My uncle Keith was a Lt. j.g. in the U.S.N. during WW2. He flew a Corsair fighter off the U.S.S. Hornet (CV-12). He did not talk about it. He was a good man, always with a smile and a laugh. He lived until he was 90. I miss him.
had a great-uncle captured in, i believe, battle of the bulge (but it may have been just during that general time frame, because i got the info from my grandfather). anyway, due to mistreatment, starvation, etc., as a p.o.w., he had to origionally use crutches when he came home but eventually degenerated to the point where he was in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
I was born April 6, 1945. Six days before President Roosevelt's death and a little over 4 months before the war . I will always be thankful to the men that served and gave their lives so that I could have a life by keeping America safe. These men were all heroes.
you are brainwashed war came the rothchild bankers got richer, the US kept the tyrant gov it had , instead of the hitler tyrant. i was never as stupid as you. in grade school the teacher said other countries brainwash students , tell them there nation is good all others bad. i said to teacher, '' thats what you do to us.'' do nothing just what your told , unless the gov wants more, then you ''get it'' ,,,2008 no laws for bankers. , forced health ins take money before you get it.. no choice, i paid for nothing. never used a doctor. much more , learn to read......
@fob1xxl MR. 1945, DO NOT FORGET to HONOR all THE WOMAN ❤ who served in WORLD WAR TWO, and ON THE HOME FRONT, Taking CARE of all the children of LOVE ones that were missing in WAR! ❤ THIS was NOT a man's war! MEN, WOMAN, AND CHILDREN were fighting the Nazi's and The Rising Sun all over the world!! MY lovely Seniors ♥️ that I take CARE OF from those day's most Definitely are proud to see Victory in that WAR!! But it took EVERYTHING, EVERYONE, and TWO big ass BOMBS to finally END IT!!
Films de propaganda yanqui, recordad que EEUU es el país que es hoy gracias al imperio español que les ayudó a luchar contra los ingleses y abastecio de armas, municiones, mosquetes, uniformes, comida y demás pertrechos para seguir luchando por la independencia y como dijo Thomas Jefferson, " La historia y la independencia de EEUU se escribe en español ", poco os duró el recuerdo que después atacaron a los españoles los mismos que les ayudaron a librarse del yugo inglés , para que después convertirse en los mismos piratas que ellos, robando territorios, esclavizando y matando a los nativos de los territorios como los de Cuba, Pto Rico y Filipinas y han seguido en el tiempo haciendo lo mismo que los ingleses, sois una nación bélicosa, desgraciadamente para ustedes algún día caereis como todos los imperios
In the 1940s, Americans fought fascism and dictatorship in a unified defense of democracy. Many gave their lives in this effort. In the 2020s, many Americans now vote in support of fascism and dictatorship.
What kind of idiots vote for a candidate who says he wants to take away their vote. Or who ignores the results of the voting. If you don't want your right to vote simply refrain from voting- why act to deny others their right to vote? People in cults do crazy things.
Amazing history lesson. Why wasn’t I shown this in history class in school in the 1960’s. This would have benefited me far more than dry history books.
This is in no way a documentary. It is an American propaganda film, just like Germany, and Japan made their own propaganda films. We may call it by more polite names, but it is a propaganda film nonetheless.
Exactly America was built off of the backs of enslaved people who were taken from their home lands & displaced! Brought to America to be enslaved! This is definitely propaganda, people were forced to build America up by being murdered, raped, hung, burned, bombed & massacred. Why is this film not talking about how the blood & sweat that these people had to shed was at the hands of Amerikkka!!!! This film angers me. @@docachna
This war was the reason things are the way they are today. The Socialists and Communists were the main benefactors. Nationalism and Patriotism became naughty words (but they'll roll those out occasionally for political purposes).
Yes, the greatest generation - the one responsible for WW2 to begin with, the one that produced these films claiming all people were to rule - yet acted on the most racist vile beliefs, the one who simultaneously needed women to produce its weapons - only to shackle her back in its kitchen once they returned, the one responsible for two nuclear weapons being deployed and escalating the most consequential geopolitical and military stand off in history. Yes we should all be concerned what makes them role in their graves. I'm proud of what we accomplished in WW2, but to subscribe to their innocence and some perceived higher moral ground - is ignorant at best, dangerous at worst.
People were thinner for a few reasons 1) hard physical labor 2) nearly 10years of economic hard times, and 3) food was not played with, not full of chemicals, and artificial ingredients the body can't break down. The body stores what it perceives as toxic by surrounding it in fat trying to protect itself. In the 50s, a time when science held all the answers, food manipulation, gene splicing and preservitives in food began.
The date on this Video is incorrect. This Video is from the Frank Capra series “Why We Fight,” the first Volume of which was released in 1942. But this is the 7th and FINAL Volume/Episode of “Why We Fight,” which was released in 1945, just prior to Winning the War.
This is the seventh and last in the Why We Fight Series, produced in 1945. At that point one of the main purposes was to fight "war weariness," as many in the US had grown quite tired of wartime restrictions.
That's right, the US had a sizable percentage of people who wanted nothing to do with the war in Europe at all, then you had the America First movement which was headed by pro fascist who wanted to side with Germany. Henry Ford, Joseph Kennedy are just a couple pro Fascists from the era.
If Britain hadn't stood alone and fought to keep a piece of freedom alive until America got here I wonder what would have been the outcome. We forget that Germany did occupy part of the British Isles. Guernsey and Jersey. At least we knew what we were all fighting for , we seem to have lost our way now.
Granted. But never forget that both Britain and France had the opportunity of stomping Hitler's ass into the dirt in 1935 in the Rhineland, but both of them were too pussy to do it. They brought Hitler on themselves. We, however, brought Japan on OURselves. WE had a corrupt, Communist congress and an elite that were Democrats and believed in "peace". We still have those treasonous shit-heads running this country today.
Yes you’re right. England stood alone from 1939 till 1941. I have always wondered where the USA . Our brother in arms was . If the Japanese hadn’t bombed Pearl Harbour. England would be speaking German l reckon.😡
Once the U.S. entered WW2, American car production came to a stop, roughly FEB 1942. If you got a new car in early 1942, you were one lucky soul. Very few did that well.
And it wasn't because we had to supply the US forces, but because we had to supply the British and Soviets also. There was no rationing in the US in WW 1. One might say WW 1 didn't have the Pacific Theater so it wasn't needed, but in WW 2 the forces in the Pacific were far less than in North Africa and the subsequent ETO. In WW 1 we bought much of the weaponry we needed for the AEF from the French (cash on the barrel head, BTW). I think they knew the flaws and weaknesses of the Imperial Japanese military very well and felt they could handle them pretty easily. It was going after the Germans under NSDAP control that was the FDR administration's primary goal. But I can't figure out why beyond NSDAP being a threat to Liberal Socialism. They were never a threat to us.
The great American bulk up didn't really start until sugar was replaced with cheaper corn syrups. Our bodies don't metabolize it the same as sugar. And as was said there weren't the snacks and junk foods. A staggering number of young men can not pass the weight requirements for military service.
Very little junk food, little money, no high-fructose corn syrup and most people walked everywhere. Anyone over 40 is likely to remember only one or two obese children in their class at school.
Sigh. Life was so...black and white back then. I watched it all, and learned a lot about my father by doing so. He fought, for the right of people to speak their minds, even the mindless ones.
You missed another reason why he fought: Because Nazism/Fascism was deemed to be an “Illegitimate Political Ideology” for which people did not have the Right to preach without dire repercussions. That was kind of the whole point of the war: That Fascism isn’t a Legitimate Political Ideology. And that while the Government cannot Punitively Sanction such beliefs. Neither would it protect them from the public backlash and consequences due to any adherents of that ideology. Churchill, Arendt, Popper, Rawls, Huxley, Blair/Orwell.... They all have very famous works on that very subject with the first three pointedly discussing the outcome and meaning of that “Debate over Fascism” that occurred from Sept of 1939 (or May of 1936 in Asia) to Sept of 1945, and the meaning of the outcome of that “Debate.” Specifically: These ideologies have no inherent Right to recognition, promotion, or celebration; that the adherents should live in fear for their lives.
@@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid You're overanalyzing it. They invaded sovereign nations, and continued to do so. That's whats unacceptable; ideology is merely a tool used by politicians to achieve such ends. But its the end that's despicable, not necessarily the means
It wasn't perfect back then but life isn't perfect now either. WW2 let to the Civil Rights and Women's rights movement. My mother was a welder in the war, built liberty ships. I became a electrician. My mom's generation made it possible. They led the way . WW2 made people want more rights and opportunities. Thanks to.all of those who fought and worked their asses off in factories and defense plants.
