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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,206 Previously on the world wars- 2 00:00:05,297 --> 00:00:06,582 incoming! 3 00:00:07,674 --> 00:00:10,666 A new generation comes of age on the battlefield. 4 00:00:10,761 --> 00:00:12,251 Move! Move! Move! 5 00:00:13,514 --> 00:00:17,678 But when the fighting stops, conflict turns internal. 6 00:00:18,936 --> 00:00:22,770 Germany is dead, and you have conspired to kill her! 7 00:00:23,607 --> 00:00:25,438 The revolution has begun! 8 00:00:28,946 --> 00:00:32,029 A global depression devastates the world... 9 00:00:32,115 --> 00:00:35,949 Allowing new leaders fo rise to power. 10 00:00:37,454 --> 00:00:40,446 Some work fo rebuild their nation. 11 00:00:41,458 --> 00:00:46,293 Others create massive militaries, determined fo reignite the fighting. 12 00:00:47,631 --> 00:00:50,373 We must reverse the treaty of versailles. 13 00:00:50,467 --> 00:00:54,130 Let these chains be burst asunder. 14 00:00:56,306 --> 00:01:00,094 Adolf Hitler embarks on a violent rampage through Europe. 15 00:01:01,103 --> 00:01:04,220 Bomb every town, every village. 16 00:01:04,314 --> 00:01:06,600 We will annihilate them. 17 00:01:08,318 --> 00:01:11,060 But as the allies are determined fo end Hitler's crusade... 18 00:01:11,822 --> 00:01:13,904 We shall fight on the beaches. 19 00:01:13,991 --> 00:01:16,403 We shall fight in the hills. 20 00:01:16,493 --> 00:01:20,236 We shall never surrender. 21 00:01:20,330 --> 00:01:22,787 Another threat emerges. 22 00:01:22,874 --> 00:01:25,331 Admiral, stay. 23 00:01:25,419 --> 00:01:27,410 There's more to discuss. 24 00:02:57,260 --> 00:02:58,875 [ Male announcer I he's up to the 25! 25 00:02:58,970 --> 00:03:01,532 We interrupt this program fo bring you a special news bulletin. 26 00:03:01,556 --> 00:03:05,014 The Japanese have attacked Pearl harbor, Hawaii, by air. 27 00:03:05,102 --> 00:03:08,139 The attack also was made on all naval and military activity. 28 00:03:08,230 --> 00:03:10,596 [ Continues, faint I 29 00:03:10,691 --> 00:03:13,478 for the first time in modern history... 30 00:03:13,568 --> 00:03:17,402 America has been attacked by a foreign power. 31 00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:22,528 Over 2,400 Americans are dead... 32 00:03:23,453 --> 00:03:28,664 And nearly the entire U.S. naval fleet in the pacific has been destroyed. 33 00:03:37,384 --> 00:03:39,545 F.d.r. Is devastated. 34 00:03:39,636 --> 00:03:42,673 But I think f.D.R., in the end, his greatest legacy... 35 00:03:42,764 --> 00:03:46,723 Was his ability to communicate to the American people... 36 00:03:46,810 --> 00:03:49,176 During the darkest hours... 37 00:03:49,271 --> 00:03:52,980 To not give up on what it means to be an American. 38 00:03:54,818 --> 00:03:56,900 On the day after the attack... 39 00:03:56,987 --> 00:04:01,105 Franklin Roosevelt gives the most important speech of his life. 40 00:04:03,869 --> 00:04:08,704 [ Roosevelt on radio I December 7, 1941... 41 00:04:10,333 --> 00:04:14,793 A aate which will live in infamy... 42 00:04:16,006 --> 00:04:18,088 The United States of America... 43 00:04:18,175 --> 00:04:21,087 Was suddenly and deliberately attacked... 44 00:04:21,178 --> 00:04:26,389 By naval and air forces of the empire of Japan. 45 00:04:28,018 --> 00:04:33,058 With the unbounding determination of our people... 46 00:04:33,690 --> 00:04:39,856 We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us god. 47 00:04:52,918 --> 00:04:54,704 Roosevelt was a Navy man. 48 00:04:54,795 --> 00:04:59,129 So the fact that this attack took place against the Navy at Pearl harbor... 49 00:04:59,216 --> 00:05:02,299 Perhaps filled him with even greater indignation... 50 00:05:02,385 --> 00:05:06,469 Against what had been done to the United States by the Japanese. 51 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:10,967 The brutalness of the attack, the surprise of the attack... 52 00:05:11,061 --> 00:05:13,473 The price that was paid in that attack... 53 00:05:13,563 --> 00:05:17,727 I think helped unify the nation in a major way. 54 00:05:17,818 --> 00:05:23,154 And for a President of the United States, it gives him that call to action. 55 00:05:24,866 --> 00:05:27,858 [ Narrator I within 24 hours of the atfack... 56 00:05:27,953 --> 00:05:31,366 Roosevell signs a declaration of war against Japan. 57 00:05:34,417 --> 00:05:36,658 Now it's clear. 58 00:05:36,753 --> 00:05:39,165 This is going to be an all-out conflict. 59 00:05:39,256 --> 00:05:42,589 The nation rallied around f.D.R.'S leadership... 60 00:05:43,844 --> 00:05:47,837 And millions of Americans signed up to go to war. 61 00:05:50,934 --> 00:05:54,176 I was a very young boy- I think six years old. 62 00:05:54,271 --> 00:05:57,980 A guy drove up and said to my father, Jack- 63 00:05:58,066 --> 00:06:00,808 he said, “the Japanese have bombed Pearl harbor.” 64 00:06:00,902 --> 00:06:03,985 My father ran upstairs, put some things together. 65 00:06:04,948 --> 00:06:08,111 And then next time I saw him was three years later. 66 00:06:09,578 --> 00:06:11,990 After years of avoiding conflict... 67 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,868 The United States is heading for another war. 68 00:06:18,837 --> 00:06:20,748 So it begins. 69 00:06:31,641 --> 00:06:35,304 For Japanese prime minister hideki tojo and his military... 70 00:06:36,479 --> 00:06:39,642 The attack on Pearl harbor is a huge success. 71 00:06:40,692 --> 00:06:42,182 The Japanese launched... 72 00:06:42,277 --> 00:06:47,237 One of the boldest and most successful tactical surprise attacks in history... 73 00:06:47,324 --> 00:06:48,905 When they attacked Pearl harbor. 74 00:06:48,992 --> 00:06:53,326 350 airplanes had been destroyed, eight battleships, four destroyers. 75 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:56,655 This was a devastating military defeat for the United States. 76 00:06:59,336 --> 00:07:02,248 [ Narrator I with the destruction of the us. Pacific fleet .. 77 00:07:02,339 --> 00:07:06,002 Japan continues its campaign for control of Asia... 78 00:07:09,971 --> 00:07:12,713 Striking key targets throughout the pacific. 79 00:07:17,020 --> 00:07:19,056 But fo take over all of Asia... 80 00:07:20,357 --> 00:07:23,440 They need the Philippines as a base of operation. 81 00:07:24,653 --> 00:07:26,143 The only issue- 82 00:07:27,739 --> 00:07:29,775 its a U.S. territory. 83 00:07:48,551 --> 00:07:50,963 Just 10 hours after bombing Pearl harbor... 84 00:07:51,054 --> 00:07:55,764 Japan launches another attack on the U.S., against the Philippines. 85 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,018 The one man responsible for protecting the U.S. territory... 86 00:08:08,238 --> 00:08:10,103 Is general Douglas MacArthur. 87 00:08:11,741 --> 00:08:17,236 MacArthur felt a particular attachment to and responsibility for the Philippines. 88 00:08:18,164 --> 00:08:21,782 And his first day of war was absolutely terrible. 89 00:08:23,336 --> 00:08:26,999 MacArthur's air force was still on the runways, parked... 90 00:08:27,090 --> 00:08:32,255 When Japan's planes came in and destroyed most of his air arm. 91 00:08:37,058 --> 00:08:42,269 MacArthur commands an army of 22,000 American and Filipino soldiers... 92 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:45,563 Trained fo defend the Philippines at any cost. 93 00:08:47,861 --> 00:08:50,147 But the Japanese altacks are relentless. 94 00:08:52,574 --> 00:08:56,032 And MacArthur and his men are completely overwhelmed. 95 00:08:56,953 --> 00:09:01,037 American leaders fear if tojo gains control of the Philippines... 96 00:09:01,124 --> 00:09:05,083 The Japanese will invade oil-rich islands throughout the pacific... 97 00:09:06,046 --> 00:09:10,164 Fueling a potential attack on the west coast of the United States. 98 00:09:15,346 --> 00:09:19,680 With air strikes escalating and supplies dwindling... 99 00:09:19,768 --> 00:09:22,430 MacArthur's only option is to retreat. 100 00:09:34,741 --> 00:09:36,322 Let's go, men. 101 00:09:37,994 --> 00:09:41,157 You have to constantly be analyzing the situation. 102 00:09:41,247 --> 00:09:43,909 Is the battle changing? Do I have to make new decisions? 103 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,537 Do I have to execute contingency plans? 104 00:09:47,670 --> 00:09:49,285 Set the wounded there. 105 00:09:50,173 --> 00:09:52,835 There's room for supplies here along the wall. 106 00:09:53,551 --> 00:09:55,758 We're trained professional officers... 107 00:09:55,845 --> 00:10:00,885 And we're supposed to be able to handle stress, handle crisis... 108 00:10:00,975 --> 00:10:05,935 And not crack and not lose our ability to think logically and rationally... 109 00:10:06,022 --> 00:10:07,558 And make sure we win the battle. 110 00:10:08,191 --> 00:10:10,307 Carter. Let's see the map. 111 00:10:11,528 --> 00:10:13,798 [ Narrator I MacArthur sets up a makeshift headquarters... 112 00:10:13,822 --> 00:10:17,235 In a massive underground tunnel on corregidor island. 113 00:10:20,036 --> 00:10:23,199 They may now be huddled in a hole in the ground... 114 00:10:23,289 --> 00:10:25,120 [ Explosion I 115 00:10:25,208 --> 00:10:29,326 but MacArthur knows that he and his men are the last stronghold... 116 00:10:31,131 --> 00:10:35,044 Against a complete Japanese takeover of the pacific. 117 00:10:40,223 --> 00:10:42,430 On the other side of the world... 118 00:10:44,894 --> 00:10:49,137 Adolf Hitler has watched the Japanese take on the United States... 119 00:10:51,484 --> 00:10:54,066 And now sees the attack on pear! Harbor... 120 00:10:54,154 --> 00:10:57,271 As an opportunity fo ramp up his own crusade. 121 00:10:59,909 --> 00:11:04,824 Since 1936, German military has marched through Europe... 122 00:11:07,917 --> 00:11:10,454 Occupying the majority of the continent. 123 00:11:16,426 --> 00:11:18,382 In the course of the war... 124 00:11:18,469 --> 00:11:23,839 The myth of Hitler's personal infallibility and military genius really takes hold... 125 00:11:23,933 --> 00:11:26,845 And begins to develop a life of its own. 126 00:11:26,936 --> 00:11:28,892 It is good for you to come. 127 00:11:28,980 --> 00:11:31,016 Good to see you. How are you? 128 00:11:31,107 --> 00:11:34,190 A friend and I'll be having dinner tonight, and I hope that you can join us. 129 00:11:34,277 --> 00:11:37,189 After breaking his alliance with Joseph Stalin... 