Crusade in Europe

The rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party lays the groundwork for World War II.

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States upgrades its military forces.

At war both in Europe and the Pacific, America transforms its economy from peacetime to wartime.

Eisenhower chooses to engage the Germans in North Africa.

British and American troops land in North Africa.

Bad weather hinders the struggle to reach Tunis before the Germans, and the allies demand an unconditional surrender.