Why wasn't Teddy Roosevelt allowed to fight in World War One (Short Animated Documentary)
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Date: 2026-04-12
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JamesStarbullet
Honestly Teddy Roosevelt was such a great man that even his idea for after the war was better then what actually happened. Germany being Balkanized and forming an basically a UN but with a clause to enforce peace at any sort of land grab attempt. Teddy was also right about the League of Nations. It was toothless and did fail. Like honestly they were right to keep him from fighting but everything about Teddy. His policies and how he was a man of true honor and character. He often pushed against corruption and he was instrumental in ending monopolies in the early 1900s. He supported women's right to vote. Theodore Roosevelt can be argued to be the very best President we ever had. And he is popular now and then because of who he was and the things he accomplished. He earned that respect. Also an old Cowboy former Soldier and former President is probably gonna call you a coward if you are avoiding war. Like the dude is known for Speak softly and carry a big stick. I'm sure European leaders hated a Popular, Progressive, Environmentalist, Soldier, Rancher, former Police Commission, and Governor and President. He went to Harvard and Columbia. He was the opposite of every European leader of the period. Intelligent, Brave, Courageous, and he cared deeply about life. He was a great man. One of the greatest. Honestly if you had an issue with Teddy Roosevelt that says more about you then him.
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Honestly Teddy Roosevelt was such a great man that even his idea for after the war was better then what actually happened. Germany being Balkanized and forming an basically a UN but with a clause to enforce peace at any sort of land grab attempt. Teddy was also right about the League of Nations. It was toothless and did fail. Like honestly they were right to keep him from fighting but everything about Teddy. His policies and how he was a man of true honor and character. He often pushed against corruption and he was instrumental in ending monopolies in the early 1900s. He supported women's right to vote. Theodore Roosevelt can be argued to be the very best President we ever had. And he is popular now and then because of who he was and the things he accomplished. He earned that respect. Also an old Cowboy former Soldier and former President is probably gonna call you a coward if you are avoiding war. Like the dude is known for Speak softly and carry a big stick. I'm sure European leaders hated a Popular, Progressive, Environmentalist, Soldier, Rancher, former Police Commission, and Governor and President. He went to Harvard and Columbia. He was the opposite of every European leader of the period. Intelligent, Brave, Courageous, and he cared deeply about life. He was a great man. One of the greatest. Honestly if you had an issue with Teddy Roosevelt that says more about you then him.
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MetaSynForYourSoul
1: 30 It's ironic that one of our best Presidents is directly responsible for electing one of our worst. He blamed Taft basically for not being as forceful of a personality as he was, which even someone as self-righteous as Teddy Roosevelt should've been able to piece together that Taft was far better at the job of president than he ever was. Taft, despite not sauntering into the presidents office until around noon, was extremely effective during his working hours. Taft busted apart double the number of Trusts and shady financial institutions that Roosevelt did in his time in office, and whilst only working 1/2 the day on average. He just wasn't getting in everyone's face about it. Whereas Roosevelt would make sure when trusts fell it was front page news. Meanwhile Taft busted the trusts quietly, so Teddy assumed because he didn't hear about Trusts falling from the sky, Taft wasn't doing his job. And if Teddy didn't try to stage a comeback because of it, the Republican vote would've stayed united and Wilson (again objectively one of our worst presidents) never gets in office, and the racism and horrible decisions that he's responsible for have no chance to plague America for the next 100 years. Heck, we're still dealing with the consequences today!
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1: 30 It's ironic that one of our best Presidents is directly responsible for electing one of our worst. He blamed Taft basically for not being as forceful of a personality as he was, which even someone as self-righteous as Teddy Roosevelt should've been able to piece together that Taft was far better at the job of president than he ever was. Taft, despite not sauntering into the presidents office until around noon, was extremely effective during his working hours. Taft busted apart double the number of Trusts and shady financial institutions that Roosevelt did in his time in office, and whilst only working 1/2 the day on average. He just wasn't getting in everyone's face about it. Whereas Roosevelt would make sure when trusts fell it was front page news. Meanwhile Taft busted the trusts quietly, so Teddy assumed because he didn't hear about Trusts falling from the sky, Taft wasn't doing his job. And if Teddy didn't try to stage a comeback because of it, the Republican vote would've stayed united and Wilson (again objectively one of our worst presidents) never gets in office, and the racism and horrible decisions that he's responsible for have no chance to plague America for the next 100 years. Heck, we're still dealing with the consequences today!
