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=Chapter 28: American in a World at War (WWII)=

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 * 1) The initial American strategies for fighting the European and Pacific fronts, and the military engagements that characterized the first half of the war.
 * 2) The profound effect of World War II on the American economy, and the attempts by the Roosevelt administration to stabilize the wartime economic boom
 * 3) The impact of the war experience on organized labor and minorities at home.
 * 4) The development of advanced technologies during the war and their impact on the course of the conflict.
 * 5) The events leading to Allied victory in Germany and Japan, culminating in the fall of Berlin and President Truman's decision to use the Atomic Bomb.

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James J. Weingartner, //Americans, Germans, and War Crimes: Converging Narratives from "the Good War",// Journal of American History, Vol 94 No 4, March 2008. Following World War II, the United States conducted trials intended to bring Axis personnel to justice for violating international law in their treatment of both prisoners of war and civilians. But was the United States willing to hold itself accountable to the same standard that it applied to its recent enemies? Nothing in the wartime record of the United States equaled German genocidal barbarity, but all participants in World War II committed smaller-scale atrocities against enemy troops and civilians. James J. Weingartner explores the reaction of the U.S. Army to two such war crimes, one committed by Germans and one by Americans, and the way those crimes have been processed in the collective memories of the two peoples.=====