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Japan wasn't really given an option to sign the treaty in 1951. Remember, the US occupied Japan after WW2 and basically rewrote the Japanese Constitution
After the JFK, the people who would of improved america went to japan and the middle class is flourishing over there. America when capitalism and its collapsing. It's like a virus leech in a way
Yeah I think where he paused it, he kinda missed that bit
@@CrimsonRayne yeah you dont know what you're talking about clearly.. That's not how it works bro please clear your mind dont hold any biases, hate etc and go read it's right in front of you it's making me sick how many people are uneducated on these topics or are just fed complete lies
@@theeryan6097 well to be fair we basically built Japan and told them they are no longer allowed to have a standing army only a JSDF (Japan Self Defense Force). Like how Germany isn't allowed to have an Air Force anymore. After we dropped those dookies on Japan we helped to rebuild Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Well financed it I should say perhaps.
@@shyryTsr2k wouldn't have had to have war if we didn't claim neutrality but make a clear stance with economic warfare. many good Americans died in a unnecessary war that the vast majority did not support. in that war it only weakened the nation long term and it saved communism to spread as a plague. it's quite cowardly and disgraceful to use women and children as test subjects for nuclear weapons especially as it had no strategic or military value to use it on those destinations a clear violation of agreed upon rules of war but alas rules only apply to the losers.
I appreciate your appreciation for the US, in spite of all her flaws. There are far more good things about this country than the bad things. People love to hate on her, and you show more appreciation than the countries closest to us. Thanks.
Agreed
Amen
Every country has flaws. No country is perfect.
@@conpop6924 but it does suck when someone pokes at you 24/7.
@Xic D true
fun fact: Roosevelt was elected four times, causing a law to be put in place saying you could only do it twice. He was that popular and still is.
he was kind of a shitty president tbh.
for example he tried to pack the supreme court so he could force policies nobody liked through
He was very Authoritarian if were being honest. His policies helped turned America into a super power yes but now that were here i think a lot of Americans are tired of being the "world police" and many want to go back to isolationism.
@@innocentsmith122 Also that thing with the Japanese Americans... yeah, you know the one...
Just because someone is popular doesn't mean the are right, many economic experts and historians say FDRs policies actually prolonged the depression
@@isaacevilman7586 but he's a Democrat, therefore its OK and not racist said every liberal ever.
The reason we had influence so quickly was left out of the history video. At Bretton Woods, in addition to forming the IMF, we declared the US dollar as the standard global reserve currency. We were able to do this because so many other economies were destroyed from the war, and they had been paying the US for supplies in gold, so the US had 75% of the worlds gold at the end of WWII. Basically everyone was in debt to the US
My Great Grandfather was one of those Black Veterans who wasn’t given anything when he came back. He eventually was able to buy his home years later, but he didn’t I believe until some time in the 1960s
Many Americans think the post-war veterans programs were equally beneficial to all, and they weren't. This is important for us to recognize. Some of us got support, others did not. There were consequences to that.
And those effects a mere 60ish years ago still shape socio-economics today.
@@Goodnnhu yes they do bitch
I am sorry that happened to him. I am white and I don't think a lot of white people realize how blacks were and are treated. I remember watching a documentary on PBS I think it was in the 80s about desegregation. They showed kids spitting and throwing it things at African American children that were going to their school. That and the documentary on dolphins being killed for tuna stuck with me for decades. Both made made me want to throw up and cry
Watch “Dday from the Germans perspective” from armchair historian
The overthrow of Guatemala was all for U.S. economic benefit. Businesses in the U.S. wanted to control the leadership of Guatemala so their economic interest could be met. The people were left exploited and genocide of the maya people began to take place. There is a documentary about a girl who survived an attack on her village during the takeover. It was an eye-opener for me to learn what happened in an anthropology class.
And he litterally justified it bruh 🤦🤦
I'm pretty old, my grandmother was just becoming a teenager during the Depression. She watched us growing up bc both my parents had to work, we had a 3 family house and she lived upstairs, we rented the other apartment. The stories she told make me thankful for my life today, even struggling with income for my family bc of covid, etc. We still have it better than they did. Truly the greatest generation.
