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- Franklin D. Roosevelt lived a complicated life, one day he'd be dealing with his marriage and his illness and the next he'd be dealing with Stalin and WW2. This documentary sheds light on his enduring legacy in history as America's longest serving president.
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My dad told me a story....when FDR died was one of the few times he saw his dad cry ..they knew no other president that took us out of the great depression....1932-1945
The war was the single greatest occurrence to end the depression. FDR and Congress were still floundering up to that time
Gasoline was rationed food was rationed couldn't buy a vehicle for the duration of the war didn't seem like good economic times during the war
@@davidniggemeyer1692 Truman got along with Hoover and felt the roots of the depression originated with Harding and Coolidge.
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Yeah, it only took him 8 years with little to show for his efforts other than growing Socialism here....then he was drug kicking and screaming into WWll, THEN the Depression ended.
He would have been elected to a fifth term. The man gave the people what they wanted. Revisionists can try to go back and besmirch his good name, but the election results speak for themselves. He was also particularly popular in the south, especially among white voters. Many of those voters grandchildren today are hard line right wingers.
FDR and ER are two of my favorite Americans. I thank God every day for all the good they did in the world, and can honestly say that if it were not for them, my life would be upside down. Social Security has been a life saver after years of mental health issues. Bless them.
It's difficult choices politicians have to make to balance our budget do you have any suggestions so as not to leave our children a bankrupt shell of a nation I ask this respectfully
@@fritzforsthoefel8031 SS is not out of the " budget ". It is self-sustaining if politicians and the citizens make the necessary changes to it. Senior get a little less, workers give a little more. Or raise the "cap" to have the highest income workers contribute more to the general fund, although this would change the philosophy of SS being based on self-contributions. I can't see a nation that doesn't support its aged and disabled. Saying that private charity will do this is just a way of avoiding the reality.
There is a cap on ss because there is a limit on how much one can earn
Ss is based soley on a Ponzi scheme that democrats set up if you set up an investment plan set up like ss and medicare you would face charges
You can't see a nation that don't support the blind and disabled you don't pay enough taxes to support the blind and disabled what is that easy to spend our children's money by sending the bills to them so no we do not support the blind and disabled our children will have to because you won't pay enough taxes to pay for it why is thst
Powerful riveting story! Very well done! 😊
Excellent-thank you!
hands up🙌for the great narrator
as 7th generation American, & 5th generation Georgian, USA, my mother family were residents of Harris County, in the 1930-40`s & my mother (now deceased) were aware & observed close up of
President Roosevelt, a real people`s President !! also, not politically correct statement for current time`s BUT a "Man`s Man" !
You are not just forgiven but applauded for your use of words that send the loathsome heirs of the greatest generations to hysteria.
There’s no untold story. People don’t read anymore. It’s the unread story.
True, andreasmodugno
well said
another excellent video.. great work.
FDR is the reason for presidential term limits. If only we could get term limits for senators and representatives.
Proof term limit dumb idea
Term limits are needed now more than ever. The congress retires millionaires because they use their endless careers to get rich not caring about being public servants in the least. Most are corrupt….
Absolutely Especially In Minnesota The Most Liberal State In Country
@@LorenEpperson I’m in Washington state, we have the likes of Patty Murray
Good Thing Too Because FDR Thought He Was All But Indestructible
Excellent presentation for a hero of mine and fellow polio victim. He died 2 years before I was born but although flawed was criticality vital to the time. A giant who gave beyond what he could for the betterment of humanity through its worst imaginings and behavior. I feel a very close affinity for the man always.
This whole video tells us that he was a snake for all of his infidelity. Good choice for a hero.....
@@Jake-cz1kb so I take it that you’ve never cheated on someone or did anything that would be considered snake like? And that you came anywhere even light years close to pulling the country through a depression and a world war for 4 terms in office that essentially shortened his life? Sounds kinda partisan, petty and snake like.
@@wavoconqueso He didn’t pull the country through a depression, his policies extended it. The only thing that ended the depression was war. War is great for the economy.
@@Jake-cz1kb Specifically how did he extend it? By putting people to work to earn a living? Or was it the fireside chats that gave people hope when the WHOLE WORLD was in a depression? And when the Japanese bombed Pearl did he not mobilize the country to be the supplier to GB and the Allies of armaments to fight against being decimated? Yes the war ended the depression. So what? What have you done to contribute to society that comes to 1000th his efforts? Are you MAGA?
