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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:04,671 --> 00:00:07,333 Previously on the world wars- 2 00:00:07,424 --> 00:00:08,709 incoming! 3 00:00:09,510 --> 00:00:11,842 When the first world war breaks out... 4 00:00:11,929 --> 00:00:14,796 A new generation comes of age on the battlefield. 5 00:00:15,474 --> 00:00:18,090 Hitler, Mussolini... 6 00:00:18,602 --> 00:00:21,184 Churchill, patton... 7 00:00:21,271 --> 00:00:23,512 And MacArthur... 8 00:00:23,607 --> 00:00:25,848 All see action on the front lines. 9 00:00:25,943 --> 00:00:27,899 Move! Move! Move! 10 00:00:28,946 --> 00:00:33,110 But after the allies and the central powers agree to an uneasy cease-fire... 11 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,236 And stop fighting each other... 12 00:00:36,286 --> 00:00:38,322 They begin fo fight their own countrymen. 13 00:00:38,997 --> 00:00:42,114 The national socialist party is taking over the government! 14 00:00:42,209 --> 00:00:43,244 [ Gunshot I 15 00:00:45,462 --> 00:00:49,421 and soon the men from the front lines are in charge... 16 00:00:51,468 --> 00:00:53,629 Some with agendas of evil... 17 00:00:55,389 --> 00:00:57,755 That will keep the epic battle raging. 18 00:01:59,786 --> 00:02:01,651 [ Car horn honking I 19 00:02:05,709 --> 00:02:09,327 js [radio I 20 00:02:09,421 --> 00:02:11,878 js when the new day you'll make j 21 00:02:11,965 --> 00:02:14,502 js when the new day you'll make j 22 00:02:14,593 --> 00:02:19,713 js he's a Japanese sandman j 23 00:02:27,481 --> 00:02:33,477 J just an old secondhand man j 24 00:02:33,570 --> 00:02:41,409 j trading new days for old j, 25 00:02:41,495 --> 00:02:44,578 [ car horns honking I 26 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:54,167 After a decade of post-world war I prosperity... 27 00:02:55,175 --> 00:02:56,665 The New York stock exchange... 28 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:00,127 Suffers the most catastrophic crash it will ever see... 29 00:03:02,057 --> 00:03:06,767 Losing over $14 billion in just one aay. 30 00:03:07,771 --> 00:03:11,059 The crash launches a heartbreaking era for America- 31 00:03:12,150 --> 00:03:13,890 the great depression. 32 00:03:14,861 --> 00:03:17,898 The stock market crash of 1929 came as a rude awakening. 33 00:03:17,989 --> 00:03:19,945 Employment fell, production fell... 34 00:03:20,033 --> 00:03:22,274 Unemployment numbers Rose, homeless numbers Rose... 35 00:03:22,369 --> 00:03:26,237 All of the negative indicators about an economy just got worse and worse. 36 00:03:26,331 --> 00:03:30,040 And people kept looking for the bottom, but the bottom never came... 37 00:03:30,127 --> 00:03:35,042 And they began to wonder, “is this economy ever gonna right itself?” 38 00:03:37,551 --> 00:03:39,529 The fallout from the great depression... 39 00:03:39,553 --> 00:03:41,589 Quickly spreads throughout the world... 40 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,046 Toppling the economies of Europe... 41 00:03:44,141 --> 00:03:46,883 Including Great Britain, France and Italy. 42 00:03:47,728 --> 00:03:51,892 But one of the countries laking the biggest hit is Germany. 43 00:04:01,199 --> 00:04:02,689 The European nation... 44 00:04:02,784 --> 00:04:07,574 Is still struggling to pay over $80 billion in reparations from the war... 45 00:04:07,664 --> 00:04:10,997 The modern equivalent of nearly a half a trillion dollars. 46 00:04:12,627 --> 00:04:15,460 And the depression just makes things worse. 47 00:04:22,345 --> 00:04:26,805 But one man wants fo use the national crisis fo his advantage. 48 00:04:33,774 --> 00:04:35,264 Join us! 49 00:04:40,906 --> 00:04:42,442 Years earlier... 50 00:04:42,532 --> 00:04:45,649 Adolf Hitler attempted a violent overthrow of the German government... 51 00:04:46,870 --> 00:04:48,076 And railed. 52 00:04:49,998 --> 00:04:51,579 Go! 53 00:04:58,131 --> 00:05:00,247 After his release from prison... 54 00:05:00,342 --> 00:05:03,800 He spent years trying to get his movement off the ground... 55 00:05:03,887 --> 00:05:08,597 But his parly was in disarray and his message was ignored. 56 00:05:13,730 --> 00:05:17,314 But now, the depression has provided Hitler... 57 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,767 With the perfect opportunity to build the Nazi party. 58 00:05:21,446 --> 00:05:25,314 The stock market crash had immediate ramifications in Germany. 59 00:05:25,408 --> 00:05:28,195 Unemployment increased so dramatically... 60 00:05:28,286 --> 00:05:30,447 That it opened the door... 61 00:05:30,539 --> 00:05:33,281 For radical movements to gain support. 62 00:05:34,584 --> 00:05:36,245 It was the great depression... 63 00:05:38,588 --> 00:05:40,249 That made Hitler possible. 64 00:05:45,595 --> 00:05:48,587 Hitler believes he can rally the desperate people... 65 00:05:48,682 --> 00:05:51,719 Around his vision of a new, powerful Germany... 66 00:06:01,361 --> 00:06:06,697 What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence... 67 00:06:06,783 --> 00:06:09,820 And the reproduction of our race and our people. 68 00:06:11,705 --> 00:06:13,705 Mein kampf is enormously significant. 69 00:06:13,748 --> 00:06:17,036 It provided a kind of outline... 70 00:06:17,127 --> 00:06:20,290 For all the things that Hitler wanted to do eventually. 71 00:06:21,131 --> 00:06:24,043 Hitler clearly believed passionately... 72 00:06:24,134 --> 00:06:26,750 From the start of his career right to the end... 73 00:06:26,845 --> 00:06:28,836 That the Jews were the world enemy... 74 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:31,296 Who intended to destroy Germany. 75 00:06:31,391 --> 00:06:34,383 It was a paranoid fantasy of his. 76 00:06:34,477 --> 00:06:38,595 He believed he was chosen by destiny to rescue Germany. 77 00:06:39,566 --> 00:06:42,228 We must reverse the treaty of versailles... 78 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:45,652 That our people be set free... 79 00:06:45,739 --> 00:06:48,822 That these chains be burst asunder. 80 00:06:48,909 --> 00:06:53,027 [ Applause I 81 00:06:53,705 --> 00:06:56,788 Hitler recruits new members to his party... 82 00:06:56,875 --> 00:07:00,584 And tours the country giving impassioned speeches... 83 00:07:00,670 --> 00:07:04,709 And distributing posters, flyers and other propaganaa. 84 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:10,419 What the Nazis did was to project an image of energy... 85 00:07:10,513 --> 00:07:15,257 Vigor, youth and determination in the service of Germany. 86 00:07:15,352 --> 00:07:18,310 They're constantly marching through the streets with banners. 87 00:07:18,396 --> 00:07:23,607 There's constant speeches, meetings, huge activity... 88 00:07:23,693 --> 00:07:26,935 And this projects this image that they're gonna do something. 89 00:07:27,030 --> 00:07:29,612 All the other parties are just wasting their time talking. 90 00:07:29,699 --> 00:07:31,439 We're actually gonna do something. 91 00:07:31,534 --> 00:07:34,617 If the nation does its duty... 92 00:07:34,704 --> 00:07:38,822 Then the day will come which restores to us... 93 00:07:38,917 --> 00:07:42,284 One reich in honor and freedom! 94 00:07:42,379 --> 00:07:43,835 [ Crowd chanting I 95 00:07:43,922 --> 00:07:48,291 Hitler's speeches had some kind of unique power. 96 00:07:48,385 --> 00:07:54,381 He served as a lighting rod for all the discontent in Germany. 97 00:07:54,474 --> 00:07:56,135 This procedure! 98 00:07:56,226 --> 00:08:00,344 He managed to focus it and channel it and become it. 99 00:08:01,690 --> 00:08:04,932 Within a few years, the national socialist party... 100 00:08:05,026 --> 00:08:08,610 Is transformed from a fringe organization... 101 00:08:08,697 --> 00:08:11,313 Info a growing political movement. 102 00:08:12,242 --> 00:08:14,733 Sieg hell! Sieg hei! 103 00:08:14,828 --> 00:08:17,319 Now, with widespread support... 104 00:08:18,581 --> 00:08:21,664 Hitler's dream is finally within his grasp. 105 00:08:22,460 --> 00:08:24,291 It was a long and twisted path for Hitler... 106 00:08:24,379 --> 00:08:26,335 From the corporal of world war I... 107 00:08:26,423 --> 00:08:29,665 To the man aspiring to the leadership of all of Germany. 108 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:33,251 He goes from being a spy to being an inspiring orator... 109 00:08:33,346 --> 00:08:35,837 To, only in the late 1920s... 110 00:08:35,932 --> 00:08:40,175 Beginning to aspire to the role of leader in his own right... 111 00:08:40,270 --> 00:08:42,932 Fuhrer of the German race nation. 112 00:08:43,023 --> 00:08:46,186 [ Marching footsteps I 113 00:08:50,196 --> 00:08:52,187 4,000 miles away... 114 00:08:53,616 --> 00:08:58,030 The American people are desperate for hope and new leadership. 115 00:09:00,790 --> 00:09:03,122 And in a pivotal election year... 116 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:05,040 They look fo a candidate... 117 00:09:05,128 --> 00:09:08,165 Who promises to pull them from the edge of collapse. 118 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:12,461 Franklin delano Roosevelt 119 00:09:15,388 --> 00:09:17,253 fifteen years earlier... 120 00:09:18,058 --> 00:09:21,721 Roosevelt served as assistant secretary of the Navy... 121 00:09:21,811 --> 00:09:24,223 Unaer president woodrow Wilson. 122 00:09:27,484 --> 00:09:31,068 After the war, his political career looked promising. 123 00:09:35,533 --> 00:09:39,902 Until a devastating diagnosis brought everything fo a halt- 124 00:09:42,165 --> 00:09:43,655 polio. 125 00:09:46,753 --> 00:09:48,414 At age 39... 126 00:09:48,505 --> 00:09:53,169 Roosevelt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. 127 00:09:54,260 --> 00:09:59,300 Polio kind of wipes f.D.R. Off from the map for much of the 1920s. 128 00:10:00,350 --> 00:10:01,806 They're lost years. 129 00:10:01,893 --> 00:10:05,477 He's working just to be able to walk, you know, a few yards... 130 00:10:05,563 --> 00:10:10,182 And nobody really thought he would resurrect his political fortunes again. 131 00:10:12,278 --> 00:10:14,269 But he refuses fo give in. 132 00:10:16,699 --> 00:10:19,862 And after years of persistence and rehabilitation... 133 00:10:22,205 --> 00:10:25,789 Roosevelt slowly works his way back up the political ladder. 134 00:10:29,879 --> 00:10:33,292 And during one of the darkest times in American history... 135 00:10:34,384 --> 00:10:36,670 Roosevelt runs for president... 136 00:10:37,595 --> 00:10:39,085 And wins. 137 00:10:41,057 --> 00:10:43,969 Those who knew him said that having polio... 138 00:10:44,060 --> 00:10:46,972 And trying to climb his way out of that did change him... 139 00:10:47,063 --> 00:10:51,227 Gave him a capacity to understand other people's experiences- 140 00:10:51,317 --> 00:10:54,525 people who are suffering- in a way that he never had. 141 00:10:58,908 --> 00:11:02,742 [ Narrator I Roosevelt has pulled himself up from the depths of misfortune... 142 00:11:04,581 --> 00:11:08,574 And now it's up to him fo do the same for America. 143 00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:16,290 [ Roosevelt on recording I so first of all, let me assert my firm belief... 144 00:11:16,384 --> 00:11:22,345 That the only thing we have fo fear is fear itself 145 00:11:22,432 --> 00:11:24,844 [applause I 146 00:11:24,934 --> 00:11:26,970 here is a man in a wheelchair... 147 00:11:27,061 --> 00:11:30,269 That's telling us we have nothing to fear but fear itself... 148 00:11:30,356 --> 00:11:33,189 That he's licked a physical disability... 149 00:11:33,276 --> 00:11:35,312 And it has a huge impact. 150 00:11:35,403 --> 00:11:39,191 He was telling us we don't give in. We never throw in the towel. 