16minWorld War II: Crash Course European History #38

text from youtube "Only a couple of decades after the end of the First World War--which was supposed to be the War that Ended All Wars--another, bigger, farther-flung, more destructive, and deadlier war began. Today, you'll learn about how the war in Europe progressed, from the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the invasion of Poland, to the Western and Eastern fronts, to VE Day and the atom bombs used in Japan.

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-Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Hitler between Hitler and Stalin. New York: Basic Books, 2010. "

2min @AP_Archive clip - Pearl Harbor - 1941 | Movietone Moments | 7 Dec

Text from youtube "On this day in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy carried out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

The world knows that the Japanese attacked the American Naval Base without warning, these pictures show something of how the civil population suffered.

Japanese planes fly over and fires rage in Waikiki. Refugees run hither and thither. AA guns fire and the injured are cared for. The children play in a communal nursery. Afterwards, shots of wreckage and a damaged car. The story ends with pictures of a captured Jap. two man submarine which helped in the attack against the US Fleet in Pearl Harbour.