![]() These days the history channel is, of course, devoted primarily to lumberjacks and oh-my-gosh-is-that-guy-really-going-to-shoot-an-alligator? Who knew how nostalgic we could be for documentaries about Joseph Stalin. Well I should say it used to have its own cable channel. World War II is the only historical event that has like, its own cable channel. I am of course referring to paratroopering. History and today we're going to talk about a topic so huge to history buffs that we could only discuss a tiny little fraction of it. Americans entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor: Ī call for soldiers led to an early civil rights victory, the Tuskegee Airmen: Īmerica led the invasion of Normandy that would end the war, and American troops helped to liberate surviving Jews from Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe: įollow I'm John Green. Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. John will actually talk a little about the military tactics involved, and he'll get into some of the weaponry involved, specifically the huge amount of aerial bombing that characterized the war, and the atomic bombs that ended the war in the Pacific. This week, John will teach you how the United States got into the war, and just how involved America was before Congress actually declared war. In which John Green teaches you about World War II, a subject so big, it takes up two episodes. ![]() Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. You can directly support Crash Course at Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing.
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