151 00:11:39,282 --> 00:11:41,489 We will prevail. We are American. 152 00:11:41,576 --> 00:11:44,693 [ Roosevelt I this great nation will endure... 153 00:11:44,787 --> 00:11:46,948 As it has endured... 154 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,282 Will revive and will prosper. 155 00:11:50,376 --> 00:11:52,708 He was a great, great motivator... 156 00:11:52,795 --> 00:11:57,585 Arguably ranks amongst the very top of our presidents... 157 00:11:57,675 --> 00:12:00,917 That was able to speak directly to the American people. 158 00:12:02,513 --> 00:12:04,970 Can I get a photo, Mr. president? 159 00:12:08,144 --> 00:12:10,635 The same year Roosevelt is first elected... 160 00:12:13,149 --> 00:12:17,233 German leaders give Adolf Hitler a ceremonial position in the government... 161 00:12:19,781 --> 00:12:21,863 Hoping to pacify his movement. 162 00:12:23,701 --> 00:12:25,566 Little do they know... 163 00:12:26,329 --> 00:12:30,914 They've just provided Hitler with a platform for takeover. 164 00:12:33,711 --> 00:12:36,919 There is a fundamental miscalculation on the part of the conservative elite... 165 00:12:37,006 --> 00:12:39,873 Who were responsible for hoisting Hitler to power. 166 00:12:41,261 --> 00:12:43,877 Everyone thought that he and his movement could be controlled. 167 00:12:49,143 --> 00:12:52,385 Hitler quickly begins mobilizing his Nazi party. 168 00:12:54,357 --> 00:12:57,849 He wants complete and total control of Germany. 169 00:13:14,544 --> 00:13:18,878 Js 170 00:13:26,306 --> 00:13:29,719 He who rises against Germany... 171 00:13:30,852 --> 00:13:33,013 Is a traitor to his country... 172 00:13:33,104 --> 00:13:35,436 And traitors to their country... 173 00:13:36,107 --> 00:13:39,599 Are suppressed in accordance with laws of iron. 174 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:42,940 I had hoped... 175 00:13:43,031 --> 00:13:45,443 That it might not be necessary any longer... 176 00:13:45,533 --> 00:13:47,990 To be forced to defend this state... 177 00:13:49,495 --> 00:13:52,237 With arms in our hands. 178 00:13:55,168 --> 00:13:59,537 But since fate has now put us to the test... 179 00:14:00,465 --> 00:14:04,879 Every people is itself guilty... 180 00:14:05,887 --> 00:14:10,972 That does not find the strength to destroy such noxious creatures. 181 00:14:11,059 --> 00:14:15,018 Js [ Opera continues I 182 00:14:15,104 --> 00:14:17,060 at this hour... 183 00:14:17,148 --> 00:14:20,185 There was no place for any clemency. 184 00:14:24,197 --> 00:14:25,858 If anyone reproaches me... 185 00:14:25,948 --> 00:14:30,783 And asks why I did not resort to the normal courts of justice... 186 00:14:33,122 --> 00:14:35,283 Then all that I can say to him is this: 187 00:14:35,375 --> 00:14:40,165 In this hour, I was responsible for the fate of the German people... 188 00:14:40,254 --> 00:14:42,210 And thereby... 189 00:14:42,298 --> 00:14:46,632 I became the supreme judge of the German people! 190 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:49,210 [ Knife stabbing I 191 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:52,380 when traitors in Germany... 192 00:14:53,309 --> 00:14:56,722 Arrange a meeting with a foreign statesman... 193 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,345 And when they give strict orders... 194 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,432 That no word of this meeting shall reach me... 195 00:15:02,527 --> 00:15:05,234 Then I will have such men shot dead! 196 00:15:05,321 --> 00:15:08,313 Js [ Opera continues I 197 00:15:11,202 --> 00:15:13,158 there is no reich... 198 00:15:13,246 --> 00:15:14,907 There is no position... 199 00:15:15,665 --> 00:15:19,499 That can protect him from his responsibility... 200 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:22,835 And therefore his punishment. 201 00:15:25,007 --> 00:15:29,546 I gave the order to shoot those who were the ringleaders of this treason. 202 00:15:32,348 --> 00:15:35,306 Everyone must know, for all future time... 203 00:15:36,310 --> 00:15:40,053 That if he raises his hand to strike the state... 204 00:15:40,148 --> 00:15:42,605 Then certain death is his lot! 205 00:15:42,692 --> 00:15:46,184 [ Applause I 206 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:49,988 js [ Opera continues I 207 00:15:57,290 --> 00:16:00,953 [ Narrator I in what will become known as the night of the long knives... 208 00:16:01,043 --> 00:16:04,956 Hitler eliminates nearly 100 of his political enemies. 209 00:16:11,345 --> 00:16:14,553 [ Applause, cheering I 210 00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:17,681 in one move... 211 00:16:17,768 --> 00:16:20,885 Adolf Hitler has taken complete control of the government... 212 00:16:21,731 --> 00:16:24,438 And is now the supreme leader of Germany. 213 00:16:30,281 --> 00:16:33,489 Following the stock market crash of 1929... 214 00:16:33,576 --> 00:16:36,409 The world is gripped in a great depression. 215 00:16:37,330 --> 00:16:41,915 And the generation bloodied from the deadliest war the world has ever seen... 216 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:44,037 Is now coming to power. 217 00:16:49,258 --> 00:16:50,748 In the united stafes... 218 00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:52,834 President Franklin delano Roosevelt... 219 00:16:52,929 --> 00:16:57,093 Has a plan fo bring his nation out of the darkness of the depression. 220 00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:02,852 Roosevelt is convinced that the best way to battle back... 221 00:17:03,648 --> 00:17:05,479 Is fo focus on home. 222 00:17:05,566 --> 00:17:07,352 He establishes what he calls... 223 00:17:07,443 --> 00:17:09,104 The new deal. 224 00:17:09,195 --> 00:17:12,312 - When do we break ground? - Within this week. 225 00:17:12,406 --> 00:17:14,067 Within this week? Okay. 226 00:17:14,158 --> 00:17:18,367 And for each one of these, we're talking 1,500-2,000 people working? 227 00:17:18,454 --> 00:17:20,319 - Yeah. - Got it. 228 00:17:20,414 --> 00:17:23,121 Great. All right, this is good. 229 00:17:26,045 --> 00:17:27,535 [ Narrator I Roosevelt's new deal... 230 00:17:27,630 --> 00:17:31,168 Is the largest public works program in American history... 231 00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:35,300 Funding over 35,000 projects... 232 00:17:35,388 --> 00:17:38,880 From the construction of Bridges and highways... 233 00:17:38,975 --> 00:17:40,681 Fo the hoover dam... 234 00:17:42,353 --> 00:17:44,344 The largest dam in the world. 235 00:17:47,149 --> 00:17:49,060 Roosevelt hopes that the new deal... 236 00:17:49,151 --> 00:17:51,893 Can save the country from the brink of collapse. 237 00:17:52,822 --> 00:17:55,689 But the project comes with a massive cost... 238 00:17:55,783 --> 00:17:59,526 And he knows something in the American budget will have fo give. 239 00:18:01,539 --> 00:18:03,370 [ Roosevelt I how are you doing? Of course. 240 00:18:03,457 --> 00:18:07,541 Yes, well, we have to take care of the people starving on the great plains. 241 00:18:07,628 --> 00:18:09,664 Yes. We must address that. 242 00:18:10,256 --> 00:18:13,965 The greatness of a president is you have to make a judgment. 243 00:18:14,051 --> 00:18:15,666 You're in charge, nobody else. 244 00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:17,672 The air force. I understand. 245 00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:22,553 You bear responsibility for whether it goes right or wrong. It's your baby. 246 00:18:24,103 --> 00:18:26,219 To pay for his new deal... 247 00:18:27,940 --> 00:18:30,727 Roosevelt slashes U.S. military spending... 248 00:18:32,528 --> 00:18:34,268 By 51%. 249 00:18:38,159 --> 00:18:42,493 The decision enrages the chief of staff of the United States army... 250 00:18:43,205 --> 00:18:45,287 General Douglas MacArthur. 251 00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:47,706 Is there any way it could move a little bit faster? 252 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:50,284 - I guess if we- - It has to go as fast as possible. 253 00:18:50,379 --> 00:18:53,792 [ Narrator I MacArthur is a decorated veteran from the first world war- 254 00:18:53,883 --> 00:18:55,965 move! Move! Move! 255 00:18:56,052 --> 00:18:58,134 Come on! Come on! Let's go! Let's go! 256 00:18:58,220 --> 00:18:59,926 Come on! 257 00:19:00,014 --> 00:19:03,802 Whose experience on the front lines confirmed his belief .. 258 00:19:04,894 --> 00:19:10,059 That the survival of the nation depends on a powerful military. 259 00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:12,982 MacArthur, as chief of staff of the army... 260 00:19:13,069 --> 00:19:15,401 Believed that the army needed to be strong... 261 00:19:15,488 --> 00:19:18,275 And MacArthur- not for the first time... 262 00:19:18,366 --> 00:19:19,856 Nor for the last time- 263 00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:23,613 took issue with the position of his commander in chief. 264 00:19:32,797 --> 00:19:34,003 Mr. president. 265 00:19:35,007 --> 00:19:36,668 The budget discussions are over. 266 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:40,752 If you look particularly at Franklin Roosevelt and Douglas MacArthur... 267 00:19:41,764 --> 00:19:44,597 Those are two very big egos. 268 00:19:44,684 --> 00:19:48,097 Like tectonic plates moving. 269 00:19:48,187 --> 00:19:51,930 One is a hugely self-confident general... 270 00:19:52,942 --> 00:19:55,433 Trying to do what he thinks is right. 271 00:19:56,862 --> 00:20:00,104 And then you've got a president who has turf that he wants to protect. 272 00:20:03,411 --> 00:20:05,447 There will be a next war, Mr. president... 273 00:20:07,123 --> 00:20:09,159 And when we lose it... 274 00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:13,163 And our American boys are lying in the mud with an enemy bayonet through their belly... 275 00:20:14,296 --> 00:20:16,207 I want the last name they curse... 276 00:20:16,298 --> 00:20:19,916 The last name to pass from their dying lips to be Roosevelt. 277 00:20:25,516 --> 00:20:27,507 [ Narrator I across the Atlantic... 278 00:20:27,601 --> 00:20:32,971 America's closest ally is also struggling to pull itself out of the depression. 279 00:20:39,405 --> 00:20:42,818 Great Britain launches a new deal of its own... 280 00:20:42,908 --> 00:20:45,320 Investing in a nationwide program... 281 00:20:45,411 --> 00:20:48,448 To build millions of homes and power stations... 282 00:20:48,539 --> 00:20:51,406 Hoping to lay the foundation for a lasting peace. 283 00:20:53,169 --> 00:20:56,286 And just like in America, to pay for the program... 284 00:20:57,381 --> 00:21:00,043 The government is forced to gut military spending. 285 00:21:01,719 --> 00:21:04,711 One man has a huge problem with that. 286 00:21:06,182 --> 00:21:08,264 Winston Churchill. 287 00:21:08,350 --> 00:21:09,931 By 1934... 288 00:21:10,728 --> 00:21:13,470 Churchill is back in the British parliament... 289 00:21:13,564 --> 00:21:17,898 But his experiences in the trenches of the western front have changed him. 290 00:21:18,861 --> 00:21:20,817 - [ Men shouting I - [ Machine gun firing I 291 00:21:30,706 --> 00:21:33,288 Like MacArthur, Churchill is convinced... 292 00:21:33,375 --> 00:21:37,038 That the weakened military will leave his country vulnerable... 293 00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:39,120 In a still-dangerous world. 294 00:21:40,132 --> 00:21:43,124 Churchill was seen pretty much as a Maverick- 295 00:21:43,219 --> 00:21:45,801 intelligent, able, brilliant on many occasions- 296 00:21:45,888 --> 00:21:49,972 but a Maverick who stood apart from the opinions of other people... 