@@jhf99991 The today's events of Russia invading ukraine and other countries are the similar events of ww2. Especially, china and north korea in the pacific and Iran in the middle east. Currently we are like the pre-ww2 stages, I bet you probably go to Nazi conventions in NYC back in the late 1930's. 🤡
They were thin because they didn't have televisions , computers, or cell phones in those days. So instead of becoming couch potatoes people actually got out and did things which helped keep their weight down.... Not to mention the fact during the war, food was rationed, and you had ration books that only allowed you to get so much so people weren't sitting around stuffing their face while they sat on the couch watching TV,playing video games, or on thier cell phones like they do today.
Many recruits were malnourished because they grew up during the dust bowl and great depression plus there wasn't a food aid program for poor people, it's why a significant proportion of draftees were turned away
@@alangray9117 The motto 'In God We Trust was added to U.S. currency (banknotes) in 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections. Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73. Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
@@-oiiio-3993 oh yeah I know but it was on hard currency way before that. I believe the first "In God We Trust" was on the Peace Dollar in 1921 which was also the last year of the Morgan Dollar.
When Churchill heard japan had attacked pearl harbour he said he slept the sleep of the saved because he knew the allies especially the English speaking world when they were together would win world war two, best wishes from the uk,
Everything was made in the USA? When was that? USA produced some stuff but not everything. Take the standard four wheel drive military truck that Stalin claimed was the biggest assistance the Soviets received during the war. Based of the Dodge body almost half a million were made in Canada yet the US takes credit for saving the USSR who eventually went on to do the heavy lifting in WW2 accounting for 75% of German troop losses.
@@jimdavison4077 Hahaha who cares if the Soviets took out more Germans than the US. They also lost over 20 million soldiers doing it. How many did Germany lose fighting them? The US had Japan to deal with, had them on the backfoot starting mid-1942, and utterly destroyed them and forced their surrender mostly alone. The war wasn't all about defeating Germany for the US, and they still managed (along with Britain and Canada) to kick the Axis out of Africa, invade Italy which caused them to surrender, pulled off D-Day, and pushed the Germans in the West back to their borders where they surrendered. The US did more "heavy lifting" worldwide in WWII than any nation.
As a kid I was on the Movie Squad. Showed the films relentlessly. Was a true believer! Not a whisper of Dug out Doug! Child of the Great Depression Class of 1933
Regardng the "Dugout Doug" remark - I suppose you think a four-star general was supposed to be in the front line with his troops? It doesn't work that way, pal.
@@Page-Hendryx Yes, he should, like General Patton. Mac made the huge mistake of only going over to visit the troops on Bataan ONCE ... and even then only briefly, to an HQ. That's a poor example for any Army officer and how he got the nickname Dugout Dug. Can you imagine Hitler ever allowing him to flee from Corregidor during an ongoing battle?!
@Jeepus Chrysler -- We'll see how well you like it under your socialist task masters. You'll be begging for those nasty capitalists to take over again. So take your communist shitrag and shove it.
A comment was made about how thin people were back then. They actually were just normal, as I saw it growing up. I didn’t know anyone who was overweight. Not one friend was even close to heavy. No child, no woman, no man. And, in my opinion, here’s why. People ate three meals a day. Most of those meals were homemade, and eaten at home. They were not filled with fats or sugar. Eating out was rare and a treat. There was no such thing as fast food, or snacking. And, people worked physically hard, and walked everywhere. Very few owned cars. And, remember that these people grew up during the Great Depression, when they were genuinely hungry. Food was cherished and not thrown away. We are what we eat, and what we don’t eat. More and more people are fasting to control unwanted pounds. Unheard of back then. No need, because food was treated as nourishment. When I came home from school, there was no extra snack or treat. We had eaten at 1:00 and dinner was at 6. We got changed and went out to play. We played outside for two hours every day, mostly, rain or shine. When we sat down for dinner at 6, we were genuinely hungry. Sometimes we loved what we had for dinner and sometimes we didn’t, but we ate that dinner because we were hungry and there was nothing else. After dinner, there was almost never dessert. If there was, it was homemade in my house,and so appreciated because it was so unusual. My mom made pie, cake about once a week. It went quickly with six people to feed, and there were no chips, pretzels, crackers in between. Eat good food, eliminate snacks, mostly, make dessert a special treat, and try to walk everywhere.
Interesting that when describing the number of people under Japanese control the narrator says "a 1000 million" rather than "a billion." In this era, a billion had virtually no meaning because a million seemed like so many of anything it could hardly be taken in.
The film was mostly for American audiences, but even so they wished to avoid confusion for any foreign audiences. In the USA's "short scale," "1,000,000,000 is "one billion", but in the "long scale" of most European countries, including Britain at that time, 1,000,000,000 was "one milliard", and "one billion" was 1,000,000,000,000. Britain would gradually switch over to the American "short scale" after WW2. For more detail, Wikipedia has an article on "billion."
Good picking up on that, and good reasoning as to why it was done. Another factor could be that many foreign languages also count higher numbers that way when translated word for word… so more people with English as a second language could better understand.
no, its because in Japanese, everything is based of 10,000. thats just the way it is. 100,000 = juu man, 10 10,000s. hyaku man = 100 10,000's etc. but later on, they adopted the word ichi oku, for one billion. many you guys could actually just learn the language or something lol.
"Pure history"? Did you miss the part at the start exalting the equality of all Americans in the 40s? Which was then followed by "the negros picking cotton in the southern sun" so nvm you're right It's history, but it's not pure. Important to filter it properly.
Nothing pure about it. The way they portray US society is pure fantasy. Also they way they portray the US desire for isolation is another fantasy given US actions in Asia leading up to the Pacific war as the US was fighting Japan in China from 1940 onwards. US actions led to Japan's attack on Dec 07th and was not a surprise to anyone. In Europe the US invested heavily in Germany in the 1930's and could have placed an embargo on imports of fuel stopping Germany's invasion of other nations but did not do anything to stop it. In fact for 1939 and 1940 the US treated Germany and the allied nations exactly the same, cash and carry terms for goods sold.
Born in 1960 Boston we grew up we'd pledge allegiance to the USA every morning at school 1966, the country was proud and very patriotic, unlike today. 🇺🇸
Aside from the Vietnam fiasco and the divisiveness that ensued: Riots, massive anti -war protests, burning draft cards, assassination of political and social leaders. Yes, avery proud and patriotic time.
The end of the video says "End of Part One." Does anyone know if there is Part 2 available? & its link? I enjoyed this immensely & would like to watch the 2nd part. Thanks!
The motto 'In God We Trust did not appear on U.S. currency (banknotes) until 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections. Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73. Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
Sad that most schools nowadays no longer say the Pledge. No more civics classes. No more patriotism (or very little). Now it's all political correctness, leftist and liberal indoctrination.
@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO I'm not woke-friendly, but criticizing indoctrination and supporting the pledge is extremely contradictory. There's hardly anything that can be qualified as "indoctrination of children" more than the pledge.
@@olivierdastein2604 - I see (and understand your point). However, a nation cannot survive, if the people don't protect and defend it, and the family unit, basic values of morality, virtue, human decency, etc. The real indoctrination, is indoctrinating people with total leftist/ liberal/ neo-Marxist/ Communist Propaganda, that brainwashes people that what I just stated, is irrelevant, or somehow "fascist".
I always wonder what the American black troops thought of this great fight for democracy when they were treated like sub Humans in a large part of the USA
Peter you know I saw an interview with a black veteran, he told them how he knew he was doing the right thing was when they captured SS troops one of them bragged that when they invaded The US they were going to put non Arians in concentration camps. this should answer your stupid question
Around minute 17 is a overview of U.S. challenges pre-WWII. An interesting time to let history soak in -- it puts problems into perspective (particularly with Coronavirus). Not to mention the rise of fascism in America and other countries.
The word “fascism” is misspelled here, it should read “marxism”… “which has led to the rise of ‘left wing Marxism’ in America and other countries today”.
1954. The motto 'In God We Trust first appeared on U.S. currency (banknotes) in 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections. Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73. Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
All of those millions of Americans who supported the German-American Bunds and the Nazis prior to the war went right on... denying that they ever had. "That guy in the picture? That's not me. That's my identical but evil twin brother Skippy."
Lindbergh had it right. America First. We should have stayed out of that immoral, unnecessary "world war" over a simple border dispute in Poland. Always remember: Churchill and France declared war ON Germany. Not the other way around.
