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America Unbound

World War II and the Making of a Superpower

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Warren F. Kimball

    1. Rutgers University, USA

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Part of the book series: The World of the Roosevelts (WOOROO)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Warren F. Kimball
    Pages 1-12

  3. Power and Superpower: The Impact of Two World Wars on America’s International Role

    • David Reynolds
    Pages 13-35

  4. U.S. Globalism: The End of the Concert of Europe

    • Donald Cameron Watt
    Pages 37-54

  5. American Empire, American Raj

    • Walter LaFeber
    Pages 55-72

  6. The Legacy of World War II for American Conventional Military Strategy: Should We Escape It?

    • Russell F. Weigley
    Pages 73-93

  7. America and Wartime Changes in Intelligence

    • Bradley F. Smith
    Pages 95-106

  8. Soviet Espionage and the Office of Strategic Services

    • Hayden B. Peake
    Pages 107-138

  9. U. S. Economic Strategy in World War II: Wartime Goals, Peacetime Plans

    • Warren F. Kimball
    Pages 139-157

  10. Genocide Treaty Ratification: Ending an American Embarrassment

    • William Korey
    Pages 159-179

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 181-188
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Whether World War II made or merely marked the transition of the United States from a major world power to a superpower, the fact remains that America's role in the world around it had undergone a dramatic change. Other nations had long recognized the potential of the United States. They had seen its power exercised regularly in economics, if only sparodically in politics. But World War II, and the landscape it left behind, prompted American leaders and the Congress to conclude that they had to use the nation's strength to protect and advance its interests.

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  • Rutgers University, USA

    Warren F. Kimball

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