This is very true. My father grew up in the Depression, and he also had stories. One day as a kid in the 1970s, I saw him take a pear and carve out three-quarters of it that were bruised and inedible, leaving basically a fragment of pear and the core, which he then ate. I wondered why he didn't just toss it and get another pear from the bowl. And then I remembered: if you were alive in the Depression, you learned to salvage anything you could, because there might not be another pear.
My grandmother was a child/depression during the depression and I’m rather young.
You should watch a teddy Roosevelt documentary craziest president he led a cavalry in war, created national parks and the teddy bear is named after him
he also ended the gilded age and broke up the monopolies, a feat which is even more impressive considering the monopolists like JP Morgan and Rockefeller had almost complete influence over congress
Roosevelt is a fucking G
Among so many factors, the fact that the US has an extraordinarily rich supply of natural resources, from metals to wood, oil to coal, farmland to fisheries, AND, the fact that North America has such an incredibly harbored coast an exquisitely elaborate network of navigable rivers, as well as a hydraulic equilibrium of Great Lakes and sea ways, mean that a decent work ethos of its citizens could write a blank cheque of power and prosperity; and capitalism would work to cash that cheque from the almost limitless wealth of its future. Russia or China do not have the analogous resources, coasts, or work ethic, far less the optimism of a limitless future. Europe as a whole does, but it is precisely its inability to be a whole that matters. Great Britain had done something analogous to the USA in the preceding century, but did not have the size of population or expanse of resources to maintain its overreach. America might not, either.
I know it's not what you're saying, but Europe's identity and the US isn't the same and Europe isn't going to unite under one country anytime soon. The thirteen colonies basically snatched up all the smaller native nations and their land, stole black people and attracted Europeans after wars and had history that let it pick it's path pretty easily compared to Europe because there was nothing stopping them. Feels iffy to live in a constricted continent but Europe and the US have pros and cons.
The Greatest Generation is what made America great.
They grew up through WW1, the Great Depression, WW2 and I think of them as the generation that had the most impact on making America what it is today.
They sacrificed SO much! Not only were they often hungry during war time due to rationing but they were hungry during the Depression too! Not only that but most of them had to join the military and put their lives on the line.
There should be a monument to the Greatest Generation.
Anyone born between 1900-1920 is a member of that generation.
As the Venetian diplomat said in 1783 to a United States representative “ you have gone from colonies to owning an empire, wealthier than any European power.” So from the beginning we were very powerful.
A good deal of this happened, however; he’s unfortunately gotten the revisionist version of history for a great deal of the information. Too much is twisted, or full on backwards.
Out of curiosity, what do you consider to be the non-revised version?
Agree 100 percent. Majority of history is told though the lense of contempt for the US. Making mountains out mole hill issues. And calling the Berlin air lift propaganda is a flat out lie... People were starving damn it.
@DIEGO PEREZ GENIS he didnt say it was fake.. did u even read the comment lol
@@moe92870 Just because it's a good thing doesn't mean it's not also a PR stunt. Propaganda doesn't mean false. It means the state is sending a message, whether or not the message is true.
@@cerberus0225 the rewriting of the history I learned as a child and young adult is the worst type of propaganda... You sound like sheep to me
6:28 That dude really gave the US parts of Canada that are east of the Saint Lawrence River in his map, how does a historian make a mistake like that...
Quite easily, he's a historian not a geographer.
@@biggiec8933 True, but I mean...even then, a historian should probably know the US never acquired those territories ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@Providence.. Maybe, but I think that is just expecting too much of a person.
@@biggiec8933 I guess, it was just something I noticed that made me go "huh?", lol.
He’s not the editor. He’s the historian. Yell at the editor if you wanna cry about it.
So this is how McDonald's came about.
I've always felt sceptical towards people who say that suppression of democracy to suppress communism was a good thing. I personally had the rare occasion to live in a communist country for 11 years of my life, I'd be lying if I said life was free, but it's not much different compared to life in a normal democratic country.
Roosevelt is very controversial. He got us into WWII very late, leading to Germany doing a lot more damage than they otherwise might have. But others regret his getting involved in WWII at all. Also remember that Japan attacked the USA at Pearl Harbor because of their fear of Roosevelt’s expansionist policies in the Pacific. He massively expanded the US federal government, along with government spending, and many economists believe his programs meant to fix the economy actually prolonged the Great Depression and made it worse. He locked up the Japanese-Americans into concentration camps during the war. He opposed civil rights for black Americans.
