1. "The Purchase of Seward's Icebox, 1867: a Combination of Statesmanship and Corruption." Join historian Benjamin Rhodes for a discussion of how and why Russia sold Alaska to the United States at a bargain price. Secretary of State William H. Seward can be credited with a brilliant achievement, but congressmen demanded huge bribes for granting their approval. 2. "Mediating the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905." A diplomatic historian surveys the conflict in which Japan destroyed Russia's Baltic fleet at Tsushima Strait and further humiliated St. Petersburg by forcing the cession of all Russian mining and railroad concessions in Northeast China as well as part of Sakhalin Island. President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediation, but made no friends either in Russia or Japan. 3. "How Americans Loved the Russian Revolution -- At First." Just as America entered World War I, the Russian monarchy collapsed (somewhat like the USSR?) and Woodrow Wilson hailed a new democratic Russia (somewhat like today's Middle East?). 4. "November, 1917: The Russian Revolution Turns From Hope to Horror." A historian explains why Russians still remember President Wilson's policy of non-recognition on moral grounds and still resent the weak Allied military interventions in North Russian and Siberia. 5. "The Road to Pearl Harbor." Join historian Benjamin Rhodes for a discussion of Japan's drive for empire in China and Southeast Asia. The goal, said Tokyo, was to place the <b>...</b>Длительность: 2:11
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The massive wave of water, as high as 10 metres in some parts, reached more than five kilometres inland. The meteorological agency issued its top-level evacuation alerts for the entire Japanese coast amid warnings of a tsunami of between six and 10 metres. Towns and farms around Sendai city in northern Japan have been engulfed by a seven-metre tsunami, while a four-metre wave swamped parts of Kamaishi on the Pacific coast. Residents have been ordered to high ground and stay away from the coast as tsunamis can strike in several waves. Seismologists say the quake was 160 times more powerful than the one that devastated Christchurch last month. Wall of water crosses Japan's east coast Large parts of Miyagi prefecture engulfed Homes flooded, cars and boats washed away No leaks of radioactive material from power plants BOM says no tsunami warning for Australia Contact DFAT on 1300 555 135 Japanese television has shown pictures of a wall of water kilometres wide moving its way across the countryside, engulfing everything in its path. The Cosmo oil refinery in Chiba prefecture outside Tokyo has exploded, sending flames dozens of metres into the air, with firefighters unable to contain the inferno. It is one of more than 40 blazes burning across Japan. "An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines near the epicentre within minutes and more distant coastlines within hours," the agency said. A tsunami warning has been <b>...</b>
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