Why We Fight: Prelude to War
World War 2
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52m
This first installment is largely a warning against fascism. Capra described it as a contrast between a free world and a slave world, and traces events through the Japanese invasion of Manchuria starting in 1931 and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936.
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