World War II Part 1: Crash Course US History #35

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In which John Green teaches you about World War II, a subject so big, it takes up two episodes. 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. 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.
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. Americans entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor: www.commonlit.org/texts/the-a...
A call for soldiers led to an early civil rights victory, the Tuskegee Airmen: www.commonlit.org/texts/tuske...
America led the invasion of Normandy that would end the war, and American troops helped to liberate surviving Jews from Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe: www.commonlit.org/texts/liber...
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Learn more about WWII in these other Crash Course videos:
Crash Course World History:
World War II (38): • World War II: Crash Co...
World War II, A War for Resources (220): • World War II, A War fo...
Crash Course European History:
World War II (38): • World War II: Crash Co...
World War II Civilians and Soldiers (39): • World War II Civilians...
The Holocaust, Genocides, and Mass Murder of WWII (40): • The Holocaust,Genocide...
Post-World War II Recovery (42): • Post-World War II Reco...
Crash Course Black American History:
World War II (31): • World War II: Black Am...
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Chapters:
Introduction: WWII 00:00
American Isolationism Pre-WWII 1:07
American Support for Allies in WWII 3:38
Pearl Harbor 5:03
WWII Fighting in the Pacific 5:43
WWII Fighting in Europe 6:35
Mystery Document 7:30
The End of WWII 8:38
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, & the Atomic Bomb 9:25
Credits 12:54
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@mythics102 8 лет назад

"The opportunity of studying history is the opportunity to experience empathy." (12:33) This history nerd's new favorite quote.

@paolamagana2505 8 лет назад

+Juliette Myers And today is mine too...

@MYYT0214 7 лет назад

It's a good quote and you ought to appreciate it

@benwillerth6406 6 лет назад

July Myers you’re a jerk

@pears5547 6 лет назад

+Ben Willerth uh, why do you say that?

@jazibasketxhbook 6 лет назад

July Myers OMG YESSSSSS

@BARTMAN8603 8 лет назад

My Great-grandfather told me storys about the war in russia. He was serving in the winter of 1941 in a heavy MG-squad. They were a few kilometers away from moscau when the russian winter-offensive started. So the built up their MG-38 in a church tower and kept shooting for houres. The killed dozends of young russians and the man, shooting the MG, started crying and was beggin them to stop storming forward. My great-grandfather told me this story and said: "This war did not only kill humans, it killed humanity itself."

@IWantToStayAtYourHouse 8 лет назад

War, war never changes

@aurageneral4053 8 лет назад

My great grandpa was in wwll so maybe they met

@BARTMAN8603 8 лет назад

For which army was he fighting? My Great grandfather and the brtish soilders who captures him on D-Day became really good friends

@biyowt 8 лет назад

+BARTMAN GER my great grandfather was a Filipino naval officer

@lazyboy395 8 лет назад

+BARTMAN GER Thus the origin of the saying ,"War is hell". there is no other way to put it.

@_somerandomguyontheinternet_ Год назад

“Studying history and making genuine attempts at empathy helps us to grapple with the complexity of the world not as we wish it were but as we find it.” This is why I love John Green.

@jacobcooley8052 8 лет назад

ah, i remember when the history channel was about history 1987-2004 R.I.P.

@ryanmccreedy6034 8 лет назад

+Jacob Cooley 1 LIKE = 1 PRAYER

@parkermillar9204 7 лет назад

Jacob Cooley what about the dogfight show in somewhere around 2010

@mattinator9999 6 лет назад

i remember when no one cared because thats right now

@stza16 5 лет назад

aliens

@yxGu-lj3li 4 года назад

Matthew Bisciotti ah shut heck up you know you miss those days

@DerpAndPro 8 лет назад

never thought i would be taught history by the dude who wrote the fault in our stars -_-

@zoundfeather5517 8 лет назад

did he?!?

@jordanthompson1720 8 лет назад

+Zound Feather yeah

@DerpAndPro 8 лет назад

+Zound Feather yea lol

@leo-rq2ei 8 лет назад

+DerpAndPro really!??? didn't know

@psphacker57 8 лет назад

You can't believe a best selling author is educating people? Get a grip

@user-pv1kt7qq8d 4 года назад

Imagine how much time we would save if John Green was our history teacher. He teaches in 13 minutes what our teachers teaches us in like 2 weeks. 😔🤦‍♀️

@damnation6713 4 года назад

Daamnnn, you right, mate.

@ninjafrog2716 4 года назад

That is true

@vlogsbyrow 4 года назад

It's easy to say that after your teacher taught it, try watching about a topic you don't know about.

@damnation6713 4 года назад

@@vlogsbyrow Clearly you've never seen a single Vsauce video

@kennedypeterson6074 8 лет назад

I think its hilarious that the U.S. created The League of Nations and didn't even join lol

@Pixiepie9 8 лет назад

+Kennedy Peterson Wilson created the league but congress didn't allow it to pass in the U.S. because they feared it would infringe on U.S. capabilities.

