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- In the public eye, Churchill and Roosevelt held an unbreakable partnership. The two leaders used this to unite their nations and stand up to the riptide of global fascism. However, behind the scenes these iconic allies were far from the best of friends. Secrecy and distrust formed a rift between them that would persist throughout WW2.
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Wrong Queen Elizabeth was not the Monarch ar this time. It was her father King George vi
Referring to King George's wife. Queen Elizabeth..
I was wondering!!
King George VI wife was Elizabeth Bowes Lyon so Queen Elizabeth is correct.
@@chrischetland9642Queen Consort.
Elizabeth crowned in 1952
I think we should not underestimate Churchill. He figured Stalin out early on and rightly he was wary of him
Unlike Roosevelt who was a fellow traveller of the Bolsheviks.
Stalin- enslaved 20 million people and killed around 25-30 million people. Most of them died from hunger.
@@beowulf1312 Tell me how many of your colonies voted on being your colonies. It's just genocide and suppression when the other side does it right?
Underestimate Churchill? Only a fool does that. He kept his country together, encouraged them to believe that victory was possible and made the tough decisions lesser men would have shied away from. He fought at Yalta for the Poles, while Roosevelt was happy to leave them under Russian dominance and then was blamed for how things turned out for Poland. He warned both Roosevelt and Truman about Stalin and was ignored, obviously Americans knew better than anyone else. They could ‘work’ with the mass murderer and take his word. Look how that turned out. He wasn’t perfect by any means, he had his failures as we all know but at that moment in time he was indeed the voice in the wilderness.
@@pamelaiverson5527 Churchill is now defiled by those who where not born,defiled by the woke left and by many of immigrants who talk the hind leg off a donkey about things they conjure up and know nothing about as they weren’t even born.Had we lost the war,they wouldn’t be here today.
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It is often biased…but what POV isn’t?
@@doogleticker5183In what ways, I am actually curious.
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A good summarization of some of the dynamics between FDR and Churchill.
If Churchill was drunk, just imagine what he could have done sober.
Being drunk likely helped him lol...
Britain needed a charismatic drunkard to get through 1940, 1941 etc.
His interest in alcohol did not affect his judgement....or his life span!
Churchill King of sarcasm , Sarcasm being the lowest form of wit, he certainly was . If you read about him ( not the stuff written by sycophants ) he's not what the English make him out to be. czcams.com/video/UB_Gs-0dhOo/video.html
Frankly, nothing !
FDR had such a naive view of Stalin. Glad Truman didn’t, but by then, eastern Europe’s fate was sealed.
Error at 3:43. Although they did meet in Jun 1918, Churchill was not "then Britain's first lord of the admiralty", rather that post was held by Sir Eric Geddes. Although Churchill had been a prior First Sea Lord, he resigned in Nov 1915 after the Dardanelles campaign and prior to the US's entry into the war.
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Well done on doing the research & gave the accurate & true version of events .
As a born & bred Brit my interest in our British History is constant curious especially the relationship across the pond .
The comment of Roosevelt on Churchill in 1918 was bad statesmanship added to my knowledge & still being added too & why I'm so interested in this vidio ..
Correct, Churchill had got back into office as Minister of Munitions in 1918 but was not as influential as he had been at the Admiralty. Shows the importance of “being nice to people on the way up, because you you might meet them again (when you’re both at the top)”
Churchill resigned because he had caused the sinking of RMS Lusitania.
The US sided with France and the British Empire from the very beginning of World War I, as it would during World War II.
Churchill was not the First Sea Lord. That is a military post for an Admiral, heading the Royal Navy. He had been the First Lord of the Admiralty, a political appointment.
Excellent documentary. I wasn't aware of Roosevelt's view of Stalin and the USSR as a postwar ally rather than the threat that Churchill correctly envisioned.
Churchill was an inconsistant man
with many major defeats in his resume. ( Gallipoli in. WW1. )
Plus Britain had. DEFAULTED on their WW1 debt to the USA. in a
arrogant and bullying way. That occured in the early 1930's and is
almost never reported. That is a
MAJOR reason Roosevelt did not
trust Churchill or the British government.
Also , Churchill was a drunk., and
that is always a problem.
I was living back then: born in August 1940! I never knew that Roosevelt & Churchill didn’t care for each other for many years! I was just shocked!!! 😢🙏😇🫶
P.S. Excellent documentary!!!
@@EvonneThibert Stalin was the Boss in the Big Three! Both FDR and Churchill, aristocrats and the winner of the Great was was a poor son of a cobbler.
