England faced Germany alone (pretty much) for 2 1/2 years. Hearing that the U.S. would now enter the war was like someone on a life raft in the middle of the ocean who is famished and out of water and suddenly sees an ocean liner slowing to pick him up.
@@DylansPen Well, Britain wasn't exactly alone (thanks to the Commonwealth, etc.), but at very least their lives got 100 times easier. Hitler was among the biggest idiots in history to declare war on the US at the same time he was fighting both the world's largest empire and the biggest army simultaneously.
@@brianbuday8639 You guys definitely deserve more mentioning. I've heard the story of Leo Major, an insane warrior. America and Canada both had critical contributions to the liberation of western Europe, AND South Korea as well in the 1950s (the fact that the British Commonwealth nations' role in the Korean War is seldom talked about baffles me, even as an American).
Churchill also said Japan would be “ground into powder” . After reading about the utter vengeance America unleashed on Japan, his phrase was literal and to the letter.
@King Royal That is untrue. December 1937 an American gunboat near China was attacked by Japanese forces where two American civilians and two crewmen were killed. Before that, an American tugboat was seized by the Japanese and our American flag thrown overboard. In 1939, the British liner Athenia was sunk by a German U-Boat and 28 Americans were killed. In 1940, Japanese Air Force attacked and killed an American pilot. In 1941, a German submarine again sunk an American destroyer, unprovoked. In 1941, a Japanese submarine was spotted miles near the entrance of Pearl Harbor and was sunk as it tried to follow an American carrier through anti-submarine nets with no apparent intent to stop. The Americans had every right to sink it as it had no innocent passage protection. The Americans most certainly did not attack anyone first. Read up before spouting nonsense.
They had the forth largest navy forth largest tank core and a million troops out of a country of under 10 million we don't ever turn our backs on allies
As an American, I’ll forever respect the UK who led the fight for European freedom. But let’s never forget the contribution made by our northern allies, the Canadians. From everything I’ve read of WWII battles we are fortunate to have the Canadians in our fox holes when times are dire. Never forget the security of North America we enjoy is a function of America and Canada working as one.
It seems that spanish Franco opposition volunteers fought against Germany in the liberation of Paris in the famous 9th division, which included spanish republicans, communists and even catalan anarchists. Pd. Canada is in America...
If memory serves, immediately after Dunkirk, there was only ONE fully armed and operational division in Southern England should Germany have tried to press its immediate advantage and try to invade England. That division was Canadian. So, you can thank a Canadian that we aren't forced to sing Deutschland Deutschland Uber Alles in school!
My grandfather was a worker ROF, he told me that he remember the day when sir Winston Churchill announce this all workers were cheering after the speech because they know that they are not alone fighting the germans anymore. From fighting our ancestors, to helping us fighting the real enemies. What great ally United States is, we respect you yanks 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇲
If I recall in mainland Europe everyone was dfeated by the Germans . Therefore the Brits where at it alone of course if you count their territories it's still under the same rule .
@@XXXTENTAClON227 yes they joined the war and became ally with us. But did the Soviets help our grandparents fight the Germans in Atlantic, France, and fighting the luftwaffe to defend Britain?
Family/Brothers sometimes disagree... On occasion maybe even come to blows... But Never Forget, Family/Blood will Always " Be There In The End". Back to Back, Shoulder to Shoulder. From December 8th 1941 on.... We Stand Together, Always.... June 6th 1944... Family... Crissedned In Blood !!!!!
@@wolfpaw2715 France is our true friend, I agree...however, I believe Emperor Napoleon III of France was much more ready to recognize the Confederate States, but was too timid to do it 'alone'..he was waiting for the U.K. to do so, which it never did.
“I pledged the word of Great Britain, that should the Unites States become involved in the war with Japan, a British declaration would follow within the hour” Obviously my favourite part.
Well it's good that the U.S and Great Britain became allies during the early 20th century; and that Great Britain had gotten over losing the American colonies. But glad to be allies with Britain, we are like brothers we compete against one another but we get the objectives done. May God bless America and the U.K and may we be allies for eternity.
I'm very thankful for Winston Churchill. He was the first politician to call hitler out. Chamberlin thought he could play nice with the Nazis and it was a waste of time. Churchill refused to even speak with hitler. He was a very tough dependable leader.
Well, Winston always had a way with the spoken word as few world leaders ever had. He went to bed that night knowing that the war would be won. We may have provided the bulk of the stuff needed to fight the war, but Winston's refusal to give in pretty much saved a lot more heartache than what was to be insured by the war. Every time I am near I go spend time at the Winston Churchill Museum and Memorial at Westminster College, Fulton, MO. They have the Iron Curtain Speech. And you can sit for hours listening to all of his speeches and jokes. And there is a chunk of the Berlin Wall there too.
You should read his book about his early life, very interesting, he had an unhappy schooling but he thrived in the cavalry and ended up seeing action in Cuba and Africa.
And bytheway, who dominates and did dominate the world. I suspect the lost british Empire and his friend the USA. Who on earth "did" more wars then these two countries?
At that moment Winston Churchill knew that England was saved and that the war would be won. The great boiler was now engaged and American might could not be stopped.
We Canadians are a mostly peaceful bunch, but when are fellow countrymen down south need help or across the pond, We know what must be done, and will see it done.
You can bet when Churchill first heard this news he jumped three feet in the air with unrestrained joy. The galactic industrial and manpower ability of the United States would now be fully activated and Germany and Italy would be defeated without question and Japan would be demolished.
This speech is hardly known to anyone, as is the full scale of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. Everyone knows Pearl Harbor, but Japan on that day had attacked not only Hawaii, but also the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island (all US colonies at the time) as well as the British Empire's colonies of Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong.
On a technicality your incorrect, ( you are correct just not entirely) even though the Japanese attacked all American colonies at the same time, you have to remember that during the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on dec 7th, the attacks that took place on Guam, Wake and the Philippines happened at the exact same time but because of the international date lines, the attacks actually took place on the 8th Dec when it came to the Philippines, Guam, Singapore, Wake, Malaya ect
I was born through critical emergency C-section on 8 December 1995. Mom was induced into labor 7 December 1995, because I was due on 6 December 1995 and refused to come out. This video reminds me of why (dark lol). I dodged the 7th like a bullet. I think of my 24 and 1/2 years of life, and feel as if it is long...and then I remember how much longer ago this was, by the imaginable timescale of my life for accurate perception. I will always pay my respects to these casualties and their families. Bless.
