If your teacher wants you to write 15 facts, here you go :) 1. WWII strengthened the federal government of the U.S. 2. Unemployment dropped from 14% in 1940 to 2% in 1943. 3. By 1944 American factories were producing an airplane every 5 minutes and a ship every day. 4. U.S. GNP went from 91 billion to 214 billion during WWII 5. Government expenditures in WWII were twice the amount the had been in the previous 150 years combined. 6. After WWII 40 million Americans played income taxes. 7. Union membership went from 9 million in 1940 to almost 15 million in 1945. 8. By 1944 women made up 1/3 of the civilian labor force and 350,000 were serving in the military. 9. Married women out numbered single women in the workforce. 10. By 1946 more than 1 million former soldiers were enrolled in college and almost 4 million got assistance with mortgages. 11. About 500,000 Mexican men and women served in the armed forces during the war. 12. Executive order 9066 in February 1942 expelled all persons of Japanese descent from the west coast. 13. 70% of Japanese Americans lived in California and as a result, over 200,000 people were sent to internment camps. 14. Executive order 8802 banned discrimination and defense hiring and created the fair employment practices coming. 15. By 1944 more than 1 million black people were working In and 300,000 of them were women.
I am teacher, and I love Crash Course because it's awesome! However, I teach theatre and very little of Crash Course content has anything to do with theatre or creative arts. Have you all ever thought about creating a Crash Course series for theatre or art history? They would be super helpful for arts teachers.
Every time I come back to this video, I'm reminded of how inspiring the ending is. It remains one of my favorite ways of talking about the US. "Ideals pulling policy"
WW2 - Part 2 of Ms. Millers work 1. 0:50 2. 2:00 3. 3:10 4. 4:00 5. 5:45 6. 6:30 7. 7:35 8. 8:30 If your doing part 2 first then I have timestamps on part 1 aswell
John Green, I just wanted to say the part 2 brought WWII in better perspective for me from the US standpoint.Your lessons have really helped me to understand and build upon what my us civ book teaches. Thank you!
The first few decades after WW2 were the window of opportunity to establish a socialized healthcare system in the United States, just as it was for every other First World country (all of which did so). After that, the rapid expansion in medical services in turn led to the insurance lobby becoming too powerful, and FDR's ambitions were tragically never realized.
I really like this series particularly because John tries to take a balance approach giving both sides admitting both what have done wrong also what we have done right. But more importantly i feel he just explained what america and our history is really about its not about how perfect or amazing we are as we have seen we dont have the best record but the ideals we have developed and what it represents to the US and the world and how we are continually striving for this ideals we have.
Can someone explain to me why "Korematsu v. United States" is always mentioned but never "Ex parte Endo", considering how it was in the "Endo" decision that the government stated that a citizen could not be illegally detained if there was no evidence found to provide suspicion of a lack of loyalty?
We could really use that. Our own people are horrifically ignorant of the nation's history and have no resources on the internet comparable to a John Green Crash Course.
DeathdwarfRising I dunno. It could be an interesting topic of discussion for one the Crash Course World History 2 episodes. They tend to have a narrower focus.
*shrug* Whatever you say, bub. It's a moot point anyway; the Winter War doesn't really have all that delicious trade and cultural exchange that gets Crash Course excited, and it was really one front of a much larger conflict anyway. More likely it would be a case study or an example than an episode of it's own. In any case, I feel that that language was entirely uncalled for, sir.
You guys should talk more about the Japanese Internment Camps most schools glance over that period and its a shame people don't know more about it. I am especially disappointed as my grandmother was in Tule Lake.
Hey, this had maybe been pointed out already, but I think you've maybe forgotten to add this one to the US History playlist - mine just went from WW2 pt1 straight to the Cold War. Cheers for all the great videos, much appreciated! :-)
Could you please do a video crash coursing the past elections since like the 40s? Not the eras within or what the winners of the presidential election did, but different scandals and important things to know about the past elections. I am always trying to learn more
Quick point of order. At 8:42 there is a painting shown while John talks about Mexican Americans serving in the armed forces. The problems are: 1. This is a painting by Dominic D'Andrea of the 65th Infantry Regiment, part of Puerto Rican National Guard which is mostly Puerto Ricans not Mexican Americans, 2. This is also a depiction from the Korean War not WWII. As a Mexican American Veteran I can attest to the fact that people often get confused by the different nationalities among Hispanics, but I think it is important to avoid contributing to the problem by interchanging different people in educational videos.
I'm not seeing an episode on the Great Depression... and I don't mean when George W. Bush was elected President. It would be valuable to see what didn't and what did end that bleak period.
Indeed. It would be quite fascinating. I'm thinking potentially they organize it as a more-accessible, updated version of James Burke's Connections, emphasizing that history isn't linear and that people often made great discoveries for their own reasons.
what did internment reveal about american life? , how did world war 2 shape american race relations? and how did world war 2 transform America's standing in the world?
