Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Prelude to War
- Season 1 America's Unpreparedness
- Season 1 America Goes to War
- Season 1 Platform for Invasion
- Season 1 Africa: Our First Offensive
- Season 1 The Campaign
- Season 1 Rommel Routed
- Season 1 Sicily: Operation Husky
- Season 1 Assault on Italy
- Season 1 Rise and Fall of a Dictator
- Season 1 The G.I: Hero of the War
- Season 1 Victory in Italy
- Season 1 Preparation for Invasion
- Season 1 D-Day
- Season 1 Beachhead and Breakthrough
- Season 1 Liberation of Paris
- Season 1 Pursuit
- Season 1 The Battle of Supply
- Season 1 The Air War
- Season 1 The Battle of the Bulge
- Season 1 Crossing the Rhine
- Season 1 Overrunning Germany
- Season 1 Victory's Aftermath
- Season 1 American Military Government
- Season 1 Russia
- Season 1 Review
Crusade in Europe - Season 1 Episode 10 Rise and Fall of a Dictator
6.00 48 minutes On July 25th, 1943, Benito Mussolini is ousted from power. We then flashback to his rise to power, including the Fascist march on Rome in November, 1922. In 1936 Ethiopia is invaded. The Axis Pact is proclaimed in 1938, followed by the invasion of Albania in 1939. In 1940, Italy gets into the Second World War, and invaded Greece and Egypt, only to be defeated. After Mussolini's ouster, the Germans occupy the country and rescue him from captivity. Rome is liberated in June, 1944, and atrocities by the Germans are uncovered. Mussolini is executed in April, 1945.