@@Jake-cz1kb Troll
Outstanding Presentation !
Horrible narrator...
Huge respect to both Eleanor and Franklin. So different, yet so together.
Roosevelt made sure I have Social Security, but Truman fired Mac Arthur and that was ten times as brave.
@@wolfgangholtzclaw2637
There was not much brave about that man I'm afraid...
Then you don't know H. Truman.@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726
Together like the Clintons. Only for convenience and to keep up appearances.
@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726*There wasn't much about Truman that was brave...
Awesome video. Roosevelt did a great deal for the USA.
Thanks for shart this valuable information.
Based on all the world an national issues he had to deal with during his 13-year term, FDR was the greatest president ever.
@@jacobdickinson7372 He was among the worst.
Thank you, very well done. To my favorite human beings in American history. An 80 year old citizen today.
Funny how do.many people view FDR''s polio as a disability, when in reality, it propelled him to greater heights of ability as he endeavored to disallow the disease from keeping him from achieving his and the nation's goals. Perhaps any other man, or woman, would have shrunk in the face of such an awesome challenge. His decision to do what he could to conceal the disorder was not done out of political concern, but to keep the American people and the world from having any degree degree of pity for him. It was essential that people viewed him as entirely capable of succeeding in any endeavor, not out of concern for his own reputation, but to keep from adding fear to people's concerns for their country.
He didn't have polio, he had Guillen-Barr Syndrome.
It was political manipulation.
@@davidlafleche1142. You do not know that as fact!!
@@skyeblu1722 Look it up. In hindsight, a lot of medical experts leaned in that direction; and, having read up on it, I am inclined to agree.
Seven years into his presidency still in a depression even his treasury secretary said his policies were a failure
His biggest crine wasn't his affairs or hiding his fatal illness but knowing he was dying and not keeping Truman in the loop. If he wasn't dying he should have been impeached
Indeed ... FDR and Wilson ... The original swamp rats ...
Excellent video!
The story of replacing Henry Wallace with Truman should have been included, The USA was almost able to move toward the implement Roosevelt's post war vision but not with Truman,
For sure..
He was removed because he had no support to be a nominee or carry out his plans.
@@SandfordSmythe He was probably a communist.
@@SandfordSmythe That is not true. Wallace was second only to FDR in popularity. Polling at the convention had Wallace at 65%. Truman was 2%. The party bosses responded to the big donors- not the American people, & rigged the convention, first by shutting it down the first day as Wallace sped ahead, and then through outright bribery & deal making with delegates.
I have always had the greatest admiration for President Roosevelt.
Why? Because of his policies that extended the depression? Or his knowledge of the Pearl harbor attack that he allowed to happen? You should read "Day Of Deceit" by Robert Stinnett
No surprise. The history books were written by his admirers. Thomas Sowell would disagree.
@@Jake-cz1kb Yup, a former Assistant Secretary of the Navy during WWI, and a man who personally loved his ships, would allow the destruction of his Pacific fleet so he could go to war against Japan? With what?
@@SandfordSmythe check out the book Day of deceit by Robert Stinnett. He wanted to get into the war, he knew aircraft carriers were the future, that’s why none were in port, lots of obsolete battleships and support ships.
@@Jake-cz1kb He should have been smarter, like Lincoln and LBJ, and have concocted some incident. Heck, Hitler dressed some dead Poles in German uniforms and claimed they were killed in an attack on Germany.
I truly enjoyed this video about Franklin D. Roosevelt; he did so much for our country.
Churchill was sitting there smiling like he let out a silent one and hoping Stalin would get blamed 😅
Good Vlog , covering many aspects of Istanbul with good narratives . Liked . Make more videos .
Eleanor is my favorite first lady she was so far ahead of her time
Left out the fact that Stalin's spies had Teheran and Yalta totally bugged. Microphones everywhere.
Power is addictive!
Excellent documentary. Always like this professor's videos. I am a Conversative Republican. But FDR is definitely a very powerful and admired president who continues to influence the world 80 years later
No idea what this means, assuming the word is supposed to be conservative.
