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Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Versailles: The First Peace
- Season 1 Return to Isolationism
- Season 1 The First SALT Talks
- Season 1 Radio, Racism and Foreign Policy
- Season 1 The Great Depression and Foreign Affairs
- Season 1 FDR and Hitler: the Rise to Power
- Season 1 FDR and Hitler: The Dynamics of Power
- Season 1 America in the Pacific: The Clash of Two Cultures
- Season 1 The Recognition of Russia: A Climate of Mutual Distrust
- Season 1 Latin America: Intervention in Our Own Backyard
- Season 1 The Italian-Ethiopian War: Africa in World Affairs
- Season 1 The Spanish Civil War
- Season 1 The Phony War
- Season 1 FDR and Churchill: The Human Partnership
- Season 1 Japan Invades China: Crisis in the Far East
- Season 1 War Comes to Pearl Harbor
Between the Wars - Season 1 Episode 1 Versailles: The First Peace
10.00 30 minutes President 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 Germany. The resultant punitive treaty, in effect, sows the seeds of World War II. Mini-biographies of Wilson and his mysterious behing-the-scenes advisor, Colonel Edward House, who compromised Wilson's ideals. The startling effects of Wilson's bout with influenza struck him down during a critical period of negotiations. Wilson was forced to compromise his ideals, but he returned home to fight for ratification of the League of Nations.
