24 November 2010 A group of people listening to the radio at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington D.C. MARIO RITTER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The years after World War One were an important turning poi...
17 November 2010 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. After the end of World War One, President Woodrow Wilson sought national support for his idea of a League of Nations. He took his appeal directly...
10 November 2010 Allies around the conference table in Paris in 1919 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In nineteen eighteen, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, a truce...
03 November 2010 Americans at the peace conference, from left: Colonel Edward House, Secretary of State Robert Lansing, President Woodrow Wilson, Henry White and General Tasker Bliss BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in...
20 October 2010 Russian troops in 1917 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. This week in our series, Larry West and Tony Riggs continue the story of President Woodrow Wilson. LARRY WEST: In nineteen...
13 October 2010 The German submarine U-36 near the ship Batavia V in April 1915 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. There was one main issue in America's presidential election of nineteen sixteen...
06 October 2010 British forces in action during World War One BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A hNATION American history in VOA Special English. In nineteen fourteen, Europe exploded into the First World War. It was a war no nation really wante...
29 September 2010 Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet seated around table, 1913 BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Woodrow Wilson's first year as president showed the American people that they had el...
22 September 2010 Woodrow Wilson and his cabinet seated around table, 1913 SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. A new leader stood before the American people on March fourth, nineteen thirtee...
15 September 2010 Theodore Roosevelt at what appears to be the first Progressive Party Convention. They met in August 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, and nominated him to run for president. BOB DOUGHTY: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION -- American histor...
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