Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This is the whole story beginning in the 1930&s with Japan&s invasion of China & Germany&s buildup & Blitzkrieg into neighboring Czechoslovakia & Poland in 1939 As Germany pounded London during the Battle of Britain & Japan&s Navy swept unopposed across the Pacific nations in every corner of the globe were plunged ever deeper into what would become a worldwide conflagration America&s entry into the war after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 marked a turning point By war&s end 16 million American men & women enlisted in the military & countless others toiled at home in the fastest military build-up in history Working with its Allies America defeated the forces of darkness in Europe & the Pacific in less than four years time culminating with the fall of Japan & the signing of the peace treaty on the USS Missouri in August of 1945