130 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,646 And launching a massive attack on Russia... 131 00:11:39,741 --> 00:11:44,201 Hitler is certain there is no military force in the world... 132 00:11:44,287 --> 00:11:46,403 That can take on his own. 133 00:11:50,460 --> 00:11:53,122 Even the United States. 134 00:11:55,340 --> 00:11:58,548 In Hitler's second book, written in 1928 but never published... 135 00:11:58,635 --> 00:12:02,048 He made it fairly clear... 136 00:12:02,138 --> 00:12:06,177 That once he had conquered Europe, he would turn to America. 137 00:12:09,312 --> 00:12:12,145 For the Nazis, there's never any end to war... 138 00:12:12,232 --> 00:12:15,975 Because they believe that a race like the Germans... 139 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:22,363 Could only be kept vigorous by continual war and continual conflict. 140 00:12:22,450 --> 00:12:25,908 But if Hitlers going fo establish world supremacy... 141 00:12:25,995 --> 00:12:29,078 He knows he'll have fo defeat his greatest threat... 142 00:12:29,165 --> 00:12:32,498 And one aay capture the prize of the west for his own people. 143 00:12:34,170 --> 00:12:37,003 On December 11, 1941... 144 00:12:38,132 --> 00:12:42,125 Just four days after the Japanese strike on Pearl harbor... 145 00:12:42,220 --> 00:12:45,132 Adolf Hitler declares war... 146 00:12:46,432 --> 00:12:48,138 On the United States. 147 00:12:52,897 --> 00:12:55,604 This is really a very puzzling decision. 148 00:12:55,692 --> 00:12:59,731 Hitler always learned the lessons of world war I... 149 00:12:59,821 --> 00:13:03,564 And one of the lessons of world war I is you keep America out of the battle. 150 00:13:03,658 --> 00:13:05,177 That's something he had been doing all along. 151 00:13:05,201 --> 00:13:09,444 But by this point, he was so convinced that he was invincible. 152 00:13:09,539 --> 00:13:12,121 He was so convinced that he could not make mistakes... 153 00:13:12,208 --> 00:13:15,621 That he was the master military strategist... 154 00:13:15,712 --> 00:13:19,045 That he goes against his own lessons of the past. 155 00:13:20,758 --> 00:13:23,716 Hitlers fight has gone global... 156 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:28,422 But his ultimate mission is one without borders. 157 00:13:33,521 --> 00:13:37,514 Jl [ Classical I 158 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:49,818 Hitler's notion of his own mission really takes hold. 159 00:13:49,912 --> 00:13:54,155 He realizes the future mission is to organize the German race... 160 00:13:54,250 --> 00:13:58,664 So as to be able to face the challenge of its racial enemies. 161 00:14:00,423 --> 00:14:03,039 [ Narrator I since the end of the first world war... 162 00:14:04,218 --> 00:14:08,382 Hitler has carefully outlined his plan for the future of mankind... 163 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:16,435 And now it's becoming a reality. 164 00:14:23,529 --> 00:14:25,861 Hitler sends his secret police... 165 00:14:25,948 --> 00:14:29,532 Fo round up groups of people he deems undesirable- 166 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,907 gypsies, homosexuals... 167 00:14:33,998 --> 00:14:36,034 People with disabilities... 168 00:14:36,125 --> 00:14:38,662 And anyone of Jewish heritage. 169 00:14:41,547 --> 00:14:46,667 Hitler believed he was chosen by destiny to destroy the Jews. 170 00:14:47,303 --> 00:14:52,843 The Nazis unrolled this massive wave of terror on the streets... 171 00:14:53,518 --> 00:14:57,761 Rounding up Jewish men and then very quickly women and children. 172 00:15:01,109 --> 00:15:06,775 We are going to have a total solution to the Jewish question. 173 00:15:11,244 --> 00:15:14,031 The program is clear. 174 00:15:17,792 --> 00:15:23,378 It reads fofal separation, total segregation! 175 00:15:24,674 --> 00:15:28,758 It does not only mean the exclusion of the Jews... 176 00:15:32,765 --> 00:15:35,802 It means much more. 177 00:15:37,603 --> 00:15:41,061 We will be faced with the harsh necessity... 178 00:15:41,149 --> 00:15:44,482 Of eradicating the Jewish underworld... 179 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:50,488 Just as we would root out criminals in our own state... 180 00:15:51,784 --> 00:15:54,446 With fire and sword. 181 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,578 The result will be the certain... 182 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:06,834 And absolute end of jewry in Germany. 183 00:16:15,683 --> 00:16:19,175 Its complete annihilation! 184 00:16:25,151 --> 00:16:28,564 Hitler orders the prisoners fo be packed onto trains... 185 00:16:38,039 --> 00:16:41,156 And transported fo concentration camps... 186 00:16:41,250 --> 00:16:43,787 Located miles from civilization. 187 00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:54,344 There was a continual, continent-wide delivery... 188 00:16:54,430 --> 00:16:56,011 Of trainloads of Jews. 189 00:16:56,098 --> 00:17:02,014 And, in fact, Hitler denied his military troop trains and supply trains... 190 00:17:02,104 --> 00:17:08,100 Because he wanted to use those trains to transport Jews to the death camps. 191 00:17:19,914 --> 00:17:21,370 Hitler's death camps... 192 00:17:21,457 --> 00:17:24,620 Are methodically organized factories of killing. 193 00:17:26,462 --> 00:17:30,000 The preferred method of execution... 194 00:17:30,091 --> 00:17:31,581 Is gas. 195 00:17:39,392 --> 00:17:42,134 [ Gasping I - [ Coughing I 196 00:17:45,231 --> 00:17:50,100 Hitler knows exactly what it feels like fo be gassed. 197 00:17:57,994 --> 00:18:02,738 America is locked in battle with two ruthless axis powers. 198 00:18:02,832 --> 00:18:04,697 With Japan on a fear through Asia... 199 00:18:04,792 --> 00:18:07,408 And Germany's recent declaration of war... 200 00:18:07,503 --> 00:18:12,088 The united slates has no option but to go fo battle against both threats. 201 00:18:13,009 --> 00:18:14,545 So it begins. 202 00:18:20,808 --> 00:18:23,220 Toward the end of 19417... 203 00:18:23,311 --> 00:18:28,226 U.S. president Franklin delano Roosevelt [Ss under enormous pressure. 204 00:18:28,316 --> 00:18:32,275 No American president has ever faced the challenge... 205 00:18:32,361 --> 00:18:36,229 Of fighting two wars at the same time. 206 00:18:38,784 --> 00:18:43,869 Roosevelt saw himself dealing with the rise of Hitler in Europe... 207 00:18:43,956 --> 00:18:46,038 And the rise of the Japanese in Asia. 208 00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:47,956 They're in position. 209 00:18:48,044 --> 00:18:49,454 Very good. 210 00:18:49,545 --> 00:18:53,538 He had no doubt that the United States would defeat Germany and Japan... 211 00:18:53,633 --> 00:18:55,794 But it was gonna be a long haul... 212 00:18:55,885 --> 00:18:59,127 And it would cost a great deal in money and lives. 213 00:19:02,433 --> 00:19:05,550 With the fate of the world hanging in the balance... 214 00:19:05,645 --> 00:19:09,137 Roosevelt welcomes a visitor fo the white house- 215 00:19:09,231 --> 00:19:11,938 British prime minister Winston Churchill. 216 00:19:13,194 --> 00:19:18,314 Churchill once said, “the only thing worse than going to war with allies... 217 00:19:18,407 --> 00:19:20,568 Is going to war without allies.” 218 00:19:22,161 --> 00:19:26,905 Each nation has different perspectives, different priorities... 219 00:19:26,999 --> 00:19:29,991 And yet we have to just face up to the reality... 220 00:19:30,086 --> 00:19:32,498 That you can't do things alone today. 221 00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:38,549 J o little town of Bethlehem j 222 00:19:38,636 --> 00:19:40,627 as Christmas approaches... 223 00:19:40,721 --> 00:19:42,552 J how still we see thee lie j! 224 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,427 The two leaders want to present a united front... 225 00:19:47,395 --> 00:19:51,855 Letting the world know that the allies are stronger than ever. 226 00:19:55,111 --> 00:19:56,567 But behind the scenes... 227 00:19:56,654 --> 00:20:01,114 Roosevelt and Churchill are dealing with the enormous responsibility... 228 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:06,866 Of making decisions that will affect the future of all humanity. 229 00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:16,250 Tojo has taken Hong Kong. 230 00:20:23,973 --> 00:20:27,215 These two men are all that stand in the way... 231 00:20:27,309 --> 00:20:30,096 Of a world controlled by Adolf Hitler... 232 00:20:32,106 --> 00:20:33,937 And the axis powers. 233 00:20:41,532 --> 00:20:43,648 On the other side of the world... 234 00:20:43,743 --> 00:20:46,985 The war in the pacific is already out of control. 235 00:20:56,839 --> 00:21:00,206 After three months of continuous fighting in the Philippines... 236 00:21:03,095 --> 00:21:06,713 The Japanese are closing in on Douglas MacArthur's bunker. 237 00:21:07,683 --> 00:21:10,550 Look at this situation. We need to get out of it. 238 00:21:10,644 --> 00:21:12,726 The supply line is absolutely important. 239 00:21:12,813 --> 00:21:14,269 - General. - Yes? 240 00:21:14,356 --> 00:21:15,846 We're live. 241 00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:21,561 The last thing MacArthur wants to do is surrender the American islands. 242 00:21:21,655 --> 00:21:24,772 Yes, it is very important that we get the reinforcements. 243 00:21:25,659 --> 00:21:28,321 Yes. Yes. Well, we're under siege. 244 00:21:28,412 --> 00:21:29,993 I need confirmation from-... 245 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,789 Is everyone all right? 246 00:21:33,876 --> 00:21:37,334 To defend the Philippines, he's prepared fo die. 247 00:21:43,928 --> 00:21:47,921 Back in Washington, Roosevelt has fo act quickly. 248 00:21:48,015 --> 00:21:50,722 He knows losing his top general... 249 00:21:51,977 --> 00:21:55,561 Would be a demoralizing blow fo the U.S. military... 250 00:21:56,482 --> 00:22:01,522 And an incredible moral victory that would only empower the Japanese. 