297 00:21:50,059 --> 00:21:52,141 Who was thought to be too reckless. 298 00:21:53,312 --> 00:21:55,143 Churchill's greatest fear... 299 00:21:55,231 --> 00:21:57,768 Is that without a strong military... 300 00:21:57,858 --> 00:21:59,814 Great Britain will be defenseless... 301 00:21:59,902 --> 00:22:03,110 But for now he stands alone. 302 00:22:17,419 --> 00:22:19,705 [ Narrator I while Great Britain and the united stafles... 303 00:22:19,797 --> 00:22:22,755 Repair their economies by building Bridges and highways... 304 00:22:22,842 --> 00:22:26,175 Adolf Hitler has his own version of the new deal 305 00:22:26,262 --> 00:22:29,504 he's going to rebuild Germany's military. 306 00:22:29,598 --> 00:22:32,135 Our work is urgent. 307 00:22:32,226 --> 00:22:35,309 Time for us is scarce. 308 00:22:35,396 --> 00:22:37,352 Hitler's main aim from the very beginning... 309 00:22:37,439 --> 00:22:39,771 Was to build up Germany's military strength. 310 00:22:39,859 --> 00:22:44,523 So whereas f.D.R. Had civil job creation programs... 311 00:22:44,613 --> 00:22:47,776 Hitler had military job creation programs, and that's the real difference. 312 00:22:47,867 --> 00:22:51,780 Gentlemen, this is good news, and your country is grateful. 313 00:22:51,871 --> 00:22:54,140 [ Narrator I because of the restrictions placed on Germany... 314 00:22:54,164 --> 00:22:55,870 By the trealy of versailles... 315 00:22:55,958 --> 00:22:59,291 Hitler is forced to rearm in folal secrecy. 316 00:23:17,646 --> 00:23:21,605 Hitler personally oversees the top secret program himself. 317 00:23:21,692 --> 00:23:24,434 Mein fahrer, you honor us with your presence here today. 318 00:23:25,321 --> 00:23:27,403 Will you be able to work 24 hours around the clock? 319 00:23:27,489 --> 00:23:29,730 Because we're going to need all of this immediately. 320 00:23:29,825 --> 00:23:31,281 Ja, mein fuhrer. 321 00:23:36,999 --> 00:23:39,911 It is very important that we make sure that this becomes... 322 00:23:40,002 --> 00:23:42,744 And remains clandestine activity. 323 00:23:42,838 --> 00:23:44,749 - Are we clear on that? - Jawohl, mein fuhrer. 324 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:45,920 Good. 325 00:23:46,008 --> 00:23:50,422 Hitler creates this massive production capability... 326 00:23:50,512 --> 00:23:53,470 Builds factories that are turning out tanks and planes... 327 00:23:53,557 --> 00:23:55,764 And he does it all in secret. 328 00:23:56,685 --> 00:24:00,098 And he has many of the factories disguised as elementary schools. 329 00:24:00,189 --> 00:24:02,601 Now, in today's world, that may seem impossible... 330 00:24:02,691 --> 00:24:04,602 But back in the 1930s... 331 00:24:04,693 --> 00:24:08,311 As logistically challenging as it was, it was not impossible. 332 00:24:16,622 --> 00:24:19,238 With the allies completely unaware... 333 00:24:19,333 --> 00:24:21,949 Hitler's secret factories begin mass-producing... 334 00:24:22,044 --> 00:24:24,080 Thousanas of fighter planes and tanks... 335 00:24:24,171 --> 00:24:28,710 Fo be manned by a half a million brand-new Nazi recruits. 336 00:24:31,178 --> 00:24:35,171 Hitler knows he's launched a dangerous campaign... 337 00:24:37,393 --> 00:24:39,349 But if he can keep it under the radar... 338 00:24:40,396 --> 00:24:45,732 He'll be able fo make Germany the most dominant power in the world. 339 00:24:52,574 --> 00:24:54,906 In the wake of the great depression... 340 00:24:54,994 --> 00:24:58,907 New leaders around the world are desperately looking for ways... 341 00:24:58,998 --> 00:25:01,740 Lo pull their nations out of the collapse. 342 00:25:03,544 --> 00:25:07,162 While some are busy building Bridges and dams... 343 00:25:08,090 --> 00:25:11,002 Others are making tanks and planes... 344 00:25:11,093 --> 00:25:14,927 As they secretly reestablish dominant fighting forces... 345 00:25:15,014 --> 00:25:18,177 Preparing fo drag the world back fo war. 346 00:25:18,934 --> 00:25:22,017 The tenuous peace is about to be broken... 347 00:25:22,104 --> 00:25:25,392 But the first move won't come from Germany. 348 00:25:27,609 --> 00:25:30,601 [ Crowd cheering I 349 00:25:34,742 --> 00:25:37,734 [ cheering grows louder I 350 00:25:40,456 --> 00:25:42,162 for the past decade... 351 00:25:42,249 --> 00:25:46,208 Benito Mussolini has ruled Italy with an iron fist 352 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:54,963 Italy and fascism... 353 00:25:55,971 --> 00:26:01,762 Together form a perfect, absolute... 354 00:26:01,852 --> 00:26:06,061 And unadulterable entity! 355 00:26:06,148 --> 00:26:07,979 [ Crowd cheering I 356 00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:11,642 [ narrator I after the first world war... 357 00:26:11,737 --> 00:26:14,103 Italy failed to get any new territory... 358 00:26:14,198 --> 00:26:17,440 Auring negotiations for the treaty of versailles. 359 00:26:17,534 --> 00:26:19,320 There's a feeling that... 360 00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:21,652 Italians have been cheated... 361 00:26:21,747 --> 00:26:23,783 And for a lot of people in Italy... 362 00:26:23,874 --> 00:26:26,616 They come out of the war with the mentality of a defeated nation... 363 00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:28,371 Despite being a victorious one. 364 00:26:28,462 --> 00:26:31,124 For Mussolini and people who thought like him... 365 00:26:31,215 --> 00:26:34,173 Italian democracy had failed the nation. 366 00:26:35,552 --> 00:26:37,668 [ Narrator I Mussolini became convinced... 367 00:26:37,763 --> 00:26:40,675 That the only way lo return Italy to greatness... 368 00:26:40,766 --> 00:26:44,679 Was for the country fo be led by a strong, absolute ruler- 369 00:26:45,771 --> 00:26:47,261 himself 370 00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:53,100 and now, after years of preparation... 371 00:26:53,821 --> 00:26:57,609 He's finally ready fo expand the Italian empire. 372 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:10,076 His first target... is Ethiopia... 373 00:27:10,921 --> 00:27:13,412 A key entryway into the middle east. 374 00:27:18,387 --> 00:27:21,379 Mussolini conquers the country in a matter of weeks... 375 00:27:22,224 --> 00:27:25,682 Suddenly shattering the tentative world peace... 376 00:27:25,769 --> 00:27:27,760 That's held since 719718. 377 00:27:36,738 --> 00:27:38,649 Back in Germany... 378 00:27:40,159 --> 00:27:45,153 Adolf Hitler has been watching. Mussolini's aggressive quest for power. 379 00:27:47,499 --> 00:27:52,584 Hitler regarded Mussolini as the successful senior fascist. 380 00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:55,583 He had effectively established his dictatorship. 381 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,585 He's continuing to build it up. 382 00:27:57,676 --> 00:28:00,509 So Hitler looks to Mussolini as a model. 383 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:06,432 [ Narrator I Hitler knows if he's ever going to accomplish... 384 00:28:06,518 --> 00:28:08,850 His own dreams of German dominance... 385 00:28:09,563 --> 00:28:12,771 He'll need to get Mussolini on his side. 386 00:28:30,792 --> 00:28:33,829 [ Church bells ringing I 387 00:28:40,052 --> 00:28:43,795 The relationship between Mussolini and Hitler is quite a surprising story. 388 00:28:45,015 --> 00:28:47,631 Hitler is after all a failed painter... 389 00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:52,265 And Italy to him means Florence and lovely renaissance art. 390 00:28:52,356 --> 00:28:54,392 This is quite nice indeed. 391 00:28:54,483 --> 00:28:58,476 [ Narrator I while Hitler sees an opportunity to learn from his hero... 392 00:28:58,570 --> 00:29:02,734 For Mussolini the meeting comes at a crucial moment. 393 00:29:02,824 --> 00:29:05,486 The conquest of Ethiopia by Mussolini... 394 00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:07,488 Is regarded as an outrage. 395 00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:10,070 Motions are passed against him. 396 00:29:10,165 --> 00:29:14,374 He has to turn to somebody as a friend, and Hitler's the only person. 397 00:29:15,337 --> 00:29:17,874 At that point then, the two become closer. 398 00:29:17,965 --> 00:29:19,796 This marvel of engineering... 399 00:29:19,883 --> 00:29:23,375 That you plan to put together is quite astounding. 400 00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:26,428 The two leaders have a mutual understanding. 401 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:30,428 Both have spent the past few years enhancing their armies... 402 00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,727 And both are now looking fo expand their power. 403 00:29:34,648 --> 00:29:36,855 So they form an alliance... 404 00:29:36,942 --> 00:29:40,651 That will become the foundation of the axis powers. 405 00:29:52,207 --> 00:29:54,493 [ Narrator I with Mussolini on his side... 406 00:29:54,584 --> 00:29:56,415 Hitler feels confident .. 407 00:29:57,170 --> 00:29:59,661 He can start his own conquest of Europe. 408 00:30:00,841 --> 00:30:04,299 His first target is a territory taken from Germany... 409 00:30:04,386 --> 00:30:06,672 After the first world war- 410 00:30:06,763 --> 00:30:08,253 the rhineland. 411 00:30:09,224 --> 00:30:12,136 The rhineland was the industrial heart of Germany... 412 00:30:12,227 --> 00:30:17,096 And Germany had been deprived of all the rhineland's manufacturing goods. 413 00:30:19,693 --> 00:30:21,900 They were being exported... 414 00:30:21,987 --> 00:30:23,727 As part of war reparations. 415 00:30:27,326 --> 00:30:30,363 [ Narrator I Hitler knows a potential invasion of the rhineland... 416 00:30:30,454 --> 00:30:32,536 Is a huge risk. 417 00:30:32,622 --> 00:30:33,987 It's guarded... 418 00:30:35,125 --> 00:30:38,083 By heavily armed British and French soldiers... 419 00:30:38,170 --> 00:30:40,877 Who have orders fo enforce the treaty of versailles. 420 00:30:43,467 --> 00:30:46,800 But it's a risk he's willing to fake. 421 00:30:50,766 --> 00:30:55,055 He orders 22,000 men nto the rhineland... 422 00:30:55,145 --> 00:30:59,559 Looking fo reclaim what he believes to rightfully belong to Germany. 423 00:31:14,623 --> 00:31:17,205 [ Static on radio I 424 00:31:17,292 --> 00:31:19,624 [ switching radio transmissions I 425 00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:22,293 [ man speaking German I 426 00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:27,791 they've crossed the border. 427 00:31:35,143 --> 00:31:37,725 In march of 1936... 428 00:31:39,606 --> 00:31:42,143 This was Hitler's first... 429 00:31:42,234 --> 00:31:44,316 Real, overt... 430 00:31:44,403 --> 00:31:48,191 In-your-face violation of the versailles treaty. 431 00:31:59,668 --> 00:32:02,159 Each step of the way... 432 00:32:02,254 --> 00:32:05,712 Hitler's generals were terrified that somebody would- 433 00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:07,460 would retort... 434 00:32:08,427 --> 00:32:09,917 With force. 435 00:32:22,107 --> 00:32:23,768 All clear. 436 00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:32,363 Without a single shot fired... 437 00:32:32,451 --> 00:32:35,443 Hitlers military claims its first victory... 438 00:32:36,538 --> 00:32:39,575 As Germany once again fakes control of the rhineland. 439 00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:44,877 If there had been any kind of significant resistance put up... 440 00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:49,423 If the British and the French had stood up to his invasion of the rhineland... 