Season 1
(2002)
Cast
Episodes
America in the Pacific: The Clash of Two Cultures 0.0
January 15, 2002
This overview of the U.S. and Japanese relationship, from the urn of the century until 1933, is a story of conflict. Ja…
Radio, Racism And Foreign Policy 0.0
January 1, 2002
Disillusioned by the horrors of World War I, the U.S. tries to isolate from the rest of the world. Strict immigration q…
Latin America: Intervention in Our Own Backyard 0.0
January 15, 2002
FDR's greatest foreign policy success, "The Good Neighbor Policy", was a key development in reversing the U.S. imperial…
Versailles: The Lost Peace 0.0
January 8, 2002
President Wilson's hopes for world peace through collective security clash at Versailles with the harsh old-world polit…
War Comes to Pearl Harbor 0.0
January 15, 2002
After Japan's invasion of the Dutch Indies, Roosevelt cut off the American oil supply and imposed a total embargo. On N…
Return to Isolationism 0.0
January 22, 2002
The President and the Senate fight for control of American foreign policy: the Senate wins. Wilson is opposed by a powe…
The First Salt Talks 0.0
January 29, 2002
In 1921, the world's first major disarmament conference limits the post war arms race, and the most important strategic…
FDR And Hitler: Their Rise to Power 0.0
February 5, 2002
A contrast in the style of FDR and Hitler shows how technological change and individual charisma can change history. FD…
The Great Depression And Foreign Affairs 0.0
February 12, 2002
The Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters U.S. self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, thu…
The Italian-Ethiopian War: Africa in World Affairs 0.0
February 19, 2002
The short-lived, but brutal Italian-Ethiopian War leads to an examination of Italian Fascism the character of Mussolini…
FDR and Churchill: The Human Partnership 0.0
February 26, 2002
The close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill had a profound effect on the history of the Western world…
The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Distrust 0.0
March 5, 2002
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the firs…
The Phony War 0.0
March 12, 2002
Hitler's assumption that England would not go to war to defend Poland triggers World War II. The Nazis sweep over Europ…
The Spanish Civil War 0.0
March 19, 2002
The Spanish Civil War was a microcosm of the ideological conflict of this century. When Spanish fascists under Franco r…
Japan Invades China: Crisis in the Far East 0.0
March 26, 2002
In 1937 Japan was bent on establishing an empire. Encouraged by the lack of Western resistance, Japan took control of F…
FDR and Hitler: The Dynamics of Power 0.0
April 2, 2002
Both Hitler and Roosevelt appreciated the value of mass communications. FDR began his series of "fireside chats" to rea…