This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the expansion of communist ideology after World War II, and western governments' fears of a domino effect as countries succumbed to communism. The Truman Doctrine called for action to contain the communist threat, by economic or military action, if necessary.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes President Richard Nixon's historic trip to the People's Republic of China in 1972, the first trip by an American president since the takeover by the Communists in 1949.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the Philippines was promised independence in 1916, but didn't receive it until 1946.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Notes which stated his belief that China should be open to all countries equally for trade.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the American public's great interest in tabloid accounts of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, which helped lead to the Spanish-American War.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Platt Amendment, which allowed the U.S. to interfere in the affairs of Cuba.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes American sugar planters' control of the plantations of Hawaii. They eventually exercised their power by forcing the queen to abdicate.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary repeats U.S. Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane's speech, in which he said that Germany had "no respect for international law" and had to be punished for sinking the ships of neutral nations.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes Woodrow Wilson's efforts to promote the idea of World War I to a skeptical American public. In order to do so, he turned to one of the leading figures in the advertising industry.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the delegation President Thomas Jefferson sent to France to purchase the city of New Orleans. Instead, the French government offered the entire Louisiana Territory.
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