It is such a fascinating movie. Did you know, that of all of the people involved in the American concentration camp system, including those who shot Japanese who tried to escape, not one of them was ever brought to justice? They retired and received their veterans benefits and Military pensions. All civilian authorities who ensured that the camps were properly laid out and built for never prosecuted. No one involved in the American concentration camps was ever tried, convicted, or executed
FDR signed executive order 9066. Locking up American citizens without due process.
I'm not surprised by that.
Franklin had been ravaged for more than a year by skin cancer that had fully metastasized. He had been in deep pain, and it’s likely that if he had not died from a stroke, he’d would have died from the ravages of cancer in a couple weeks
How did you learn this?
Interesting. I did not know this.
What source did you obtain this information from? Not believing it unless it contains from a reliable source.
The cocktail hour in FDR's White House was known as the children's hour (taken from the poem by Longfellow). Eleanor's father, Elliot Roosevelt, was an incurable alcoholic who broke her heart and it is no wonder that she detested all liquor. For all their differences, they were two halves of a whole and saved this country, and to a degree, the world. God rest their souls.
No. You have it half right. Yes, her father was an alcoholic. But as to she and FDR saving this country and the world, to a degree, is woefully untrue. In retrospect, this truth has been proven many times.
Dream on, baby. Dream on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the worst Presidents of all time.
@@davidlafleche1142 That's one of the most colossally ignorant remarks I've ever heard. I'd like to see you try to back that up...I like science fiction.
@@davidlafleche1142
Not very plausible. Pure infantile spite.
I don't think Anna was trying to hurt her mother by bringing Lucy Mercer back into the picture; she was trying to keep her father alive.
From all accounts it was not sexual at the end. Just someone to talk to.
I agree.
@@nicktaylor1015 That seems likely, and had those women been male, they would have been dubbed "cronies" and been not remarkable at all. Moreover, as I reflect on the situation, I wonder if Eleanor, immersed in progressive ideals and her own presumed expanded notions of personal relationships, was perhaps less affected than popular speculation has proposed. If there was really a short rift between mother and daughter following FDR's death, maybe it was Eleanor's resentment of the secrecy that kept her in the dark rather than the individuals who were involved. Obviously, those are just my idle thoughts.
What would TRUMP wife can't put Christmas ornaments up I am to lazy
I agree.
The greatest couple to ever occupy the Presidency. And, make no mistake, Eleanor was the indispensable part of that administration. She commanded almost as much authority and respect as FDR and in some instances even more. The military brass were intimidated by her when she came around just as if she were the commander-in-chief. Small wonder she still exerted great influence on the nation after leaving the White House. There hadn't been a First Lady like Mrs. Roosevelt before or since.and likely will never be. She rose to the occasion of her time and place in history.
Couple? One was a communist and the other a lesbian.
Greatest President of the 20th Century.
Thank you, President FDR, for bringing lasting peace to the world. So far, what you built is still holding up...
We'll never never see another Hero like FDR. A brilliant man. Who was stronger, than any of us could realize !!! Thank You Mr. President !!!!
The man was a weasel
And thank you sir for social security..
Anything with Prof. David Reynolds in it I watch.
Say what they want, FDR would still be President if he were alive today....This man was well intentioned and well meaning.......He is actually the type of person we now need in our Presidency....RIP
Totally agree!
Ditto that same here.
FDR was president today would be that much closer to Communism.
Thank-you for this engrossing documentary from whiceh I learned a lot about FDR, Eleanor, the conferences with Stalin, and the founding of the UN. Also th eextent of his polio and details of his final illness. So well done.
I've seen what was called test footage of F.D.R. in his waining days that was shot using different lens and light settings that was trying to make him look less like he was on deaths door.
CORRECTION-----Stalin loved his first wife who died young, but his second wife, Nodia, was the love of his life and he drove her to take her own life.....
I agree fully with that Jake
His last words are very common in stroke victim - a person might say, “wow, this is the worst headache…” and usually they are unconscious very shortly thereafter. If a person ever says they are having the worst headache they have ever had, ESPECIALLY if they have had prior strokes, have atrial fibrillation, etc., call 911 or whatever code is appropriate to your location. I hated strokes when I was in ICU. Your heart stops, I can speed it up, slow it down, stimulate it with electricity, do compressions. Your brain codes, I don’t have the equivalent of CPR.😢
That's how thing works many times, folks dying after complaining about a headache.