251 00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:04,486 [ Roosevelt I when can we get reinforcements to MacArthur? 252 00:22:04,573 --> 00:22:06,484 We can't get reinforcements to MacArthur. 253 00:22:06,575 --> 00:22:09,282 - How much longer can he hold out? - We don't have the supplies. 254 00:22:09,370 --> 00:22:11,827 And where's our naval forces right now at this moment? 255 00:22:11,914 --> 00:22:13,517 Mr. president, they're on the bataan peninsula. 256 00:22:13,541 --> 00:22:15,327 How long till we can get support there? 257 00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:17,020 He can't hold out long enough for us to get support. 258 00:22:17,044 --> 00:22:19,660 - How long? - It'll be a week. 259 00:22:20,881 --> 00:22:23,964 - Well, get MacArthur out of there. - He refuses to leave, sir. 260 00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:27,043 Tell him it's not a request. It's a damned order. 261 00:22:27,137 --> 00:22:28,297 Yes, sir. 262 00:22:37,189 --> 00:22:42,058 But the last thing MacArthur wants fo do is abandon his men. 263 00:22:43,946 --> 00:22:45,777 MacArthur's a military guy. 264 00:22:45,865 --> 00:22:48,527 He's loves the military, and one of the things you never do... 265 00:22:48,617 --> 00:22:50,949 Is you never retreat and you never abandon your soldiers. 266 00:22:52,621 --> 00:22:55,328 But he's been given an order by his commander in chief. 267 00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:02,619 Against his own wishes... 268 00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:05,878 MacArthur retreats fo the safety of Australia. 269 00:23:05,968 --> 00:23:10,883 And as soon as he's gone, his worst fears are realized... 270 00:23:12,808 --> 00:23:15,925 As the Japanese military overtakes the Americans... 271 00:23:16,812 --> 00:23:18,723 And finally captures the Philippines. 272 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:25,647 As Japan conquers the pacific... 273 00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:28,646 6,000 miles away... 274 00:23:28,741 --> 00:23:32,905 Adolf Hitler is locked in a deadly war with Joseph Stalin. 275 00:23:39,084 --> 00:23:41,917 Hitler knows if he can conquer the Soviet union... 276 00:23:43,047 --> 00:23:47,586 The axis powers would then control all of Europe and Asia... 277 00:23:47,676 --> 00:23:50,383 Ruling over 30% of the globe. 278 00:23:51,305 --> 00:23:54,092 Stalin and Hitler are engaged in this battle... 279 00:23:54,183 --> 00:23:57,095 Which is as much about ego as it is about military strategy. 280 00:23:57,186 --> 00:24:00,098 Like a tarantula and scorpion in a bottle... 281 00:24:00,189 --> 00:24:04,307 They're fighting, and they're fighting over the corpse of their own troops. 282 00:24:08,197 --> 00:24:11,735 [ Narrator I Hitler's military is about fo capture the Soviet capital... 283 00:24:11,825 --> 00:24:16,410 But with victory in sight, Hitler lets his ego take over... 284 00:24:16,497 --> 00:24:19,113 Suddenly changing his battle plan... 285 00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:21,540 And sending millions of troops... 286 00:24:21,627 --> 00:24:26,747 Lo converge on an industrial city so important fo Joseph Stalin... 287 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,455 It bears his name: 288 00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,250 Stalingrad. 289 00:24:43,691 --> 00:24:46,854 Hitler thought this is a personal battle with Stalin... 290 00:24:46,944 --> 00:24:50,232 And so he began pouring resources into stalingrad... 291 00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:55,567 Because stalingrad, a town of no particular strategic importance, had the name of Stalin. 292 00:24:55,661 --> 00:24:59,028 [ Narrator I as Hitlers men converge on stalingrad... 293 00:24:59,123 --> 00:25:02,115 They come face-to-face with Stalin's red army. 294 00:25:02,209 --> 00:25:05,576 Hitler's convinced if he can take stalingrad... 295 00:25:05,671 --> 00:25:09,255 He'll be one step away from global domination. 296 00:25:16,140 --> 00:25:17,880 In less than six months... 297 00:25:17,975 --> 00:25:20,933 President Franklin delano Roosevelt has watched... 298 00:25:21,020 --> 00:25:23,887 The Japanese military devastate his naval fleet... 299 00:25:26,108 --> 00:25:29,646 And conquer the pacific island by island. 300 00:25:29,737 --> 00:25:32,945 With Hitler on the verge of taking control of Europe... 301 00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:38,196 The threat of war is now closing in on the United States from both directions... 302 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:42,037 And Roosevelt is increasingly desperate for anything... 303 00:25:42,124 --> 00:25:44,285 That can turn the tide of the war. 304 00:25:56,472 --> 00:26:00,090 U.S. naval intelligence has been working around the clock... 305 00:26:00,184 --> 00:26:04,052 Infercepting encrypted Japanese military dispatches... 306 00:26:04,146 --> 00:26:06,432 Hoping to get wind of the next attack. 307 00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:13,519 And in may of 1942... 308 00:26:13,614 --> 00:26:19,234 The U.S. Navy gives Roosevelt the opportunity he's been waiting for. 309 00:26:23,457 --> 00:26:26,290 - What is it? - We've broken the code. 310 00:26:28,170 --> 00:26:30,001 It's midway. 311 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:32,875 How sure are you? 312 00:26:33,467 --> 00:26:34,923 Very. 313 00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:41,297 Alert the fleet. 314 00:26:46,105 --> 00:26:51,145 The deciphered messages contain details of Japan's next planned attack- 315 00:26:52,361 --> 00:26:54,101 the midway islanas. 316 00:26:55,239 --> 00:26:58,982 Situated halfway between Asia and the united stales... 317 00:26:59,076 --> 00:27:02,785 Midway is home fo a crucial American airfield. 318 00:27:02,871 --> 00:27:07,080 If the Japanese fake midway, theyll control all of the pacific. 319 00:27:08,418 --> 00:27:11,376 What's worse, they'll have a launching point... 320 00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:15,502 For a potential attack on the west coast of the United States. 321 00:27:16,510 --> 00:27:19,297 After the attack on Pearl harbor... 322 00:27:19,388 --> 00:27:22,755 The U.S. has just three aircraft carriers left in the pacific. 323 00:27:24,101 --> 00:27:29,061 But Roosevelt knows this is his chance fo make a last stand against Japan. 324 00:27:32,401 --> 00:27:35,734 So he sends the three remaining carriers to midway... 325 00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:39,942 Fo lie in wait for an ambush... 326 00:27:40,951 --> 00:27:42,657 On the Japanese fleet. 327 00:27:47,166 --> 00:27:48,656 God be with us. 328 00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:58,837 On June 4, 1942... 329 00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:03,258 The U.S. fleet quietly positions itself around midway. 330 00:28:07,311 --> 00:28:10,428 And as the Japanese Navy crests the horizon... 331 00:28:13,609 --> 00:28:16,442 The Americans launch their surprise attack. 332 00:28:47,309 --> 00:28:48,799 Yes? 333 00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:55,309 There are four carriers destroyed. 334 00:28:57,319 --> 00:28:59,480 I thought we only had three. 335 00:28:59,988 --> 00:29:02,400 Four Japanese carriers, sir. 336 00:29:05,953 --> 00:29:08,069 You update me with anything you receive right away. 337 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,416 In just six minutes... 338 00:29:18,507 --> 00:29:23,217 Four of the same Japanese aircraft carriers used in the Pearl harbor attack... 339 00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:24,964 Are destroyed... 340 00:29:26,181 --> 00:29:29,218 And over 3,000 Japanese soldiers are killed. 341 00:29:31,937 --> 00:29:34,223 Roosevelt absolutely bets the farm... 342 00:29:34,314 --> 00:29:37,727 And they destroyed four of the biggest carriers in the Japanese Navy. 343 00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:44,738 And it took a commander who was prepared to make the bold decision to act... 344 00:29:44,825 --> 00:29:48,784 When the easy thing would have been to, you know, to play it safe. 345 00:29:48,870 --> 00:29:53,284 He didn't play it safe, and he won a tremendous victory. 346 00:29:55,335 --> 00:30:00,250 The United States has dealt Japan its first major defeat in the war. 347 00:30:25,115 --> 00:30:26,730 One moment, gentlemen. 348 00:30:32,247 --> 00:30:35,080 For Japanese prime minister hideki tojo... 349 00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:39,914 The loss at midway is a humiliating failure. 350 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:44,039 Do not speak a word of this to anyone. 351 00:30:53,185 --> 00:30:55,267 Meanwhile, in Russia... 352 00:30:56,730 --> 00:30:58,516 Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler... 353 00:30:58,607 --> 00:31:02,941 Order hundreds of thousands of their own troops into battle... 354 00:31:03,028 --> 00:31:06,941 Waging a war of ego for the city of stalingrad. 355 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,871 For Stalin... 356 00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:23,954 The cily that bears his name is invaluable... 357 00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:28,508 And he'll sacrifice anything fo defend it. 358 00:31:28,595 --> 00:31:30,836 There are no desertions. 359 00:31:30,931 --> 00:31:35,345 Every soldier must fight- fight to the death. 360 00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:41,188 The deadly battle seems unending. 361 00:31:44,069 --> 00:31:47,186 But the Soviets have a secret advaniage... 362 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,523 That promises fo put them one step ahead of the Germans. 363 00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:58,242 The Russian winter. 364 00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:03,498 Hitler thought that he would get to Moscow before the winter. 365 00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:08,423 But the winter had set in, and the German army was unprepared. 