April 5, 1978 • 30m
President Woodrow Wilson's idealistic hopes for world peace through collective security clash at Versailles with the harsh old-wor...Read more
April 12, 1978 • 30m
The ultimate failure of Woodrow Wilson destroys himself in his desperate struggle for the League of Nations. The President and the...Read more
April 19, 1978 • 30m
The forces favoring peace through disarmament clash with the forces for peace through military strength. In 1921, the world's firs...Read more
April 26, 1978 • 30m
Disillusioned by the horrors of World War I, the U.S. tries to isolate herself from the rest of the world. Strict immigration quot...Read more
May 3, 1978 • 30m
The Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters U.S. self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, thus leading t...Read more
May 10, 1978 • 30m
"The individual does matter in history" -- a contrast of the style of FDR and Hitler shows how technological change and individual...Read more
May 17, 1978 • 30m
Both Hitler and Roosevelt appreciated the value of mass communications. FDR began his series of "fireside chats" to reassure and i...Read more
May 24, 1978 • 30m
This overview of U.S.-Japanese relationships from the turn of the century until 1933 is a story of conflict. Japan emerged from Wo...Read more
May 31, 1978 • 30m
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the first detente i...Read more
June 7, 1978 • 30m
FDR's "The Good Neighbor Policy", his greatest foreign policy success, was a key development in reversing the U.S. imperialistic a...Read more
June 14, 1978 • 30m
The short-lived but brutal Italian-Ethiopian War leads to an examination of Italian Fascism, the character of Mussolini and how he...Read more
June 21, 1978 • 30m
The Spanish Civil War was a microcosm of the ideological conflict of this century. When Spanish fascists under Franco rebel agains...Read more
June 28, 1978 • 30m
Hitler's assumption that England would not go to war to defend Poland triggers World War II. As the Nazis sweep over Europe and la...Read more
July 5, 1978 • 30m
The close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill had a profound effect on the history of the Western world. Roosevelt...Read more
July 12, 1978 • 30m
In 1937 Japan was bent on establishing an empire. Encouraged by lack of Western resistance, Japan took control of French Indochina...Read more
July 19, 1978 • 30m
Some of the great questions that arises from WWII is: Did FDR know in advance about Pearl Harbor? Was the Japanese attack unprovok...Read more