DR_Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States Flashcards
Episodes 1 and 2:
In WWII 20 Million Russians were killed.
NOTE: In America we say we won the war, but in reality, Russia proved to be the force to end the war. Japan did not surrender because of the Atomic bomb like we are told. They surrendered 6 days later and only because Russia with its massive armies opened a new front under Stalin and started their invasion. Upon the invasion Japan gave up.
NOTE: At the end of Germany’s fall, the Russians moved in and raped 2 Million German women. When they were there, it was the Russians who discovered the German concentration camps.
Japan was embargoed by the U.S. and other countries for oil, coal and other wartime supplies. Japan had been attacking and conquering China’s islands since 1933. Japan was out of oil and planned to attack the East Indies and confiscate their oil. But, this was close to Pearl Harbor and Japan reasoned the U.S. would interfere on the conquest.//The U.S. knew they would eventually be attacked by Japan, but the U.S. thought the attack would be in the Phillipines.
Japan’s motive was to completely destroy Pear Harbor so they could attack the East Indies and steal their oil without interference from Pearl Harbor.
Episode 2 continued:
FDR dies of a massive stroke. FDR was president for 12 years. If he lived he would have been president for 16 years.
Truman was Vice President only 82 aays and only spoke to FDR twice.//The former VP, Wallace got 62% votes and Truman only 3% votes at the Democratic convention in Chicago.
Before Wallace could be announced he was going to run for president, he was stopped by men with orders to seize him and prevent him from getting to the microphone. The powers that be knew once Wallace was on stage, he would win the nomination by a landslide.//If Wallace had 9 more seconds, he could have announced his running for President, and a vote would be taken. But instead the man in charge of the stage, seeing Wallace coming to the stage, quickly adjourned the convention meeting.//During the night many payoffs, job offers and bribes were exchanged to nominate Truman rather than Wallace. //The next day Truman edged out Wallace by the popular vote.//NOTE: Truman did not know we invented the atomic bomb until he was president. Roosevelt never told him.
Episode 3: The Bomb
The U.S. hated Japan because of Pearl Harbor and the horrible treatment of U.S. POWS. What Japan did: //Torture//Castration//Dismemberment//Feeding POWS other dead U.S. POWS. [per time mag ref Bush]//Crucified//Burned alive//Beheaded//Nailed POWS to trees then used for bayonet practice.
To show you the mentality back them, Truman’s Uncle Will says, “Made white man from dust, a nigger from mud, then throw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman.”//In America Japanese Americans were forced into camps. Deplorable conditions. Long hard labor in desert Sun for minuscule pay. They could only take with them what they could carry. Neighbors ravished their homes, stealing everything left behind..//There were 1900 Kamakazie attacks that sank 30 ships and damaged 360 Naval vessels.
The Atomic bomb mushroom cloud viewed 400 miles away was now 40,000 feet high.
German bombing of Hamburg created fires taller than the Empire State Building. The Atomic Bomb burned at 5,400 degrees F. at the center of the cloud. People’s organs boiled and bodies exploded.//Estimated 140,000 dead Japanese by end of year, and 200,000 by 1950!//August 9th, 1945. Adam’s BD. Nagasaki bomb dropped. 40,000 killed outright but biggest news was Stalin’s new front kills 70,000! Still Japan would not surrender..//Japan’s General Masakazu Kawabe, Chief of staff said Atomic bombs were bad, but Stalin’s invasion gave them great fear.//Japan’s Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki said, “Japan must surrender immediately.” So it was Stalin’s attack that drove the surrender.//Amanda’s BD, September 2, 1945 that Japan surrendered on the U.S. Missouri Battleship.//NOTE: Truman’s estimate of dropping the bomb vs an invasion was numbered by him as “thousands of lives”. Throughout history, like the Bible, this number was exaggerated profusely as the years went by.
