Bogged down but freed from worry of Soviet interference by Germany's invasion and by British interference by its naval commitment to the Battle of the Atlantic, Japan is shown in its attack on Pearl Harbor before the Americans could complete their planned two ocean navy. (The necessity of controlling the oil fields of the Dutch East Indies is omitted.) The film admits that a series of defeats in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Corregidor have left the Chinese isolated from their new allies, all the more so after the loss of the Burma Road.