Some were put in camps similar to the Japanese-Americans. Many were not rounded up and were spying for Germany. It is well known that the Germans had information about air corps crews sent to them from American newspapers.
i remember the way our American History teacher explained compitualation to Hitler "Alright, we'll let you have that land,but no more"...He said it was like telling a kid who keeps raiding the cookie jar no matter how many times you warn them,and telling them "I'll let you have that cookie,but if you try to get another, there's gonna be trouble",and the nations just kept letting Hitler steal cookies,and never saw consequences.
saw the same thing....that is famous and the only surviving video of the initial landings...so is this a history reflection type of flick post war? @@worldoftone
Notice the mention of television at 12:32. Television had been in development as early as the 1920s, but the medium was in its infancy. Few (if any) places had televisions in the early 1940s in any city. The Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers played the first televised baseball game in 1939, and television's widespread use was delayed by WWII.
@@docadams7099 Television broadcasting in the US (NTSC standard) officially began on July 1, 1941. If you'd been rich enough to buy a TV set that day (and keep it repaired) (and lived in a big city with a TV station), you could have watched your local TV broadcasts on it until around 2009. Unfortunately, by the end of 1941, manufacture of broadcast equipment and receivers was among the first things suspended "for the duration."
The date mentioned in the title is incorrect. This part of "why we fight" was only filmed in 1944, and released in 1945. 1942 is the date when the *first* part of the series was produced (there has been seven "why we fight" movies made, this one being the last of the seven.)
Hmmm, within the first three minutes we see a little footage of soldiers crossing a beach, some fall. Previously I have seen this scene as depicting Omaha Beach, June 6,1944. This presentation, "War Comes to America" is identified by TH-cam as 1942.
Specifically June 14, 1945. The War had ended in Europe when this was released. And the War in the Pacific would end what was effectively 6 to 7 weeks later (Officially on Sept. 9). Capra, like most, did not know about what was about to happen on August 6 & 9, and thus suspected that the War in the Pacific would stretch well into 1946 with the Invasion of the Japanese Home Islands, and the Continuation of the War in SE Asia and China, where the Japanese were doing QUITE WELL. In fact, most of the Japanese in Asia were stunned by the Surrender, as they were largely unaware of what was happening in the Pacific with the Americans and Allies, and in Asia many of the Japanese Generals were still “Winning” in the War in their respective areas. The Japanese control of Information about the status of the War in the Pacific had many Japanese oblivious to how great was the magnitude of their defeat until B-29s began Bombing Japan in Nov 44 and 1945 (The Allies had tried Staging B-29s through Bases controlled by the Chinese Nationalists in China beginning in June of 1944, but these raids were largely a waste of resources, and only contributed to the Japanese believing they were still “Winning” the War). The 1942 Date is probably used because the Series itself (Why We Fight) began production just prior to Pearl Harbor, with the Formation of the “1st Film Unit” of the US Army, which prompted the Military as a whole to establish Film and Archival Groups/Commands as a means to document what was already a “War” in the Atlantic that the USA was fighting in everything but Name against German U-Boats. This is said by Samuel Morrison in “The History of the US Navy in WWII” to be what was called “Just Short of War” period. But from Sept of 1940, with the “Destroyers for Bases” program, and Dec. of 1940’s “Lend-Lease” program beginning, the US entered a period of “Just Short-of-War” that escalated to being actual War, if not in name, in Mid-1941 to October of 1941, with several conflicts with U-Boats resulting in the sinking or damage of US Destroyers such as the Rueben James, or the Kearny.
It is mostly truthful, but it lies by omission. I notice most Allied propaganda preferred this method of lying. The Axis propaganda, on the contrary, usually outright fabricates things. Lying by omission is, of course, the best wy of lying, hence why Allied propaganda is usually better than Axis propaganda.
First saw this on Turner Classic Movies, on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Would that our children were taught these things. The youth of today wouldn't understand Civic Virtue if it came up and bit them on the ass.
All By Design. That's one of the top reasons why the DNC has lost over 1,000 elected office seats just in the last 6 years and nearly 1,400 in the last 10 !
Saw part if a film made by this same division in which they show a Black Pastor reading a section of Mein Kampf to the congregation. Does anyone know the name of that film?
Notice how patriotic everyone was; to be a coward or a traitor should be a serious punishable heinous crime!
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every single insurrectionist on 1/6 needs to be doing 20 minimum. all of them. make an example out of them that you don't turn on your own country that has blessed you this much.
Punishing people for speaking out against the government was literally what Hitler did. Being able to speak out against the government is what separates us from the fascists and dictators.
Especially since they weren't lying nearly as much as I would have expected. The presentation was very biased, but the facts mentioned pretty truthful (at least allies/Germans. Don't know about Soviets)
I had never seen the clip of Hitler and his followers laughing out loud at our request not to attack a list of independent countries. I hope we are never in that situation again where any government would laugh at our ability.
He wasn't laughing at the USA's ability. If you listen to the rest of the speech elsewhere, you'll see that he mocks Roosevelt for suspecting that Germany would want to attack all those listed countries, presenting these suspicions as totally preposterous and ridiculous, especially given the length of the list.
I have a question, please? At the end of the video, 58:56 they explain out a timeline where the Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor at 1320 hours on December 7th while the Japanese ambassador/envoy are enroute to the state department? That's.....not what happened at all?
No, it's what actually happened. The declaration of war was supposed to be delivered just minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the Japanese embassy had troubles decrypting the message to be delivered received from Tokyo, and as a result the ambassador was late, declaring war only after the attack had already started.
The oratory and music reminded me of Saint Patrick's Church on Christmas Day. The United States has been both good and evil, and in this conflict the United States was the preponderance of good.
Don't you mean to say, "Thank God America abolished it"? Well, all except for Human Trafficking on the Border, Slavery in north Afrika, and liberal run businesses exploiting "forced labor" overseas.
The whole world had slavery at the time, going back to Moses and earlier. The white world was the first on the planet to END it. It still goes on at the Biden-Human-Trafficking Cartel Border, in Africa, and in Islamic countries.
True. There is an old Hopalong Cassidy movie where at the end they are saying the Pledge and they do show them giving the Nazi style salute (or the Bellamy salute as it was known) but there have been other versions of the salute as well. This was changed however in 1942 after Congress said it to closely resembled the Nazi salute.
Interesting, "We are not fighting just for a country but an idea." So, since that idea has been systematically destroyed since WWII, what do we fight for now? Nothing?
Notice what was missing from the pledge of allegiance at the 1:00 mark? They didn’t leave it out because they were “woke”. This version was the original version, without god.
Funny thing is, if you look at history, this is provably true. And every country that turns its back on God, always reaps the consequences, and it looks as though America is the country which has embraced secular socialism now, and soon enough, we will be another memory like Rome, TRUMP 2024, lets try and save America, its worth saving, even still.
I remember saying the pledge of allegiance in school in the early 1960s. Saying the pledge of Allegiance ended when Jehovah Witness students refused, saying they pledge to Jehovah, not America. The courts ruled in their favor. Saying the pledge of allegiance in school ended after that.
@@jackpinesavage1628 It absolutely didn't end. It only couldn't be made mandatory. Which is perfectly normal. Since when forcing people (especially children) to make a promise is a good thing? Would you find tolerable that a school makes mandatory for your children to solemnly promise something you disapprove of?
The line, _under God_, was not adopted to the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. until 1954. The motto 'In God We Trust' did not appear on U.S. currency (banknotes) until 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections. Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73. Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
No, They were not in the pledge in 1942, The last change in language came on Flag Day 1954, when Congress passed a law which added the words “under God” after “one nation.”
The line, _under God_, was not adopted to the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. until 1954. The motto 'In God We Trust' did not appear on U.S. currency (banknotes) until 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections. Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73. Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
Gotta love how he says that the depression, after a false prosperity, is "needless." This is like saying that a drug addict's withdrawals are needless. That he's just depressed. That the problem is that he's not happy while he detoxes. Even though all that unhappiness is completely necessary. It's totally not needless. It's totally not the problem. It's totally the cure.
Did anyone catch that "under God" wasn't in The Pledge Of Allegiance To The United States in beginning of this film? Under God wasn't added in until 1954, and it should've never been added, especially since we claim to be a nation whose Constitution grants us the freedom of or from religion! Today in 2022 we have over zealous conservatives trying to force their religious beliefs on the masses, as well as wanting Christianity back in our public schools and in our state and federal governments. The claim that the U.S. is and has always been a Christian nation are simply false, because in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association Thomas Jefferson said, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.” -The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. There’s no “legal age” you have to reach to exercise your First Amendment freedoms. They are guaranteed to you the day you’re born. There’s also no citizenship requirement for First Amendment protection. If you’re in the U.S., you have freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.
Posting the Ten Commandments in a school is not going to hurt you. It doesn't mean you have to "get saved" and baptized just by looking at it. It is a valuable historical, ancient code.