- 1945; Truman’s original estimate: “thousands of lives”
- 1949; 500,000
- 1953; 1 million
- 1959; Millions
- 1980’s; President Bush’s speech that the bomb saved millions and millions of lives.
Episode 4 & 5: Truman and Eisenhower.
Truman and Eisenhower both espoused the use of the Atomic bomb. In fact they both are on record for threatening nations to do what I say or I will bomb you!
The concensus was flippant. People wanted to use the A bomb for all kinds of things, like bomb us another Panama Canal. Another consideration was to melt the snow and ice in Alaska.
Later it was discovered that the bomb had terrible radioactive fallout that sobered thinking up.
From 1945 to early 1950’s; Communism was quickly overtaking the Eastern nations of Europe. (China, Poland, etc.)
In 1950 the Korean war together with visible rallies and demonstrations in the U.S. make the U.S. terrified that their nation would be overtaken by Communism!
Korean war was fought to stop this Communism aggression, but ended in a draw.
Episode 5 continued:
Back in the U.S. McCarthyism and the threat of a nuclear war with Russia; people were building bomb shelters.
[MN: Then 1954 we start pledge of allegiance and in 1956 “In God we trust” on money and Federal buildings.] These measures were taken to fight off Communism. Communism was a viable threat since so many Eastern Europe nations went that way after the war.
In the late 40’s and the 1950’s, Hollywood made over 40 movies about the spector of Communism.
Episode 6: Kennedy and Nixon.
The presidental election was all about Communism.
JFK starts off on the wrong foot with Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, using Cuban rebels. After that embarrassment, he hated his joint Chiefs of Staff for bullying him into it.
[MN: Kennedy estrangement to chief of staff might be what got him killed. Kennedy also was so mad at the CIA that he threatened to revoke their charter and disolve the agency. This made many powerful enemies.]
Furthermore, with the Cuban missle crisis the joint Chiefs were furious with Kennedy for not obliterating Cuba. The Joint Chiefs said, “We Lost”
Eisenhower and Truman would have both dropped the Atomic bomb on Cuba. Kennedy was afraid this would start a Nuclear war with Russia.
A new declassified secret is that if there was a nuclear war between U.S. and Russia; a primary target would be China, not Russia.//From the island of Okinawa a large arsenal of F100 bombers armed with Hydrogen bombs were destined to destroy China.//1963 Vietnam, an advisor cautioned JFK to pull out of Vietnam. In June 1963, 5 months before assassination, Kennedy rebuked the advisor and sent a larger group to further evaluate. The group returned saying to get out also. Kennedy thought if I pull out now, everybody will hate me.
They will say I am a Communist sympathizer. But after I get re-elected, I can take troops out in 1965.
The Republicians were furious! They wanted Kennedy’s head for this. [MN: Looking like an assassination coming soon!]
Nelson Rockefeller says in October 1963 [one month before JFK death]:
- Kennedy didn’t stop Communist aggression in Laos.
- Kennedy failed to give air support in Bay of Pigs.
- Kennedy did nothing to stop the Berlin wall.
NOTE: Kennedy gave no air support because he promised Russia he would not invade Cuba. He was only using Cuban Rebels.//Kennedy did NOT want his ground forces in Vietnam because he remembered how they tore up the French soldiers who previously owned Vietnam. (Jungle ambush then disappear in underground dugouts)//When JFK arrived in Dallas (Day of assassination) he had burned bridges and made enemies of nearly all upper echelons of intelligence, Military and business communities plus the Mafia and Southern Segregationists.//NOTE: On the Cuba blockade. There was a shaperone Russian submarine escorting a ship. U.S. Destroyers dropped depth charges, crippling the sub, no lights, no air for 4 hours. The sub Commander thinking they were at war removed his nuclear missle safeties and was ready to launch nukes at America. Thankfully, the Russian Political officer talked him down. Political Office was Vasill Arkhipov. // If not for that Political officer talking him down, WWIII would have started and it could have been the end of the world as we know it.