A man told me that his grandma's last words were: "Oh, goodness, I've got a terrible headache!" then she collapsed and died from a brain bleed at 83.
However the stress/trauma of losing her husband contributed to that.
First Lady of the United States of America was our best ambassador by far!!...
The assumptions about Eleanor having a lesbian relationship, and also claiming she failed to appreciate her husband is nothing less than gossip, and has no place in a DOCUMENTARY. Eleanor was all about equal rights for every human. Reducing love and friendship to the level of porn is disgusting and reflects on the writer whose mind is in the gutter.
Term limits should be decided by the voters.
Great use of the Bazantar
at 20:25, Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs peers into the bomb assembly. Amazing!
Roosevelt was a communist.
What a remarkable titan of the 20th century. I would wager that if FDR was alive at the end of the war there wouldn't have been a cold war.
One of those things we'll never know. Just like if Lincoln had lived, we might not have needed a civil rights movement a century later.
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Dead wrong. You are very ignorant of Stalin in particular, the the power politics of communism in general.
You are correct, Roosevelt would make America communist.
I guess the poster is from the "if we're just affable with them, they'll see things our way" school of strategy.
HE WAS NOT PERFECT......
HE INDURED ALL THE
PERSONAL SHIT....
AND THE POLICIAL
SHIT!......
AND STILL DID THE
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NO DOUBT......
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It still blows my mind that FDR ran for a 4th term looking as bad as he did.
Professor David Reynolds is a true genius! This is by far the best documentary ever done about President Roosevelt, including the real relationship with his wife, and the fact that she was a well known lesbian, something that is never discussed up to this day, as if that fact would somehow tarnish the incredible person she was and the enormity of her legacy. I feel so lucky I got to see this, I've become a faithful subscriber from now on, it's just brilliant!
...a well known Lesbian..?
I don't think there's proof of that... just like there was no proof for Sapfo [Σαπφώ] in my opinion...
@@nicolasbouyiouclis4726 Do we have a proof of any gay or lesbian historical figures? There is book I read many years ago about homosexuality in the first half of the 20th century, and she is mentioned several times. I don't think people, especially at the time in history, went around saying that the First Lady liked women, people wouldn't even say it nowadays. If you have a picture of Sappho of Lesbos with two very masculine women who were her friends, then I would believe what you are saying...
Horrible narrator.
Horrible narrator...
Lucy made FDR happy. Eleanor couldn't. Leave him at peace.
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AND . . . to add to all of that, he also was our "Stamp Collector In Chief."
He and Postmaster General Farley were responsible for producing many superb issues seen by millions daily, that served to produce uplift and hope.
Tho subtly constant his and Farley's work did just that. Collecting during the Depression helped many through those dark times.
I really enjoyed this video as I greatly admire FDR> Although the definitive telling of FDR's story was the one man play that Chris Elliott did back in the 1980's. A tour de force.
Whoever uploaded the video did edit out the opening scene and that scene was someway relating to the context of the documentary title.
Other versions of the same video have been on CZcams for over 10 years, of this 2015 episode
Winnie y Clemmie Churchill 😢😢 para Roosevelt. ❤
Let's be kind to Eleanor. She was madly in love with FDR after a childhood of neglect. Then came his roving eyes.
She had roaming eyes to, With women,
@@DebbieBaker-l1nyour comment is Idiotic at a minimum..
In her Heart, she truly was a Lesbian, not faulting her, that's just who she was deep down
@@larrybaldwin8325 and I'm sure you know this first hand.. you're witness to that...
@nicolasbouyiouclis4726 , Actually read it in Books from Different Biographers, may wanna try reading 1 every now and then
What can I say? After you call WW2 in Europe a struggle 😵💫 the rest becomes just a FDR love story! 🥂
*an FDR
Gotta love British tabloid documentaries
Tabloid documentaries? Professor Reynolds is far from a tabloid reporter. I know him personally and have attended his lectures in Britain. He's more than just a Cambridge and Harvard graduate and and one of the best historians, period. I wish we had one like him in the states. With a more intelligent electorate we could have avoided a despotic administration like the last.
@@ryanreedgibsonsince you love Britain perhaps you’d be much happier there.
