December 41 News Today

Power to help alleviate this disastrous, terrible, immoral series of war crimes that we are seeing in ukraine. i think this makes enormous sense. i hope it happens today. >> well, again, just for historical context, this is exactly what we did with britain from the late -- late 1940 all the way until december 41 when we were in the war, right. it was called lend/lease. it was how we stayed out of the war but still helped our british allies. >> exactly right, joe. it is appeased with continuing t...

Important americas role was to preserving peace and democracy around the globe. >> thats right. after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941 winston churchill came over from england. and he and franklin roosevelt, our president, came together and they showed unity and alliance. roosevelt had been planning for months in knowing that we were probably going to have to get into world war ii but they together sat on the balcony of the white house and lit the national christmas tree at a time of peace. bu...

Coming along at the perfect moment in the nations history in the summer of 1940 and literally pulling them up and inspiring them do what nobody on the globe thought they could do. >> and britain under churchill stood alone. we got in the war december 41 and we fought thoebnobly. russians were allies of nazi germany at that point. brittain stood alone for a year. >> throughout awful 19ll of 1940 and until the soviets stabbed -- hitler stabbed soviets in the back of june of 41, they were alone, br...

That december, 41, things as simple as nylons. would a year later be perishs. incapable of finding them. >> no new tires or audibles. with converted from automobiles to planes and tanks and ships immediately. >> sean: immediately. >> a year later we were launching 2,000 ships a year. building 90,000 planes a year. it was inconceivable we could do that. be churchill made it realistic for americans to think in terms of really going at the heavy production of war material. >> sean: a hero in terms ...

Latest updates on this topic.

Latest updates on this topic.