Editing Why We Fight (section)

==Accuracy==
''Prelude to War'' and ''The Battle of China'' refer to the ''[[Tanaka Memorial]]'' several times by portraying it as "[[Japan]]'s ''[[Mein Kampf]]''" in order to raise US morale for a protracted war against Japan. The authenticity of that document is not accepted by scholars today, and it is regarded as an [[anti-Japanese]] hoax, but the ''Tanaka Memorial'' was widely accepted as authentic in the 1930s and the 1940s because Japanese actions corresponded so closely to its plans.

To justify the [[Western Allies]]' help to the [[Soviet Union]], the series omitted many facts which could have cast the Soviets in a negative light, such as the [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic States]] and the [[Winter War]]. However, it shows the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] being signed and the [[Soviet invasion of Poland]].{{Sfn|Biskupski|2010|pp=151–52}}