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- Causes and events

leading up to our entry into the war.

Well, what are the causes?

Why are we Americans on the march?

Is it because of

Pearl Harbor?

Is that why we are fighting?

Or is it because of

Britain?

France?

China?

Czechoslovakia?

Norway?

Poland?

Holland?

Greece?

Belgium?

Albania?

Yugoslavia?

Or Russia?

Just what was it made us change our way of living overnight?

What turned our resources, our machines,

our whole nation into one vast arsenal,

producing more and more weapons of war

instead of the old materials of peace?

What put us into uniform, ready to engage the enemy

on every continent and every ocean?

What are these two worlds of which Mr. Wallace spoke?

The free and the slave.

Let's take the free world first, our world.

How did it become free?

Only through a long and unceasing struggle

inspired by men of vision.

Moses. ♪ Peace on Earth ♪

♪ Good will to men ♪

♪ From Heaven's ♪ - Muhammad.

♪ All gracious king ♪

- Confucius.

♪ The world in solemn stillness lay ♪

- Christ. ♪ To hear the angels sing ♪

- All believed that in the sight of God,

all men were created equal.

And from that there developed a spirit among men

and nations, which is best expressed

in our own declaration of freedom.

We hold these truths to be self-evident,

that all men are created equal.

It is the cornerstone upon which our nation

was built and the ideal

of all the great liberators: Washington,

Jefferson, Garibaldi, Lafayette,

Kosciuszko, Bolivar, Lincoln.

♪ Glory, glory hallelujah ♪

- Lighthouses, lighting up

a dark and foggy world.

- That government of the people, by the people,

for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

- Fighting, living, dying, for what?

For freedom.

That for which men have fought since time began.

To be free!

- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet,

as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Forbid it almighty God.

I know not what course others may take, but as for me,

give me liberty or give me death.

- But what of this other world?

Here men insisted that progress lay in killing freedom.

Here they were putting out the lighthouses, one by one.

Here the march of history was reversing itself.

In Italy it began when an ambitious rabble-rouser

set his followers marching on Rome.

The country, like every other country

after the last war, was torn by political unrest,

hard times, unemployment.

Two courses were available to the Italian people.

They could solve their problems in a free, democratic way,

or they could let someone else do the solving for them.

They made the tragic mistake of choosing the second course.

They put their trust and faith in this one man.

They believed he represented them.

Actually he planned to betray them for the selfish interest

of himself and the group back of him

just as he had earlier betrayed

those who first supported him.

In Germany another even more forceful demagogue

sent his followers marching from the Munich beer halls.

He too had the sinister opportunity to take advantage

of post-war chaos.

But he also had certain distinctive German characteristics

to play on.

To start with, the Germans have an inborn national love

of regimentation and a harsh discipline.

He could give them that.

The German Army, and through them

the people, have never acknowledged German defeat

in the last war and were anxious for revenge.

That, too, he promised them.

The wealthy and powerful industrialists were fearful

of losing any of their wealth and power,

and were ready to back anyone who would retain it for them.

He promised to take care of them, too.

This man cunningly played all these ends against the middle,

and ruthlessly set out

to murder the newborn German republic.

In Japan you expect things to be done a little differently.

They were.

Here, not one man, but a gang,

disguised their little schemes as the will of the Emperor,

and to the Japanese people, the Emperor is God.

Taking advantage of their fanatical worship

of the God-Emperor, it was no great trick

to take away what little freedom they had ever known.

Yes, in these lands the people surrendered their liberties

and threw away their human dignity.

They gave up their rights as individual human beings

Sieg Heil!

And became a part of a mass, a human herd.

Although these countries were far apart and different

in custom and in language,

the same poison made them much alike.

Each got a new uniform.

In Italy, the new bosses wore black shirts.

In Germany, the shirts were brown.

In Japan, they hid behind the uniform of the Army,

but really, they belonged to a sinister secret society.

Their symbol was a black dragon.

The other fellows had to have a symbol, too.

Germany, a swastika.

In Italy, the old Roman symbol of the fasces.

In Germany they called the new order

national socialism, or Nazism.

In Italy, they had a shorter word, fascism.

In Japan, they had lots of names for it.

The New Era of Enlightenment, the New Order in Asia,

the Co-Prosperity Sphere.

But no matter how you slice it,

it was just plain old-fashioned militaristic imperialism.

The Japs would get the Prosperity,

and the others would get the crow.

They say trouble always comes in threes.

Take a good, close look at this trio.

Remember these faces,

remember them well.

If you ever meet them, don't hesitate.

