Currently away from home for 4 months and these videos keep me going. So much effort and little praise. Keep up the great work - confident this channel will rocket.
Chinese viewer here showing respect ! We learn about the Sino-Japenese War and WWII in our cirriculum. Manchukuo was never reconized as a country and I'm always emotional when I learn about the History. This is the power of World History
Stoked to find your channel. Very glad you have linked channels as well. When I find a gem like you have created it is always great to see that you are not hesitant to put other names along side yours to promote similar content. Great video you made here. Happy to know I can start digging deeper into your content and learning/enhancing our understanding/respect for this hard fought lesson learned from Human history.
Well.....this is actually plagiarism.......unless it's the same kid using the exact same script 6 years later on another WWII documentary, I wouldn't praise him for his "work".... Here is the original script and video - m.ruclips.net/video/SPMBwSH3e58/видео.html
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! I am a history professor and SO HAPPY I have found your videos. I have watched the Cold War one about 10 times now. I like to do my own lecture videos for online classes, but these videos are a nice break from my voice for the students. Is there anyway to request a shorter version of your WWII video and cut it down from 2 hours to 1 hour for students? The hour mark seems to be doable for students. :)
Such an excellently researched and presented documentary as an brief of WW2 for those who need an overview of the events. Thank you for this and for the very clear narration. 👍👍❤❤
thumbs up to the best visual an audible description of WWII. great job! I wish I had this video when I was teaching! an I always wondered why historians took 1939 as start of war instead of 1931. thanks for sharing that view of wars start.
Its often overlooked that Russia was getting 2/3 of its supplies from the US in it's defense against Germany's invasion. I don't mean to toot our horn, but we kept the two main countries left fighting Germany alive until we could actually get there to help them - and we did this while fighting a war on two fronts ourselves, after having half our Pacific fleet sunk, having to cross the two largest oceans in the world to get to both fights, starting with a military that was pathetic compared to our enemies', and doing it all with 1940's technology. We didn't start the war. We didn't ask to be the world police. We had to suffer a major attack to get involved - I guess we just decided if you're gonna F around with us, you're gonna find out. It's a shame that that America no longer exists.
I think America is getting back on track now, with the help to Ukraine, nobody is asking for you to fight now, you'd be helping them enough with just the means to defend themselves from a 2nd Hitler now.
That is not actually true. Many consider the turning point of WW2 to be around the battle of Stalingrad as it was then Germany had reached its limits and most of its army was destroyed. Which means the turning point of WW2 was around the start of 1942, which also means that the Germans broke their back in 1941. Lend-Lease had only been in effect since the 11 March 1941. During the first years the US didn't actually provide much of anything to the USSR. The US didn't enter the war until 7 December of 1941. Within 1941 the UK provided more Lend-Lease to the USSR than the US did. And the UK was blockaded, stripped of resources and was constantly bombed. It is objectively false to say it was US lend-lease that brought the downfall of the Germans in Russia. What brought the Germans to fall was their own inability to fight the enemy. Secure fuel sources, for it does not matter how many tanks you have if they can't get to the battle. And their horrible logistics. Germany was a sprinter, not a marathon runner and WW2 had become a marathon with the inability to defeat the UK, bringing in the US into the war, the failure of the Italian Navy, the failure of their own navy and the failure of the Japanese navy following Midway. You people should stop thinking the US is what secured victory at every front. That is just stupid. The USSR can win by themselves since a loss should have meant the eradication of their whole people, and they knew this. By the time the US really got involved in WW2, the war had already been starting to shift for the Allies.
@@Cloud_Seeker - Nikolai Ryzhkov, the last head of the government of the Soviet Union, wrote in 2015 that "it can be confidently stated that [Lend-Lease assistance] did not play a decisive role in the Great Victory." Such assessments, however, are contradicted by the opinions of Soviet war participants. Most famously, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war." Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion. "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." www.google.com/amp/s/www.rferl.org/amp/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html
@@Cloud_Seeker - Here's a list of goods the US sent to just t Soviets. 400,000 jeeps & trucks 14,000 airplanes 8,000 tractors 13,000 tanks 1.5 million blankets 15 million pairs of army boots 107,000 tons of cotton 2.7 million tons of petrol products 4.5 million tons of food Who else could have done Anything like that at all? Let alone doing it while also sending massive aid to Britain, fighting the Germans in Africa (which cut off another source of natural resources to Germany, also aiding the Russians), using thousands of planes to drop millions of bombs on German cities and infrastructure almost daily, fighting the Japs in the Pacific and aiding the Chinese?
