The Untold History Of The United States

00:00:41 People watching here tonight, they want to base their vote...

00:02:21 Republican William McKinley's vision of the American future...

00:04:40 ...he set his sights on acquiring Hawaii...

00:07:23 [ALL SHOUTING]

00:09:41 ...with its major concession at the port of Hong Kong.

00:12:20 ...symbolically colorful charge up San Juan Hill...

00:15:05 ...and uplift and civilize and Christianize them...

00:17:27 Nationalist-minded Chinese rose up with fury...

00:19:53 NARRATOR". Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua...

00:22:27 And World War I was among the most dismal episodes in human history.

00:24:48 The war was a slaughter from beginning to end...

00:28:01 ...taking steps to re-segregate the federal government.

00:30:32 ...as America's banker to the British Empire...

00:33:38 It was the Midwestern Republicans, like La Follette and Norris...

00:36:06 German Americans were singled out with particular animosity.

00:38:48 And the great polyglot Ottoman Empire of Arabs...

00:41:30 ...which now exposed the hollowness...

00:44:43 ...the streets were sprinkled with golden sand as per ancient tradition.

00:46:58 The United States was the new dominant force in the world.

00:49:09 Approximately 85 percent of the native population...

00:51:21 Lamont would make sure that Germany's payments to Britain and France...

00:54:23 ...under Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in the first of a series of raids...

01:08:09 had carved up 90 percent of Africa.

200:00:00 many from cholera.