@michaelgeraghty3989 did you know that there was a Soviet Union invasion plan of Europe by June 1941. Operation Barbarossa was a pre-emptive strike by Germany and her 5 allies(Romania, Croatia, Finland, Italy and Hungary. There was also 2 divisions of Belgian troops and 47,000 Spanish volunteers, albeit Spain was neutral) to crush the threat of Bolshevism forever. The Russians had 170 divisions of soldiers at Germany's eastern front in June 1941. They were getting ready to invade Europe. Soviet leader Kruschev admitted this fact after Stalin died in 1955. But this is never talked about...
Winston Churchill;
"Empires, just don't bargain."
American Attorney General, Robert Jackson;
"Republics do."
Wasn’t even a good bargain either 🙄 British and their empire boohoo
@@Roodski ...NOTHING is "FOREVER"- not in THIS world-(!)
@@Roodski "Boohoo"? That's what an increasing number of people are sayng about the USA these days.
@@jugbywellington1134 at least we never called ourselves an “empire”
@@Roodski You make that sound like a bad thing. I suggest you watch Team America: that's how we see you.
The only thing Roosevelt assured giving Churchill plenty of in terms of supplies was liquor!!!
Not surprised, both of them were powerful personalities and particularly intelligent, driving on the same roads, but both of them were used to different rules.
The only reason Germany invaded France, Holland, and Belgium was because of the landing of British Expeditionary Forces in France in which they threatened their rear while Germany was trying to mobilize for an attack on the Soviet Union, which was always Germany’s goal, Lebensraum, growing room in the East.
The UK and France were not the target. Soviet Union could provide oil, timber, minerals, natural gas, food of which the UK could not.
They had no interest in the UK nor its Empire which was very alien to them.
So what began as the Defense of Poland which in effect was never accomplished, the action by Britain and France effectively ended the British Empire with the signing of the Atlantic Charter in which FDR insisted on in order for Britain to receive help via the End Lease Act.
FDR thought Churchil was a pompous man!
@@cliveengel5744 Look up Von Schlieffen Plan and get back to me. They went through the low countries to get around the Maginot Line. The BEF was put in to enforce the Versailles Treaty which Germany had violated too many times already.
@@watchthe1369 This had nothing to do with the Great Patriotic War and the landing of the BEF.
Germain's focus was on Lebensraum - Growing Room in the East and not about France and the UK.
The Great War was not only fought on the Western Front but in Central and Eastern Europe. It was the last war fought in Europe by these ridiculous Royal Families and consigned them to Regallia and to Marching bands.
So the Von Battenbergs, the Romanovs, and the Bourbon Kings from then onwards were consigned to history, never again would they fight a war!
Only the Feathered Caps, the Boars Head Dress, the Silk Sashes, the Swords, the Horses are seen on Bastille Day, during the Trooping of the Color and on Familiy occasion in pretending that they still run the Nation(s)
You see thing only through a British view which as we know is just false.
Read “My Beliefs” it was clearly started and Stalin already knew in 1933 that he would have to face Germany sooner or later.
The British in their hastely signed Treaty with Warsaw, 30 Days before the Invasion of Poland, stumbled into a War they could not win and this cost them their Empire and in signing the Atlantic Treaty, they consigned themselves to be subordinates of the US, which continues to this day.
They werent driving on the same roads, the british drive on the wrong side.
There is noreal comparisons between them .Churchill spent most of the war trying to get America into the war
I am an American. This was a very good documentary. At many times the Nazis could’ve been strangled in the cradle in the mid 30s or earlier by France and Britain. And they didn’t you can’t go back in time and change something when they were standing alone against the Germans, we should’ve been more supportingand we should’ve gotten in the war earlier with our troops and our weapons. Roosevelt comes off as a wishy-washy politician. I don’t know why he’s thought of as a great president. His policies prolonged the great depression for one thing. Churchill is probably the greatest man of the 20th century.
It was strategy.
Germany was "used" to balance out the rise of the SU.
The Limitrophe States like Poland, were the pivot, and the "wall" which were supposed to keep Nazism and Stalinism apart.
Hopeless analysis and investigation.
Churchill was an Imperliastic pig and only came to a country they couldn't colonize out of desperation
I’m American however I respected Churchill more then I did Roosevelt!
I respected both persons! I am thankful for leading the countries out of depression and winning the war!
3:00 to 4:00 mark - Roosevelt refers to Churchill as more than just "a stinker." He describes Churchill as the single most arrogant person he had ever seen, or at least, words to that effect (been some years since I studied their relationship).
One Churchill is equal to 100 Roosevelt 🇬🇧
Churchill had the experience of War and more informed than most. It was conclusions based on knowledge, not arrogance.
And remember FDR had met Macarthur
What FDR did not understand was Churchill had the experience and judgement to back his higher intellect.
Churchill may have been like a mirror in front of Roosevelt. Got to be arrogant to go for 4th Term so ill. 😅
The sad end is that Roosevelt was duped by Stalin and we all know the result of that...