Everyone knows Churchill was jumping for joy when he heard Japan attack. Then he was doing summersaults when the US and Germany declared war on each other.
In the 1920's, our most likely enemy was Britain, who had also allied with Japan against the US. Britain sold them ships, trained up naval forces to work as a modern navy, and also worked with them on their air forces I believe. So Britain contributed greatly to the later issue of the Pacific theater, and likely caused Japan to be in a position to think it could go to war with the US and Britain in the first place in 1941. All in an attempt to work against the US, even right after the US had reversed WW1, saving the 'allies.' In WW2, France turned out to be a very poor ally, when not allied on the side of Germany, once the invasion of Normandy began. Went from helping, to detrimental selfish goals that hurt the allied war effort.
He was reportedly overjoyed with relief upon hearing the news, for he knew that US total involvement meant an eventual turn of the tide in the European war.
You'd think, but they lacked strategy. Hitler was supposedly giddy when he heard. He apparently greatly underestimated how much the US would bring against Germany. Also, the US joining the war on the Soviet's side, and the constant massive stream of supplies from the US, kept the Soviet people, military, and government hopeful enough to keep them from collapsing almost certainly. Once hope is gone, people start worrying about themselves more than the war effort, which puts the country at an exponential disadvantage. This happened in China and the nationalists were extremely weakened due to it.
@@cavscout888 I found it suprising that the us just gave 4 billion to the ussr like that with no interest rate keeping their economy from collapsing. Then after they became enemies.
"In two or three minutes Mr. Roosevelt came through. 'Mr. President, what's this about Japan?' 'It's quite true,' he replied. 'They have attacked us at Pearl Harbor. We are all in the same boat now.' No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. I could not foretell the course of events. I do not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of Japan, but now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! Yes, after Dunkirk; after the fall of France; after the horrible episode of Oran; after the threat of invasion, when, apart from the Air and the Navy, we were an almost unarmed people; after the deadly struggle of the U-boat war-the first Battle of the Atlantic, gained by a hand's-breath; after seventeen months of lonely fighting and nineteen months of my responsibility in dire stress. We had won the war. England would live; Britain would live; the Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live. How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care. Once again in our long Island history we should emerge, however mauled or mutilated, safe and victorious. We should not be wiped out. We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end. We might not even have to die as individuals. Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder." - Winston Churchill *Memoirs* *of* *the* *Second* *World* *War*
And Japan literally was. "So we had won after all!" Churchill after hearing of the Pearl Harbor attack from Roosevelt. He knew it was just a matter of time now, the unbeatable object on Earth had been activated finally and it was on his side.
@@Mr_Bunk When an arrogant, narcissistic person like Trump gets elevated to a prestigious position on the shoulders of the profoundly stupid and maintains that undeserved position for a full term despite the torrential flood of reasons to remove him with haste, I look out over the masses who still support that complete fool of a man, I look for some spark of intelligence supported by wisdom rising from this muck, but I see only blank faces hiding in shadows feeding each other with nonsense and remaining as ignorant as the day they were born. For the sake of this world, I hope they're there and I'm just being too cynical to see them.
@@Mr_Bunk where are those people? I'm just an ordinary nigga but I ain't seen amazing people and leaders today that pales the comparison to that of the past. LMAO
@@deepdungeon8465 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Queen Elizabeth II, Ban-Ki-Moon, Greta Thunberg, Mallory McMorrow, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Peter Maurer…need I go on?
@@Mr_Bunk I'll be blunt but Queen Elizabeth is part of those leaders in the past but is still alive. What the op commenter means new generations of people and no, those lists isn't really comparable with past famous leaders excluding the Queen. And I wouldn't put Zelensky on a high pedestal, The Americans especially Biden instigated the Crazy Russians and Zelensky jump on it without thinking how 10million of his people would go to if War started.
This must have been the most daunting time of the war for the British. Still barley hanging on in Europe against the Nazis, who were now advancing across massive amounts of territory in Russia. And now two enemies without the resources to aid British territory in Asia, or India and Oceania. American assistance against the Nazis must have looked further away than ever now that America would most likely focus its efforts on Japan. From a British perspective, they could lose India and Australia to Japan, and still face an invasion of homeland Britain by the Nazis, who looked set to defeat Russia and turn its forces back on them.
Not strictly true by this time the Russians was already pushing the nazis out of Russia and the nazis could have never invaded Britain as for one the British had a far superior navy so the nazis tried from the air wich was the battle of Britain and the British won that and defended the homeland that is why hitler turned his attention to Russia so when America came in to the war I never see it as they saved Britain I see it as they helped the British and Russians liberate Europe
The US and France have shared an alliance for over 200 years, they had our back in the Revolution and ours theirs in both World Wars. The US and UK for over 100 years have shared an alliance and a "Special Friendship". As an American, I'm glad that our nation supported our greatest allies in their time of need, in their "darkest hour", and that they supported us in that instance following the atack.
Who ever made the call to attack Pearl Harbor wasn’t too bright.. because if there was ever a moment in time that should be the epitome of “it was at this moment, they knew they fucked up” 😂
@@TheBlaze4000 Even then, America was KEY to winning the war. Without it, no supplies, ammo, money, (or basically everything UK needed to continue fighting long enough so the Soviets joined in and the war changed in their favor) would have been available for the allies and the Axis powers would have easily won. Plus, without the US, the battles in the Pacific would have led to Japan conquering most, if not everything, in Oceania and Asia.
If you are from the UK I need you to understand something I am an American Jew My dad has portraits of this man all over our home This man never wavered but more importantly the people of Britain really lived up to his legendary rhetoric and simply put they never backed down... Without Great Britain and "The Allies" we wouldn't be here my dad has reiterated to me literally hundreds of times. You simply cannot capitulate to tyrants... Chamberlain did this again and again which emboldened Nazi Germany even more. Teaching them take what you want just dont bother us directly please. Invade whoever you want as long as it's not my country, right? Churchill knew this was nonsense. Churchill knew that every ally was worth protecting immediately before the threat was so strong it couldn't be stopped at all! RIP to a legend the man of the century as far as my family is concerned!!! 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ Thank you Great Britain!!! Truly our greatest ally! 🙏
Japan attacking pearl harbor was probably japans greatest gift to britain....allowing us to turn the tide with britain and finally show our joint potential
While im sure as any in the free world would be empathic, this had to be Churchills greatest moment. Not that he wished any ill will... but getting America fully invested gave him breathing room.