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jamesrogers1554
My advisor in grad school was on the commission to investigate whether Teddy actually deserved the Medal of Honor for he actions in the Spanish-American War. She told me that the historians actually went in expecting to find that he had embellished his actions to make himself look better as many had done in the past. However after analyzing the records and accounts, the commission found that if anything Roosevelt had downplayed some of his accomplishments. The man was apparently a real-life action hero.
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My advisor in grad school was on the commission to investigate whether Teddy actually deserved the Medal of Honor for he actions in the Spanish-American War. She told me that the historians actually went in expecting to find that he had embellished his actions to make himself look better as many had done in the past. However after analyzing the records and accounts, the commission found that if anything Roosevelt had downplayed some of his accomplishments. The man was apparently a real-life action hero.
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jklein0079
Impressive video. The way that the history books put it was more for the reason that Roosevelt was obsessed with calvary which would not have fared well in trench warfare, gas attacks, tanks, airplanes and all of the new developments of modern warfare.
I do wonder if Wilson would have run for a 3rd term if he didn't stroke out and pull a Biden before Biden where his wife essentially ran the country for his last months in office.
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Impressive video. The way that the history books put it was more for the reason that Roosevelt was obsessed with calvary which would not have fared well in trench warfare, gas attacks, tanks, airplanes and all of the new developments of modern warfare.
I do wonder if Wilson would have run for a 3rd term if he didn't stroke out and pull a Biden before Biden where his wife essentially ran the country for his last months in office.
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ethanvitello6769
I was suggesting a request centered on japan and Usa. Because when I realized how similar 9/11 and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, because 2 planes on 9/11 and 2 bombs for the 2 cities, this raised a question in my head. How did japan react to 9/11, and did they think to themselves Now you know how it feels to to be hit in the head twice. And I was hoping you could make a video about it, PLEEEEEASE.
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I was suggesting a request centered on japan and Usa. Because when I realized how similar 9/11 and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, because 2 planes on 9/11 and 2 bombs for the 2 cities, this raised a question in my head. How did japan react to 9/11, and did they think to themselves Now you know how it feels to to be hit in the head twice. And I was hoping you could make a video about it, PLEEEEEASE.
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JeremyKasperson
Nice little insert at 1: 12 mark of James Benjamin Parker at the McKinley assassination. The Secret Service was so terribly racially profiling Parker and focusing on him that they let Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoot President McKinley. James Benjamin Parker had his role in stopping the third bullet from striking McKinley downplayed in major newspapers due to his race.
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Nice little insert at 1: 12 mark of James Benjamin Parker at the McKinley assassination. The Secret Service was so terribly racially profiling Parker and focusing on him that they let Anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoot President McKinley. James Benjamin Parker had his role in stopping the third bullet from striking McKinley downplayed in major newspapers due to his race.
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johnschubert6726
The Zimmermann telegram is a scam. There is zero chance the Germans would have been foolish enough to send such terms, fully aware that Mexico has no chance against the US. Wilson wanted war. He was of British Noble blood. He was the president who changed everything into what we see today, for better or for worse, but almost certainly worse.
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The Zimmermann telegram is a scam. There is zero chance the Germans would have been foolish enough to send such terms, fully aware that Mexico has no chance against the US. Wilson wanted war. He was of British Noble blood. He was the president who changed everything into what we see today, for better or for worse, but almost certainly worse.
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SilverMe2004
the thing with Generals leading from the rear, was that pre WWI, Generals did lead from the front(or at least on the battlefield ) but after Germany lost a couple hundred Generals it was decide that the Generals had to stay away from the front
so it is unlikely that Teddy leading from the front would have survived
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the thing with Generals leading from the rear, was that pre WWI, Generals did lead from the front(or at least on the battlefield ) but after Germany lost a couple hundred Generals it was decide that the Generals had to stay away from the front
so it is unlikely that Teddy leading from the front would have survived
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sandman4663
Worth mentioning that he very likely would have gotten himself and everyone who volunteered with him killed in a San Juan hill’ style charge. His approach to warfare was painfully outdated by the time of WW1. And no conflict in the Americas even comes close to the horrors of early mechanized trench warfare.