441 00:32:49,509 --> 00:32:51,090 That might have changed things. 442 00:32:55,891 --> 00:33:00,885 This was a really important moment for Hitler because he realizes... 443 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:02,970 After his invasion of the rhineland... 444 00:33:03,064 --> 00:33:05,601 That the British and the French will complain. 445 00:33:05,692 --> 00:33:07,353 They'll send diplomatic notes... 446 00:33:07,444 --> 00:33:10,652 But they'll do absolutely nothing when confronted with military force. 447 00:33:12,324 --> 00:33:14,690 He suddenly feels invincible. 448 00:33:22,584 --> 00:33:25,417 Meanwhile, on the other side of the world... 449 00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:30,171 Another emerging power is looking fo expand its influence. 450 00:33:34,137 --> 00:33:37,379 Js [ Singing in Japanese I 451 00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:44,185 Japanese leaders... 452 00:33:44,272 --> 00:33:47,890 Have been watching Hitler and Mussolini closely... 453 00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:50,976 And they want that same power for their own country. 454 00:33:52,781 --> 00:33:55,818 The Japanese, ever since the beginning of the century... 455 00:33:55,909 --> 00:33:59,493 Had been trying to figure out how they could become a great power. 456 00:33:59,579 --> 00:34:02,867 And the Japanese started thinking in terms of an empire. 457 00:34:03,708 --> 00:34:07,371 Japan fought for the allies in the first world war... 458 00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:10,454 But was shunned during the versailles negotiations. 459 00:34:12,634 --> 00:34:15,125 Just like Italy and Germany... 460 00:34:15,220 --> 00:34:18,212 The Japanese government has spent the years since the war... 461 00:34:18,306 --> 00:34:20,547 Pouring hundreds of millions of dollars... 462 00:34:20,642 --> 00:34:23,475 Into building a powerful modern army. 463 00:34:24,646 --> 00:34:27,638 In 1937, the emperor of Japan... 464 00:34:27,732 --> 00:34:30,724 Approves an invasion of northeastern China. 465 00:34:34,489 --> 00:34:38,277 A dedicated soldier is chosen fo lead the troops. 466 00:34:39,869 --> 00:34:41,359 His name... 467 00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:44,325 Is hideki tojo. 468 00:34:47,419 --> 00:34:50,752 Tojo is fiercely loyal fo the emperor... 469 00:34:54,843 --> 00:34:59,007 And willing fo sacrifice anything to bring glory to Japan. 470 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:06,893 Affer overseeing a series of successful battles... 471 00:35:08,064 --> 00:35:11,556 Tojo is named Japan's minister of war... 472 00:35:11,651 --> 00:35:15,485 And is now responsible for the state of the Japanese military. 473 00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:20,315 But tojo knows that Japan will need allies... 474 00:35:20,410 --> 00:35:22,822 If it's going fo become an international power... 475 00:35:24,831 --> 00:35:29,700 And he urges his country s leaders fo join forces with Italy and Germany. 476 00:35:34,049 --> 00:35:38,008 Tojo recognized the need for Japan to build alliances. 477 00:35:39,262 --> 00:35:42,595 To achieve its goal of being a major power in the pacific... 478 00:35:42,682 --> 00:35:44,468 It was going to need allies... 479 00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:47,551 And Hitler and Mussolini seemed like natural allies for him. 480 00:35:49,397 --> 00:35:52,389 [ Narrator I Japanese leaders sign a pact with Hitler... 481 00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:54,975 Solidifying the axis powers. 482 00:36:00,992 --> 00:36:04,826 Three countries shunned in the wake of the first war... 483 00:36:04,913 --> 00:36:07,279 Have now formed an alliance... 484 00:36:08,249 --> 00:36:10,240 Fo take over the world. 485 00:36:16,591 --> 00:36:18,081 In Germany... 486 00:36:18,176 --> 00:36:23,170 Adolf Hitler has formed an alliance with Italy and Japan. 487 00:36:27,352 --> 00:36:31,186 He's built the most powerful military the world has ever seen. 488 00:36:32,899 --> 00:36:38,519 The stage is finally set for Hitler fo achieve his ultimate dream. 489 00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:58,542 After a successful invasion of the rhineland... 490 00:36:58,633 --> 00:37:00,749 With no opposition from the allies... 491 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:04,802 Hitler plans to continue reclaiming territory... 492 00:37:04,889 --> 00:37:08,552 He believes was unjustly taken from Germany... 493 00:37:08,643 --> 00:37:10,679 When the allies carved up Europe. 494 00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,394 In the spring of 1936... 495 00:37:17,485 --> 00:37:20,602 Hitler annexes his home country of Austria... 496 00:37:21,698 --> 00:37:25,486 Before turning his attention fo a region of czechoslovakia... 497 00:37:25,577 --> 00:37:28,114 Home to more than three million Germans... 498 00:37:29,581 --> 00:37:33,415 And a rich supply of coal, iron and power plants- 499 00:37:34,836 --> 00:37:36,622 the sudefen/and. 500 00:37:39,215 --> 00:37:41,422 Hitler said, “give us the land... 501 00:37:41,509 --> 00:37:43,875 Where Germans live in czechoslovakia. 502 00:37:43,970 --> 00:37:48,930 That's all we want. We want our German folk in the reich.” 503 00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:51,929 Hitler was taking these steps, these military steps... 504 00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:53,760 And threats and bluster... 505 00:37:53,855 --> 00:37:57,063 And building up his forces in violation of every agreement. 506 00:38:01,196 --> 00:38:04,688 You know, he was testing the western powers. 507 00:38:06,701 --> 00:38:09,238 For the first time in 20 years... 508 00:38:10,330 --> 00:38:13,948 The threat of a major conflict in Europe is possible. 509 00:38:18,421 --> 00:38:22,539 As the European leaders begin fo take notice of Hitler's bold actions... 510 00:38:24,469 --> 00:38:26,551 British prime minister Neville Chamberlain... 511 00:38:26,638 --> 00:38:31,302 Has to make sure Great Britain doesn't get involved in another war. 512 00:38:32,936 --> 00:38:35,894 Britain was tired of war after the first world war... 513 00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:37,811 And there was a very strong feeling... 514 00:38:37,899 --> 00:38:41,642 That never again could Europe find itself in the pit of disaster... 515 00:38:41,736 --> 00:38:45,149 After losing millions of people in the first world war. 516 00:38:45,240 --> 00:38:48,653 [ Narrator I Chamberlain believes that to stop Hitler in his tracks... 517 00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:51,405 And save Europe from another war... 518 00:38:51,496 --> 00:38:53,987 He'll have fo exercise diplomacy. 519 00:38:58,294 --> 00:39:00,580 As the world watches... 520 00:39:00,672 --> 00:39:03,914 Chamberlain travels fo Germany fo broker the peace. 521 00:39:15,353 --> 00:39:18,345 This is the first and only time... 522 00:39:19,232 --> 00:39:21,894 Hitler will Grant a meeting with an allied leader. 523 00:39:44,215 --> 00:39:47,378 Did you fight in the great war, Mr. prime minister? 524 00:39:48,136 --> 00:39:49,672 I did not. 525 00:39:51,014 --> 00:39:53,050 I was in government. 526 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:56,883 It was an honor to fight for my country. 527 00:39:59,272 --> 00:40:01,479 It was an honor to serve mine. 528 00:40:02,692 --> 00:40:07,356 I doubt either of us want such honors for our countries again. 529 00:40:13,119 --> 00:40:19,115 Of the many wrongs of that war, this one we can right. 530 00:40:23,004 --> 00:40:25,962 Let us have the territory back. 531 00:40:32,889 --> 00:40:34,880 I can only agree... 532 00:40:36,351 --> 00:40:39,514 To the areas that are more than 50% German. 533 00:40:41,022 --> 00:40:42,512 Nothing more. 534 00:40:58,873 --> 00:41:01,831 Desperate to avoid war at all costs... 535 00:41:01,918 --> 00:41:05,035 Chamberlain grants Hitler the territory he wants... 536 00:41:07,048 --> 00:41:12,042 In exchange for Hitlers word that he'll go no further. 537 00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:17,305 The idea of appeasement is, somebody has an appetite... 538 00:41:17,392 --> 00:41:21,431 And you appease that person's hunger, and they're somehow satisfied. 539 00:41:21,521 --> 00:41:23,637 The problem with the appeasement policy... 540 00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:28,725 Is that Hitler could not be appeased, because he wanted world domination. 541 00:41:30,571 --> 00:41:34,314 And so, by definition, you couldn't give him everything he wanted... 542 00:41:35,326 --> 00:41:37,237 Because the more you gave him... 543 00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:39,159 The more he would want. 544 00:42:02,478 --> 00:42:03,968 Bloody hell. 545 00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:08,230 Since the buildup of the German army... 546 00:42:08,317 --> 00:42:10,308 The occupation of the rhineland... 547 00:42:10,403 --> 00:42:13,270 And now the lakeover of the sudetenland... 548 00:42:16,242 --> 00:42:19,109 Winston Churchill has watched Hitler gain momentum... 549 00:42:20,455 --> 00:42:24,789 And is convinced the fuhrer has no plans fo keep the peace. 550 00:42:27,628 --> 00:42:30,870 Churchill from the beginning of the Nazis' rise to power... 551 00:42:30,965 --> 00:42:33,877 Saw them as a destructive and dangerous force... 552 00:42:33,968 --> 00:42:36,755 Right across not just Germany but the whole of Europe. 553 00:42:38,306 --> 00:42:40,297 Churchill throughout it all... 554 00:42:40,391 --> 00:42:43,679 Seemed to have this kind of intuitive sense... 555 00:42:43,770 --> 00:42:47,354 About what needed to be done and who was really our enemy. 556 00:42:48,441 --> 00:42:51,433 He knew Hitler for who Hitler really was. 557 00:42:52,653 --> 00:42:55,395 [ Narrator I Churchill urges prime minister Neville Chamberlain... 558 00:42:55,490 --> 00:42:58,653 Fo put an end to Hitlers crusade... 559 00:42:58,743 --> 00:43:01,530 And to hold him accountable for violating the treaty. 560 00:43:03,831 --> 00:43:06,243 But his pleas are disregarded. 561 00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:13,083 Nobody listened because, for one reason... 562 00:43:13,174 --> 00:43:14,630 He was Winston Churchill... 563 00:43:14,717 --> 00:43:17,709 And the last time people listened, you had gallipoli. 564 00:43:18,721 --> 00:43:21,337 People accused Churchill of being a warmonger. 565 00:43:22,016 --> 00:43:26,134 They didn't want to hear from the sidelines that there's going to be a war. 566 00:43:28,606 --> 00:43:30,966 With no support from the British government... 567 00:43:32,944 --> 00:43:36,027 All Churchill can do is walich. 568 00:43:40,368 --> 00:43:42,529 After gaining the sudetenland... 569 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:44,952 Hitler's support within Germany surges. 570 00:43:45,039 --> 00:43:47,951 [ Cheering I 571 00:43:48,042 --> 00:43:50,104 Hitler returns to Germany as the Victor... 572 00:43:50,128 --> 00:43:52,039 Because he got exactly what he wanted. 573 00:43:52,130 --> 00:43:54,246 He knows now that the west is weak... 574 00:43:54,340 --> 00:43:56,501 That they will not stand up to his aggression. 575 00:43:59,887 --> 00:44:02,253 With the allies posing no threat... 576 00:44:02,348 --> 00:44:06,091 Hitler's appetite for territory in Europe grows. 577 00:44:06,185 --> 00:44:09,894 Six months after he swore his conquest was over... 578 00:44:11,732 --> 00:44:14,815 Hitler marches his army past the sudetenland borders... 579 00:44:15,903 --> 00:44:18,269 Nfo the heart of czechoslovakia. 