Roosevelt was a communist.
All history channel docs are fabulous.. limited in volume yea but great ..never get bored watching them..
@mikekincaid7412 the History channel is not a reliable source for accurate history. It's far too mainstream, leaving out essential information with outright untruths.
Machiavelli would find himself in quite a contest with our Franklin. What a conniving s.o.b. he was.
Excellent. Bravo!!
Finally, a series that has rid itself of the starry-eyed nonsense of “The Special Relationship.”
Yes. That legend is false. Something Churchill invented to keep up British morale.
Do you have any information on “The Special Relationship.” ?
World War one 1914 to 1918, America entered.1917
World War Two 1939 to 1945 America entered 1942. When Germany declared war on the USA. That tells you a lot.
@@iriscollins7583 Yes! America was smart. I still wish we had managed to totally stay out of the first one.
@@iriscollins7583That tells you nothing more than America entered the war. It is naive not to ask 'Qui bono?'. What was in it for America? Especially as War is always an extension of economic and geopolitical policy. And when you look deeper into the international economic and geopolitical of the time, you will see more clues why America went to war in World War I and World War II. And how it reflects the adage that "Geopolitics is like a poker game, where everyone is lying." And half the game is working out who is lying, about what, and when.
Well done Mr Churchill … America can be and was a “Fair Weather Friend” with self interest at heart.
Think Ukraine.
In fairness, FDR had to wait till public opinion shifted in order to enter the war.
Sir Winston was right about Poland.
He was right about a lot of things, however he sadly tried to bullishly push through his agenda because he had little patience, or use, for diplomacy.
Chamberlain was right about Poland, April 1939 brought the world through to April 1945.
Giving weapons to the USSR and calling it the “Arsenal of Democracy”was a sick joke.
At the end, as far as Stalin goal to dominate Central and East Europe, Churchill was right. It was a nightmare that lasted almost 50 years.
The nightmare has not ended. In restless sleep, dreams fever our night, we rouse awhile, then fall back into darkness.
@@davidarchibald50 You are right 100%. The nightmare has lasted too long, the Russians are still a menace and will remain so.
Roosevelt's administration had up to 2,000 employees actually working as agents for the USSR. His administration protected them. The US military broke the code for the cables between the Soviet delegation in the US and Moscow, and when Roosevelt's wife Eleanore was informed of this, she notified the Soviets. She betrayed her own country for the communist regime. Roosevelt had as his most important aid a man named Harry Hopkins, who actually lived with the Roosevelts in the White House. He was named as one of the Soviet's most important agents after the fall of the USSR by a former Soviet spy chief. ....
Roosevelt brought a dramatic increase in central control to the US domestically. One of the originators of fascism, Mussolini, referred to Roosevelt as a fellow fascist. Roosevelt broke the tradition of running for only 2 terms as president, and ran 4 times even though he was very ill. He threatened to pack the supreme court with his yes men in order to push through his authoritarian fascist system, which actually prolonged significantly the Great Depression according to modern academic research
The question is: did Roosevelt have any understanding of the atrocities that Stalin (and Lenin before him) had committed? The mass-murders, deportations, deliberate starvation… The allies didn’t also did not believe the rumors about mass executions and termination camps of the Germans during the war.
SHHHEEE__IT. I've never heard of that before. I know of the post war traitors giving Atomic secrets to the commies, and the infiltration of Britains Mi6, by the Cambridge 4(5).
Throughout this excellent documentary, I was thinking that Roosevelt was suffering from Dementia.@@johnl5316
"Empires just don't bargain" said the beggar.
Republics do replied the ungrateful bugger.
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Who could ever forget that time the royal air force beat off the luftwaffe 13:40
Roosevelt's worry about Churchill's over-use of alcohol denies the fact that his own use of alcohol was also excessive.
No, it was not.
Who told you that, you blitherting nit???
Churchill knew that Germany if they conquered Europe would be able to conquer England, He would do any thing to save England
A very interesting show.
One consideration many people fail to recall is how vast lands Britain controlled vs USA. They were neck and neck in their reach and influence.
Brilliant history of those relationships.
I like the nickname Gen. Vinegar Joe Stilwell give Roosevelt. He referred to him as "Old Rubber Legs," which really sums up his character!
Well, I think FDR in a better light, now.
FDR saved the world from tearny!!! the doc is ify!!!
Roosevelt's effete urbanity had to drive Churchill mad.
Hello Patricia how are you doing today?....Yes you are correct Roosevelt's effete had to drive Churchill mad...i hope you are enjoying the show?
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At 34:49, The narrator states 'Chuchill confides to Queen Elizabeth...'. George VI was the king then. What a stupid mistake,,,,,
Queen Elizabeth was Elizabeth II's mother, and married to George VI.
