The Real Moment the Allies Won WW2

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk Listen: linktr.ee/wehaveways Why did Roosevelt enter World War Two? What was Atlantic Charter? How did the USSR defeat Operation Barbarossa? Join Al Murray and James Holland for part 4 of their most ambitious series yet; a definitive survey of the 20th Century and how the First World War and economic instability of the 20s and 30s caused World War Two, and how the political vision of US Presidents like Roosevelt and Truman strengthened Western Democracies for the Cold War with the USSR. Come to our festival ! https://wehavewaysfest2026.eventbrite.co.uk/?aff=YouTube 0:00 America Enters the Global War 3:13 Lend-Lease and Roosevelt’s Political Masterstroke 6:42 FDR’s Cross-Party Appeal to America 10:13 Britain, the Blitz and the Battle of the Atlantic 13:06 The Real Cost of American Aid 16:16 Barbarossa and the Atlantic Charter 17:32 The Eight Pledges of the Atlantic Charter 20:22 America, Britain and the End of Empire 22:07 Roosevelt’s Vision vs Churchill’s Survival 24:30 Hitler’s Fatal Strategic Blindness 25:43 Operation Barbarossa Begins 27:48 Stalin Recovers from the Shock 29:21 Hitler Blinks After Smolensk 31:48 The Soviet Union’s Brutal Resilience 33:41 German Overreach and Logistical Collapse 36:30 Had Germany Already Lost the War? 38:41 Moscow, Winter and Soviet Counterattack 39:28 Pearl Harbor and America Enters the War 41:20 Germany Takes on the World’s Three Great Empires 42:14 America’s War Machine Comes Online 43:33 Hitler Declares War on the United States 44:20 Planning for Peace Produced by James Regan Assistant Producer: Alfie Norris Social Producer: Harry Balden Head of Digital & Social: Sam Oakley Exec Producer: Tony Pastor