@@davidb2206 Having the Ten Commandments posted in U.S. public schools is a clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and the 1st Amendment; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof and etc. The Ten Commandments may be valuable historical history to you as a Christian or a Jew, but it's not ancient code for Muslims, Hindus, Atheists and etc. Which means then it's forced religious indoctrination and it violates the 1st Amendment's establishment clause. When it comes to something as personal as religion, then parents should be deciding what religious materials their child/ren should learn, not state legislatures! The Ten Commandments may be a sacred text in the "Jewish and Christian" faiths, but no legislative recitation of a supposed secular purpose should blind any American to that fact that in our country, freedom of and from religion, it is a foundational pillar of our rights as Americans. Moreover, the Supreme Court decided in Stone v. Graham (1980), that the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools/spaces was/is clearly religious and therefore found unconstitutional. Conservative snowflakes have nothing better to do, but try to force their minority beliefs on all Americans and try to whitewash and/or rewrite American history! For example, the 400 years of atrocities their ancestors committed against Black African people-people who were violently taken against their will from their homelands, and forcibly sold into generational slavery for American profits. I don't know, but it sure appears conservatives are trying to sell their delusional constituents a mixture of authoritarian rule and 1950-ish style patriarchal Christian theocracy that can never happen. It unbelievable that conservatives think, lies deception, fascism and etc. is how Americans are going to give them back the presidency? 😂
@@kryptonarie6367 How utterly ignorant. I am NOT either a Christian or a Jew. YOU are a DUMBASS who ASSumes a lot. The Africans were captured and sold by OTHER AFRICANS who had nothing else to sell. DUMBASS.
And you democrats are literally watching Biden and co BRINGING IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM, and you dont even see it! Thats the thing about Christians, they DONT force their views on you. I have never met a climate change nut that didnt think if you didnt agree you were evil, or should be jailed. The hivemind is on the LEFT, freedom OF or FROM religion, and INDIVIDUAL freedom, IS ON THE RIGHT, with us "stupid conservatives"@@kryptonarie6367
My uncle Keith was a Lt. j.g. in the U.S.N. during WW2. He flew a Corsair fighter off the U.S.S. Hornet (CV-12). He did not talk about it. He was a good man, always with a smile and a laugh. He lived until he was 90. I miss him.
He was a legend then!
He didn’t do a god damn thing in the war I’m pretty sure of that!
had a great-uncle captured in, i believe, battle of the bulge (but it may have been just during that general time frame, because i got the info from my grandfather). anyway, due to mistreatment, starvation, etc., as a p.o.w., he had to origionally use crutches when he came home but eventually degenerated to the point where he was in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
Bless him.
USNR?
I was born April 6, 1945. Six days before President Roosevelt's death and a little over 4 months before the war . I will always be thankful to the men that served and gave their lives so that I could have a life by keeping America safe. These men were all heroes.
you are brainwashed war came the rothchild bankers got richer, the US kept the tyrant gov it had , instead of the hitler tyrant. i was never as stupid as you. in grade school the teacher said other countries brainwash students , tell them there nation is good all others bad. i said to teacher, '' thats what you do to us.''
do nothing just what your told , unless the gov wants more, then you ''get it'' ,,,2008 no laws for bankers. , forced health ins take money before you get it..
no choice, i paid for nothing. never used a doctor. much more , learn to read......
@fob1xxl MR. 1945, DO NOT FORGET to HONOR all THE WOMAN ❤ who served in WORLD WAR TWO, and ON THE HOME FRONT, Taking CARE of all the children of LOVE ones that were missing in WAR! ❤ THIS was NOT a man's war! MEN, WOMAN, AND CHILDREN were fighting the Nazi's and The Rising Sun all over the world!! MY lovely Seniors ♥️ that I take CARE OF from those day's most Definitely are proud to see Victory in that WAR!! But it took EVERYTHING, EVERYONE, and TWO big ass BOMBS to finally END IT!!
Films de propaganda yanqui, recordad que EEUU es el país que es hoy gracias al imperio español que les ayudó a luchar contra los ingleses y abastecio de armas, municiones, mosquetes, uniformes, comida y demás pertrechos para seguir luchando por la independencia y como dijo Thomas Jefferson, " La historia y la independencia de EEUU se escribe en español ", poco os duró el recuerdo que después atacaron a los españoles los mismos que les ayudaron a librarse del yugo inglés , para que después convertirse en los mismos piratas que ellos, robando territorios, esclavizando y matando a los nativos de los territorios como los de Cuba, Pto Rico y Filipinas y han seguido en el tiempo haciendo lo mismo que los ingleses, sois una nación bélicosa, desgraciadamente para ustedes algún día caereis como todos los imperios
It must have been surreal growing up surrounded by heroes. They're becoming more and more scarce. And that saddens me.
America safe? 😂I hear hin laughing - this man called Donald Trump.
In the 1940s, Americans fought fascism and dictatorship in a unified defense of democracy. Many gave their lives in this effort.
In the 2020s, many Americans now vote in support of fascism and dictatorship.
Yeah, but are they Commies, replacing one form of totalitarian madness for the same thing on the Left... ?
Amercian capitalists fought with Russian communists against Germany, but neither of them had "democracy" credentials.
What is a democracy credential?@@truthadvocacy
What kind of idiots vote for a candidate who says he wants to take away their vote. Or who ignores the results of the voting. If you don't want your right to vote simply refrain from voting- why act to deny others their right to vote? People in cults do crazy things.
The biggest joke is that America had a large Nazi group supported by its Citizens then after America came late as usual to war ad before
Amazing history lesson. Why wasn’t I shown this in history class in school in the 1960’s. This would have benefited me far more than dry history books.
Why didn't you learn how to read?
@@christianlibrul Hahahaha
because its full of lies. leaves out the internment of japanese americans
This needs to be shown to Trump and other idiots in Washington. Only blind cannot see what is coming ( Russia, Iran, North Korea and yes China )
I've learned over the years that teachers aren't the brightest and the best. When I grew up in the 60s, teachers refused to think out of the box.
This movie is the best WWII background documentary I've seen.
Wow.
This is in no way a documentary. It is an American propaganda film, just like Germany, and Japan made their own propaganda films. We may call it by more polite names, but it is a propaganda film nonetheless.
@@docachnathat's your opinion but that does not change the fact that this Is a great documentary
Exactly America was built off of the backs of enslaved people who were taken from their home lands & displaced! Brought to America to be enslaved! This is definitely propaganda, people were forced to build America up by being murdered, raped, hung, burned, bombed & massacred. Why is this film not talking about how the blood & sweat that these people had to shed was at the hands of Amerikkka!!!! This film angers me. @@docachna
WE ARE CURRENTLY ON STOLEN LAND!!!!
Our greatest generation is rolling in their graves after seeing what today looks like.
The greatest generation is the ones that are alive.
@@LoveOneAnotherHeSaid Greatest generation of swine.😂
This war was the reason things are the way they are today. The Socialists and Communists were the main benefactors. Nationalism and Patriotism became naughty words (but they'll roll those out occasionally for political purposes).
Yes, the greatest generation - the one responsible for WW2 to begin with, the one that produced these films claiming all people were to rule - yet acted on the most racist vile beliefs, the one who simultaneously needed women to produce its weapons - only to shackle her back in its kitchen once they returned, the one responsible for two nuclear weapons being deployed and escalating the most consequential geopolitical and military stand off in history.
Yes we should all be concerned what makes them role in their graves.
I'm proud of what we accomplished in WW2, but to subscribe to their innocence and some perceived higher moral ground - is ignorant at best, dangerous at worst.
People were thinner for a few reasons
1) hard physical labor
2) nearly 10years of economic hard times, and
3) food was not played with, not full of chemicals, and artificial ingredients the body can't break down.
The body stores what it perceives as toxic by surrounding it in fat trying to protect itself.
In the 50s, a time when science held all the answers, food manipulation, gene splicing and preservitives in food began.
4) And we all smoked
Flagged for medical disinformation.
no mention of sugar? how many spoons in a can of soft drink?
@@annpeerkat2020not the same kind of sugar...now we have refined sugar, corn syrup, invert sugar and others.
Grew up with food shortages during Great Depression
Food RATIONING during WWII, especially fats, oils, meats, sugar
Huge amount of SMOKING
The date on this Video is incorrect.
This Video is from the Frank Capra series “Why We Fight,” the first Volume of which was released in 1942.
But this is the 7th and FINAL Volume/Episode of “Why We Fight,” which was released in 1945, just prior to Winning the War.
I noticed right away it had D Day landing beach footage at the beginning.
maybe, except for normandy footage at 13 minute mark...1944...
it must be nice to have google
Video took Under God out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
I know for a fact we said One Nation Under God.