I believe George VI wife was name Elizabeth, Queen Consort.
Stalin, of course, outmaneuvered Roosevelt completely! As Brooke pointed out in his diary, Stalin was the only leader that never lost his political and strategic direction
How so? America dropped isolationism after pearl harbor. He then deregulated industry ,allowing us to become a industrial power house. Before 1941 we had less fighter planes than Britton . . We then fought a 2 front war from across the Pacific to across the Atlantic. If Stalin outmaneuvered Roosevelt then post war America has Stalin to thank for turning America to a capitalist democracy .
What this documentary showed me is that Churchill deserves most of the credit for building an unlikely alliance with America that snapped them out of their self absorbed concerns. Whether or not that was a positive or a negative for the World as a whole his for real historians to decide!
In reality it was never the Americans that stopped the uk speaking German but it was the uk that stopped Americans speaking German
Who really Needs regular T.V. if U have History
A Must 4 People that still want 2 learn r just watch again 💙💠
You must not underestimate the loyalty between both, especially their openness. Roosevelt bumped into a stark naked Churchill, leaving the bathroom "The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States"
Only natural that Allies disagree. More so with heads of states of democracies.
Churchill was obsessed with the Americans to the point he couldn't make objective observations. His "friend" FDR plotted against him because like so many Americans all he could think about was destroying the British Empire. The meeting in Tehran was a compromise location suggested by Stalin who thought he was being tested by Churchill and FDR. The original location was to be in either the Soviet Far East or the Aleutian Islands, chosen so that Churchill couldn't attend. In the event FDR stayed at the Soviet embassy, Tehran and the two were able to plot how they were going to carve up the post war world.
It ignores the role the sister-in-law of Churchill had in the war, which was as important as the Pearl Harbour attack.
What did Churchill's sister-in-law do?
Read Liberty or death by Patrick French.
@@bhattkris Why not just summarise it? The person asked a quite straightforward question.
Did she make tea the wrong way?
With the Nazis on their doorsteps and daily bombing raids by the Luftwaffe, I can’t help but to be in awe of the astounding resolve that was shown by Churchill, the RAF, and the general British population. I do wonder,as American, if most Brits today realize what their grandparents or great grandparents had to endure.
Both my Grandfather's went through 2 WW fought in WW1. One crippled but the other an Air Raid Warden in WW2 in the Blitz
My generation does being post war babies but I am not sure the next and subsequent generations do probably because the memories are not part of their lives like it was part of ours - different times and a lack of education in terms of history is the culprit - not politically correct to discuss it at school today they would far rather discuss the 150 genders!!
A lot of British people realize that Churchill's war cost the British their empire and their standing as world leader.
@@Don-mu2qhThey realise because they know how to spell their language.
@@Don-mu2qhNow we have the Commonwealth
Roosevelt was certainly hoisted by his own petard
0:25 notice how FDR made churchill lean into the handshake.. wonder if they did that on purpose for this doc
Uh, Roosevelt was an invalid.
And that's exactly how people jump to conclusions without knowing back stories
@@papaown lol i didnt think about the polio thing, was just an initial observation
@@johncrossphd342now they have one with Dementia who falls up Steps.
Roosevelt was Physically crippled unlike Biden who is mentally crippled.
Roosevelt described Churchill as "A real stinker."😂
Churchill had a better choice of words for Roosevelt.
I’m hoping that Churchill knew as much about Stalin.
Liberals allied with communism. Communist flags flew across American and British with the promotion by FDR and Churchill. America celebrated the Red Army as freedom fighters the same as the blue coats.
He certainly did, it was his underlying fear the entire second half of the war. He knew what would be the fate of the eastern European nations but there was little He could do about it short of going to war with the Russians.
It seems that the American people were more inclined to actively support Britain than Roosevelt himself, who might have been quite a danger to British interests in 1941.
He was a communist.
The most amazing thing is that Churchill dealt with the wrong Roosevelt. Theodore would have been better.
As I kid I was taught and I read that FDR and Churchill were best buds. I was shocked when I realised the truth.
Hitler’s declaration of war against the United States is the most powerful testimony to his egomania: how could he have been so dumb; or is this an unfair, teleological assessment from a position of knowledgeable retrospect?
Roosevelt's administration had up to 2,000 employees actually working as agents for the USSR. His administration protected them. The US military broke the code for the cables between the Soviet delegation in the US and Moscow, and when Roosevelt's wife Eleanore was informed of this, she notified the Soviets. She betrayed her own country for the communist regime. Roosevelt had as his most important aid a man named Harry Hopkins, who actually lived with the Roosevelts in the White House. He was named as one of the Soviet's most important agents after the fall of the USSR by a former Soviet spy chief. ....
