From the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 to the fall of Berlin, the atomic bombs and the first days of the Cold War — this is the complete story of World War II, told on the map with countryballs in one feature-length animated documentary.

How did a defeated, bankrupt Germany come to rule almost all of Europe in barely two years — and what finally stopped it? Follow every major campaign in the order it happened: the rise of Hitler, Blitzkrieg and Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Barbarossa and the Battle of Moscow, Pearl Harbor, Midway, El Alamein, Stalingrad and Kursk, D-Day, Bagration, the Battle of the Bulge, Berlin, Iwo Jima, Hiroshima, the Nuremberg Trials and the Iron Curtain.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro: How a Peace Treaty Led to World War II
1:02 Treaty of Versailles, the Ruhr & the Rise of Hitler (1919–1933)
4:45 Spanish Civil War, the Anschluss & Munich (1936–1938)
8:25 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact & the Invasion of Poland (1939)
10:02 Phoney War, Battle of the Atlantic & the Winter War (1939–1940)
13:26 Norway, Blitzkrieg in the West & Dunkirk (1940)
18:53 The Fall of France & the Battle of Britain (1940)
23:33 The Bismarck, Mussolini’s War & Rommel in Africa (1940–1941)
28:13 Yugoslavia, Greece, Crete & the Middle East (1941)
31:32 Operation Barbarossa: Minsk, Leningrad & Kiev (1941)
37:46 The Battle of Moscow & the Soviet Counteroffensive (1941–1942)
44:05 Pearl Harbor & Japan’s Conquests in Asia (1941–1942)
48:51 Midway, Guadalcanal & El Alamein (1942)
55:19 The Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
1:01:02 The Battle of Kursk & the Invasion of Italy (1943)
1:05:54 Bombing of Germany, Tehran & the Atlantic Wall (1943–1944)
1:07:37 D-Day & the Liberation of Paris (1944)
1:13:32 Operation Bagration, Leyte Gulf & the Battle of the Bulge (1944)
1:18:32 Vistula–Oder, Yalta & the Battle of Berlin (1945)
1:21:39 Iwo Jima, Okinawa & the Atomic Bombings (1945)
1:26:23 Nuremberg, a Divided Germany & the Cold War (1945–1947)

This is an educational history documentary. Historical flags and symbols, including those of Nazi Germany, are shown only to depict events accurately. This channel does not endorse any extremist ideology.

Narration, animation and original music by [Civilizations in Motion]. English subtitles available (CC).

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