Crusade in Europe

The rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party lays the groundwork for World War II.

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States upgrades its military forces.

At war both in Europe and the Pacific, America transforms its economy from peacetime to wartime.

Eisenhower chooses to engage the Germans in North Africa.

British and American troops land in North Africa.

Bad weather hinders the struggle to reach Tunis before the Germans, and the allies demand an unconditional surrender.

British forces stop the Germans in Egypt in 1942; Eisenhower departs for Malta.

Sicily is captured; Patton's Seventh Army sweeps into Italy.

Britain's Montgomery moves across the Strait of Messina; the Italians surrender; the Germans counterattack.

Mussolini's Fascist Party seizes Italy, which becomes Hitler's ally.

A hospitalized Army corporal recalls the lot of the fighting man during the Italian campaign.

From Tunisia, Eisenhower plans the landing at Anzio in January 1944.

Preparations begin for Operation Overlord -- the invasion of France across the British Channel.

June 6, 1944: Allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.

As the Allies surge across Europe, Germany bombards England with V-1 and V-2 rockets.

This episode takes you through the execution of Operation Anvil-Dragoon. The opera-tion that enabled the Allies to liberate most of Southern France while inflicting heavy casualties on the German forces.

This episode takes you through the challenges that the Allied forces had to overcome in order to continue their chain of supply through Europe.

The episode explains how the Royal Air Force and the US Eighth Air Force helped win the war by bombing Germany day and night after the Battle of Britain.

The first low-level Allied bombing raid is directed at Ploesti, Romania, in August 1943.

In December 1944 the Allies and Germans square off in the Ardennes Forest in the Battle of the Bulge.

British and U.S. forces rout opposition west of the Rhine; U.S. forces capture the bridge at Remagen.

This installment talks about the lessons learned, both military and diplomatic, about coalition warfare. It includes a reenactment of the Alamogordo atomic bomb test, as well as its use against Japan.

American Military Government officers undertake the task of administrating captured territory.

This final installment is review of the entire series. Highlights deal with the rise of Naziism, concluding with the burning of London.

Eisenhower visits the Soviet Union and examines the nation as a world power.