Roosevelt brought a dramatic increase in central control to the US domestically. One of the originators of fascism, Mussolini, referred to Roosevelt as a fellow fascist. Roosevelt broke the tradition of running for only 2 terms as president, and ran 4 times even though he was very ill. He threatened to pack the supreme court with his yes men in order to push through his authoritarian fascist system, which actually prolonged significantly the Great Depression according to modern academic research.....He was obviously a destructive force.
@@johnl5316 The mixture of revulsion and disbelief at the behavior of Mrs. Roosevelt [forget the ‘Eleanor’ bit that gets this unelected pseudo-President a more elevated profile of her own than is appropriate in her particular case] suggests that, despite everything we might not like, our modernity, more specifically in its media-related elements, has come a long way forward in a positive direction from those awful days when all kinds of patrician arrogance among the so-called elites of ‘the Allies’ blighted this country and its politics. We got through WWII despite, not because of them, and their efforts. This negative generalization is entitled, if not obliged, to be considered because of the misinformed, hero-worshipping generalizations that are made in favor of those that managed that war. I had some spirited ‘discussions’ with my parents and relatives on this subject. Once they got over the ‘how dare you?!’ nonsense, one or two, notably, I’m proud to say, my father came round to my (generation’s) way of thinking. In fact, my father became quite unimpressed with Tom Brokaw and his pompous, simpering approach to war heroes, especially when he interviewed ‘leaders’ who were just politicians with the gift-of-the-gab who had no idea what the end of a gun barrel looked like from head-on. I have distrusted every British and American politician involved in any kind of war anywhere, ever since.
Over the years, I have come to believe that Churchill, the patrician, was able to think like and empathize with the common man, although it didn’t look like it. However, FDR had no such insight; but then, Churchill was a writing historian, a self-aware literary mind, and a man with understanding and empathy for the common man (even though it and he might not appear that way) despite his privileged upbringing. FDR was a thinker and a strategist of his time and place, and one of great stature, but I question whether he had that deeper and more emotionally colored insight that stems from a literary and historical immersion of the type Churchill had despite his privileged upbringing. I’m speculating; I’m being opinionated; and I may be totally incorrect; but I need the benefit of a dialectic critique of what I’m suggesting. Did Churchill, the historian-type, have more insight than FDR? It’s a very provocative question, especially to those familiar with FDR’s role in the New Deal, the National Recovery Administration, and the ending of Prohibition.
@@Davidfooterman see comments by john5316
How about between the 3. Stalin as well
We sure could use a Roosevelt nowadays.
FDR had been trying to push lend lease from 1939, but US Congress didn't approve it until March 1941. The hesitancy wasn't from FDR but Congress.
That's what irks me about these British based docu series. They don't get that Presidents are beholden to the American voters. And 9 times out of 10 the voters will be against war, especially of it means defending some far away country that they have nothing to do with. A good President listens to their people.
And he hardly confided anything to the Queen Elizabeth as she was largely ten years away from the throne.
He would have had occasions to confide in her since she stayed in London with her husband King George VI. Then-princess Elizabeth is who you're thinking of. It can be confusing.
@@JollunaYou are sure right.
Churchill was too "demanded" ! He was a snob, but yet exactly what ,Britain need at that point in history.
not really. a peace deal by lord halifax would most likely secured a future of a better Europe
@@coloniser.-pfffft lmao what planet you from
@@dominiclane8538 agartha
Winston appears as a boy when shaking hand with Roosevelr on board a ship; in fact he was 8 years older
So much has changed and yet here we are again in a very similar situation and though the roles of certain players may have changed we see the same dynamics being played out.
I'll tell you what. Have read and reviewed and seen every documentary about FDR and Churchill and I can say this about their relationship: FDR felt sorry for Churchill. In fact am sure over time it certainly became empathic, but there are parts of every relationship where it's often better Not to know what the other person is going thru. In fact I'll go as far as to share, at some point FDR knew he was fatally ill and that added to his sympathy for a man like Churchill. Most men who've climbed all the many peaks and ridden the avalanches down in the due course of things, FDR welcomed death. In too many ways and in spite of his wealth, the weight of the benefactor to the world, the leader of the free world just overcoming the greatest conflagration in the history of Man, FDR welcomed an end of it. And knowing his comrade was of similar stock, he did not envy him any.
I don't think FDR had much of a conscience.
He was a communist and a great admirer of Stalin.
kenlodge. Really?
Roosevelt was a spoiled, rich, fancyboy who expected everyone to worship him. His purpose in life of his own glory.
