The American Testimony
Semester
2: United States History from 1877 to 2006:
From the list of video links below, select the segment that
corresponds with the particular history lesson being taught that day
or week. There is no charge or fee to stream these videos, and while
it is not necessary to sign up for the Rumble website, it might be
helpful to do so, in order to better navigate through the programs.
Unit 6 -The Empire Years (1877-1912)
• Part 1: Twilight of the
Frontier Era. Coordinate this video with your curriculum
materials covering the aftermath of the Battle of Little Big Horn, the
Nez Perce tribe’s peace overtures, the rise of corporations, the
inventions of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, the beginning
of professional baseball, the literary success of "Mark Twain", the
popularity of P.T. Barnum’s traveling circus, the changes in
lifestyles brought on by rail transportation, the railway strike of
1877, and the opening of relations with Mexico. (12 minutes, 32
seconds.)
• Part 2: The New Religions.
Coordinate this video with your curriculum materials examining the
promotion of non-traditional thought, including the English
translation of The Communist Manifesto, as well as the emergence of
Darwinism. Additionally, this segment covers the resurgence of
European immigrants, the rise of the Social Gospel movement, the Moody
revivals, the founding of the Christian Science religion, the
presidential election of 1880, and the assassination of President
Garfield. (15 minutes, 11 seconds.)
• Part 3: Progress and Pain.
Coordinate this video with your curriculum materials exploring the age
of invention, Booker T. Washington’s founding of the Tuskegee
Institute, Clara Barton’s establishment of the Red Cross, the
resurgence of art and literature, the popularity of “Wild West” shows,
the difficult presidency of Chester Arthur, the election of Grover
Cleveland (as well as his White House wedding), France’s gift of the
Statue of Liberty, the construction of early skyscraper buildings, the
onset of labor riots, and the contributions of America’s “Captains of
Industry.” (14 minutes, 45 seconds.)
• Part 4: Course Corrections.
Coordinate this video with your curriculum materials involving the
increase in leisure-time activities, the election of Benjamin
Harrison, the expansion of trade with Latin America, the stance
against German aggression in the Pacific, the Oklahoma Land Run, the
passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the failed currency
manipulation schemes of the government, and the modernization of the
navy. Also included in this segment are the Wounded Knee skirmish, the
deadly Homestead union strike, the return of Grover Cleveland to the
White House, the onset of the economic depression of 1893, the Pullman
Strike, and the Supreme Court’s rejection of the income tax. (17
minutes, 24 seconds.)
• Part 5: "A Splendid Little
War." The segment begins with benign developments,
including the advent of motion pictures and the admission of Utah to
the union; then turns to the Cuban revolt against Spain, the election
of William McKinley, the mysterious explosion of the USS Maine, and
passage of the Teller Amendment. Thereafter, a chronological account
of the Spanish-American War is presented, from Dewey’s naval victory
in the Philippines to the charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill
in Cuba. Also covered are the American annexations of Wake Island and
Hawaii, Spain’s surrender, the granting of independence to Cuba, and
the U.S. acquisitions of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. (18
minutes, 32 seconds.)
• Part 6: The Tumultuous Turn
of the Century. Coordinate this video with your curriculum
materials covering the charitable missions to improve living
conditions in Cuba and the Philippines, the destruction of Galveston
by hurricane, the assassination of President McKinley, the surrender
of Filipino rebels, Theodore Roosevelt’s interventions in business and
labor crises, the construction on the Panama Canal, and the Wright
Brothers’ first airplane flight in 1903. The segment also includes
Roosevelt’s contribution to the settlement of the Russo-Japanese War,
the deadly San Francisco earthquake, the admission of Oklahoma to
statehood, and the Pacific tour of the “Great White Fleet” as a show
of American naval superiority. (22 minutes, 15 seconds.)
• Part 7: Winds of Change.
Coordinate this video with your curriculum materials covering the
election of William Howard Taft, the Communist infiltration of labor
unions, “Dollar Diplomacy” (a paying of funds to settle disputes) in
Latin America, Theodore Roosevelt's return to politics (as a
third-party presidential candidate), and Woodrow Wilson's victory in
the election of 1912. (11 minutes, 46 seconds.)