I find it so interesting how delicate and precise he was in stating that the Japanese High Command had declared the state of war and NOT the imperial government, it really shows how and why Hirohito was not forced to abdicate as emperor. He had nothing to do with the war at all, Japan's contribution's to the war were completely under the control of Hideki Tojo as Hirohito was just a figurehead. I guess the United Kingdom would understand this more than most seeing as they themselves have a head of state and a separate head of government.
Actually, Hirohito was more than a figurehead. He had the authority to put a stop to what the high command did. Sadly, Hirohito was a weak spirited man and because of that people like Tojo could do what they wanted. It wasn't until the US dropped the atom bombs and the USSR invaded Manchuria that he got the backbone to stand up against high command and end the war.
Actually that was the post war narrative to help with reconciliation and rebuilding. Only necessary as the Soviets were an active threat with expansionist goals. Hirohito's active participation was swept under the rug, and a PR campaign launched to turn opinion to match.
Those were the good old days. 2020 is extremely trying. To people who see this in the future, it's 11-5-2020, no one knows who won the election still, and the patriots are praying the media and big tech weren't allowed to swing the election and Trump won. Also that the democrats weren't able to cheat hard enough to win in regards to ballot harvesting, stealing, miscounting, and forging. If Trump doesn't win, the economy will go back to crap, and China will once again be booming until they can fight us on their terms rather than ours. Would be a sad and day for the WORLD, as the pain later would prove.
PM Churchill addresses Parliament text "With the full approval of the nation, and of the Empire, I pledged the word of Great Britain, about a month ago, that should the United States be involved in war with Japan, a British declaration of war would follow within the hour." api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1941/dec/08/prime-ministers-declaration#S5CV0376P0_19411208_HOC_5
Winnie: "Dear Mr. Furher, Would you mind sending some V1 or V2 bombs from a U-boat onto New York or Washington, DC? Thanks!" IJN: "Hold My Saki... We Got This.... Watch..."
At the same day the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk off Malaya. In summary from 7th to 8th December the US lost (not salvageable) 3 capital ships (Utah, Oklahoma and Arizona) at Pearl, while the British lost 2 capital ships. Quite a day for the Japanese and also they attacked, destroyed or captured Allied bases, shipping and aircraft in other parts of the Pacific Ocean.
Right before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan was hitting islands that was under British and American control. So Japan declared war on both of our countries. But since ww1 we have had each others back in every major conflict.
There's nothing to forgive. The revolution more of a civil war really, wasn't it? These things happen. And as far as wars go, the American War of Independence was very civilized.
Winston Churchill's deepest hope is finally fulfilled. With the US now in, the English-speaking world was united in battle against the Axis and, after taking some serious beatings through 1942, rallied to wipe Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo from the planet. But I fear this may be needed again.
Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan: “You can’t defeat me”! Britain: “I know, but she can”. America: “Alright, now I’m pissed. Whose ass do I have to kick”?
Fun fact: The UK was surprised by the Japanese attack because they thought Emperor Hirohito was their ally. Crown Prince Hirohito made a state visit to the UK on May 16, 1921 era of King George V. th-cam.com/video/pm4BqPLRWNI/w-d-xo.html America declare war to Japan only until they found out that Asia Pacific was already invaded and General MacArthur need to escape.
He’s trying to pretend like he isn’t celebrating this. Of course you can’t blame him, Britain’s existence hung in the balance. On a side note it bothers me a bit how deliberately slow people talked back then.
Why would he be celebrating this America only joined the war against Germany when Germany declared war this speech was on December 8th Germany declared war on December 11th
Because if you know your history (and as someone who majored in History in college and took courses which covered only the Second World War I would like to think that I do), you would know that Germany and Japan had a treaty of alliance that included a provision for if Japan became involved in a war with the United States Germany was obligated to declare war on the United States as well (the reverse also applied). This was well known to the British at the time, and even the specifics of the treaty aside, Germany and Japan were not exactly keeping their alliance secret. Churchill knew very well that a declaration of war from Germany on America was imminent at this point. So yeah it is hard not to believe that Churchill and the British government in general were not secretly rejoicing on the inside when news of Pearl Harbor reached them... finally they would have what they had been desperately striving for for years at that point, a military alliance with America and an American entry into the war in Europe as a result of the German declaration of war on America. Besides something about the tone of your comment gives me the feeling you are somehow upset or a little resentful or whatever at my original comment... why is that? I wasn’t criticizing Churchill for this, and I said that... he was involved in a daily life and death struggle with the Nazis where Britain’s very existence hung in the balance, and the British war effort was not going very well at the time... he desperately needed us to enter as an ally (I am American FYI) and had been using every angle he could to try to get Roosevelt to favor entering the war, from propaganda campaigns in America to sending America a complete inventory of every classified technological advance that the British had but America had not yet developed. With the occurrence of Pearl Harbor suddenly he was standing on much more firm ground and you can’t blame the man for secretly celebrating inside (I’m not saying the deaths of all the American sailors and soldiers meant nothing to him either, but his country’s survival would have obviously meant much more).
Brian Cline no I wasn’t annoyed that you said that I was just saying he wouldn’t have been happy as you think since japan attacked us as well which stretched us even further that’s why we lost at Singapore because we couldn’t support them. Also this was in late 1941 where the threat of invasion had passed I think this is something America forgets Americans always say they saved us and so on yet by the time you joined the threat of invasion was gone. Yes he would’ve been relieved that America may join the war against Germany so he wouldn’t have to fight Germany with just the Russians that Churchill don’t trust but he wouldn’t have been celebrating at all.