@@SamM-gl9zc First of. I do not care a single thing about what a man have to say when he was 12 by the time war broke out. Was he in command at the time? Did he lead the troops? Did he plan the assaults? Was he a general or in charge of the logistics and economy of the country? No he wasn't. He was 12 years old in 1941. He can only go with what others have told him since he was not actually taking part in WW2 in any other role than being a civilian. It is a false authority to even bring him up here. Being the last leader of the Soviet Union does not make you an authority on how the war was conducted. Second. Ofc a Russian is going to say lend-lease decisive role. They have no actual reason to tell the truth as it doesn't benefit them. However we should consider if it is actually true. Because both statements can be true at the same time. Lend-Lease might have not have played a decisive role in turning the war in the Allies favor, and it might not even played a decisive role in the victory. But it can also be true at the same time that Lend-Lease had a massive impact in how fast it was won and what cost the victory was achieved. If it played a decisive role that means victory should not have been possible without it. However we know that the war had already turned by the point the USA really started to ship things to the USSR. This means that both statements are true. Lend-lease was not a decisive reason the war was won. However Lend-Lease can also have played a vital role in the victory for the simple fact it speed up the victory which resulted in less people dying as a result. "Such assessments, however, are contradicted by the opinions of Soviet war participants. Most famously, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program" - Not actually a contradiction as you seem to think. As I explained before. If Haiti is hit by a hurricane that kill and destroy a lot of things, just because the US sends emergency aid in forms of food and medical supplies to Haiti does not mean that the disaster was saved because the US aid. It is just arrogance to think that. Just because Stalin is grateful for the US helping the USSR does not mean the aid itself was the decisive factor. There is no actual contradiction here. If your house is destroyed and I give you a sleeping bag, a tent and food you are grateful as well. Doesn't mean I can claim responsibility over that you rebuilt your home later however. "Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."" - Trusting the words of a serial liar that understood more then well how to play the political game. Come on dude. Ofc Stalin is going to say that while he is currently fighting a war with the US. It should be insane to think he shouldn't say that. Do you actually think politicians, and authoritarian mass murderers like stalin, wouldn't lie? Oh Sweet summer child. I want to give you a qoute from someone else who also was a great leader during that time. *"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons" - Winston Churchill* It was not about standing on principles back then. Come on buy. Stop being naïve. They were already scheming behind their backs. "Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion" - Don't care about the opinions of a man who was never part of the war other than being a civilian. Fact is. When the Nazis where being pushed back in the Soviet Union because they had exhausted themselves, the US had at that point given less in lend-lease than the UK had done. This means it wasn't a decisive factor in turning the tide. Fact is that the Nazis might have just lost the war all by themselves. The US can simply not have been the ultimate winner. You should really check your own arrogance if you think that it was only the US innervation that won the war.
I honestly don't think these documentaries put enough emphasis on what happened to Germany after WW1. To understand why WW2 actually happened you have to start there.
The purpose of the Maginot line was to divert German armies into the Low Countries where they could be met with mobile/mechanized French divisions. The real crippling blow was the German attack through the Ardennes which was not expected.
This is true, but even if the Germans hadn't gone through the Ardennes with an eventual pinsir movement, they would have broken through. France and Britain were trying to fight back with WW1 style trenches, and the tanks went right through them. With the backing of the luftwaffe, they were unstoppable. Had the French prepared for war earlier than they did, maybe history would have been different. The world thought there was no way Germany would do what they did. Most countries at that time were still suffering from the first world War. It still amazes me that all the warning signs were there, but the leaders of France and Great Britain thought there was no way another war would happen.
@@user-rw4xi8sm8h I think France did start to worry about Germany in the early thirties but there was little they could do. Britain had given up on enforcing many of the terms of the Versailles treaty which essentially isolated France and they were still reeling from the effects of wwI as you say.
When Germany attacked France at the start of The Great War, they came via Belgium into France. So why was it surprising that Germany invaded France by way of Belgium a second time?
@@alexisaacntobo2130 thankfully it never would have come to that anyway because Japan was prepared to surrender after the fall of Manchuria to the Russians.
Japans surrender is more complicated than "US dropped two atomic bombs.". The USSR had invaded Manchuria, and the Japanese had no desire to fight the USSR.
Not only did they surrender six days after the second bomb but they knew the US would treat them more humanly then the Soviets cause the country wouldn't be what it is today.
The three Stalin-lovers; Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman were themselves war criminals. The Soviet Union should have been kept out of Europe, Korea, South Sakhalin and Kuril Islands (containment).
The war was not started by Fascism or any other ism; it was caused by weakness in the face of aggression. While the Germans were nationalist, so were the forces that opposed them.
Germany didn’t lose the First World War it was armistice with unfavorable terms for Germany with harsh reparations but it was not a loss. That is why German citizens resented the rest of Europe for how they where treated.
I had a neighbor who was born in 1923 who passed last year, and I can't believe I didn't ask her to tell stories of what life was like back then. She would've been a teenager when all this went down.
There won't be any nuclear war anytime soon. So relax and while you're at it look into more than just an hour long video as to what it took to start a world war. Japan sunk a destroyer off the coast of China well before pearl harbor, U-boats had skirmishes with American shipping. Global depression and more
60 countries participated in the war, and 70 million people died during it. Among its most prominent stages was the invasion of Paris in the summer of 1940, and the start of the attack on the Soviet Union a year later. World War II began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland on September 1, 1939
"Letztlich wurden ZWEI WELTKRIEGE GEFÜHRT, um eine dominante Rolle Deutschlands zu verhindern" Hochgradfreimaurer und Bilderberger Henry Kissinger in "Welt am Sonntag" vom 23 Oktober 1994 /Initiator des Vietnamkrieges und MAO-Befürworter (Roter Terror) sowie Einflussnehmer der korrupten WHO (IMPFKRIEG :Alle Fakten von Dr. Barbara Kahler)
IMO the Second World War began well before the invasion of Poland. It was Japan’s prior invasion of China that should be seen as the beginning of WWII. Poland was the last straw as the Wehrmacht had already attacked Czechoslovakia and had annexed Austria.
because its not is history books and are afraid to speak it. US with west supported mussolini and nazism because they were afraid of Bolsheviks, they wanted to use nazis against Soviets, but Hitler had other plans
Lesen Sie dazu die hochbrisante George Friedman STRATFOR Rede 2015 (Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2015) dann wissen sie, WER für die zwei Weltkriege und den Kalten Krieg verantwortlich war.
Greetings from Mexico, I love what I am seeing on your profile. And i apologize for jumping into your comment in such a way. I'm really looking forward to get to know you better. If you're comfortable with it, I'd love to talk somewhere outside the RUclips comment section. and get to know each other a bit more intimately. What do you think?
Can you tone down the background music a bit? It really gets in the way of your dialogue. That's one fault I also find on other channels with the WWII documentaries. Other than that, good video.
You really should focus on accuracy if you’re going to produce documentaries. You got the equivalent TNT ratio wrong. Mispronounced Mussolini. And those 2 within the first 5 mins….
