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    The Beginning of the End

Documentary
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Dec 31, 2016
The United Nations planned how best to secure victory and how to arrange the post war world at conference after conference. The Allies fought one war on two fronts. The Axis fought two wars.

Full Episodes

Season 1, 13 episodes

Season 1
   
The Gathering Storm,
The second world war ended more than 70 years ago, but wars never end. For those who fought the memories are indestructible.
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The Phoney War,
Japan unprovoked invasion had plunged China into war and Europe had been brought to the brink of conflict.
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Blitzkrieg,
Six months have passed with very little action in the Phony War. That is about to end, and a new word is added to the vocabulary of warfare - Blitzkrieg.
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Alone,
Six months after the fall of France, V. Molotov visited Berlin to discuss how the world was to be divided after victory. He was told Britain was defeated. But Britain wasn't beaten. Just alone.
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Barbarossa,
In 1941, Britain is holding its own, although it is still threatened.
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A Date in Infamy,
Before 1941 was half over, the Soviet Union was locked in a struggle with Germany.
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The Turning Point,
It took Hitler half a war to gain an empire But it would also take him half a war to lose one Japan also wound up growing and growing only to start to fall about halfway through the war.
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The End of the Beginning,
There was a plot that eventually Germany, headed east, and Japan, heading west, would eventually join up in the Indian subcontinent to make a massive territory.
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The Beginning of the End,
The United Nations planned how best to secure victory and how to arrange the post war world at conference after conference. The Allies fought one war on two fronts. The Axis fought two wars.
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Overlord,
In 1943, the Axis was on the defensive everywhere. In 1944, the Allies' strength would grow in the East, and in the Soviet Union with the opening of the second front.
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Hell is on Us,
After starting on the second front, the Allies broke out of Normandy and launched the Red Army. In the East, the invasion of the Philippines will bring the Allies one step closer to the home islands.
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Unconditional Surrender,
The war was started solely by Germany's and Japan's acts of aggression.
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A Thousand Suns,
After years of war, the defeat of Hitler and the Third Reich is inevitable. Peace in Asia will follow peace in Europe after the detonation of the atomic bomb.
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