580 00:44:21,909 --> 00:44:25,276 And once again, without resistance from the allies... 581 00:44:25,955 --> 00:44:28,412 The country is an easy win. 582 00:44:34,088 --> 00:44:37,751 Hitler realized, you know, the British, they're weak. They're very weak. 583 00:44:37,842 --> 00:44:42,677 I mean, when we have this conference, and they delivered czechoslovakia to us. 584 00:44:43,723 --> 00:44:47,966 Britain and France always sent protests, notes, memorandums... 585 00:44:48,060 --> 00:44:50,176 But they never fought, they never did anything. 586 00:44:50,271 --> 00:44:51,807 They wanted to stop Hitler... 587 00:44:51,898 --> 00:44:54,139 And Hitler had exactly the other perception: 588 00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:56,599 I can do whatever I want. They will never fight. 589 00:45:01,616 --> 00:45:03,447 [ Narrator I for Winston Churchill... 590 00:45:03,534 --> 00:45:08,369 Hitler's invasion of czechoslovakia is the final straw. 591 00:45:08,456 --> 00:45:11,448 Churchill simply could not believe that Chamberlain would do nothing... 592 00:45:11,542 --> 00:45:14,750 To try to stop Hitler's aggression and his move into czechoslovakia. 593 00:45:14,837 --> 00:45:17,920 After everything he had said, it was making no difference... 594 00:45:18,007 --> 00:45:20,339 So he decided that it was time for him to go public. 595 00:45:20,426 --> 00:45:22,633 The German dictator... 596 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:25,632 Instead of snatching food from the tables... 597 00:45:26,307 --> 00:45:31,847 Has become content to have it served upon him course by course. 598 00:45:31,938 --> 00:45:34,270 He starts giving these very powerful speeches... 599 00:45:34,357 --> 00:45:37,941 Attacking, criticizing the British government for its policy of appeasing Hitler. 600 00:45:38,027 --> 00:45:41,645 One pound was demanded at pistol point... 601 00:45:42,657 --> 00:45:44,318 And when that was given... 602 00:45:44,992 --> 00:45:48,109 Two pounds was demanded at pistol point. 603 00:45:48,204 --> 00:45:51,367 He could be very vocal... 604 00:45:51,457 --> 00:45:55,826 And could stick a verbal dagger in someone's back. 605 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,208 He wasn't a good man to get on the wrong side of... 606 00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:01,664 Because of his use of language. 607 00:46:01,759 --> 00:46:06,128 Our ruling class takes its weekends in the country. 608 00:46:07,181 --> 00:46:11,925 Hitler takes countries on the weekends. 609 00:46:16,190 --> 00:46:18,897 Upon it depends our British life... 610 00:46:18,985 --> 00:46:23,319 And the long continuity of our institutions and our empire. 611 00:46:25,616 --> 00:46:30,610 The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 612 00:46:31,831 --> 00:46:34,868 Let us therefore brace ourselves fo our aduties. 613 00:46:36,210 --> 00:46:39,498 If we can stand up fo him, all Europe... 614 00:46:39,588 --> 00:46:41,078 [ Radio off I 615 00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:51,631 Get me Churchill. 616 00:47:05,573 --> 00:47:08,940 British prime minister Neville Chamberlain is feeling the heat. 617 00:47:10,161 --> 00:47:12,152 For months, he and his government... 618 00:47:12,246 --> 00:47:15,033 Have been relentlessly attacked by Winston Churchill... 619 00:47:17,793 --> 00:47:20,330 Who's finally succeeded in drawing attention... 620 00:47:20,421 --> 00:47:22,582 Fo Adolf Hitler's conquest of Europe. 621 00:47:24,925 --> 00:47:29,168 The people of Great Britain are growing restless for action... 622 00:47:29,263 --> 00:47:32,755 Ana Chamberlain knows he has fo do something to calm their fears. 623 00:47:34,769 --> 00:47:37,181 So Chamberlain can no longer ignore Churchill... 624 00:47:37,271 --> 00:47:40,729 Because people are recognizing that his message is actually right. 625 00:47:40,816 --> 00:47:44,934 So Chamberlain appoints Churchill to the first lord of the admiralty. 626 00:47:45,029 --> 00:47:48,442 This was the position he held before gallipoli. 627 00:47:48,532 --> 00:47:50,443 It's a remarkable turn of events for Churchill. 628 00:47:50,534 --> 00:47:51,865 - Hello, sir. - Hello. 629 00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:53,692 - He's waiting for you. - Thank you. 630 00:47:53,788 --> 00:47:56,141 A man who had wandered in the political wilderness... 631 00:47:56,165 --> 00:47:58,076 After gallipoli, after world war I... 632 00:47:58,167 --> 00:48:01,125 Has now returned to his former position in government. 633 00:48:02,630 --> 00:48:05,372 - It's good to have you back. - It's good to be back. 634 00:48:05,466 --> 00:48:07,832 We're certainly very pleased to have you on the team. 635 00:48:07,927 --> 00:48:09,417 I'm sure you are. 636 00:48:12,932 --> 00:48:16,675 The last time I was here was during the great war. 637 00:48:16,769 --> 00:48:18,976 Does it bring back memories? 638 00:48:19,063 --> 00:48:21,896 Yes, none of them particularly fond. 639 00:48:24,735 --> 00:48:27,101 Do you know why I brought you back? 640 00:48:28,322 --> 00:48:30,563 To shut me up, I imagine. 641 00:48:31,951 --> 00:48:35,159 It will be good to have your voice inside my government. 642 00:48:36,372 --> 00:48:38,363 I don't want another war. 643 00:48:39,125 --> 00:48:41,457 [ Sighs I I'm afraid it may be too late. 644 00:48:42,795 --> 00:48:45,127 Churchill was virtually the only englishman saying... 645 00:48:45,798 --> 00:48:47,914 This is going to end badly. 646 00:48:48,008 --> 00:48:49,168 Yes. 647 00:48:49,260 --> 00:48:53,924 Hitler was testing the western powers, testing their courage. 648 00:48:54,849 --> 00:48:59,013 Chamberlain had no political choice but to bring in Winston. 649 00:49:00,813 --> 00:49:03,020 Believing Churchill will fall in line... 650 00:49:05,192 --> 00:49:08,184 Chamberlain sticks to his policy of doing nothing... 651 00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:12,654 While Churchill boldly asserts himself. 652 00:49:14,076 --> 00:49:16,408 I want warships with firepower. 653 00:49:16,495 --> 00:49:20,238 I want submarines that are capable of firing torpedoes. 654 00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,415 I do not want excuses. 655 00:49:25,796 --> 00:49:28,788 [ Radio. Morse code transmitting I 656 00:49:37,516 --> 00:49:40,007 He may be an ocean away... 657 00:49:40,102 --> 00:49:42,093 But president Franklin roosevelf .. 658 00:49:42,188 --> 00:49:45,351 Is closely monitoring the situation in Europe... 659 00:49:45,441 --> 00:49:46,931 And like Churchill... 660 00:49:47,026 --> 00:49:50,564 He knows that Adolf Hitler isn't someone to be ignored. 661 00:49:51,197 --> 00:49:54,940 Roosevelt gradually came to believe... 662 00:49:55,034 --> 00:49:59,073 That Hitler was a serious danger to world peace... 663 00:49:59,163 --> 00:50:01,529 And a danger to the United States. 664 00:50:01,624 --> 00:50:05,082 Roosevelt concluded this partly because of what Roosevelt had learned... 665 00:50:05,169 --> 00:50:07,330 Under woodrow Wilson during world war I. 666 00:50:08,339 --> 00:50:10,671 But Roosevelt was not the one... 667 00:50:10,758 --> 00:50:14,171 Who at this stage was gonna go out on any political limbs... 668 00:50:14,261 --> 00:50:16,252 Trying to convince the American people of that... 669 00:50:16,347 --> 00:50:18,133 Because Roosevelt knew... 670 00:50:18,224 --> 00:50:20,931 That Americans had grown extremely allergic... 671 00:50:21,018 --> 00:50:23,134 To getting involved in Europe's wars. 672 00:50:24,813 --> 00:50:26,875 I think Roosevelt did everything he could. 673 00:50:26,899 --> 00:50:29,686 It would have been very hard under those circumstances. 674 00:50:29,777 --> 00:50:33,565 You might have said it would be a nice time to intervene, but with what? 675 00:50:33,656 --> 00:50:36,693 You've got the world's 17th-largest army. 676 00:50:36,784 --> 00:50:39,992 Uh, there's no public support whatsoever here in the United States... 677 00:50:40,079 --> 00:50:43,367 For the notion that we ought to be intervening in Europe... 678 00:50:43,457 --> 00:50:46,164 When they haven't even started to shoot at each other yet. 679 00:50:46,252 --> 00:50:47,958 Uh-uh. There's no war. 680 00:50:54,468 --> 00:50:58,302 Confident that his power in western Europe is secure... 681 00:50:58,389 --> 00:51:01,631 Adolf Hitler plans an even more aggressive strategy... 682 00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:04,387 Lo expand the Nazi empire fo the east... 683 00:51:06,605 --> 00:51:09,142 Largeting the nation of Poland. 684 00:51:11,068 --> 00:51:14,401 Hitler believes Poland rightfully belongs to Germany... 685 00:51:16,574 --> 00:51:20,408 Having been taken by the allies during the versailles negotiations. 686 00:51:22,329 --> 00:51:25,821 From November 1918 onwards, if Hitler has one... 687 00:51:25,916 --> 00:51:28,532 Essential mission in politics... 688 00:51:28,627 --> 00:51:30,788 It is to overthrow the versailles treaty... 689 00:51:30,879 --> 00:51:33,086 And not just to overthrow the versailles treaty... 690 00:51:33,173 --> 00:51:35,755 But to create a new international order... 691 00:51:35,843 --> 00:51:39,051 In which Germany cannot again be defeated. 692 00:51:40,306 --> 00:51:42,262 But Hitler knows taking Poland... 693 00:51:42,349 --> 00:51:45,386 Will provoke the only man who intimidates him... 694 00:51:46,061 --> 00:51:49,553 A tyrant who rules his country with an iron fist 695 00:51:56,780 --> 00:51:59,567 Joseph Stalin is one of the most violent leaders... 696 00:51:59,658 --> 00:52:01,649 The world will ever know. 697 00:52:05,956 --> 00:52:07,537 Just 20 years earlier... 698 00:52:07,625 --> 00:52:10,708 He seized control of the largest country in the world... 699 00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:12,785 And created the Soviet union... 700 00:52:13,922 --> 00:52:16,834 Using nothing more than brute force... 701 00:52:17,384 --> 00:52:18,874 And intimidation. 702 00:52:22,181 --> 00:52:23,717 [ Bell tolls I 703 00:52:25,476 --> 00:52:26,966 [ bell tolls I 704 00:52:28,729 --> 00:52:30,265 [ bell tolls I 705 00:52:35,194 --> 00:52:36,855 there's no freedom. 706 00:52:37,863 --> 00:52:41,447 Total censorship in Russia. It was a hellish place to be. 707 00:52:44,078 --> 00:52:45,659 Stalin is a murderer. 708 00:52:47,122 --> 00:52:49,738 There's nothing good to say about Stalin. 709 00:52:50,751 --> 00:52:53,743 [ Narrator I like Hitler, Stalin is a brutal dictator... 710 00:52:53,837 --> 00:52:56,419 With dreams of world domination. 711 00:52:57,174 --> 00:53:00,507 Both men are professed fans of the arts... 712 00:53:00,594 --> 00:53:03,927 Who rule their countries with ruthless order and efficiency. 713 00:53:05,265 --> 00:53:08,007 Just like Hitler eliminated his political opponents... 714 00:53:08,102 --> 00:53:10,184 During the night of the long knives... 715 00:53:12,231 --> 00:53:15,940 Stalin does the same on an even grander scale... 716 00:53:19,363 --> 00:53:22,105 Sending his rivals fo deadly work camps... 717 00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:26,283 Located in the harshest and most desolate terrain on the planet- 718 00:53:29,039 --> 00:53:30,529 Siberia. 719 00:53:37,798 --> 00:53:39,459 Stalin's purges... 720 00:53:39,550 --> 00:53:44,340 Send over two million people fo die in siberian work camps. 721 00:53:58,986 --> 00:54:02,649 It's an idea Adolf Hitler will soon adopt himself... 722 00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:08,238 As he opens up thousands of forced labor camps throughout Germany... 723 00:54:09,830 --> 00:54:12,446 Where he banishes hundreds of thousands of Jews... 724 00:54:13,500 --> 00:54:15,036 Political opponents... 