How America Got Its Citizens Ready For War | America's War Years: 1941 | Timeline

In 1941, before Pearl Harbor was attacked, America was providing war materials to its democracies, and its young men were answering the call to service. Throughout America, "preparedness" was the watchword as the conflict that ignited in 1939 swept through Europe, Africa, and Asia, and a war with Japan loomed closer than ever.
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[@Labyrinth6000]

Don’t forget, physical education was established in schools NOT for the minor reason to keep students healthy, it was so male students could meet the physical requirements to get drafted into war.

[@Funniblockman]

Damn

[@onemercilessming1342]

Some of us remember in JFK's term the drive for physical fitness and his 50 mile hikes. One of my cousins took the hike and got a certificate for it, plus a nice write-up in the local paper.

[@strawberryh7652]

China and japan do that now,their smart if you look at new japan pro wrestling they all know greco roman and boxing ,they are smart ,we got dumb and weak

[@Labyrinth6000]

@@strawberryh7652 yet in China the average citizen makes far less than Americans. In Japan, education has been part of their culture for thousands of years while we were primarily focused on Readin’, Writin’, and ‘Rithmatic.

[@jrooksable]

@@strawberryh7652:that's because "WE" got the asinine idea in our heads that all we have to do is blame the last Republican Admin for our shortcomings!

[@HistoryfortheAges]

One of the more interesting lectures I have on my channel is about my neighbor who just passed away at 95. Her testimonial about what she observed after Pearl Harbor was fascinating. among other stories she shared with me before she passed she told me that in her graduating high school class there were only two boys, b/c they all went to enlist. She was also beyond kind to let me have some WWII Ration books.

[@vivians9392]

I still have my war ration book with some stamps in it. My Mom saved it as memorabilia for me. Born in 1943.

[@vivians9392]

@J Nix Don't think that was top priority on their minds at the time!

[@HistoryfortheAges]

@@vivians9392 hold on to them! They will be great to share with future generations

[@billotto602]

David Halahmy I just subscribed to your channel.

[@HistoryfortheAges]

@@billotto602 thank you!! Please share with others 😊

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

It is almost impossible for those younger persons born into this more cynical age to fully grasp the overwhelming PATRIOTISM that the people of the :"Greatest Generation" and earlier felt for America. I remember being on the tail end of this, when people in the movie theaters would sing along to patriotic songs and :"Follow the Bouncing Ball". To not stand for the Pledge or National Anthem was INCONCIEVABLE. I remember watching my parents and their friends often cry when the National Anthem was played or the Flag was presented. It was a different world. Let me add that I myself am pretty liberal and so I do not look back on the period with rose colored glasses. That was simply how it was.

[@Walker-ow7vj]

Sadly I’m gen z so I couldn’t experience this but my best peak tripping was with the national anthem so I hope I can understand to a certain degree lmao

[@bec5250]

Trust me, they will get it soon enough. We are headed into this once again.

[@dingus6317]

@@bec5250 I wouldn’t expect the youth to volunteer in droves this time

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

@@Walker-ow7vj I'm sure that a Lot of young Ukrainians had similar sentiments a short while ago. Experience changes things.

[@toddferguson6369]

But you didn't fight? It's not about who's generation is better

[@isaacshaver6218]

I love these documentaries. I've watched hours of them. Thank you Timeline

[@roy6907]

3:38 I had starship troopers flashbacks. This feels like the “Would you like to know more” format.

[@thomassjogren5773]

Awesome reference 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I was born after Korea, my parents.were to young. My Uncles all served except one, who was a baby. Anyway I was schooled by many of my relatives of what they did to help win The War. My Grandfather's worked in essential Industrys one at an arsenal, the other making chemicals. I had Uncles in Europe and The Pacific. Uncle John was captured in Italy after they had fought almost to the last man. John was lucky to live but suffered terribly from PTSD as it is known today. We always knew not to ask him about The War. All came home healthy

[@zhoubaidinh403]

My crazy uncle had a sort of reverse ptsd, said the best part of his life was in Vietnam, like some kinda' extended spring brake...his ptsd came stateside when he couldn't exercise his inner demons without just consequences.

[@oldgringo2001]

26:19 - The unfailingly cheerful announcer congratulates the graduates of a class of new pilots. Not mentioned is how many of their classmates died in training. About 50,000 American aircrew were killed in action in WWII. But about 15,000 were killed in training.

[@GoddamnManbat]

Today’s news does a lot better at honoring the service-people we lose at home during training. I drive by a memorial site daily where a training operation resulted in death. I’m not the most patriotic dude on the planet by any means and I haven’t been a serviceman, but this is my home. I get teary-eyed every time I have to pass it.

[@atomvirginia5706]

Ah yes the days when we depended on ourselves

[@williamyoung9401]

And built stuff ourselves instead of outsourcing them...

