Did the makers of this show forget about World War I????
I only heard a brief comment about it and that was it.
No Mention of formation of League of Nations? or the Mention of Technology, like the Tank, and how the Airplane changed tactics in the war..
As I was writing this, What happened to the Wright Brothers?
All that had to be dropped to cover the donner party in detail.
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Michael Douglas also had to ramble on about the American spirit on 235 separate occasions. He knows better than you or any historian. He's on TV! PAY ATTENTION DAMN IT!
shareHow could they omit the Wright brothers? The entire world was changed due to the invention of the airplane, how could they do that?
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its true that the entire world changed, but the airplane, while invented here, did not make america unique in any way i dont think. thats maybe why it wasnt included
shareAirplane travel and the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways network radically changed the face of this nation.
I didn't bother watching until that point, but I'd hazard a guess that they glossed over Interstate program entirely.
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Actually, they talked quite a lot about the highway and its impact.
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Like I wrote earlier, I don't mind that they glossed over WWI since it was mostly a European war. I just wish it was quickly mentioned and how the Treaty of Versailles which led to WWII.
The Wright Bros. were shafted indeed. I'm glad they mentioned Henry Ford and the assembly line but the history of the airplane was important too.
They also left out the impact of JFK's assassination and the Cuban missile crisis before it.
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the treaty of Versailles didn't lead to World war II. First world war II in Asia, in which tens of millions also died, and in which more (way more)Americans died, and which more American resources were used, had zero to do with Versailles. Zero.
Second, in Europe, Versailles had almost nothing at all to do with World War Two. The fundamental causes of conflict were all there.
It was the unfair things in the treaty that Germany was forced to do that led to the rise of the Nazi party.
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