We are standing in the road to berlin, permanent gallery exhibits which open and december 2014, after several years of development. Our mission here at the National World War Ii Museum is telling the American Experience in world war ii. How it was fought and won and what it means today. The building we are in tells what i call, the war part of the story. How it was one. Here we are in the first gallery of the road to berlin and behind me you will see the large portraits of political leaders of the allying powers that line up if you will, of the two sides that well engage in this great struggle. When our visitors arrive in this gallery, we believe that they will know that pearl harbor has already occurred due to exhibits on the other side of the street in our museum, so with the country already at war, we have a video that introduces them to five major Strategic Elements with the United States and our allies which ones must master in order to win world war ii. These five key Strategic E
This was the europe of 1941. The nazi blitzkrieg had overwhelmed france, holland, belgium, denmark, norway, and luxembourg. Russian armies were in desperate retreat. The German Air Force was raining death and destruction on england. Combined italian and German Forces were menacing egypt. Their objective, to defeat an opposing british army and dominate all north africa. In asia, japanese air and Ground Forces were driving forward in their bloody conquest of china. Only one of the worlds major powers was still not at war. The United States. It was a sunday afternoon in december 1941, and the statue of liberty towered serenely over new york harbor. As if she were the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling free world. Afternoon in new york, Early Morning in hawaii. And another great harbor where American Warships were at dockside or anchored. Planes with cold engines stood idle at nearby hickam field, when suddenly, without warning [ sound of explosions ] [ sounds of plane engines an
[explosions] norway and luxembourg. Armies were in desperate retreat. The German Air Force was raining death and destruction on england. Combined italian and German Forces were menacing egypt. Their objective to defeat an opposing british army and dominate all of north africa. In asia, japanese air and Ground Forward in driving their bloody conquest of china. Only one of the worlds major ers was still not at war the United States. It was a sunday afternoon in december 1941, and the statue of liberty towered serenely over new york harbor. As if she was the last symbol of freedom left to the crumbling free world. Afternoon in new york, Early Morning in hawaii at another restedwhere ships dockside. Planes with cold engines stood by at nearby hickam field when denly, without warning [explosions] the immediate Japanese Military outctive was to knock navalates air power and air power in the pacific in one stroke. They were convinced we were incapable of fighting a twofront war. The japanese
Coast, in face of equally bitter opposition. [explosions] in the pacific, troops of the First Calvary Division landed on negros andas los another island to wipe out all japanese resistance, and to take hold of the entire group of violence. [explosions and gunfire] we landed in large forces at holandia on the north coast of new guinea. General stillwell and his troops were fighting the japanese in burma. [explosions] this was global warfare on a scale never known before. [explosions] less than three years before, hitlers head addressed the hitler had addressed the nation. Germany will face war on the United States to a positive conclusion. A japanese militarist joins the chorus. Adolf hitler americans have americans have radios, automobiles, big beefsteaks, when a people have those things, they dont want to fight. Americans wont sleep in hammocks, or lie in trenches. They are like a tiger who se stomach is full. They are sleepy. The american is no soldier. [explosions] yet there he was,
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