Unit 7 - Collectivism and the
First World War (1912-1928)
• Part 1: Mr. Wilson and
"Colonel" House. Coordinate this video with your
curriculum materials covering the advent of automobile production, the
sinking of the Titanic, the ideological development of Woodrow Wilson,
the president’s endorsement of Marxist policies under the direction
personal aide Edward Mandell House, the implementation of such
collectivist government edicts as the graduated income tax and the
central banking monopoly, passage of stricter antitrust legislation,
the federal takeover of interstate commerce, Wilson’s racial
segregation of the federal government, Marcus Garvey’s “back to
Africa” movement, the death of the first lady, and the president’s
quick remarriage. (21 minutes, 6 seconds.)
• Part 2: The Growing
International Crisis. Coordinate this video with your
curriculum materials dealing with President Wilson’s interference in
Mexican affairs, the opening of the Panama Canal, the assassinations
of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Austria’s
declaration of war on Serbia, Germany’s declarations of war on Russia
and France, the German invasion of Belgium, England’s declaration of
war on Germany, Wilson’s proclamation of American neutrality, the
German sinking of the British passenger ship Lusitania, Poncho Villa’s
raids on US border towns, Wilson’s dispatch of troops to Mexico, the
scandal of the Zimmermann telegram (in which Germany sought and
alliance with Mexico to battle the US), the Bolshevik revolution in
Russia, and the US declaration of war on Germany. (22 minutes, 3
seconds.)
• Part 3: Unrestrained
Authority. Coordinate this video with your curriculum
materials covering the roots of Bolshevism, the Wilson
administration's push for income taxes, the implementation of the
military draft, the government takeover (via the Lever Act) of food
and fuel production, the arrival of American troops in France, the
government takeover of domestic arms manufacturing, Lenin’s rise to
power in Russia, the Russian Communist peace treaty with Germany, the
legislation to prohibit liquor, Wilson’s proposal for his Fourteen
Points, legislation to grant women the right to vote, and the
executive branch’s takeover of federal agencies during wartime
(through the Overman Act). (14 minutes, 13 seconds.)
• Part 4: The "Great War" and
Its Aftermath. Coordinate this video with your curriculum
materials that cover America’s actions in World War 1, highlighting
the invasions of Murmansk and Archangel in Russia, the numerous
battles to drive the Germans out of France, the exploits of Alvin York
and Eddie Rickenbacker, the collapse of the Central Powers countries,
and the Armistice ending the war. Thereafter, pertinent details are
presented on the ill-conceived Treaty of Versailles, the economic
decimation of Germany, the haphazard redrawing of national boundaries
in Central Europe, the massacre of the Russian royal family, the
Bolshevik-inspired labor and race riots in the US, Congressional
resistance against Woodrow Wilson’s pressure to commit the US to the
League of Nations, and the White House cover-up of the president’s
near-fatal stroke. (24 minutes, 15 seconds.)
• Part 5: Return to Normalcy. Coordinate
this video with your curriculum materials covering the onset of
monetary inflation, the Marxist agitation over the Sacco and Vanzetti
murder case, the election of Warren G. Harding, the policies that
restored economic normalcy, the Washington disarmament conference, the
economic boom and enhanced quality of life (electricity and plumbing
in homes), the Teapot Dome Affair, the death of President Harding, the
enactment of the Dawes Plan to aid bankrupt Germany, the Soviet rise
of Joseph Stalin, the model presidency of Calvin Coolidge, and the
“roaring twenties” era of economic well-being. The segment concludes
with the Scopes Monkey Trial, Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across
the Atlantic, the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the fruits
of “Coolidge Prosperity.” (25 minutes, 27 seconds.)
Unit 8 - The “New Deal” Autocracy and
World War 2 (1928-1945)
• Part 1: Herbert Hoover's
Crisis. Coordinate this video with your curriculum
materials exploring the consequences of government attempts to
regulate agricultural production and banking practices in the United
States, leading to the Wall Street panic of 1928. This segment also
covers the American Socialist movement, Japan’s invasion of Manchuria,
and the Bonus Expedition march on Washington. (13 minutes, 17seconds.)
• Part 2: FDR.
Associate this video with your curriculum materials recounting the
personal and political journey of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the White
House, then concluding with the misguided legislative acts passed
under the guidance of this new president's "Brain Trust" (examples
being the ill-fated National Recovery Act and the costly Tennessee
Valley Authority, among others). (16 minutes, 25 seconds.)
