In the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II, the Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan led an aggressive campaign to expand their countries, with the goal of dominating the world. Japan stretched its muscles against its neighbors in the far east, Italy invaded Ethiopia and Germany prepared for the war that would fulfill Hitler’s dream of a millennial kingdom. This documentary summarizes the political and economic factors that laid the foundation for the war and takes us from Nazi Germany’s blitzkrieg attacks to Japan’s invasion of China, up to Pearl Harbor when the US received a shocking awakening.
1 Prologue To War
2 World War II – 1939-1941
3 The Road to WWII
4 Triumph of the Axis
5 1939 – The War in Poland
6 The Battle for France
7 Dunkirk
8 The Enemy Japan: Dream of Empire
9 Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor – Silent Newsreel