725 00:54:15,127 --> 00:54:18,119 And anyone else he deems undesirable. 726 00:54:27,347 --> 00:54:31,431 Hitler knows if he's going fo continue his conquest of Europe... 727 00:54:31,518 --> 00:54:34,351 He'll need to neutralize Joseph Stalin. 728 00:54:35,230 --> 00:54:38,313 He offers his rival dictator a pact... 729 00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,313 Promising to avoid war between the two massive powers... 730 00:54:42,404 --> 00:54:45,896 If Stalin uses his red army fo help conquer Poland. 731 00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:49,901 Everything that Hitler did in world war ll... 732 00:54:49,995 --> 00:54:53,158 Was shaped by his experience in world war I. 733 00:54:53,248 --> 00:54:55,785 And in world war I, he knew that Germany... 734 00:54:55,876 --> 00:55:00,119 Came closest to victory when Russia withdrew from the war. 735 00:55:00,214 --> 00:55:02,455 So his goal the second time around... 736 00:55:02,549 --> 00:55:05,131 Was to keep Russia from entering the war. 737 00:55:05,219 --> 00:55:07,631 He did not want to have a second front opened up. 738 00:55:07,721 --> 00:55:10,303 He wanted to be able to maintain his focus on the west... 739 00:55:10,390 --> 00:55:12,802 So he creates a pact with Stalin. 740 00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:15,551 Stalin accepts Hitler's offer. 741 00:55:25,155 --> 00:55:27,020 We will move swiftly... 742 00:55:28,408 --> 00:55:32,071 And we will spare no one. 743 00:55:33,330 --> 00:55:36,743 We can move some troops, but that will take weeks. 744 00:55:42,673 --> 00:55:46,257 You have too little trust in their weakness. 745 00:55:47,094 --> 00:55:50,086 - Jawohl, mein fuhrer. - They are there for the taking... 746 00:55:51,431 --> 00:55:53,092 And we will take them. 747 00:55:55,227 --> 00:55:58,344 [ Men shouting I 748 00:55:59,857 --> 00:56:02,724 on September 1, 1939... 749 00:56:03,735 --> 00:56:06,272 Hitler orders a million troops into Poland... 750 00:56:09,408 --> 00:56:12,024 Who fight using a new method of warfare... 751 00:56:12,119 --> 00:56:14,110 The world has never seen before. 752 00:56:17,958 --> 00:56:19,539 Blitzkrieg. 753 00:56:19,626 --> 00:56:22,743 The Germans wanted to avoid a static war... 754 00:56:22,838 --> 00:56:25,358 So they had developed something which came to be called blitzkrieg... 755 00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:26,713 Or lightning war. 756 00:56:29,052 --> 00:56:31,668 And the concept of lightning war... 757 00:56:31,763 --> 00:56:34,846 Is to take very fast-moving forces... 758 00:56:38,979 --> 00:56:40,970 To punch a hole in your enemy. 759 00:56:45,485 --> 00:56:48,397 And then get into their nervous system. 760 00:56:52,576 --> 00:56:55,318 It's like something attacking the human body. 761 00:56:56,705 --> 00:56:58,696 Your arms and legs and muscles are fine... 762 00:57:00,834 --> 00:57:05,077 But your brain and your heart have suddenly been assaulted... 763 00:57:05,172 --> 00:57:08,460 And you can't react fast enough to deal with this. 764 00:57:11,136 --> 00:57:13,297 [ Narrator I while the Nazis attack from the west .. 765 00:57:20,562 --> 00:57:23,770 Stalin orders the red army fo invade from the east 766 00:57:26,526 --> 00:57:30,360 Stalin was determined to give Hitler everything he needed... 767 00:57:30,447 --> 00:57:33,280 And thereby Germany would have no reason... 768 00:57:33,367 --> 00:57:35,949 Ever to attack the Soviet union. 769 00:57:41,583 --> 00:57:44,746 Js [ Ballet I 770 00:57:54,471 --> 00:57:56,962 Jl [ Continues I 771 00:57:57,057 --> 00:58:00,470 [ narrator I the Polish army is no match for the two-front invasion... 772 00:58:04,898 --> 00:58:08,766 And the country falls to the new alliance of Hitler and Stalin. 773 00:58:14,074 --> 00:58:17,566 Dictators feel that they are omniscient in their judgment... 774 00:58:19,246 --> 00:58:21,487 And they know better than anyone else. 775 00:58:22,833 --> 00:58:26,041 They don't keep anyone around them who will tell them otherwise. 776 00:58:27,796 --> 00:58:29,661 In most of my military career... 777 00:58:33,510 --> 00:58:37,002 I had to shake hands with a lot of pigs. 778 00:58:43,937 --> 00:58:46,053 [ Applause I 779 00:58:51,862 --> 00:58:54,194 Adolf Hitler has formed alliances... 780 00:58:54,281 --> 00:58:57,899 With Italy, Japan and now Russia... 781 00:58:57,993 --> 00:59:00,985 Fo create the world's most terrifying superpower. 782 00:59:09,171 --> 00:59:12,755 The day Winston Churchill has been warning the rest of the world about... 783 00:59:13,967 --> 00:59:15,457 Is finally here. 784 00:59:18,305 --> 00:59:20,296 Great Britain and the allies... 785 00:59:20,390 --> 00:59:24,724 Are in no position to ignore the threat of Hitler and Stalin. 786 00:59:26,646 --> 00:59:30,730 Nobody knew the extent of what Germany's design was... 787 00:59:30,817 --> 00:59:34,401 And it's not until Poland falls that it becomes clear... 788 00:59:34,488 --> 00:59:38,072 Hitler has this sort of design to control all of Europe. 789 00:59:42,788 --> 00:59:45,621 On September 3, 1939... 790 00:59:47,334 --> 00:59:50,622 Chamberlain finally realizes he has no other option... 791 00:59:53,507 --> 00:59:55,498 But to sign the declaration... 792 00:59:58,011 --> 00:59:59,592 That takes the world... 793 01:00:00,263 --> 01:00:01,924 Back fo war. 794 01:00:08,522 --> 01:00:10,808 Adolf Hitler is on a march through Europe... 795 01:00:11,483 --> 01:00:13,690 As he rapidly expands his empire... 796 01:00:17,197 --> 01:00:19,188 Meeting little resistance. 797 01:00:22,035 --> 01:00:25,903 [ Protesters shouting I 798 01:00:25,997 --> 01:00:28,079 even after declaring war... 799 01:00:28,166 --> 01:00:30,077 Prime minister Neville Chamberlain... 800 01:00:30,168 --> 01:00:35,128 Still does absolutely nothing fo stop Hitler for seven long months. 801 01:00:35,215 --> 01:00:36,921 Hitler is on the move. 802 01:00:37,008 --> 01:00:38,964 I mean, we should mobilize immediately. 803 01:00:39,052 --> 01:00:41,213 Yes, but we need more time... 804 01:00:41,304 --> 01:00:44,796 And if there is going to be war, I want us to be ready. 805 01:00:44,891 --> 01:00:48,804 War will find us whether we're ready or not. 806 01:00:52,816 --> 01:00:55,182 [ Mccain I war is not a political game. 807 01:00:58,071 --> 01:01:02,485 War is everything that you can put on the line- 808 01:01:02,576 --> 01:01:05,238 - we need time to be ready. - Victory can never be guaranteed. 809 01:01:05,328 --> 01:01:08,991 In order to achieve a result as rapidly as possible. 810 01:01:09,082 --> 01:01:10,947 What is he going to have to do next? 811 01:01:11,042 --> 01:01:12,782 We've already offered him certain things. 812 01:01:12,878 --> 01:01:15,790 We can't do everything overnight, and we're not ready for war now. 813 01:01:15,881 --> 01:01:17,621 Hitler is far more dangerous... 814 01:01:17,716 --> 01:01:20,002 Than anything we've ever faced before! 815 01:01:20,093 --> 01:01:22,505 No, no, no, no, no. We need time. 816 01:01:23,513 --> 01:01:26,926 Oh, I see. That's the typical defeatism... 817 01:01:27,017 --> 01:01:29,599 And pacifism of your government. 818 01:01:29,686 --> 01:01:32,723 So where are you gonna draw the line with Hitler? 819 01:01:34,441 --> 01:01:37,478 Political leadership is about being able to do things... 820 01:01:37,569 --> 01:01:39,434 That your colleagues couldn't do... 821 01:01:40,614 --> 01:01:42,696 And for them to recognize that. 822 01:01:42,782 --> 01:01:45,899 What marks our successful leaders from the unsuccessful... 823 01:01:45,994 --> 01:01:49,828 Is a decisiveness, a courage, a clarity, a strategic vision. 824 01:01:54,544 --> 01:01:58,583 Hitler is burning the treaty of versailles as we speak... 825 01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:02,833 And all we do is sit idly by... 826 01:02:03,553 --> 01:02:05,043 Pissing on the ashes. 827 01:02:07,140 --> 01:02:09,552 While Chamberlain continues to do nothing... 828 01:02:10,393 --> 01:02:12,884 Hitler invades Denmark and Norway... 829 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:19,308 Tightening the noose around Great Britain's closest ally... 830 01:02:20,445 --> 01:02:22,060 France. 831 01:02:22,155 --> 01:02:24,942 His conquest of Europe seems unstoppable. 832 01:02:25,951 --> 01:02:29,193 That was it. That was the end for Chamberlain. 833 01:02:29,287 --> 01:02:31,118 His government had failed. 834 01:02:33,833 --> 01:02:36,062 [ Narrator I the pressure Churchill puts on Chamberlain... 835 01:02:36,086 --> 01:02:40,250 Causes the British government fo lose complete faith in their leader... 836 01:02:41,174 --> 01:02:43,165 Forcing him to resign. 837 01:02:45,011 --> 01:02:48,048 Turns out that Churchill was right all along about Hitler... 838 01:02:48,139 --> 01:02:49,595 And Chamberlain was wrong. 839 01:02:49,683 --> 01:02:53,847 Clearly, with German forces now massed along the French border... 840 01:02:53,937 --> 01:02:55,973 That policy of appeasement had failed. 841 01:02:56,064 --> 01:02:57,554 Britain needed a new leader... 842 01:03:02,028 --> 01:03:04,235 On may 10, 1940... 843 01:03:05,448 --> 01:03:08,781 Winston Churchill claims his greatest personal victory... 844 01:03:12,038 --> 01:03:15,121 [ Applause I 845 01:03:15,208 --> 01:03:18,621 when he's voted in as the new prime minister of Great Britain. 846 01:03:21,923 --> 01:03:24,460 Churchill had total confidence in himself. 847 01:03:24,551 --> 01:03:26,963 If he hadn't, he wouldn't have survived his setbacks. 848 01:03:29,514 --> 01:03:31,425 And that is why, from being a renegade... 849 01:03:31,516 --> 01:03:33,632 He was brought straight back into the government... 850 01:03:34,769 --> 01:03:36,760 And then was prime minister. 851 01:03:38,189 --> 01:03:41,397 He knew he was special, and he proved it. 852 01:03:42,569 --> 01:03:45,606 But Churchill is given no time to celebrate his victory. 853 01:03:55,749 --> 01:03:58,189 [ Narrator I Winston Churchill's election as prime minister... 854 01:03:58,251 --> 01:04:00,492 Changes Hitlers entire war plan. 855 01:04:00,587 --> 01:04:02,327 Full divisions, of course. 856 01:04:02,422 --> 01:04:05,129 He knows Churchill won't hesitate to fight back... 857 01:04:06,134 --> 01:04:08,671 So he decides fo strike the allies first... 858 01:04:09,846 --> 01:04:12,713 Launching an overwhelming invasion of France. 859 01:04:14,601 --> 01:04:16,182 To guarantee victory... 860 01:04:16,269 --> 01:04:19,602 He sends over four million troops directly at the French. 861 01:04:21,066 --> 01:04:22,977 We'll bomb every city. 862 01:04:24,736 --> 01:04:26,818 We'll bomb every village, every farm... 863 01:04:26,905 --> 01:04:28,395 Every town. 864 01:04:29,491 --> 01:04:33,359 Hitler came to believe that he was invincible. 865 01:04:33,453 --> 01:04:36,445 Every time his generals urged caution... 866 01:04:37,874 --> 01:04:39,364 He overruled them. 867 01:04:42,796 --> 01:04:45,412 If your willpower was strong enough. 868 01:04:46,591 --> 01:04:51,631 We will kill every... single... man. 869 01:04:53,306 --> 01:04:54,967 We will annihilate them. 870 01:05:10,990 --> 01:05:14,073 [ Shouting I 871 01:05:17,580 --> 01:05:19,116 [ explosion I 872 01:05:22,669 --> 01:05:24,205 [ machine gun firing I 873 01:05:30,802 --> 01:05:34,260 [ Narrator I Hitler's blitzkrieg completely overpowers the French army. 874 01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:38,716 The French fell prey to exactly what the Germans had hoped they would. 875 01:05:43,982 --> 01:05:46,519 [ Mcchrystal I and very quickly they fe/f defeated. 876 01:05:50,196 --> 01:05:53,359 100,000 French soldiers... 