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Chapter 28: America in A World at War


Main Themes

Main Themes

1. That the vast productive capacity of the United States was the key to the defeat of the Axis.

2. That the war had a profound effect on the home front.

3. How three major western offensives combined with an ongoing Russian effort to defeat Germany.

4. How sea power contained the Japanese, and how Allied forces moved steadily closer to Japan and prepared for an invasion until the atomic bomb ended the war.


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