366 00:32:08,510 --> 00:32:13,049 The entire siberian winterized troops... 367 00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:14,755 Came westward... 368 00:32:14,850 --> 00:32:18,434 And made mincemeat out of Hitler's panzer divisions. 369 00:32:20,856 --> 00:32:22,471 [ Shouting I 370 00:32:24,359 --> 00:32:25,920 the German weapons and uniforms... 371 00:32:25,944 --> 00:32:28,526 Aren't designed for Russia's brutal winter... 372 00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:33,983 And it isn't long before Hitler's men... 373 00:32:35,412 --> 00:32:37,403 Are completely overwhelmed. 374 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,211 J [ Classical I 375 00:32:55,557 --> 00:32:58,264 one time, I'm walking with the dog... 376 00:32:58,351 --> 00:33:00,637 And the dog kicks my legs out from under me. 377 00:33:00,729 --> 00:33:02,845 I wind up falling into the- 378 00:33:02,939 --> 00:33:05,772 and rolling down the hill in this way. 379 00:33:12,407 --> 00:33:13,692 Ladies. 380 00:33:13,783 --> 00:33:15,273 Come. 381 00:33:17,287 --> 00:33:18,777 Sit. 382 00:33:20,081 --> 00:33:21,571 Please. 383 00:33:26,963 --> 00:33:30,046 The Russians have halted our advance. 384 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,969 We have lost the 14th and 22nd panzer division. 385 00:33:43,271 --> 00:33:44,852 - Allow me to explain. - Enough! 386 00:33:56,201 --> 00:34:00,615 Hitler was famous for telling organizations not to retreat. 387 00:34:01,915 --> 00:34:04,372 He would put organizations in a place like stalingrad... 388 00:34:04,459 --> 00:34:06,579 And he said, “you cannot give up an inch of ground”... 389 00:34:06,628 --> 00:34:10,541 When it was militarily illogical to do that. 390 00:34:10,632 --> 00:34:12,623 It just doesn't make sense to do that. 391 00:34:12,717 --> 00:34:16,710 Armies move up and back, and you have to be responsive to conditions. 392 00:34:20,433 --> 00:34:23,037 You can't understand Adolf Hitler's actions in world war il... 393 00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:26,303 Without understanding the lessons he learned from world war I. 394 00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:28,730 And one of the most critical lessons he learned was... 395 00:34:28,817 --> 00:34:31,729 You never give up, that you never surrender. 396 00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:35,404 He was so traumatized by the German surrender in world war I... 397 00:34:36,491 --> 00:34:38,698 That he was determined under no circumstances... 398 00:34:38,785 --> 00:34:41,242 Would he surrender in world war il. 399 00:34:43,498 --> 00:34:45,238 Blind to all logic... 400 00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:49,042 Hitler sends more troops info almost certain death. 401 00:34:55,260 --> 00:34:58,423 One German soldier dies every seven seconds. 402 00:35:06,980 --> 00:35:10,222 On this, our 10th anniversary... 403 00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:13,650 We celebrate in the sunlight... 404 00:35:13,737 --> 00:35:17,605 On February 2, 1943... 405 00:35:17,699 --> 00:35:22,193 Hitler prepares for the 10th anniversary of the founding of the third reich. 406 00:35:24,289 --> 00:35:25,779 Mein fiihrer. 407 00:35:25,874 --> 00:35:27,910 What is it? 408 00:35:28,001 --> 00:35:29,832 News from the sixth army. 409 00:35:33,923 --> 00:35:35,663 They've been destroyed. 410 00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:40,460 Destroyed? 411 00:35:43,058 --> 00:35:44,889 How is this possible? 412 00:35:45,852 --> 00:35:47,467 They surrendered. 413 00:35:54,903 --> 00:35:56,393 Surrendered? 414 00:35:57,906 --> 00:36:00,147 A quarter million men- 415 00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:04,735 an entire army of the reich- surrendered? 416 00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:11,165 The sons of the fatherland now traitors to their race. 417 00:36:12,087 --> 00:36:14,294 Their very names are a curse on this nation... 418 00:36:14,381 --> 00:36:18,124 On their mothers, on their children, on their brothers and sisters! 419 00:36:22,722 --> 00:36:26,055 The stain of their perfidy is darker than blood! 420 00:36:33,775 --> 00:36:36,107 I will hear no more of this. 421 00:36:46,663 --> 00:36:48,244 Surrendered? 422 00:36:49,708 --> 00:36:51,949 Just to die... 423 00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:53,579 In a prison camp. 424 00:36:56,423 --> 00:37:00,416 The gods of war have abandoned us. 425 00:37:03,638 --> 00:37:06,971 Whats left of the German army is in shambles... 426 00:37:07,058 --> 00:37:09,891 And the man who seemed fo be on the road to world domination... 427 00:37:09,978 --> 00:37:14,187 Must now watch his greatest enemy claim victory... 428 00:37:14,274 --> 00:37:19,268 And for the first time face the possibility of ultimate defeat. 429 00:37:26,286 --> 00:37:28,402 War is raging around the globe... 430 00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:31,575 And for the first time... 431 00:37:31,666 --> 00:37:36,080 Adolf Hitler has suffered a devastating defeat... 432 00:37:36,838 --> 00:37:41,798 At the hands of Joseph Stalin, who now looks to be unstoppable. 433 00:37:49,642 --> 00:37:52,179 President Roosevelt is beginning fo fear... 434 00:37:52,937 --> 00:37:56,270 That if Joseph Stalin adefeats Adolf Hitler alone... 435 00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:58,689 He'll conquer Europe for himself... 436 00:37:59,444 --> 00:38:02,356 Replacing one tyrant with another. 437 00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:06,611 Roosevelt knows he needs fo get the Americans into Europe... 438 00:38:06,701 --> 00:38:08,362 As quickly as possible. 439 00:38:10,705 --> 00:38:13,492 He sends an allied force into sicily... 440 00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:15,665 Hoping fo capture the island... 441 00:38:15,752 --> 00:38:18,368 So he can establish a base of operations... 442 00:38:18,463 --> 00:38:22,126 Fo launch an attack against the axis powers in Europe. 443 00:38:26,054 --> 00:38:29,967 The moment the allies have been waiting for has finally arrived. 444 00:38:31,351 --> 00:38:35,640 Over 160,000 troops storm into sicily... 445 00:38:35,730 --> 00:38:40,565 In the first major American operation in the European theater. 446 00:38:41,569 --> 00:38:46,154 Leading the charge for the Americans is Roosevelt's secret weapon... 447 00:38:57,460 --> 00:38:59,997 Lieutenant general George s. Patton. 448 00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:04,790 [ Mcchrystal I leaders like George patton... 449 00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:09,002 Around whom an aura begins to grow... 450 00:39:09,097 --> 00:39:11,964 Have extraordinary power. 451 00:39:12,058 --> 00:39:15,175 For one, they inspire their own side. 452 00:39:15,270 --> 00:39:17,852 There's a sense that when you are working for patton... 453 00:39:17,939 --> 00:39:20,646 We are gonna do things faster and better, and we're gonna win. 454 00:39:20,733 --> 00:39:22,143 I work for a winner. 455 00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:24,604 In the years... 456 00:39:24,696 --> 00:39:26,903 Since he commanded America's first ever tank brigade... 457 00:39:26,990 --> 00:39:28,821 In the first world war... 458 00:39:29,534 --> 00:39:31,866 Patton has personally adedicated himselr.. 459 00:39:31,953 --> 00:39:34,114 Fo building up the U.S. tank division... 460 00:39:35,123 --> 00:39:39,162 From just a few dozen fanks fo over 88,000. 461 00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:44,796 Patton arrives in sicily with a plan to lake control. 462 00:39:44,883 --> 00:39:49,217 I need you two to find me the most probable path through here. 463 00:39:49,304 --> 00:39:50,965 Okay? 464 00:39:51,055 --> 00:39:53,637 He's going fo seize the sicilian capital of palermo... 465 00:39:53,725 --> 00:39:57,058 And he's going to do it by any means necessary. 466 00:39:57,145 --> 00:40:01,138 Patton was an interesting character, because he was the flamboyant leader... 467 00:40:01,232 --> 00:40:05,271 That people respected for what he did. 468 00:40:06,362 --> 00:40:09,024 But there was always a second half to the sentence. 469 00:40:09,115 --> 00:40:13,154 George patton is brilliant, but... he's egotistical. 470 00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:16,077 He can't control running his mouth. 471 00:40:18,082 --> 00:40:21,745 On July 18, 1943... 472 00:40:21,836 --> 00:40:25,169 Patton and his forces launch an assault on palermo... 473 00:40:37,018 --> 00:40:39,100 Sweeping around the enemy... 474 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,438 And capturing the city in just 72 hours. 475 00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:59,286 And now with sicily unaer their control... 476 00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:04,709 The allies are ready fo launch a massive attack on the axis powers. 477 00:41:08,007 --> 00:41:13,968 On September 3, 1943, allied armies move into mainland Italy... 478 00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:17,801 Fighting back thousands of axis troops. 479 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,768 [ Bell tolling I 480 00:41:26,943 --> 00:41:30,811 as the allies take Italy city by cily... 481 00:41:31,447 --> 00:41:36,362 Benito Mussolini is forced fo watch his beloved empire begin fo crumble. 482 00:41:37,578 --> 00:41:39,159 Before long... 483 00:41:39,247 --> 00:41:42,205 Mussolini is summoned for an emergency meeting... 484 00:41:42,291 --> 00:41:43,906 With his closest ally. 485 00:42:03,688 --> 00:42:07,021 Mussolini may have come fo power first... 486 00:42:07,108 --> 00:42:09,394 But now the tables have turned. 487 00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:30,540 What you are doing to us now... 488 00:42:30,631 --> 00:42:32,963 Is you are causing us to have such problems. 489 00:42:33,051 --> 00:42:36,384 And be the type of ally who can be of some use to us. 490 00:42:36,471 --> 00:42:38,712 Well, why- why do we have this relationship? 491 00:42:38,806 --> 00:42:40,546 Germany has given you everything. 492 00:42:40,641 --> 00:42:42,802 We have given you all that you have needed. 