Synopsis
Why We Fight, Prelude to War” is a series of seven propaganda films created by the War Department as a way to explain the US’s involvement in the Second World War. It traces the war back to the Manchuria incident as well as Mussolini’s March on Rome in 1922. This section opens with the Hoover dam releasing water (:08). A New York Times headline reads “Senators Shut Down the League of Nations” (:20). Signs for the new president Taft (:35) and candidate Dewey (:37) float in the crowd. A German…
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