A Short History of the United States

236 a short history of the united states event of war. With designs on French Indochina, Japan then signed an agreement with the ...

The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II 237 manders in the field understood the military capability of the Japanese ...

238 a short history of the united states Harbor were so intense that Japanese-American citizens living prin- cipally along the W ...

The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II 239 so that people could live freely under governments they themselves chos ...

240 a short history of the united states On January 13, 1942, Roosevelt appointed Donald M. Nelson to head the War Production Bo ...

The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II 241 into the Soviet Union and laid siege to Leningrad. Far worse, the yet g ...

242 a shor t h istory of th e united stat es Admiral Yamamoto headed for Midway Island, a base of strategic im- portance because ...

The Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II 243 began with the invasion of Italy, followed on June 6 , 1944 , with a ma ...

244 a short history of the united states Meanwhile, the Allied forces drove across Europe, and Germany was subjected to constant ...

9 The Cold War and Civil Rights S hortly before the end of World War II, Harry Truman delivered his first address as President t ...

246 a short history of the united states their po litical beliefs and refused to answer. Convicted of contempt of Congress, they ...

The Cold War and Civil Rights 247 that the United States would undertake the development and produc- tion of an even more terrib ...

248 a short history of the united states A housing boom resulted in which new communities, such as Levit- town in New York, spra ...

The Cold War and Civil Rights 249 the voting habits of union members. Those who had voted Republican in the past now switched to ...

250 a short history of the united states recovery program. He said that his plan was directed not against any partic ular countr ...

The Cold War and Civil Rights 251 Committee in 1946 and had urged Congress to enact the committee’s recommendations to root out ...

252 a short history of the united states called for the nationalization of certain basic industries and a commit- ment of friend ...

The Cold War and Civil Rights 253 became clear as the tabulation of votes continued through election night. First, in the big ci ...

254 a short history of the united states October 1949. Taking advantage of the widespread corruption in the Nationalist Party of ...

The Cold War and Civil Rights 255 vote of 67 to 22 , to condemn him on December 2 , 1954 , for “conduct that tends to bring the ...