493 00:42:42,894 --> 00:42:45,014 We have given you artillery when you needed artillery. 494 00:42:45,063 --> 00:42:47,554 We gave you men. We gave our treasure, our blood. 495 00:42:47,648 --> 00:42:49,889 And now you come to me and you say no? 496 00:42:49,984 --> 00:42:55,900 We have spent enough time talking over these inane suggestions of yours... 497 00:42:55,990 --> 00:42:57,605 About how to carry on this war. 498 00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:59,236 You will stop! 499 00:43:07,418 --> 00:43:11,081 There are several turning points in the Hitler-Mussolini relationship. 500 00:43:11,172 --> 00:43:15,916 First of all, Hitler regards Mussolini as the man who sets the example. 501 00:43:16,010 --> 00:43:19,753 The next step is in the war... 502 00:43:19,847 --> 00:43:22,589 And when Mussolini does come in, it's a fiasco. 503 00:43:22,683 --> 00:43:25,595 The Italians now become very much the second class. 504 00:43:25,686 --> 00:43:30,430 Hitler began to regard the Italians as weak- 505 00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:33,391 as the weak link in the axis. 506 00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:42,529 [ Narrator I Mussolini is sent back fo Rome with instructions fo hold the line. 507 00:43:44,664 --> 00:43:49,624 But less than two months later, [Italy surrenders fo the allies. 508 00:43:49,710 --> 00:43:53,077 The first major axis power has fallen. 509 00:43:53,172 --> 00:43:58,917 Adolf Hitler has watched the man he once idolized overthrown in disgrace. 510 00:44:00,847 --> 00:44:04,305 And he knows the allies are coming for him next. 511 00:44:11,399 --> 00:44:14,141 The tide of the world war is turning... 512 00:44:14,235 --> 00:44:16,897 As the allies, led by patton... 513 00:44:18,072 --> 00:44:19,562 Lake down Italy. 514 00:44:19,657 --> 00:44:21,693 Why do we have this- you will stop! 515 00:44:22,577 --> 00:44:25,865 [ Bell tolling I 516 00:44:26,914 --> 00:44:28,450 during the campaign... 517 00:44:28,541 --> 00:44:31,874 Patfon conquered Italy in just six weeks... 518 00:44:31,961 --> 00:44:36,921 But his army suffered 6,000 killed and 16,000 wounded. 519 00:44:39,594 --> 00:44:41,880 But patton knows the job's not done... 520 00:44:43,431 --> 00:44:46,764 And he needs every man he can get back on the battlefield. 521 00:44:53,274 --> 00:44:55,014 Soldier. 522 00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:10,030 Why are you here, son? 523 00:45:12,251 --> 00:45:15,243 'Cause you look healthy enough to me right now. 524 00:45:17,256 --> 00:45:21,340 You seem capable enough for fighting to me. 525 00:45:23,304 --> 00:45:29,550 In our own day, we know of the difficulty of battle and post-traumatic stress. 526 00:45:29,644 --> 00:45:32,852 But in the 1940s, these were not terms that were commonly used. 527 00:45:32,939 --> 00:45:36,431 And for patton, if someone had battle fatigue... 528 00:45:36,525 --> 00:45:39,642 It was simply you were being a coward. 529 00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:41,227 Look at me, son. 530 00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:47,491 You might get shot and killed... 531 00:45:49,830 --> 00:45:52,196 But you're going to fight. 532 00:45:56,837 --> 00:45:59,169 - Please don't send me back. - You coward. 533 00:46:15,690 --> 00:46:18,432 News of the incident quickly goes public. 534 00:46:19,568 --> 00:46:22,526 Once the story got out, the public was outraged... 535 00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:24,854 And Roosevelt was put into a box. 536 00:46:25,866 --> 00:46:28,470 Even though he realized that patton was one of his best generals... 537 00:46:28,494 --> 00:46:30,325 He had to punish him in some way. 538 00:46:38,170 --> 00:46:42,630 [ Narrator I Roosevelt has no choice but to pull patton from active duly. 539 00:46:44,218 --> 00:46:47,176 With war still raging on two fronts... 540 00:46:47,263 --> 00:46:50,630 Roosevelt believes the allies may need a new strategy. 541 00:46:51,851 --> 00:46:54,342 He reaches out to Winston Churchill... 542 00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:57,474 [ Ringin - oko 543 00:46:57,565 --> 00:47:01,649 convincing him they need to team up with an unlikely partner- 544 00:47:01,736 --> 00:47:03,943 Joseph Stalin. 545 00:47:05,906 --> 00:47:09,524 Roosevelt and Churchill know that Stalin is a brutal tyrant... 546 00:47:09,618 --> 00:47:12,985 Who shares more in common with Hitler than with them... 547 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,287 But they come fo the realization... 548 00:47:15,374 --> 00:47:18,912 That the enemy of their enemy needs to be their friend. 549 00:47:19,003 --> 00:47:23,963 If the allies are going to win this war, they need Stalin on their side. 550 00:47:30,014 --> 00:47:33,177 Roosevelt and Churchill persuade Stalin to meet them... 551 00:47:33,267 --> 00:47:38,352 For an unprecedented conference at the Soviet embassy in Tehran, Iran. 552 00:47:42,777 --> 00:47:46,269 This is the first meeting of the three allied leaders... 553 00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:48,901 And they each come with their own agenda. 554 00:47:52,411 --> 00:47:54,823 Stalin is clearly in the strongest position. 555 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,212 We've broken the back of the Germans... 556 00:48:05,299 --> 00:48:08,883 And you merely SWAT at them like you would at a fly. 557 00:48:08,969 --> 00:48:11,051 We pushed them out of north Africa. 558 00:48:11,138 --> 00:48:14,255 [ Stalin I while millions of Russians have died. 559 00:48:15,142 --> 00:48:19,977 I do not think the people want any more of my men to die. 560 00:48:20,064 --> 00:48:23,727 Do your people want any more of your men to die? 561 00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:28,119 I'm sure that Churchill and Roosevelt had real questions... 562 00:48:28,197 --> 00:48:30,859 About what Stalin really stood for... 563 00:48:30,950 --> 00:48:35,284 What kind of leader would he be in a postwar period. 564 00:48:35,371 --> 00:48:38,113 But they also knew... 565 00:48:38,207 --> 00:48:42,576 That Stalin's primary mission was to defeat Nazi Germany... 566 00:48:42,670 --> 00:48:44,752 And then they had to work together. 567 00:48:48,467 --> 00:48:51,083 We need to win this war. 568 00:48:51,178 --> 00:48:53,464 We need to win the peace. 569 00:48:53,556 --> 00:48:57,765 That certainly didn't work out very well last time at versailles. 570 00:48:58,477 --> 00:49:01,389 A piece of paper has little power to keep people apart... 571 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,562 Much less hold them together. 572 00:49:06,402 --> 00:49:10,566 We need to ensure that Germany can't threaten Europe again. 573 00:49:10,656 --> 00:49:12,271 Then you need to help me. 574 00:49:14,368 --> 00:49:16,324 And you need to help me. 575 00:49:21,542 --> 00:49:23,533 Now let's talk about Japan. 576 00:49:24,503 --> 00:49:28,462 I will help you with Japan if you help me with Hitler. 577 00:49:29,550 --> 00:49:31,541 If there is no invasion... 578 00:49:34,555 --> 00:49:36,841 Then I cannot help you with Japan. 579 00:49:41,562 --> 00:49:44,269 After four days of infense negotiations... 580 00:49:45,608 --> 00:49:48,270 In exchange for Stalin's help in the pacific... 581 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:53,400 Roosevelt and Churchill agree fo execute an unprecedented invasion of Europe. 582 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,408 The allies knew that to defeat Nazi Germany... 583 00:49:57,495 --> 00:49:59,335 You were gonna have to invade western Europe... 584 00:49:59,413 --> 00:50:03,326 And you're gonna have to go from France, essentially, into Germany. 585 00:50:03,417 --> 00:50:08,582 And it was an amazing undertaking both in scope and complexity. 586 00:50:22,269 --> 00:50:24,180 [ Narrator I Winston Churchill knows... 587 00:50:24,271 --> 00:50:27,479 That the strategy could be the turning point in the war. 588 00:50:31,070 --> 00:50:35,029 But still... he has grave concems. 589 00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:39,491 Churchill's ordered an ambitious operation like this before. 590 00:50:40,621 --> 00:50:42,782 [ Phone ringing I 591 00:50:43,541 --> 00:50:46,578 four ships sunk, another burning. 592 00:50:47,962 --> 00:50:51,079 The invasion of gallipoli in the first world vwar- 593 00:50:52,550 --> 00:50:55,132 a disastrous amphibious assault... 594 00:50:55,219 --> 00:50:58,211 That left tens of thousands of British troops dead. 595 00:51:01,892 --> 00:51:05,851 Churchill fears that the allies are heading for another gallipoli. 596 00:51:09,441 --> 00:51:11,978 If the mission is going fo be successful... 597 00:51:12,069 --> 00:51:14,856 This time theyll need to be smarter. 598 00:51:15,656 --> 00:51:18,068 Gallipoli cast a long shadow. 599 00:51:18,158 --> 00:51:20,740 It haunted Churchill. 600 00:51:20,828 --> 00:51:26,573 But that capacity to take risk, to think big, to think on a global scale... 601 00:51:26,667 --> 00:51:28,783 Became one of his great strengths. 602 00:51:32,214 --> 00:51:35,172 My biggest worry is that Hitler now knows we're coming. 603 00:51:35,259 --> 00:51:38,672 While preparations for the invasion of France continues... 604 00:51:38,762 --> 00:51:41,504 Churchill oversees the creation of a secret plan... 605 00:51:41,599 --> 00:51:45,262 That will put the allies one step ahead of Adolf Hitler. 606 00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:49,891 So what we need is the right lies to deceive him. 607 00:51:51,567 --> 00:51:54,980 It's called operation fortitude. 608 00:51:57,781 --> 00:52:02,070 The success of the mission will rely on one man... 609 00:52:02,161 --> 00:52:04,823 Whose military career seemed fo be over- 610 00:52:07,416 --> 00:52:09,407 general George s. Patton. 611 00:52:10,544 --> 00:52:13,377 After being pulled from active duly... 612 00:52:14,340 --> 00:52:16,296 Patton has been forced fo watch the planning... 613 00:52:16,383 --> 00:52:20,752 Of one of the largest invasions in history from the sidelines. 614 00:52:22,264 --> 00:52:24,550 If you put yourself in patton's position... 