@888000777666 8 лет назад

+Kennedy Peterson That is pretty funny actually

@Jackboy019 8 лет назад

US: Ay, I got a cool idea of a club guiz. Called the league of nations. Other nations: Cool, lemme in on dis. US: K, see you next Monday. Next Monday Other nations: Yo, where were you? Had to miss the football game for this : l US: Jk, it's just a prank bro. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Other nations: (-_-)

@zaKkyBoY121 8 лет назад

omg i see similarities with league of nations and the european union except Britain joined it, and now british sovereignty no longer exists

@TheGoodChap 7 лет назад

Pretty much the same reason why the US won't ratify the Geneva convention, we want to still be allowed to use torture and we want to be able to wage war whenever with whoever without having to deal with the UN.

@goddessofpraiel5650 6 лет назад

My grandfather was a US soldier on Okinawa when the bombs were dropped. He said that he and his men were shocked and felt it was unnecessary. I never got the chance to ask him in comparison about what they felt about the bombings of Tokyo and other cities that had already happened.

@zdena9196 10 лет назад

Your message about the empathy to all people involved in conflict (and bomb dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) is something that I take from this video. We have it in our every day's life - judging and forgetting what everything is included in the decision making. And eventually the easiest solution is to hate each other.

@joshhewson7832 10 лет назад

As a history student, I was prepared to be angry at how these complex ethical issues were dealt with in such a short video. I do, however, readily tip my hat off to you Mr. Green and the Crash Course team. This was brilliant. :)

@Lisa-ol1ih 6 лет назад

I have watched countless documentaries and read articles about WWII, but this is the first I've heard of the US firebombing Tokyo. Thanks for teaching me something new, even if it is incredibly horrifying.

@momi3650 6 лет назад

I am Japanese, and I grow up in Japan for a long time, but currently I am in US. I had never learned ww2 in Japan because it is too sensitive and we did not have time to finish up so it needs to rush up. I found out my great grandfather was killed by atomic bomb in Hiroshima. He needed to be in Military because he got a letter from the government to be a solider even through he was 40. That's why he was in Hiroshima. Everywhere in my grandfather's city (it's a capital of rural province) was burned by firebombing. My grandfather took care his family without his parents since 12 yrs old. I am proud of him, and I finally understand why he disagree with the idea that sending me to us. I am so glad to hear the comment about atomic bomb, it actually makes sense. By the way, in Japan, we have learned about atomic bomb and peace since we are young. I really hope that the world can stay in peaceful. no more atomic bomb.

@nabidhassan9407 7 лет назад

"THE OPPORTUNITY OF STUDYING HISTORY IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE EMPATHY"

@fiddlerontheroof4099 4 года назад

5:19 Fun fact: the one member of Congress to vote against war with Japan was Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana, who said of her decision, "As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else".

@zexal4217 4 года назад

Idiotic considering Japan had literally attacked and declared war. I am anti-war, but there is a limit, and her logic would have meant rolling over until the world was under tyranny.

@mrmybentnickelworks 9 лет назад

Brilliant ending monologue, John! I enjoy a "love/hate" fascination with the subject of history. Thanks to you and your team for presenting a brilliant as well as entertaining series!

@blueberryboi9426 8 лет назад

Instead of going over notes, I watch these videos to study for midterms.

@CoachEgg 8 лет назад

+Jude Pelaez As an APUSH teacher, I'd recommend against that. Watch them, but go over those notes. Greene is very very light on details.

@luke-da-duke 8 лет назад

+Jude Pelaez same here. didn't look at my notes once when studying for my last test and aced it!

@aaronsart8465 6 лет назад

same lol

@codyjames52 6 лет назад

CoachEgg I'm taking APUSH next year (school got out today) and watching these as a side tool. Good for the basics but to light on the details that will be critical for the APUSH exams

@sarahsaenz832 4 года назад

Me too

@almor2445 8 лет назад

We Brits do celebrate the end of WWII and to get over your dating issue, we celebrate VE (Victory in Europe) and VJ (Victory in Japan) day respectively. Love your work BTW.

@537monster 8 лет назад

We may not celebrate the end of WWII, but it kind of coincides with Memorial Day. That's where all of the wars are "celebrated" by remembering the dead.

@Jacob7393 8 лет назад

I don't think John has any dating issues. He's married.

@537monster 8 лет назад

Jacob Stamm okay?

@Jacob7393 8 лет назад

over your head?

@537monster 8 лет назад

Jacob Stamm I have no sense of humor, help me out here.

@Bubbles4112 4 года назад

My grandpa was in WW2. Thank u for ur service....whether it was voluntary or not.....RIP Grandpa Jim🤗

@QUARTERMASTEREMI6 5 лет назад

_"That was me being a warrior... I can't even make finger guns. That's how much of a not warrior I am. I'm a worrier."_

@user-pv1kt7qq8d 4 года назад

How do you make it italicized?

@aprillara9663 7 лет назад

Wow! The way you ended this course, John Green, was a beautiful message so eloquently stated. Thank you.

@aprillara9663 7 лет назад

“Studying history and making genuine attempts at empathy help us to grapple with the complexity of the world not as we wish it were but as we find it.”