Oh yes, you’re referring to Cornpop
@ryanreedgibson I wasn't demeaning or making any personally derogatory remarks towards the reporter himself..
their disgusting....
He let Pearl Harbor Happen, even though his intelligence had told him it was going to happen he let it happen to draw us into the war against Japan and then sending troops to Europe to Britain and on to Europe.... If he wasn't the supreme egotist he was and so ill the Yalta agreements with Stalin would have been less of a gift to the Russians of Eastern Europe.
"Old world imperialism" caused WWII is a new and interesting theory -- as is the notion that American isolationists believed it.
But then this is CZcams. Not enough room for a fact in its narrow margins.
Wave after wave after wave. They forgot who we were- needed to be detached for Magick. Did it work?
Day of Deceit-The truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor by Robert B.Stinnett.
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F.D.R's policies didn't even dent the Great Depression. They made it worse and turned it into a decade long economic crisis.
Basically all the policies he put into place were just vote buying gimmicks to ensure he would remain President for life and a democratic party majority for 100 years.
I have a lot of issues with how he managed the US during World War 2 also. His internment of American citizens of Japanese decent, arming the Soviet Union and not taking the Japanese threat in the Pacific more seriously which lead to Pearl Harbor.
I think FDR was to obsessed with Europe before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the point he was stripping the US Navy and military of weapons to send to Britain and the USSR which put American troops at a severe disadvantage in the early phase of the war in the Pacific.
FDR died on my 10th birthday. To many people he was a God. He did make a märk on American history. He was loved by many but his window was not! People had many derogatory comments about her. As a kid I do remember a Radio program called Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt. What Puzzles me is the Almost frantic support among Blacks and Jews despite his Jim Crow and anti Semitic Attitudes. I Believe he had five kids some who were active in politics for awhile; Jimmy, Eliot, FDR jr and possibly a couple of others. Whatever, they dropped off the Radar After a year or two. It seems now the Roosevelt Clan is lost in the Mists of time.
Something sick & twisted for a daughter to assist on the adultery of her father
Throwing smutt at men like Churchill and FDR is deplorable!!!
We couldn't have a better leaders, FDR and Eleanor Roosevelts, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent " is my favorite quote, that happened to be Elenore, she wasn't preoccupied with her emotions, her emotions was on the well been of the people, a Truth Service warrior! No other first lady can hold the candle to her..
Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt is one of U.S.A. greatest president. He gave great encouragement to protecting the good people at that time. May God always bless you and your family.
Your voice goes quiet at the end of some of your sentences and I can't understand what you are saying.
Yes, you are correct, what a horrible narrator, makes it impossible to follow the narration ......
Yes, isn't that irritating, what a horrible narrator!!!
The Soviet Union got three votes in the UN. All other members only got 1 vote.
President Roosevelt had handsome sons 😋😋😋😋
We've got a wheelchair Governor here in Texas and he does a hell of a good job!
FDR one of the smartest dictators that ever lived.
Jesus man, you read my mind. Besides letting capitalism win the war and deciding on the Germany-first policy, the rest of his administrations were "progressive" (regressive, actually) disasters.
He was not. Dictator ya f ing a hole.
Yeah, like he dictated the expansion of the Supreme Court in 1937, right?
Poor military people are dying for reason
FDR increased the length of the Depression and believed
only he could manage WWII. FDR was a horrendous megalomaniac.
Those things Roosevelt was constrained from doing is what prolonged the Depression
Calling him a”horrendous megalomaniac “ leaves no words for Donald Trump
FDR had a close conservative friend Morganthau as Secretary of the Treasury who recommend tight spending after the crisis was over. Then came WWII, huge spending on borrowed money. The Mother of All Economic Stimuli.
Reynolds endless slobbering over FDR is revolting. He was a tragically, flawed human being, and a tragically flawed president.
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American political history
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I have my dignity.
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Truth Nothing but the
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I wish all the CZcams authorities would publish their research for peer-review. Even if we limit their "peers" to only those who subscribe to the same conspiracy theory as given fact (bolstered as they are by the unassailable logic of "Everyone knows..." and "Oh, c'mon"), could they at least get together and agree on just one version, before wasting everyone's time?
I wish for freedom of speech. CZcams might get sullen and pouty about that; fvck 'em.
substantive choice republic
Was FDR aware of the concentration camps or no?