- "Stop thinking and follow me!" cried Hitler.

I will make you masters of the world!

And the people answered Sieg Heil!

Sieg Heil!

Stop thinking and believe in me! bellowed Mussolini.

And I will restore the glory that was Rome!

And the people answered Il Duce, Il Duce!

Stop thinking and follow your God-Emperor!

cried the Japanese warlords.

And Japan will rule the world!

And the people answered Banzai, Banzai!

Banzai, Banzai!

Each system was alike in that

the constitutional lawmaking bodies gave up their power.

The Reichstag in Berlin, the House of Deputies in Rome,

the Diet in Tokyo.

And these elected representatives became collections

of stooges, rubber stamp organizations.

Sieg Heil!

Applauding on cue the words of the leaders.

- Each system did away with free speech

and free assembly.

Each system did away with a free press,

and substituted a press controlled by the Party.

Through their ministries of propaganda,

each took complete control of the theater,

the movies, the radio.

Every cultural activity and every channel of information

was controlled by the most important members of the Party.

Each did away with free courts and trial by jury,

and substituted courts and judges run by the Party.

Each abolished labor unions and the rights

of bargaining for wages.

Heil Hitler!

And under the pretext of patriotism

established a system of forced labor.

Each enforced its decrees by an army of secret police

who held the power of life and death

over every individual.

And for the few who still believed in freedom and said so,

there was a ready answer.

The greatest intellect in the world

can be silenced with this.

That is an exact translation of the words

these black-shirts cheer so lustily.

- Whenever I hear anyone mention

the word culture, the first thing I do is reach for my gun.

Yes, they had the answer, the blackjack, and the gun.

In Italy, they did it different.

While in Japan...

To their names can be added those of hundreds and thousands

of others who stood in the way of the New Order.

Finally there was only one obstacle left.

The word of God and the word of fuhrers

cannot be reconciled.

Then God must go!

- I am absolutely clear in my own mind

and I think I can speak for the Führer as well,

that both the Catholic and Protestant churches

must vanish from the life of our people.

- Thus spoke Doctor Alfred Rosenberg,

and if you have any doubt that he spoke for his Führer,

here's what happened.

♪ O come, all ye faithful ♪

♪ Joyful and triumphant ♪

♪ O come ye ♪

♪ O come ye ♪

♪ To Bethlehem ♪

♪ Come and ♪

- Thousands of other men of God,

Protestant, Catholic, Jewish,

were persecuted, arrested,

confined in concentration camps.

- Our Führer is the intermediary

between his people and the throne of God.

Everything the Führer utters

is religion in the highest sense.

It is only on one or two exceptional points

that Christ and Hitler stand comparison,

for Hitler is far too big a man to be compared

with one so petty.

- Every day in all German classrooms...

Yes, take children from the faith of their fathers

and teach them the State is the only church

and the head of the State is the voice of God.

That was the way of life, or better, the way of death,

in that other world.

Now what of our world, the democratic world?

What did we want?

What did we do about it?

First of all we wanted peace and security.

And to prove our sincerity, in 1921,

we initiated the Washington Disarmament Conference.

This resulted in two vitally important treaties.

One to reduce the size of the British, Japanese,

French, Italian, and American fleets.

And the other, The Nine-Power Treaty, which guaranteed

the integrity of China, and incidentally,

one of the powers signing this was Japan.

Later on in 1929, we signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact,

which was supposed to abolish war

as a means of settling international disputes.

This pact was signed by 47 nations,

including Germany and Japan.

- Mr. President, I have the honor of handing you

the London Naval Treaty.

- Faithful to our treaty obligations

we scrapped more than 60% of our naval tonnage.

And our army was reduced to a standing force of 136,000 men.

Smaller than that maintained by the little state of Romania.

We let our hopes for peace become so strong

that they grew into a determination

not to fight unless directly attacked.

We let ourselves be influenced by those who said

that we could find security through isolation.

The confusion in our way of thinking is apparent

in the slice of public opinion as it appeared

in Pathe News in 1939.

- Another war, not for me.

This time America should keep out and I know I will.

- If war breaks out in Europe,

I think that this country should heed the advice

of its first president, and avoid all foreign entanglements.

- I haven't the slightest idea of European affairs.

- In the event of war in Europe,

I think we should stay out of it entirely.

- And all our efforts should be made to keep out

of the fight.

- Let Europe fight her own battles.

They mean nothing to us.

- We should mind our own business!

- By all means, no.

- Yes, fight!

- No.

- No.

- Yes.

- If my country calls, yes.

- No!