@SamUndomiel 10 лет назад

John Green and CrashCourse always have such poignant and beautiful things for their listeners/watchers/readers to take away with them, even when discussing such atrocities. Looking at the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and asking us to look at these events with empathy, and empathy for all parties, is a way of thinking that is truly awesome.

@scoggins07 6 лет назад

A famous author once said "Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

@celticgirl389 6 лет назад

"The opportunity of studying history is the opportunity to experience empathy." This is the reason I stay intrigued and entertained in my APUSH lectures, despite most of my peers finding the class incredibly boring. I want to know why people do the things they do (because everything is done for a reason, right or wrong), and the only way to truly understand that is to practice radical empathy, by educating myself of the culture and trying to figure out feelings of people in the time. Thank you John Green (and my current history teacher), for not just teaching the facts, but also providing a deeper opportunity for thinking with every lesson.

@Rainy1028 9 лет назад

I find it interesting that VE Day is on the same day as my AP EURO exam 😂

@tylerandrews3772 9 лет назад

Rainy Liu amen brotha

@jungyangheng1405 7 лет назад

Jude Abijah 9th August is Singapore's National Day

@mattinator9999 6 лет назад

i hope you failed

@megwebber379 10 лет назад

One of my favorite crashcourse videos for all of the subtle pokes and explanations of the natural curiosity that is humanity.

@Mae-vc9jv 5 лет назад

John green singlehandedly carried me to a passing APUSH grade

@spartanpig1minecraft 8 лет назад

I wonder who the one guy who voted against WWII was...

@aliciarodriguez4692 8 лет назад

It was a woman and her name was Jeannette Rankin

@samuwarrior 8 лет назад

Funnily enough, she was the same person who voted against entering WW 1

@aliciarodriguez4692 8 лет назад

yeah she was a pacifist.

@erinvalenzuela3424 8 лет назад

+Tatsuya Nebula she actually lost her spot in Congress bc she voted against enetering WW1...but was re-elected just in time to vote against WW2, hahaha

@lazyboy395 8 лет назад

Island hopping: The strategy by which the american military sought to dominate the Pacific. Also how the soldier fights in TF2. Except with teleporters and a shovel

@biiku 10 лет назад

Long time viewer, short time subscriber, and first time commenter: just wanted to say I really appreciated the gentle and empathetic writing at the close of this episode. Thank you for the great shows.

@wasteofspace1234 10 лет назад

Ending monologue = FANTASTIC and ought to be heard from more mouths

@EllaMcdaniel1216 4 года назад

@emilyyyyy_cd 8 лет назад

John: "I'm not a worrier at all." Me: "John, you're a WORDier." I'm sorry. I need to stop and reevaluate my life.

@rachelmeioliver 10 лет назад

All "Crash Course" videos are amazing! Thank you for enlightening us with them.

@ilsehugsbeatles 10 лет назад

Interesting to see an American view of WW2. In the Netherlands we learn a very Netherlands-centered view of the war, for some obvious reasons. Still I feel like it's always interesting how other European countries learn about WW2, and an American view is also definitely interesting. Thanks again for a great video! :)

@SophiFike 10 лет назад

It's my understanding that the term "Island Hopping" came from taking an island then skipping one or two then taking another. This tactic cut supplies from the troops on the "skipped island" rendering them ineffective.

@paigepoo922 10 лет назад

Watching your videos make school so much easier for me . Instead of studying I watch your videos and I remember things better than I used to. Also you are very entertaining , which is why I remember things better . I also want to thank you and Hank for making learning fun. By the way I can't wait to see The Fault In Our Stars on June 6th , I read the book and it was amazing and so was Paper Towns and Looking For Alaska

@edgymanwithasombrero2156 7 лет назад

I met an old man in Chase Bank and he told me about WW2, I was at the bank for about 4 hours listening to his stories. Props to you America!

@yukalue 10 лет назад

We can argue all we want about the ethics of the atomic bombs, but how many of us would have the courage that Truman had to give that order, knowing he would have to live with his decision for the rest of his life. And for the rest of time

@RworldKM 10 лет назад

At that time, to order the first nuke strike would've probably taken mental and moral bravery. I'd imagine some involved felt their soul died a bit seeing what they had done. Nowadays though, America's been declaring war left right front and centre for almost every reason by Tom, Dick and Harry. It boggles the mind...

@naasiroow 10 лет назад

Yeah, he was brave for murdering 70 thousand people in a second, the fastest genocide in the history

@RworldKM 10 лет назад

naasiroow Perhaps I've phrased it wrongly. It's not bravery in a straightforward sense, but the knowledge of what burden he would carry to his grave and the guts to still go through with it. 70 thousand people mostly civilians, women and children, died under his direct order in an instant. Their blood is forever on his head till the end of days. If anything, it's something to respect. Not everyone can shoulder that kind of burden for the rest of their lives, especially when said deed is supposed to 'save' more lives than it took.

@GohanLSSJ2 10 лет назад

Rworld Respect is dubious, but it's certtainly something to feel sorry for. Truman had to live with the knowledge he had unleashed a monster (The A-bomb) and as said before, it would be no surprise if those men in the Enola Gay were dead inside by the end of it.

