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Crusade in Europe

  • 1949
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  • Documentary · War & Politics
  • 1 season
  • 7.3/10

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  1. E1. Prelude to War

    May 5, 1949

    The surrender at Reims ended the major phase of the European Theater of WWII. The film dissolves from the surrender to Hitler in his early years of power, follows the rise of Nazism through the Munich Pact, the attack on Poland, the fall of France, and the Battle of Britain.

  2. E2. America's Unpreparedness

    May 12, 1949

    The draft law of 1940 is passed and American men are inducted into the Army. Large-scale maneuvers are held in 1941. Pearl Harbor is bombed and Franklin Roosevelt asks Congress for a declaration of war.

  3. E3. America Goes to War

    May 19, 1949

    President Roosevelt lectures Americans on their conduct. Churchill visits the U.S. American troops are deployed in England, and Eisenhower gets command of the European Theater of Operations.

  4. E4. Platform for Invasion

    May 26, 1949

    Americans arrive in Britain, try to get along with British civilians, and are made ready physically and mentally to fight the Germans. The Eighth Air Force begins its bombing offensive, and the decision is made to invade French North Africa.

  5. E5. Africa: Our First Offensive

    Jun 2, 1949

    The troops of Operation Torch come from the U.S. and Britain. U.S. industry is shown going to full war production. Equipment is shown being loaded up for transport to North Africa, and the landings are made successfully.

  6. E6. The Campaign

    Jun 9, 1949

    Eisenhower has to deal with keeping the French in North Africa from causing trouble in the American rear, while at the same time advancing into Tunisia to destroy the Afrika Korps. The Casablanca Conference is shown.

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