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How World War II changed America and the World
In Mighty Endeavor: The American Nation and the Second World War historian Blaine Browne provides a highly readable introduction to the war's military course and its domestic consequences. World War II represented a major transformative event for America, laying the foundations for a modern postwar superpower. Browne chronicles the political, diplomatic, military, economic, and social developments from the end of World War I to the Cold War and economic boom of the postwar years. Each chapter features opening and closing biographies of individuals, some famous, some forgotten, who helped shape the war effort. The profiles represent a wide variety of Americans, civilian and military, men and women, and representing diverse races and ethnicities. Readers who recall the war years to those students studying it for the first time will find The Mighty Endeavor a superb gateway to a pivotal period of American and world history.
In Mighty Endeavor: The American Nation and the Second World War historian Blaine Browne provides a highly readable introduction to the war's military course and its domestic consequences. World War II represented a major transformative event for America, laying the foundations for a modern postwar superpower. Browne chronicles the political, diplomatic, military, economic, and social developments from the end of World War I to the Cold War and economic boom of the postwar years. Each chapter features opening and closing biographies of individuals, some famous, some forgotten, who helped shape the war effort. The profiles represent a wide variety of Americans, civilian and military, men and women, and representing diverse races and ethnicities. Readers who recall the war years to those students studying it for the first time will find The Mighty Endeavor a superb gateway to a pivotal period of American and world history.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 âFor Too Many Years We Lived on Pious Hopesâ: America between the Wars, 1919â1939
- 2 âWe Face One of the Greatest Choices of Historyâ: America on the Brink, August 1939âDecember 1941
- 3 âWe Have Suffered a Serious Setbackâ: Defeat, Despair, and Determination, 1941â1942
- 4 âWe Must Be the Great Arsenal of Democracyâ: Mobilizing Industry, Labor, and Public Opinion
- 5 âAll of Us at Home Are Being Testedâ: The Social Impact of War
- 6 âPride of Our Nationâ: Americaâs Fighting Men and Women
- 7 âFree to Live and Love and Laughâ: Wartime Pastimes and Pleasures
- 8 âTo Free a Suffering Humanityâ: North Africa and Europe, 1942â1944
- 9 âWe Shall Strangle the Black Dragon of Japanese Militarismâ: The Pacific War, 1943â1944
- 10 âWe Belong to Many Races and Colors and CreedsâWe Are Americansâ: Strains in the Social Fabric
- 11 âI Have the Right to Resent, to Object to Libelous Statements about My Dogâ: Political Unity and Partisanship in Wartime
- 12 âWe Have Learned to Be Citizens of the Worldâ: 1945
- Epilogue
- Selected Bibliography
- About the Author