- We simply did not want to understand

that our individual and national problems were,

and always will be, dependent upon the problems

of the whole world.

And we had individual and national problems to worry about.

Plenty of them,

just as Germany, Italy, and Japan had.

But we faced them in a democratic way.

We passed laws to give working men

a chance to improve their lot.

We established an insurance program for those without jobs.

We began to give old folks protection

against want and hunger.

We organized the CCC to provide our young men

with healthy and useful employment.

A federal works program came into being and changed the face

of our nation with new roads, bridges, schools.

We built great new dams which brought

the miracle of electricity to millions of our people.

These were some of our accomplishments,

but there were others not so creditable.

We turned our backs

on the League of Nations.

We passed The Tariff Act to set

a higher wall of isolation around us.

We encouraged lawlessness with the farce of Prohibition.

But in spite of these mistakes, we never had a thought

of losing our free institutions.

John Q. Public still ran the country.

He had his choice of voting for Dewey, Willkie,

Roosevelt, or anybody else.

In Germany they had the choice of voting

for Hitler, Hitler, or Hitler.

Over here, John Q.

Still read what he pleased.

And although he heard of books being burned

in other countries, he would've laughed

if anyone had told him his books would ever be burned.

And on Sunday, if he felt like it, John Q. went

to any church he pleased. ♪ Like a mighty army ♪

♪ Moves the Church of God ♪

♪ Brothers, we are treading ♪

♪ Where the Saints have trod ♪

♪ We are not divided ♪

♪ All one body we ♪

♪ One in hope and doctrine ♪

♪ One in charity ♪

♪ Onward, Christian soldiers ♪

♪ Marching as to war ♪

♪ With the cross of Jesus ♪

♪ Going on before ♪

- Most of all, he got a kick out of seeing

his kids grow up.

- Run, Jerry!

- The average American was quite unconscious

of the fact that some people had this in mind

for the little John Qs.

Yes, while their children were being trained to kill,

John Q's kids were giving their pennies

to help them have life.

And when we saw these men on the newsreels,

quite often, we laughed.

To us, they looked like characters in a musical comedy.

But they weren't comic.

They weren't funny.

They were deadly serious.

They were out for world conquest.

And what made it deadly serious was

that there were 70 million Japanese,

45 million Italians, and 80 million Germans

all hopped up with the same idea.

Their leaders told them that they were supermen,

Herrenvolk the Nazis called it,

the master race, destined to rule

all other peoples on Earth.

Sieg Heil!

Take a good look at these humorless men.

These were to be the rulers of the ruling race.

Obey us blindly and you will attain

your rightful place in the world.

All other people will be your slaves.

That's what they promised them.

That Americans, Chinese, Russian, South Americans,

all free peoples would work for them and make them rich.

And how they ate it up.

We shall restore the glory that was Rome.

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow the world.

The Pacific is ours.

It was inevitable that these countries should gang up on us.

The little fella is our pal Kurusu,

who smiled his way into our hearts in December 1941.

Here he and his friends are busy carving up the world

in advance, staking out their claims.

Take a good look at these claims.

- Here was the Italy

that Mussolini took over in 1922.

And almost his first act was to tell the Italians

they were the rightful owners of Corsica,

Nice, Savoie, Albania,

Tunisia, Ethiopia, and a land corridor

linking it with Libya.

Later on he had an even bigger dream,

the old Roman Empire as it existed nearly 2000 years ago,

to dominate all the lands adjoining the Mediterranean.

'Mare Nostra' Our sea, they called it,

just as the ancient Romans did.

- As for the Japanese,

they had some ambitions too.

By 1920 they had grabbed off Formosa, Korea,

and the southern half of the island of Sakhalin.

Then Baron Giichi Tanaka, the Prime Minister,

carefully set down Japanese aims in a document

called The Tanaka Memorial.

It was presented to the Emperor July 25th, 1927.

Here was their dream, Manchuria for raw materials,

China for manpower,

Then a triumphant march through Indochina,

Siam, Burma, India, the East Indies,

then on through Australia and New Zealand.

And in the north all they claimed

was that part of Russia east of Lake Baikal.

That was to be the new order in Asia.

Then the Japs would move eastward to crush

the United States and really start

their Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Now take a look at the bite

the Nazis reserved for themselves.

Here's the Germany Hitler walked into.

And here is what he wanted.

First Europe under his complete political

or economic control, leaving Mussolini a share

of the loot if he behaved himself.

Then the drive to the east

through the rich oil-lands of Iran and Iraq into India.

Another push south through Africa.

Then from Dakar, jump off to meet the honorary Aryans,

who were to move in on South America through the Pacific.

