{"podcast":{"title":"CrashCourse","slug":"crashcourse-8026346","podcast_index_feed_id":8026346,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/crashcourse","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/38c08426-a6bd-11f1-91f8-6b6a1069d5d0/image/9eab713ede6dcfbffb186db0005b9dae.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"CrashCourse","episode_count":637,"summary":"At Crash Course, we believe that high-quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free! Subscribe for weekly videos from our current courses! The Crash Course team has produced more than 60 courses on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from the humanities to sciences and so much more! We also recently teamed up with Arizona State University to bring you more courses on the Study Hall channel.Links:Support us on Patreon!: http://patreon.com/crashcourseInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/crashcourseBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thecrashcourse.bsky.socialTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crashcourseFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T12:17:13.000428+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crashcourse-8026346"},"episode":{"title":"World War II Part 1: Crash Course US History #35","slug":"world-war-ii-part-1-crash-course-us-history-35","published_at":"2026-09-22T05:57:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crashcourse-8026346/world-war-ii-part-1-crash-course-us-history-35","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crashcourse-8026346","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HD2778616270.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/HD2778616270.mp3","summary":"In which John Green teaches you about World War II, a subject so big, it takes up two episodes. This week, John will teach you how the United States got into the war, and just how involved America was before Congress actually declared war. John will actually talk a little about the military tactics involved, and he'll get into some of the weaponry involved, specifically the huge amount of aerial bombing that characterized the war, and the atomic bombs that ended the war in the Pacific.Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. Americans entered World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-attack-on-pearl-harborA call for soldiers led to an early civil rights victory, the Tuskegee Airmen: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/tuskegee-airmenAmerica led the invasion of Normandy that would end the war, and American troops helped to liberate surviving Jews from Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/liberation-of-nazi-concentration-camps---Learn more about WWII in these other Crash Course videos:Crash Course World History:World War II (38): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78COTwT7nEWorld War II, A War for Resources (220): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-2q-QMUIgYCrash Course European History: World War II (38): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs_JMydrxZMWorld War II Civilians and Soldiers (39): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlx6ur_D51sThe Holocaust, Genocides, and Mass Murder of WWII (40): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQeDvnapdlgPost-World War II Recovery (42): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlp068CmQaECrash Course Black American History:World War II (31): https://www.youtube.com/wa…","meta_description":"In which John Green teaches you about World War II, a subject so big, it takes up two episodes. This week, John will teach you how the United States got i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1061,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crashcourse-8026346/episodes/world-war-ii-part-1-crash-course-us-history-35/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crashcourse-8026346/world-war-ii-part-1-crash-course-us-history-35.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}