Rise of America
Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of American Global Ambition
Theodore Roosevelt became president in September 1901 at forty-two years old, following the assassination of William McKinley. He was the youngest person t…
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The Yalta Conference: Dividing the World
February 1945. The war in Europe was ending. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at Yalta in the Crimea. They came to decide the future of the post-war wo…
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The New Deal: When America Reinvented Its Government
By March 4, 1933, the day Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as the thirty-second president of the United States, the American economy was in a stat…
Rise of America
World War Two: The War That Made America the Dominant Power on Earth
When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War Two on December 7, 1941, America was militarily unprepared but industrial…
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Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy
December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. Roosevelt's words captured the shock. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor without warning. Two waves of…