The invasion scare had passed... for the time being. If Germany had not needed to garrison its western “Atlantic Wall” and then had not had to deal with a western front after D Day it would have had far more manpower to fight Russia and could have done much better, forcing Russia to surrender or to sign a one sided peace agreement with Germany like it had in the First World War. This would securing most of Europe as one big Empire to plunder more resources from and build up its war machine for a future attack on Britain... with all that land’s natural resources and the recruitment of fascist air battalions for across those nations when the time was right it could have attacked Britain again and done much better. Sure during that time Britain could have elected a pro peace government and have done some kissing of Hitler’s ass/paying of war indemnities and yes that could have secured the safety of your island for the most part (but Hitler, while originally not wanting a war with Britain and seeing it as a fellow great Aryan nation, viewed Britain with a smoldering grudge after being humiliated by their bombing runs getting through and was frustrated by his defeat in the Battle of Britain, and with him being one to hold a grudge it’s hard to say for sure how long the next invasion plan could have been held off). Point being that the safety of your island was far from secure in the long run so long as Germany and its new empire was large and powerful and as as long as Britain had to face Germany in the West alone. So did we “save” Britain? I’m not one for macho chest thumping or for arguing about minutia... either way without American involvement Britain would have had a long future of facing the very real threat of a second invasion initiative that certainly could have gone worse for Britain than the first. Furthermore as we all know Churchill would have seen a Nazi dominated continent as being almost as bad as a conquered Britain, and without America he couldn’t dream of retaking Western Europe. So again I think I’ve made the case for why Churchill would have been jubilant on hearing of Pearl Harbor. Also it wasn’t so much that he thought America “may” join the war against Germany but more so that it was “very likely” that it would since Germany’s treaty with Japan was known to him. He would have known that Pearl Harbor had finally given reason to have legitimate hope that his dream of a liberated Western Europe and of a total victory over Germany could one day come to pass. So yes I believe it’s appropriate to say he was “celebrating” the news... I’m not saying he was likely literally drinking toasts with the king to give thanks for the attack but that he was surely happy, elated, jubilant, use whatever word you want (but I would chose a stronger one than just “relieved”).
My dad also knew his history 1st hand , 22yrs Navy WW2, no leader at any level would celebrate death and destruction of their fellow soldiers until VJ Day Aug 14th 1945
I'm a brazilian and wwii aficionado currently learn English, but this old British accent I can't understand so much, please anyone here transcript this video for me, thanks!
I heard this man drank every day of his life and I mean heavily drank he had whiskey and water in the morning he some how made it two his ninety’s I think
"should the US enter a war with Japan, a British declaration would follow within the hour"
My boy
Should The US be involved in a war with Japan**
@@dannyhernandez2203 Should the United States become involved in the war with Japan*
@@imthatguypal_ ikr lol
They actually started writing the war declaration before the USA did.
Old Britain's got his boy's back!
Imagine the amount of relief that Churchill felt when the US entered the war against Germany.
England faced Germany alone (pretty much) for 2 1/2 years. Hearing that the U.S. would now enter the war was like someone on a life raft in the middle of the ocean who is famished and out of water and suddenly sees an ocean liner slowing to pick him up.
@@DylansPen Well, Britain wasn't exactly alone (thanks to the Commonwealth, etc.), but at very least their lives got 100 times easier. Hitler was among the biggest idiots in history to declare war on the US at the same time he was fighting both the world's largest empire and the biggest army simultaneously.
Thunderbird 1 most people do not realize the Canada had a large part in liberating Europe.
Third
largest standing army at the the end of it all. 🇨🇦
@@brianbuday8639 You guys definitely deserve more mentioning. I've heard the story of Leo Major, an insane warrior. America and Canada both had critical contributions to the liberation of western Europe, AND South Korea as well in the 1950s (the fact that the British Commonwealth nations' role in the Korean War is seldom talked about baffles me, even as an American).
Facts
Anyone from Britain reading this, thanks for having our backs and we've got yours.
Proud allies!
US UK ♡ no1 fks with us
Thanks my friend
You definitely have our backs! Much love from the UK. 🇬🇧
Your welcome
Churchill also said Japan would be “ground into powder” . After reading about the utter vengeance America unleashed on Japan, his phrase was literal and to the letter.
That the US for yeah. No matter what, they have a high chance of vanquishing people to before creation.
@@re1010 Well the last thing the world wants,is a pissed off America
US nukes on one side, Soviets invading Manchuria on the other. It was surrender or cease to exist.
@King Royal That is untrue. December 1937 an American gunboat near China was attacked by Japanese forces where two American civilians and two crewmen were killed. Before that, an American tugboat was seized by the Japanese and our American flag thrown overboard. In 1939, the British liner Athenia was sunk by a German U-Boat and 28 Americans were killed. In 1940, Japanese Air Force attacked and killed an American pilot. In 1941, a German submarine again sunk an American destroyer, unprovoked. In 1941, a Japanese submarine was spotted miles near the entrance of Pearl Harbor and was sunk as it tried to follow an American carrier through anti-submarine nets with no apparent intent to stop. The Americans had every right to sink it as it had no innocent passage protection. The Americans most certainly did not attack anyone first. Read up before spouting nonsense.
@@leonardilifter The US had attacked Germany and Japan in April 1941.
Fun fact: Canada declared war on the Empire of Japan the same day as Pearl Harbor - the first of the Western allies to do so.
The Canadian population is only about equal to the u.s. state of California .
@@taisontaison4118 Up here we're accustomed to picking on someone greater than our own size!
@@Zebred2001 Shots fired...
@@Zebred2001 Dont mind that guy hes probably an moron
They had the forth largest navy forth largest tank core and a million troops out of a country of under 10 million we don't ever turn our backs on allies
As an American, I’ll forever respect the UK who led the fight for European freedom. But let’s never forget the contribution made by our northern allies, the Canadians. From everything I’ve read of WWII battles we are fortunate to have the Canadians in our fox holes when times are dire.
Never forget the security of North America we enjoy is a function of America and Canada working as one.
And I would add the Aussies and New Zealanders.
@@brunothepug8807
Indeed. Respect.
@King Royal "we defeated the wrong enemy" was in reference to the Germans after WWII as the soviets were then a much bigger problem
It seems that spanish Franco opposition volunteers fought against Germany in the liberation of Paris in the famous 9th division, which included spanish republicans, communists and even catalan anarchists.
Pd. Canada is in America...
If memory serves, immediately after Dunkirk, there was only ONE fully armed and operational division in Southern England should Germany have tried to press its immediate advantage and try to invade England. That division was Canadian. So, you can thank a Canadian that we aren't forced to sing Deutschland Deutschland Uber Alles in school!
Little known fact: Canada OFFICIALLY declared war on Japan on the night of December 7th in a cabinet meeting.
really..??
@@prokillersniper yes
Also declared war with Italy and the other Axis powers except Germany. They were already pissed off with them due to the Poland invasion.
@@yarharhar should have dropped as many bombs as we could possible on russia while we had the chance
Thanks Leafs.
Not many people know of this speech, more people should know.
TRUE.
Be accurate..say american
Braden Bailey This is my first time watching this speech and i’m a freshman in college and earned my history credit for college in 11th grade.
It’s not exactly the greatest speech but it’s historical impact is large.
I'm not even sure this is a speech at all. If it is, it's the weakest war declaration speech in history...