At the same time, start across

from the Scandinavian countries to hook up

with his bucktooth pals coming over from Siberia,

to join in the conquest of the United States.

- There it is, gents.

All they left us was Shangri-La.

And they'd claim that too, if they knew where it was.

And did they think they had a chance?

- Listen.

- When war comes between Japan

and the United States, I shall not be content

merely to occupy Guam, the Philippines,

Hawaii, and San Francisco.

I look forward to dictating the peace

to the United States in the White House at Washington.

Yamamoto wrote those words on January of 1941.

Yes, the conquering Jap Army down Pennsylvania Avenue.

That was the final goal.

You will see what they did to the men and women of Nanking,

Hong Kong, and Manila.

Imagine the field day they'd enjoy if they'd marched

through the streets of Washington.

But before striking, a preliminary step was necessary.

From Berlin, from Rome,

from Tokyo, the campaign started.

Propaganda, to confuse, divide,

soften up their intended victim.

Put them on the defensive.

Scream you're abused, shout you're oppressed.

The world's wrong, you're right!

If you shriek it loud enough and often enough,

they'll believe you.

Above all, use their free press

and their free speech to destroy them.

'Lebensraum' they demanded, living room.

Our lands are overcrowded.

But at the same time they gave prizes

to mothers who bore the most sons.

They brought together large groups of young men

and young girls for human breeding.

Read what one of their leaders wrote.

Of course, the children from this assembly line

belonged to the State,

to be scientifically trained for conquest.

Another howl was the lack of raw material.

They claimed they were the have-nots and we were the haves.

But out of this supposed lack

they built up the greatest war machines

the world has ever known.

These are the published figures

from the German military budget.

Actually between 1933 and 1939,

Hitler's program of rearmament

cost more than $80 billion!

The Nazis alone assembled a striking force

of 30 panzer divisions, 70 motorized divisions,

140 infantry divisions, plus the Luftwaffe,

the world's largest air force.

And they had no raw materials.

Think of the bread, the automobiles, the good things of life

that the German, Italian, Japanese leaders

might have given their people if they had spent this money

for peace instead of war.

You know what billions we are now spending

to match their military force.

No, no these arguments were all smokescreens.

When war came, the democracies proved to be the have-nots,

and our enemies the haves.

And when war came, where did it come?

Remember that date.

September 18th, 1931,

a date we should remember as well as December 7, 1941.

For on that date in 1931,

the war we are now fighting began.

The place was Manchuria, the northernmost province of China,

6,000 miles from San Francisco.

Manchuria, the first objective in the Tanaka plan.

By September 18th the Japanese, who by treaty

patrolled the Southern Manchurian Railway,

had secretly and illegally increased their garrisons.

On the Korean-Manchurian border

an entire Japanese army was assembled,

conveniently equipped for a winter campaign.

All they needed was an excuse.

They made their own.

At 10:30 that night, just after The Mukden Express

had passed by, a section of track was dynamited,

causing damage to one rail and two fishplates.

Japan's honor had been violated.

Within half an hour, the Japanese railroad garrison

launched a coordinated attack on the barracks

of the sleeping Chinese Army at Mukden.

The slaughter was appalling.

By midnight, the conveniently placed Japanese Army

poured across the Korean border, and the first open act

of aggression, the invasion of Manchuria, was on.

In four days they had occupied

the whole of southern Manchuria,

and shortly after, the whole country.

Manchuria became Manchukuo, a puppet state

with an obedient stooge on the throne, Henry Pu Yi,

a weakling whom the Japanese had prepared for the job

with seven years of women and song.

In Washington, Henry L. Stimson, then Secretary of State,

now Secretary of War, sent out a blistering denunciation

of the attack.

The League of Nations sent a committee of five

headed by Lord Lytton

and including our own General Frank McCoy

to Manchuria to investigate.

In October of 1932, the committee issued its report.

- We found that the Japanese occupation

of this large part of China was not justified

on the ground of self defense, and that the new state

which had been set up, was a Japanese protectorate

rather than a genuine case of Manchurian self-determination.

- Shortly after, the League condemned Japan

as an aggressor nation.

- I call on His Excellency, Mr. Matsuoka,

delegate of Japan.

- It is a matter of common knowledge

that Japan's policy is fundamentally inspired

by a genuine desire to guarantee peace

in the Far East

and to contribute to the maintenance

of peace throughout the world.

Japan, however, find it impossible

to accept the report

adopted by the assembly.

- In answer the Japanese delegates,

knowing there were no guns behind this condemnation,

smiled, took up their briefcases,

and marched out of the League.