@@kathleenkendalljacksgrandm6902 The phrase 'under God' wasn't added to the Pledge until June of 1954. This video was well before that date.
This is the seventh and last in the Why We Fight Series, produced in 1945. At that point one of the main purposes was to fight "war weariness," as many in the US had grown quite tired of wartime restrictions.
That's right, the US had a sizable percentage of people who wanted nothing to do with the war in Europe at all, then you had the America First movement which was headed by pro fascist who wanted to side with Germany. Henry Ford, Joseph Kennedy are just a couple pro Fascists from the era.
Then why does it say "1942" on the TH-cam caption?
Can't believe nuthin' from nobody no more.
Love watching this thank for sharing this video a great Documentary I live back in that moment born in 42 😊
If Britain hadn't stood alone and fought to keep a piece of freedom alive until America got here I wonder what would have been the outcome. We forget that Germany did occupy part of the British Isles. Guernsey and Jersey. At least we knew what we were all fighting for , we seem to have lost our way now.
Granted. But never forget that both Britain and France had the opportunity of stomping Hitler's ass into the dirt in 1935 in the Rhineland, but both of them were too pussy to do it. They brought Hitler on themselves.
We, however, brought Japan on OURselves. WE had a corrupt, Communist congress and an elite that were Democrats and believed in "peace". We still have those treasonous shit-heads running this country today.
"the only person who can slow down the mail is a mailman
Britain declared war ON Germany in 1939 and started it all. Unnecessarily. Only because Churchill (and his backers) were war-mongers.
Yes you’re right. England stood alone from 1939 till 1941. I have always wondered where the USA . Our brother in arms was . If the Japanese hadn’t bombed Pearl Harbour. England would be speaking German l reckon.😡
Once the U.S. entered WW2, American car production came to a stop, roughly FEB 1942. If you got a new car in early 1942, you were one lucky soul. Very few did that well.
Yes I found this very enlightening . Helps much to define ourselves . We should reenact the Munitions Act.
And it wasn't because we had to supply the US forces, but because we had to supply the British and Soviets also. There was no rationing in the US in WW 1. One might say WW 1 didn't have the Pacific Theater so it wasn't needed, but in WW 2 the forces in the Pacific were far less than in North Africa and the subsequent ETO. In WW 1 we bought much of the weaponry we needed for the AEF from the French (cash on the barrel head, BTW).
I think they knew the flaws and weaknesses of the Imperial Japanese military very well and felt they could handle them pretty easily. It was going after the Germans under NSDAP control that was the FDR administration's primary goal. But I can't figure out why beyond NSDAP being a threat to Liberal Socialism. They were never a threat to us.
We should listen to these men.
Great video thanks again
Notice how thin people were back then? It is remarkable.
James Otis wasn't.
Lol
Not unusual given the fact that treats were special occasion foods and fast food establishments were not on every street corner.
The great American bulk up didn't really start until sugar was replaced with cheaper corn syrups. Our bodies don't metabolize it the same as sugar. And as was said there weren't the snacks and junk foods. A staggering number of young men can not pass the weight requirements for military service.
Very little junk food, little money, no high-fructose corn syrup and most people walked everywhere. Anyone over 40 is likely to remember only one or two obese children in their class at school.
Sigh. Life was so...black and white back then.
I watched it all, and learned a lot about my father by doing so. He fought, for the right of people to speak their minds, even the mindless ones.
You missed another reason why he fought:
Because Nazism/Fascism was deemed to be an “Illegitimate Political Ideology” for which people did not have the Right to preach without dire repercussions.
That was kind of the whole point of the war:
That Fascism isn’t a Legitimate Political Ideology. And that while the Government cannot Punitively Sanction such beliefs.
Neither would it protect them from the public backlash and consequences due to any adherents of that ideology.
Churchill, Arendt, Popper, Rawls, Huxley, Blair/Orwell....
They all have very famous works on that very subject with the first three pointedly discussing the outcome and meaning of that “Debate over Fascism” that occurred from Sept of 1939 (or May of 1936 in Asia) to Sept of 1945, and the meaning of the outcome of that “Debate.”
Specifically: These ideologies have no inherent Right to recognition, promotion, or celebration; that the adherents should live in fear for their lives.
No because the US was suffering from extreme racism, among other things.
@Matthew Bailey you do realize,the nazi doctrine against the Jewish, came directly from our own segregation laws and action but taken further
@@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid You're overanalyzing it. They invaded sovereign nations, and continued to do so. That's whats unacceptable; ideology is merely a tool used by politicians to achieve such ends. But its the end that's despicable, not necessarily the means
It wasn't perfect back then but life isn't perfect now either.
WW2 let to the Civil Rights and Women's rights movement.
My mother was a welder in the war, built liberty ships.
I became a electrician.
My mom's generation made it possible.
They led the way .
WW2 made people want more rights and opportunities.
Thanks to.all of those who fought and worked their asses off in factories and defense plants.
History is repeating itself we need to watch
Yep its the same stuff just now its the gay & ukraine flag not the US flag 🙄
@@jhf99991 The today's events of Russia invading ukraine and other countries are the similar events of ww2. Especially, china and north korea in the pacific and Iran in the middle east. Currently we are like the pre-ww2 stages, I bet you probably go to Nazi conventions in NYC back in the late 1930's. 🤡
No it isn’t, there hasn’t been world war since the 1940’s.
@@jhf99991it isn’t a word war. 🙄
@@jhf99991 What!
19:00 "we hate war" doesn't sit well over the years since ww2. What did eisenhower say about the rise of the military industrial complex?
They were thin because they didn't have televisions , computers, or cell phones in those days. So instead of becoming couch potatoes people actually got out and did things which helped keep their weight down.... Not to mention the fact during the war, food was rationed, and you had ration books that only allowed you to get so much so people weren't sitting around stuffing their face while they sat on the couch watching TV,playing video games, or on thier cell phones like they do today.
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Many recruits were malnourished because they grew up during the dust bowl and great depression plus there wasn't a food aid program for poor people, it's why a significant proportion of draftees were turned away
Interesting how the Pledge of Allegiance sounds different without "the under God" section.
That was added during Eisenhower just like "In God We Trust" on paper money. Coins already had had it.
Can thank our POS GOVT for removing the UNDER GOD..To this day we STILL have COMMIES in our GOV'T. My opinion, time to weed them out[ hint ]
Yes, the original version sounds much better.
@@alangray9117
The motto 'In God We Trust was added to U.S. currency (banknotes) in 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections.
Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73.
Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
@@-oiiio-3993 oh yeah I know but it was on hard currency way before that. I believe the first "In God We Trust" was on the Peace Dollar in 1921 which was also the last year of the Morgan Dollar.
The nation depicted in this film no longer exists.
When Churchill heard japan had attacked pearl harbour he said he slept the sleep of the saved because he knew the allies especially the English speaking world when they were together would win world war two, best wishes from the uk,
US/Brit. didn't win the land war. Soviet Russia did.
Also he got extra sozzled that night no doubt...🍾🍷🍸🍹🍺🥂🍻🥃🎶
One thing for sure when everything was made in USA the world was progressive and luxurious
Amen ... and Amen ...
Oh really, and when exactly was that? Then we can discuss your illogical claims.
Everything was made in the USA? When was that? USA produced some stuff but not everything. Take the standard four wheel drive military truck that Stalin claimed was the biggest assistance the Soviets received during the war. Based of the Dodge body almost half a million were made in Canada yet the US takes credit for saving the USSR who eventually went on to do the heavy lifting in WW2 accounting for 75% of German troop losses.
@@jimdavison4077 Hahaha who cares if the Soviets took out more Germans than the US. They also lost over 20 million soldiers doing it. How many did Germany lose fighting them? The US had Japan to deal with, had them on the backfoot starting mid-1942, and utterly destroyed them and forced their surrender mostly alone. The war wasn't all about defeating Germany for the US, and they still managed (along with Britain and Canada) to kick the Axis out of Africa, invade Italy which caused them to surrender, pulled off D-Day, and pushed the Germans in the West back to their borders where they surrendered. The US did more "heavy lifting" worldwide in WWII than any nation.
As a kid I was on the Movie Squad. Showed the films relentlessly. Was a true believer! Not a whisper of Dug out Doug!
Child of the Great Depression
Class of 1933
Regardng the "Dugout Doug" remark - I suppose you think a four-star general was supposed to be in the front line with his troops? It doesn't work that way, pal.
@@Page-Hendryx Yes, he should, like General Patton. Mac made the huge mistake of only going over to visit the troops on Bataan ONCE ... and even then only briefly, to an HQ. That's a poor example for any Army officer and how he got the nickname Dugout Dug. Can you imagine Hitler ever allowing him to flee from Corregidor during an ongoing battle?!