877 01:05:53,450 --> 01:05:55,361 Died during six weeks... 878 01:05:55,452 --> 01:05:58,194 Which is a huge proportion of causalities. 879 01:06:00,832 --> 01:06:03,323 [ Narrator I what Germany failed to do in the first war... 880 01:06:04,210 --> 01:06:07,247 Hitler accomplishes in just six weeks. 881 01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:14,130 Hitler also conquers Belgium and the Netherlands. 882 01:06:14,220 --> 01:06:17,553 His empire now encompasses nearly all of Europe. 883 01:06:26,983 --> 01:06:31,192 Winston Churchill has been the prime minister for just nine days... 884 01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,022 And already millions of Nazi troops and tanks... 885 01:06:35,116 --> 01:06:38,153 Are gathering on the coast of the english channel... 886 01:06:40,079 --> 01:06:42,161 Just 50 miles from Great Britain. 887 01:06:42,916 --> 01:06:45,999 [ Bell tolling I 888 01:06:49,756 --> 01:06:51,792 with all hope seemingly lost... 889 01:06:56,095 --> 01:06:58,086 Churchill addresses his nation. 890 01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:03,842 [ Static on radio I 891 01:07:03,937 --> 01:07:05,723 and the entire world is listening. 892 01:07:05,813 --> 01:07:08,429 [ Switching radio stations I 893 01:07:16,616 --> 01:07:18,857 We shall not flag or fail. 894 01:07:19,994 --> 01:07:22,155 We shall go on to the end. 895 01:07:24,499 --> 01:07:26,490 We shall fight in France. 896 01:07:27,168 --> 01:07:30,001 We shall fight on the seas and oceans. 897 01:07:32,048 --> 01:07:36,462 We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. 898 01:07:38,263 --> 01:07:40,549 We shall defend our island... 899 01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:42,756 Whatever the cost may be. 900 01:07:44,227 --> 01:07:46,218 We shall fight on the beaches. 901 01:07:46,312 --> 01:07:48,974 We shall fight on the landing grounds. 902 01:07:49,065 --> 01:07:51,977 We shall fight in the fields and in the streels. 903 01:07:52,652 --> 01:07:55,064 We shall fight in the hills. 904 01:07:55,154 --> 01:07:58,191 We shall never surrender. 905 01:07:58,283 --> 01:08:00,490 [ Cheering, applause I 906 01:08:20,013 --> 01:08:22,755 For the past four years, Adolf Hitler... 907 01:08:22,849 --> 01:08:26,967 Has marched the most dominant military the world has ever seen across Europe. 908 01:08:30,273 --> 01:08:32,264 And now France has fallen. 909 01:08:35,194 --> 01:08:39,654 We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. 910 01:08:40,533 --> 01:08:42,194 We shall fight on the beaches. 911 01:08:42,285 --> 01:08:44,617 But the new prime minister of Great Britain... 912 01:08:44,704 --> 01:08:48,447 Isn't going to let the occupation of the largest allied nation fo date... 913 01:08:48,541 --> 01:08:50,031 Go unchallenged. 914 01:08:50,126 --> 01:08:52,162 We shall fight in the hills. 915 01:08:53,630 --> 01:08:56,713 We shall never surrender. 916 01:08:56,799 --> 01:08:58,790 [Applause I 917 01:09:10,438 --> 01:09:12,975 Within weeks of taking France... 918 01:09:13,983 --> 01:09:16,315 Hitler orders his top military commanders... 919 01:09:16,402 --> 01:09:19,815 Fo begin preparations for his largest attack yet... 920 01:09:22,492 --> 01:09:24,983 Targeting the heart of the British empire... 921 01:09:27,205 --> 01:09:28,695 London, england. 922 01:09:31,501 --> 01:09:33,492 But Hitler has a problem. 923 01:09:34,504 --> 01:09:37,496 The British have the most dominant Navy in the world... 924 01:09:38,508 --> 01:09:41,420 And Churchill has fortified the coast of Great Britain... 925 01:09:41,511 --> 01:09:43,172 With a virtual armaaa... 926 01:09:44,430 --> 01:09:46,421 In anticipation of an attack. 927 01:09:47,642 --> 01:09:51,226 In mid-June of 1940, the British are waiting for an invasion. 928 01:09:51,312 --> 01:09:52,802 But Hitler thought... 929 01:09:52,897 --> 01:09:55,604 If they couldn't beat the english militarily... 930 01:09:56,609 --> 01:09:59,100 They'd terrorize the country so much... 931 01:09:59,195 --> 01:10:03,484 That the english people would demand that Churchill make peace. 932 01:10:06,577 --> 01:10:09,410 [ Narrator I Hitler knows his Navy is no match for the British. 933 01:10:11,124 --> 01:10:15,208 But he's spent the last seven years creating a massive air force... 934 01:10:15,294 --> 01:10:16,784 Called the luftwaffe... 935 01:10:20,091 --> 01:10:22,207 Which he now orders info the skies... 936 01:10:24,011 --> 01:10:26,548 Unleashing a strategic bombing campaign... 937 01:10:26,639 --> 01:10:28,379 Fo terrorize Churchill info submission. 938 01:10:34,397 --> 01:10:37,139 On September 7, 1940... 939 01:10:37,233 --> 01:10:39,474 London is the largest city in the world... 940 01:10:40,153 --> 01:10:42,565 Home fo nine million people... 941 01:10:43,322 --> 01:10:46,564 Who have no idea what's about to hit them. 942 01:10:51,122 --> 01:10:53,864 [ Air raid siren wailing I 943 01:11:31,621 --> 01:11:33,612 Over 60% of the city... 944 01:11:35,291 --> 01:11:36,781 Is obliterated. 945 01:11:46,469 --> 01:11:49,302 It was unbelievable. 946 01:11:49,388 --> 01:11:52,425 With hundreds of bombers and fighter planes. 947 01:11:52,517 --> 01:11:54,132 Indiscriminate bombings. 948 01:11:54,227 --> 01:11:57,060 Fires broke out in the east end, in the west end. 949 01:11:59,690 --> 01:12:02,682 The blitz was terror bombing... 950 01:12:03,694 --> 01:12:08,313 And 40,000 British civilians died during the blitz. 951 01:12:13,162 --> 01:12:16,325 Two million homes throughout the city are destroyed. 952 01:12:18,042 --> 01:12:20,658 Left with no other place fo go... 953 01:12:20,753 --> 01:12:25,497 Millions are forced fo find shelter in underground subway stations... 954 01:12:28,135 --> 01:12:30,592 Not knowing where the next bomb will strike. 955 01:12:33,933 --> 01:12:36,078 [ Air raid sirens wailing I 956 01:12:36,102 --> 01:12:39,094 [ explosions I 957 01:12:44,569 --> 01:12:46,105 [ Explosion I 958 01:12:56,163 --> 01:12:58,154 [ Explosion I 959 01:13:00,042 --> 01:13:01,532 [ narrator I Winston Churchill... 960 01:13:01,627 --> 01:13:03,788 Is the prime minister for less than four months... 961 01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:05,871 When Hitler strikes London... 962 01:13:07,884 --> 01:13:10,341 But the blitz only strengthens his resolve. 963 01:13:13,306 --> 01:13:15,968 Churchill stood alone. 964 01:13:16,642 --> 01:13:21,227 He was really all that stood between Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler... 965 01:13:21,314 --> 01:13:23,805 And the complete conquest of Europe. 966 01:13:30,489 --> 01:13:32,150 During the London blitz... 967 01:13:33,159 --> 01:13:36,322 Churchill is reminded of his failed gallipoli invasion. 968 01:13:37,538 --> 01:13:40,371 Only instead of soldiers who died on his walch... 969 01:13:41,542 --> 01:13:44,204 Now it's innocent civilians. 970 01:13:49,133 --> 01:13:52,751 Churchill believed that courage and valor... 971 01:13:52,845 --> 01:13:55,177 Were prerequisite for leadership. 972 01:13:56,682 --> 01:14:00,140 You can't have a cowardly leader. 973 01:14:02,104 --> 01:14:06,643 And Churchill showed himself almost every night of the blitz. 974 01:14:08,611 --> 01:14:12,149 He was out in there in the neighborhoods, and the people saw him. 975 01:14:15,534 --> 01:14:18,526 Churchill embodied the bulldog spirit. 976 01:14:19,622 --> 01:14:22,580 He embodied the commitment of the British people... 977 01:14:22,667 --> 01:14:24,783 To stand up through the blitz of London... 978 01:14:26,003 --> 01:14:28,790 And that's a vital quality of courage... 979 01:14:28,881 --> 01:14:32,669 That sustains a people at very perilous times. 980 01:14:37,723 --> 01:14:40,089 While Hitler continues his terror bombing... 981 01:14:42,228 --> 01:14:46,221 Churchill shifts his focus from the Navy fo the royal air force... 982 01:14:51,362 --> 01:14:54,445 Devoting all his resources info mass-producing... 983 01:14:54,532 --> 01:14:57,615 A new fleet of smaller and faster fighter planes... 984 01:15:02,164 --> 01:15:04,155 Catching Hitler off guard. 985 01:15:06,085 --> 01:15:07,950 For the next three months... 986 01:15:08,671 --> 01:15:11,708 The largest air battle the world has ever known... 987 01:15:12,508 --> 01:15:14,169 Is fought over Great Britain. 988 01:15:15,553 --> 01:15:18,260 The new and improved British planes... 989 01:15:18,347 --> 01:15:21,555 Shoot down nearly 3,000 luftwaffe fighters... 990 01:15:22,935 --> 01:15:25,472 While the British lose fewer than 600... 991 01:15:31,110 --> 01:15:33,101 Forcing Hitler to retreat. 992 01:15:35,948 --> 01:15:38,314 That was Churchill's finest hour. 993 01:15:40,119 --> 01:15:43,452 Those months of September 1940... 994 01:15:43,539 --> 01:15:46,030 Through early 1941... 995 01:15:46,125 --> 01:15:48,207 There was no America helping us then. 996 01:15:48,294 --> 01:15:50,626 There was england and england alone... 997 01:15:50,713 --> 01:15:52,669 And it was during those months... 998 01:15:52,757 --> 01:15:55,089 That Churchill saved england... 999 01:15:55,176 --> 01:15:58,293 And, I believe, saved western civilization. 1000 01:15:59,305 --> 01:16:03,389 The royal air force overpowers the luftwaffe... 1001 01:16:03,476 --> 01:16:06,593 And secures Great Britain from attack. 1002 01:16:09,732 --> 01:16:13,145 Churchill has handed Hitler his first major defeat. 1003 01:16:21,494 --> 01:16:24,861 The axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan... 1004 01:16:24,955 --> 01:16:28,118 Are continuing their quest for world domination. 1005 01:16:30,127 --> 01:16:31,583 In the pacific... 1006 01:16:31,670 --> 01:16:34,787 Japan has launched a bloody invasion of China... 1007 01:16:34,882 --> 01:16:38,625 Their first step in their campaign fo control all of Asia. 1008 01:16:40,012 --> 01:16:43,004 [ Machine gun firing I 1009 01:16:52,274 --> 01:16:54,390 [ Horse whinnying I 1010 01:16:57,446 --> 01:16:59,687 but Japanese leaders are convinced... 1011 01:17:00,699 --> 01:17:02,940 If they're ever going fo achieve their goal... 1012 01:17:03,035 --> 01:17:06,027 Of a strong and respected Japanese empire... 1013 01:17:07,248 --> 01:17:09,239 They'll need fo be more aggressive. 1014 01:17:13,212 --> 01:17:15,419 China is just the beginning. 1015 01:17:16,757 --> 01:17:20,341 The emperor decides he needs a new prime minister... 1016 01:17:20,427 --> 01:17:23,760 Someone he can trust fo bring victory to Japan. 1017 01:17:25,266 --> 01:17:27,598 So he promotes his minister of war... 1018 01:17:29,812 --> 01:17:31,302 Hideki tojo. 1019 01:17:36,902 --> 01:17:39,484 Tojo is elevated to the position of prime minister. 1020 01:17:39,572 --> 01:17:41,187 He's there really for two reasons. 1021 01:17:41,282 --> 01:17:43,489 One is he fiercely loyal to the emperor. 1022 01:17:43,576 --> 01:17:45,612 He also is considered a hawk... 1023 01:17:46,453 --> 01:17:48,944 So he has a lot of credibility among the military. 1024 01:17:51,083 --> 01:17:54,826 Tojo knows if Japan is going fo conquer Asia... 1025 01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,502 First they'll need to establish a base of operations... 1026 01:17:57,590 --> 01:17:59,376 In a critical territory... 1027 01:17:59,466 --> 01:18:02,708 Strategically located in the middle of the pacific islands. 1028 01:18:04,263 --> 01:18:06,094 The Philippines. 1029 01:18:06,182 --> 01:18:09,094 The only problem is that the Philippines... 1030 01:18:09,185 --> 01:18:11,176 Belongs fo the United States. 1031 01:18:14,773 --> 01:18:16,809 [ People chattering I 1032 01:18:16,901 --> 01:18:20,393 we don't have the supplies and we don't have the planes. 