• Part 3: Prolonging the
Depression. Associate this video with your curriculum
materials examining the ways that the very programs designed to
alleviate the depression actually worsened it, causing the immediate
40% drop in the value of the dollar. The segment also covers the
passage of the Tydings-McDuffie Act (granting future independence to
the Philippines), the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, the abandonment
of the first New Deal in favor of FDR’s Second New Deal (a series of
socialist policies to redistribute the nation’s privately-earned
assets), and the Supreme Court’s rejection of certain New Deal
programs as unconstitutional. Other events included here are the
passage of the Social Security Act, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia,
FDR’s declaration of neutrality toward European conflicts, and the
accumulation of power by Italy's Benito Mussolini. (17 minutes, 21
seconds.)
• Part 4: The Age of the
Aggressors. Align this video with your curriculum
materials covering the German takeover of the Rhineland (formerly
under the dominion of France), Hitler’s rearmament of Germany (in
violation of the Versailles Treaty), the Spanish Civil War, FDR’s
attempt to pack the Supreme Court with like-minded justices, the labor
union shutdown of major American industries, imperialist atrocities in
China, Germany’s invasions of Austria and Czechoslovakia, the
pacifistic British response, FDR’s replacement of the Common Law
system (America’s sole legal system since the nation’s founding) with
a Statutory Law system, the adaptation of Keynesian economics (“spend
freely today, pay the bill later”), Italy’s invasion of Albania, the
signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact between Hitler and Stalin, Germany’s
invasion of Poland, and England and France’s war declarations against
Germany. (14 minutes, 50 seconds.)
• Part 5: The Dawn of World War
2. Align this video with your curriculum materials
covering the geopolitical division of Poland between Germany and the
Soviet Union, the Soviet invasions of Finland and the Baltic nations,
Germany’s invasions of Norway and Denmark, FDR’s dispatch of naval
patrols around Greenland, the German drive to France (invading the
Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in the process), the humiliating
defeat of British forces at Dunkirk, the surrender of France to the
Germans, Japan’s closure of Chinese ports, the enactment of America’s
first peacetime military draft, the German bombing raids on London,
America’s Lend-Lease policy toward Great Britain, Germany’s attack on
former ally Russia, the US naval escalation in Iceland, the Japanese
invasion of southern Indochina, FDR’s oil embargo against Japan, the
Atlantic Charter meeting between Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the
German naval skirmishes with American warships in the Atlantic, and
Japan’s failed negotiations with the United States. (17 minutes, 33
seconds.)
• Part 6: America Enters the
War. Coordinate this video with your curriculum materials
covering the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR’s declaration of
war, the abandonment of American forces in the Philippines, FDR’s
internment of American civilians of Japanese descent, Jimmy
Doolittle’s bombing raid over Tokyo, General MacArthur’s evacuation to
Australia, the Bataan Death March, the Battle of Midway, the beginning
of the atomic bomb project, the brutal fight at Guadalcanal, General
Eisenhower’s invasion of North Africa, Enrico Fermi’s inducement of
the first atomic chain reaction, the Allies’ conference at Casablanca,
the Battle of Kassarine Pass (Tunisia), General MacArthur’s victory in
New Guinea, Admiral Halsey’s campaign in the Solomon Islands, General
Patton’s invasion of Sicily, and the ouster of Benito Mussolini. (15
minutes, 10 seconds.)
• Part 7: The Road to Victory.
Coordinate this video with your curriculum materials covering the
Cairo and Teheran conferences among allied leaders, the battles of
Monte Cassino and Anzio in Italy, the US victory in the Gilbert
Islands, FDR’s implementation of direct payroll deductions as a means
of seizing income taxes from wage earners, the German defeat at
Stalingrad, the American liberation of Rome, the D-Day invasion of
Normandy, the American victory at Saipan, the Battle of the Philippine
Sea, American victories at Guam and Tinian, the Allied march through
France, the liberation of Paris, the Battle of Leyte, the infiltration
of FDR’s White House by Stalinist American spies, and the Allied
conference at Yalta. The segment concludes with General MacArthur’s
triumphant return to the Philippines, the brutal battles at Iwo Jima
and Okinawa, the massive German surprise assault at Bastogne (the
Battle of the Bulge), the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry
Truman’s ascension to the presidency, the Soviet invasion of Berlin,
the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler, the German surrender, the Potsdam
Conference, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the
Japanese surrender, and the discovery of the Nazi death camps against
Jewish people. (20 minutes, 50 seconds.)
Unit 9 - Cold War America (1945-1968)
• Part 1: War's Aftermath.