When people were proud of their flag ,country & history
Yeah but that's back when America was mostly White along with Europe
@@cal4207
You are obtuse!
Quit whining and do something w upur fetid life!!!
@Jeepus Chrysler -- We'll see how well you like it under your socialist task masters. You'll be begging for those nasty capitalists to take over again. So take your communist shitrag and shove it.
How stoopid to be to be proud you're an american?
When people use #slavacocaine
A comment was made about how thin people were back then. They actually were just normal, as I saw it growing up. I didn’t know anyone who was overweight. Not one friend was even close to heavy. No child, no woman, no man. And, in my opinion, here’s why. People ate three meals a day. Most of those meals were homemade, and eaten at home. They were not filled with fats or sugar. Eating out was rare and a treat. There was no such thing as fast food, or snacking. And, people worked physically hard, and walked everywhere. Very few owned cars. And, remember that these people grew up during the Great Depression, when they were genuinely hungry. Food was cherished and not thrown away. We are what we eat, and what we don’t eat. More and more people are fasting to control unwanted pounds. Unheard of back then. No need, because food was treated as nourishment. When I came home from school, there was no extra snack or treat. We had eaten at 1:00 and dinner was at 6. We got changed and went out to play. We played outside for two hours every day, mostly, rain or shine. When we sat down for dinner at 6, we were genuinely hungry. Sometimes we loved what we had for dinner and sometimes we didn’t, but we ate that dinner because we were hungry and there was nothing else. After dinner, there was almost never dessert. If there was, it was homemade in my house,and so appreciated because it was so unusual. My mom made pie, cake about once a week. It went quickly with six people to feed, and there were no chips, pretzels, crackers in between. Eat good food, eliminate snacks, mostly, make dessert a special treat, and try to walk everywhere.
Read the Secret Covenant. Poison food is the plan.
You'll never see this in schools or on TV again.
When was it on TV? It was long outdated by the time TV became popular.
Interesting that when describing the number of people under Japanese control the narrator says "a 1000 million" rather than "a billion." In this era, a billion had virtually no meaning because a million seemed like so many of anything it could hardly be taken in.
The film was mostly for American audiences, but even so they wished to avoid confusion for any foreign audiences. In the USA's "short scale," "1,000,000,000 is "one billion", but in the "long scale" of most European countries, including Britain at that time, 1,000,000,000 was "one milliard", and "one billion" was 1,000,000,000,000. Britain would gradually switch over to the American "short scale" after WW2. For more detail, Wikipedia has an article on "billion."
Good picking up on that, and good reasoning as to why it was done. Another factor could be that many foreign languages also count higher numbers that way when translated word for word… so more people with English as a second language could better understand.
@@hcunn Exactly, I was thinking the same! And here’s the link for others to the Wiki article you mention: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion?wprov=sfti1
@@hcunn thank drunk Winston.
no, its because in Japanese, everything is based of 10,000. thats just the way it is. 100,000 = juu man, 10 10,000s. hyaku man = 100 10,000's etc. but later on, they adopted the word ichi oku, for one billion. many you guys could actually just learn the language or something lol.
I love watching these “Why We Fight” films
There was an old joke during the depression, "America will be the first country to go to the poor house in an automobile"
Will Rogers would say that.
Even the dirt poor in the US have a car.
This was not released in 1942, given the fact that it has much footage collected all the way throughout the war.
The series began in 1942, this installment, number 7, was released in 1945.
It was beautiful made documentary considering its age, even better than today standards !
Today has no standards, all cut-and-paste copying.
Pure history!!! Loved it!!
Right! Fvck the indigenous ppl whose land they stole.
PURE PROPAGANDA!
PURE BULLSHIT.
"Pure history"? Did you miss the part at the start exalting the equality of all Americans in the 40s? Which was then followed by "the negros picking cotton in the southern sun" so nvm you're right
It's history, but it's not pure. Important to filter it properly.
Nothing pure about it. The way they portray US society is pure fantasy. Also they way they portray the US desire for isolation is another fantasy given US actions in Asia leading up to the Pacific war as the US was fighting Japan in China from 1940 onwards. US actions led to Japan's attack on Dec 07th and was not a surprise to anyone. In Europe the US invested heavily in Germany in the 1930's and could have placed an embargo on imports of fuel stopping Germany's invasion of other nations but did not do anything to stop it. In fact for 1939 and 1940 the US treated Germany and the allied nations exactly the same, cash and carry terms for goods sold.
To the Republic !!!
Born in 1960 Boston we grew up we'd pledge allegiance to the USA every morning at school 1966, the country was proud and very patriotic, unlike today. 🇺🇸
Aside from the Vietnam fiasco and the divisiveness that ensued: Riots, massive anti -war protests, burning draft cards, assassination of political and social leaders. Yes, avery proud and patriotic time.
God bless our founding fathers. They risked it all. ❤🇺🇸
Video took Under God out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
I know for a fact we said One Nation Under God.
@@kathleenkendalljacksgrandm6902 Yes, I saw that too. But why? Maybe the person posting this, removed it.
The end of the video says "End of Part One." Does anyone know if there is Part 2 available? & its link?
I enjoyed this immensely & would like to watch the 2nd part.
Thanks!
There are 7 or 8 parts.I have the DVD set but haven't watched it for a long time.
Under God was added in early 1954 when I was in 1st grade.
The motto 'In God We Trust did not appear on U.S. currency (banknotes) until 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections.
Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73.
Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
at 1.03 children's stating the Pledge of Allegiance at Eugene Field Elementary School Glendale California .... building torn down decades ago
Sad that most schools nowadays no longer say the Pledge. No more civics classes. No more patriotism (or very little). Now it's all political correctness, leftist and liberal indoctrination.
@@Sovereign_Citizen_LEO I'm not woke-friendly, but criticizing indoctrination and supporting the pledge is extremely contradictory. There's hardly anything that can be qualified as "indoctrination of children" more than the pledge.
@@olivierdastein2604 - I see (and understand your point). However, a nation cannot survive, if the people don't protect and defend it, and the family unit, basic values of morality, virtue, human decency, etc. The real indoctrination, is indoctrinating people with total leftist/ liberal/ neo-Marxist/ Communist Propaganda, that brainwashes people that what I just stated, is irrelevant, or somehow "fascist".
All gone. By 2021 brought down from the Top.
Insurrectionists traitors
I always wonder what the American black troops thought of this great fight for democracy when they were treated like sub Humans in a large part of the USA
Peter you know I saw an interview with a black veteran, he told them how he knew he was doing the right thing was when they captured SS troops one of them bragged that when they invaded The US they were going to put non Arians in concentration camps. this should answer your stupid question
Julie Merritt that story is bullshit and you know it
Even in the Civil War when they got no pay for it, black soldiers fought bravely for this country. Because they are Americans and love this country.
@@michelleayres5608 Crispus Attucks, an African-American, was the first casualty of the American Revolution. Black soldiers fought in that war too!
@@juliemerritt8082 There were black people living in Germany during WW2. You have no idea.
All those enemies are not as bad as our current enemy. If we don't restore our ciuntry we will experience greater horror than anyone can imagine.
well said
are you talking about murdoch's fox news?
@@annpeerkat2020 I just enjoy watching old films
@@bobprescott ahh...sorry! I thought you were agreeing with the "gopcongress" bot banging on about the "current enemy".
i agree
Around minute 17 is a overview of U.S. challenges pre-WWII. An interesting time to let history soak in -- it puts problems into perspective (particularly with Coronavirus). Not to mention the rise of fascism in America and other countries.
The word “fascism” is misspelled here, it should read “marxism”… “which has led to the rise of ‘left wing Marxism’ in America and other countries today”.
You forgot the rise of communism
I don’t give a shit you’re pathetic for this useless information.
@@michaeladams9641 Communism came into fashion about 15 years before fascism.
All these films are great. I really like the one about England.
Noticed that they didn’t say the word, under God, in the anthem. That was added later
1954.
The motto 'In God We Trust first appeared on U.S. currency (banknotes) in 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections.
Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73.
Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
The release Date for this movie was June 14, 1945. The title is wrong!
I used to own this video on VHS. I even owned a copy of The Longest Day in color.
My Mom took me to see the Longest Day at a matinee. That's when I found out what my Dad did in the war.
Do you have any videos of Stony Brook?
All of those millions of Americans who supported the German-American Bunds and the Nazis prior to the war went right on... denying that they ever had.
"That guy in the picture? That's not me. That's my identical but evil twin brother Skippy."
Millions? do you work at being stupid or does it come naturally?
