The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

710 Chapter 26 The New Deal: 1933–1941 1933 FDR becomes president Hitler is elected German chancellor FDR proclaims Good Neighbo ...

Chapter Review 711 New Deal A broad program of legislation pro- posed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to pro- mote recovery f ...

Does the war in Afghanistan touch your life? 712 Although all young American men are required to regis- ter for the military dra ...

War and Peace, 1941–1945War and Peace: 1941–1945 27 CONTENTS ■Ed Reep’s Anzio Harbor Under Bombardmentwas sketched out as Americ ...

714 Chapter 27 War and Peace, 1941–1945 The Road to Pearl Harbor Neither the United States nor Japan wanted war. Roosevelt consi ...

Mobilizing the Home Front 715 Thus when planes from Japanese aircraft carriers swooped down upon Pearl Harbor on the morning of ...

Prosperity and stiffer government controls added significantly to the strength of organized labor; indeed, the war had more to d ...

Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians 717 health insurance were added benefits. The war effort had almost no ...

718 Chapter 27 War and Peace, 1941–1945 A poster commemorates Doris “Dorie” Miller, a mess attendant aboard the USS West Virgini ...

members today and ask full support for the war in the light of the atmosphere the government has created.” Many black newspaper ...

720 Chapter 27 War and Peace, 1941–1945 expecting only to preserve what they had. They there- fore found it easier to tolerate d ...

Women’s Contributions to the War Effort 721 soon doing “men’s work” in the shipyards. The Seattle taxicab union objected to wome ...

722 Chapter 27 War and Peace, 1941–1945 California. Housing was always in short supply in these areas, and while the men went of ...

Allied Strategy: Europe First 723 Africa. After the fall of France, the Nazis had set up a puppet regime in those parts of Franc ...

724 Chapter 27 War and Peace, 1941–1945 Germany Overwhelmed By the time the Allies had taken Rome, the mighty army needed to inv ...

The Naval War in the Pacific 725 soldiers and military equipment took precedence over any other objective. Thus, when American j ...

726 medic screams. That is the point: When huge armies con- verge, hurling high explosives and steel at each other, one’s chance ...

727 Saving Private Ryanwas part of a wave of nostalgic appreciation during the 1990s for the generation that had won World War I ...

728 Chapter 27 War and Peace, 1941–1945 mastery of these waters would cut Australia off from Hawaii and thus from American aid. ...

Island Hopping 729 In the autumn of 1943 the American drives toward Japan and the Philippines got under way at last. In the cent ...