Roosevelt's administration had up to 2,000 employees actually working as agents for the USSR. His administration protected them. The US military broke the code for the cables between the Soviet delegation in the US and Moscow, and when Roosevelt's wife Eleanore was informed of this, she notified the Soviets. She betrayed her own country for the communist regime. Roosevelt had as his most important aid a man named Harry Hopkins, who actually lived with the Roosevelts in the White House. He was named as one of the Soviet's most important agents after the fall of the USSR by a former Soviet spy chief. ....
Roosevelt brought a dramatic increase in central control to the US domestically. One of the originators of fascism, Mussolini, referred to Roosevelt as a fellow fascist. Roosevelt broke the tradition of running for only 2 terms as president, and ran 4 times even though he was very ill. He threatened to pack the supreme court with his yes men in order to push through his authoritarian fascist system, which actually prolonged significantly the Great Depression according to modern academic research.....He was obviously a destructive force.
Interesting tings you shared. I historically despise the man and yet the American public worships his legacy. My country is so full of ignorant morons I could walk on their heads for a ten miles and never touch the ground if the gathered.@@johnl5316
@@johnl5316 sure how about some sources because we know the Soviets never tell a lie - though you are racking up an impressive resume'
As I recall the history as it is laid out in the books on WW2 I own, the Lend Lease Act along with the food supply was vital to Britain and made the difference in 1941.
Thank God they were able to overcome their differences. For the sake of the free world.
An interesting but ultimately absurd argument that Roosevelt tried to stay out of the war and cynically use the war to weaken the British Empire. First, there was no reason at the time for the US to join the war against Germany. Roosevelt was clearly anglophilic, however he had to avoid any appearance of wanting war. Like wilson in 1916, he had to run as an anti-war candidate in 1940, and couldnt just turn around and advocate war. Add to that the fact that Roosevelt readily went on with the concept of the "Europe First" strategy even though that made absolutely no sense to US interests, was extremely unpopular, and would be the last ting he would do if he really wanted to undermone British interests. And, BTW, there was no "Queen Elizabeth" in 1940 or 1941, or indeed at any time during the war. A huge gaff.
Other than the Queen Elizabeth gaffe, you haven't really made your argument. If anything, the facts after the war proved that whatever Roosevelt's sentiments were, those of them that followed him, certainly extracted both economic and military concessions that weakened the British Empire after the war.
@@BigHenFor they may have meant King George VI'S wife who was called Queen Elizabeth
@@pedanticradiator1491 Yes, documentary not that stupid. King George V1, and Queen Elizabeth. And while I am here, the US so the bastion of Freedom wanted to stay out of the conflict that was going to overrun Europe. Doing nothing for democracy.
Europe first was entirely in US interests. Firstly, Germany could not be allowed to solidify its hold on Europe, it was always a far greater threat than Japan. Secondly, the US and Britain did not know how far along the Germans were with the atomic bomb.
What do you call the Kings wife?
Ahh, the 1940s... When world leaders had an IQ above that of a goldfish.
Or a potato 🥔
Well, without social media and 24 hour news, it was much easier to be stupid and get away with it. Provided, of course, those working for you have more intellect than a goldfish or a potato.
Roosevelt didn't. He helped subject the people of East Europe to 44 years of tyranny
Comparing them to politicians makes the fish look bad.
Sorry but these guys made the same mistakes leaders make today if not more, do glorify these dead men
very much the view of britian !
They were all fighting for the same people all along War is a racket
Not a secret.
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People are shocked even friends fight with each other once in awhile 😂 it happens!!!
Roosevelt had always known that war with both Germany and Japan was inevitable. During the 1930s, he built up U.S. infrastructure, with dam projects, roads and forest products, and resource development. He established military bases, including naval, army, and airbases using the CCC and WPA, in conjunction with the TVA. Without Roosevelt's foresight, the U.S. response would have been far too slow and small. As it turned out, the U.S. was able to leap with both feet into immediate wartime production.
Everybody got as good as they gave.
Let me guess your Italian LOL
@@drewhowrd7375...only at dinnertime.
Lol
They were all a bunch of back stabbing psychopaths, they were politicians. There's no friends in that game. It staggers me how naive people are with the likes of Churchill and FDR, still thinking they were heroes. Look what happened to Patton when he became too outspoken about the future Soviet threat at the end pf the war.
Absolute nonsense, true Patton was a embarrassment but could have been sent home with a stroke of a pen. The troble Patton had was he was a very average 3-star general that was out of the loop. Whilst plans were being drawn up for war with Soviets there was good ol George mouthing off to the media
I would be very interested to hear you apply the concepts that you use to understand German's hyper inflation, to the the period from 1944 when the Bretton Wood system was planned, to the present. I believe that you could shed great light on that period.
Who needs the NFL when we have historical videos on You Tube.
Is this the new timeline channel?
rubbish churchill wasnt lord of the admiralty in 1918 ,how many more mistakes are there?