Millions? Can you provide evidence that there were millions?
Lindbergh had it right. America First. We should have stayed out of that immoral, unnecessary "world war" over a simple border dispute in Poland. Always remember: Churchill and France declared war ON Germany. Not the other way around.
Some were put in camps similar to the Japanese-Americans. Many were not rounded up and were spying for Germany. It is well known that the Germans had information about air corps crews sent to them from American newspapers.
A publication date of 1942 seems a tad early considering how the introductory voiceover mentions combat in Italy and the African Theater?
It is a documentary produced over 80 years ago - deal with it
The 'Why We Fight' series started with #1 in 1942. This is #7, produced in 1945.
Notice back then how well congress listen to the people unlike now
It was a hard sell to repeal the arms embargo.
Mydad was a radarman S/2 on the u.s.s. john d. henley in the pacific. He seen a lot of action.
i remember the way our American History teacher explained compitualation to Hitler "Alright, we'll let you have that land,but no more"...He said it was like telling a kid who keeps raiding the cookie jar no matter how many times you warn them,and telling them "I'll let you have that cookie,but if you try to get another, there's gonna be trouble",and the nations just kept letting Hitler steal cookies,and never saw consequences.
Did they teach you about the Native American people and their cookies ?
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Good one.
Amazing vídeo 👍
3:07 Of course, with that shot of the Normandy landings, this movie is post-1944 at least, not 1942
Ya I was going to say that . . .
saw the same thing....that is famous and the only surviving video of the initial landings...so is this a history reflection type of flick post war? @@worldoftone
Notice the mention of television at 12:32. Television had been in development as early as the 1920s, but the medium was in its infancy. Few (if any) places had televisions in the early 1940s in any city. The Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers played the first televised baseball game in 1939, and television's widespread use was delayed by WWII.
@@docadams7099 Television broadcasting in the US (NTSC standard) officially began on July 1, 1941. If you'd been rich enough to buy a TV set that day (and keep it repaired) (and lived in a big city with a TV station), you could have watched your local TV broadcasts on it until around 2009. Unfortunately, by the end of 1941, manufacture of broadcast equipment and receivers was among the first things suspended "for the duration."
The date mentioned in the title is incorrect. This part of "why we fight" was only filmed in 1944, and released in 1945. 1942 is the date when the *first* part of the series was produced (there has been seven "why we fight" movies made, this one being the last of the seven.)
We will never have that history again in à way I am glad my years are over I feel that the USA WILL NEVER HAVE THAT PATRIOTIC FEELING AGAIN
Hmmm, within the first three minutes we see a little footage of soldiers crossing a beach, some fall. Previously I have seen this scene as depicting Omaha Beach, June 6,1944. This presentation, "War Comes to America" is identified by TH-cam as 1942.
Icarus it is showing how we got drawn in the war which was in 1942, Invasion of Normandy was in 1944
Yeah this was produced probably in 1944 and 1945, and released June 1945.
Specifically June 14, 1945.
The War had ended in Europe when this was released.
And the War in the Pacific would end what was effectively 6 to 7 weeks later (Officially on Sept. 9).
Capra, like most, did not know about what was about to happen on August 6 & 9, and thus suspected that the War in the Pacific would stretch well into 1946 with the Invasion of the Japanese Home Islands, and the Continuation of the War in SE Asia and China, where the Japanese were doing QUITE WELL.
In fact, most of the Japanese in Asia were stunned by the Surrender, as they were largely unaware of what was happening in the Pacific with the Americans and Allies, and in Asia many of the Japanese Generals were still “Winning” in the War in their respective areas.
The Japanese control of Information about the status of the War in the Pacific had many Japanese oblivious to how great was the magnitude of their defeat until B-29s began Bombing Japan in Nov 44 and 1945 (The Allies had tried Staging B-29s through Bases controlled by the Chinese Nationalists in China beginning in June of 1944, but these raids were largely a waste of resources, and only contributed to the Japanese believing they were still “Winning” the War).
The 1942 Date is probably used because the Series itself (Why We Fight) began production just prior to Pearl Harbor, with the Formation of the “1st Film Unit” of the US Army, which prompted the Military as a whole to establish Film and Archival Groups/Commands as a means to document what was already a “War” in the Atlantic that the USA was fighting in everything but Name against German U-Boats.
This is said by Samuel Morrison in “The History of the US Navy in WWII” to be what was called “Just Short of War” period.
But from Sept of 1940, with the “Destroyers for Bases” program, and Dec. of 1940’s “Lend-Lease” program beginning, the US entered a period of “Just Short-of-War” that escalated to being actual War, if not in name, in Mid-1941 to October of 1941, with several conflicts with U-Boats resulting in the sinking or damage of US Destroyers such as the Rueben James, or the Kearny.
It is a documentary produced over 80 years ago - deal with it
@@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid These 1940 actions of course violated neutrality. The other side is then perfectly legal by the rules of war to fire on you.
I wonder if draftee #158 has a story, a book, a movie, KIA, wounded, or not ?
There were many "draftees 158."
1:00
the exact second they stopped that in schools, they lost their freedom.
BritishGamingNerd BGN "we will force them into freedom! We will indoctrinate their children into liberty!"
Faktum Stream1Beatz The freedom to have to be forced to pledge your allegiance to the government. Freedom is truly dead in America.
No Chaz it is not. When they stopped they lost their freedom, now Chaz I say again you are free to go live in England.
Freedom in America is dead nowadays
sam brownski idiot.
how accurate is this film ?
It is mostly truthful, but it lies by omission. I notice most Allied propaganda preferred this method of lying. The Axis propaganda, on the contrary, usually outright fabricates things.
Lying by omission is, of course, the best wy of lying, hence why Allied propaganda is usually better than Axis propaganda.
Very accurate; almost pure history
@@harlandfriendofgod6108 aaaa😅
I lived this film,I'm sitting here with a rationing book from the forties bro joe,pilgrim, sojourner ,amen.
not a single word is true
First saw this on Turner Classic Movies, on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Would that our children were taught these things. The youth of today wouldn't understand Civic Virtue if it came up and bit them on the ass.
All By Design. That's one of the top reasons why the DNC has lost over 1,000 elected office seats just in the last 6 years and nearly 1,400 in the last 10 !
Ah, yes, someone who still used that remnant of the subjunctive in English--"Would that..."
Shot down over Japan, episode two where is it?
2/3 of the world's car's were owned by American's in 1942, amazing!
Ford loved Hitler.vs/ Stalin.
Thanks.
Im so proud of my family from Ireland an Cecily. Worked our asses off and great thanks to my ancestors
1942???
Not with Omaha Beach film (1944).
Sicily... Bud?
Saw part if a film made by this same division in which they show a Black Pastor reading a section of Mein Kampf to the congregation.
Does anyone know the name of that film?
‘God Save the King’ playing around 6:45 while the voice over talks about having no nobles, no parasites. Nicely done.
Same tune, different lyrics, written by an American for Americans.
Great catch, LOL
@@AnnaWessonEttersYeah,but we ripped off the melody
@@allenra530 would still be a copyright lawsuit for the music ha ha
American lyrics "My country tis of thee......let freedom ring"
“The greatest good for the greatest number”.
What a concept.
Not anymore 😢🇺🇸
It's called Utilitarianism. Some say it's the ethics of expediency as opposed to principles though the statement itself is a principle.
Notice how patriotic everyone was; to be a coward or a traitor should be a serious punishable heinous crime!
every single insurrectionist on 1/6 needs to be doing 20 minimum. all of them. make an example out of them that you don't turn on your own country that has blessed you this much.
No because that would go against freedom of speech.
We were the Arsenal of Democracy. Smashing fascism was very popular.
Punishing people for speaking out against the government was literally what Hitler did. Being able to speak out against the government is what separates us from the fascists and dictators.
oaa? ... mexicans, liberians, jews?
Look at the men riding that generator at 10:54.
A distant time reflecting over today´s events...
Excellent
The title entry needs to be corrected. "Why We Fight:War comes to America" was produced and released in 1945, not 1942.
Definitely not 1942. There is film from D Day June 1944.
Thank you 🤩🤩💖
The best government propaganda films ever made are from the WW2 era, whether Axis or Allied nations.
Especially since they weren't lying nearly as much as I would have expected. The presentation was very biased, but the facts mentioned pretty truthful (at least allies/Germans. Don't know about Soviets)
How can this be from 1942 if there are shots of D day in it?
I had never seen the clip of Hitler and his followers laughing out loud at our request not to attack a list of independent countries. I hope we are never in that situation again where any government would laugh at our ability.
Take a look at Putin. Totally a parallel to Hitler..
