RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

World War and the Growth of Global Power 287 ditions. Union membership thrived under those circumstances; by 1946 about 70 perce ...

288 ChaPter^5 pay raises during the war and now wanted to be rewarded. The new president was never pro-labor to begin, and in th ...

World War and the Growth of Global Power 289 The war, coming at the same time as the global economic depression, cre- ated huge ...

290 ChaPter^5 than 10 years later, the same people, the same country, had helped defeat 2 challenges to world stability, the Ope ...

291 c haPter 6 The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars W orld War II was a great cause of transformation on many ...

292 ChaPter^6 II–with the use of two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. American President Harry S. Truman approved the use ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 293 The main point of these atomic critics, the best known of whom was Ga ...

294 ChaPter^6 of the Japanese mainland was January 1st, 1946–both dates are signifi- cantly later than the early August Soviet p ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 295 of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bo ...

296 ChaPter^6 In the last few decades, scientists and historians have begun to correct the historical record. The bomb’s use, ma ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 297 and established the dollar as a global currency. At first glance, th ...

298 ChaPter^6 World Bank was given on the condition that much of that money would be used to purchase goods and services from U. ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 299 Cold War! The Political Rivalry Emerges The Bretton Woods system anti ...

300 ChaPter^6 The Cold War, like the war itself, was a war to expand the Open Door, and it was going well. Still, the Americans ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 301 was important because it lay between Germany and the Soviet Union and ...

302 ChaPter^6 at Versailles after World War I, it would again take center stage as World War II ended. Germany was again perhaps ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 303 Nazis, was basically now dead because of their differences over the f ...

304 ChaPter^6 meant that the Soviet Union would try to expand but that the U.S. could contain it so that it would not gain influ ...

The Growth of American Power Through Cold and Hot Wars 305 memory, were reluctant to spend money for other countries when the U. ...

306 ChaPter^6 pered by idealistic slogans, the better.” This is a striking statement. Kennan here admitted the U.S. goal of worl ...