Episode Recording -- "Leaders from WWII"
- Episode Number
- Students Podcasting History Episode #22
- Episode Title
- Episode Recording -- "Leaders from WWII"
- Hosted by
- Cooper Alford
- Index of Chapters/Topics
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United States government: In this section I focused on FDRs leadership. I went
through what he did for America and some policies he established throughout his
term as president. I also talked about his executive order 9906 and how that
affected some of his public views. I also took a look at how some of the people in
the United States viewed FDR during his leadership. I also took a look at Charles
Lindenbergh and his America first committee. I primarily looked at his speech
America first which was given in 1941 and talked about how America does not
need to get into the war.
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German Government: In this section I talk about Adolf Hitler and many aspects
of his leadership. I began with talking about the rise of the Nazi party and how
Hitler came to power. Then I went on to talk about some of his leadership styles. I
talk about an excerpt from Mein Kampf about propaganda and how that was one
of Hitlers main forms of manipulation to gain followers throughout WWII. I also
talked a little bit about what Germany did in the war. Overall I gave a broad
explanation of Hitlers leadership during his reign over Germany because there is
so much to cover in a little amount of time but still covered the portions I planned
on covering.
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The comparison: In this section I compared and contrasted between the
German leader and the United States of America's leader during WWII. You
would think that there was not much in common between the two but I found one
similarity which I was fairly surprised about. In the contrasting section the two
leaders which obviously is a little easier to do based on common knowledge.
Lastly in this section I went over the outcome of this war and what all happened
at the end between these two leaders. Overall this section wrapped up the other
two sections well and closed my podcast in an interesting way.
- Transcription
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0:00- :57 (This section was the introduction where I talked about the topic and
what I will be talking about throughout the podcast) -Hello to you all and welcome to
another episode of students podcasting history. My name is Cooper Alford. I am a
student at the university's south and my episode is going to be on the leaders of world
war two when it concerns the countries of Germany and the United States. Throughout
the duration of this episode of the podcast, I will be talking to you about how each of the
main leaders throughout world war two led their country policies that were put in place,
some tactics they used to lead, as well as some other opinions throughout their
respective individual countries that might have arisen.
I will also be talking about each
side of the country throughout the duration of this war, and lastly, it will compare in
contrast the two leaders and talk about maybe each of their allies in the overall outcome
of this war. So without further ado let's begin.
0:58-2:02 (In this section Introduced some things about FDR)- First, we're going
to start with the United States of America.
The leader at this time was Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York in 1882, which was
quite a long time ago. Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president from 1933 to 1945.
also known as FDR, FDR was very well known for bringing the United States out of one
of the worst times. the Great Depression. He was known for establishing something
called the new deal with the main focus being the three R's, relief, recovery and
reforms, but that's a conversation for another time. The end of the Great Depression
was brought by World War II.
When it came to World War II, the United States got involved after the bombings of Pearl Harbor. FDR declared war on Japan, and entered
World War II immediately after that, bringing the United States into this war.
2:03-3:04 (In this section I talked about Executive order 9066) One thing I'm
going to look at is FDR executive order number 9066 from the American operator.
One
thing that really stood out to me was what he was doing in this. He removed over
120,000 men, women and children of Japanese descent and put them into camps in
remote parts of the country. This nowadays would probably not fly over well, but at the
time the United States was a little caught up in what the Japanese did to them in Pearl
Harbor.
This was not one of FDR's greatest moments as president, because he was
looked at very well from the United States, like I previously mentioned, he did bring us
out of the great depression, and that very much boosted the view of himself from the
United States people. The next thing I would like to bring up is how some other people
had some influence and what the United States was doing throughout World War II.
3:05-3:57 (This section goes over other influencers, especially Charles
Lindenbergs America's First speech) Charles Lindenburg was one of these influencers.
