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This overview of the U.S. and Japanese relationship, from the urn of the century until 1933, is a story of conflict. Japan emerged from World War I...

Disillusioned by the horrors of World War I, the U.S. tries to isolate from the rest of the world. Strict immigration quotas are imposed and a...

FDR's greatest foreign policy success, "The Good Neighbor Policy", was a key development in reversing the U.S. imperialistic attitude toward Latin...

President Wilson's hopes for world peace through collective security clash at Versailles with the harsh old-world politics of Europe, which wanted to...

After Japan's invasion of the Dutch Indies, Roosevelt cut off the American oil supply and imposed a total embargo. On November 5, 1941, General Tojo...

The President and the Senate fight for control of American foreign policy: the Senate wins. Wilson is opposed by a powerful coalition of...

In 1921, the world's first major disarmament conference limits the post war arms race, and the most important strategic weapon of the times, the...

A contrast in the style of FDR and Hitler shows how technological change and individual charisma can change history. FDR uses the radio to gain...

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

The short-lived, but brutal Italian-Ethiopian War leads to an examination of Italian Fascism the character of Mussolini and how he came to power....

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

From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 until the Roosevelt administration officially recognized the U.S.S.R. in the first detente in 1935, American...

Hitler's assumption that England would not go to war to defend Poland triggers World War II. The Nazis sweep over Europe and launch their air attack...

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

In 1937 Japan was bent on establishing an empire. Encouraged by the lack of Western resistance, Japan took control of French Indochina, the Dutch...

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

The epic television history of the Second World War’s Eastern Front giving an unprecedented Russian perspective on the war’s most...

The story of Hitler’s war on the Eastern Front – an attempt to liquidate the Russian people and gain living space for his superior Aryan...

When the Second World War breaks out, it is at first largely a war between one side of totalitarian aggressors against a portion of the democratic...

English historian David Reynolds reassesses Stalin's role in the life-and-death struggle between the Soviet Union and Germany in World War II.