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Worth mentioning that he very likely would have gotten himself and everyone who volunteered with him killed in a San Juan hill’ style charge. His approach to warfare was painfully outdated by the time of WW1. And no conflict in the Americas even comes close to the horrors of early mechanized trench warfare.
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williamparis500
I am 51 and unarguably (I looked into it) in much better shape than Ted Roosevelt at 58 and cannot imagine for one second of fighting on the Western Front in The Great War! And blind in one eye with reduced depth perception and relapses into malarial fevers Yeah. no. yeah.
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I am 51 and unarguably (I looked into it) in much better shape than Ted Roosevelt at 58 and cannot imagine for one second of fighting on the Western Front in The Great War! And blind in one eye with reduced depth perception and relapses into malarial fevers Yeah. no. yeah.
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history_matters
Because Woodrow Wilson is an overrated prick, seriously the fact that this man is still held up as some pinnacle of a diplomat is ridiculous, as is the idea that the League of Nations failed because the United States didn't sign on.
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Because Woodrow Wilson is an overrated prick, seriously the fact that this man is still held up as some pinnacle of a diplomat is ridiculous, as is the idea that the League of Nations failed because the United States didn't sign on.
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Jan_Koopman
And one such time when human history continued its streak of disappointing everyone happened in 1917
Nah, man, you're 2 years off. 1919 is when women got voting rights in The Netherlands!
/j before y'all cancel me
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And one such time when human history continued its streak of disappointing everyone happened in 1917
Nah, man, you're 2 years off. 1919 is when women got voting rights in The Netherlands!
/j before y'all cancel me
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marscaleb
He didn't fight in the war, and so we consider this to be the bad timeline.
But if he had he would have died in the war, and we would have considered his loss to be proof that we were in the bad timeline.
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He didn't fight in the war, and so we consider this to be the bad timeline.
But if he had he would have died in the war, and we would have considered his loss to be proof that we were in the bad timeline.
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history_matters
The idea that a man can be considered Commander and Chief of the military but unfit to be a General of the Army is baffling. Especially when consider it was Theodore Roosevelt they were talking about.
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The idea that a man can be considered Commander and Chief of the military but unfit to be a General of the Army is baffling. Especially when consider it was Theodore Roosevelt they were talking about.
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JCBro-yg8vd
The ironic thing is, Rosevelt's own party would've happily sent him off to Europe just to be rid of him, but Wilson was too obsessed with his moralists views and didn't want Rosevelt overshadowing him.
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The ironic thing is, Rosevelt's own party would've happily sent him off to Europe just to be rid of him, but Wilson was too obsessed with his moralists views and didn't want Rosevelt overshadowing him.
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rileydavidson207
I think Teddy dying would have actually bolstered the Americans. After all, that would mean that the Germans killed Teddy, and I do not think the average soldiers would have been okay with that.
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I think Teddy dying would have actually bolstered the Americans. After all, that would mean that the Germans killed Teddy, and I do not think the average soldiers would have been okay with that.
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FTSARES18
Fun fact his grandson would land at utah beach as a brigader general and when they said they couldnt advance he said then we start right here and rallied the men to take Utah before any other beach
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Fun fact his grandson would land at utah beach as a brigader general and when they said they couldnt advance he said then we start right here and rallied the men to take Utah before any other beach
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history_matters
If you think about it the first Chuck Norris joke was about Teddy Roosevelt that being the quote, death had to take Roosevelt sleeping for if he’d been awake there would have been a fight.
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If you think about it the first Chuck Norris joke was about Teddy Roosevelt that being the quote, death had to take Roosevelt sleeping for if he’d been awake there would have been a fight.
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Warfarepsycology1
The psychological resistance to killing is the part nobody in these documentaries ever explains. The science behind why most soldiers couldn’t pull the trigger is genuinely disturbing.
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The psychological resistance to killing is the part nobody in these documentaries ever explains. The science behind why most soldiers couldn’t pull the trigger is genuinely disturbing.
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ElmoUnk1953
1: 44 Baloney Sandwich. Wilson and his cronies absolutely wanted to enter WW1, they lied to the press and public to get elected, and bided their time to create an opportunity to enter the war.
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1: 44 Baloney Sandwich. Wilson and his cronies absolutely wanted to enter WW1, they lied to the press and public to get elected, and bided their time to create an opportunity to enter the war.
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