America’s war and postwar presidents explained in 30 minutes

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   @JJMcCullough

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

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   @Justin-rv7oy

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

   Good video bro 👍

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   @nolanmoore4937

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

   You should summarize the couple presidents before Lincoln that had to deal with slavery as an increasingly bigger issue in the US and didn't do a great job at handling the issue of slavery

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   @caseclosed9342

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

   You forgot to mention Truman was president when the Korean War started. The war became a stalemate after China entered the war and Eisenhower was elected promising he would “go to Korea” to help end the war. His promise to end the war combined with his status as a prominent general played a key role in getting him elected.

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   @poochypanda

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

   Great video! Love this series!

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   @Octoink-i1k

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

   I only have a question and my question is why are you so interested in us but yet again that can probably be answered with the default answer of why anyone will be interested in a different country but still why us?

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   @OnLowBattery

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

   I would love to see a video about the canonical month themes in north America. Like I feel like if you buy calendars each moth has a general theme. It could be that we format the date month, day, year?

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   @saharoori

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

   Another name for the era could be “from the bottom up” since in 1929 the Great Depression was triggered and around the 60s the peak of American life quality was reached for that part of the century before the Vietnam war and the 70s high inflation.

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   @beachboysandrew

   December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

   Btw I hope when you get back to Cleveland you split the section about him into discontinuous portions of the video 😂

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    @no_george

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    Love your videos on American presidents

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    @TheZectorian

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    Huh maybe it is just my political circle, but I feel like MIC is still quite relevant as a term in US politics

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    @SethTheOrigin

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    McCarthy was right though, there were communist sympathisers in the system that explicitly wanted to destroy the USA

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    @romansnail7122

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    16:40 FDR’s disability was well known at the time. I read a Time article from 1933 openly discussing it.

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    @ThePKNess

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    Truman never made a decision to drop the atomic bombs. The bombs only came to be viewed as fundamentally different in retrospect, in large part due to their relationship to the subsequent development of more powerful weapons during the Cold War.

    Once the bombs were ready they were shipped to the Pacific to be used as part of the ongoing strategic bombing campaign that had already killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.

    This same strategy would be employed again in Korea, which saw more ordnance dropped on the North than had been dropped over the entirety of the Pacific theatre.

    When the question of atomic weapons was brought up in the Korean context Truman and the civilian government explicitly shot down the idea, publicly and behind closed doors. Internally, it was the generals who pushed for the use of atom bombs, first Eisenhower and famously MacArthur. Indeed, MacArthur's private and public clashes with the civilian government over the issue of using the atom bombs was a significant contributing factor in his dismissal.

    Ironically, despite being accused of directing the atomic bombings, Truman actually only ever explicitly directed their disuse.

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    @potestateminposterum5427

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    Your assessment of herbert hoover is completely off the mark. Herbert deployed at the time the most extensive set of economic interventions the us government had embarked upon to counter an economic contraction. In fact he was not beholden to conservative values at all as he had explicitly flirted with leaving the republican party, but due to his status and service maintained his affiliation in exchange for basically being one of the leading men of the party. The new deal’s groundwork was laid by herbert hoover. You really ought to read more about “the great contraction”

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    @ToadTendo

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    This series and the Canadian politics videos are my 2 favorite series of yours by far, so glad to see this get a new entry! I may be biased as a political science student though, lol!

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    @EpsomSaltBae

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    Authenticity is how you get your 1000 true fans and the 1000 true fans are how you go full time through patreon and merch.

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    @JFFilmsMTB

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    17:00 I was born in raised in the U.S. lived there for 20 years. Experienced above standard education.(At least in terms of price) I had no idea FDR was in a wheel chair.

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    @Skip2105

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    YES!!!!

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    @OctoSavage

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    the dropping of the bombs was not justified, by any metric. most of our military leaders were against the move, as the Japanese had essentially already surrendered. there was no need to bomb them.

    the only hold out was that the Japanese, being Japanese, wanted assurances their Emperor would still be Emperor while the US, being the US, was very insistent unconditional surrender meant no conditions. the Japanese dragged for months basically going "yes, we understand. we unconditionally surrender… on this condition." their own ambassador to the USSR was basically in polite diplomatic terms telling them "surrender you fucking idiots."

    even after the second bomb was dropped, the Japanese still debated among themselves on continue to fight or continue asking for that one condition. the bombing had no impact. the Emperor intervened basically because he was just done with his cabinet being at a standstill for months.

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    @Dimitristhe

    December 11, 2025 at 4:18 am

    I remember a few years ago reading a book by George Friedman which classified the US Presidents based on the type of economic policy they presided over. It went:
    1) Washington-Quincy Adams
    2) Jackson-Grant
    3) Hayes-Hoover
    4) Roosevelt-Carter
    5) Reagan-

    Book was written under Obama and the author also wrote that he was expecting the next realignment to happen in the 2028 or 2032 election. Maybe it was 2024 after all.

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