Pada akhirnya manusia akan lari sejauh-jauhnya ketika dihadapkan dengan kebenaran. Manusia yang menyampaikan kebenaran akan terasingkan sejauh-jauhnya. Sisanya hanya manusia yang berkelompok seperti lalat mengerumuni bangkai kebathilan yang sangat mereka sukai. Hingga suatu hari, bangkai itu meracuni mereka dan manusia yang pernah menyampaikan kebenaran telah lama mati dan sudah bahagia di sisi Tuhan.
36:56 -Wait , What - A Force of 2 Divisions of British Troops advanced 500 Miles in 2 months, Destroyed 10, TEN ! Divisions of Italian troops and took 130,000 Prisoners, AND captured a 1000 tanks and artillery pieces. Why are we not told these stories. That's a film right there.
The Italian troops were not worth a good damn! Hearts weren't into it, weren't well-trained, would not stand and fight without the Wehrmacht standing behind them. They were good against the African countries - riding horses and throwing spears!
Brave to attempt a two hour summary of this multi year, multi theatre and multi faceted war, with its multiplicity of prior analysts BUT for me there was plenty of added value...like the concise ultra-nationalism reasoning🤔, the Lancastrian story😖 and the Time magazine faux pas 😂 to name but three examples. Thanks. 👍
12:28 Was the Sudetenland ever part of Germany? I believe it was historic Czech territory, it just had large German minorities, and therefore Hitler used this as justification to seize the territory, as he was "protecting" the Germans in the territory from discrimination. Someone please correct me if I am wrong!
I literally just checked and the words and the structure and phrasing are exactly the same. The entire introduction is nearly word for word and even other sections are pretty much the same. I made a comment on it because ive watched the one from top5s several times over the past few years.
Hitler also mentioned that the English were such high class people and that he didn't want war with them. He reached out to Churchill numerous times and was ignored.
Roosevelt kept pushing on Britain(France & Poland). Danzig should have been returned to Germany - Roosevelt turned it down. Roosevelt received the full content of the Secret Protocol (a division of Eastern Europe) from Herwarth von Bittenfeld in Moscow (a German diplomat/informant), but Roosevelt never informed Poland before it was invaded. Roosevelt wanted war.
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. Many participants threw their economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind this total war, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and the delivery of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in history, resulting in an estimated 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, massacres, and disease. In the wake of the Axis defeat, Germany and Japan were occupied, and war crimes tribunals were conducted against German and Japanese leaders. The causes of World War II are debated, but contributing factors included the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Soviet-Japanese border conflicts, the rise of fascism in Europe, and European tensions in the aftermath of World War I. World War II is generally considered to have begun on 1 September 1939, when Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland. The United Kingdom and France subsequently declared war on Germany on 3 September. Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union had partitioned Poland and marked out their "spheres of influence" across Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, in a military alliance with Italy, Japan and other countries called the Axis. Following the onset of campaigns in North Africa and East Africa, and the fall of France in mid-1940, the war continued primarily between the European Axis powers and the British Empire, with war in the Balkans, the aerial Battle of Britain, the Blitz of the United Kingdom, and the Battle of the Atlantic. On 22 June 1941, Germany led the European Axis powers in an invasion of the Soviet Union, opening the Eastern Front, the largest land theatre of war in history. Japan, which aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific, was at war with the Republic of China by 1937. In December 1941, Japan attacked American and British territories with near-simultaneous offensives against Southeast Asia and the Central Pacific, including an attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor which resulted in the United States and United Kingdom declaring war against Japan. The European Axis powers declared war on the United States in solidarity. Japan soon captured much of the western Pacific, but its advances were halted in 1942 after losing the critical Battle of Midway; later, Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. Key setbacks in 1943-including a series of German defeats on the Eastern Front, the Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland, and Allied offensives in the Pacific-cost the Axis powers their initiative and forced them into strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained its territorial losses and pushed Germany and its allies back. During 1944 and 1945, Japan suffered reversals in mainland Asia, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy and captured key western Pacific islands. The war in Europe concluded with the liberation of German-occupied territories and the invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the Fall of Berlin to Soviet troops, Hitler's suicide, and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. Following the refusal of Japan to surrender on the terms of the Potsdam Declaration (issued 26 July 1945), the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on 6 August and Nagasaki on 9 August. Faced with an imminent invasion of the Japanese archipelago, the possibility of additional atomic bombings, and the Soviet Union's declared entry into the war against Japan on the eve of invading Manchuria, Japan announced on 10 August its intention to surrender, signing a surrender document on 2 September 1945. World War II changed the political alignment and social structure of the globe and set the foundation for the international order of the world's nations for the rest of the 20th century and into the present day. The United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts,[1] with the victorious great powers-China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States-becoming the permanent members of its Security Council. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the nearly half-century-long Cold War. In the wake of European devastation, the influence of its great powers waned, triggering the decolonisation of Africa and Asia. Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery and expansion. Political and economic integration, especially in Europe, began as an effort to forestall future hostilities, end pre-war enmities, and forge a sense of common identity.
Neither Germany nor the Soviet Union started the Second World War, but war in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Non-aggression/Secret Protocol). That war was a European war, not a world war. The Soviet Union was still at war with Japan (Nomonhan). The Non-aggression Pact gave Stalin the freedom to deal with Japan, and Germany the freedom to deal with the West. The Secret Protocol was a green light given by Stalin to Hitlers war planes - Ribbentrop refused to sign. Stalin wanted the Secret Protocol to be signed, otherwise no agreements at all. Hitler wanted agreements too- Ribbentrop signed. The Secret Protocol was a division of Eastern Europe into spheres of influence (and war).