Too bleeding many.
What is the background music called?
Glamorous war from afar and harlot close up.
Whoa. Now that was something worth listening to. So FDR was a politician thru n thru and never a hero at all. WWll is not what school taught us.
I’m a fan of Winston Churchill and have read a couple of multi volume bios but this video is just toooo slow.
13:30 What is this music called?
There was only one forward thinking and great leader in this documentary.
Fantastic inside history. When we consider that the pre-war US had a basic tradition of anti-colonialism (with a few exceptions), it is inevitable that US and British interests were hardly unified in every respect - the US wasn't about to expend treasure, much less blood, safeguarding British Holdings around the world.
Politics aside wow history is amazing.
Absolutely *"the US wasn't about to expend treasure, much less blood, safeguarding British Holdings around the world."* That's exactly what the toffey nosed aristocrats on their estate's playing Polo wanted to do. The Commoners were fine though
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No the American plan was to replace the British Empire with their own.
What a stupid statement. The has nothing directly to do with empire. Roosevelt wasn’t looking at the bigger picture, and he told outright lies. His own people were against him and eventually he had a mental breakdown. Roosevelt made some dubious decisions, and after the war his mental and physical condition was finally revealed. Then, Eleanor R got the blame. Apparently, she had been running the country all along. What a s..tshow.
roosevelt was an aresehole and its why this war lasted as much as it did
Alas, there is some truth there!
I think the American flag before which FDR's image is superimposed appears to be that of the 50-state Republic and not of the 48 one, which he led through the War. (The giveaway here for flag-geeks is that the stars in the 50-star banner are arranged in off-set rows, while those of the 48-star flag are perfectly aligned). Just saying. However, please bear in mind that, as I'm a well-known idiot, I could be wrong here.
I think nobody ever wrote: Dear Churchill. Roosevelt either wrote: Dear Mr Churchill, or Dear Winston. Elementary, it would seem, but apparently not.
He did use “Dear Churchill” at least once…telegrams are reproduced in Churchill’s history of WW2.
Even though I am an American I am ashamed at Roosevelts two faced words and actions. For Roosevelt to reneg on his promise
to help England after France fell was embarrassing! Makes the USA a lier not to be trusted! Roosevelt had no real convictions. He is run by public opinion! I must sadly say that Roosevelt acts like a Coward and Opportunist by asking England for Favors when offering Aid to Same.
Churchill gutted India in gold/silver and Rice causing famine
Roosevelt made clear from the beginning that he was anti-colonialism and that if the U.S. were to enter Europe's war, not our war, that we had our own interests and that dismantling colonial power structures was one of those interests. How could you say your fighting for freedom from fascism when Britain and France were oppressing foreign countries and their populations to gut their natural resources for their themselves? Why are you ashamed that we are not to do the bidding of a foreign country and their foreign opposing interests?
You speak as if the U.S. exists to do the bidding of foreign countries and their foreign interests. FDR was not a coward. Asking England for favors??!! Uh, Churchill conspiring to drag our sovereign nation into a foreign war for the interests of the British Empire is hardly friendly nor is it the the duty of American citizens.
If you're American, maybe start learning American history and thinking of American interests.
America had it's colonies e.g. the Philippines, so it wasn't against colonialism, only someone else's colonialism. As the colonial master of the Philippines at times they had shown a high level of savagery, when dealing with decent.
yet despite what you call it , they still let them be self-governed without anyone forcin them to do so, just look at current news with the phillipeans , to call us despite the previous mistakes done to them. that there says a lot , to still have the heart of the ppl many years later. and im still shocked the vietnamanese ppl love the usa despite being bombed and being oranged ....theres a difference ,and your confusing circumstances of war that drove to tempoarry occupation to coloniasm. i say a good 90% is true and puerto rico/hawaii was taken to cover up that flank during the cold war. just look at china agression trying to push in those territories /to eeven go as far to build islands ...like wtf yu can do that? but it was nt greed that was the motivatior but fear it being used as a lsunchpad is the main reason why they done so.... besidees they had nukes when no one did, if they wanted to they couldve easily done some shix that every other dictator can dream of...yet they didnt .just tells you we arent about that, we just wanted to be left alone until the world problems started to have bombs comme our way. there was many good the us has done a lot of good and it balances out the wrong done by those few rats who drove us the wrong path.....but the ppl back home still havent changed i recently noticed ,the us will always be involved in every confliict because we are a mixed culture from all over the world , and our system accepts that culture to influence congress ,solong there will always be someone pushing to aid a side
By 1935 the Philippines had an autonomous government with a promised independence date in 1946.
So, if nothing else Roosevelt somewhat practiced the anti colonialism that he preached.
