Human history is full of gruesome power struggles, cruel executions, sickening genocides, famine, disease, and history facts sometimes seems unappealing and grim, to say the least. Luckily, Twitter account @MemesOnHistory is shedding some light on our past's interesting facts by using the internet's most beloved funny memes.
The best part, however, is that almost all of these historical memes are so accurate, publishers could even include them in their textbooks. And they should. Students would probably relate to history memes better and understand the historical events better if, for example, SpongeBob SquarePants excerpts were used to illustrate the Second World War or US Middle East Policy. Scroll down to enjoy this list of some of the best memes, compiled by Bored Panda, and while you're at it, pay attention and learn some funny history facts, why don't you!
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Well as Robin Williams once said. "If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."
'All of history' since the 15th/16th century. History is more than the 'white man's' civilisation.
Aaand no cats around, cause witchhunts and cats are evil propaganda.... There you go Europe!
Nordic sailors be like, "Yeah, we go there to fish and stuff, but there's already people living there."
Admittedly beside the point of the nice meme, but flags of countries that didn't even participate are present, while flags of participating countries like Italy - that not only did participate, but is also in the top 5 of most casualties - are missing.
Summer '89, I visit W. Germany, touch the Wall. Nov. 9 '89, Wall comes down. Coincidence?
Prohibition didn't completely ban alcohol. Commercial production and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned, as was importation, but private citizens were allowed to brew beer for personal consumption. Commercial breweries had to keep alcohol content below 0.5%, but many managed to stay afloat by selling brewing supplies to the public.
Or Bill Clinton when he saw Monica Lewinsky approaching as he was standing with Hillary.
Late start of operations, bad condition of the roads in Russia, the russians strategy of retreating in towards Syberia and seting fire to everything they couldn't take so the enemy won't find any resurces... basically every time some nation tried to invade them got caught there by the winter and got defeated by the hard weather conditions for wich they were not prepered
If only US Schools made understanding this document a requirement.....
Dam right John ! Socialism like chipping in to protect the weaker and not let them starve on the streets, how dumb is that ?! Ahahaha !! Better have a Donald and two wars you cannot end, but you are the smart ones ! Yey ! Stupid French we are !
I laughed out loud at this one and then felt kinda bad about my reaction..
The Treaty of Versailles was a very risky idea to begin with, to be honest
Someone should tell Rihanna that blinking and winking are two separate things.
We told them the wealth would "trickle down" and they actually believed it!
1) The war known as the Great War is WW1. 2) As it may be true that antisemitism did exist from a long time ago, it wasn't really used as a campaign folly until after the events of WW1. 3) The helmet and cross shown are of the German Empire, not the third reich. 4) Italy and Germany were allies for WW2, not WW1.
Why are there so many communist memes? John's having a political-bitching field day. No offense John. Maybe offense John? I don't know. I'm not a Communist, but you're really whiny about how much you think they suck.
OJ: Oh! Did someone killed her? Police: We said she was dead, interesting you said killed...
I dont think napoleon made it to moscow, but he made it further than hitler. Hitler could have learned a thing or too. They made the same mistakes. Napoleon lost bc of winter. Hitler lost bc of winter. PACK SOME F*****G WINTER CLOTHES