So many aspects are stated wrong or not mentioned at all. During the invasion of Poland, France actually invaded Germany from the West. France invaded Germany first. Why is this detail never spoken of?
Spain gave Russia 73% (510 tons) of its gold reserves in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War for safekeeping. The communist rulers decided this without asking the people, Russia never returned this. And Spain had to start from scratch without the Marshall Plan. Russia owes Spain a lot of gold, and Europe tested the weapons of the Second World War in Spain before it started, don't forget this. Spain never forgets the past. Spain got ahead without Marshall Plan aid, the only country without aid. Thank you.
The seeds of WW2 were sown in a railway carriage in France at the end of WW1. The French should have been more magnanimous in victory. Not saying it was alone the cause of WW2 but it had a great part to play.
Why are Canadians never mentioned in these videos? September10th 1939 canada declared war on Germany and landed in Britain within weeks.1 million Canadians served in ww2, which was 10% of the population. The canadian armed forces were amongst the most feared in both wars. My grandfather was in Africa. landed on d day. he was at the battle of the buldge. The Canadian armed forces were amongst the first to enter both wars and hold legendary status, and unlike every country mentioned, canadian armed forces never lost a battle in either war. It was said in ww1 that if you need to get the job done, send the Canadians. Canadians change when they hear the word war.
I know a smart Canadian - Eric Margolis, (former contributing foreign editor). Neither Roosevelt nor Churchill cared to admit they had allied themselves with a greater criminal than Hitler (Stalin) to wage their "Crusade for Freedom," nor that the price of this compact with the devil was giving Eastern Europe to the Soviets. In the end, the Allies destroyed a lesser threat, Germany, and in doing so, created a greater one, the nuclear-armed Soviet Union. Remarks: Very good, but Truman and Churchill gave Eastern Europe to the Soviets (Roosevelt dead).
As much as I loved learning about the Second World War, it gave the world so many outcomes that still affect it today. Germany and Italy, for example, they gave rise to what the Republican "Party" has become today in America, Russia is…just Russia, and China is still occupied by a pure anti-democratic regime, with little to no hope of being overthrown.
Currently away from home for 4 months and these videos keep me going. So much effort and little praise. Keep up the great work - confident this channel will rocket.
England is a lost cause now. Bring Liz Truss back to power
If you’re on duty then I respect your service🤝
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Yeah, they are unsung hero's of history entertainment.
Happy to be back?
Chinese viewer here showing respect ! We learn about the Sino-Japenese War and WWII in our cirriculum. Manchukuo was never reconized as a country and I'm always emotional when I learn about the History. This is the power of World History
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Concise, clear and proper narration, great visuals and editing. Thank you
THE WAY THE NARRATOR INTRODUCED THE DOCUMENTARY IS ABOVE PAR . THE INTRODUCTION IS SPLENDID. KEÉP UP THE GOOD WORK
like 22000 stick of tnt??? lol
Stoked to find your channel. Very glad you have linked channels as well. When I find a gem like you have created it is always great to see that you are not hesitant to put other names along side yours to promote similar content.
Great video you made here. Happy to know I can start digging deeper into your content and learning/enhancing our understanding/respect for this hard fought lesson learned from Human history.
A very good narrator.
And a good audio superiority of the narration over the background music.
Very good presentation overall.
What about this video from 6 years ago that somehow has the same script? m.ruclips.net/video/SPMBwSH3e58/видео.html
Fantastic, as always. Thank you for the hard work your team does.
Well.....this is actually plagiarism.......unless it's the same kid using the exact same script 6 years later on another WWII documentary, I wouldn't praise him for his "work".... Here is the original script and video - m.ruclips.net/video/SPMBwSH3e58/видео.html
@@tyzilla358 Both Top5s and Wars Of the World are from the same group of people. 🤨
One of my most favorite videos to sleep to.
Honestly, thank you for the visuals! I appreciate this professionally made video 🤝
That was excellent, I’m looking forward to part two!!!!
follow timeless tales for part two
Wow, I learned a lot from this documentary, looking forward to see Part 2. Thank you very much!
"Welcome to Wars of The World"
Thanks, glad to be here.
It was not equal to 22,000 sticks of dynamite, it was equal to 22,000 TONS of dynamite.
Was gunna say the same thing.. glad some one else caught it
Perhaps big, 1 ton sticks
Or one 22,000 ton stick of dynamite
Yeah when there is a good documentary and they let small things but important ones slip it’s more of a let down than a so so documentary
Thank you for correcting that.
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! I am a history professor and SO HAPPY I have found your videos. I have watched the Cold War one about 10 times now. I like to do my own lecture videos for online classes, but these videos are a nice break from my voice for the students. Is there anyway to request a shorter version of your WWII video and cut it down from 2 hours to 1 hour for students? The hour mark seems to be doable for students. :)
Great video man. Keep it up.
The Nagasaki bomb was equivalent to 22 000 tons of TNT, not 22 000 sticks.
True
First time heard about units of stick
it was also equivalent to one ton of C-4 ultimate shred
@@nobeoddy1664 LMAO
Fake nukes, possibly?
An excellent and informative documentary for learners
Such an excellently researched and presented documentary as an brief of WW2 for those who need an overview of the events. Thank you for this and for the very clear narration. 👍👍❤❤
thumbs up to the best visual an audible description of WWII. great job! I wish I had this video when I was teaching! an I always wondered why historians took 1939 as start of war instead of 1931. thanks for sharing that view of wars start.
World War II was a pivotal moment in history. As General Machin, I fought bravely on the front lines, leading my soldiers with honor and courage.
You fought in world war 2?
Its often overlooked that Russia was getting 2/3 of its supplies from the US in it's defense against Germany's invasion. I don't mean to toot our horn, but we kept the two main countries left fighting Germany alive until we could actually get there to help them - and we did this while fighting a war on two fronts ourselves, after having half our Pacific fleet sunk, having to cross the two largest oceans in the world to get to both fights, starting with a military that was pathetic compared to our enemies', and doing it all with 1940's technology.