He had a massive impact, but it’s not universally agreed to be a good impact.
Yeah some of this was good some was bad and came back to bite us in the ass.almost every place we overthrow a government that government got overthrown later.
Especially Iran
Im not a creator I’ve always been a watcher but props for basically sponsoring the video that is sponsored that you are reacting to. Its a good way to come off as a legit content creator and probably get sponsors in the future.
the GI bill was FDR’s biggest achievement hands down
He single handedly set up the framework for USA to succeed. Now is the perfect time to do the same invest back into the country. We need a major infrastructure overhaul.
Look at the Dust Bowl that happened during the Great Depression I think you would find it interesting.
This is a Great TH-cam channel. I watch this guy all the time. Good graphics. Well researched and great scripts.
FDR while he had some controversies here and there, is usually regarded as one of the greatest presidents ever. He helped pull our nation out from the depths of the worst economic crisis ever seen
Some question weather that was because of Roosevelt's policies, or if he just happened to be in office when world war II started.
You can argue that the New Deal helped some folks, maybe a lot...but if you look at the statistics, it was World War 2 and the buildup that preceded it that ended the Depression in the USA. ✌
FDR is overrated and did a lot of damage to the US with lot of his social programs and his extension of the power of the federal government
No he didn’t, he walked all over individual freedoms
@@kennandunn7533 he definitely benefited from the start of World War Two as did a lot of ppl across the nation. And for sure the growth of the economy wasn’t all his doing. WW2 was the major boost that this country needed to pick itself up and dust itself off
I've been to just over half of those National Parks. Have gone camping (back in the 60's) in Sequoia, Yosemite and Glacier. Generally I'd say camping with the wild beasts are pretty safe if you keep a campfire going. Back then we went camping with an oven rack, old school coffee pot (it percolates), and we each had a packing blanket (kind they used in semi tractor trailers), and an ice chest. The only thing I was actually attacked by was a huge owl in the evening (a California Spotted Owl) and swooped at me a couple times. I'm guessing I was near its nest and I ducked tracing my path back away and it stopped. The first time it's talons came very close and passed through my hair. I did wake up one morning with a large brown bear on its hind legs about a foot away from me. I just froze until it finally left. That was a story in itself. Up on Mt Whitney I almost stepped on a diamond back rattle snake. Its rattle started vibrating and I thought for sure it was going to strike. I had always heard that if you hear the rattle, you are too late, you will be struck, but I simply looked away, stayed still and silently cursed my stomach for growling. Soon I couldn't hear the rattling and looked down and it was gone. Another time I came across sort of a pool formed in the middle of a stream. It was deep and I dove in. First mistake it was snow melt and I didn't realize just how cold it was. Second, when I came up gasping for air, there were two snakes wiggling in front of my face about a meter from me. At the time I didn't know they were not poisonous, at so I just slowly went with the current until I was actually walking out of the stream. Those incidents were in the mountains of Yosemite. In Angeles Nat'l Forest (mountains near LA) I have had two encounters with pumas (aka: Cougars, Mountain Lions). Once I had a campfire going and the puma didn't get close and after a few minutes left the area. Another time, I was hiking along a stream and encountered one on the other side. I could hear it sort of snarl/growl and pulled out a hunting knife I kept with me and continued my hike (with a friend who did the same) and just ignored the puma. It followed on the other side for a bit then moved on to who knows where. Honestly, I didn't have a chance in hell of killing the puma if it attacked, but I decided that if it did, that somehow, at least, I was going to make the cat hurt and bleed if possible while it was killing me. Even if I did manage to kill it, at minimum I would have been left with life threatening injuries, I'm pretty sure. Oh, and by the way, down in a few southern most states, there are some jaguars if I recall. Rare, but there have been evidence of them and some sightings, although few.
So, if you are ever in California, I'd be happy to show you a good time camping, the old fashioned way :)
I could go on with other dangerous animals you can find in National Parks and some just wilderness areas. Contrary to what you might think, camping and hiking is not really as dangerous as you might think. What you do need to take with you is some minimal knowledge about the area and some good old common sense.
Yeah, we got a whole bunch of skeletons in our closet here in the US. Sadly, we are still adding new ones.