615 00:52:24,642 --> 00:52:28,635 They're about to invade the center of Europe. 616 00:52:28,729 --> 00:52:31,846 They're about to go at the guts of Nazi Germany. 617 00:52:31,940 --> 00:52:35,148 To think he's not gonna be involved in that... 618 00:52:35,235 --> 00:52:39,695 Had to have been just excruciatingly painful for patton... 619 00:52:39,782 --> 00:52:42,068 Because he knows he's a war soldier. 620 00:52:42,159 --> 00:52:45,401 This is his moment, and if he's notin it... 621 00:52:45,496 --> 00:52:48,283 It's going to just be torture. 622 00:52:49,958 --> 00:52:52,040 But operation fortitude... 623 00:52:53,212 --> 00:52:55,419 Has a special place for patton. 624 00:53:00,260 --> 00:53:02,842 In the spring of 1944... 625 00:53:02,930 --> 00:53:06,422 Allied leaders covertly send patton fo england... 626 00:53:10,562 --> 00:53:13,895 Along with 250,000 men... 627 00:53:15,442 --> 00:53:19,105 And what appears to be thousands of tanks and fighter planes. 628 00:53:22,574 --> 00:53:25,111 But patton's not going fo lead an invasion... 629 00:53:25,202 --> 00:53:28,285 And his army isn't what it seems. 630 00:53:33,168 --> 00:53:36,205 Instead of heavy machinery and modern weapons... 631 00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:38,412 Patton's armed with balloons. 632 00:53:42,010 --> 00:53:46,470 Roosevelt and Churchill used patton as a deception. 633 00:53:46,557 --> 00:53:48,718 They actually have Hollywood people help them create... 634 00:53:48,809 --> 00:53:51,391 What is essentially a phony army. 635 00:53:53,313 --> 00:53:56,146 There's phony tanks that are actually nothing but balloons. 636 00:53:57,985 --> 00:53:59,395 There's barracks. 637 00:53:59,486 --> 00:54:03,479 It appears that there are hundreds of thousands of allied troops... 638 00:54:03,574 --> 00:54:06,486 Assembled across the channel from France. 639 00:54:14,084 --> 00:54:15,574 Through the allied tank fields- 640 00:54:15,669 --> 00:54:18,832 it isn't long before Hitler sees German intelligence photographs... 641 00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:21,584 Of patton's supposed army... 642 00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:23,791 And he completely takes the bait. 643 00:54:25,012 --> 00:54:27,253 Hitler thinks he's outsmarted the allies. 644 00:54:27,347 --> 00:54:32,216 He refuses fo believe that patfon has been sidelined just for slapping a soldier. 645 00:54:32,311 --> 00:54:33,721 Patton. 646 00:54:33,812 --> 00:54:38,431 Here are the three major ports suitable for an operation of this size. 647 00:54:38,525 --> 00:54:40,766 The only other viable landing is further south. 648 00:54:40,861 --> 00:54:43,227 The real invasion will be here... 649 00:54:43,322 --> 00:54:47,315 At pas de calais... with patton. 650 00:54:49,995 --> 00:54:54,659 Hitler knows that patton is one of Roosevelt's best generals. 651 00:54:55,292 --> 00:54:58,705 The general who is bold and audacious. 652 00:54:58,796 --> 00:55:02,835 So in all likelihood, patton is going to be leading the attack. 653 00:55:04,218 --> 00:55:06,379 Hitler's convinced the legendary general... 654 00:55:06,470 --> 00:55:10,008 Was preparing fo invade the French mainland at pas de calais... 655 00:55:10,098 --> 00:55:12,680 A major port city in northern France... 656 00:55:12,768 --> 00:55:14,679 Mere miles across the english channel... 657 00:55:14,770 --> 00:55:17,011 From where patton's forces are gathering. 658 00:55:18,106 --> 00:55:22,645 So he sends a million troops fo calais to fortify the city. 659 00:55:27,950 --> 00:55:31,363 On June 6, 1944... 660 00:55:31,453 --> 00:55:35,537 The day that will come fo be known as d-day finally arrives. 661 00:55:39,044 --> 00:55:42,582 Roosevelt and Churchill order 150,000 allied troops... 662 00:55:42,673 --> 00:55:46,416 Lo pile into over 4,000 boats and head fo France... 663 00:55:49,930 --> 00:55:52,922 In the largest amphibious invasion ever attempted. 664 00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:02,097 [ Shouting I 665 00:56:09,074 --> 00:56:12,157 On a day that will come to be known as d-day... 666 00:56:14,746 --> 00:56:18,785 150,000 allied troops pile into thousands of boats... 667 00:56:19,918 --> 00:56:21,533 And head foward France... 668 00:56:21,628 --> 00:56:24,836 In the largest amphibious invasion ever attempted. 669 00:56:26,925 --> 00:56:31,965 Across the channel, more than a million German soldiers prepare for an attack... 670 00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:35,047 Fortifying the French port city of calais... 671 00:56:35,142 --> 00:56:40,682 Where Adolf Hitler is convinced an allied army led by George patton will land. 672 00:56:44,318 --> 00:56:46,479 What Hitler doesn't know... 673 00:56:46,570 --> 00:56:50,154 Is that the allied force isn't being led by patton... 674 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:52,652 And isn't heading fo calais. 675 00:56:53,869 --> 00:56:57,612 Its larget is just over 200 miles to the south- 676 00:56:59,166 --> 00:57:00,997 the beaches of normandy. 677 00:57:04,046 --> 00:57:07,083 [ Gunfire I 678 00:57:49,758 --> 00:57:52,124 After a brutal fight... 679 00:57:52,219 --> 00:57:54,881 The allied forces capture the beaches. 680 00:58:01,353 --> 00:58:04,095 The question of d-day was... 681 00:58:04,189 --> 00:58:07,056 Can the Americans primarily, but the British as well... 682 00:58:07,150 --> 00:58:10,392 Establish a foothold on the European continent? 683 00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:12,102 If they can... 684 00:58:12,823 --> 00:58:16,236 There was some hope that maybe Hitler could be overthrown. 685 00:58:22,541 --> 00:58:25,328 As allied troops push into normandy... 686 00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,458 Adolf Hitler is notified of the invasion... 687 00:58:32,759 --> 00:58:36,593 But he refuses to reroute his troops stationed in calais. 688 00:58:37,681 --> 00:58:39,262 With patton still in england... 689 00:58:39,349 --> 00:58:43,183 Hitler is convinced that the attack at normanaly is just a diversion... 690 00:58:43,270 --> 00:58:48,139 And that a much larger allied assault is still on the way. 691 00:58:48,233 --> 00:58:50,975 Hitler is so out of touch. 692 00:58:51,069 --> 00:58:54,903 He's so consumed with his own brilliance... 693 00:58:54,990 --> 00:59:00,530 That even after it becomes obvious that the allies are attacking in normandy... 694 00:59:00,620 --> 00:59:04,033 He spends some 72 hours refusing to accept the reports. 695 00:59:06,251 --> 00:59:09,368 While Hitler waits for an invasion that will never come... 696 00:59:16,928 --> 00:59:20,591 Allied armies begin moving into France... 697 00:59:22,017 --> 00:59:23,803 Town by town... 698 00:59:30,984 --> 00:59:33,441 Pushing back against the German forces... 699 00:59:33,528 --> 00:59:37,066 And liberating thousanas of citizens throughout the country. 700 01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,926 What if Hitler had not been so arrogant? 701 01:00:04,017 --> 01:00:09,102 What if he had recognized that the allies were going to invade in normandy? 702 01:00:09,189 --> 01:00:11,805 What if, after he had credible intelligence reports... 703 01:00:11,900 --> 01:00:15,063 That they were attacking at normandy, had moved his troops there? 704 01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:19,442 It's very likely that he could have blunted the allied assault. 705 01:00:21,868 --> 01:00:25,235 And if you blunt the allied assault at d-day... 706 01:00:25,330 --> 01:00:28,413 The best the allies could hope for is a stalemate in Europe. 707 01:00:34,339 --> 01:00:36,455 With the help of patton's decoy army... 708 01:00:37,342 --> 01:00:40,926 The normandy landings are an incredible success... 709 01:00:42,305 --> 01:00:44,421 That change the course of the war. 710 01:00:46,476 --> 01:00:50,469 While Adolf Hitler suffers an unthinkable defeat .. 711 01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:52,395 On the other side of the world... 712 01:00:52,482 --> 01:00:57,021 His last remaining ally looks to protect his empire. 713 01:00:58,405 --> 01:01:00,737 Following his defeat at midway... 714 01:01:01,741 --> 01:01:06,030 Japanese prime minister hideki tojo has been trying to regroup. 715 01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:10,572 He's desperate fo maintain his control over the pacific. 716 01:01:10,667 --> 01:01:13,283 But little does tojo know... 717 01:01:14,588 --> 01:01:17,295 He's about fo face his biggest challenge yet. 718 01:01:20,218 --> 01:01:23,676 For years, general Douglas MacArthur has waited for the moment... 719 01:01:23,763 --> 01:01:25,469 Lo even the score with tojo. 720 01:01:26,892 --> 01:01:29,258 His number one goal: 721 01:01:29,352 --> 01:01:32,594 To lake back the island territory he was forced to abandon- 722 01:01:32,689 --> 01:01:34,680 the Philippines. 723 01:01:34,774 --> 01:01:36,230 For MacArthur... 724 01:01:36,318 --> 01:01:40,186 Going to the Philippines was both a national necessity... 725 01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,238 And a personal obligation... 726 01:01:43,325 --> 01:01:46,613 For not sufficiently defending the Philippines. 727 01:01:48,955 --> 01:01:51,196 [ Narrator I in June of 1944... 728 01:01:52,459 --> 01:01:56,418 MacArthur leads an armada of warships into the pacific. 729 01:01:57,797 --> 01:01:59,662 [ Gunfire I 730 01:02:00,967 --> 01:02:02,878 for five bloody months... 731 01:02:02,969 --> 01:02:05,836 He and his troops lake on the Japanese military... 732 01:02:05,931 --> 01:02:08,263 Fighting island by island... 733 01:02:09,100 --> 01:02:12,012 By land and by sea... 734 01:02:12,103 --> 01:02:15,140 Until MacArthur is finally able to fulfill his promise... 735 01:02:15,232 --> 01:02:17,018 And liberate the Philippines. 736 01:02:19,319 --> 01:02:24,359 That outlines the movement, as I understood it, from here to here. 737 01:02:24,449 --> 01:02:26,280 [ Narrator I but MacArthur's not finished. 738 01:02:27,827 --> 01:02:30,113 As soon as he refakes the Philippines... 739 01:02:30,205 --> 01:02:33,447 He sels his sights on an even bigger target- 740 01:02:35,794 --> 01:02:38,536 the invasion of the Japanese mainland. 