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 5 The Great Depression and Foreign Affairs
10.00 30 minutes The Depression is a traumatic national experience which shatters U.S. self-confidence and paralyzes foreign policy, thus leading to further isolationism. The world-wide depression gives rise to national dictators, but we are so preoccupied with domestic problems that we ignore the threat. President Hoover is not equipped to deal with the national crisis. The London Naval Conference insults Japan and when the Japanese invade Manchuria, a preoccupied United States does nothing.