We didn't start the war. We didn't ask to be the world police. We had to suffer a major attack to get involved - I guess we just decided if you're gonna F around with us, you're gonna find out.
It's a shame that that America no longer exists.
I think America is getting back on track now, with the help to Ukraine, nobody is asking for you to fight now, you'd be helping them enough with just the means to defend themselves from a 2nd Hitler now.
That is not actually true. Many consider the turning point of WW2 to be around the battle of Stalingrad as it was then Germany had reached its limits and most of its army was destroyed. Which means the turning point of WW2 was around the start of 1942, which also means that the Germans broke their back in 1941. Lend-Lease had only been in effect since the 11 March 1941. During the first years the US didn't actually provide much of anything to the USSR. The US didn't enter the war until 7 December of 1941. Within 1941 the UK provided more Lend-Lease to the USSR than the US did. And the UK was blockaded, stripped of resources and was constantly bombed.
It is objectively false to say it was US lend-lease that brought the downfall of the Germans in Russia. What brought the Germans to fall was their own inability to fight the enemy. Secure fuel sources, for it does not matter how many tanks you have if they can't get to the battle. And their horrible logistics. Germany was a sprinter, not a marathon runner and WW2 had become a marathon with the inability to defeat the UK, bringing in the US into the war, the failure of the Italian Navy, the failure of their own navy and the failure of the Japanese navy following Midway. You people should stop thinking the US is what secured victory at every front. That is just stupid. The USSR can win by themselves since a loss should have meant the eradication of their whole people, and they knew this. By the time the US really got involved in WW2, the war had already been starting to shift for the Allies.
@@Cloud_Seeker - Nikolai Ryzhkov, the last head of the government of the Soviet Union, wrote in 2015 that "it can be confidently stated that [Lend-Lease assistance] did not play a decisive role in the Great Victory."
Such assessments, however, are contradicted by the opinions of Soviet war participants. Most famously, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
www.google.com/amp/s/www.rferl.org/amp/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html
@@Cloud_Seeker - Here's a list of goods the US sent to just t Soviets.
400,000 jeeps & trucks
14,000 airplanes
8,000 tractors
13,000 tanks
1.5 million blankets
15 million pairs of army boots
107,000 tons of cotton
2.7 million tons of petrol products
4.5 million tons of food
Who else could have done Anything like that at all? Let alone doing it while also sending massive aid to Britain, fighting the Germans in Africa (which cut off another source of natural resources to Germany, also aiding the Russians), using thousands of planes to drop millions of bombs on German cities and infrastructure almost daily, fighting the Japs in the Pacific and aiding the Chinese?
@@SamM-gl9zc First of. I do not care a single thing about what a man have to say when he was 12 by the time war broke out. Was he in command at the time? Did he lead the troops? Did he plan the assaults? Was he a general or in charge of the logistics and economy of the country? No he wasn't. He was 12 years old in 1941. He can only go with what others have told him since he was not actually taking part in WW2 in any other role than being a civilian. It is a false authority to even bring him up here. Being the last leader of the Soviet Union does not make you an authority on how the war was conducted.
Second. Ofc a Russian is going to say lend-lease decisive role. They have no actual reason to tell the truth as it doesn't benefit them. However we should consider if it is actually true. Because both statements can be true at the same time.
Lend-Lease might have not have played a decisive role in turning the war in the Allies favor, and it might not even played a decisive role in the victory.
But it can also be true at the same time that Lend-Lease had a massive impact in how fast it was won and what cost the victory was achieved. If it played a decisive role that means victory should not have been possible without it. However we know that the war had already turned by the point the USA really started to ship things to the USSR. This means that both statements are true. Lend-lease was not a decisive reason the war was won. However Lend-Lease can also have played a vital role in the victory for the simple fact it speed up the victory which resulted in less people dying as a result.
"Such assessments, however, are contradicted by the opinions of Soviet war participants. Most famously, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program"
- Not actually a contradiction as you seem to think. As I explained before. If Haiti is hit by a hurricane that kill and destroy a lot of things, just because the US sends emergency aid in forms of food and medical supplies to Haiti does not mean that the disaster was saved because the US aid. It is just arrogance to think that. Just because Stalin is grateful for the US helping the USSR does not mean the aid itself was the decisive factor. There is no actual contradiction here. If your house is destroyed and I give you a sleeping bag, a tent and food you are grateful as well. Doesn't mean I can claim responsibility over that you rebuilt your home later however.
"Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war.""
- Trusting the words of a serial liar that understood more then well how to play the political game. Come on dude. Ofc Stalin is going to say that while he is currently fighting a war with the US. It should be insane to think he shouldn't say that. Do you actually think politicians, and authoritarian mass murderers like stalin, wouldn't lie?
Oh Sweet summer child.
I want to give you a qoute from someone else who also was a great leader during that time.
*"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons" - Winston Churchill*
It was not about standing on principles back then. Come on buy. Stop being naïve. They were already scheming behind their backs.
"Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion"
- Don't care about the opinions of a man who was never part of the war other than being a civilian.
Fact is. When the Nazis where being pushed back in the Soviet Union because they had exhausted themselves, the US had at that point given less in lend-lease than the UK had done. This means it wasn't a decisive factor in turning the tide. Fact is that the Nazis might have just lost the war all by themselves. The US can simply not have been the ultimate winner. You should really check your own arrogance if you think that it was only the US innervation that won the war.
This is a great documentary, so many new details. Like the CAM boats with a single launch aircraft, genius!
What drives me crazy is that nature has created catastrophes larger than this and yet we still fight each other.