I really believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt was the best president that the United States ever had. Despite Abraham Lincoln being rated in some polls as being the best President, Roosevelt presided over a country that was going through some of the worst years in history, i.e. The Great Depression and World War ll. My parents remembered Roosevelt as being a truly great President. And he was President for such a long period of time - from 1932 to 1945. His terms of office truly wrecked his health and contributed to his early death at only 63. He truly cared about the poor, the sick, and the needy, despite coming from a wealthy, priveleged background. What a great President he was!!
If you read most history books you will see that he was very aware of war coming and misled the American voters of his intentions. Classic political moves to raise taxes and lose soldiers.
Okay if that s what you think wavoconqueso but I happen to not agree with you
The Cold War for all its issues has given the World almost 80 years of peace.
Eleanor had a rich, even lurid, sexual life on her own.
Most of us do.
@JustTurned60 Not I but my father, a FBI agent, was there and was assigned to follow her and report what he found to J Edgar. I completely agree about her greatness and the greatness of her husband. I posted comment because it bewilders me why she resented Franklin for seeking compassion at the end of his life while she was busy with her own peregrinations. A minor observation.
If we are lucky.
@@skate103
I wish FDR had been in the White House after 9/11
"The wheelchair president" ?? Are you fucking kidding me smh
If Russia hadnt been with us,Germany would have been unstoppable
We were with them. They already had fought a long war with terrible military and civilian deaths. We couldn't begin to imagine their sacrifices.
giving away cuba worst thing fdr did
Its futile to blame only few of heads,or families, the culture of corruption and cronyism got set after second world war already the nexus between bussiness and politicians always been here and always is gointo be, they fulfill each others needs, fund each other for going around in circles favors, the way bussiness boomed with wars and industrilization, then fuels, tech and so on, in all of this mess if politicians only make sure to work for entire public, nobody then would mind their crony circles favors, well for all those changes read my books on kindle thats all i can say at this time.
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someone who outlived his need by ten or 12 years
FDR was assassinated. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Strangely enough FDR chief of staff, Edwin "Pa" Watson died of a cerebral hemorrhage on February 20, 1945 on the return voyage from Yalta Conference. FDR secretary and mistress, Missy LeHand in June 1941, suffered a major stroke.
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No, FDR died of natural causes. Look at Jimmy Carter. He looked young, healthy and energetic when he started; four years later, he looked much older and sicker. Roosevelt already had health issues before he was elected. He was a chain smoker, he had high blood pressure and he went through three full terms. In his last photos, he looked like death warmed over.
CORRECTION TO MY EDUCATING COMMENT FURTHER BELOW WITH RELEVANT / PERTINENT CITATIONS REFERENCES!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt_Presidential_Library_and_Museum
Yeah, Stalin supported Truman, by providing Soviet pilots to help North Korea in the unprovoked Korean War. What a Roosevelt sob story. You need to make a follow up story about his socialist policies that kept the mournful masses in poverty by high taxes and and government over spending!
Even today he is divisive
Good documentary except for the jabs & overt untruths regarding Stalin.
Wilson Deborah Harris Sharon Jones Barbara
Govt could have shown Japan devastating ability of bomb setting it off in non populated area instead of killing babies, children, elderly, sick innocents. They would have gotten the point without mass murder
I'm pretty sure those were the only two we had. There may have been a third, I'm not sure. But if you're right, why did we have to drop the Nagasaki bomb. Also, as terrible as the nukings were, the firebombing of Tokyo in the Spring of 1945 was considerably worse.
War is inhumane think of that before starting it if it goes,dont be critical of the methods
Can you please kindly explain after the Imperial Government of Japan, even after the first bomb was dropped, did not surrender ?. Kindly explain after the second bomb was dropped the Imperial Government Of Japan they would not surrender without conditions ?. A demonstration ?. What would of happened has the demonstration bomb failed. Very new technology back then. The Imperial Government of Japan wasn't nice, three things to remember, December 7th, 1941. The Batan death march. The Rape of Nanchung. Given the mindset of the Imperial Government of Japan at that time, there wasn't a lot of choices on what to do.
Roosevelt was wrong Churchill was right.
Many people believed Churchill was as criminal as Hitler was.. if not worse!
FDR CROOK