The Untold History Of The United States

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

00:02:17 They were asked to decide whether the United States should be an empire.

00:04:33 ...who articulated a far more grandiose vision of the American Empire.

00:07:14 - What we want is action. ALL: Yeah!

00:09:29 The chief prize was China.

00:12:02 Millions read it, convinced that Spain, this decaying Catholic power...

00:14:42 Its ranks included Mark Twain, who famously asked:

00:16:49 American society grew more callous from this war...

00:19:11 ...receiving the same rights of intervention the U.S. had forced upon Cuba.

00:21:31 I helped purify Nicaragua...

00:24:02 The interests of their nearby Egyptian and Indian empires were threatened.

00:27:16 WILSON: We have to be neutral...

00:29:41 ...the first formal presidential address to the senate...

00:32:24 ...including Jeanette Rankin of Montana, the first woman ever elected to Congress.

00:35:06 While near there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

00:37:26 ...the U.S. presence had an enormous psychological effect on the war...

00:40:06 [LENIN SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN]

00:43:17 Wilson initially hesitated to join the invading forces...

00:45:46 ...but by the hand of God.

00:48:00 ...and paying lip service to the promised self-determination of the Arabs...

00:50:00 ...Russia's presence cast a pall over the meetings.

00:52:17 Many including Congressional leaders felt that millions had been sacrificed...

00:55:26 ...Lincoln and William Jennings Bryan had ceased to exist.

01:09:01 with the slogan, "He kept us out of war."