I honestly don't think these documentaries put enough emphasis on what happened to Germany after WW1. To understand why WW2 actually happened you have to start there.
No. Have to start in 1772, Europe.
This is an excellent documentary, thank you for your efforts!
The purpose of the Maginot line was to divert German armies into the Low Countries where they could be met with mobile/mechanized French divisions. The real crippling blow was the German attack through the Ardennes which was not expected.
This is true, but even if the Germans hadn't gone through the Ardennes with an eventual pinsir movement, they would have broken through. France and Britain were trying to fight back with WW1 style trenches, and the tanks went right through them. With the backing of the luftwaffe, they were unstoppable. Had the French prepared for war earlier than they did, maybe history would have been different. The world thought there was no way Germany would do what they did. Most countries at that time were still suffering from the first world War. It still amazes me that all the warning signs were there, but the leaders of France and Great Britain thought there was no way another war would happen.
@@user-rw4xi8sm8h I think France did start to worry about Germany in the early thirties but there was little they could do. Britain had given up on enforcing many of the terms of the Versailles treaty which essentially isolated France and they were still reeling from the effects of wwI as you say.
When Germany attacked France at the start of The Great War, they came via Belgium into France. So why was it surprising that Germany invaded France by way of Belgium a second time?
Your channel is so nice! Really glad i found it thank you! ❤
this deserves a sub
We miss you last week, no video 🥰.
Thanks for this one 👏
I miss last week too
Outstanding, Thank You.
Its crazy to sit and think about how we dropped 2 Nuclear Bombs on a country.
Why? And Biden is getting us close to another nuke dropped so what is your issue? Democrats love war..,
It's crazy to have people like you who didn't know what it would have cost the Americans life
@@alexisaacntobo2130 thankfully it never would have come to that anyway because Japan was prepared to surrender after the fall of Manchuria to the Russians.
isn't it equivalent to holocaust
Brilliant and liked the way u put new fact in to it 👍
I can’t wait for part 2!!
Japans surrender is more complicated than "US dropped two atomic bombs.". The USSR had invaded Manchuria, and the Japanese had no desire to fight the USSR.
Not only did they surrender six days after the second bomb but they knew the US would treat them more humanly then the Soviets cause the country wouldn't be what it is today.
The three Stalin-lovers; Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman were themselves war criminals.
The Soviet Union should have been kept out of Europe, Korea, South Sakhalin and Kuril Islands (containment).
The number of commercials render this documentary unwatchable. Pitiful that RUclips/Google try to make a profit on educational documentaries
The war was not started by Fascism or any other ism; it was caused by weakness in the face of aggression. While the Germans were nationalist, so were the forces that opposed them.
The Germans and Italians had fascist governments
Thank for the video
Germany didn’t lose the First World War it was armistice with unfavorable terms for Germany with harsh reparations but it was not a loss. That is why German citizens resented the rest of Europe for how they where treated.
Don’t you get it, wwII was all about racial superiority. /s
Can’t wait for pt 2!!
Not sure what it is about a UK English accent that makes it easier to fall asleep. I don't know how to go to bed without it.
Excellent presentation and truly educational 👍👏👌
I had a neighbor who was born in 1923 who passed last year, and I can't believe I didn't ask her to tell stories of what life was like back then. She would've been a teenager when all this went down.
In which country?
@hadjetairet572 oh American. Not European but still. Would've been interesting to get her perspective on the whole situation
" the most destructive conflict in recorded history"
The most destructive conflict in recorded history...so far.
There won't be any nuclear war anytime soon. So relax and while you're at it look into more than just an hour long video as to what it took to start a world war. Japan sunk a destroyer off the coast of China well before pearl harbor, U-boats had skirmishes with American shipping. Global depression and more
History remains behind us ....
Future history is not recorded yet...
Why do all these channels do a Part 1 but never a part 2. I really hope you break this cycle
Top5s whom had this documentary originally over 5 years ago did 2 parts.
Great documentary.. but why isn't there ever a link for part 2?????
It isn’t out yet
@@owenfranco9441 Thank you, sir!
60 countries participated in the war, and 70 million people died during it. Among its most prominent stages was the invasion of Paris in the summer of 1940, and the start of the attack on the Soviet Union a year later. World War II began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland on September 1, 1939
"Letztlich wurden ZWEI WELTKRIEGE GEFÜHRT, um eine dominante Rolle Deutschlands zu verhindern"
Hochgradfreimaurer und Bilderberger Henry Kissinger in "Welt am Sonntag" vom 23 Oktober 1994 /Initiator des Vietnamkrieges und MAO-Befürworter (Roter Terror) sowie Einflussnehmer der korrupten WHO (IMPFKRIEG :Alle Fakten von Dr. Barbara Kahler)
IMO the Second World War began well before the invasion of Poland. It was Japan’s prior invasion of China that should be seen as the beginning of WWII. Poland was the last straw as the Wehrmacht had already attacked Czechoslovakia and had annexed Austria.
Excellent documentary 🤠👍
How to describe the beginning of WW 2 in Europe.
"Hitler did something that was prohibited to do so, but the allies did nothing"
because its not is history books and are afraid to speak it.
US with west supported mussolini and nazism because they were afraid of Bolsheviks, they wanted to use nazis against Soviets, but Hitler had other plans
@@Valik-ez4cqIf hitler had not attacked USSR he would have won war
One of the best documentaries ever..excellent deliver.
Thank you for such a true history lesson….❤
Lesen Sie dazu die hochbrisante George Friedman STRATFOR Rede 2015 (Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2015) dann wissen sie, WER für die zwei Weltkriege und den Kalten Krieg verantwortlich war.
Amazing documentary 👏
Great documentary. but would of been great to hear mention of the ANZAC role in the tobruk siege. it would of played out very different without them!
