1. Chapter Twenty-Eight:
America in a World At War
Brinkley, The Unfinished
Nation, 4/e

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 War on Two Fronts
 Containing
the Japanese
 Japan Victorious
 Battle of Midway
World War II
in the Pacific

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 War on Two Fronts
 Holding Off the Germans
 Dwight Eisenhower
 Battle of Stalingrad
 Italy Invaded
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America in a World at War
World War II in North Africa and
Italy: The Allied Counteroffensive
1942-1943

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 War on Two Fronts
 America and the Holocaust
 The St. Louis
Rabbi Stephen Wise speaks
(Library of Congress)
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 War on Two Fronts
 America and the Holocaust
 The St. Louis
 Moral Failure
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 The American Economy in Wartime
 Prosperity and the Rights of Labor
 Massive Government Spending
Assembling Liberator Bomber,
Consolidated Aircraft Corp.,
Fort Worth, Texas
(Library of Congress)
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 The American Economy in Wartime
 Prosperity and the Rights of Labor
 Massive Government Spending
 Union Membership Posted
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America in a World at War
Striking miners drawing
rations, West Virginia.
Miners ration line II
(Library of Congress)

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 The American Economy in Wartime
 Stabilizing the Boom and Mobilizing Production
 Office of Price Administration
 War Production Board
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 The American Economy in Wartime
 Wartime Science and Technology
 National Defense Research Committee
 Sonar
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Radar Scope, 1944

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 The American Economy in Wartime
 Wartime Science and Technology
 National Defense Research Committee
 Sonar
 Long-Range Bombing
 Importance of Code-Breaking
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 Race and Gender in Wartime America
 African Americans and the War
 A. Philip Randolph
 Wartime Race Riots
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America in a World at War
"Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.” Dorie
Miller with his Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor,
May 27, 1942.
(Library of Congress)

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 Race and Gender in Wartime America
 Native Americans and the War
 Navajo “Code-Talkers”
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 Race and Gender in Wartime America
 Mexican-Americans War Workers
 Braceros Program
 Zoot-Suit Riots
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America in a World at War
Washington, D.C. Soldier inspecting a couple
of "zoot suits" at the Uline Arena during
Woody Herman's Orchestra engagement there
(Library of Congress)

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 Race and Gender in Wartime America
 The Internment of Japanese-Americans
 “Relocation Centers”
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America in a World at War
The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans
from West Coast areas under U.S. Army
war emergency order. Japanese-Americans
going to camp at Owens Valley gather
around baggage car at the old Santa Fe
Station (Library of Congress)

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 Race and Gender in Wartime America
 Chinese Americans and the War
 Declining Prejudice toward Chinese Americans
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 Race and Gender in Wartime America
 Women and Children in Wartime
 “Rosie the Riveter”
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Woman aircraft worker, Vega
Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif.
(Library of Congress)

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 Race and Gender in Wartime America
 Women and Children in Wartime
 “Rosie the Riveter”
 WAACs and WAVEs
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America in a World at War
Women at War

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 Race and Gender in Wartime America
 Women and Children in Wartime
 “Rosie the Riveter”
 WAACs and WAVEs
 Start of the “Baby Boom”
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 Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture
 Consumerism Reborn
“Home is where the good things are- the
generosity, the good pay, the comforts, the
democracy, the pie.”
John Hersey
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 Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture
 Wartime Entertainment and Leisure
 Popularity of Swing
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 Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture
 Women and Men in the Armed Services
 Importance of USOs
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 Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture
 Retreat from Reform
 Conservative Assault on the New Deal
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 Anxiety and Affluence in Wartime Culture
 Retreat from Reform
 Conservative Assault on the New Deal
 Roosevelt Reelected
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America in a World at War
Statue of Thomas E. Dewey
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 The Defeat of the Axis
 The Liberation
of France
 Invasion of France
 Battle of the Bulge
 Germany Invaded
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 The Defeat of the Axis
 The Pacific Offensive
 Battle of Leyte Gulf
Sailor. Washington Navy Yard,
Washington, D.C.
(Library of Congress)
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 The Defeat of the Axis
 The Pacific Offensive
 Battle of Leyte Gulf
 Tokyo Firebombed
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 The Defeat of the Axis
 The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
 Atomic Fission
 J. Robert Oppenheimer
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America in a World at War
Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J.
Robert Oppenheimer thanking the
physicist and his
colleagues for their ongoing secret
atomic research, 29 June 1943
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 The Defeat of the Axis
 The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
 Atomic Fission
 J. Robert Oppenheimer
 Persistent Controversy
Chapter Twenty-Eight:
America in a World at War
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds...”
J. Robert Oppenheimer

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 The Defeat of the Axis
 The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
 Atomic Fission
 J. Robert Oppenheimer
 Persistent Controversy
 Hiroshima Destroyed
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America in a World at War
Hiroshima, September 1945

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 The Defeat of the Axis
 The Manhattan Project and Atomic Warfare
 Atomic Fission
 J. Robert Oppenheimer
 Persistent Controversy
 Hiroshima Destroyed
 Nagasaki
 Surrender of Japan
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 Debating the Past:
The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
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America in a World at War