Dissent
Roosevelt has a great deal to answer for! The Iron Curtain, PutiniZm, ComuniZm, etc
Roosevelt's administration had up to 2,000 employees actually working as agents for the USSR. His administration protected them. The US military broke the code for the cables between the Soviet delegation in the US and Moscow, and when Roosevelt's wife Eleanore was informed of this, she notified the Soviets. She betrayed her own country for the communist regime. Roosevelt had as his most important aid a man named Harry Hopkins, who actually lived with the Roosevelts in the White House. He was named as one of the Soviet's most important agents after the fall of the USSR by a former Soviet spy chief. ....
Roosevelt brought a dramatic increase in central control to the US domestically. One of the originators of fascism, Mussolini, referred to Roosevelt as a fellow fascist. Roosevelt broke the tradition of running for only 2 terms as president, and ran 4 times even though he was very ill. He threatened to pack the supreme court with his yes men in order to push through his authoritarian fascist system, which actually prolonged significantly the Great Depression according to modern academic research.....He was obviously a destructive force.
Thanks again John@@johnl5316
Churchill betrayed Stalin with the promise of the Second Front at the on-start of WW2, but at the end of the war Roosevelt betrayed Churchill in subsuming the British Empire; and the Queens’ British commonwealth was too little too late for the Common class, so Churchill failed the British Ruling Aristocracy Class.
Churchill confided in Queen Elizabeth ❓ who was crowned in 1953….
I came looking for this comment! Elizabeth was a teenage kid and Churchill would not have confided in her on anything. History is being distorted everywhere these days, I've even heard it said Churchill declared war on Germany.
@@markvines7308 I’m one of those amateur historians that even double checks on whats being presented one of the benefits of reading & watching documentaries, I do believe dear old Lilibet served as a truck driver during said conflict
@@AztlanOz She most certainly did!
Queen Elizabeth was a reference to the Queen at the time (Elizabeth II's mother) and wife of George VI.
@@0cgw That makes perfect sense
Roosevelt's administration had up to 2,000 employees actually working as agents for the USSR. His administration protected them. The US military broke the code for the cables between the Soviet delegation in the US and Moscow, and when Roosevelt's wife Eleanore was informed of this, she notified the Soviets. She betrayed her own country for the communist regime. Roosevelt had as his most important aid a man named Harry Hopkins, who actually lived with the Roosevelts in the White House. He was named as one of the Soviet's most important agents after the fall of the USSR by a former Soviet spy chief. ....
Roosevelt brought a dramatic increase in central control to the US domestically. One of the originators of fascism, Mussolini, referred to Roosevelt as a fellow fascist. Roosevelt broke the tradition of running for only 2 terms as president, and ran 4 times even though he was very ill. He threatened to pack the supreme court with his yes men in order to push through his authoritarian fascist system, which actually prolonged significantly the Great Depression according to modern academic research.....He was obviously a destructive force.
Could you provide the sources regarding Eleanore informing the Soviets. Thanks.
Wild lunatic-Right slurs and unfounded smears on the reputation of an exceptional war-time President and his administration. Shameful.😮
@@Kurtlane I gave that book away, but I will look for it
Lol🤣 Understatement from Roosevelt. Churchill was drunk all the time.
That guy sounds like Jake from Shawshank redemption
It started with a forced friendship but ended in acrimony because of Roosevelt's hidden agendas that he kept secret from Churchill: Roosevelt was a fairweather friend at best and very sneaky with it:: Churchill, on the other hand, made light of his many mistakes which cost many lives: They often walked the same path moving in different directions. Roosevelt to his shame tried to trade Churchill for Stalin which was a huge mistake::
Wow! I’ve often wondered about the real FDR, specifically with respect to his American patrician upbringing (as distinct from the equivalent roots in Britain). Was he a fair-weather friend both politically AND personally; would you, shall we say, want to go to a family get-together for Sunday lunch with FDR and family?
Would you be comfortable with your kindergartners dropping food off their plates onto the table in his presence?
@@Davidfooterman FDRs wife could not stand Churchill so it would be more likely she would carve up Churchill instead of the turkey if he went to dinner.
@@Davidfooterman It is more likely FDR's wife would have dropped Churchill from the table such was her dislike for him:
IRONICALLY, after the war ended, India WAS freed, and thus began a series of demolition, of the British Empire. BUT--this annoyed the Americans , because many of those former colonies were turning Communist. As Churchill said , America must now, take over our Roll as Policeman of the world. Britain was Crushed by the War, and couldn't afford to play that role any more. Another Irony is, in carrying out that role, the US gradually occupied more and more places as Military bases, around the world, like it's own Colonies.
At 35.00..."Churchill confided to Queen Elizabeth"... oops you might want to correct that one.
The King's wife was Queen Elizabeth