This is the story of a different history, a history that could
     have unfolded had the Japanese chosen  to invade the Soviet
     Union in the summer of 1941.  Few people know how close
     the Imperial government came to doing this instead of
     occupying southern Indochina which lead to a course of
     events that culminated in the December7th attack on Pearl
     Harbor.

     What would have happened to America and the American
     people  if the Japanese had not attacked Pearl Harbor?
     What would have happen in the European war if the Soviet
     Union failed to repel the German invasion because critical Red
     Army forces were tied down in Siberia fighting the Japanese?
     These are two of many questions I explore following  three
     families who live ordinary lives on a quiet street in West Los
     Angeles.  

     By the standards of the 1940's, each of these families are very
     different from the others.  The Schneiders, the Mansfields,
     and the Lewises have already been directly affected by the
     war in various ways, although only one knew first hand the
     ugly reality of Nazi Germany’s New Social Order.  Their lives
     are changed by this different history but for the most part
     they never realize how their  lives are different from what
     they would have been if history had unfolded as she know it.