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Democracy means you are controlled by the American empire , the gained so much from world war 2 like forcing the world to use US dollar for trade and getting 3% for every transaction and if not do as told they would put sanctions on countries , change the government or starve the people till they go in with military force to steal minerals and profit 😂

German engineering was really lame compared to Yankee Enginuity.

Sucks that we helped Russia so much.

We lost the manufacturing capability because we were sold out by the government

pretty sure welding requires more skill than riveting...

Did you know that dan snow has a history channel called history hit tv?

Yeah, not in today's U.S.

I made anti-personnel landmines before I joined to go to Vietnam.

Who's funding you guys?

Absolutely incredible generation of people which begs the question where did it all go wrong imagine trying to accomplish that with today's generation

That’s why we always knew GM was better than ford. I mean the proof is here right? lol

This was largely due to government forcing companies to make war items. Which hurt the economy and society here. This is why our country exploded after the war. We went back to making goods. They had to be sold cheap so it boomed the economy. Thus the term boomers.

FDR wasn't punishing companies. Most of his regulations and taxes were to root out the causes of the depression (FDIC insurance basically eliminated bank runs in the US), get some money to the working class (which they desperately needed), and build up the US infrastructure. Of course you can't do too much of that, but there was almost none of that happening at a federal level pre-depression. All that infrastructure is one of the main reasons why the US was able to produce so much during the war.

I work at the steel mill in Dearborn shown in the video, that blast furnace has been offline for 40 years but its twin is still making pig iron 24/7/365. Its now AK steel

Wait, you mean that socialist policies hurt business?? Who would have thought...

"Crysler is a subsidiary to General Motors" What? since when? that was inaccurate statement.

It is easy to maintain work and production when you are not being bombed back the Paleolithic everyday/night

My father, born in 1925, a ww2 veteran, warned me when I was young of the dangers of big corporations, he understood the power such huge businesses can wield, fast track to today, union membership is at a all time low and corporate dark money flowing into the election process has turned our democracy into a oligarchy, you were right dad.

It was years before I was on the scene, but I’m proud of how my parents generation contributed so much to the war. I’ve been researching WW2, and it’s great to see what was going on in the work force, because the USA wouldn’t have been able to contribute as much without the citizens back home! THANK YOU for such a wonderful and inspirational documentary about my fellow citizens!! And, a docu that’s not afraid to give America a little bit of credit!!❤😅

You don’t need a large army or military equipment when you have a massive population and industry that can be quickly mobilized.

Damn, the narrator sure is more hostile to the New Deal than the experts are! (Probably a Tory...)

Weakling, and yet who gave Germany the loans to build itself up. They should have known better than to discount a strong rebel nation.

NOT NUTSON!!! NEWTSON!!

They didn’t do it with diversity hires. I’ll tell ya that much.

I doubt they could produce as much now.

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Times have changed all the factories the USA relies on now are in China!

Japan & Germany f***ed around and found out

So very true, but who has the factories now I ask? Hint: It's Not the USA.

Chrysler was not a division of GM. It was its own company!!!

well i guess china takes that title now. as they are the world factory

These are very interesting, but very focussed on connecting mass production techniques, a large population and bountiful natural resources with free market capitalism. I think they are reaching, with that. It’s an interesting argument, but I don’t think they should be presenting this as a matter of fact. It is possible that other economic systems might have done as well with the same natural resources and lack of local threats (and revenue from loans made to combatants to buy supplies and weapons). I’m not saying there is no merit in their thesis, just that it is not as clear cut or universally agreed as they make it seem.

Did GM pay to have this made? Chrysler, not a division of GM, made tanks. Ford and Willys made jeeps, not GM. If you watched this video without this knowledge you'd think that GM produced everything. They did make trucks, lots of trucks.

Unskilled workers??? Says a person that's never built anything. Working 12 hours a day around heavy machinery without losing a limb is anything but unskilled. You even mention how they increased production by 10 fold. That doesn't take skill? How little recognition the actual workers get even to this day. It's always about the "titans of industry." Well sure. But those titans are nothing without skilled and motivated workers. 🤷

Superb video. Amazing that when I studied WWII history in high school and college that I never was exposed to this perspective on war and the central role of manufacturing and war supplies. It's as if the professors didn't discuss an elephant in the room.

Our factories weren’t being bombed with 500 pound bombs

Shameless neo-liberal propaganda, what a pity!

MERICA ! The only super power left in the world. The Russsians cant even beat Ukraine. China, dont even think about tiwan, we will be there with the 7th fleet.

The British far out produced the US, but they did get a lot of modern techniques to speed up their building from the US as well as raw material.

Of course, they were! We never got bombed, never ran out of supplies. What a silly question

It's insane how WW2 really shaped the US and turned it into the superpower. They never realized what they could do until pushed to do it.