his job.
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"I know, I'll insult Genghis Khan! Nothing can possibly go wrong!"
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Right up until the end of the war the Japanese were still killing thousands of civilians a month, ask any of the territories still occupied by Japan if they were willing to let Japan surrender at their own pace. People need to have some empathy for the civilians of other countries and not just the Japanese ones.
Many war's
Ukraine and iraq are in the top 10 DEADLIEST mistakes history? Cmon. 💀😂
And an explosion in 1600s Beijing (the AI they used made it look a lot more recent, though) that killed 20,000. Tragic, but it probably doesn't break the top thousand mistakes.
You are so Canadian. It's like you are still leaving in 2022 and you repeat the same poem about Ukraine. Here's thethird though Canadians: It's not 2022 anymore. People have seen what is happening in Ukraine thanks to Telegram. So no matter how many times you reapeat the poem, we know why it happened and who is prevailing.
They hate telegram
That was very interesting.
The dismissal of gay American interpreters who could've intervened and stopped 9/11 from happening.
I figured number one would have been Hitler getting rid of his generals and him taking over the military strategys
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I used to like watch mojo, but after this video I'll stop watching. Too much mis information and biased content
Terror is more of a regional threat now in unstable countries.
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How we allowed WW1, WW2, US going into Vietnam, and allowing the middle east invasion will always be questioned. None of these things should've happened. Sure WW1 was probably already on the brink of happening even if Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived but how the countries and law handled the situation was very bad and WW2 should've never happened and everyone should've learned from. The treaty of Versailles in 1918(that should've happened either). US going into Vietnam should've been stopped since even their own citizens said stop and they should've because it helped no one. And allowing the 2003 middle East version was a bad decision since not only did it cause too many problems it caused a big racism problem and culture of hatred toward middle Easterners. Also American troops didn't pull out until the decade that we're in now. Canada said no to helping and rightfully so. Also they already invaded right after the 9/11 attack so there no need for the 2003 invasion. And yeah killing innocent Japanese during Hiroshima and Nagasaki was bad and they(the US) should've just invaded instead. But the bombs actually gave justice to China for the horrors the Japanese did to them
We needed to go into Iraq
Should have also mentioned Bengal famine
Ferdinand took a wrong turn into an asteroid field sorry wrong show.😅
U forgot establishing the state in Israel and Nakba. Or at least UK and US supplying endless war equipment to occupational israel.
They didnt want the isreaHELLi to come after them
The worst mistake i ever did was to be born. People tend to treat me like a 5 year old kid, and i'm 25. I'm autistic, and with ADHD added to the mix, it's not fun getting treated like a 5 year old child, and i hate it. It's especially my parents and the municipality i live in, plus a lot of my friends who treats me as a 5 year old. I want to be treated as an adult, because i am an adult, i'm 25 dammit, so i don't know why people treat me like a 5 year old
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The presentation of the Famine in 1932 is wrong or at least uncomplete. It was not only the Ukraine which suffered - other areas of the Soviet Union were hit equally hard. If the famine was intentionally is debated still, but I think that least this effect was at least wellcommed by Stalin. IAlso the numbers of victims are very disputed - with the highest numbers of more than five (or even six) million deaths in the Ukraine allone is often seen as an exaggeration. Not that it was not horrible enough at is was, even without inflating the numbers...
If I recall Mao had an animal exterminated that was the symbol of the nationalists that made the famine even worse.
Damn china been doing tofu construction for a long time
So many to choose from sadly.
Even they took victory parade flag russia was rushing but suprised
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the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are forever going to be controversial
it was partly justified because a full scale invasion would of caused millions of casualties on both side and heavy civilian casualties because Japanese military was determined to fight to the death, but can be argued using the bomb might of been unnecessary
it depends
we'll never know for sure
but the Soviets were stringing the Japanese along anyways at the urging of America, so there wasn't any real hope of Soviet mediated peace
so holding out for a favorable peace agreement wasn't likely
The treaty of versailles harsh punishments of germany after WW which led to WW2 , the USSR downplaying of the chernobyl disaster led to its country's fall and argentina invasion of the falklands islands led its country's economic and moral downfall
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U guys deliberately forgot Gaza. And Lebanon in 2023 and 2024.
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