In the 19 thirties, everybody knows what they're getting. They're geting the first world war, only worse again. And to many of these people, they thought they saw ther civilization nearly knocked out in that war. What's the proper price to pay to avoid that outcome? This is the other thing that is widely forgotten in a place like the united states.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...