American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th EditionChapter 26:
AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WARMain themes of Chapter Twenty-six: - The initial American strategies for fighting the European and Pacific fronts, and the military engagements that characterized the first half of the war
- The profound effect of World War II
on the American economy, and the attempts by the Roosevelt administration to stabilize the wartime economic boom
- The impact of the war experience on organized labor and minorities at home
- The development of advanced technologies during the war and their impact on the course of the conflict
- The events leading to Allied victory in Germany and Japan, culminating in the fall of Berlin and President Truman's decision to use the Atomic Bomb
A thorough study of Chapter Twenty-six should enable the student to understand the following:- The efforts of the federal government to mobilize the nation's economy for war production
- The critical importance of the vast productive capacity of the United States in defeating of the Axis
- The effects of American participation in the war on the Depression and on New Deal reform
- The changes that the wartime involvement brought for women, labor, and racial and ethnic minorities
- The contributions of the United States military to victory in North Africa and Europe
- The contributions of the United States military to victory in the Pacific
- The historical disagreement over President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb
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