The Great War: Part 2

April 11, 2017

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American Experience - S29 - E7

Part 2 of 3. America's entry into World War I is recalled, including the breathtaking speed of mobilization and the profound transformations required for America to play a central role in the conflict.

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American Experience: Season 29 - 8 Episode s

29x1 - Command and Control
January 10, 2017
An account of an incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark., in 1980 that almost caused the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The near-calamity was kicked off when a socket fell from the wrench of an airman performing maintenance in a Titan II silo and punctured the missile, releasing a stream of highly explosive rocket fuel.
29x2 - Rachel Carson
January 24, 2017
She set out to save a species...us. An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.
29x3 - The Race Underground
January 31, 2017
The dramatic story of the country's first subway.
29x4 - Oklahoma City
February 7, 2017
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by literature and ideas of the radical right, killed 168, and injured 675 others.
29x5 - Ruby Ridge
February 14, 2017
A riveting account of the event that helped give rise to the modern American militia movement.
29x6 - The Great War: Part 1
April 10, 2017
Part 1 of 3. President Woodrow Wilson vowed to keep the U.S. out of World War I after hostilities erupted in Europe in August 1914. It was a promise he kept until 1917, when the Germans resumed "unrestricted submarine warfare"— a policy it had started and then stopped in 1915 — and began sinking U.S. ships. An intercepted telegram also showed Germany trying to convince Japan and Mexico to declare war on America.
29x7 - The Great War: Part 2
April 11, 2017
Part 2 of 3. America's entry into World War I is recalled, including the breathtaking speed of mobilization and the profound transformations required for America to play a central role in the conflict.
29x8 - The Great War: Part 3
April 12, 2017
Part 3 of 3. In the fall of 1918: a major American offensive that could bring a swift end to the war, a lost U.S. battalion surrounded by German forces, a deadly flu epidemic on the homefront.

29x1 - Command and Control

29x2 - Rachel Carson

29x3 - The Race Underground

29x4 - Oklahoma City

29x5 - Ruby Ridge

29x6 - The Great War: Part 1

29x7 - The Great War: Part 2

29x8 - The Great War: Part 3

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