@marinusvonzilio9628 10 лет назад

GohanLSSJ2 Although, when the question ''was it a hard decision to make'' was asked, Truman answered that it was not, and that he made the decision ''just like that'', the answer accompanied by him snapping his fingers before the interviewer. And he was interviewed by an acclaimed historian, for a book on Pacific War, so it was a rather serious discussion. As for the crew of Enola Gay, their first reaction was shock, their second reaction were ecstatic cheers (not on the account of the dead Japanese, but because they believed that they had won the war with their action), and only after that did they start to think of the people on the ground. And members of the crew did not have some grand philosophical insights into what they did; they viewed it as just another war mission, albeit more significant than their previous ones. And Tibbets, the pilot who flew the plane (it bears the name of his mother), was famous for saying ''I sleep clearly every night.''

@EarlofCrawford 9 лет назад

The "British" were NEVER alone in WW2. Canada, Australia, NZ, India, etc. etc. etc. The "British Empire" was not England Alone as so many Americans believed it to be.

@James-qn8st 9 лет назад

Nor was the "British Empire" which was British, just England. The UK is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Not just England. And some people classify the Commonwealth and the Empire as 'Britain' in WW2. In any respect, all nations who stood by the UK during that time period did their part and their commitment will never be forgotten.

@EarlofCrawford 9 лет назад

James060394 You are right of course and I presumed - perhaps wrongly - that most people realized that the term "British" referred to the four countries that make up "Britain". As a Canadian that has regularly been to Scotland and England the respect of the people for the contribution of our sons and daughters is still fresh and appreciated. It must be said that the people of the French coast also continue to show respect and appreciation for our soldiers. It is a shame that more people - especially in some parts of North America - don't truly understand their own history.

@asalvador30 9 лет назад

This is absolute brilliance. This channel is amazing. I will certainly spread the word to others looking for answers with respect to the history of mankind. Thank you.

@dario110011 8 лет назад

This Episode almost made me cry, damn that mystery document hit me. The stuff John Green said at the end was amazing.

@MrDylan2125 10 лет назад

While studying the fighting side of the war is extremely interesting and certainly has an impact on our worldview, I'm looking forward to next Thursday's episode where I assume that John will cover more of the domestic side of the war and how citizens at home were changed by the war.

@lizgarcia215 8 лет назад

7:58 why does the One Direction logo show up when he says "no choice" 👀

@tatianaterrell4650 8 лет назад

+Liz Garcia that's my question. i skimmed the comments to see if anyone else noticed it lol

@meg-ff4ug 8 лет назад

1D as in they had no choice, so there was only One Direction to go

@rubykgarrett 4 года назад

yay i found the 1 person who noticed. oops 3 years later.

@fluffygreysocks6703 4 года назад

ruby i’m not surprised at all b/c Harry is your pfp

@jaidyn7321 4 года назад

ruby your pfp 😌

@patrickfeole4255 9 лет назад

I think Johns part at the end about not passing judgement was beautiful.

@madyb1280 8 лет назад

I love this guy!!! He has so much character and passion for history!

@Erablexpotionmagique 5 лет назад

I'm Japanese and taking U.S. history in the U.S. and I felt sad when I learned WWII...

@christophergiddins2209 9 лет назад

Great show thanks for making history so fun to learn.

@evanclark6547 Год назад

For what it's worth; General Minoru Genda, who helped plan the attack on Pearl Harbor, stated at a Naval Institute event in 1969 that he was not bitter towards the U.S. for dropping the bomb on his hometown of Hiroshima. He said "if we had the atomic bomb in 1945, we would have dropped it on you."

@Jokkkkke 9 лет назад

D-day was the beginning of the end for the Nazis? No, that would be the Soviet victory in Stalingrad.

@jamesrpascoe 9 лет назад

Serious as a heart attack. That is a disturbing idiom...anyway...yeah. Stalingrad was bloody. Bloody =/= a turning or a decisive point.

@jamesrpascoe 9 лет назад

I guess I should have specified the 'Anglo' victory in the N Atlantic.

@Jokkkkke 9 лет назад

***** Why should I shut up? I'm expressing a valid point that has the backing of actual historians. From Stalingrad on, the Nazis had no more significant victories. Their war turned into a defensive one and their morale had dropped. The battle of Stalingrad also proved that the Nazis were not invincible, as they were perceived to be this way prior to Stalingrad despite such allied victories at the battle of El Alamein. Do you always trust Crash Course as being 100% factual?

@Jokkkkke 9 лет назад

LordRahl2 I don't get what exactly you are saying. Could you perhaps type coherent sentences?

@jamesrpascoe 9 лет назад

BiggestATLAfan Before you climb on your high horse - there is a reply missing. So you are missing some context. My original reply to you was, iirc, Stalingrad was not the beginning of the end. The beginning of the end was the Soviet victory at Moscow paired with the British victory in the Atlantic. Stalingrad was a huge battle with unbelievable loss of life but it was not particularly decisive.

@theceohq 9 лет назад

I think the last minute of this video is pure gold. In deed, "there is no answer to be found". I truly appreciate John's (mostly) balanced reflections, not matter how unconventional they first sound.

