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    The World at War

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    • Season 1 overview
      Oct 31, 1973-May 8, 1974
      25 episodes
      Season 1 episodes
      1. New Germany
      1. New Germany Oct 31, 1973
      • Adolf Hitler gives 1930s Germany new strength and hope.
    • 2. Distant War
      2. Distant War Nov 7, 1973
      • Unprepared Britain sends forces to Norway; Churchill becomes prime minister.
    • 3. France Falls
      3. France Falls Nov 14, 1973
      • Fall of France is the result of continued reliance on World War I techniques.
    • 4. Alone
      4. Alone Nov 21, 1973
      • British morale plunges as 350,000 allied troops are barely rescued at Dunkirk.
    • 5. Barbarossa
      5. Barbarossa Nov 28, 1973
      • Germany turns against Russia, but fatal German delays hold the advance.
    • 7. On Our Way: USA
      7. On Our Way: USA Dec 12, 1973
      • FDR cannot enter the war until Hitler declares war on the US.
      • Montgomery's Desert Rats defeat Rommel's Afrika Korps at Alamein.
    • 9. Stalingrad
      9. Stalingrad Jan 2, 1974
      • The German army's defeat at Stalingrad dispels the myth of German invincibility.
      • Germans nearly starved the British into submission.
      • Survivors recall the 890-day siege of Leningrad and the war's 20 million Soviet casualties.
      • How Britain's bomber attacks on Germany affected industry, civilians and the war effort.
      • Allied victory in Sicily revives the British.
      • British colonial forces in Burma make the longest retreat in British history.
      • While its soldiers fight on foreign soil, the British homeland wages a daily war of survival.
      • Germany enters a period of prosperity as its forces occupy Western Europe without reprisal at home.
    • 17. Morning
      17. Morning Feb 27, 1974
      • American, British and Canadian forces invade the beaches of Normandy.
      • Under Nazi rule, the people of the Netherlands are at first treated fairly.
    • 19. Pincers
      19. Pincers Mar 20, 1974
      • The German war machine is caught in the middle as Allied forces advance.
    • 20. Genocide
      20. Genocide Mar 27, 1974
      • The Nazis' efforts to exterminate the Jews, the effect on the survivors and the world's reaction.
      • Allied forces attacking Germany from the west meet little resistance.
    • 22. Japan
      22. Japan Apr 10, 1974
      • Early victories encourage the Japanese to fight even when the scales tip against them in 1944.
    • 23. Pacific
      23. Pacific Apr 17, 1974
      • The Allies attack the Japanese in the Pacific and are surprised by the defenders' fanaticism.
    • 24. The Bomb
      24. The Bomb Apr 24, 1974
      • B-29 drops first uranium bomb on Hiroshima, four days later a second bomb hits Nagasaki.
    • 25. Reckoning
      25. Reckoning May 1, 1974
      • At Yalta, the four armies of occupation agree to supervise Germany's recovery.
    • 26. Remember
      26. Remember May 8, 1974
      • Survivors remember the millions of combatants and civilians killed.
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