One quick note - there were 1942-model cars. Most of them were built in calendar 1941 (the chromeless "blackout" models actually built in 1942 are rare but fascinating) with production ending once parts stocks were used up, March '42 at the latest. There were no 1943,'44 or '45 models - reconversion to civilian production mostly happened over the summer of '45 and those cars became available that fall (to TREMENDOUS pent-up demand) as 1946 models.
In this video, they don't talk about it because it's a US history "course." I definitely wouldn't call anyone from a small(er) country stuck between badass evil superpowers pussies, though. That's a pretty damn hard situation to face by either a government or an individual.
I agree, I really don't mind, it's just when John puts in those sly little comments that drive me crazy, like in world history when he talked about the Falklands war, and a few other times. I'm sorry to cause offence but please John, no more provocative comments.
Just glancing on Wikipedia, it has the end of WWII as 1945 and the start of the Cold War as 1947. While I personally would have liked an episode on the aftermath of WWII at home in terms of suburbanization and the drastic change in the face of the American city, I can see the logic in going from WWII to the Cold War because of the intertwined issues, causes, and effects.
I have always find it weird how Americans are the first to bash their own accomplishments, like equality, because, "it was to late", the time doesn't really matter, what matters is that it was done.
"If you're looking to buy a 1942 model Ford or Chrysler, good luck, because there weren't any." Wrong. Before civilian manufacturing was suspended in February 1942, one million 1942 model cars had been produced. Yes, there were 1942 Fords and 1942 Chryslers. Google "The Year in Cars: 1942."
John, can you make video about Eastern Europe in context of WWII and the time after that when you end CC American History? And then maybe something about Asia or Africa? Because as a Polish girl I know history of Europe,whole WWII, Americas and a bit of Asia but I don't know almost anything about Africa.
It depends on the point of view, in WWII Us economy went into overdrive, creating more enterprise, more factories and more consumption good with as noted in this video improve our economy. Now, the real impact of wars is the aftermath, where you need to rebuild everything, the US made a huge deal with the Marshall plan that improved the economy and also was a win-win situation. But generally speaking, the aftermath of a war leave a lot of things to do that could at the end improve peoples life.
i can't say i disagree with you, but you need to consider the following: A. As you said, the choice to keep the video short and entertaining and B. As John Green has previously said it is impossible to talk about History without bias. You can try to be as unbiased as possible and not really be directly biased towards a subject, but there might be an indirect bias to the topic in some shape that results in a brief mention. So maybe Crash Course US History - World War II Part 3 ? (please?)
I dont know if its an act, but you always seem to be depressed right before you read the note in the guess or get shocked segment of the show. In crash course world history, it was much more upbeat and funny.
As a European citizen these events and the involement of the USA were important (like the Marshall plan). While the video tells a lot about the beginning of the UN it never really zooms in on the NATO, which gave the USA a lot of power in the western world...
Question: What is power? Like, when we're talking about countries that are "powerful" and "not powerful", what do we mean? It can't simply be money. It also can't be just size or population (look at how much England owned.). So what is it?
As a British student of Engineering, so not particularly ofay although competent in world history it seems that the Southern States just seem to ruin all the good ideas or opportunities in America. Why is this?
I don't care what you're opinion of WWII or war in general is: I dare you to deny that a combat-ready plane rolling off the production line every 5 minutes or a ship coming out of drydock every day is not a damned impressive feat of focused industry.
No matter how much I think about it, I can't see how ending prohibition would help end the depression in any significant way, not compared to the absolutely massive takeover of the entire economy by the government in WWII. Say what you will about intervention vs freedom, but you can't argue that the government at the time knew how to get results. To go from 25% to like 2% unemployment is an amazing feat and I feel it's a stretch to say ending prohibition was a major cause.
That's not true. No history is boring, it's the story of a people and what makes them unique. Our history begins in the 17th century and continues into the 21st century...a lot of interesting stuff happened
At 8:41 you showed a depiction of a Puerto Rican regiment fighting on the Korean war to illustrate the 500,000 Mexican Americans who served during World War 2. You got not only the ethnicity/nationality wrong but also the war itself. Please check your sources more thoroughly because easily verifiable errors like that one make us question the overall veracity of your channel which is a shame because we love it.
a) liquor is highly taxed, so legal sale increases tax revenue, and b) even though alcohol was illegal, it was still around. But instead of being run by the government, or even just legal businesses, it was run by the mob, making them bigger and more powerful, and mob run things are bad for the economy (generally that doing a lot of illegal things always screws the gov't out of tax money or costs them more in spending to fix it/fight crime). Not sure it was a major cause, though
