via the winds this is cnn, the world s news welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper on june 6, 1944, american, canadian, british, and other allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. nearly 160,000 troops landed along five beaches in normandy, france. and what became known as d-day it was a turning point in the war in europe world war ii was fought against fascist regimes and germany and italy and imperial japan the victory of democratic principles was hard. one but 80 years have passed since d-day. and we thought it a good time to take a look at the state of our democracy today over the next hour, cnn s jake tapper looks back at d-day sacrifices. so many young men made on those beaches in normandy that day. and what it means to us now what were we fighting for? we were locked a battle with fascism. we re fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish kopan with they gave their life to preserve and protect that constitution the
the union address, president franklin roosevelt discussed a world founded upon four essential human freedoms freedom of speech, and the expression. freedom. of every person to worship, freedom from want radium, from fear that is no vision or disc millennium that is a definite basis for applying the world at panel. then our own time and generation. and yet 103 of the 167 major countries in the world, 62% of them have become less democratic in the last generation decline has a lot of sources. i tend to think it s almost as if we are living through an era of incredible change. so economic change, demographic change, informational change, and people react against change by wanting things to become
curtain between east germany and west berlin has come tumbling down the fall of the berlin wall was an incredibly important moment around the world. because it showed that the power of civic organization, the power of democratic ideas, the power of the language, of freedom, of the rule of law, and democracy could overcome even the most powerful. and what we had thought to be the most permanent form of dictatorship, the dangerous part is that we became convinced that it would go on forever do you think we take democracy too much for granted today in 2024 now there has been recently democratic backsliding arise and populist movements arise and autocracy arise and either outright dictatorships and or
what were we fighting for? we were locked a battle with fascism. we re fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish kopan with they gave their life to preserve and protect that constitution they died for our democracy. that wasn t the thing that we re thinking about when they ran out of the landing craft, whatever. but at the end of the day, that s what they were protecting we re trying to say drew bankruptcy because of what crazy or stored 80 years ago, thursday on june 6, 1944 five years after adolf hitler and the nazis began their global conquest and slaughter of millions of innocence. the us, united kingdom and canada launched operation overlord the largest seaborne