Between the Wars
This classic series follows the events that sparked the greatest conflict of the century, capturing the drama, the excitement and the ideological juxtapositions of these crucial years. Former CBS News correspondent and commentator Eric Sevareid, one of the world's most respected figures in journalism, presents this extraordinary series featuring stunning original newsreels, soundtracks, and rare archival footage.
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Between the Wars explores the political and diplomatic events and crises between World War I and World War II.
- Ep 1
1.Versailles: The First Peace
05-04-197830mPresident Woodrow Wilson's idealistic hopes for world peace through collective security clash at Versailles with the harsh old-world real-politik of Europe, which wanted to punish...
- Ep 2
2.Return to Isolationism
12-04-197830mThe ultimate failure of Woodrow Wilson destroys himself in his desperate struggle for the League of Nations. The President and the Senate fight for control of American foreign poli...
- Ep 3
3.The First SALT Talks
19-04-197830mThe forces favoring peace through disarmament clash with the forces for peace through military strength. In 1921, the world's first major disarmament conference limits the post war...
- Ep 4
4.Radio, Racism and Foreign Policy
26-04-197830mDisillusioned by the horrors of World War I, the U.S. tries to isolate herself from the rest of the world. Strict immigration quotas are imposed and a mistrust of foreigners and mi...
- Ep 5
5.The Great Depression and Foreign Affairs
03-05-197830mThe Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters U.S. self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, thus leading to further isolationism. The world-wide depression...
- Ep 6
6.FDR and Hitler: the Rise to Power
10-05-197830m"The individual does matter in history" -- a contrast of the style of FDR and Hitler shows how technological change and individual charisma can change history. FDR uses a new mediu...
- Ep 7
7.FDR and Hitler: The Dynamics of Power
17-05-197830mBoth Hitler and Roosevelt appreciated the value of mass communications. FDR began his series of "fireside chats" to reassure and inform the people while Hitler assigned Josef Goebb...
- Ep 8
8.America in the Pacific: The Clash of Two Cultures
24-05-197830mThis overview of U.S.-Japanese relationships from the turn of the century until 1933 is a story of conflict. Japan emerged from World War I as a major power, but American diplomats...
- Ep 9
9.The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Distrust
31-05-197830mFrom the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the first detente in 1933, American relations with the Soviet Union w...
- Ep 10
10.Latin America: Intervention in Our Own Backyard
07-06-197830mFDR's "The Good Neighbor Policy", his greatest foreign policy success, was a key development in reversing the U.S. imperialistic attitude toward Latin America. For over a century,...
- Ep 11
11.The Italian-Ethiopian War: Africa in World Affairs
14-06-197830mThe short-lived but brutal Italian-Ethiopian War leads to an examination of Italian Fascism, the character of Mussolini and how he came to power. Mussolini ruled with apparent effe...
- Ep 12
12.The Spanish Civil War
21-06-197830mThe Spanish Civil War was a microcosm of the ideological conflict of this century. When Spanish fascists under Franco rebel against the republican government, full-scale civil war...
- Ep 13
13.The Phony War
28-06-197830mHitler's assumption that England would not go to war to defend Poland triggers World War II. As the Nazis sweep over Europe and launch their air attack on Britain, American public...
- Ep 14
14.FDR and Churchill: The Human Partnership
05-07-197830mThe close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill had a profound effect on the history of the Western world. Roosevelt posted "lend-lease" as the most practical means o...
- Ep 15
15.Japan Invades China: Crisis in the Far East
12-07-197830mIn 1937 Japan was bent on establishing an empire. Encouraged by lack of Western resistance, Japan took control of French Indochina, the Dutch Indies, Burma, Malaya, and the Philipp...
- Ep 16
16.War Comes to Pearl Harbor
19-07-197830mSome of the great questions that arises from WWII is: Did FDR know in advance about Pearl Harbor? Was the Japanese attack unprovoked? FDR knew that he could not lead a divided nati...
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