What was the background music used for the introduction? It's really nice.
Excellent overview thank you
An excellent and informative documentary to watch
Greetings from Mexico, I love what I am seeing on your profile. And i apologize for jumping into your comment in such a way. I'm really looking forward to get to know you better. If you're comfortable with it, I'd love to talk somewhere outside the RUclips comment section. and get to know each other a bit more intimately. What do you think?
That's how you go with narration ❤
Tq very mu ch for your aharing❤❤❤❤
Some information not covered in other accounts, well done.
Great 👍 Video I like History 👍 😊
I love it because it’s a war war at panda is science and asked if I was your video again it’s a warm mode
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I feel this should be 3 or 4 parts
Can you tone down the background music a bit? It really gets in the way of your dialogue. That's one fault I also find on other channels with the WWII documentaries. Other than that, good video.
great video work
Great doc!
Thanks a lot
I think putting the history of ww2 in a 45 minute doc is a little bit problematic
I just watched a different doc from 5 years ago and I swear that the first few minutes is word for word the same.
ruclips.net/video/sqMmOJ0riCg/видео.html
You really should focus on accuracy if you’re going to produce documentaries. You got the equivalent TNT ratio wrong. Mispronounced Mussolini. And those 2 within the first 5 mins….
Pada akhirnya manusia akan lari sejauh-jauhnya ketika dihadapkan dengan kebenaran. Manusia yang menyampaikan kebenaran akan terasingkan sejauh-jauhnya. Sisanya hanya manusia yang berkelompok seperti lalat mengerumuni bangkai kebathilan yang sangat mereka sukai. Hingga suatu hari, bangkai itu meracuni mereka dan manusia yang pernah menyampaikan kebenaran telah lama mati dan sudah bahagia di sisi Tuhan.
Very good and helpful
I wish the story could be told from both side to see what others were thinking! We always get the allies version!
36:56 -Wait , What - A Force of 2 Divisions of British Troops advanced 500 Miles in 2 months, Destroyed 10, TEN ! Divisions of Italian troops and took 130,000 Prisoners, AND captured a 1000 tanks and artillery pieces. Why are we not told these stories. That's a film right there.
The Italian troops were not worth a good damn! Hearts weren't into it, weren't well-trained, would not stand and fight without the Wehrmacht standing behind them. They were good against the African countries - riding horses and throwing spears!
Because the Ethiopian army gave the Italian army a hard time. One of Hitler's biggest and best mistakes was going to africa to help Italy
Now if you want a real story look at the eastern front, after Moscow/Stalingrad it was over for the Germans on the eastern front.
The rats of tobruk played a huge role in the succes!
Brave to attempt a two hour summary of this multi year, multi theatre and multi faceted war, with its multiplicity of prior analysts BUT for me there was plenty of added value...like the concise ultra-nationalism reasoning🤔, the Lancastrian story😖 and the Time magazine faux pas 😂 to name but three examples. Thanks. 👍
Where can we watch PART 2?
18th November.
No phones, just people living in the present moment.
Take me back
The sirens on the stuka were located in the undercarage housing not the wings
WW2 is endlessly fascinating. Horrifying, but fascinating.
I feel bad for soldiers after the world has changed 🙁
Why?
@@TizzyTox because it turned out they were fighting the wrong enemy
much love and appreciation for effort from nairobi. What woulda happen if gernany didnt fall?
No nuclear-armed Soviet Union.
In the end, the Allies destroyed a lesser threat, Germany, and in doing so, created a greater one.
That's equil to 22000 TONS of tnt not sticks, big difference.
For that matter, does TNT come in sticks, like dynamite?
@@l8tbraker yes but 1 stick does not weigh 1 ton
22000 tons of sticks could probably take out the entirety of Nazi Germany.
Are people daft here?!! It says episode 1...which means theirs more than one part. It literally said a 2 part series too. 🤷♂️
12:28 Was the Sudetenland ever part of Germany? I believe it was historic Czech territory, it just had large German minorities, and therefore Hitler used this as justification to seize the territory, as he was "protecting" the Germans in the territory from discrimination. Someone please correct me if I am wrong!
Good Guy Hitler, protecting people from discrimination
I would like the narrator to take his time when narrating.
The commentary sounds almost identical to the channel Top5s WWII documentary
I literally just checked and the words and the structure and phrasing are exactly the same. The entire introduction is nearly word for word and even other sections are pretty much the same. I made a comment on it because ive watched the one from top5s several times over the past few years.
Literally
Thanks very much - where is Part 2???
Hitler also mentioned that the English were such high class people and that he didn't want war with them. He reached out to Churchill numerous times and was ignored.
Roosevelt kept pushing on Britain(France & Poland).
Danzig should have been returned to Germany - Roosevelt turned it down.
Roosevelt received the full content of the Secret Protocol (a division of Eastern Europe)
from Herwarth von Bittenfeld in Moscow (a German diplomat/informant), but Roosevelt never informed
Poland before it was invaded. Roosevelt wanted war.
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. Many participants threw their economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind this total war, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and the delivery of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in history, resulting in an estimated 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, massacres, and disease. In the wake of the Axis defeat, Germany and Japan were occupied, and war crimes tribunals were conducted against German and Japanese leaders.
The causes of World War II are debated, but contributing factors included the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, Soviet-Japanese border conflicts, the rise of fascism in Europe, and European tensions in the aftermath of World War I. World War II is generally considered to have begun on 1 September 1939, when Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland. The United Kingdom and France subsequently declared war on Germany on 3 September. Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union had partitioned Poland and marked out their "spheres of influence" across Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, in a military alliance with Italy, Japan and other countries called the Axis. Following the onset of campaigns in North Africa and East Africa, and the fall of France in mid-1940, the war continued primarily between the European Axis powers and the British Empire, with war in the Balkans, the aerial Battle of Britain, the Blitz of the United Kingdom, and the Battle of the Atlantic. On 22 June 1941, Germany led the European Axis powers in an invasion of the Soviet Union, opening the Eastern Front, the largest land theatre of war in history.
