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The Family Legacy of Benito Mussolini

Air/Publish Date: 05/17/1988
Event Date: 1935 - 1945

NBC's Viscount Althorp, Lady Diana's brother, travels to Italy for the TODAY show to interview descendants of Benito Mussolini.

CLIP LENGTH: 00:02:24

Mussolini's Downfall

Air/Publish Date: 1945
Event Date: 04/28/1945

Universal newsreel captures the last moments of Benito Mussolini's reign.

CLIP LENGTH: 00:00:47

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Pre-Columbian America
- Early Inhabitants of the Americas
- American Indian Cultures
Transatlantic Encounters
- First European Contact with Native Americans
- Spain's Empire in North America
- English Settlements
Colonial North America
American Revolution
- French and Indian War
- Imperial Crisis, Resistance to Britain
- War of Independence
- Federal Constitution
Early Republic
- National Government
  - George Washington
  - Alexander Hamilton
- Political Parties
- Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
- Expansion of the West
- Slavery and Black Communities
- War of 1812
Economy and Society in Antebellum America
- Transportation Revolution, Creation of National Market Economy
- Beginnings of Industrialization and Changes in Social and Class Structures
- Immigration and Nativist Reaction
- Planters, Yeoman Farmers, and Slaves in the Cotton South
Politics in Antebellum America
- Emergence of the Second Party System
- Federal Authority and Its Opponents
- Jacksonian Democracy and Its Successes and Limitations
Religion and Reform in Antebellum America
Manifest Destiny and Expansion
- Forced Removal of American Indians to the Trans-Mississippi West
- Western Migration and Cultural Interactions
- Territorial Acquisitions
- Early U.S. Imperialism: Mexican War
Crisis of the Union
- Pro and Anti-slavery Arguments and Conflicts
- Compromise of 1850 and Popular Sovereignty
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Emergence of the Republican Party
- Abraham Lincoln, the Election of 1860 and Secession
The Civil War
- Two Societies at War: Mobilization, Resources & Internal Dissent
- Military Strategies
  - Battles
  - Generals
- Emancipation and the Role of African Americans in the War
- Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the War in North, South, and West
  - Economic Effects of War & Federal Expansion in North, South and West
  - The Lincoln Assassination
Reconstruction
Western Development
- Expansion and Development of Western Railroads
  - American Railway Union/Transcontinental Rail Line
- Competitors for the West: Miners, Ranchers, Homesteaders and American Indians
- Government Policy Toward American Indians
  - Little Bighorm
  - Concentration Policy/Wounded Knee
- Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Far West
  - Immigrants
  - Women in the West
- Environmental Impact of Western Settlement
  - Legislation
Industrial America
- Corporate Consolidation of Industry
  - Growth of Corporations
  - Rise of the Robber Barons
- Effects of Technological Development on the Worker and Workplace
- Labor and Unions
  - Rise of Unions
  - Labor Riots and Strikes
- National Politics and Influence of Corporate Power
  - Corporate Philanthropy
  - Corporate Scandal/Political Power of Big Business
- Migration and Immigration: The Changing Face of the Nation
  - New Immigrant Groups
  - Reaction to Immigration and Growth of Nativism
- Proponents and Opponents of the New Order
Urban Society in the Late 19th Century
- Urbanization and the Lure of the City
- City Problems and Machine Politics
  - City Problems
  - Machine Politics
- Intellectual and Cultural Movements and Popular Entertainment
  - Consumer Culture and Popular Entertainment
  - Realism in Art and Literature
Populism and Progressivism
- Origins of Progressive Reform
  - Muckrakers
  - Social Reform
- Progressive Presidents
- Women's Roles
  - Workplace
  - Politics and Reform
- African American Experience
  - Urban Migration
  - Civil Rights Initiatives
America as a World Power
- American Imperialism: Political and Economic Expansion
- War in Europe
  - America's Neutrality
  - Commitment to Fight
- America at War
  - New Fears
  - Homefront
- The War Ends
The New Era: 1920s
- The Business of America and the Consumer Economy
  - Henry Ford, the Consumer Economy, and the American Worker
- Republican Politics: Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
- The Culture of Modernism: Science, the Arts, and Entertainment
- Responses to Modernism
  - Religious Fundamentalism
- The Ongoing Struggle for Equality
Great Depression and New Deal
- Causes of the Great Depression
- The Hoover Administration's Response
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
- Labor and Union Recognition
  - Labor Struggles
- The New Deal Coalition and Its Critics
- Surviving Hard Times: American Society during the Great Depression
The Second World War
- The Rise of Fascism and Militarism in Japan, Italy, and Germany
- The U.S. Policy of Neutrality
  - The Policy of Neutrality
  - The Lend-Lease Act
- The U.S. Enters the War
- Fighting a Multi-Front War
  - European Theater
  - Pacific Theater
- Wartime Diplomacy
The Home Front
- Wartime Mobilization of the Economy
  - Production and Labor
  - Citizen Sacrifice
- Urban Migration and Demographic Changes
  - African-Americans and the War
- Women, Work, and Family During World War II
  - Women Enter the Workforce
  - WACS, WAVES, and the USO
- Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During World War II
- War and Regional Development
  - Servicemen's Readjustment Act
  - Growth of California and the West
- Expansion of Government Power
  - War Powers Act
Cold War Beginnings
- Origins of the Cold War
  - Rise of Communism Abroad and the Emergence of the Iron Curtain
  - Defense of American Freedom
- Truman and Containment
- The Cold War in Asia
- Diplomatic Strategies and Policies
- The Red Scare and McCarthyism
  - McCarthyism and HUAC
  - Spy Trials
- Impact of the Cold War on American Society
The 1950s
- The Early Civil Rights Movement
- Affluence and The Other America
  - Increasing Affluence and Growth in Consumption
  - Rise in Social Programs and The Other America
- Consensus and Conformity: Suburbia and Middle Class America
- Social Critics, Nonconformists, and Cultural Rebels
  - Beatniks
  - Rock n� Roll
- Impact of Changes in Science, Medicine and Technology
  - Advances in Space
  - Advances in Medicine and Technology
The Turbulent 60s
- From The New Frontier to The Great Society
- Expanding Movements for Civil Rights
- Cold War Confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe
- Beginning of Détente
  - Beginning of Détente
- The Antiwar Movement and the Counterculture
Late 20th Century Politics and Economics
- The Election of 1968 and the Silent Majority
- Nixon's Challenges: Vietnam, China, Watergate
- Changes in the American Economy: The Energy Crisis, Deindustrialization, and the Service Economy
  - Jimmy Carter
- The New Right and The Reagan Revolution
  - Ronald Reagan
- End of the Cold War
  - George H.W. Bush
  - Fall of the Berlin Wall
Late 20th Century Society and Culture
- Demographic Changes: Surge of Immigration After 1965, Sunbelt Migration, and the Graying of America
  - Demographic Shift-Age
  - Demographic Shift-Immigration
- Revolutions in biotechnology, mass communication, and computers
- Politics in a Multicultural Society
Post-Cold War America
- Globalization and the American Economy
- Unilateralism vs. Multilateralism in Foreign Policy
- Domestic and Foreign Terrorism
- Environmental Issues in a Global Context
  - U.S. Environmental and Natural Disasters
  - Global Discussions on Global Warming and Other Environmental Issues
Contemporary America
- Politics
- Society and Culture
  - Education