World War II, Part 1: Crash Course in United States History #35

In which John Green talks to you about World War II, a subject so vast it spans two episodes. This week, John will teach you how the United States entered the war and how involved America was before Congress declared war. John will actually talk a little bit about the military tactics involved, and he'll touch on some of the weaponry involved, particularly the enormous amount of aerial bombardment that characterized the war, and the atomic bombs that ended the war in the Pacific.

Hello Teachers and Students – Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and teaching resources to learn more about the events in this episode. Americans entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-attack-on-pearl-harbor
An appeal to soldiers led to an early civil rights victory, the Tuskegee Airmen: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/tuskegee-airmen
America led the invasion of Normandy that would end the war, and American troops helped free Jewish survivors from Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe: https://www.commonlit.org/ texts/liberation-of-nazi-concentration-camps

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Learn more about World War II in these other Crash Course videos:
Crash Course in World History:
Second World War (38): https://www.youtube.com/watch?vQ78COTwT7nE
Second World War, a war for resources (220): https://www.youtube.com/watch?vH-2q-QMUIgY

Intensive course in European history:
Second World War (38): https://www.youtube.com/watch?vHs_JMydrxZM
Civilians and soldiers of the Second World War (39): https://www.youtube.com/watch?vrlx6ur_D51s
The Holocaust, genocides and mass murders of World War II (40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?viQeDvnapdlg
Recovery after World War II (42): https://www.youtube.com/watch?vnlp068CmQaE

Crash Course in Black American History:
Second World War (31): https://www.youtube.com/watch?vU7wrwPnQVg4
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Chapters:
Introduction: World War II 00:00
American isolationism before World War II 1:07
American support for the Allies during World War II 3:38
Pearl Harbor 5:03
World War II fighting in the Pacific 5:43
World War II fighting in Europe 6:35
Mystery document 7:30 a.m.
The end of World War II 8:38
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the atomic bomb 9:25 a.m.
Credits 12:54

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