Making the World Safe for Democracy: Manifest Destiny

Presidents and Manifest Destiny (0:47)

Johnson Justifies Vietnam War (2:02)

Wilsonianism (1:44)

Wilson Asks for War Declaration (0:57)

World War I, America and Imperialism (2:31)

Woodrow Wilson (1:17)

Wilson and Mexican Revolution (1:36)

America Moves Toward War (1:55)

World Safe for Democracy (2:28)

Wilson's Thinking on Russian Revolution (2:17)

Wilson's Fourteen Points (1:52)

Wilson in Paris (2:47)

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam and France (2:34)

Big Four at Paris (2:39)

League of Nations (1:26)

Wilson's Flexibility on Self-Determination (2:09)

Treaty of Versailles (0:45)

Ho Driven to Communism (1:11)

Wilson's Vision Dies (2:56)

America's Embrace of Global Role (2:41)

Ho Chi Minh Fights Japanese (2:12)

Ho Declares Independence (2:13)

Early Cold War U.S. Approach to Vietnam (1:52)

Competing Ideologies in Cold War (1:36)

Stalin's Motives and America's Change (2:29)

Truman Doctrine (2:13)

Korean War (1:34)

Division of Vietnam (1:57)

American Fear of Vietnamese Elections (2:31)

Ngo Dinh Diem (2:42)

North and South Vietnam (1:40)

Diem's Corruption (1:06)

Kennedy and America's Vision (2:26)

Reasons for Vietnam War (1:08)

Kennedy and Diem (3:12)

Kennedy on Day of Assassination (1:11)

Johnson Inherits Vietnam Problem (2:14)

Johnson's Decision on Vietnam (2:42)

American Idealism and Vietnam (1:34)

Vietnam (1:51)

Vietnam Failure (1:57)

Ambiguous Impact of Vietnam Defeat (2:51)

Legacy of Wilsonian Idealism (2:01)

Credits: Making the World Safe for Democracy: Manifest Destiny (1:03)