World History Memes to Help You Pass Your World History Test

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Ace your World History test with hilarious memes! Drew Durnil uses internet humor to cover historical events, from ancient civilizations to modern conflicts. Expect unexpected comparisons and witty commentary on world history.
Santa receiving word that the North won, and he has to switch to elves.
Switch to elves.
Oh.
Was Santa really rooting for the South?
This ruins everything.
The New York Times, December 8th, 1903.
Man won't fly for a million years.
Flying machine takes to the air.
Okay, and we also have Vince McMahon getting slightly older.
Pioneer plane over the Atlantic.
While this guy is like an adult, he was like a kid and teenager here.
And by an old man, men walk on the moon.
This is like a really good representation of what that generation must have felt like.
It must have just been mind-blowing.
I'll be honest, I kind of just take it for granted.
Yeah, you did it a couple times.
Well, can you do it again?
Our foe is so vast.
The red Lego army.
Wait, is this a commie Denmark?
Our land is so small.
Finland.
Where is this going?
Where will we find space?
Foresty?
To bury them all.
Wow.
Oh, okay.
So this is the winter fight between Finland and the Soviets.
Snow NAM for the USSR.
Somebody yelling at Argentina, he attacked the Falklands.
Here come the British to beat him up.
He attacked...
Oh, okay.
Some 1990s stuff there.
Oh, now it's just Poland.
They don't even need to say anything.
Everyone just comes to beat him up for no reason.
12 years of Republican control.
Okay.
George Bush Sr.
Victory in the Gulf.
Things looking good.
End of the Soviets.
This is great so far.
Oh, but your opponent plays sax and freaks.
Oh, Bill Clinton.
He definitely does that last one.
I know it's probably taken super out of context, but I'll never forget these two images.
Like, I think it's a perfect...
Uh, yeah.
I'm looking at you, Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman is, I think, particularly egregious.
I'm sure they're just American movies though, right?
Do they do this in Europe too?
Also, fun fact.
People always get mad when I use this flag.
When I specifically am talking about 1940s no-no Germany.
But the reason why I do that is obviously I can't use the other one.
I have to go through so many hurdles through YouTube.
It's insane.
Yeah, obviously, if you couldn't tell.
Serbia is confused.
Russia says bruh.
STFU.
Austria, how great.
You talking to me?
Fat freak.
LMAO, you're mad, bro.
OMG, screw you, Russia.
So, it's just everyone's flaming on each other.
Belgium, wait, what?
Oh, Belgium doesn't even know.
Belgium is gonna be part of the crossfire.
Oh, Germany and Turkey forming a little team in the chat.
Britain, guys, I'm trying to sleep.
This is perfectly accurate.
The Netherlands just trying their best to, like, twiddle their thumbs.
They're not getting involved.
I think this could have been way better.
Damn it, that would have been so much better.
That's pretty funny.
I guess, you know what, they probably didn't want to use mine
because it would have made the punchline much weaker.
This was still the setup of the joke.
You can't make this punchline better than the other punchline.
Every time I read one of these, I can't believe how weak we all are.
My parents at my age?
Let's have a third kid.
Me?
I don't know if I want a dog because that's a lot of responsibility.
500 years of Swiss neutrality.
Look at them looking extra alpha and chad.
Not being worth invading.
How freaking dare you?
You take that back.
They have cool mountains that you can ski on during the winter.
Isn't that enough?
I got shot and walked it off.
I got shot and still gave my speech.
Wait, I didn't hear about this.
Well, obviously, with Theodore, I did.
But their power must come from the stash.
Let's hope that I don't ever get shot.
Actually, I don't care.
Cat that was just hunting rodents to survive.
Ancient Egyptians.
Hey, this is working out quite nicely.
They're going to make a bunch of art and sculptures about you.
It was probably kind of awkward for them, actually.
They asked for none of this.
Will I ever be as good as the old masters?
Modern generals.
Will I ever be as good as the old masters?
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Will I ever be as good as the old masters?
Julius Caesar.
I'm the best.
Alexander the Great.
Ooga booga.
I guess if you think about it, all of them were trying to return to monkey.
Scientists.
Hey, we should be careful with this radiation stuff.
Marie Cur-
Wait, what?
Is this a dark joke?
I don't get this.
Ah, she was a chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
Oh, she didn't make it because of the radiation.
How have I never heard of this story before?
Why did you help America during the revolution?
France.
I don't care if you win.
I need England to lose.
This is really obvious.
I feel like this is-
Why was this even made into a meme?
Duh.
First Habsburg.
Man, looking great.
Last Habsburg.
Oh.
Wait, so wait, are you also saying that my Alabama ancestors were probably looking like
Greek gods all sexy like this and that's why I look like this?
Understandable.
We have people building the pyramids and they expect to be appreciated for all the hard
work they put into it several thousand years later.
Aliens definitely built these.
I just want to, you know, point out that I say this, like, ironically.
I don't know if people get that, though.
I think there's actually, like, a group of people that really believe, like, I'm a part
of the- a part of the movement.
A part of the alien building stuff movement.
Marie in 1783.
Damn, she got some cake.
Marie, uh, in 1793.
I'll still take that, though.
Mm-mm-mm.
Alright, we got France, Sweden, and they're trying to break down the Russian door.
Um.
World's largest land invasion.
Nope.
Oh, so these are the three separate times Russia got invaded.
No one talks about Poland sieging, I think it was Moscow at one point?
Of all people, one of the only countries that was successful against Russia was Poland.
Wait, they might not have been successful.
I might have been wrong about that.
They sieged it, but I don't know if it worked.
The Samurais after a few trade deals with Europeans.
Hey, where'd you guys get that from?
