6 videodiscs (approximately 455 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note
Special features include over 50 Hearst newsreels.
Contents
Disc 1. Versailles: The lost peace. -- Return to isolationism. -- The first SALT talks. Disc 2. Radio, racism and foreign policy. -- The Great Depression and foreign affairs. Disc 3. FDR and Hitler: The rise to power. -- FDR and Hitler: The dynamics of power. Disc 4. America in the Pacific. -- The recognition of Russian Latin America. Disc 5. The Italian-Ethiopian war. -- The Spanish Civil War. The phony war. Disc 6. FDR and Churchill. -- Japan invades China. War comes to Pearl Harbor.
Cast
Host: Eric Sevareid.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
6-part series examines the events between the end of World war I in 1918 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.