He gave a speech called America's first, which purpose was to try to influence people
to think that we did not need to enter the war and focus on national defense and not
worry about entering war and entering something else that we did not need to enter in
just protecting our own borders and using our defense strategy to not let anyone else in
the country or not anyone else, but you know, not let any attacks happen on any of the
country. His efforts came from a committee called the America first committee. This
committee, like I said, focused on keeping America first, not worrying about these other
countries in this war and just trying to build up our own economy.
3:58-4:46 (In this section I talked about FDRs foreign relations) Now that you
have a little of a background of maybe some other influence throughout this timing, now
let's get back to what FDR did, and how others viewed FDR when I mean others, I'm
talking about the other countries. FDR when it came to how other countries viewed',
obviously the countries that were allies to the United States thought that he was
positive, respectful, depending on the time, maybe a little hostile, maybe a little knot. He
had a good relationship with China due to his aggression towards the Japanese people.
But when it came to, obviously, Germany and the Soviet Union, they were not very fond
of some of his things, just because they didn't match up with the ideals.
4:47-6:09 (In this section Introduced Germany’s leader and talked about the rise
of the Nazi party) And that brings us to our next side of our argument, Germany.
Germany's leader, the world infamous Hitler, Adolf Hitler, was born in Austria actually,
not Germany in 1889 Adolf Hitler brought the Nazi party to Germany, which was a
radical far-right movement, obviously led by him.
It ended up growing very popular.
Hitler's Nazi party was not necessarily the most popular party when it came to Germany
back in the day. He really had to grow a lot of support throughout the years.
A lot of
German people were very happy with Hitler because he thought that they brought him
out of the Great Depression and brought Germany out of some hard times after World
War I, where they were kind of lost and they did not have much room to stand on when
it came to European countries and global affair and they these Germans believed that
Hitler brought them out of that. So once the Nazi Party rose to the top of the German
political world, it was time for Hitler to start really spreading his word and throughout the
country to begin the growth of his army. 6:10- 7:20(In this section I looked at a section of Mien Kampf and how hitler
looked at propaganda and how Hilter used it) I checked out Hitler's manifesto Mein
Kampf from the University of the South library, which probably put me on some sort of
watch list, but that's okay for the sake of our podcast And one thing that really stood out
to me about Hitler's reign was that was mentioned in this book was Hitler says that he
was awakened during the war to an importance of propaganda discovered that German
methods were too high brow and too little adapted to drum up popular emotion, and
learned that the first rule of a propagandist must be to find out what affects the masses.
In view of that fact, propaganda became the fundamental concern of the Nazi regime
that showed one of Hitler's most powerful tools of motivation, which was propaganda.
Hitler posted propaganda all over Germany and had so many people just looking at that
all day long, and if you continue to look at that and you continue to see all of the
propaganda around you, you're going to begin to believe it. That excerpt was from page
2001 of Mein Kampf, the English version.
7:21-7:43 ( Hitlers relations with other countries) Unlike FDR, Hitler's view from
other countries was not that good. Even some of his own allies throughout the country
ended up not really siding with him too much just because he really did some bad
things. And now is the symbol of genocide and a lot of other bad things.
7:43- END (I compared the two leaders and ended the podcast) But that's
enough with Germany. Now let's compare the two. Now, like I from what I just said,
talking about how FDR had friends throughout the war and allies and Hitler did have
allies for a little bit, but ultimately kind of messed that up.
You'd think that there's not
much in common between the two, but the one thing in common was the way that they moved their people. They both moved their people out of a tough time into a time of
more belief. Now they each have their had their different ways, you know, with Hitler
having very strong propaganda and kind of coming out of nothing and while FDR got
elected into office and had a little bit of a different rise to power, they still both brought
their countries at a very tough times, both great depressions actually.
Ultimately the
United States and the allied powers ended up defeating Germany and Hitler committed
suicide, and that ended up being the end of the war. In conclusion, these two leaders
both had a very dramatic effect on their country for many years to come, and throughout
world war II. I hope you enjoyed this episode of students podcasting history with Cooper
Alford.
Thank you.
Part of #22 "Leaders from WWII"