Episode 7: Johnson
In 1964, Barry Goldwater lost to Johnson. Goldwater wanted to NUKE South Vietnam.
LBJ totally escalated the war in Vietnam. 1967:Half a million soldiers in Vietnam. Drafting 35,000 per month. Dropped 3 times the bombs total for WWII. LBJ gives up on Vietnam and does not seek re-election. Nixon: War escalates. Half the people killed in Vietnam were during his time in office. Cambodia was a refuge place for Vietnamese fighters.
Nixon secretly heavily bombs Cambodia, hiding it from Congress. Even the pilots thought they were bombing Vietnam.
With Watergate and other crimes, Nixons Defense secretary instructed military leaders not to respond to Nixon’s orders! WOW!
Vietnamese. 3.8 Million dead. Herbicide nearly all ancient forest gone. 19 Million gallons of Herbicide poisoned the environment. (Agent Orange)
Episode 8: Reagan Years//Reagan orchestrated small third world countries mainly in South America to purge insurgents.//He and Bill Casey lied to Congress and secretly approved many colvert military operations such as the Iran Contra Affair.//In Iran-Contra, he sold overpriced missles and weapons to both sides of the Iran-Iraqi war, then with the profits he armed counter insurgents (Contras) with advanced weaponry to over throw targeted governments. Oliver North “spilled the beans” on what was going on.//North told about selling to both sides of Iraq and Iran. About using foreign arms merchants to arm the Contras. To open closed doors, drug Lords were given access to sell drugs to America and other countries. The CIA was heavily involved in these operations.//In 1986, Reagan and Gorbachov came within a few words of making an agreement to destroy every Nuke worldwide by 2000. Gorby would sign if Reagan restricted his “Star wars” Defense to laboratory only testing for ten years. Reagon said no can do because it would make him look weak to the world.//NOTE: Star wars was a pipe dream and would never work. Reagan was the only believer it would work. Everybody else knew it was a fantasy!//Reagan spent over 100 Billion dollars on this failed fantasy! The other side of the coin, this kept the Soviet Union in crippling poverty to maintain their arms race and finally the Soviet Union collapsed from spending 25% of their GNP on Nukes.//In 1986, a cargo plane was shot down. The lone survivor admitted he was CIA. This was embarrassing to the U.S. as it showed the world we were doing illegal actions to undermine governments.//Reagan boosted National Debt, cut social programs for the poor, boosted larger military and debt. Deregulated Savings and Loan which later caused $87 Billion bail out by tax payers.
Reagan came close to impeachment, but America just could not withstand another failed president, so Ronnie got a free pass.
Episode 9: Bush and Clinton
Gorby let up on importance of controlling Eastern European Countries, unlike all his predecessors. The result; in 1989 and 1990, all the Eastern and central Communist governments fell. The world watched in disbelief. //All these countries peacefully changed their governments. East and West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithania, Estonia.
November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall comes down. This ended the 45 year reign of what Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin carved up into Soviet and Western Influence. Now Gorby was promised by Bush that NATO would not creep Westward toward Russia. Problem is that Bush soon left office and ensuing presidents let NATO creep all the way to Russian border. Russia felt betrayed by this. [Like Indian reservations taken back by the gold rush.]//April Claspie (U.S. Ambassador to Iraq) met with Sadaam Hussien and told him the U.S. had no interest in the Iraq/Kuwait border disputes. Sadaam takes this as the green light to assimulate Kuwait into Iraq and steal all that oil.//Gen. Powell, Gen. Schwarzkopf and Dick Cheney went to meet with Saudi King Fahd. The U.S. representatives convince King Fahd to house a large military presence by showing him doctored aerial photos of Iraq’s forces digging in along the Saudi border, in apparent staging to attack Saudi Arabia.
