To watch more of our civil war programming, visit our website. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Now i look at highlights of the cspan cities to her cities tour, as we learn about cities around america. To learn more about the stops on our 2015 tour him a visit citiestour. I got started in oklahoma. That place is one third indians, one third negroes, and one third white people. I hit the road when i was 13 years old, all kinds of odd jobs around the country. They picked up a lot of songs. Your land] land is is your land, this land is my land, from california to the new york island. From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters, this land was made for you and me. Woody guthrie is most famous for the writing of this land is your land. He was born in 1812 in oklahoma. We are very proud to have his work back in oklahoma, where we take it belongs. He was an advocate for people who were disenfranchised, for those people who were Migrant Workers fr
1980, and 1981. The questions they had were about manchuria. Now we have come full circle 35 years later. My task is to talk about ending the war in the pacific t. Three years ago, i received an invitation to the National Defense institute for defense studies in tokyo. And said, please come over spend a week with us and talk about whatever you would like. I said, im going to grab a topic i have been enticed by four years. Those of you know im interested in operational military street. The soviet german war in particular. Early 1990s, one of the more vexing questions that historians have not unable to answer is the question of stalins intent. His strategic intentions as he waged war in europe and of course later in the far east . There have been views on that, mostly well filtered through in the soviet union and even today in the Russian Federation. And afar, and the u. S. But we have never had a good view. The stalin archives, if they exist at all, the monumental biography of stalin co
Focusing on 1945 in asia and the pacific. David glantz discusses Joseph Stalin and the soviet union in the pacific war. Which ended 70 years ago this summer. He is editorinchief of the german and slavic military studies. The institute for the study of strategy and politics posted this event. David thank you for this invitation. I began my work on the soviet army, the red army, as a result of a trip to japan in 1979, 1980, and 1981. The questions they had were about manchuria. Now we have come full circle 35 years later. My task is to talk about ending the war in the pacific. A few words about the genesis of what going to be saying today. Three years ago, i received an invitation to the National Defense institute for defense studies in tokyo. They said, please come over and spend a week with us and talk about whatever you would like. I said, im going to grab a topic i have been enticed by four years. Those of you know im interested in operational military street. The soviet german war i
Not a place for happiness. Overall, the requirements for invasion of japan was overwhelming air sea superiority and abundant amphibious which we and abundant amphibious which we had in 44, 45. That is among the reasons why the big pacific drive did not get started until 44, 45. We were building lots of ships. Roosevelts global strategy. Although talk building the pacific war, it is evidenced that it was a two front war. Roosevelt always thought about it as a global war. A lot of historians like to compartmentalize it. They anticipated post war relationship with the soviet union. Now, roosevelts strategy, there are different interpretations by it. A lot of people said he had no strategy. He just reacted to events. Others say he was a prisoner of public opinion. Post war critics would say you had virtue kwrous americans looking to win the war. I dont think thats true. And of course there is the cold war arguments that roosevelt should have tried to contain and limit soviet expansion whil
Not a place for happiness. Overall, the requirements for invasion of japan was overwhelming air sea superiority and abundant amphibious which we and abundant amphibious which we had in 44, 45. That is among the reasons why the big pacific drive did not get started until 44, 45. We were building lots of ships. Roosevelts global strategy. Although talk building the pacific war, it is evidenced that it was a two front war. Roosevelt always thought about it as a global war. A lot of historians like to compartmentalize it. They anticipated post war relationship with the soviet union. Now, roosevelts strategy, there are different interpretations by it. A lot of people said he had no strategy. He just reacted to events. Others say he was a prisoner of public opinion. Post war critics would say you had virtue kwrous americans looking to win the war. I dont think thats true. And of course there is the cold war arguments that roosevelt should have tried to contain and limit soviet expansion whil