@austinbarrilleaux959 9 лет назад

The use of atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima did not end war in the pacific theatre. The japanese were still prepared to fight at that point. It was the announcement that the USSR would enter the pacific theater that made the japanese surrender, or so I have been told.

@austinbarrilleaux959 9 лет назад

Liberal Smiter, If you want to have an open dialogue about history and contemplate its many interpretations do so. But don't be an insulting nuisance. Its not an uncommon interpretation. "In recent years, however, a new interpretation of events has emerged. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa - a highly respected historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara - has marshaled compelling evidence that it was the Soviet entry into the Pacific conflict, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that forced Japan’s surrender. His interpretation could force a new accounting of the moral meaning of the atomic attack. It also raises provocative questions about nuclear deterrence, a foundation stone of military strategy in the postwar period. And it suggests that we could be headed towards an utterly different understanding of how, and why, the Second World War came to its conclusion." www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/

@austinbarrilleaux959 9 лет назад

***** Liberal Smiter, If you want to have an open dialogue about history and contemplate its many interpretations do so. But don't be an insulting nuisance. Its not an uncommon interpretation. "In recent years, however, a new interpretation of events has emerged. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa - a highly respected historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara - has marshaled compelling evidence that it was the Soviet entry into the Pacific conflict, not Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that forced Japan’s surrender. His interpretation could force a new accounting of the moral meaning of the atomic attack. It also raises provocative questions about nuclear deterrence, a foundation stone of military strategy in the postwar period. And it suggests that we could be headed towards an utterly different understanding of how, and why, the Second World War came to its conclusion." www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/

@MrBusby2011 10 лет назад

I loved your thoughts near the end. Moving sentiment for why we study History.

@nickkinnan7485 10 лет назад

Your points at the end of the video about the atomic bombs were eloquent and made me think. Thank you for the perspective.

@namangoy 8 лет назад

that ending was deeep

@kris_kwas 4 года назад

Ms. Millers class work timestamps WW2 - Part 1 1. 2:00 2. 2:40 3. 4:30 4. 8:40 5. 9:45 6. 11:00 7. 11:30 I put timestamps on part 2 aswell

@roachianna5686 4 года назад

Slipping_The_ KNOT dang bruh you’re a g for that, I don’t even go to your school

@kris_kwas 4 года назад

Roachianna Thanks lol

@slayqueen3022 4 года назад

What are the questions?

@kris_kwas 4 года назад

SlayQueen I dont remember I turned in my paper the day I wrote the comment

@shadowcatbasetrebbleclef7504 9 лет назад

Our teacher showed us the civil war videos but now I love this channel!!! Thank you so much for teaching meh more history

@expellfarjim5685 9 лет назад

I love Crash Course U.S. History and use it for my AP classes. It is great, thank you. I'm commenting because this is the first time that I've noticed a historical error. John mentions that Germany declared war on the United States the day after we declared war on Japan. But Germany and Hitler actually waited until December 11th or 12th. According to Doris Kearns Goodwin book on Franklin and Eleanor, this actually began to really concern FDR because he worried he might have to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Germany even though Germany had not attacked the United States. At least that is how I remember it. Seems like kind of an important point and thought I would share.

@raghavrathi6591 7 лет назад

People should realise that the atomic bombs were not what made Japan quit. It was actually the advancing Soviet Union army from the north-west that made them quit.

@AlanNadeauIII 7 лет назад

Here we go! The new season of Mystery Document! John Green comes off of a 10-6 season, but lost in the Wild Card round. However, he finished two wins better than the first 16 videos, where he went 8-8. However, we only have 13 videos (counting this one) left in the series, so the regular season will be 10 videos long, the last 3 for the playoffs.

@daniellelibonati1591 8 лет назад

they used to use these videos in the classroom for us in history class. I love these videos

@aidangreen5148 4 года назад

My great grandfather served in the coast guard during WWII, and my Uncle Chris’s grandfather served in military and help liberated France during D-day🇺🇸✝️

@abbijordan8113 4 года назад

Thank them for there service

@taozuki 4 года назад

Thank you

@namek7981 4 года назад

Pearl Harbor 5:18 Midway 6:00 Atomic Bomb 9:00

@Livinglex 4 года назад

p̵̩̐e̶̜͝á̸̼s̶̡̃a̸͉͝ņ̶̏t̷͍̀ bless you

@mushroomgremlin7965 4 года назад

anyone else sent this by their teacher during quarantine?

@jaythecrazycatgal 9 лет назад

That was an excellent speech at the end. Well done, John Green!

@andrewchilver-waldock2486 8 лет назад

The Island hopping strategy wasn't about taking fortified island bases one at a time. It was about bypassing overly fortified Japanese islands. Then containing those islands so those Japanese troops were of no further consequence. Yes islands under reasonable Japanese control were taken, but "Island Hopping" was about playing leapfrog. Giving overly defended islands no choice but to whither on the vine.