1033 01:18:20,487 --> 01:18:23,727 After learning that Japan is moving its Navy towards the Philippines- 1034 01:18:23,782 --> 01:18:25,782 - they'll be coming from- - Coming this way? South? 1035 01:18:26,452 --> 01:18:30,661 President Franklin Roosevelt knows he needs to respond quickly. 1036 01:18:31,665 --> 01:18:34,748 The United States had worried that the Japanese were getting too strong. 1037 01:18:35,377 --> 01:18:38,460 Roosevelt watched the rising tide of violence in Asia... 1038 01:18:38,547 --> 01:18:42,790 And it caused Roosevelt to think we've got to do something about this... 1039 01:18:43,802 --> 01:18:46,168 To defend the Philippines. 1040 01:18:55,940 --> 01:18:57,976 To protect the American territory... 1041 01:18:58,067 --> 01:19:02,231 Roosevelt sends a division of the U.S. army directly to the Philippines. 1042 01:19:02,738 --> 01:19:04,444 To command the operation... 1043 01:19:04,531 --> 01:19:08,524 He picks a legendary general who's proven himself on the battlefield... 1044 01:19:08,619 --> 01:19:12,328 While also proving fo be a thom in Roosevelt's side- 1045 01:19:12,915 --> 01:19:14,906 Douglas MacArthur. 1046 01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:18,242 Roosevelt knew he needed a stronger military presence in the pacific... 1047 01:19:18,337 --> 01:19:20,623 To try to deter Japan... 1048 01:19:20,714 --> 01:19:22,375 And he chooses MacArthur. 1049 01:19:22,883 --> 01:19:25,750 Roosevelt didn't like MacArthur, but he respected him. 1050 01:19:26,971 --> 01:19:30,680 [ Narrator I Roosevelt is confident that despite their differences... 1051 01:19:30,766 --> 01:19:34,054 MacArthur is the only man capable of getting the job done. 1052 01:19:34,728 --> 01:19:37,720 When MacArthur commanded in the pacific... 1053 01:19:37,815 --> 01:19:40,306 If you think of the breadth of his responsibilities... 1054 01:19:40,401 --> 01:19:42,562 And the importance of what he did... 1055 01:19:42,653 --> 01:19:45,986 And his own proclivity and personality... 1056 01:19:46,073 --> 01:19:50,863 He became a very huge figure in that area... 1057 01:19:50,953 --> 01:19:52,944 And in his own mind. 1058 01:19:55,374 --> 01:19:58,707 [ Narrator I MacArthur immediately begins training his force... 1059 01:19:58,794 --> 01:20:02,127 But he's been given just 22,000 men... 1060 01:20:02,214 --> 01:20:05,047 While Japan's army is two million strong. 1061 01:20:06,051 --> 01:20:08,007 If Japan attacks... 1062 01:20:08,095 --> 01:20:11,053 MacArthur and his men will need fo fight like hell. 1063 01:20:15,644 --> 01:20:19,307 Meanwhile, on the other side of the world... 1064 01:20:23,235 --> 01:20:27,604 Adolf Hitler has steamrolled through Europe with minimal resistance... 1065 01:20:28,615 --> 01:20:33,905 And after his temporary setback in London, he's convinced... 1066 01:20:33,996 --> 01:20:37,830 If he's ever going fo achieve his ultimate dream of global domination... 1067 01:20:38,876 --> 01:20:40,867 He simply has fo go bigger. 1068 01:20:42,254 --> 01:20:46,839 Hitler believed his willpower would eventually overcome all difficulties. 1069 01:20:46,925 --> 01:20:50,509 It began to build up his confidence until he thought he was invincible. 1070 01:20:50,596 --> 01:20:53,008 With enough support in this area here- 1071 01:20:53,098 --> 01:20:54,588 as his ego grows... 1072 01:20:54,683 --> 01:20:57,675 Hitler begins fo believe the Nazi military... 1073 01:20:57,770 --> 01:21:00,603 Is powerful enough fo take on anyone... 1074 01:21:03,650 --> 01:21:05,311 Even Joseph Stalin. 1075 01:21:07,196 --> 01:21:11,064 Hitler's pact with Stalin was always a pact of convenience. 1076 01:21:13,077 --> 01:21:16,194 For some reason, Stalin believed that he was special... 1077 01:21:16,288 --> 01:21:18,870 That even though Hitler had violated every agreement... 1078 01:21:18,957 --> 01:21:20,977 That even though Hitler had invaded all these countries... 1079 01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:23,993 That somehow he would not have invaded the Soviet union. 1080 01:21:31,261 --> 01:21:33,877 [ Narrator I in the summer of 1941... 1081 01:21:33,972 --> 01:21:37,385 Hitler orders a surprise invasion of the Soviet union... 1082 01:21:38,477 --> 01:21:41,139 Catching his ally completely off guard. 1083 01:21:42,272 --> 01:21:45,890 Without warning, Hitler's forces invade the Soviet union. 1084 01:21:45,984 --> 01:21:49,852 It's the largest land invasion in history. 1085 01:22:18,851 --> 01:22:22,059 Hitlers troops are advancing toward Moscow... 1086 01:22:23,522 --> 01:22:26,059 But Joseph Stalin refuses to back down... 1087 01:22:27,443 --> 01:22:29,434 In the face of his ally's betrayal. 1088 01:22:31,488 --> 01:22:33,479 If Hitler wants a war... 1089 01:22:34,491 --> 01:22:36,482 Stalin will give him one. 1090 01:22:37,703 --> 01:22:40,069 These are two of the most ruthless... 1091 01:22:40,164 --> 01:22:43,406 Bloodthirsty individuals who've ever lived. 1092 01:22:45,169 --> 01:22:48,332 At one point they're allies, and now they're enemies. 1093 01:22:49,715 --> 01:22:51,251 [ Narrator I with one move... 1094 01:22:51,341 --> 01:22:55,710 Adolf Hitler has turned his most powerful ally against him. 1095 01:23:01,310 --> 01:23:04,723 The world is at war for the second time this century. 1096 01:23:05,981 --> 01:23:08,267 Adolf Hitler has the advantage... 1097 01:23:08,358 --> 01:23:10,815 But in an incredible act of ego... 1098 01:23:11,487 --> 01:23:13,773 He's betrayed his ally, Joseph Stalin... 1099 01:23:13,864 --> 01:23:16,776 Launching an invasion of the Soviet union. 1100 01:23:17,409 --> 01:23:21,823 Meanwhile, in the pacific, a new threat emerges... 1101 01:23:21,914 --> 01:23:24,997 As Japan expands its empire... 1102 01:23:25,083 --> 01:23:28,826 Moving its military within striking distance of the Philippines. 1103 01:23:36,512 --> 01:23:39,003 President Franklin delano Roosevelt... 1104 01:23:39,097 --> 01:23:42,965 Has sent his best general fo defend the island territory. 1105 01:23:44,353 --> 01:23:46,264 But he knows the American force... 1106 01:23:46,355 --> 01:23:49,847 Has little hope against the powerful Japanese military. 1107 01:24:04,456 --> 01:24:06,447 Give me an update. 1108 01:24:07,417 --> 01:24:10,250 We have no reason to expect them to stop their movement south. 1109 01:24:12,756 --> 01:24:14,747 Is there any movement towards the Philippines? 1110 01:24:15,425 --> 01:24:17,666 Not that we can tell, but if they do attack... 1111 01:24:17,761 --> 01:24:20,218 The best that MacArthur can do is slow them down. 1112 01:24:24,142 --> 01:24:25,632 There is one thing. 1113 01:24:28,063 --> 01:24:30,975 Japan is totally dependent on foreign oil. 1114 01:24:31,817 --> 01:24:34,650 We stop that, we stop the war machine. 1115 01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:38,357 - Where do they get their oil? - From us. 1116 01:24:41,410 --> 01:24:44,243 [ Narrator I determined to avoid war at all costs... 1117 01:24:45,163 --> 01:24:47,404 Roosevelt signs a trade embargo... 1118 01:24:47,499 --> 01:24:50,491 Cutting America's supply of oil to Japan... 1119 01:24:50,586 --> 01:24:53,953 And sending the Japanese economy into free fall. 1120 01:24:57,092 --> 01:25:02,052 Roosevelt essentially declared economic war against Japan. 1121 01:25:04,641 --> 01:25:07,974 Roosevelt hoped he could sufficiently pressure the Japanese... 1122 01:25:08,061 --> 01:25:09,892 That they would back off. 1123 01:25:15,152 --> 01:25:16,938 [ Narrator I in Tokyo... 1124 01:25:17,029 --> 01:25:21,398 Newly appointed prime minister hideki tojo knows the oil embargo... 1125 01:25:21,491 --> 01:25:25,780 Threatens fo put an end fo Japan's imperial ambitions. 1126 01:25:26,788 --> 01:25:30,076 If he's going fo continue to expand the Japanese empire... 1127 01:25:30,834 --> 01:25:33,200 Tojo has to act quickly. 1128 01:25:34,379 --> 01:25:35,414 Ambassador... 1129 01:25:36,506 --> 01:25:38,872 Prepare to go to the United States immediately. 1130 01:25:39,968 --> 01:25:42,755 We need to negotiate the end of the oil embargo. 1131 01:25:46,850 --> 01:25:51,059 With the oil embargo in place, Japan develops a two-prong strategy. 1132 01:25:51,146 --> 01:25:54,138 On the one hand, it's trying to negotiate a diplomatic solution... 1133 01:25:54,232 --> 01:25:57,565 And sends a representative to Washington to try to find a way out. 1134 01:25:57,653 --> 01:26:01,145 And the emperor is genuinely trying to find a peaceful solution... 1135 01:26:01,239 --> 01:26:03,730 But the military is also planning for an attack. 1136 01:26:04,910 --> 01:26:08,744 The Japanese realize they need fo find other sources of oll... 1137 01:26:08,830 --> 01:26:10,320 And the best source... 1138 01:26:10,415 --> 01:26:13,657 Is in the oil-rich islands of the south pacific... 1139 01:26:13,752 --> 01:26:15,708 But in order to get fo that oll... 1140 01:26:15,796 --> 01:26:18,503 First they'll have fo go through the Philippines. 1141 01:26:18,590 --> 01:26:20,501 The problem is America has... 1142 01:26:20,592 --> 01:26:23,834 A military capability in the Philippines under general Douglas MacArthur. 1143 01:26:23,929 --> 01:26:28,172 So if they're going to secure the oil that they need... 1144 01:26:28,266 --> 01:26:31,975 The first thing they have to do is knock America out of the pacific. 1145 01:26:32,062 --> 01:26:33,581 But the Japanese military... 1146 01:26:33,605 --> 01:26:36,142 Isn't going to attack the Philippines directly. 1147 01:26:36,233 --> 01:26:38,849 They have a bigger, more aaring plan... 1148 01:26:38,944 --> 01:26:41,560 Fo cripple America's naval fleet. 1149 01:26:50,372 --> 01:26:53,739 On December 7, 1941... 1150 01:26:55,210 --> 01:26:59,249 The Japanese military launches a massive preemptive strike... 1151 01:27:02,801 --> 01:27:05,338 Sending hundreds of Japanese fighter planes... 1152 01:27:06,346 --> 01:27:08,803 Armea with thousands of deadly explosives... 1153 01:27:10,142 --> 01:27:11,723 Across the ocean. 1154 01:27:13,103 --> 01:27:14,639 Their target... 1155 01:27:14,730 --> 01:27:16,937 The entire U.S. pacific fleel.. 1156 01:27:18,525 --> 01:27:22,143 Currently stationed at a base on the Hawaiian islands... 1157 01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:27,982 Known as Pearl harbor. 1158 01:27:38,086 --> 01:27:41,499 Coming up on the world wars- 1159 01:27:41,590 --> 01:27:43,330 America is attacked... 1160 01:27:43,425 --> 01:27:46,383 And once again the world is at war. 1161 01:27:48,263 --> 01:27:50,049 So it begins. 1162 01:27:50,891 --> 01:27:52,756 The new generation of leaders... 1163 01:27:52,851 --> 01:27:55,388 Now face their biggest fest... 1164 01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:58,596 And the soldiers who won the first world war... 1165 01:27:58,690 --> 01:28:02,774 Now return to the battlefield in the ultimate rematch. 1166 01:28:02,861 --> 01:28:05,068 Nothing is more certain... 1167 01:28:05,155 --> 01:28:08,613 Than our ultimate and complete liberation from the enemy. 1168 01:28:10,952 --> 01:28:13,238 As the allies begin fo push back... 1169 01:28:14,039 --> 01:28:17,702 Adolf Hitler grows increasingly desperate for victory... 1170 01:28:17,793 --> 01:28:20,284 Causing him to descend info madness. 1171 01:28:20,378 --> 01:28:23,120 The program is clear. 1172 01:28:23,715 --> 01:28:26,832 It reads fofal separation... 1173 01:28:27,385 --> 01:28:29,091 Lofal segregation! 1174 01:28:31,473 --> 01:28:33,930 But if the allies are going fo win the war... 1175 01:28:34,017 --> 01:28:36,599 And put an end fo over 30 years of turmoil... 1176 01:28:37,687 --> 01:28:40,144 They ll have fo resort fo drastic measures... 1177 01:28:40,982 --> 01:28:43,815 That will change the world forever. 96238