Should we be worried?
Who taught them how to, like, colonize stuff?
And, like, build an empire?
That- that might backfire.
Louis XVI.
Oh, good.
Just a straight line.
Louis, a few years later.
I mean, hmm.
I guess we just making history memes out of anything now.
Balkan people when they see each other.
Yep, they're gonna fight each other.
It's no doubt gonna happen.
Balkan people when they see an Ottoman tur-
Oh, okay.
That's- I see.
Maybe that's how we can bring Yugoslavia back.
Patient.
I feel very sad.
I think I have depression and don't know what to do.
Freud.
Holy crap.
Just do cocaine.
Oh!
Why didn't you just say so?
Tastes good.
Just be clear, this is flour.
Old English.
Looking not too good.
Norman French.
They gonna drink that?
Modern English.
Oh, yeah.
Are we talking about language?
We're talking about, like, the history of English language?
That, like, Norman French had a bunch of different impacts on the language.
We use different words because of it.
Ah, here is the Wikipedia page I've been looking for.
Battle of everything.
The lion and the UK flag right there.
Belligerence.
Great Britain versus the entire world.
Commander and leaders.
Outstanding individuals.
Not worth mentioning.
Basically, summary of the last, like, thousand years.
500.
British breeding cats.
Thick fur.
Round, adorable faces.
Egyptians breeding cats.
Short fur.
Big ears.
Persians.
I'm gonna make some weird stuff.
Is this what the grumpy cat was?
Was it a Persian cat?
It's not that weird.
At least it's not that ball sack cat.
What are these things called?
I don't- Oh, yeah.
It's the Egyptian one.
I don't know.
I think the Egyptians definitely beat out the Persians here.
Oh, yeah.
The Yugoslavian group chat.
Ayo, freak Serbia.
Serbia what?
Okay, so everyone's just saying freak Serbia.
We're leaving.
Everyone left the chat.
Montenegro.
What happened?
Kosovo.
I'm out too.
Oh, Serbia didn't let Koso- Oh.
Kosovo can't leave yet.
Bismarck.
King of the ocean.
Is this, like, Mad Max, but on the ocean?
That's what this looks like.
Yamato had never seen such BS before.
I don't know much about, like, ships and airplanes and stuff.
Literally have a general named France Holder.
Don't use him to hold France.
Hilter was a dummy.
Blessings from 4chan.
Thank you.
Hey, King.
You drop this.
Oh, man.
This is coming from Doge Lore too.
I just want to see an entire replay of world history with only Doge Lore stuff.
Italian flag symbols.
Meaning of the Italian flag represents plains and hills of Italy.
Represents the Alpine mountains.
Represents the blood spilled.
And the blue represents, yeah, them beating Ethiopia.
Yeah, that's, hmm.
Ethiopia had their number.
That's for sure.
The swear jar versus telling people about history when I wasn't asked to jar.
If I had this jar, I'd be able to retire from YouTube.
I'd be a millionaire.
Me talking history to literally all my friends.
I won't domesticate pigs.
They eat our food and they carry disease and you can't herd them.
Early civs.
These early civilizations eating bacon for the first time.
Whoa.
Never mind then.
That'll do, pig.
Medieval architecture.
Yep, definitely medieval paintings.
Aw, that's sad.
Come on.
They had some good ones, right?
I mean, uh.
I mean.
Yeah, I mean, there's.
This one tried.
Stolen versus Santa.
They both have a naughty list.
Lives somewhere cold.
Uses forced labor.
Yeah, and we learned a lot about Santa today.
He used a very different type of labor before the 1860s.
English bowman.
You can't defeat me.
French crossbowman.
I know, but he can.
Freaking cannons.
That must have just changed everything.
There's like some really good memes about like the first person to ever see a cannon on the battlefield.
That must have just like blew their mind.
And their insides.
Because they probably got exploded.
Girl hits me.
Also girl.
Haha, you can't hit me back.
Me, a member of the Soviet People's Court.
Who decided that.
Falco.
Punch.
People talking about European colonization.
My girlfriend preventing me from saying that's only because the Ottomans had no access to the Atlantic Ocean.
Oh, this one.
This one hits kind of deep.
This is how I feel on Twitter all the time.
Like I try to stop myself.
I want to.
I really want to.
I just.
No.
I can't let.
I gotta stop myself.
Wow, this really is the distracted girlfriend meme.
Why don't we use this?
FDR doesn't get any attention.
It's all Churchill and Stalin.
It's giving me like alt history vibes.
What if this happened?
Churchill still holding on to a grudge against America.
Sides with USSR.
Christopher Columbus.
Oh, look.
I found India.
Americans.
I'm assuming the Native Americans.
No, actually we're not India.
I said we're India today.
That's really what it was like.
Dang, Christopher Columbus was scary.
That wasn't obvious by now.
Colonization of the USA.
Founded Harvard or some boring nerdy stuff.
Below freezing temperatures.
Hostile natives.
Colonization of Brazil.
Warm weather.
Literally paid by captains to marry local girls.
Get rich quick.
Very friendly natives.
Wow, this sounds like a paradise.
Oh my God, I really want to come to Brazil now.
If only it was like 200 years ago.
Getting paid to marry the local girls?
Government mandated waifus.
Brazil was doing it before everybody.
I actually just recently read about this.
South Korea fertility rate crisis is so dire that the country is offering cash to entice rich people to have kids.
We really are one step closer to having government mandated waifus.
No one.
Trench raid clubs.
Bonk.
Go to purgatory.
How Europeans measure people.
How Americans measure people.
You know, some Americans actually really like this method.
They would pay a lot of money for that method.
And thank you to the December patrons.