741 01:02:46,263 --> 01:02:47,753 In Tokyo... 742 01:02:47,847 --> 01:02:52,682 Prime minister hideki tojo has faced a series of humiliating defeats. 743 01:02:54,771 --> 01:02:57,808 For the first ime since his rise to power... 744 01:02:59,192 --> 01:03:01,433 The Japanese empire is dwindling. 745 01:03:03,154 --> 01:03:06,191 And as criticism of his leadership escalates... 746 01:03:07,367 --> 01:03:09,858 Tojo is forced to resign in disgrace. 747 01:03:13,832 --> 01:03:19,077 While tojo may be gone, the war in Japan is far from over. 748 01:03:26,177 --> 01:03:29,294 The world war fakes a tum in the allies' favor. 749 01:03:30,140 --> 01:03:33,132 After the successful d-day invasion... 750 01:03:33,727 --> 01:03:36,890 The allies continue fo gain ground in Europe... 751 01:03:36,980 --> 01:03:39,722 But Adolf Hitler refuses fo surrender. 752 01:03:43,987 --> 01:03:46,228 In December of 1944... 753 01:03:46,323 --> 01:03:50,817 Hitler orders over 200,000 German troops into Southern Belgium... 754 01:03:52,203 --> 01:03:55,991 In what will come to be known as the battle of the bulge. 755 01:04:04,341 --> 01:04:08,254 Hitler's sneak attack lakes the allies completely off guard. 756 01:04:35,163 --> 01:04:38,701 Roosevelt realizes if he's going fo beat Hitler... 757 01:04:38,792 --> 01:04:42,785 He needs general George paftfon fo help lead the charge. 758 01:04:45,298 --> 01:04:47,459 So he makes the bold decision... 759 01:04:49,761 --> 01:04:51,717 Fo return him to action. 760 01:04:52,555 --> 01:04:54,045 Do it. 761 01:04:55,141 --> 01:04:58,554 Sometimes you have to keep somebody like a George patton around... 762 01:04:58,645 --> 01:05:02,558 Even when every instinct tells you, “get rid of this guy.” 763 01:05:04,025 --> 01:05:08,268 But the bottom line was that he was a great tactician on the battlefield. 764 01:05:09,197 --> 01:05:11,404 After a year on the sidelines... 765 01:05:11,491 --> 01:05:13,903 Patton is back where he belongs- 766 01:05:13,993 --> 01:05:18,282 right on the front lines, leading the charge info baffle. 767 01:05:21,334 --> 01:05:24,497 On December 16, 1944... 768 01:05:24,587 --> 01:05:28,500 Patton and the allies come face-to-face with Hitler's army. 769 01:05:47,819 --> 01:05:53,189 There was just a limit on what the German army at that point had the capacity to do. 770 01:05:53,283 --> 01:05:56,571 They just didn't have the forces or the logistics. 771 01:05:58,705 --> 01:06:01,117 Within days of joining the battle... 772 01:06:01,207 --> 01:06:06,668 Patton and his fleet are able fo take down six divisions of Hitler's army... 773 01:06:07,422 --> 01:06:09,504 Finally breaking through the German defenses. 774 01:06:13,678 --> 01:06:16,590 But fo retreat back info Germany. 775 01:06:20,310 --> 01:06:26,226 [ Air raid sirens blaring I 776 01:06:31,237 --> 01:06:33,603 [ Blaring continues I 777 01:06:33,698 --> 01:06:36,155 with allied armies closing in on Berlin... 778 01:06:37,202 --> 01:06:40,319 Hitler is forced fo walch the same terror and destruction... 779 01:06:40,413 --> 01:06:42,825 He once forced upon the world... 780 01:06:45,251 --> 01:06:47,412 Now inflicted on his own city. 781 01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:50,836 [ Evans I in the last phase of the war... 782 01:06:50,924 --> 01:06:54,416 The air raids on Berlin were becoming extremely destructive. 783 01:06:54,511 --> 01:06:59,426 The Soviet army was moving through the center of Berlin. 784 01:07:02,101 --> 01:07:05,093 Mein fuhrer, it's time. 785 01:07:15,406 --> 01:07:18,489 Hitler retreated underground... 786 01:07:18,576 --> 01:07:23,491 To a prepared, heavily fortified concrete bunker... 787 01:07:23,581 --> 01:07:26,368 Underneath the reich chancellery in Berlin... 788 01:07:26,459 --> 01:07:27,915 And he was relatively safe there. 789 01:07:28,002 --> 01:07:29,458 He hoped for a turnaround. 790 01:07:29,546 --> 01:07:32,379 He thought that there might be some wonder weapon... 791 01:07:32,465 --> 01:07:34,296 That would be developed by German scientists. 792 01:07:34,384 --> 01:07:36,841 It was all complete fantasy. 793 01:07:37,804 --> 01:07:40,671 Adolf Hitler's empire has been reduced... 794 01:07:40,765 --> 01:07:46,260 From three million square miles to 500 square feet. 795 01:08:05,498 --> 01:08:08,661 As patton and his troops advance into Germany... 796 01:08:12,589 --> 01:08:16,753 They arrive at a series of large factory-like buildings... 797 01:08:17,844 --> 01:08:22,838 Surrounded by emply fields in the middle of nowhere. 798 01:08:23,683 --> 01:08:25,594 First squad, move up. 799 01:09:15,151 --> 01:09:17,813 The rumors he's heard are true. 800 01:09:19,072 --> 01:09:22,439 This is one of Adolf Hitler's death camps- 801 01:09:24,035 --> 01:09:25,741 buchenwald. 802 01:09:31,417 --> 01:09:35,126 Paltton finds 20,000 emaciated survivors... 803 01:09:37,757 --> 01:09:42,797 Suffering from starvation, aisease and torture. 804 01:09:45,598 --> 01:09:48,340 Thousands of corpses line the grounds... 805 01:09:49,394 --> 01:09:54,309 Killed during one of the worst genocides the world has ever seen- 806 01:09:55,608 --> 01:09:59,192 a systematfic mass extermination program... 807 01:10:00,780 --> 01:10:03,817 Hitler calls 'the final solution.” 808 01:10:04,534 --> 01:10:06,866 The camp patton liberates... 809 01:10:06,953 --> 01:10:12,664 Is just one of 20,000 detention and killing facilities built by Hitler. 810 01:10:15,503 --> 01:10:19,667 In all, the holocaust kills 11 million people. 811 01:10:20,883 --> 01:10:24,091 Six million are Jewish. 812 01:10:27,056 --> 01:10:29,593 My wife's mother was in Auschwitz and dacha... 813 01:10:30,351 --> 01:10:35,311 She was liberated from dachau by the U.S. army. 814 01:10:35,398 --> 01:10:37,980 I had a press secretary... 815 01:10:38,067 --> 01:10:43,061 And his father had been part of the group that had liberated my mother-in-law. 816 01:10:47,744 --> 01:10:51,236 These soldiers and everyone else who did that... 817 01:10:51,330 --> 01:10:55,323 Saved the world from nazism and fascism. 818 01:11:05,636 --> 01:11:07,172 [ Narrator I for patton... 819 01:11:07,263 --> 01:11:12,132 The holocaust is a reminder of everything the allies had been fighting for. 820 01:11:15,354 --> 01:11:19,597 For my generation that had parents who survived the holocaust... 821 01:11:20,610 --> 01:11:23,852 Who had relatives who were lost in the holocaust... 822 01:11:24,864 --> 01:11:29,153 There is a real responsibility to learn the lessons of history... 823 01:11:29,243 --> 01:11:31,825 And to make sure that they're not forgotten. 824 01:11:36,167 --> 01:11:38,203 Shaken by what he sees... 825 01:11:39,420 --> 01:11:44,039 Patton and his troops round up as many Germans as they can- 826 01:11:45,676 --> 01:11:51,091 thousands of soldiers, along with ordinary citizens... 827 01:11:55,228 --> 01:11:57,139 Forcing them to bear witness... 828 01:11:59,899 --> 01:12:02,311 Fo Hitler's atrocities. 829 01:12:04,737 --> 01:12:10,198 Patton's decision to confront the perpetrators of injustice and slaughter... 830 01:12:10,284 --> 01:12:12,491 With the actuality of what they did- 831 01:12:12,578 --> 01:12:15,866 if you can't see the consequences of your actions... 832 01:12:15,957 --> 01:12:19,700 You're less likely to understand the significance of them. 833 01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:22,501 When people perpetrate war crimes... 834 01:12:22,588 --> 01:12:24,691 The most important thing is that they're held accountable for them... 835 01:12:24,715 --> 01:12:26,315 'Cause if they're not held accountable... 836 01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:27,903 Then I'm afraid it's an encouragement to others... 837 01:12:27,927 --> 01:12:30,339 To violate the most basic norms as well. 838 01:12:33,140 --> 01:12:37,008 [ Narrator I patton knows there's only one way to stop the genocide- 839 01:12:37,103 --> 01:12:38,889 win the war. 840 01:12:46,779 --> 01:12:48,770 After five years of fighting... 841 01:12:48,865 --> 01:12:51,982 The allies are finally closing in on Adolf Hitler. 842 01:12:52,869 --> 01:12:58,956 But right when victory seems within reach, America is dealt a devastating blow. 843 01:13:23,900 --> 01:13:26,812 On April 12, 1945... 844 01:13:28,613 --> 01:13:33,323 President Franklin delano Roosevelt dies of a sudden stroke. 845 01:13:39,457 --> 01:13:41,743 Americans were shocked. 846 01:13:41,834 --> 01:13:43,790 Roosevelt had guided Americans... 847 01:13:43,878 --> 01:13:49,418 Through the two great emotional, economic and military crises of the 20th century- 848 01:13:49,508 --> 01:13:52,466 the great depression and world war il. 849 01:13:53,262 --> 01:13:57,847 These were formative experiences for an entire generation... 850 01:13:57,934 --> 01:14:00,721 And when Roosevelt died... 851 01:14:00,811 --> 01:14:06,101 Many thousands of Americans felt as though they had lost a member of their family. 852 01:14:09,362 --> 01:14:12,399 With an allied victory within reach... 853 01:14:12,490 --> 01:14:15,402 America has just lost jts commander in chief. 854 01:14:28,547 --> 01:14:30,412 Vice president Harry Truman... 855 01:14:30,508 --> 01:14:33,466 Is immediately summoned fo the white house. 856 01:14:36,055 --> 01:14:39,547 The former shopkeeper from small-town Missouri... 857 01:14:39,642 --> 01:14:43,351 Has been vice president for less than three months... 858 01:14:43,437 --> 01:14:47,931 Before suddenly being thrust into the role of President of the United States. 859 01:14:55,282 --> 01:14:57,773 And now its up to Truman... 860 01:14:57,868 --> 01:15:02,578 Fo put an end to 30 years of the deadliest fighting the world has ever seen. 861 01:15:06,794 --> 01:15:11,379 Harry Truman would say it was like the moon and the stars just fell down on top of him. 862 01:15:11,465 --> 01:15:13,001 He's suddenly president. 863 01:15:13,092 --> 01:15:16,505 The challenge when he became president was he had to win these wars. 864 01:15:16,595 --> 01:15:22,306 It's still raging, so first things first. You had to get that victory in Europe. 865 01:15:27,481 --> 01:15:30,268 [ Narrator I as a new leader comes to power in America... 866 01:15:30,359 --> 01:15:33,146 In Italy, the old guard has crumbled. 