With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
WARNING: THIS CLIP, AND ITS DESCRIPTION, CONTAINS HISTORICAL FOOTAGE OF WAR AND THE DROPPING OF FIRE BOMBS OVER JAPAN.
WARNING: THIS CLIP, AND ITS DESCRIPTION, CONTAINS HISTORICAL FOOTAGE OF WAR AND THE DROPPING OF FIRE BOMBS OVER JAPAN.
WARNING: THIS CLIP, AND ITS DESCRIPTION, CONTAINS HISTORICAL FOOTAGE OF WAR AND THE DROPPING OF FIRE BOMBS OVER JAPAN.
On the 30th of January, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
Just before Britain joined the war, in 1939, the government began a mass evacuation of urban children to protect them from German bombs.
This clip, from the film Captain Corellis Mandolin, features Pelagias Song (played on a mandolin).
Churchill and deGaulle tried to keep France from giving in to Hitler - a bond they would share for the rest of their lives.
Winston Churchill became Prime Minister on the 10th of May, 1940.
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." -Winston Churchill
NOTE: THIS CLIP OF "THE GATHERING STORM" CONTAINS RECREATED SCENES FROM CHURCHILL'S PRIVATE, PERSONAL LIFE.
Clementine Churchill learns, for the first time, that her husband experienced heavy losses in the stock market crash.
Despite the debt which the Churchills have incurred, purchasing their home called Chartwell, Churchill tells his wife he would die defending it.
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