[@Me-ei8yd]

If I saw this at 15-16 years old I would have been forging documents to be old enough to join.

[@SofaKingShit]

At least you'd have had gotten 15-16 years of being able to sleep. Bullets never hit any important part of the body anyway. They simply bounce off objects like knees and faces.

[@brucefale6132]

Yeah right.

[@williamyoung9401]

Me too! Dames 4 dances?! Why not just call them what they really are... State-sponsored prostitutes.... (11:40)

[@leandrobravo3319]

And that, in part, was why it was made this way... But yes, I understand, why and how it worked.

[@thehapagirl92]

You’d have forged documents to die

[@catherinekauffman7066]

My grandfather served as an Air Raid Warden in Webster Groves, Missouri. It only took one visit to convince folks that they were endangering their neighbors by not following the blackout rules. I have his journal from 1940 - 1945. Even in Missouri they were convinced that Japanese and Germans were going to invade at any moment.

[@a1ar127]

At about 30:00 the video is from "Victory at Sea". Episode was called "the pacific boils over". I didn’t read far enough thru the comments to see how this was acknowledged.

[@PR4U2NV]

From the way those policeman pushed, and shoved those men from Harlem should've told them that this wasn't going to go well for them.

[@Tracertme]

The commentator sounds like ‘ Sale of the Century….’ Come on down we are all having fun. It’s amazing how easily the public are herded. You could see in many clips the young boys were not ready yet and as for allied success, a very narrow view of truth.

[@MR-te5fk]

Is the footage of pearl harbour actually from the attack or is it re-enacted?

[@fluffy-puffy-puppy]

Given the divisiveness today, I wonder if America will ever again be able to unite under a common cause.

[@peterxd3610]

10:27 you have to have terrible courage to adopt little puppies 😅😅

[@jugghead-1975]

Outstanding film !! Love of country was amazing

[@kidfox3971]

Can't wait for the comments of anti-American Europeans explaining how the British and French were somehow responsible for this and so deserve all the credit

[@viciousvictortee1298]

The Great American Secret. The American House Wife!(Dont fail US)

[@viciousvictortee1298]

And the work got THAT Crazy omllet over Rice from Japón.

[@Emmet72]

@4:10. This all seems rather familiar

[@Overitall805]

An actual United, United States Of America. A most incredible time that created the Greatest Generation of the Most selfless human beings in our history. We have forgotten what that word even means...selfless. We all sacrificed for our Nation, literally our lives. Nowadays its more like.... I deserve this..give me more. The "privilege " to think and behave this way literally came from the death of millions who sacrificed themselves for this Freedom of thought and Freedom of Speech. Use it well

[@leandrobravo3319]

Yes, verry United United Stades, if we don't talk about... Oh yes, raging racism against blacks and the asian population in american concentrationcamps. So just as united, as today.

[@Overitall805]

@@leandrobravo3319 a clear example

[@zillsburyy1]

back then people lied about their age to get into the war. as newer wars went on, they did everything they could to get out of it.

[@sisigs4820]

Well it has a lot to do with the fact that this was one of the only wars that was justifiable to fight in. The Vietnam War, for example never should have happened, and every other war is faught for oil.

[@leandrobravo3319]

"America attaced without warning!"... Yes, well... What did they expect? Like a two week notice in six languages?

[@twstf8905]

Haha "It's happened, girls!" 😂 "They're registering girls and drafting them!" "Girls who work in the Federal office buildings in Washington are being signed up as dance partners for the boys in nearby Army camps!" He says lol "Not by the scores but by the _hundreds!"_ "And, it's all very official! The first batch, (or, should I say; "bevy"?) is drawn from a regular draft board fishbowl!" "And, how they _hate_ it!" 😅 _(Nothing like that good, ol' fashioned, early 1940's systemic American misogyny to conjure up the nostalgia lol is there?!)_

[@fluffy-puffy-puppy]

Thanks to their male privilege, the men just get sent to the meat grinder. How misogynistic.

[@Lightman0359]

I love the over-the top reenactment of the attack for the propaganda newsreel. The close-ups of Japanese pilots from a friendly vantage point interspersed with gun camera footage is a nice touch. Note: I am NOT saying the Pearl Harbor attack did not happen, only that the clearer shots in the recruitment/training newsreels were reenactments, like most war footage of the time, [I think either Korea or Viet Nam was the first war with embedded reporters in front-line active combat units, as opposed to embedded with the HQ staff]

[@Snarf_Le_Wombat]

It must be over the top for armchair experts that didn't get murdered at Pear Harbor 🙄

[@Lightman0359]

@@Snarf_Le_Wombat i was referring to the green screen close-ups of Japanese pilots and jumping around to simulate explosions and gunshots. I understand security cameras weren't a thing so much had to be reenacted. I'm by no means implying the actual event wasn't terrible or real

[@user-di5wt2tu9q]

Be watching ,history tends to repeat itself.

