Youth to maturity

Episode number 2 of Series “The History of United States foreign relations”. The second in a series which traces the development of American foreign relations. In the nineteenth century, western expansion across the continent and the Pacific, shaped American foreign relations. Sketches of outstanding diplomats, such as Perry, and America’s relations with European and Asian nations during the war with Mexico, the opening of Japan, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the eras of the ‘Open Door’ Policy and Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency.