World War Two
Overview:
Follow the deadliest conflict in human history in real time, week by week, blow by blow.
How to End Democracy in 60 Days - Death of Democracy Q1 1933
Season 9 · Episode 1
How Legal Immunity Becomes Absolute Power - Q2 1933
Season 9 · Episode 2
How to Make the Economy Look Better Than It Is - Q3 1933
Season 9 · Episode 3
How to Use a Tariff War to Disrupt the World - Q4 1933
Season 9 · Episode 4
How to Not Clean up the Swamp - Q1 1934
Season 9 · Episode 5
How to Serve Retribution and Become Popular - Q2 1934
Season 9 · Episode 6
How to Go From President to King - Death of Democracy 07 - Q3 1934
Season 9 · Episode 7
How To Indoctrinate the Children - Q4 1934
Season 9 · Episode 8
How Radio Killed Democracy - Death of Democracy 09 - Q1 1935
Season 9 · Episode 9
How To Distract From the Economy - Q2 1935
Season 9 · Episode 10
How to Legalize Scapegoating - Q3 1935
Season 9 · Episode 11
How to Tank the Economy for War - Q4 1935
Season 9 · Episode 12
How to Stage (and Win) an International Crisis - Q1 1936
Season 9 · Episode 13
How to Declare a Live Person Legally Dead - Q2 1936
Season 9 · Episode 14
How to Make Nazi Germany Look Normal - Q3 1936
Season 9 · Episode 15
How Hitler Indoctrinated a Generation - Q4 1936
Season 9 · Episode 16
How the Nazis Got Rich Preparing Germany for War - Q1 1937
Season 9 · Episode 17
How Hitler Tested His Next War in Spain - Q2 1937
Season 9 · Episode 18
How to Make Dissent Disappear - Q3 1937
Season 9 · Episode 19
How to Make War Inevitable - Q4 1937
Season 9 · Episode 20
How to Steal a Country Without a European War - Q1 1938
Season 9 · Episode 21
How Hitler Targeted Czechoslovakia - Q2 1938
Season 9 · Episode 22
How WW2 Really Started: Appeasement! - Q3 1938
Season 9 · Episode 23
How to Set a Militia Free on a Minority - Q4 1938
Season 9 · Episode 24
How to Provoke a War - Q1 1939
Season 9 · Episode 25
How to Make Aggression Sound Like Defense - Q2 1939
Season 9 · Episode 26
How to Launch the Apocalypse - Q3 1939
Season 9 · Episode 27
How Not to Be A Nazi - Epilogue
Season 9 · Episode 28
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