My grandfather was a worker ROF, he told me that he remember the day when sir Winston Churchill announce this all workers were cheering after the speech because they know that they are not alone fighting the germans anymore.
From fighting our ancestors, to helping us fighting the real enemies. What great ally United States is, we respect you yanks 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇲
Wholesome story but the “alone” part wasn’t true for months prior, 22nd June the USSR was introduced to the war and subsequently became allies with UK
If I recall in mainland Europe everyone was dfeated by the Germans .
Therefore the Brits where at it alone of course if you count their territories it's still under the same rule .
@@XXXTENTAClON227 yes they joined the war and became ally with us. But did the Soviets help our grandparents fight the Germans in Atlantic, France, and fighting the luftwaffe to defend Britain?
Family/Brothers sometimes disagree... On occasion maybe even come to blows... But Never Forget, Family/Blood will Always " Be There In The End". Back to Back, Shoulder to Shoulder. From December 8th 1941 on.... We Stand Together, Always.... June 6th 1944... Family... Crissedned In Blood !!!!!
Many thanks to our Allies in Great Britain for your continued friendship. The US has had no truer a friend.
France has been with us thru thick and thin they helped us fight England and the help fight the Rebels during the civil war !
Australia 🇦🇺
and now you shits are making friendship with Japan. fkin ridiculous
@@wolfpaw2715 France is our true friend, I agree...however, I believe Emperor Napoleon III of France was much more ready to recognize the Confederate States, but was too timid to do it 'alone'..he was waiting for the U.K. to do so, which it never did.
@@Paul19920811 just a thought..isn't it better, in purely selfish terms, to make 'friends' out of enemies, then enemies out of friends??..
“I pledged the word of Great Britain, that should the Unites States become involved in the war with Japan, a British declaration would follow within the hour”
Obviously my favourite part.
Back when words meant something and leaders didn't try to wiggle out of their pledges.
Winston Churchill was also American, his mother was American.
so he's a half yank? ew
The fuck you just say to me you little shit
I believe his great-great grandfather was American, and fought for American independence in the Revolutionary War.
@@ASpecialDrunkardFromLondon American by birth southern by the grace of God.
So theoretical Winston Churchill could have ran for president.
Well it's good that the U.S and Great Britain became allies during the early 20th century; and that Great Britain had gotten over losing the American colonies.
But glad to be allies with Britain, we are like brothers we compete against one another but we get the objectives done.
May God bless America and the U.K and may we be allies for eternity.
burned down your white house in 1812 yea we got over it
@@matspurs1629 lol you guys burned our white house but we dumped your tea in the ocean and still never hear the end of it randomly :P
@Dead Meme Uh, I think it would be a great thing today.
I'm very thankful for Winston Churchill. He was the first politician to call hitler out. Chamberlin thought he could play nice with the Nazis and it was a waste of time. Churchill refused to even speak with hitler. He was a very tough dependable leader.
When Churchill saw this he knew Britain was saved.
No no no no no. Hitler declared war on America not vice versa
Donny Berger I’m aware of that Donny
Sara Mcgaha ye so how was Britain saved when u only declared war on japan someone Britain was not yet at war with
Sara Mcgaha Donny😂u Never watched that’s my boy
Donny Berger because this is when America jumped into the war Donny. After this it was America and the allies Donny.
God Bless our British brothers and sisters. They didnt say we told you so. They said we are with you.
I can't imagine the amount of relief that Winston Churchill felt once the United States joined the war.
Well, Winston always had a way with the spoken word as few world leaders ever had. He went to bed that night knowing that the war would be won. We may have provided the bulk of the stuff needed to fight the war, but Winston's refusal to give in pretty much saved a lot more heartache than what was to be insured by the war. Every time I am near I go spend time at the Winston Churchill Museum and Memorial at Westminster College, Fulton, MO. They have the Iron Curtain Speech. And you can sit for hours listening to all of his speeches and jokes. And there is a chunk of the Berlin Wall there too.
You should read his book about his early life, very interesting, he had an unhappy schooling but he thrived in the cavalry and ended up seeing action in Cuba and Africa.
Weird to think 2 days after he said all this, Japan sank 2 of his main ships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales
He knew something like this was going to happen because they knew that the Japanese were hell bent on world domination as were the Nazi's.
How is that weird?
xXAscendingPhoenixXx well not weird, I used the wrong word lol
The Japanese wanted total domination of the Pacific Region, not necessarily the whole world.
And bytheway, who dominates and did dominate the world. I suspect the lost british Empire and his friend the USA. Who on earth "did" more wars then these two countries?
There a reason US,UK,Australia,NZ and Canada have the same colors in there countries flags.
At that moment Winston Churchill knew that England was saved and that the war would be won. The great boiler was now engaged and American might could not be stopped.
We Canadians are a mostly peaceful bunch, but when are fellow countrymen down south need help or across the pond, We know what must be done, and will see it done.
God bless to my British brothers and sisters out there!
This gives me chills.
You can bet when Churchill first heard this news he jumped three feet in the air with unrestrained joy. The galactic industrial and manpower ability of the United States would now be fully activated and Germany and Italy would be defeated without question and Japan would be demolished.
This speech is hardly known to anyone, as is the full scale of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.
Everyone knows Pearl Harbor, but Japan on that day had attacked not only Hawaii, but also the Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island (all US colonies at the time) as well as the British Empire's colonies of Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong.
On a technicality your incorrect, ( you are correct just not entirely) even though the Japanese attacked all American colonies at the same time, you have to remember that during the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on dec 7th, the attacks that took place on Guam, Wake and the Philippines happened at the exact same time but because of the international date lines, the attacks actually took place on the 8th Dec when it came to the Philippines, Guam, Singapore, Wake, Malaya ect
Let me guess: Japan didn't declare war on the British either, they just bombed without warning? Tojo was a sick monster in every sense of the word.
I was born through critical emergency C-section on 8 December 1995. Mom was induced into labor 7 December 1995, because I was due on 6 December 1995 and refused to come out. This video reminds me of why (dark lol). I dodged the 7th like a bullet.
I think of my 24 and 1/2 years of life, and feel as if it is long...and then I remember how much longer ago this was, by the imaginable timescale of my life for accurate perception. I will always pay my respects to these casualties and their families. Bless.
Learn world history early on. It'll help a lot, and save you from being dumb like everyone else.
