"‘Why We Fight’–America’s World War Two Propaganda ..." Topic

…Masterpiece.

"FEW TIMES IN HISTORY HAVE AMERICANS been as united on an issue as they were in the days following the Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

While a Gallup poll released just days before Dec. 7, 1941 revealed that only half of Americans at the time (52 percent) believed that a conflict with the Axis was inevitable, a sample taken following the bombing showed an unprecedented 97 support for war.[1][2] Not even the 9/11 attacks 60 years later produced such unanimity (support for the so-called War on Terror peaked early at 89 percent). [3]

Yet even with de facto unanimous public backing, the U.S. government still chose to bankroll a series of films to explain to both servicemen and civilians alike the reasons for America's involvement in the widening struggle…"
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They had a special about the series. It was made to be shown to American servicemen to explain why we were in the war. Just because the US public supported the war did not mean that an individual soldier or sailor knew what led up to the war. Also, with time and casualties it might be difficult to keep the effort going without propaganda supporting the war effort.

The majority of the series was actually taken from German, Japanese and Italian propaganda and news reels sent to the US by their respective governments. We put an American twist on it and used it against them.

To ask why we fight is to ask why the leaves fall from the trees. It is in our nature.

> To ask why we fight is to ask why the leaves fall from the trees. It is in our nature.

Not then it wasn't, it took a direct attack to get the US to directly involve itself in the war.

Clausewitz!! This was about "managing the Trinity."