Japan, which aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific, was at war with the Republic of China by 1937. In December 1941, Japan attacked American and British territories with near-simultaneous offensives against Southeast Asia and the Central Pacific, including an attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor which resulted in the United States and United Kingdom declaring war against Japan. The European Axis powers declared war on the United States in solidarity. Japan soon captured much of the western Pacific, but its advances were halted in 1942 after losing the critical Battle of Midway; later, Germany and Italy were defeated in North Africa and at Stalingrad in the Soviet Union. Key setbacks in 1943-including a series of German defeats on the Eastern Front, the Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland, and Allied offensives in the Pacific-cost the Axis powers their initiative and forced them into strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France, while the Soviet Union regained its territorial losses and pushed Germany and its allies back. During 1944 and 1945, Japan suffered reversals in mainland Asia, while the Allies crippled the Japanese Navy and captured key western Pacific islands. The war in Europe concluded with the liberation of German-occupied territories and the invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, culminating in the Fall of Berlin to Soviet troops, Hitler's suicide, and the German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. Following the refusal of Japan to surrender on the terms of the Potsdam Declaration (issued 26 July 1945), the United States dropped the first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on 6 August and Nagasaki on 9 August. Faced with an imminent invasion of the Japanese archipelago, the possibility of additional atomic bombings, and the Soviet Union's declared entry into the war against Japan on the eve of invading Manchuria, Japan announced on 10 August its intention to surrender, signing a surrender document on 2 September 1945.
World War II changed the political alignment and social structure of the globe and set the foundation for the international order of the world's nations for the rest of the 20th century and into the present day. The United Nations was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts,[1] with the victorious great powers-China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States-becoming the permanent members of its Security Council. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the nearly half-century-long Cold War. In the wake of European devastation, the influence of its great powers waned, triggering the decolonisation of Africa and Asia. Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery and expansion. Political and economic integration, especially in Europe, began as an effort to forestall future hostilities, end pre-war enmities, and forge a sense of common identity.
What the fuc k the longest comment I ever seen
Copy pasted from wikipedia.
Meds
The Railway Carriage referred to at about 27 minutes was not the where the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
Geez, your script sounds like an exact copy of Top 5 Ww2.
Exactly
3:10 why people believed in the ideology
7:10 Mussolini
7:40 Fuher
28:38 Axis Forces
29:40 British soldiers
Neither Germany nor the Soviet Union started the Second World War, but war in accordance with
the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Non-aggression/Secret Protocol). That war was a European war, not a world war.
The Soviet Union was still at war with Japan (Nomonhan).
The Non-aggression Pact gave Stalin the freedom to deal with Japan, and Germany the freedom to deal with the West.
The Secret Protocol was a green light given by Stalin to Hitlers war planes - Ribbentrop refused to sign.
Stalin wanted the Secret Protocol to be signed, otherwise no agreements at all. Hitler wanted agreements too-
Ribbentrop signed.
The Secret Protocol was a division of Eastern Europe into spheres of influence (and war).
22000 sticks of dynamite is incorrect. 22000 TONS of dynamite.
So many aspects are stated wrong or not mentioned at all. During the invasion of Poland, France actually invaded Germany from the West. France invaded Germany first. Why is this detail never spoken of?
The Junkers 88 was equipped already with the dive siren in 1940, it was not added 'later'. (@ 22:54)
Spain gave Russia 73% (510 tons) of its gold reserves in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War for safekeeping. The communist rulers decided this without asking the people, Russia never returned this. And Spain had to start from scratch without the Marshall Plan. Russia owes Spain a lot of gold, and Europe tested the weapons of the Second World War in Spain before it started, don't forget this. Spain never forgets the past. Spain got ahead without Marshall Plan aid, the only country without aid. Thank you.
The seeds of WW2 were sown in a railway carriage in France at the end of WW1. The French should have been more magnanimous in victory. Not saying it was alone the cause of WW2 but it had a great part to play.
Why are Canadians never mentioned in these videos? September10th 1939 canada declared war on Germany and landed in Britain within weeks.1 million Canadians served in ww2, which was 10% of the population. The canadian armed forces were amongst the most feared in both wars. My grandfather was in Africa. landed on d day. he was at the battle of the buldge. The Canadian armed forces were amongst the first to enter both wars and hold legendary status, and unlike every country mentioned, canadian armed forces never lost a battle in either war. It was said in ww1 that if you need to get the job done, send the Canadians. Canadians change when they hear the word war.
Canadians are very polite and keep quit unless spoken to. Then, they are so surprised they lose all ability to speak.
I know a smart Canadian - Eric Margolis, (former contributing foreign editor).
Neither Roosevelt nor Churchill cared to admit they had allied themselves with a greater criminal than Hitler
(Stalin) to wage their "Crusade for Freedom," nor that the price of this compact with the devil was giving
Eastern Europe to the Soviets. In the end, the Allies destroyed a lesser threat, Germany, and in doing so,
created a greater one, the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.
Remarks: Very good, but Truman and Churchill gave Eastern Europe to the Soviets (Roosevelt dead).
Time magazine did not commend Hitler when making him the "Man of the year."
The Japanese were not willing to lose this battle till they were forced to.😮
When USA couldnt win war faily they nuke.
As much as I loved learning about the Second World War, it gave the world so many outcomes that still affect it today. Germany and Italy, for example, they gave rise to what the Republican "Party" has become today in America, Russia is…just Russia, and China is still occupied by a pure anti-democratic regime, with little to no hope of being overthrown.