Episode 3 - Victory in Europe:
Veiled threats and broken promises in the summer of 1945 determine the political future of millions of people, for the next 50 years. In may the Allies finally force Germany to its knees and Europe celebrates. In June the Soviet Union, land grab is swiftly followed by political purges. By July a new world order beings to emerge dominated by two, not three superpowers.

1945 - THE YEAR THAT CHANGE THE WORLD:
In the final moments of world war Two, the Allies were determined to inflict total defeat on their enemies, at any cost. But following Victory the big three, Britain, America and Russia, fought each other for supremacy.

This definitive 5-part series covers the conflicts in the final days of the war on both the European and Pacific fronts. The shape of the world we live in today is the legacy of events that took place in 1945.