Wild stuff, I was born on December 7, 94 and I wear it like a badge of honor, not many people our age understand the significance of that day
Thanks to the UK Australia Canada for having our back
Everyone knows Churchill was jumping for joy when he heard Japan attack. Then he was doing summersaults when the US and Germany declared war on each other.
Churchill seemed at a loss of words.
He knew it just got a whole lot better, FAST....
Just like I would be the moment I found out I won a $100 million lottery prize. DRINKS ON THE HOUSE!!
Probably doing everything he could to seem calm and matter-of-factly about the whole thing. He was certainly GIDDY with delight inside.
The British are, always have been, and always will be our greatest ally.
It’s debatable with France
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@@godusopp2752 Meh..
In the 1920's, our most likely enemy was Britain, who had also allied with Japan against the US. Britain sold them ships, trained up naval forces to work as a modern navy, and also worked with them on their air forces I believe.
So Britain contributed greatly to the later issue of the Pacific theater, and likely caused Japan to be in a position to think it could go to war with the US and Britain in the first place in 1941. All in an attempt to work against the US, even right after the US had reversed WW1, saving the 'allies.'
In WW2, France turned out to be a very poor ally, when not allied on the side of Germany, once the invasion of Normandy began. Went from helping, to detrimental selfish goals that hurt the allied war effort.
A Mother 🇬🇧 will look after her rebellious son 🇺🇸. A Son will come to the aid of his mother.
Death to the western barbarians long live japan long live the emperors
@@emmabangcolongan666
You got BTFO'd lol
Glad to have you as our allies Great Britain. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
He was reportedly overjoyed with relief upon hearing the news, for he knew that US total involvement meant an eventual turn of the tide in the European war.
Germany must have been pissed at Japan for that lol.
You'd think, but they lacked strategy. Hitler was supposedly giddy when he heard.
He apparently greatly underestimated how much the US would bring against Germany. Also, the US joining the war on the Soviet's side, and the constant massive stream of supplies from the US, kept the Soviet people, military, and government hopeful enough to keep them from collapsing almost certainly. Once hope is gone, people start worrying about themselves more than the war effort, which puts the country at an exponential disadvantage. This happened in China and the nationalists were extremely weakened due to it.
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I found it suprising that the us just gave 4 billion to the ussr like that with no interest rate keeping their economy from collapsing.
Then after they became enemies.
@@toxin1882 What's the point of charging interest when they didn't/wouldn't even pay back the principle on that or anything else?
"In two or three minutes Mr. Roosevelt came through. 'Mr. President, what's this about Japan?' 'It's quite true,' he replied. 'They have attacked us at Pearl Harbor. We are all in the same boat now.'
No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. I could not foretell the course of events. I do not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of Japan, but now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!
Yes, after Dunkirk; after the fall of France; after the horrible episode of Oran; after the threat of invasion, when, apart from the Air and the Navy, we were an almost unarmed people; after the deadly struggle of the U-boat war-the first Battle of the Atlantic, gained by a hand's-breath; after seventeen months of lonely fighting and nineteen months of my responsibility in dire stress. We had won the war. England would live; Britain would live; the Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live.
How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care. Once again in our long Island history we should emerge, however mauled or mutilated, safe and victorious. We should not be wiped out. We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end. We might not even have to die as individuals. Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder."
- Winston Churchill *Memoirs* *of* *the* *Second* *World* *War*
And Japan literally was.
"So we had won after all!" Churchill after hearing of the Pearl Harbor attack from Roosevelt. He knew it was just a matter of time now, the unbeatable object on Earth had been activated finally and it was on his side.
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He's my biggest hero. I was once asked which historical figure I'd like to meet and I said without a doubt, Sir Winston Churchill
A great man whos actions allow us to all enjoy the freedom to comment against him or for him.
Winston Churchill, inventer of youtube shitposting. Haha.
Back when the world was littered with great, prestigious, and powerful people. I wonder how history will view our generation.
We still have great, prestigious, and powerful people. You’re just too cynical to look for them.
@@Mr_Bunk When an arrogant, narcissistic person like Trump gets elevated to a prestigious position on the shoulders of the profoundly stupid and maintains that undeserved position for a full term despite the torrential flood of reasons to remove him with haste, I look out over the masses who still support that complete fool of a man, I look for some spark of intelligence supported by wisdom rising from this muck, but I see only blank faces hiding in shadows feeding each other with nonsense and remaining as ignorant as the day they were born. For the sake of this world, I hope they're there and I'm just being too cynical to see them.
@@Mr_Bunk where are those people? I'm just an ordinary nigga but I ain't seen amazing people and leaders today that pales the comparison to that of the past. LMAO
@@deepdungeon8465 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Queen Elizabeth II, Ban-Ki-Moon, Greta Thunberg, Mallory McMorrow, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Peter Maurer…need I go on?
@@Mr_Bunk I'll be blunt but Queen Elizabeth is part of those leaders in the past but is still alive. What the op commenter means new generations of people and no, those lists isn't really comparable with past famous leaders excluding the Queen. And I wouldn't put Zelensky on a high pedestal, The Americans especially Biden instigated the Crazy Russians and Zelensky jump on it without thinking how 10million of his people would go to if War started.
This must have been the most daunting time of the war for the British. Still barley hanging on in Europe against the Nazis, who were now advancing across massive amounts of territory in Russia. And now two enemies without the resources to aid British territory in Asia, or India and Oceania. American assistance against the Nazis must have looked further away than ever now that America would most likely focus its efforts on Japan. From a British perspective, they could lose India and Australia to Japan, and still face an invasion of homeland Britain by the Nazis, who looked set to defeat Russia and turn its forces back on them.
Not strictly true by this time the Russians was already pushing the nazis out of Russia and the nazis could have never invaded Britain as for one the British had a far superior navy so the nazis tried from the air wich was the battle of Britain and the British won that and defended the homeland that is why hitler turned his attention to Russia so when America came in to the war I never see it as they saved Britain I see it as they helped the British and Russians liberate Europe
The US and France have shared an alliance for over 200 years, they had our back in the Revolution and ours theirs in both World Wars. The US and UK for over 100 years have shared an alliance and a "Special Friendship". As an American, I'm glad that our nation supported our greatest allies in their time of need, in their "darkest hour", and that they supported us in that instance following the atack.
Who ever made the call to attack Pearl Harbor wasn’t too bright.. because if there was ever a moment in time that should be the epitome of “it was at this moment, they knew they fucked up” 😂
It’s insane to me, given our history, that the UK is our closest ally. I would imagine we would be bitter enemies, but time heals all wounds
Blood is thicker than water
If you want to win wars, don’t awake sleeping giants.
