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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 6 FDR and Hitler: the Rise to Power
10.00 30 minutes "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 medium (radio) to political advantage; Hitler utilizes the new sound movies. This episode contrasts their economic programs which deal with the Depression and show how each used propaganda (Nazi propaganda and New Deal propaganda). The careers of both men culminated in 1933. Hitler, representing a minority party, was appointed Chancellor and rapidly consolidated his power through propaganda and terrorism. President Roosevelt stood prepared to try new methods of attacking the economic crisis.