@Susan Hunter
and we cant really do much in way of change
all we could do now is to rival the other superpower
and their interest
All countries have skeletons, but it’s trendy to hate the US
@@jbc_8110 I don't hate the U.S. I love this beautiful country!
Anyone remotely interested in Roosevelt needs to watch Ken Burns’ documentary “The Roosevelt’s”. Easily one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen.
The nuclear family is actually centuries old. It started when the world began to industrialize. Before that, extended families were the norm.
unfortunately, the factory work that built up the US and especially the middle class is disappearing, either from machine takeover, or the factories being shipped off to countries where they can get cheaper labor, often at the expense of those worker's health.
I lived in a village in New Hampshire where run down farms were bought up by returning GIs from WW2 and Korea through the GI Bill. I became a member of the Junior Grange in the late 1950's but few of us were farmers.
When ranking presidents by accomplishments yes FDR is usually ranked in or near the top 3 along the lines of others like Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson
Crash Course has a good Great Depression video. It's a high school channel but it's pretty good with over 5 million views. It's from 2013 but the subject hasn't changed.
My grandmother was born in Germany in 1939 and had a really scary childhood. She was very grateful to and had a ton of respect for the American military. She was very proud when I joined the Army and visited me regularly. My grandfather served in Vietnam. It definitely gives a different perspective when you have family that experienced similar things, but from a different perspective.
Consider that the US was the one major industrialized country that emerged from WW II with its industries and cities unscathed. It was ideally suited to dominate the post war world economy like no other country in history.
FDR was undoubtedly one of the most influential Presidents if only for being elected to four terms. Some praise his approach to the Great Depression; others fault him for prolonging the Depression in the US with his vast government interventions in the economy. Look up references to the "forgotten man".
The US interventionalist foreign policy was necessitated by the Cold War. With a nuclear armed opponent, all options short of total war were on the table. There was blowback from some of our actions, but that was part of the price to be paid for fighting the Cold War.
I just wrote this comment, which I think you might want to read:
00:39 Oh, that’s easily answered in two sentences (no need to watch a whole video about it lol)!
_THEY DUMPED THE RATS.CHlLDS CENTRAL BAN.KING SYSTEM (They told the Rats.chiIds to go to H-E-double hockey sticks!), AND STOPPED PAYING THEIR UNFAIR REP.ARATIONS THAT WERE DEMANDED OF THEM!_
Whilst the rest of us were all floundering in the Great Depression (that was intentionally caused by the Rats.chiIds), the mustache man easily got out of it in lightening fast time because he dumped the unethicaI debt-based ban.king system!
History class is now over. 😁
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As far as Frank goes, he was an utter p.o.s. that not only kept us in an unjustified war that caused the deaths of an entire generation of men in his country that he took an oath to defend and protect (we had no business being involved whatsoever, due to the Monroe doctrine), he was a sociaIist/commun.ist that instated so many policies that were in direct conflict about what the country was supposed to be about, completely ignoring it’s Constitution.
Even our own General Pat.ton came out saying very clearly that we fought on the wrong side, and should have defeated the commun.ists instead of aiding them, if we were to be involved at all!
What we get taught about that period of time in our history books and by HoIIywood is nothing but pure war atrocity prop.aganda/the vic.tors’ version of history.
It’s repulsive.
If you want to know how they have gone about doing this, I _HIGHLY_ recommend you watch an excellent archived video of an interview with a patriot ban.ker that exposed exactly how the ban.kers went about brain.washing generations of AMERl.KANchiIdren...
The video can be found here on YT, and is titled:
_“How the Banker Run Foundations are Shaping up the World - Norman Dodd Reece”_
It was published on Aug. 3, 2020 on the _“Helen of Destroy”_ channel.
I hope you take the time to check it out! It is one hell of an explosive piece, so don’t be put off when you see how long it is, because I promise you this:
The time flies so fast when you’re watching it because it is like a good book you can’t put down! It’s utterly refreshing to hear the truth being spoken, when we have been bombarded with nothing but lies from the cradle to the grave!
My great grandparents were during the great depression I think when they were kids cause they are alive with me right now except my great grandma died in 2019 other then that I still have my great grandfather on my mom's side my grandma and her parents my great grandpa's parents r direct immigrants from Poland I know this cause my grandma told me about a picture she saw of her dad's dad in a polish army uniform and her dad told her who it was when she asked
Love your space reactions, You really should watch Life Beyond 2 the Museum of alien life :)
Yessss it’s a great video
My grandpa was a cute little boy during the depression. He told me that the butcher used to save bones for him and give him bones because he was a cutie. This was Something that helped my family get through the depression. I know my grandfather ate a lot of potato soup during that time because once he grew up he would never eat it again.