Was America even a giant back then? America was underestimated, but it has the 17th largest military and was going through the great depression.
@@TheBlaze4000 Even then, America was KEY to winning the war. Without it, no supplies, ammo, money, (or basically everything UK needed to continue fighting long enough so the Soviets joined in and the war changed in their favor) would have been available for the allies and the Axis powers would have easily won. Plus, without the US, the battles in the Pacific would have led to Japan conquering most, if not everything, in Oceania and Asia.
I really ❤ Churchill he's my favourite leader of the History!!!!!!🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩
Most brutal dictator of British india 🇮🇳
God bless the United Kingdom. America has got your back, for all time.
@James Henderson Didn't belong to you.
@James Henderson If you want to talk about that, then we need to talk about the Sykes-Pechot Agreement.
@James Henderson Oh, yeah, I was shitfaced at the time.
If you are from the UK I need you to understand something
I am an American Jew
My dad has portraits of this man all over our home
This man never wavered but more importantly the people of Britain really lived up to his legendary rhetoric and simply put they never backed down...
Without Great Britain and "The Allies" we wouldn't be here my dad has reiterated to me literally hundreds of times.
You simply cannot capitulate to tyrants...
Chamberlain did this again and again which emboldened Nazi Germany even more.
Teaching them take what you want just dont bother us directly please. Invade whoever you want as long as it's not my country, right? Churchill knew this was nonsense. Churchill knew that every ally was worth protecting immediately before the threat was so strong it couldn't be stopped at all!
RIP to a legend the man of the century as far as my family is concerned!!! 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Thank you Great Britain!!! Truly our greatest ally! 🙏
Read the description it says this is a song and the artist is Winston Churchill
Lmao, what an odd detail
Japan attacking pearl harbor was probably japans greatest gift to britain....allowing us to turn the tide with britain and finally show our joint potential
While im sure as any in the free world would be empathic, this had to be Churchills greatest moment. Not that he wished any ill will... but getting America fully invested gave him breathing room.
I find it so interesting how delicate and precise he was in stating that the Japanese High Command had declared the state of war and NOT the imperial government, it really shows how and why Hirohito was not forced to abdicate as emperor. He had nothing to do with the war at all, Japan's contribution's to the war were completely under the control of Hideki Tojo as Hirohito was just a figurehead. I guess the United Kingdom would understand this more than most seeing as they themselves have a head of state and a separate head of government.
Except the Japanese Emperor is seen as a god
@@kaideseager8937 a replaceable god is a quiet god.
Actually, Hirohito was more than a figurehead. He had the authority to put a stop to what the high command did. Sadly, Hirohito was a weak spirited man and because of that people like Tojo could do what they wanted. It wasn't until the US dropped the atom bombs and the USSR invaded Manchuria that he got the backbone to stand up against high command and end the war.
Actually that was the post war narrative to help with reconciliation and rebuilding. Only necessary as the Soviets were an active threat with expansionist goals. Hirohito's active participation was swept under the rug, and a PR campaign launched to turn opinion to match.
Together for ever,the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 and the United States, and terretories and colonies are one for ever.
as soon as he heard, he started jumping from joy
Fast forward to the year 2023. Japan, Britain, Canada, and the USA must fight common threats.
3 days later, battleship Prince of Wales and battlecruiser Repluse were sank by Japanese bombers.
And Singapore fell in only a few days... with fewer attackers than defenders even.... sign.
annnnnnnd we still Won
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I have q phone that supports picture-in-picture, HOW THE HELL IS THIS MUSIC?!
The beginning of the end for Germany was when they attacked Russia. And when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Little brother joins the fight
Absolutely.
Not little brother..the mother
Son instead
The little brother that's bigger and stronger than the older brother
Should be
Britain: USA help
USA: Nah
Britain: old
USA: I sa-
Japan: boom
USA: ...
Britain FUCK YEAH MY SONS JOINING THE WAR
December 7 was on Saturday 2019 a day to remember
Those were the good old days. 2020 is extremely trying.
To people who see this in the future, it's 11-5-2020, no one knows who won the election still, and the patriots are praying the media and big tech weren't allowed to swing the election and Trump won. Also that the democrats weren't able to cheat hard enough to win in regards to ballot harvesting, stealing, miscounting, and forging.
If Trump doesn't win, the economy will go back to crap, and China will once again be booming until they can fight us on their terms rather than ours. Would be a sad and day for the WORLD, as the pain later would prove.
When the US got involved because of this I bet he could have kissed Yamamoto
PM Churchill addresses Parliament text "With the full approval of the nation, and of the Empire, I pledged the word of Great Britain, about a month ago, that should the United States be involved in war with Japan, a British declaration of war would follow within the hour."
api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1941/dec/08/prime-ministers-declaration#S5CV0376P0_19411208_HOC_5
Winnie: "Dear Mr. Furher, Would you mind sending some V1 or V2 bombs from a U-boat onto New York or Washington, DC? Thanks!"
IJN: "Hold My Saki... We Got This.... Watch..."
At the same day the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk off Malaya.
In summary from 7th to 8th December the US lost (not salvageable) 3 capital ships (Utah, Oklahoma and Arizona) at Pearl, while the British lost 2 capital ships.
Quite a day for the Japanese and also they attacked, destroyed or captured Allied bases, shipping and aircraft in other parts of the Pacific Ocean.
His voice sounds happy
Right before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japan was hitting islands that was under British and American control. So Japan declared war on both of our countries. But since ww1 we have had each others back in every major conflict.
Our little island . Thanks
Homie sounds like the inspiration for Captain Kirk
As an American i forgive my british brothers of all prior transgressions and salute you as english cousins
There's nothing to forgive. The revolution more of a civil war really, wasn't it? These things happen.
And as far as wars go, the American War of Independence was very civilized.
Britain and the Commonwealth saved the world. We owe them one if they ever need help.
Winston Churchill's deepest hope is finally fulfilled. With the US now in, the English-speaking world was united in battle against the Axis and, after taking some serious beatings through 1942, rallied to wipe Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo from the planet. But I fear this may be needed again.
Churchill's family owned Winston Cigarettes.
Nazi Germany, and Imperial Japan: “You can’t defeat me”!
Britain: “I know, but she can”.
America: “Alright, now I’m pissed. Whose ass do I have to kick”?
The USSR won World War II.
I deeply respect Great Britain and Canada as an American. Both sides have stood with us for decades and they still do.