[@bernardmathu4901]

Now who would be prepared to fight evil wars against other nations ? I am only prepared to fight against a tyrannical government. I am not surrendering my Ak47 !

[@jesseharriott4253]

@4 min anyone else see a pattern, cause if your thinking what I’m thinking then you would understand the saying history will repeat itself.

[@viciousvictortee1298]

It worked.

[@richardcruz-jj2ck]

America is the land of the free, the free to do what ever you want when it comes to it.

[@josephmazzotta8813]

John Wayne brought me here

[@williamyoung9401]

The voice of the "cynical" generation(s): "NO NEW TAXES!" (3:35) Try what Roosevelt was doing then, now.... And wonder why we still have pot holes...

[@matthews931]

Omg I can watch this KZbin video about 🇺🇸 I can watch it in the 🇬🇧no vpn needed today WOW I’m surprised 😮

[@joan6984]

Viet Naim brought GI Joe to inspire boys .

[@kevingraves8196]

Imagine being able to say the G word on tv and not getting cancelled.

[@chinogixxer7506]

Imagine having a presidential election in the former guy actually accepting the results instead of stomping and crying like a baby because he lost... Amazing how the times have changed

[@georgehollingsworth2428]

Anyone can mention God freely on Television. If they couldn't, Christian TV would be screwed.

[@WalterBrooksHarris]

@@chinogixxer7506 get real. Stop watching cnn and the other news channels and do your own research. You have a brain use it stop following what you want to hear.

[@bowlofsoup12]

@@chinogixxer7506 u mean Hillary crying about “mua russians”

[@whiskeykilmer1866]

@@WalterBrooksHarris The orange-faced clown needs more money! Your money! Send it to him!! NOW!!!

[@NIGHTFLIGHTVIDEO]

You know I went 10 minutes into this video and there's nobody really explaining how America was prepared to go to war, just somebody narrating from start to finish America's involvement in the war.

[@Veldtian1]

Yeah all those people where overwhelmingly White Western Europeans, doesn't make no sense to me why America could pull together and mobilize so effectively.

[@djcorvette8375]

This video could have consisted of one word: propaganda

[@ncrawford1488]

This VO sounds like a new PC version. 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿

[@shanana5822]

War is a racket

[@pimpinaintdeadho]

@1:58 Damn!

[@hillbillyhullabaloo]

Brits on America'

[@joie8465]

Ww3 gonna send us back to stone age 🪨 then Jesus will come

[@leojanuszewski1019]

Today we can out-pronoun any foreign power.

[@gravity7208]

this is just a war propoganda but usa profitable a tone from the wars.

[@floriangeyer3454]

the same way the usual suspects and warmongers do it today.

[@Veldtian1]

Step #1, have 96% homogeneous society.

[@msaltalola]

These Propoganda films always make me giggle! The paratroop numbers only grew because of the pay difference, NOT because those men were brave/couragous lol! Most of them came from poor backgrounds & because the paratroopers got paid more then any other forces, that's why they signed up in droves.....even the veterans will & have said that in other documentaries lol!

[@FactNinja]

I can tell you what happened next ….. ☢️ 💣 ✌🏻 🇺🇸 🙏🏻

[@PacoOtis]

Pitiful and corny with the music and dialogue! I suppose it has always been this pathetic when trying to stir patriotism.

[@a1ar127]

This was produced in the mid 1950s as part of the series Victory at Sea.

[@leonblittle226]

47 minutes of pure and unfetted American cringe , all it needs to finish off is cheese sprinkles...

[@antoonvanmaris58]

This is pathetic ! Why isn't it about all these endless wars since WW2 ?😭🤮😤🤬

[@SunnyRain0614]

Our government needs to trust in God

[@glennmcdonald2028]

Save it for church, lady...

[@arigon648]

They have and look where it took us. The church needs to be divided from the state.

[@mattdonna9677]

Wow, have you ever read the constitution and the bill of rights ?

[@TennisArena365]

Wrong

[@jukkaramo3351]

Which one?

[@robinsattahip2376]

I would not fight a war for it now, America has become a joke.

[@vivians9392]

No, you are the bad joke! You don't deserve America the Great...

[@TheFullmetal88m]

Holy freaking propaganda lol i mean i served in the Army like my family has since we came to this country but even i think this is to much lol

[@rcherLansky]

By lying. Saved you 47 minutes. You're welcome

[@FlgOff044038]

1942 to 1945 Australia 1939-1945 We fought whilst the US made money. Sleeping whilst bleeding others dry.

[@jmrrrdann3369]

Shut up

[@michaelpelzek8882]

Yup the united states bled so much money that they Inacted the largest invasion ever aswell as keep the Russians and British in the fight and existing to this day. Such a good deal.

[@jimcarlson6157]

lapdog of the uk 🇬🇧

[@jennklein1917]

Such a sad culture