867 01:15:34,613 --> 01:15:38,856 Benifo Mussolini has been hiding out in northern Italy... 868 01:15:38,951 --> 01:15:41,363 But he plans an escape to Spain... 869 01:15:41,454 --> 01:15:45,322 - [ Bells tolling I - [ Cheering I 870 01:15:50,755 --> 01:15:53,417 Only fo be captured on his way out of the country... 871 01:15:56,218 --> 01:16:00,302 And publicly executed by members of the Italian resistance. 872 01:16:04,310 --> 01:16:08,679 Mussolini's corpse is put into the center of a square... 873 01:16:08,773 --> 01:16:13,267 Where some locals come out and abuse it- 874 01:16:14,987 --> 01:16:18,775 what people had always done when a tyrant fell... 875 01:16:18,866 --> 01:16:22,154 And they had a chance to abuse him. 876 01:16:22,244 --> 01:16:24,405 He was the person who had been responsible... 877 01:16:24,497 --> 01:16:26,408 For the bombing and all the troubles of the war. 878 01:16:26,499 --> 01:16:28,911 “Okay, let's kick his head in.” 879 01:16:29,919 --> 01:16:33,252 [ Narrator I one of the most ruthless dictators the world has ever known... 880 01:16:33,339 --> 01:16:35,375 Has finally fallen. 881 01:16:36,842 --> 01:16:40,175 [ Air raid sirens blaring I 882 01:16:42,223 --> 01:16:47,058 just two days later, while hiding in his bunker in Berlin... 883 01:16:47,144 --> 01:16:50,511 Adolf Hitler learns of Mussolini's brutal execution. 884 01:16:51,982 --> 01:16:56,976 The Soviet army was moving through the center of Berlin towards the bunker. 885 01:16:58,155 --> 01:17:03,070 Hitler did not want to suffer the same fate as Mussolini. 886 01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:05,492 Hitler was not going to have that happen to him. 887 01:17:06,872 --> 01:17:09,409 But Adolf Hitler long ago vowed... 888 01:17:09,500 --> 01:17:12,367 Fo never see Germany surrender again. 889 01:17:50,249 --> 01:17:51,785 [ Gunshot I 890 01:18:06,807 --> 01:18:11,016 Adolf Hitler's suicide forces Germany to surrender to the allies... 891 01:18:12,438 --> 01:18:14,599 For the second time this century. 892 01:18:16,859 --> 01:18:18,815 Within less than one month... 893 01:18:18,903 --> 01:18:23,488 Franklin Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler have died... 894 01:18:23,574 --> 01:18:26,907 And the war in Europe has come fo a close. 895 01:18:40,132 --> 01:18:42,839 The war ends in Europe... 896 01:18:42,927 --> 01:18:45,543 And, of course, for Europeans, that's the end of the war. 897 01:18:45,638 --> 01:18:47,253 For the United States, it's not. 898 01:18:48,724 --> 01:18:52,308 The United States still has another war to win. 899 01:19:01,320 --> 01:19:03,652 By spring of 1945... 900 01:19:03,739 --> 01:19:09,109 Adolf Hitler is dead, and the war in Europe is finally over. 901 01:19:12,498 --> 01:19:14,705 But one axis power remains... 902 01:19:15,626 --> 01:19:18,993 And president Harry Truman and the United States military... 903 01:19:19,088 --> 01:19:22,672 Can now focus their attention on Japan. 904 01:19:30,015 --> 01:19:32,722 For three years, the United States has engaged... 905 01:19:32,810 --> 01:19:35,768 In a devastating fight with the Japanese military. 906 01:19:37,690 --> 01:19:40,523 But even after the fall of their last remaining allies... 907 01:19:41,860 --> 01:19:44,818 Japan still refuses to surrender. 908 01:19:47,616 --> 01:19:50,278 And as they grow increasingly desperate... 909 01:19:50,369 --> 01:19:55,534 They begin bombarding the allies with devastating kamikaze attacks. 910 01:20:04,174 --> 01:20:08,713 The Japanese have a code of behavior. 911 01:20:09,638 --> 01:20:13,222 One of those parts is no surrender. 912 01:20:16,729 --> 01:20:20,688 The Japanese were so determined to fight on at all costs. 913 01:20:27,239 --> 01:20:29,150 General Douglas MacArthur... 914 01:20:29,241 --> 01:20:32,984 Knows the Japanese military will be a fearsome enemy to beat. 915 01:20:34,163 --> 01:20:37,872 He's convinced that the only way fo defeat the last axis power... 916 01:20:37,958 --> 01:20:41,951 Is with what could be the largest military operation in history- 917 01:20:42,046 --> 01:20:45,755 an assault that would awarf even the size of d-day. 918 01:20:45,841 --> 01:20:50,460 A daring amphibious invasion of the Japanese mainland. 919 01:20:50,554 --> 01:20:54,012 The United States could lose as many as 100,000 men. 920 01:20:54,099 --> 01:20:55,589 Casualties could be over a million. 921 01:20:55,684 --> 01:20:59,723 But MacArthur believes this is the proper thing to do... 922 01:20:59,813 --> 01:21:01,599 Even though it'd be costly. 923 01:21:03,525 --> 01:21:07,609 [ Narrator I but MacArthur is not the only one with plans for a conquest of Japan. 924 01:21:18,540 --> 01:21:23,500 As the war nears an end, Joseph Stalin looks to take control. 925 01:21:23,587 --> 01:21:26,329 In July of 1945... 926 01:21:26,423 --> 01:21:29,790 Stalin begins mobilizing his troops into China. 927 01:21:33,764 --> 01:21:36,722 And he believes if he can beat America fo the punch... 928 01:21:36,809 --> 01:21:40,097 His power on the world stage will be unmaitched. 929 01:21:41,480 --> 01:21:47,692 It is no question that Stalin helped us defeat nazism. 930 01:21:49,279 --> 01:21:54,774 But it's also true that Stalin had his eye on the postwar world... 931 01:21:56,578 --> 01:22:02,414 And was much more focused on gaining advantage at the end of world war ii... 932 01:22:02,501 --> 01:22:06,915 Which would position the Soviet union for a greater future. 933 01:22:08,674 --> 01:22:11,666 With Stalin on his own quest for global domination... 934 01:22:13,262 --> 01:22:16,971 Great Britain and the United States will need to act fast 935 01:22:25,941 --> 01:22:29,684 From the beginning, Winston Churchill has seen Stalin as a threat .. 936 01:22:29,778 --> 01:22:31,769 Almost as great as Hitler. 937 01:22:34,491 --> 01:22:39,110 But before he can neutralize Stalin and end the war on his own terms... 938 01:22:39,204 --> 01:22:41,866 He receives some shocking news. 939 01:22:44,793 --> 01:22:48,377 On July 26, 1945... 940 01:22:51,467 --> 01:22:55,506 Winston Churchill is unexpectedly voted out of office. 941 01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:59,634 Churchill was proved right about the Nazis... 942 01:22:59,725 --> 01:23:03,968 And that's what transformed him to a great wartime leader... 943 01:23:04,062 --> 01:23:07,475 And it was in war that he proved his leadership credentials. 944 01:23:07,566 --> 01:23:11,479 Interestingly enough, the British people then didn't trust him to win the peace. 945 01:23:24,750 --> 01:23:28,709 [ Narrator I without Churchill, Harry Truman is on his own. 946 01:23:28,795 --> 01:23:32,583 He knows he needs to finish the war before Stalin is able fo... 947 01:23:34,009 --> 01:23:36,671 But he also knows that MacArthur's planned invasion... 948 01:23:36,762 --> 01:23:39,879 Would lead fo a catastrophic loss of life. 949 01:23:40,599 --> 01:23:45,093 But what few realize is that Truman has another option. 950 01:23:49,858 --> 01:23:51,439 It's a go. 951 01:24:45,414 --> 01:24:48,747 On August 6, 1945... 952 01:24:48,834 --> 01:24:51,496 The first atomic bomb strikes Hiroshima. 953 01:24:52,879 --> 01:24:57,748 In an instant, over 80,000 Japanese civilians are dead. 954 01:25:01,346 --> 01:25:03,177 The level of devastation... 955 01:25:03,265 --> 01:25:07,554 Is unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. 956 01:25:36,173 --> 01:25:38,630 Just three days later... 957 01:25:38,717 --> 01:25:41,959 A second atomic strike hits Nagasaki... 958 01:25:46,224 --> 01:25:49,716 Instantly killing another 75,000 people. 959 01:25:51,021 --> 01:25:53,057 Less than a week later... 960 01:25:54,399 --> 01:25:56,560 Japan finally surrenders. 961 01:25:57,527 --> 01:26:00,894 The last remaining axis power has fallen. 962 01:26:03,241 --> 01:26:05,653 It's easy to criticize Truman's decision to drop the bomb... 963 01:26:05,744 --> 01:26:10,078 But tell that to the million mothers who might have lost their sons. 964 01:26:11,625 --> 01:26:13,991 War is no fun thing. It's a terrible thing. 965 01:26:14,086 --> 01:26:16,006 But the fact that those two bombs were dropped... 966 01:26:16,088 --> 01:26:21,003 I think guaranteed that we'll never see an atomic bomb again dropped on anyone. 967 01:26:21,093 --> 01:26:23,835 It's existentially not possible, and I know. 968 01:26:23,929 --> 01:26:26,796 I was in charge of 28,000 of them. 969 01:26:34,022 --> 01:26:35,512 It's over. 970 01:26:43,031 --> 01:26:45,864 Though difficult and controversial... 971 01:26:47,494 --> 01:26:50,156 The decision fo drop the bomb brings an end... 972 01:26:50,247 --> 01:26:53,831 Lo the single bloodiest conflict in human history. 973 01:27:03,719 --> 01:27:05,675 In the 31 years... 974 01:27:06,471 --> 01:27:10,089 Between 1974 and 1945... 975 01:27:11,643 --> 01:27:14,680 Over 100 million people were killed... 976 01:27:16,690 --> 01:27:20,023 In the deadliest fighting the world has ever seen. 977 01:27:24,990 --> 01:27:26,855 The world wars... 978 01:27:28,076 --> 01:27:30,692 Were a time of ruthless tyrants... 979 01:27:32,998 --> 01:27:35,455 But also legendary heroes- 980 01:27:39,463 --> 01:27:43,502 an era when a single generation of men... 981 01:27:45,051 --> 01:27:48,635 Determined the fate of all mankind. 982 01:27:51,975 --> 01:27:55,934 History tells us that people are capable of evil... 983 01:27:56,021 --> 01:28:00,606 And unless good people are willing to fight people capable of evil... 984 01:28:00,692 --> 01:28:02,148 Evil will triumph. 985 01:28:04,821 --> 01:28:09,315 Someone who is willing to take the risks... 986 01:28:09,409 --> 01:28:12,196 That are involved with military action... 987 01:28:12,287 --> 01:28:14,073 Is a hero as far as I'm concerned. 988 01:28:16,541 --> 01:28:19,954 My toughest job was to write notes of condolence... 989 01:28:20,045 --> 01:28:22,252 To the families who had lost loved ones. 990 01:28:24,883 --> 01:28:28,375 But the words I always used is that you can always take some comfort... 991 01:28:28,470 --> 01:28:31,962 In the fact that they gave their life for their country... 992 01:28:32,057 --> 01:28:34,844 And that they will be forever remembered as heroes. 83235

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