Part 1  "Why Pearl Harbor?"
Part 2   "Home Front USA"
Part 3   "Minority Units of WWII"
Part 4   "The Atomic Bomb -The End of the Beginning? 

   Through fascinating WWII footage, this fresh, new look and rapid-fire video tackles controversial subjects with candor and objectivity while defining one of America's most challenging eras.  This video is divided into four programs for easy viewing. Also includes selected sub-chapters for each segment.

Part I:
Why Pearl Harbor?
This program begins with the stock market crash of 1929 resulting in worldwide economic chaos. It then delves below the surface to examine the critical events & decisions that led to Japan's sneak attack. (RT: 30 minutes)
Sub Chapters:
- Isolation vs. Intervention
- Pearl Harbor Attack
- FDR's "Day of Infamy" Speech

Topics include: 1929 Stock Market crash; invasion of Manchuria; League of Nations; Axis Powers;  The Panay Incident; U.S. isolationism vs. Intervention; oil embargo; policies & decisions made by President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and Japan's chief strategist, Admiral Yamamoto; First Peacetime Draft; Tripartite Pact; USS Reuben James;  Day of Infamy Speech; General Short & Admiral Kimmel; military snafus & the still, often debated "conspiracy theory" surrounding Dec.7th, 1941 and more. 

Part II:
Home Front U.S.A.
After Pearl Harbor, suddenly the words “victory” and “sacrifice” have new meaning. This segment examines the many ways that America changed after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.   (RT: approx. 26 min.)
Sub Chapters:
-Japanese American Internment
-Rationing
-Women In Uniform

Topics include: internment of Japanese Americans; domestic propaganda; civilian defense; blackout drills; Office of War Information; 20 essential commodities; “Rosie The Riveter”;  the WAC’s; black market; victory gardens; rationing; Hollywood Canteen; the USO; bond drives, scrap drives and more.

Part III:
Minority Units
Set against the backdrop of major WWII battles, this segment explores the roles, contributions and the sacrifices of African American, Japanese-American and Native American units in the U.S. Armed Forces.
(RT: approx. 30 min)
Sub Chapters:
-Tuskegee Airmen/332nd Fighter Group
-All Nisei 442nd Combat Regimental Unit
-Navajo Code Talkers

Topics include: President Roosevelt; Benjamin O. Davis; 99th Pursuit Squadron; racial discrimination at home & abroad; Tuskegee Airmen; 92nd Infantry, Buffalo Soldiers, 332nd Fighter Group,  The Lost Battalion,  The 6888th African American Women’s Postal Unit,  Ledo Road, Alcan Highway, Red Ball Express, Navajo Code Talkers, Military Intelligence Service, 442nd Combat unit, Nisei 100th Battalion,Dorie Miller and Native American Ira Hayes, one of the U.S. Marine flag raisers at Iwo Jima and more.

Part IV:
The Atomic Bomb-The End or the Beginning?
Explores the origin and construction of the bomb, the pivotal events that proceeded President Truman’s controversial decision and the aftermath which led to the Nuclear Age. (RT: approx. 26 min)
Sub Chapters:
-Development of the bomb
-B-29 Super Fortress
-President Truman’s “Reign of Ruin” speech

Topics include: The Manhattan Project, Leo Szilard, General Leslie Richard Groves, Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, Colonel Paul Tibbets,Oak Ridge, Hanford, Trinit; B-29, Alamogordo, Little Boy, Fat Man, Potsdam Conference, Roosevelt’s Funeral, Klaus Fuchs, USS Indianapolis, tragedy, Enola Gay, Bocks Car, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, President Truman,  “Rein of Ruin”, Emperor Hirohito, Tokyo Bay, USS Missouri, Cold War