Coordinate this video with your curriculum materials covering the
postwar discovery of Nazi atrocities, the ceding of Eastern Europe and
portions of Asia to Soviet control, the communist influence over the
United Nations, the convening of war crimes tribunals, Douglas
MacArthur’s democratic reform of vanquished Japan, President Truman’s
betrayal of Chiang Kai-shek, the geopolitical break-up of postwar
Germany, and the Venona code-breaking revelations of a Soviet
infiltration in the executive branch of the US government. (13
minutes, 25 seconds.)
• Part 2: Global Communism.
Coordinate this video with your curriculum materials covering postwar
labor union strikes in the U.S., the granting of independence to the
Philippines, Joseph Stalin’s control over Soviet satellite nations in
Europe, Mao Tse-tung’s communist drive across China, the Truman
Doctrine in Greece and Turkey, passage of the Taft-Hartley “right to
work” act, the implementation of the Marshall Plan in Europe, the
Supreme Court’s hostile ruling on the Everson v. Board of Education
case, the Soviet blockade of East Berlin, the U.S. commencement of the
Berlin Airlift (continual supply drops by air), the uncovering of
Soviet spy rings in America, the arrests of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
(spies who delivered America’s atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets),
and the close election of 1948. (18 minutes, 2 seconds.)
• Part 3: China, Korea, and the
Loss of American Resolve. Align this video with your
curriculum materials covering the formation of NATO, the Soviet
Union’s detonation of an atomic bomb, the communist overthrow of China
and the exile of Chinese nationalists to Formosa (Taiwan), the
communist invasion of South Korea, the McCarthy hearings in the
Senate, General MacArthur’s Inchon invasion to liberate South Korea,
the reversal of U.N. war policy that encouraged Communist China’s
invasion of Korea, the restoration of Japan as an independent nation,
and President Truman’s shameful removal of General MacArthur from
command. (18 minutes, 58 seconds.)
• Part 4: The Eisenhower Years.
Coordinate this video to align with your curriculum materials covering
the ratification of the 22nd Amendment, the communist scandal in the
American film industry, the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the
political backlash against Senator Joseph McCarthy, the struggle
against racial segregation, the Geneva Accords mandate to separate
North and South Vietnam, the signing of the SEATO alliance, Nikita
Khrushchev’s rise to power in the Soviet Union, the formation of the
Warsaw Treaty Organization (a Soviet counterpart to NATO), the Supreme
Court ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education case, Rosa Parks' role
in the fight against racial segregation on public buses, the Soviet
crackdown in Poland and Hungary, and the military skirmish over the
Suez Canal. (23 minutes, 58 seconds.)
• Part 5: Coexistence. Coordinate
this video to align with your curriculum materials covering the Soviet
launch of the world’s first space satellite (Sputnik), the launch of
the US Explorer satellite, the founding of NASA, statehood for Alaska,
the communist overthrow of Cuba, Vice President Nixon’s tour of the
Soviet Union, the U-2 spy plane incident, the admission of Hawaii as
the fiftieth state, the lunch-counter “sit-in” protests against racial
segregation, the presidential campaign of 1960 (including the Nixon –
Kennedy debate), passage of the 23rd Amendment, the disastrous Bay of
Pigs invasion, the Soviet launch of the first human in space (Yuri
Gagarin), the launch of the first American in space (Alan Shepard),
Khrushchev’s construction of the Berlin Wall, Kennedy’s dispatch of
military personnel to Vietnam, the establishment of the Peace Corps,
and the activist Supreme Court’s ruling against school prayer. (13
minutes, 8 seconds.)
• Part 6: Kennedy and Johnson.
Coordinate this video with curriculum materials covering the Cuban
Missile Crisis, the escalation of US military presence in South
Vietnam, the civil rights march on Washington, the assassination of
John F. Kennedy, the passage of a new Civil Rights Act, the Gulf of
Tonkin Incident (allowing President Johnson to escalate American
presence in Vietnam), the onset of Operation Rolling Thunder
(sustained bombing of North Vietnam), the unfurling of Lyndon
Johnson’s “Great Society” wealth redistribution program, the eruption
of the Watts Riots, the upsurge in campus anti-war protests, the
government’s imposition of “rules of engagement” restrictions on
American troops, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the assassinations of
Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, the youth riots at the
Democratic Convention in Chicago, Richard Nixon’s election victory,
and the advancement of the American space program (from the Apollo 1
tragedy to the lunar orbit of Apollo 8). (26 minutes, 29 seconds.)
