So here at Crash Course we try to make history reasonably entertaining, and fortunately, World War II was hilarious, said no one ever. Mr. Green, Mr. Green, is this, like, going to be one of the unfunny ones where you build to the big, melodramatic conclusion about how I have to imagine the world more complexly? Me, from the past, as long as you have that eighth-rate soup strainer, I'm not even going to acknowledge your existence. INTRO Right, so you've probably heard a lot about World War II from movies and books, the History Channel before it decided that swamp people were history, the incessant droning of your grandparents, etc. We're not going to try to give you a detailed synopsis of the war today. Instead, we're going to try to give a bit of perspective on how the most destructive war in human history happened, and why it still matters globally. So one of the reasons history classes tend to be really into wars is that they're easy to put on tests.