President Woodrow Wilson's idealistic hopes for world peace through collective security clash at Versailles with the ...

The ultimate failure of Woodrow Wilson destroys himself in his desperate struggle for the League of Nations. The Pres...

The forces favoring peace through disarmament clash with the forces for peace through military strength. In 1921, the...

Disillusioned by the horrors of World War I, the U.S. tries to isolate herself from the rest of the world. Strict imm...

The Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters U.S. self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, t...

"The individual does matter in history" -- a contrast of the style of FDR and Hitler shows how technological change a...

Both Hitler and Roosevelt appreciated the value of mass communications. FDR began his series of "fireside chats" to r...

This overview of U.S.-Japanese relationships from the turn of the century until 1933 is a story of conflict. Japan em...

From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the fi...

FDR's "The Good Neighbor Policy", his greatest foreign policy success, was a key development in reversing the U.S. im...

The short-lived but brutal Italian-Ethiopian War leads to an examination of Italian Fascism, the character of Mussoli...

The Spanish Civil War was a microcosm of the ideological conflict of this century. When Spanish fascists under Franco...

Hitler's assumption that England would not go to war to defend Poland triggers World War II. As the Nazis sweep over ...

The close personal friendship between Roosevelt and Churchill had a profound effect on the history of the Western wor...

In 1937 Japan was bent on establishing an empire. Encouraged by lack of Western resistance, Japan took control of Fre...

Some of the great questions that arises from WWII is: Did FDR know in advance about Pearl Harbor? Was the Japanese at...