RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 227 quite competent to manage their own affairs.” The federal government had entered the ...

228 ChaPter^4 miles of land protected, 1,528,500 acres of drought area land plowed using improved techniques, 271,760 acres of l ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 229 one of the country’s first radio talk shows. “These agencies were set up, not to sol ...

230 ChaPter^4 fronts a banker who arrives on his land to tell him to leave and threatens to kill him. The banker explains that h ...

FDR, New Deals, and the Limits of Power 231 again local leaders resisted outright welfare. Time and time again FDR stressed that ...

232 ChaPter^4 hope, for FDR did express his concern for the American people and cer- tainly was willing to adapt government poli ...

233 c haPter 5 World War and the Growth of Global Power P resident Roosevelt and Congress surely had their hands full trying to ...

234 ChaPter^5 restore traditional imperial power. In Asia, Japan was seeking domination of the continent and removal of the west ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 235 Great War. In the 1920s, Italy began to create Italian East Africa, which invol ...

236 ChaPter^5 ment,” or making payment. The conservatives did not and seized power and began a policy of “passive resistance” in ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 237 Door. If German and Italian fascism [and similar Japanese policies in Asia] took ho ...

238 ChaPter^5 power of the Catholic Church in Spanish politics. Franco asked Germany and Italy for help, and both Hitler and Mus ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 239 So, despite Hitler’s pledge that he would seek no more conquest, the Germans invade ...

240 ChaPter^5 nity to get a piece of France, joined the war in early June; Paris fell on June 14th and the government gave up on ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 241 That did not mean, however, that the war was over—far from it. One major reason Hit ...

242 ChaPter^5 Ishii Agreement, and other events all pointed to the importance of Asian markets for trade, materials and investme ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 243 gram and the ultimate goal, not surprisingly, was to take control of China. Japan h ...

244 ChaPter^5 goods and fight so they took drastic action, attacking a U.S. naval base in Hawai’i, Pearl Harbor, on December 7t ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 245 the united states: neutRality, the open dooR, and MilitaRy keynesianisM The United ...

246 ChaPter^5 Europe and in 1939 began increasing arms sales to Britain and France on the cash and carry basis. The fall of Fran ...