World War II stands as a pivotal and maybe the pivotal event in the 20th century, but how did it change the Awakened world? Matthew Webb of Jackalope Live Action Studios talks through the war and post-war period from the war within the Technocracy, the split in the Traditions, the fallout for the Crafts, to how it set up the revolutions of the 60s.

Media Mentioned

• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - Title says it all
• The Book of the Five Rings - Book on the five elements of proper battle written in about 1643
• Come and See - Movie where actual footage is used to create a creepy and effective anti-war film
• Hardcore History Destroyer of Worlds - Episode on the ramifications of humans having access to nuclear weapons
• Nuclear Shadows - Images left by objects destroyed during the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• The Stranger on the 3rd Floor - Early noir film
• The Asphalt Jungle - Later Noir film
• Blitzed - Book that argues that much of the military success and then failure of the Nazi's could be attributed to amphetamines
  • The Manhattan Project - Book composed mostly of first hand sources discussing the building of nuclear weapons
• Gods and Beasts: The Nazis and the Occult - Again, the title kind of tells you
• Unholy Alliance - Another book on the ties between the Nazis and the occult

Mage sources

• Dragons of the East - Supplement to outline the war and its effects on East Asia
• Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah - Wraith supplement on the war dead
• Virtual Adepts Tradition book - Gives information the VAs during WWII