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1
Versailles: The First Peace
President Woodrow Wilson's idealistic hopes for world peace through collective security clash at Versailles with the har…
2
Return to Isolationism
The ultimate failure of Woodrow Wilson destroys himself in his desperate struggle for the League of Nations. The Preside…
3
The First SALT Talks
The forces favoring peace through disarmament clash with the forces for peace through military strength. In 1921, the wo…
4
Radio, Racism and Foreign Policy
Disillusioned by the horrors of World War I, the U.S. tries to isolate herself from the rest of the world. Strict immigr…
5
The Great Depression and Foreign Affairs
The Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters U.S. self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, thus…
6
FDR and Hitler: the Rise to Power
"The individual does matter in history" -- a contrast of the style of FDR and Hitler shows how technological change and …
7
FDR and Hitler: The Dynamics of Power
Both Hitler and Roosevelt appreciated the value of mass communications. FDR began his series of "fireside chats" to reas…
8
America in the Pacific: The Clash of Two Cultures
This overview of U.S.-Japanese relationships from the turn of the century until 1933 is a story of conflict. Japan emerg…
9
The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Distrust
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the first…
10
Latin America: Intervention in Our Own Backyard
FDR's "The Good Neighbor Policy", his greatest foreign policy success, was a key development in reversing the U.S. imper…
11
The Italian-Ethiopian War: Africa in World Affairs
The short-lived but brutal Italian-Ethiopian War leads to an examination of Italian Fascism, the character of Mussolini …
12
The Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a microcosm of the ideological conflict of this century. When Spanish fascists under Franco re…
13
The Phony War
Hitler's assumption that England would not go to war to defend Poland triggers World War II. As the Nazis sweep over Eur…
14
FDR and Churchill: The Human Partnership
The close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill had a profound effect on the history of the Western world.…
15
Japan Invades China: Crisis in the Far East
In 1937 Japan was bent on establishing an empire. Encouraged by lack of Western resistance, Japan took control of French…
16
War Comes to Pearl Harbor
Some of the great questions that arises from WWII is: Did FDR know in advance about Pearl Harbor? Was the Japanese attac…
