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Real Time History

Season 2025 · Episode 8

The Mexican-American War 1846-48

0.051mMay 16, 2025

In the early 19th century, the United States and Mexico share a massive cross- continental border, but US settlement in Mexico, expansionist ideals and religious differences put the young republics on a collision course. As tensions boil over into bloodshed, the tiny, inexperienced US army marches to a war which will forge the modern United States.

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Episodes

Episode 1U-Boats Unleashed: Battle of the Atlantic 1940
Episode 2Does Russia Always Win Its Wars?
Episode 3Origin of the China-Taiwan Conflict: Chinese Civil War 1945-1949
Episode 4Grave of the German Navy - Battle of Norway 1940
Episode 5The Last Total War? - Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988
Episode 6Mussolini's Blunder: Greece and North Africa 1940
Episode 7Rise of Japan: 1st Sino-Japanese War 1894-95
Episode 8The Mexican-American War 1846-48
Episode 9Yom Kippur War 1973
Episode 10Why didn’t the Allies Attack Germany in 1939?
Episode 11Britannia Rules the Mediterranean Sea: British Empire at War 1940
Episode 12Battle of Peleliu 1944
Episode 13German-Soviet Invasion of Poland 1939
Episode 14Rise of Mao: The Wars for China 1927-1949
Episode 15Why Japan Lost the Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944
Episode 16Battle of Manila 1945
Episode 17Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979
Episode 18First Year of WW2 1939-1940
Episode 19Why the US Invaded Iraq
Episode 20Battle of Tarawa 1943
Episode 21Why the 1979 Iranian Revolution Happened