The Aftermath
Episode 10: After the surrender of Germany and Japan, people around the world struggled to make sense of the chaos and devastation they had just lived through. Man's inhumanity to Man was on full disp...
2 Dec 20241h 19min
Major Battles & Prisoners of War
Episode 9: With Allied Forces pushing from the west, and the Red Army making huge gains in the east, the Germans grew increasingly desperate to reach a negotiated settlement and keep the front lines o...
25 Nov 20241h 30min
D-Day & Beyond 1944 - 1945
Episode 8: As Allied Forces began planning for an invasion of Europe in 1943, it faced entrenched and highly-fortified German defenses along the French coastline. There would be only one opportunity ...
18 Nov 20241h 33min
Island Fighting 1944 - 1945
Episode 7: As Allied Forces worked to retake strategically important islands from the Empire of Japan, Japanese military leaders grew increasingly desperate. With the U. S. Navy steadily inching close...
11 Nov 20241h 10min
Norms Under Fire, Part 2
Episode 6: As the war progressed, manpower shortages forced Americans to reexamine the role of women in the workplace. But even as increased demand for workers created new opportunities women, in bot...
4 Nov 202454min
Norms Under Fire, Part 1
Episode 5: Perhaps no event changes a society more completely than war. Long-established cultural norms and accepted public policies can buckle under the stress of extended conflict. Indeed, WWII woul...
28 Okt 20241h 34min
North Africa & Europe 1942 - 1943
Episode 4: By the time America entered the conflict in Europe, it was clear that this war would be waged in radically different ways from the previous war, which had been fought primarily from trench...
21 Okt 20241h 32min
The Pacific Theater 1942 - 1943
On Episode 3, we examine the early days of the Pacific war. Following their successful attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces began a campaign to subjugate nearby countries in order to obtain more re...
14 Okt 20241h 21min
