
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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Air Date: 1978-04-05
President Woodrow Wilson's idealistic hopes for world peace through collective security clash at Versailles with the ...
Air Date: 1978-04-12
The ultimate failure of Woodrow Wilson destroys himself in his desperate struggle for the League of Nations. The Pres...
Air Date: 1978-04-19
The forces favoring peace through disarmament clash with the forces for peace through military strength. In 1921, the...
Air Date: 1978-04-26
Disillusioned by the horrors of World War I, the U.S. tries to isolate herself from the rest of the world. Strict imm...
Air Date: 1978-05-03
The Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters U.S. self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, t...
Air Date: 1978-05-10
"The individual does matter in history" -- a contrast of the style of FDR and Hitler shows how technological change a...
Air Date: 1978-05-17
Both Hitler and Roosevelt appreciated the value of mass communications. FDR began his series of "fireside chats" to r...
Air Date: 1978-05-24
This overview of U.S.-Japanese relationships from the turn of the century until 1933 is a story of conflict. Japan em...
Air Date: 1978-05-31
From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the fi...
Air Date: 1978-06-07
FDR's "The Good Neighbor Policy", his greatest foreign policy success, was a key development in reversing the U.S. im...
Air Date: 1978-06-14
The short-lived but brutal Italian-Ethiopian War leads to an examination of Italian Fascism, the character of Mussoli...
Air Date: 1978-06-21
The Spanish Civil War was a microcosm of the ideological conflict of this century. When Spanish fascists under Franco...
Air Date: 1978-06-28
Hitler's assumption that England would not go to war to defend Poland triggers World War II. As the Nazis sweep over ...
Air Date: 1978-07-05
The close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill had a profound effect on the history of the Western wor...
Air Date: 1978-07-12
In 1937 Japan was bent on establishing an empire. Encouraged by lack of Western resistance, Japan took control of Fre...
Air Date: 1978-07-19
Some of the great questions that arises from WWII is: Did FDR know in advance about Pearl Harbor? Was the Japanese at...