@TheYoungWolfI 9 лет назад

I think regular bombing was still worse due to its frequent inaccuracies. My grandfather was a Czech partisan who met Paton. They watched American bombers destroy a Czech village just after my grandfather and some others reported that there were no Germans in the village. Only Czech citizens. Paton ordered no pilots to ever land in Czechoslovakia because A) Americans were supposed to leave the country to the USSR and B) because the Czechs would have killed the pilots for their mistakes on sight. My 11th grade history teacher, apparently like many others, didn't know Paton had disobeyed orders and invaded Czechoslovakia.

@TheYoungWolfI 9 лет назад

Mathew Willis Shit, I forgot to hit T twice. Or I typed too fast. I don't remember. Thanks for spell checkin' for me. Anyway, yes, I'm aware both admirals and generals have certain freedoms to make judgements, and act in what way they feel is best. And every political and military leader involved in any war can arguably be considered a war criminal, depending on whose side you're on and which country you live in. G Bush for example is very arguably a war criminal. But all USA forces, in WWII, were given specific orders to leaver specific countries to be "liberated" by the USSR. My grandfather heard Patton basically say fuck the president, I'm ready to fight the communists next, and to push them back into Russia. Truman phoned Patton personally and told him to get the fuck out of Czechoslovakia immediately. Patton then obeyed. But hey, if anyone feels the need to be defensive, don't bother. I judge neither Patton nor Truman. Just neutrally sharing some history I learned from a primary source that not many know.

@override367 9 лет назад

Patton also didn't believe in PTSD (shellshock), he was an all around piece of shit

@whiskysmith9014 9 лет назад

override367 Oh, he was a major shit-bag, but he was *really* good at killing Nazi's, I think of him like an attack dog. Also after the whole slapping indecent he was very accommodating to shell-shocked soldiers. (Flies away on depressed and self-judgmental bald eagle that is *very* sorry for America being an asshole)

@Ayazidas 9 лет назад

Tony Bjornson Hey, I am a Czech, so I think I have a few things to say about. I can understand the feelings of your grandparents, if they were anti-communist exiles (as I suppose), but the Nazi rule can't be really compared with the later communist period. During the ww2 the Czech lands were occupied by a brutal foreign power, which destroyed our independent state and was willing to massacre whole villages in order to punish the Czech population. On the other hand, the Soviet armies were seen as liberators and the communist regime started only 3 years after the end of the war and was always "indigenous", even though it was politically dependent on the USSR. Even during the 70s and 80s after the invasion of Warsaw pact armies, it wasn't comparable at all with situation during the war. The Communist regime was oppressive, yes, but not like the Nazi one.

@Ayazidas 9 лет назад

That alleged order by Patton for US pilots not to land in Czechoslovakia because Czechs could kill them is very odd. Maybe in some places which had been just bombed some enraged people would have attacked them, but the Americans were still seen as allies and liberators by Czechs (ethnic Germans who were living here are a different issue, of course), and there weren't really that many bombings of civilian targets in the Czech territory during the war, especially in comparison in Germany.

@itstriplem2069 7 лет назад

You should be on the history channel

@Voltaire1759 9 лет назад

OMG Someone who agrees that the history channel went down the tubes. I spent more hours of my childhood watching the history channel than cartoons so a pawnshop show makes me weep.

@nonamed56 8 лет назад

I FINALLY DID IT! I watched every single episode of crash course history. Ask me anything, I know everything.

@gabrielhummel7869 8 лет назад

how large was lyndon b johnson's johnson

@nonamed56 8 лет назад

Gabriel Hummel sorry, I don't read the comments anymore

@moviemaker4678 8 лет назад

trigger fingers turn to twitter fingers

@nonamed56 8 лет назад

moviemaker4678 what?

@Terminator198573 8 лет назад

+moviemaker4678 u getting bodied by a singin nigga

@joelwest5541 5 лет назад

"Studying history is to expirance empathy" John Green

@TheOsamaBahama 9 лет назад

"plans were underway for the largest operation of the Pacific War, Operation Downfall, the invasion of Japan."..."Casualty predictions varied widely, but were extremely high. The Vice Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff, Vice Admiral Takijirō Ōnishi, predicted up to 20 million Japanese deaths." I think it was better to drop the bombs.

@hazecole1 9 лет назад

Rick Apocalypse and if you read into the bombings the us dropped flyers to civs that said that there were going to be bombings look it up and it is also brought upon in the book unbroken the reason why civs did not leave was because japans military took the flyers or civs thought that japan was winning the war sadly war is hell people get caught in the cross fires every war has civ deaths its one of those things nobody can stop so if you ask me it was justified before even more people got killed

@JBroAC 8 лет назад

+Rick Apocalypse Bomb* The second bomb was unnecessary. They were gonna surrender anyways. The US could have just warned that a second one would be dropped if they didn't cooperate and by then, even before the bombs, they were already thinking of surrender.

@TheOsamaBahama 8 лет назад

JBroAC That's not what I've read. I read that after the first bomb, the emperor wanted to surrender, but the generals didn't want to because they thought America only had 1 bomb. Yes, the US could have warned them, but they would have seen as a bluff.

@cellardoor9882 8 лет назад

+Rick Apocalypse The A Bomb was just a military experiment, nothing else. The Japanese would have surrendered by the end of the year.

