Aftermath of history

Traces the chaos the ensured in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s that led to the creation of a new Mexican constitution in 1917.

Examines the political, economic, and social factors that influenced the United States' war with pirates from the Barbary States of North Africa, and explores how those battles influenced the country's military operations and foreign policy.

Discusses Ho Chi Minh's battle against the French army, which resulted in the withdrawal of French forces from the country, Ho Chi Minh's determination to reunite Vietnam under Communist rule, and the United States' involvement in the conflict that cost over one million American and Vietnamese lives.

Discusses the history and culture of the South African Zulus, whose warriors astonished the British with their skill and fierceness during the 1879 Zulu War.

Traces the political and social changes that occurred in Nicaragua after the Sandinistas overthrew the dictating Somoza family, which had backing from the United States; and discusses the rights of foreign nations to intervene in outside affairs in the twentieth century.

Discusses the events after the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, when the Communist Party, led by Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin, began a repressive and violent government that led to starvation, the formation of labor camps, and the Cold War.