He goes a bit overboard re the plight of women. The proportion of women veterans in WWII was tiny, and they didn't engage in combat (as in storming beaches). Rosie got the riveting job because Johnny went overseas to fight; it would be more unfair for Johnny not to have gotten his job back having survived battle.
Yeah this video had slant i didnt appreciate.
Also on black people bit it seem off from what I know.
@@hack5770 - Yeah, he did make it sound almost like Jim Crow laws were in every state.
@@SilvanaDil Yeah that's so weird,I guess it all come down to where the information came from.
The GI bill and VET Loans are still around. My mom went to college using my grandpa's GI funds because his death was related to his time in the military. Unfortunately, not enough people utilize the schooling benefit.
It would be a considerable time commitment, but if you really want to see how the US went from a second- or even third-rate country to what it is now, I highly recommend the Ken Burns documentary series, The Roosevelts. It's excellent, and it can be streamed at pbs.org
There is a documentary by Ken Burns (one of the best filmmakers on American History, although I think he got a lot about Vietnam wrong) on the Civil War, WWII and the Dust Bowl (Great Depression). History of Baseball, Jazz, National Parks, etc. You may find them on Netflix. They are great on looking at all aspects of society.
If you don't mind me asking what got you so interested in America? I find it awesome I was just curious.
I luv watching ur vid about my country
I think you'd really like watching any videos by 'History Buffs'. He makes videos on 'historical' movies, and talks about if they are actually accurate or not. He's pretty entertaining!
The damage of FDRs new deal was undone by WW2. WW2 totally bailed out his legacy as a bullet likely did Kennedys.
YUP!
You definitely should do one on the great depression. Not just to learn about how it effected the USA. It effected the UK as well. True, the US had people actually jumping out of high rise hotel windows (which is why most hotels to this day have windows that do not open at all and are shatter resistant, along with towers like the Sears tower having tall fences at the peaks to prevent people from using these as platforms to commit suicide. You wont see the fencing from the street view, it is back a bit to help prevent it from being an eyesore but at the top you will see these. songs such as 'brother can you spare a dime?" came to fame and are still around because it spoke to a high population, high costs, and no jobs save for the very lucky. Even doctors went hungry then, which if you looked at how bad the pricing in and always has been for us healthcare, speaks volumes. Some history I learned directly from my grandmother (it is relevant, I promise):
My great grandmother had dementia and confused me one day with my grandmother. She asked me to runt o the neighbors to see if they had a potato because he had found an onionin the garden. During the depression, a whole neighborhood would pitch in whatever they had to make basically a communal soup or stew to feed everyone in the neighborhood. This is how she lived for years and at (her then age ) of 88, this memory was more powerful to her than the present. She'd also tell me to "wrap your ad's boots in the newspapers there, they need to shine!" Because no one could afford shoe polish, let alone new shoes so what they did was wet down newspaper, and use the ink to fill in any roughed up patches and to shine up leather overnight .Just as two examples there is lots more of course. So yeah...lots and lots to it. Well worth looking into just to see how folks survived.
have not been this early since i was born....at least this time my umbilical cord is not around my neck
I had the umbilical cord around my neck too. I came out black due to lack of oxygen. Since my parents are white everyone was looking at my mom for an explanation before i turned the right colour.
Day 44 of asking Luka to watch “The Medic Who Fought a War Without a Weapon” by Simple history
Damn
I'd give up dude. Obviously he doesn't want to do it. 👎
Is that about the Hacksaw Ridge guy?
@@dansdiscourse4957 yes it is
@@a00141799 I’ll go a year if I have to
this man officially know more about my country than i do
People loved FDR so much he got elected 4 times and they had to change the rules so presidents could only have 2 terms
and then you have Grover Cleveland answering the question: "if you lose your re-election campaign can you still go again because it hasn't been 2 terms yet?" and the answer was yes. The only president to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms in office, he lost the 23rd presidency to Benjamin Harrison, so now he has the 22nd and 24th.
