A History of America in 100 Maps

PROSPERITY, DEPRESSION, REFORM 201 The Great Depression ravaged the nation’s housing market. The widespread failure of banks dra ...

202 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Franklin Roosevelt became president at a moment of acute national crisis. Over 4,000 banks ...

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I n 1934 Senator Gerald Nye launched a high-profile investigation of American entry into World War I. Nye was responding to long ...

and killed his family. Once the Americans had liberated Austria, he began the long and harrowing journey home to Czechoslovakia, ...

206 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS More Americans encountered maps during World War II than in any previous era in American hi ...

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208 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Drawn in July 1941, the map captures the harrowing moment when the German invasion of the S ...

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210 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS After Congress approved Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program of massive military aid to Britain i ...

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BETWEEN WAR AND ABUNDANCE 213 More than 16 million men and women served in the American armed forces in World War II. Staggering ...

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216 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Between 1940 and 1945, the Nazi regime systematically murdered 6 million Jews. No artifacts ...

BETWEEN WAR AND ABUNDANCE 217 As American forces pressed from the west and the Soviets advanced from the east, Nazi brutality co ...

218 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The Mississippi River is arguably the most important waterway in the US, and certainly amon ...

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220 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Given the sheer size of the United States, the advent of commercial aviation had a profound ...