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S01E06: The United States in World War II: Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (1941– 1945)

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The United States in World War II: Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (1941–1945)

Episode Description:

How a broke, isolationist America was thrown into World War II overnight...and what happened when the "sleeping giant" woke up. This episode follows the U.S. from Pearl Harbor through the war that ended the Great Depression, the women who rebuilt the industrial base, the Double V campaign and the Tuskegee Airmen, the Pacific turn at Midway, D-Day and the staggering Eastern Front, and the hardest decision of the war. Story-first, human-centered history — the numbers, but also the people…

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