For my money, FDR was the best president of the 20th Century by far. He put this country on his back during the Depression and led us through most of WWII. Plus, he did this while being disabled from polio. Every century offers a larger-than-life president: Washington, Lincoln and FDR so far. We have not seen this century's greatest yet, I think.
We have a hater with post notifications on. Wow
i know of another really interesting history channel i think you should react to, it's called voices of the past and it reads a bunch of primary documents of like, people's journals and perspectives of historical events from people who were actually living in it.
The Berlin Airlift was not propaganda but genius ask the grateful Berliners.
it was both for sure.
We've been planning it since the beginning here just now finding out.
This video does get it pretty correct, on balance. There was a new "Pax Americana" but at the cost of obliterating many countries' right of self-determination. And in the end, some of what we tried did not work out anyway. At home, we had the fabulous 1950s -- but they were not fabulous if you were not part of the white middle and working classes. As Americans we tend to look back on the post-War era with rose-colored glasses. We achieved a lot, but we sowed the seeds for a lot of problems down the line.
Lkke when we trained al quida then they came back and flew planes into the twin towers. Yeaa that rly came back to bite the US big time.
you need to do more of these reactions
Peter Zeihan has some interesting but pretty long (about one hour) lectures on this topic. I think his takes on Bretton Woods are especially on point.
There has been individual corruption but what this country stands for as a while makes me proud to be an American. You’re welcome anytime at my place lavish
as a society, america has always (classically) been very good at shifting gears and adapting quickly to new situations and/or circumstances.
Griffin Johnson looks kinda different... and actually smart
If you're interested in some amazing war stories, please react to Simple History. It's not just war stories on the American military.
"The green beret who went on a one man rampage" and " the incredibly stupid one" are two of my favourites. Oh and the one eyed canadian who liberated Zwolle by himself.
Unrelated - you should do an in-depth reaction to the Great Lakes. Because dude, they are insane and so is their history.
Please react to "when did us and uk become allies" by history matters. I think you'd like that.
Hello, my name is Gera. I am from Cincinnati Ohio USA. I seen a vid of yours (bingeing) lol. where you was asking what’s in pic and there was a Brit and American calling the same thing different things. If you ever wanna do a vid. I would be than happy to help you out. I think it would be interesting to get different American around different parts of USA and you and do that same thing. I don’t know. Just interesting to me and I love your vids btw. I love Britain.
Go on the infographics show channel to find decently long videos about the great depression. Would love to see some reactions!
I think the Roosevelt are some of the best US presidents ever.
Theodore help bringing end to the age of corruption in American government, the Gilded Age; he was also the one that created the nation park. He also bring forth the bills that help clean the pollution that was caused by the industrial revolution
Franklin, thank to the War, was the only US president that serve 4 terms, brought the US out of the depression and through the war
React to " when did Britain and America became allies"
Franklin Roosevelt is considered one of the best presidents consistently. Almost always in the top three along with Washington and Lincoln.
No.
Easily one of the worst ever actually... only liberal historians are who put him up in the top 3
this is a very controversial take
One of the worst along with LBJ, Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush (mostly for the Patriot Act).
@@bradfordlangston836 u gotta also put jimmy carter in there... i know hes easily forgettable but we were probably the closest we've ever been to collapsing with him.
I think one of the reasons America became a superpower was because other countries were afraid of the backlash they would get if they fought back against America. For example Japan bombed Pearl Harbor so we dropped atomic bombs on their city. I don't agree that was the best plan but it did stop Japan from attacking us again.
it would be fun to see your reactions about each us states diffrent kinds of food speciltys
I really think you'd benefit from seeing some videos on the Women's Suffrage movement and the Civil Rights movement in the 20's and 60's. There's a lot of really interesting history.
Luka you should react to a tv show or something, like watch the episodes. That would be cool
I don't think I've seen this one yet, either. Nice!
please react to more whatifalthist, one of my favorite channels atm
I don't think he stressed what the motivation was behind the guys that came back from WWII. In less than 50 years there were 2 WWs in Europe. We fought in both. So when the soldiers came back from the horrendous experience of WWII they were motivated to make sure it didn't happen again. The CIA was new. They screwed up in their zealous methods... screwed up badly.
