Why We Fight - Prelude to War
- by George Marshall's War Department
- Frank Capra - producer
- at Fox & Disney studios
- Alfred Newman - music
Questions:
- Why are were fighting?
- What put us into uniform?
- What of these two worlds?
- How did it become free?
- What of this other world?
- And what of our world?
Themes:
- Free world vs. Slave world
- Freedom vs. Power
- Weakness vs. Strength
- A single totalitarian world-wide conspiracy
Examples:
- George Marshall
- Henry Wallace
- Kosciusko
- "rabble-rouser in Italy"
- "demigod in Munich"
- "fanatical gang in Japan"
- black dragon of "sinister secret society"
- fasces in Italy
- swastika of Nazis
- Mein Kampf
- ministries of propaganda
- "the blackjack and the gun"
- "In Italy they did it different"
- Alfred Rosenberg
- Josef Goebbels
- Nuremberg Laws
- London Naval Treaty
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Pathe News 1939
- Social Security, CCC
- Yamamoto
- Tanaka Plan
- Lebensraum
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