November 12, 2012 • 58m
The first chapter explores the birth of the American Empire by focusing on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Sta...Read more
November 19, 2012 • 58m
Highlights from the historical upset of Harry Truman replacing Henry Wallace as Roosevelt's Vice President. Exploration of the rel...Read more
November 26, 2012 • 58m
The strategies behind the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan are explored as well as the new mythology that emerged from the war. The b...Read more
December 3, 2012 • 58m
The equation changes: specific month-by-month causes of the Cold War emerge and it is not entirely clear who started it. Highlight...Read more
December 10, 2012 • 58m
Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles replace Truman. Stalin dies but relations with the Soviet Union turn colder. The H-bomb and the ...Read more
December 17, 2012 • 58m
JFK and the Bay of Pigs; on the brink of total war during Cuban Missile Crisis; early Vietnam; JFK's attempts at peace with Khrush...Read more
December 24, 2012 • 58m
The war in Vietnam reaches a turning point; President Nixon's involvement in Watergate comes to light.
December 31, 2012 • 58m
Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter; Reagan and the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev powwow; and Reagan's legacy is examined.
January 7, 2013 • 58m
George W. Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; the U.S. economy; the end of the Cold War; and national security in America.
January 14, 2013 • 58m
In the finale, the war on terrorism and the presidential administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama are examined.