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War Comes to America

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We in North and South America would be left with the raw materials of 3/10 of the Earth's surface, against the Axis with the resources of 7/10. We would have one industrial region against their three industrial regions. We would have 1/8 of the world's population against their 7/8. If we together
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German conquest of Europe and Africa would bring all their raw materials, plus their entire industrial development, under one control. Of the 2 billion people in the world, the Nazis would rule roughly one quarter – the 500 million people of Europe and Africa, forced into slavery to labor for
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Towards the end, the film argues in detail (to a backdrop of animated maps and diagrams) that American involvement in the war is essential in terms of self-defense. The dire consequences for the United States of an Axis victory in
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Germany. German conquest of Russia would add the vast raw materials and the production facilities of another of the world's industrial areas, and of the world's people another 200 million would be added to the Nazi labor pile.
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In 1936, public opinion is firmly isolationist, with 95% of Americans answering NO to the question "If another world war develops in Europe, should America take part again?" Congress responded with an arms embargo and a
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Japanese conquest of the Orient would pour into their factory the almost unlimited resources of that area, and of the peoples of the earth, a thousand million would come under their rule, slaves for their industrial
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Thus, an Axis victory in Europe and Asia would leave us alone and virtually surrounded, facing enemies ten times stronger than ourselves..
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with the other nations of North and South America, could mobilize 30 million fully-equipped men, the Axis could mobilize 200 million.
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In October 1939, 82% of Americans blame Germany for starting the war in Europe, but in January 1941, after the
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The run-up to World War II is then described beginning in 1931 with the
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by showing the Japanese negotiators in Washington, led by
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rule" when trading with belligerents in raw materials.
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The early part of the film is an idealized version of
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Index

The Second World War (book series)
Frank Capra
Anatole Litvak
Julius J. Epstein
Philip G. Epstein
Emma Lazarus
Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston
Lloyd Nolan
William Hornbeck
Alfred Newman
Frank Capra
Why We Fight
World War II
propaganda film
American history
American Revolutionary War
American Civil War
Negro
Jap
Chinaman
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
isolationism
Allied
Gallup polls

North
South America
Afro-Eurasia
Cash and carry

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