Unit 10 - The Polarized Nation
(1968-2006)
• Part 1: Nixon's Challenge. Coordinate
this video with curriculum materials covering the military quagmire in
Vietnam, the rampant student war protests, the celebration of the
Apollo 11 moon mission, the tragedy of the Kent State University
riots, the federal treasury’s abandonment of the gold standard,
President Nixon’s diplomatic journey to China, the signing of the
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty between the US and Soviet Union, the
first stage of American withdrawal from South Vietnam, remaining
Apollo moon missions (including the near-tragic Apollo 13 flight), and
the conclusion of America’s war in Vietnam. (17 minutes, 6 seconds.)
• Part 2: Losing Public
Confidence. Coordinate this video with curriculum
materials covering the Watergate scandal, the resignation of Vice
President Spiro Agnew (on tax evasion accusations), the controversial
Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade case, the resignation of
Richard Nixon, the Gerald Ford presidency, communist atrocities in
Southeast Asia, Jimmy Carter's rise to the presidency, the
proclamation for eventual US surrender of the Panama Canal, the Camp
David Peace Accords between Israel and Egypt, Carter’s diplomatic
abandonment Taiwan in favor of Communist China, White House support
for the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, the federal government’s
meddling with domestic fuel production, and the onset of the energy
crisis in America. (16 minutes, 37 seconds.)
• Part 3: The Carter Crisis and
the Reagan Revolution. Coordinate this video with
curriculum materials recounting the flight of the “Boat People” from
communist Vietnam, the excessive rise in unemployment and inflation,
the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, the American hostage crisis in
Iran, the failed SALT II negotiations with the Soviet Union, Carter's
fatally botched attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran, the
election of Ronald Reagan, the release of the American hostages,
Reagan's solving of the energy crisis, the assassination attempt on
the president, the restoration of economic growth in America,
executive actions to solve the air traffic controllers’ strike, the
president’s public denouncement of Soviet communism, the American
Embassy bombing in Beirut, the Soviet downing of a Korean Airlines
passenger jet, the bombing of American and French military housing
units in Beirut, the US war victory against communist invaders in
Grenada, the onset of a new health crisis triggered by rampant sexual
depravity, passage of the Deficit Reduction Act, and the political
standoff over the crisis in Nicaragua. (20 minutes, 23 seconds.)
• Part 4: Triumph Over Tyranny.
Coordinate this video with curriculum materials covering Reagan’s
Strategic Defense Initiative, the terrorist hijacking of an American
airliner in Greece, Reagan’s bombing of Lebanon, the American capture
of terrorists who hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, the
explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, American air strikes on
Libya, the Iran-Contra controversy, Reagan’s diplomatic trumping of
the Soviet Union, the presidency of George Bush (the elder), the
collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the demolition of the Berlin
Wall, the overthrow of Czechoslovakia’s communist dictatorship, the
American capture of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, the fall of
Soviet tyranny, the rise of new republics in the former Soviet Union,
the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and America’s Gulf War with Iraq. (22
minutes, 42 seconds.)
• Part 5: Political Gridlock.
Coordinate this video with curriculum materials covering the senior
George Bush’s reneging of his “no new taxes” pledge, the geopolitical
restructuring of central and eastern Europe, the presidential election
victory of Bill Clinton, the first bombing attack on the World Trade
Center in New York, the deadly outcome of the federal law enforcement
raid on the Branch Davidian religious group, the ambush and killing of
American troops in Somalia, US intervention in Haiti, the Clintons’
Whitewater real estate investment scandal, the return of a Republican
majority in Congress (after four decades), Clinton’s deployment of
American troops to Bosnia, the bombing of the federal building in
Oklahoma City, the Welfare Reform Act, the “Chinagate” campaign
finance controversy, the deployment of U.S. “peacekeeping” forces in
Kosovo, Osama bin Laden's bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania, the impeachment--but not removal--of President Clinton, and
the contested presidential election of 2000. (22 minutes, 36 seconds.)
• Part 6: The War on Terror.
Coordinate this video with curriculum materials covering the 9/11
attacks on New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the US wars
against Afghanistan and Iraq, the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, the
capture of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and the contentious mid-term
congressional election of 2006. (13 minutes, 21 seconds.) END OF
SERIES.