October 15, 2015 • 50m
WWII may have concluded decades ago, but for those who fought, the memories are endless. To understand, we start with Churchill's "Gathering Storm."
October 22, 2015 • 50m
Japan's unprovoked invasion has plunged China into war. In Europe, Mussolini and Hitler's expansions threaten neighboring nations.
October 29, 2015 • 50m
After six relatively quiet months of the Phony War, German forces add a new term to the vocabulary of warfare: Blitzkrieg.
November 5, 2015 • 50m
Six months after the fall of France, Molotov visits Berlin to discuss victory. He may think Britain is defeated, but there's still more to the story.
November 12, 2015 • 50m
It's 1941, and Britain is holding its own despite being under threat from the German army; Japan takes WWII global; "Barbarossa" transforms the war.
November 19, 2015 • 50m
Before 1941 was over, the Soviet Union was locked in a struggle with Germany, and humanity would be hanging on the fate of Roosevelt's great union.
November 26, 2015 • 50m
It took Hitler half a war to form an empire, but all gained would be lost in the second half. Japan's growth also takes a fall.
December 3, 2015 • 50m
During WWII, Germany and Japan plotted to team up in the Indian subcontinent to make a massive territory, but setbacks in 1942 shook plans.
December 10, 2015 • 50m
Over a succession of conferences, the UN planned out the post-war world. For the Allied and Axis powers, 1943 would mark the beginning of the end.
December 17, 2015 • 50m
Between 1943 and 1944, significant events shifted power from the Axis to the Allies, and the Allies' strength would grow in the East.
December 24, 2015 • 50m
The Allies break out of Normandy, the Red Army advances, and the invasion of the Philippines will bring troops one step closer to attacking Japan.
December 31, 2015 • 50m
Germany and Japan's aggression may have started the war, but by 1944 their armies succumbed to pressure from the Allies.
January 7, 2016 • 50m
After years of war, the defeat of Hitler and the Third Reich is inevitable. Peace in Asia will follow after the detonation of the atomic bomb.