Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How effective were German U-Boats in WW2? What is the Blitzkrieg? And what was the ‘bat bomb’ project in WW2? Answers to these questions and many more await on WIRED Revolution Support.
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00:00 - World War II Support
00:24 - The scale of war
00:54 - WW2 timeline
02:55 - Nazis doping?
04:04 - Historically accurate WW2 movies
05:25 - The WW2 Ghost Army
06:20 - Why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
07:56 - December 11, 1941
08:09 - German U-Boats
09:07 - Cracking the Enigma Code
10:45 - The roots of WW2
11:35 - WW2: A global war
12:59 - The invasion of Normandy
14:07 - Hedgerow busting
15:22 - The Axis Powers vs Allies
16:36 - What is the Blitzkrieg?
17:30 - The WW2 Bat Bomb Project
18:36 - The significance of Iwo Jima
19:46 - The Night Witches
20:42 - The real reason Germany, Italy and Japan allied
21:36 - War without GPS
22:35 - How Churchill inspired a nation
23:37 - Downfall: The last days of Adolf Hitler
25:52 - The turning point of WW2
26:40 - Combat XP
27:41 - George S. Patton, the outspoken combat general
28:57 - Knowledge of concentration camps
30:39 - Why Eisenhower?
31:52 - Was America’s mainland bombed or attacked in WW2?
32:33 - The impact of the atomic bomb
*Credits:*
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Ch
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