RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

World War and the Growth of Global Power 247 offered to help Churchill by sending 50 old destroyers and in exchange received 8 B ...

248 ChaPter^5 military, not civilian or public works projects. Even then, the economy would remain in private hands, as FDR lean ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 249 went out to replace the old stock—including 500,000 rifles and 76,000 machine guns— ...

250 ChaPter^5 This declaration had a dual purpose, to defeat Germany and to expand the American economy. On March 11th, 1941, st ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 251 stopped somewhat in the Battle of Britain in 1940-41, but the German offen- sive in ...

252 ChaPter^5 order to get more troops and equipment. This delay gave the Soviets time to regroup and when the German offen- siv ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 253 Britain. The British were not eager to open another theater, leading Stalin to accu ...

254 ChaPter^5 and southern Europe, the traditional lines of transport for imperial trade, and would not risk those interests to ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 255 Russians were pouring through Eastern Europe now, clearing the Nazis from Yugoslavi ...

256 ChaPter^5 the ropes and Americans and Russians met at the Elbe River and marched into Berlin together. Hitler killed himself ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 257 destroyers, 63 submarines, and 3000 planes—and also struck Guam, Wake Island, and H ...

258 ChaPter^5 In the April 43 Battle of Bismarck Sea the U.S. for the first time used land- based bombers to destroy the Japanes ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 259 vivors. Nimitz effectively attacked Japanese forces in the Marshalls, gaining contr ...

260 ChaPter^5 many say was the inspiration for the “Jack D. Ripper” character in “Dr. Strangelove,” a satirical 1964 movie about ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 261 oil taken from occupied countries—and 150 million tons of steel, mostly German. By ...

262 ChaPter^5 year men,” meaning they received a symbolic salary of one dollar for their work. But the profits that their compan ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 263 from $81 billion to $180 billion, over a 200 percent increase. Since millions of wo ...

264 ChaPter^5 policy, production, and consumption—would lead to major developments inside the U.S. too, as women, labor, and eth ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 265 most notably Kristallnacht, or the “night of broken glass,” a series of attacks on ...

266 ChaPter^5 10 percent of the quota allowed by law. FDR argued that the best way to save Jews was to defeat Germany on the bat ...