Suez?
👤🌌☯️Where are the great leaders today?
Fun fact:
The UK was surprised by the Japanese attack because they thought Emperor Hirohito was their ally.
Crown Prince Hirohito made a state visit to the UK on May 16, 1921 era of King George V.
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America declare war to Japan only until they found out that Asia Pacific was already invaded and General MacArthur need to escape.
The UK had betrayed its alliance with Japan after World War I.
He’s trying to pretend like he isn’t celebrating this. Of course you can’t blame him, Britain’s existence hung in the balance.
On a side note it bothers me a bit how deliberately slow people talked back then.
Why would he be celebrating this America only joined the war against Germany when Germany declared war this speech was on December 8th Germany declared war on December 11th
Because if you know your history (and as someone who majored in History in college and took courses which covered only the Second World War I would like to think that I do), you would know that Germany and Japan had a treaty of alliance that included a provision for if Japan became involved in a war with the United States Germany was obligated to declare war on the United States as well (the reverse also applied). This was well known to the British at the time, and even the specifics of the treaty aside, Germany and Japan were not exactly keeping their alliance secret. Churchill knew very well that a declaration of war from Germany on America was imminent at this point.
So yeah it is hard not to believe that Churchill and the British government in general were not secretly rejoicing on the inside when news of Pearl Harbor reached them... finally they would have what they had been desperately striving for for years at that point, a military alliance with America and an American entry into the war in Europe as a result of the German declaration of war on America.
Besides something about the tone of your comment gives me the feeling you are somehow upset or a little resentful or whatever at my original comment... why is that? I wasn’t criticizing Churchill for this, and I said that... he was involved in a daily life and death struggle with the Nazis where Britain’s very existence hung in the balance, and the British war effort was not going very well at the time... he desperately needed us to enter as an ally (I am American FYI) and had been using every angle he could to try to get Roosevelt to favor entering the war, from propaganda campaigns in America to sending America a complete inventory of every classified technological advance that the British had but America had not yet developed. With the occurrence of Pearl Harbor suddenly he was standing on much more firm ground and you can’t blame the man for secretly celebrating inside (I’m not saying the deaths of all the American sailors and soldiers meant nothing to him either, but his country’s survival would have obviously meant much more).
Brian Cline no I wasn’t annoyed that you said that I was just saying he wouldn’t have been happy as you think since japan attacked us as well which stretched us even further that’s why we lost at Singapore because we couldn’t support them. Also this was in late 1941 where the threat of invasion had passed I think this is something America forgets Americans always say they saved us and so on yet by the time you joined the threat of invasion was gone. Yes he would’ve been relieved that America may join the war against Germany so he wouldn’t have to fight Germany with just the Russians that Churchill don’t trust but he wouldn’t have been celebrating at all.
The invasion scare had passed... for the time being. If Germany had not needed to garrison its western “Atlantic Wall” and then had not had to deal with a western front after D Day it would have had far more manpower to fight Russia and could have done much better, forcing Russia to surrender or to sign a one sided peace agreement with Germany like it had in the First World War. This would securing most of Europe as one big Empire to plunder more resources from and build up its war machine for a future attack on Britain... with all that land’s natural resources and the recruitment of fascist air battalions for across those nations when the time was right it could have attacked Britain again and done much better.
Sure during that time Britain could have elected a pro peace government and have done some kissing of Hitler’s ass/paying of war indemnities and yes that could have secured the safety of your island for the most part (but Hitler, while originally not wanting a war with Britain and seeing it as a fellow great Aryan nation, viewed Britain with a smoldering grudge after being humiliated by their bombing runs getting through and was frustrated by his defeat in the Battle of Britain, and with him being one to hold a grudge it’s hard to say for sure how long the next invasion plan could have been held off).
Point being that the safety of your island was far from secure in the long run so long as Germany and its new empire was large and powerful and as as long as Britain had to face Germany in the West alone. So did we “save” Britain? I’m not one for macho chest thumping or for arguing about minutia... either way without American involvement Britain would have had a long future of facing the very real threat of a second invasion initiative that certainly could have gone worse for Britain than the first. Furthermore as we all know Churchill would have seen a Nazi dominated continent as being almost as bad as a conquered Britain, and without America he couldn’t dream of retaking Western Europe.
So again I think I’ve made the case for why Churchill would have been jubilant on hearing of Pearl Harbor. Also it wasn’t so much that he thought America “may” join the war against Germany but more so that it was “very likely” that it would since Germany’s treaty with Japan was known to him. He would have known that Pearl Harbor had finally given reason to have legitimate hope that his dream of a liberated Western Europe and of a total victory over Germany could one day come to pass. So yes I believe it’s appropriate to say he was “celebrating” the news... I’m not saying he was likely literally drinking toasts with the king to give thanks for the attack but that he was surely happy, elated, jubilant, use whatever word you want (but I would chose a stronger one than just “relieved”).
My dad also knew his history 1st hand , 22yrs Navy WW2, no leader at any level would celebrate death and destruction of their fellow soldiers until VJ Day Aug 14th 1945
we need an "uh" counter
@benjamin Dawson 11 If I counted correctly.
I'm sure you're better at speeches than Winston Churchill, dipshit
Hey Britain....were gonna go a few rounds with china in the next few years.
Mind jumping in too?😂
Man was Churchill balls to the wall happy when Japan attacked Pearl Habour
I'm a brazilian and wwii aficionado currently learn English, but this old British accent I can't understand so much, please anyone here transcript this video for me, thanks!
Kind of a weak declaration of war speech...
well what would you want an attack on a country
I heard this man drank every day of his life and I mean heavily drank he had whiskey and water in the morning he some how made it two his ninety’s I think
Japan attack on US made no sense until this?
It made sense to the Japanese so they thought.
my favorite U.S. ally! theres no other country in this world outside my own I admire more than the UK
Not the fire
True
Outers speaks volumes . But will not speak for me.inlaw not outlaw
Okay Winston, cut the crap, what do you want?
I love Churchill
As Mr. Sir
“I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the united axis powers of America 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 💪🏻”
Churchil was most brutal dictator of British India 🇮🇳
@@naturelover6114 I think you made your point.
The English have always had our backs
The sleepong giant arises
Fake quotation.
Birth of NATO 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦
Ako je možné že z USA firmy dostávali zákazky od Hitlera až po samotné uniformy
See Winston doing backflips ala daffy duck. thufferin thuccotash..... its rabbit season!!!
I'm the ball the dance and the currency
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