Northern Manchuria was dead.

Collective security was dead.

The green light had been given the aggressors.

We and the rest of the world knew that these aggressors

should be stopped and punished,

but we were unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices

to back up that opinion.

It was impossible to convince a farm boy in Iowa,

or a driver of a London bus,

or a waiter in a Paris cafe, that he should go to war

because of a mud hut in Manchuria.

Yet the subsequent course of history makes it clear

that that incident, so many miles away,

is one of the main reasons that you

and millions of others are in uniform today.

The Japs had Manchuria.

Phase number one of the Tanaka plan was completed.

Phase number two, the conquest of China.

In 1932, without warning, the Japs attacked

the Chinese city of Shanghai.

Here they met such stubborn resistance,

they had to pour more than 75,000 troops

into the local battle before capturing the city.

This resistance made them decide to shift

their campaign to the north, and in 1933,

they added the province of Jehol to Manchuria.

Yes, the Japs launched the second phase of the Tanaka plan.

But they had yet to finish it.

A united nation stands against them.

Under the inspired leadership of General Chiang Kai-shek,

the Chinese people fought, and still fight on.

Meantime, what of Japan's partners?

What helpless people were they planning to bomb,

slaughter, drive into slavery?

Hitler was not yet ready, but Mussolini was.

Mussolini had to be.

His people were growing restless.

Fascism hadn't produced the heaven on Earth

that he had promised them.

So he pulled the old trick of launching a foreign war

to divert attention from troubles at home.

So Mussolini beat his chest like Tarzan

and looked around for a worthy foe.

He found one, Ethiopia.

A good country for the beginning of a glorious empire.

Its army had no machine guns.

Its army had no tanks.

Its army did have an air force, exactly one old airplane,

one airplane against a nation which had developed

a new theory of total air war,

of the blitz which would wipe out cities, destroy civilians,

man, woman, and child.

In October of 1935, following the Japanese example,

an incident was provoked at the little settlement

of Walwal near the border of Ethiopia

and Italian Somaliland.

Italy's honor had been violated.

Refusing any arbitration, Mussolini moved the whole might

of his army through the Suez Canal to overrun

the undefended country.

Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie

appeared before the League of Nations.

I must still fight on until my tardy allies appear,

and if they never come, I say to you

without bitterness, the West will perish.

Members of the League half-heartedly stopped trading

with Italy, but refused the only thing

that will stop any aggressor, force.

Ethiopia was left to herself.

Native leaders came to pledge their allegiance.

The people of Ethiopia, with their spears and bare hands,

faced the guns and the tanks of the invaders,

fighting desperately and gallantly

to save their country from conquest.

They fought and they died.

But in the end, there could be but one result.

Might triumphed.

Italy conquered Ethiopia.

Many of our elected leaders warned us of danger.

- Without a declaration of war

and without warning or justification of any kind,

civilians, including vast numbers of women and children,

are being ruthlessly murdered with bombs from the air.

- But we were still hypnotized by the fact

that two broad oceans stood between us

and the rest of the world.

We didn't realize that the time when months were needed

to span these oceans was ended,

that the steam ship had cut these months to days,

and that now the whole Earth's surface

could be covered in the space of hours.

Yes, we were a nation that wanted peace.

But we hadn't yet learned that peace for us

depends on peace for all.

Nobody would run the risk of war

because of some mud huts and barren plains in Ethiopia,

any more than we would run the risk

for some similar huts and plains in Manchuria.

Correctly interpreting our attitude, the aggressors

were all the surer that they could get what they wanted.

Japan had started on her march of conquest.

Italy had begun her new empire.

And now the third gangster, what about him?

We take him up in our next film, and show how he joined

his partners and put in his bid.

For this is what we are fighting, freedom's oldest enemy,

the passion of the few to rule the many.

This isn't just a war.

This is a common man's ♪ Glory, glory hallelujah ♪

Life-and-death struggle against those who would put him

back into slavery. ♪ His truth goes marching on ♪

We lose it, and we lose everything.

Our homes,

the jobs we want to go back to,

the books we read, the very food we eat,

the hopes we have for our kids, the kids themselves.

They won't be ours anymore.

That's what's at stake.

It's us or them.

The chips are down.

Two worlds stand against each other.

One must die.

One must live.

170 years of freedom

decrees our answer. ♪ Firm, united let us be ♪

♪ Rallying round our liberty ♪

♪ As a band of brothers joined ♪

♪ Peace and safety ♪

♪ We shall find ♪

♪ Ah ah ah ♪