Dan Snow

Neither side can land a knockout blow. And Churchill wants to get to a place where you can move towards victory. And to do that, he needs American resource. He needs American money and weapons and industrial output and things like that. And so he says in December 8th, he goes, Britain is approaching the point where we are bankrupt. We cannot pay for things in cash.

And they send a new ambassador over to the US in that same time, late fall 1940. Und er ist ein sehr charismatischer Typ. Und es gibt einen berühmten Quote, dass er... Leider kann ich nicht finden, ob es tatsächlich wahr ist. Aber die Geschichte geht. Die Geschichte ist weitgehend erzählt. Er sagt den Journalisten, die ihn begrüßten, als er landete, Na, Jungs, Britannien ist kaputt.

And they send a new ambassador over to the US in that same time, late fall 1940. Und er ist ein sehr charismatischer Typ. Und es gibt einen berühmten Quote, dass er... Leider kann ich nicht finden, ob es tatsächlich wahr ist. Aber die Geschichte geht. Die Geschichte ist weitgehend erzählt. Er sagt den Journalisten, die ihn begrüßten, als er landete, Na, Jungs, Britannien ist kaputt.

And they send a new ambassador over to the US in that same time, late fall 1940. Und er ist ein sehr charismatischer Typ. Und es gibt einen berühmten Quote, dass er... Leider kann ich nicht finden, ob es tatsächlich wahr ist. Aber die Geschichte geht. Die Geschichte ist weitgehend erzählt. Er sagt den Journalisten, die ihn begrüßten, als er landete, Na, Jungs, Britannien ist kaputt.

Es ist euer Geld, das wir wollen. Und so, wie du sagst, mit Murrow und so, gibt es auch diese Influenzkampagne, die die britischen Leute zeigt, die Nacht nach Nacht Bomben verursacht. Frauen getötet, Kinder getötet, Häuser zerstört, indiskriminierte Bomben von der deutschen Kriegsmaschine. Also, die Sympathie in den amerikanischen Leuten.

Es ist euer Geld, das wir wollen. Und so, wie du sagst, mit Murrow und so, gibt es auch diese Influenzkampagne, die die britischen Leute zeigt, die Nacht nach Nacht Bomben verursacht. Frauen getötet, Kinder getötet, Häuser zerstört, indiskriminierte Bomben von der deutschen Kriegsmaschine. Also, die Sympathie in den amerikanischen Leuten.

Es ist euer Geld, das wir wollen. Und so, wie du sagst, mit Murrow und so, gibt es auch diese Influenzkampagne, die die britischen Leute zeigt, die Nacht nach Nacht Bomben verursacht. Frauen getötet, Kinder getötet, Häuser zerstört, indiskriminierte Bomben von der deutschen Kriegsmaschine. Also, die Sympathie in den amerikanischen Leuten.

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Well, you know, you're the expert in FDR, Don, with this great series you've been running. But I think the FDR was hoping to avoid war if he could. He was hoping that there would be some way for the Europeans not to drag the world back into kind of global Armageddon, as they've done so many times in the past. But he also is, I think he buys what Churchill's selling.

Well, you know, you're the expert in FDR, Don, with this great series you've been running. But I think the FDR was hoping to avoid war if he could. He was hoping that there would be some way for the Europeans not to drag the world back into kind of global Armageddon, as they've done so many times in the past. But he also is, I think he buys what Churchill's selling.

Well, you know, you're the expert in FDR, Don, with this great series you've been running. But I think the FDR was hoping to avoid war if he could. He was hoping that there would be some way for the Europeans not to drag the world back into kind of global Armageddon, as they've done so many times in the past. But he also is, I think he buys what Churchill's selling.

He buys the idea that Hitler is evil. He buys the idea it's a threat, an existential threat to democracy. And that's why, and you can see that, because he does answer Churchill's pleas, and he does help I'm astonished when I read about 1941. Before Pearl Harbor, the lengths that the Americans go to help the Brits...

He buys the idea that Hitler is evil. He buys the idea it's a threat, an existential threat to democracy. And that's why, and you can see that, because he does answer Churchill's pleas, and he does help I'm astonished when I read about 1941. Before Pearl Harbor, the lengths that the Americans go to help the Brits...

He buys the idea that Hitler is evil. He buys the idea it's a threat, an existential threat to democracy. And that's why, and you can see that, because he does answer Churchill's pleas, and he does help I'm astonished when I read about 1941. Before Pearl Harbor, the lengths that the Americans go to help the Brits...

in 1941, it actually makes it less surprising that Hitler made the crazy decision to declare war on the Americans after Pearl Harbor. Because from Hitler's point of view, the Americans were kind of in the war. And if you look at Lend-Lease, a great example, in March 1941, you get the Lend-Lease Act passed by Congress, and Churchill said it's tantamount to a declaration of war.

in 1941, it actually makes it less surprising that Hitler made the crazy decision to declare war on the Americans after Pearl Harbor. Because from Hitler's point of view, the Americans were kind of in the war. And if you look at Lend-Lease, a great example, in March 1941, you get the Lend-Lease Act passed by Congress, and Churchill said it's tantamount to a declaration of war.

in 1941, it actually makes it less surprising that Hitler made the crazy decision to declare war on the Americans after Pearl Harbor. Because from Hitler's point of view, the Americans were kind of in the war. And if you look at Lend-Lease, a great example, in March 1941, you get the Lend-Lease Act passed by Congress, and Churchill said it's tantamount to a declaration of war.

Churchill knows, like, he's got them. This is America are in. They have agreed to provide enormous, enormous military supplies to Britain and its empire and its allies.