You should react to some of the popular Caspian Report videos
U should react to a video about the awful things the CIA has done
You should see the biography of J.P. Morgan
Easy answer: Slavery and pride
Longer answer: The U.S dad was kind of bossy
Ah yes the history of mankind everywhere slavery and pride
Even longer answer: John D. Rockefeller was a greedy asshole who funded presidents and packed Congress with his people, this grew into the military industrial complex, which influences the Republican party and Democratic party and every major industry in the US.
@@semisolaire5866 not everywhere, just sets of societies
@@hopeintruth5119 a vast amount of societies throughout time located everywhere in the world. Im not arguing whats right and wrong, just that it's a history that can be found as far back as humans have records
@@semisolaire5866 not that far, in many societies it didn't happen but for many others it did
manifest destiny is how we became powerful hard to invade a nation if it's secured by two oceans and all of it's neighbors were kept in check. a nation built on blood and iron where conquerors layed claim, explorers made their names, and where innovators kept the wheels turning.
you need to come visit the US and do a Reacts video !
When it comes to historical scholarly rankings of best/greatest US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt(FDR), George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are almost always ranked top 3, with each one taking the top spot depending on who you are asking. Top 5 is commonly rounded out by Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.
So you’re talking about all the presidents on Mount Rushmore.
Armchair Historian in great. Keep reacting to him!
Just as when Britain ruled an empire, America throwing her weight around comes with unintended consequences even though the original intentions were good.
Every super empire in history has thrown its weight around with unintended consequences. Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Macedonia, Mongol, Persians, Rome, France...Thats what happens when you’re a super power. You get to throw your weight around. The question is: Do you want America’s weight or Russian/China weight on your back? What America did was try to build regimes sympathetic to her cause. In past times, superpowers would simply conquer and overthrow a competing empire and call it their own. Maybe we should go back to that. The CIA as well as the KGB did some horrible things while pretending they didn’t do anything at all.
WW II is why.
Two superpowers, what country is the second?
China is a distant second, but they are a superpower depending on how you want to define it.
I think he was taking about all the way back In the gold war so that would be the ussr
Armchair historian us squads vs German squads great video Well done!!!
Maybe it's just me but I don't think this really explained anything about the US becoming a superpower. It ignores the earlier start of the US becoming a superpower with wars like the Spanish-American War and WW1
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Hmm. First, he said, "boats", when he should've said, "ships"! So is he one of those that are now calling, trucks, "cars"? 🙄
Second, that smarmy attitude about overthrowing certain country's governments as if all are equals, or that we're hypocritical, while at the same time, explaining why it was
a good thing that we did so, doesn't seem logical. Is he undecided? 🤔
It's important to note that there is a ton of debate on whether or not the "New deal" was effective at improving the economy. Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman wrote a massive paper explaining how the new deal and other actions by FDR actually made the depression last longer than it should have.
fee.org/articles/what-caused-the-great-depression/ I recommend reading that, and then moving onto Friedman's actual paper.
Lol, propaganda
FDR was a cool dude
We simply got tired of the world asking for help when they broke their toys.
16:50 "it's for the right reasons" I mean, just look at the history and aftermath of U.S.-initiated regime change in Cuba, Iran, Egypt, Argentina, the Congo, it goes on and on, there's a lot of blood on our hands. The policy of "literally anything is better than communism" led to American-supported dictators and banana republics, that were unpopular in their home countries and ultimately replaced by the likes of Castro, Pinochet, and the ayatollahs. American foreign policy post WWII has been very favorable for Europe, Japan, Israel, South Korea, and more recently China and Saudi Arabia, but it has been kind of a long-term disaster in Latin America and the Middle East. 'Hey, let's give some RPGs to these mujahedeen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, what could ever go wrong?' 'Wait, you can only grow coca leaves in Colombia and Bolivia? OK I guess Mexico will just be fucked from now on, let's keep that shit illegal and give me another bump thanks'
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You should watch: "How The Founding Fatherd Would See America Today" by Fire of Learning
Do more of armchair historian plz, and do 2003 Iraqi war by him
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I get it. 👍✅
Hey I think it would be interesting if you’d react to hurricane katrina. It happened where I’m from and is the most devastating storm in us history
FDR tops my personal list of presidents, but he's ranked 3rd by historian's with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln taking 1st and 2nd place.
I mean, the Japanese American population might be part of the reason he’s not first or second...
You should do arm chair historians D-day from the German perspective
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