Episode 9 Continued: Iraq//Of course this was all a fictional ploy for the U.S. military to get it’s foot in the door of the oil rich Middle East.// The trusting King Fahd was played by the U.S. fraud, but he believed it was real and was so upset that he okayed the U.S. military presence.//This resulted in Desert Storm then later the Iraqi War.//Now at this point in time, the U.S. is viewed by the rest of the world that the U.S. wants to be the New Rome. Completely dominate of military might and oil!
This is why 9/11 happened. 9/11 was because the Middle East did not want us in their countries. The Americans were told another story.//Americans were told, “They hate us because we are strong and prosperous. They hate us because we are not their religion and we treat women with respect, and let them go to schools and colleges.”
Also we let women vote and hold powerful jobs and positions.
Episode 10: Bush and Obama
President Bush went nuts after 9/11, wanting to attack any nation he did not like. He coerced General Powell to give a 75 minute speech to the United Nations displaying all kinds of fabricated evidence. General Powell said it was a very low point in his life.
Even the Washing Post said WMD evidence in Iraq was irrefutable.
Worldwide people protested against it. 3 Million in Rome. 1 Million in London. Hundreds of thousands in New York. In a survey of “Who is the biggest threat to world peace?” Europe said 84% thought the United States. Iraq was only 8%.!
Obama, fearing any let up in Homeland security, had enormous pressure to keep and expand the Bush Administration’s heighten Privacy Invasions. Millions of emails copied, read and stored. Wire tapping, torture of combatants. Then the drone arm’s race began.//When NYC bomber was asked how he could set off a bomb killing innocent civilians including women and children he answered. “The United States does this in many countries everyday.”//[Becoming the new Rome] Domination never last. [MN: Think 4 chess players on one board, the winning player is attacked from the other three]
Five major empires have collapsed in the lifetime of a person born before WWII.
Britain, France, Germany, Japan and Soviet Union.
We need to learn how to live by the law of civilization, not the law of the Jungle. “Oliver Stone”
Episode B: 1920 to 1940
From WWI veterans returning from France brought back VD and other sexual diseases.
Religious groups forced prostitutes to go underground. Prohibition gave birth to gangsters like Al Capone.
Blacks being hanged were advertised in advance to draw huge crowds.
Then the corpses were disected and body parts were sold as souvenirs. Postcards were made as souvenirs.//Immigration laws banned immigrants from East Asia, Japan and China. //Measures to eliminate undesirables. In 1911 as Governor, Woodrow Wilson made a law to sterilizing convicts, Epileptics and the feeble minded. Within a decade some 60,000 Americans were sterilized. This practice was observed and carried further by Adolf Hitler who simply killed his undesirables.//Between 1920 and 1925, up to 6 million Americans joined the Ku Klux Klan. Klan was anti Catholic as well.//In 1923 Germany’ runaway inflation made their money so worthless they used it for firewood. [MN: A wheelbarrow of it maybe could buy a loaf of bread.] //Germany by treaty had to pay war reparations to France and Britain plus the owed the U.S. Billions in war debt.
Then to help, the U.S. loaned more money to Germany under unfair terms so Germany could pay France and Britain. Bankers got rich, German people stayed poor. By 1933 Germany owed more than they originally owed in 1924. Then the pissed off Germans got a new savior. A new monster was born; Nazism!
Nazism started in Italy under Mussolini. Even with the raised hand salute. Nazis stormed city of Munich in 1923 led by WWI Corporal Adolf Hitler! His followers were soldiers who could not adjust back to civilian life. They were called “Storm Troopers”.//Hitler was know as a fighter against Communism and was asked by the ruling class of Germany to help fight Communism and lead the way back to prosperity.
In 1933 Hitler became Chancellor [Head of Goverment] of Germany. HItler preached pride.
General McArthur set their tent city aflame. The next year the Bonus Army returned, but a new president was there, Roosevelt. Roosevelt sent his wife to give them 3 meals per day. They loved him. Soon the Bonus Army voted to disband and Roosevelt put many of them to work in the civilian Conservation Corps. This was at the height of the Depression.