@TheOsamaBahama 8 лет назад

***** Why do you believe that ?

@braxx02 10 лет назад

literally the first time i heard mention about dresden in anything close to a history class. thank you.

@tikki2340 6 лет назад

John Green is the savior of all APUSH students

@koneal2000 8 лет назад

If we had invaded Japan, an estimated 500,000-700,000 lives could have been lost. Going off a liberal estimate, the atomic bombs killed 250,000 people. The higher-ups made a tough decision, and in the end, it saved lives.

@Ara-gp4yj 8 лет назад

ARE THESE ESTIMATES ACCURATE???¿???

@koneal2000 8 лет назад

Yes

@koneal2000 8 лет назад

Feel free to check my numbers

@Ara-gp4yj 8 лет назад

+Kevin O'Neal how

@koneal2000 8 лет назад

Travenzen Search public records, you'll find the same information that I've provided.

@atrociousbanana7808 10 лет назад

I know this is off topic, and I am the black sheep of historians, but has anyone else noticed that he makes several TF2 references?

@Krawlingable 10 лет назад

Ammo boxes, Rocket jumping.

@atrociousbanana7808 10 лет назад

correct.

@atrociousbanana7808 10 лет назад

I'm sorry, but what?

@atrociousbanana7808 10 лет назад

would you rather I said "I am a black sheep of gamers"?

@atrociousbanana7808 10 лет назад

can I be both

@ceejayferrer7692 7 лет назад

I like John Green's words on the last minutes of the vid.

@Promethibot 9 лет назад

Published one day after my birthday, on one of the topics I know a lot about. Good Job, Crash Course

@kapilesh14 10 лет назад

The most serious episode so far. How destructive is A-Bomb, it is as destructive as feebleness of human mind. How can I judge anyone I am as feeble minded as anyone else and I don't know what I would do in the real time.

@jennypenny4212 9 лет назад

Learn from past mistakes

@jennypenny4212 9 лет назад

***** what do u mean?

@dantheman7884 9 лет назад

Jenny Penny not that i agree, but remember around 4 minutes in this video John says a group called America First cautioned against involvement in ww2- in hindsight, its a good thing America got involved when it did!

@fishlover3932 5 лет назад

Love I gurl

@Shockprowl 6 лет назад

Stunningly informative. Thank you.

@agasirpadilla7155 7 лет назад

the ending was beast; "the opportunity of history is to experience empathy...grapping the complexity of the world, not as what we wish it were but as we would find it"

@boxtruckbandit3837 9 лет назад

I need to correct you there. The invasion of Japan was estimated to cost 1 million american troops their lives and 10 million Japanese civilians theirs.

@johnbarella3496 9 лет назад

Cody Maranto mostly because Japanese citizens were told to defend the island at all costs as they had done in the islandhopping campaign. American casualties were so high because EVERYONE was a combatant, not just soldiers.

@HaloFTW55 8 лет назад

+John Barella The USSR would invade Imperial Japan too, look at Manchuria in the 15th of August 1945.

@clementooi3818 8 лет назад

+Ivan Chen because truman and roosevelt repeatedly asked stalin for help. Up to the invasion itself both Japan and the USSR observed strict neutrality towards each other. It was only at Potsdam that the terms for a Soviet invasion of japanese territory was agreed on.

@highgeneralblitz2341 7 лет назад

You forgot Australian, Belgian, Czechoslovakian, French, Grecian, Dutch, New Zealanders, Norwegians and Polish troops also participated in D-Day

@paardstaart2182 Год назад

I have an American History and Politics exam tomorrow morning and these vids really help, thanks so much!

@danykaposy3791 7 лет назад

thank God for John Green and his willingness to teach me the night before my world War II test. because let's face it, I am not reading my APUSH book tonight. thanks John!

@AyoubBerrahel 8 лет назад

We do celebrate May 8th as the end of WWII in Algeria, we just o it a different way, in May 8th after France promised us independance along other French colonies if we fought with them in WWII, and as Algerian people celebrated the End of WWII and a possible independance the French military shot and killed over 45000 unarmed civilians in the Massacres of May 8th. That horrible act by the French would cause the war for independance years later, but France till this day didn't confess of the war crimes they did here and all over their colonies

@Mr100Supermariobros 7 лет назад

C'est dommage. Mon pere m'a raconté comment les Francais, et toutes les puissances qui prenaient partie a la guerre sauf l'Allemagne et les États-Unis utilisiaient des soldats des colonies, et ensuite ont prit toute la gloire. Cette guerre a été gagnée par le colonies, et non les puissances.

@dIRECTOR259 9 лет назад

6:53 American troops did not participate in any defeat of Rommel in North Africa. It seems the person who wrote this did not know that Rommel was recalled and replaced as commander of the German forces in the theater. In fact, at the Battle of Kasserine Pass en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kasserine_Pass Rommel soundly defeated American troops. That was the first contact with the Germans for Americans, and their only encounter with Rommel in Africa. 7:25 The "beginning of the end of the Nazis" was the Battle of Kursk. No event on the western front can be described as having been a "turning point" in some way. 8:50 The Germans had a very decent chance to with the war all the way until their defeat at Stalingrad and the general disastrous failure of their 1942 offensive in the USSR. They did *not* automatically "not have a chance" simply by having started fighting the Russians and the Americans. They could very well have won the war in Russia which would generally have made them impervious to US efforts - at least until much much later, and possibly for good.