Russia can laugh its @ass off at US "ability".😂
Post-war US terror regime attacked more countries than Germany did in WW II. So, the US request was laughable, a posteriori.🤣
He wasn't laughing at the USA's ability. If you listen to the rest of the speech elsewhere, you'll see that he mocks Roosevelt for suspecting that Germany would want to attack all those listed countries, presenting these suspicions as totally preposterous and ridiculous, especially given the length of the list.
I have a question, please? At the end of the video, 58:56 they explain out a timeline where the Japanese are bombing Pearl Harbor at 1320 hours on December 7th while the Japanese ambassador/envoy are enroute to the state department? That's.....not what happened at all?
No, it's what actually happened. The declaration of war was supposed to be delivered just minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the Japanese embassy had troubles decrypting the message to be delivered received from Tokyo, and as a result the ambassador was late, declaring war only after the attack had already started.
The oratory and music reminded me of Saint Patrick's Church on Christmas Day. The United States has been both good and evil, and in this conflict the United States was the preponderance of good.
I saw the famous Omaha Beach footage from 1944. How was this done in 1942?
It wasn't. It was done in 1944 and released in 1945. But it's part of a series, and the first one was released in 1942.
If, as the Constitution says Liberty and Justice for all, why did the U.S have the institution of slavery? Pretty hypocritical if you ask me.😡
Don't you mean to say, "Thank God America abolished it"? Well, all except for Human Trafficking on the Border, Slavery in north Afrika, and liberal run businesses exploiting "forced labor" overseas.
Because they were earning loads of cash from it.
The whole world had slavery at the time, going back to Moses and earlier. The white world was the first on the planet to END it. It still goes on at the Biden-Human-Trafficking Cartel Border, in Africa, and in Islamic countries.
The canteen is still available.
I notice the arm salute to the Pledge had by now been changed. It used to look like the gesture adopted by the Nazis.
True. There is an old Hopalong Cassidy movie where at the end they are saying the Pledge and they do show them giving the Nazi style salute (or the Bellamy salute as it was known) but there have been other versions of the salute as well. This was changed however in 1942 after Congress said it to closely resembled the Nazi salute.
@@Casper1tfg Adolph copied it from his 'bestie', Benito.
Interesting, "We are not fighting just for a country but an idea." So, since that idea has been systematically destroyed since WWII, what do we fight for now? Nothing?
Looking attoday... Seems we've lost the dream somewhat ! Or are we in a corrupt nightmare ? Perhaps we will wake up... i pray !
whats the song they used at 32:49?
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord"
Notice what was missing from the pledge of allegiance at the 1:00 mark? They didn’t leave it out because they were “woke”. This version was the original version, without god.
@@Kelsmith2 obviously you never said the "Pledge of Alliance" at School, or you're not from or not an American.
No further reply needed.
@@jgonzalez101 whatever you need to tell yourself to make yourself feel better, go for it 😂
Funny thing is, if you look at history, this is provably true. And every country that turns its back on God, always reaps the consequences, and it looks as though America is the country which has embraced secular socialism now, and soon enough, we will be another memory like Rome, TRUMP 2024, lets try and save America, its worth saving, even still.
After the opening song title, I was expecting either Stooper Duck or Bugs Bunny to enter the scene
Is the pledge of allegiance even still said in classrooms? Or did a few Karens get offended by it?
I remember saying the pledge of allegiance in school in the early 1960s. Saying the pledge of Allegiance ended when Jehovah Witness students refused, saying they pledge to Jehovah, not America. The courts ruled in their favor. Saying the pledge of allegiance in school ended after that.
@@jackpinesavage1628 It absolutely didn't end. It only couldn't be made mandatory. Which is perfectly normal. Since when forcing people (especially children) to make a promise is a good thing? Would you find tolerable that a school makes mandatory for your children to solemnly promise something you disapprove of?
Talk about editing! 1:04... Under God!
How much more was cut out?
Under God was not added to the Pledge of Allegiance until the 1950s. Relax with the hysteria. Nothing was cut out.
@@upulor744 Under dog (god inverted)
The line, _under God_, was not adopted to the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. until 1954.
The motto 'In God We Trust' did not appear on U.S. currency (banknotes) until 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections.
Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73.
Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
@@upulor744 1954.
I notice the children left out “Under God” in their pledge of allegiance.
No, They were not in the pledge in 1942, The last change in language came on Flag Day 1954, when Congress passed a law which added the words “under God” after “one nation.”
I noticed this as well! 😢
“Under God” was never in the original pledge of allegiance. We should revert to the original version as the founding fathers intended. 😊
The line, _under God_, was not adopted to the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. until 1954.
The motto 'In God We Trust' did not appear on U.S. currency (banknotes) until 1957, against Eisenhower's initial objections.
Its first appearance on U.S. coinage was the Two Cent Bronze of 1864-73.
Though it was added to most (but not all) U.S. coinage from 1866 onward (including the Five Cent 'Nickel' of 1866-83), 'In God We Trust' does not appear anywhere on the popular 'Buffalo (bison) Nickel' of 1913 -38.
Taking land from the indigenous people and forcing them onto reservations wasn’t covered in We the People.
Stop European genocide 2023❤
Not 1942, 1944 their is footage from D-Day in there.
Kinda skipped over that dustup called the civil war.
This was a presentation of world history - not national history.
Gotta love how he says that the depression, after a false prosperity, is "needless." This is like saying that a drug addict's withdrawals are needless. That he's just depressed. That the problem is that he's not happy while he detoxes. Even though all that unhappiness is completely necessary. It's totally not needless. It's totally not the problem. It's totally the cure.
Did anyone catch that "under God" wasn't in The Pledge Of Allegiance To The United States in beginning of this film? Under God wasn't added in until 1954, and it should've never been added, especially since we claim to be a nation whose Constitution grants us the freedom of or from religion! Today in 2022 we have over zealous conservatives trying to force their religious beliefs on the masses, as well as wanting Christianity back in our public schools and in our state and federal governments.
The claim that the U.S. is and has always been a Christian nation are simply false, because in his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association Thomas Jefferson said, “I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”
-The First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
There’s no “legal age” you have to reach to exercise your First Amendment freedoms. They are guaranteed to you the day you’re born. There’s also no citizenship requirement for First Amendment protection. If you’re in the U.S., you have freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.
Posting the Ten Commandments in a school is not going to hurt you. It doesn't mean you have to "get saved" and baptized just by looking at it. It is a valuable historical, ancient code.
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Having the Ten Commandments posted in U.S. public schools is a clear violation of the U.S. Constitution and the 1st Amendment; Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof and etc. The Ten Commandments may be valuable historical history to you as a Christian or a Jew, but it's not ancient code for Muslims, Hindus, Atheists and etc. Which means then it's forced religious indoctrination and it violates the 1st Amendment's establishment clause. When it comes to something as personal as religion, then parents should be deciding what religious materials their child/ren should learn, not state legislatures!
The Ten Commandments may be a sacred text in the "Jewish and Christian" faiths, but no legislative recitation of a supposed secular purpose should blind any American to that fact that in our country, freedom of and from religion, it is a foundational pillar of our rights as Americans. Moreover, the Supreme Court decided in Stone v. Graham (1980), that the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools/spaces was/is clearly religious and therefore found unconstitutional.
Conservative snowflakes have nothing better to do, but try to force their minority beliefs on all Americans and try to whitewash and/or rewrite American history! For example, the 400 years of atrocities their ancestors committed against Black African people-people who were violently taken against their will from their homelands, and forcibly sold into generational slavery for American profits. I don't know, but it sure appears conservatives are trying to sell their delusional constituents a mixture of authoritarian rule and 1950-ish style patriarchal Christian theocracy that can never happen. It unbelievable that conservatives think, lies deception, fascism and etc. is how Americans are going to give them back the presidency? 😂
@@kryptonarie6367 How utterly ignorant. I am NOT either a Christian or a Jew. YOU are a DUMBASS who ASSumes a lot. The Africans were captured and sold by OTHER AFRICANS who had nothing else to sell. DUMBASS.
@@davidb2206My money is on you throwing a hissy fit if Muslim scripture was shoved in your face.
And you democrats are literally watching Biden and co BRINGING IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM, and you dont even see it! Thats the thing about Christians, they DONT force their views on you. I have never met a climate change nut that didnt think if you didnt agree you were evil, or should be jailed. The hivemind is on the LEFT, freedom OF or FROM religion, and INDIVIDUAL freedom, IS ON THE RIGHT, with us "stupid conservatives"@@kryptonarie6367
Look how crafty they opened beer cans...eco friendly tin cans.
I look at the country now in November 2022 😢😢
I loved this propaganda it made me proud at one time in my teens. Now 70 need I say more.