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Making America: A History of the United States, Brief Second Edition
Carol Berkin, Christopher L. Miller, Robert W. Cherny, James L. Gormly, W. Thomas Mainwaring
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Chapter 26: America’s Rise To World Leadership, 1933 - 1945

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Analyze the foreign policy constraints Roosevelt faced before 1939 and how they shaped America’s foreign policy choices from 1932 to the outbreak of World War II.

  2. Explain what measures Roosevelt took between 1935 and December 1941 to help defeat Hitler and to constrain Japanese aggression.

  3. Understand what new opportunities women and minorities encountered on the home front as they responded to the war.

  4. Evaluate the strategic choices and constraints Roosevelt and Truman confronted in making the decisions that shaped the course of the war against Germany and Japan.



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