@cactusjackjones1221 9 лет назад

Well D-Day created a third front, with fresh troops.

@lenrat117 9 лет назад

I'd argue that D-Day was actually the beginning of the end for the Nazis. If we didn't create another front I believe the Germans would have been able to stabilize the eastern front. I do agree that none of the western allies caused a turning point, we only ensured that Germany wouldn't be able to recover any territory they lost. This is only my judgment though so I don't know how much you'll care but is a different perspective if you want to pay attention.

@acester86 9 лет назад

lenrat117 there were many factors that caused the Germans to lose the war. I would say a big one was the incredible amount of money they spent on "super" weapons. In today's terms, hitler spent over 500B on the development of the V2 which would have meant success had they had them early in the war, but with their late arival meant they were just a financial drain.

@dIRECTOR259 9 лет назад

lenrat117 The war would probably have lasted another year at most. By June 1944 (after Kursk which was their last desperate gamble) the Germans certainly had no chance for victory against the Soviets. As for "stabilizing" the front, they did "stabilize" it many times, only to later have their front bombed out of existence by Soviet firepower and swiftly breached.. there was no stopping the Soviets. Moscow was the check, Stalingrad was the turning point, Kursk was the beginning of the end.

@cactusjackjones1221 9 лет назад

dIRECT0R With american suply, there would be no counter ovensive. The only reasource The USSR had left was people. And throwing people with no guns at the Nazis didn't work out that well in 41/42.

@Blaiyan 4 года назад

I don't want hear anything about a moral component when someone kills 2,000 of your people out of nowhere. The U.S. could've taken the world with that power but showed tremendous restraint.

@gg3675 6 лет назад

There’s been recent academic work arguing the role the bomb even played in Japan’s surrender, arguing that it was actually Stalin’s invasion of Japan that created the conditions for surrender.

@benniesbenny8753 4 года назад

G G yea cause getting two cities wiped off the face of the earth isn’t as scary as Stalin’s late invasion lmao get real

@pranavsukumaran8154 8 лет назад

1:57 DONT LET YOUR MEMES BE DREAMS!

@ferwhatly8259 8 лет назад

Fuckin PREACH

@pranavsukumaran8154 8 лет назад

Ferwhatly ?

@ultimatestorm7188 8 лет назад

+Ferwhatly xD

@Jacob7393 8 лет назад

? ?

@MaryLopez-bv7ks 7 лет назад

Dank memes and broken dreams.

@marcusciasco9961 8 лет назад

6:12 Jumpman jumpman jumpman dem bois up to sumting

@sierraradford1371 9 лет назад

Love these videos man! Thanks a ton

@msbr8747 5 лет назад

Hi I'm a French student who has always seen the WWII from an European pov and I just don't understand why Japan attacked the US? I have an exam of american civilization tomorrow if only someone could help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee by the way I really hated history..... until today you're the best teacher I've ever seen!!! I didn't know it was possible to laugh while listening to a history course ahahaha

@purplehearts875 8 лет назад

Shoutout to everyone cramming for the APUSH exam Friday!

@babybottle105 8 лет назад

A PUSH?

@JBOP20 8 лет назад

AP US History

@_i_dont_know_anything_at_a2844 4 года назад

why am i now recommended this... that was 2013 ITS ALMOST 2020

@VK-pn6rg 4 года назад

yes welcome to my world

@genericalias2324 10 лет назад

PLEASE MAKE A SERIES ON ALL THE GREAT BATTLES OF HISTORY, DETAILING TACTICS, CASUALTY FIGURES, CAUSE AND EFFECT AND OTHERWISE!

@lawwong3508 9 лет назад

Island hopping may have referred to the practice of bypassing major Japanese garrisons on relatively unimportant islands, thus hopping over them, (e.g. Rabul) and taking more important ones while cutting off those garrisons.

@BoyFromSomewhere 4 года назад

Me: isolation age you mean 2020 2013: what do you mean coronavirus: I'm here

@gamingsentry6000 7 лет назад

The embargo on Japan was the reason they went to war with us due to a lack of things such as oil so the went to great lengths to ovoid war with us

@samuelketner1391 7 лет назад

Gaming sentry You realize that they had planned the attack on Pearl Harbor over and over right? they fake ambassadors to DC to distract the Americans with the thought of peace, then we're instructed to give the us govt a letter at exactly 1:00 pm DC time (7:00 AM Honolulu time) that peace had failed and a state of war existed. They began attacking pearl harbor, Guam, The Philippines, and Wake island on the same day. (And they were going to attack the us anyway, bc we had troops already stationed in China and guarding the Philippines stationed there, and these two areas were part of Japan's East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere idea (rule over all of East Asia , micronesia, and mellonesia that expanded to Australia bc they got greedy). They signed their pact with Germany bc Germany just took Paris, and France owned Indichina (Vietnam & Laos), )