United States in the Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1929-1945

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This course focuses on one of the most critical periods of the twentieth century. It covers the stock market crash; the Great Depression and its impact on American society; the Relief, Recovery, and Reform measures of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal; the rising fascist threat and America's response; Pearl Harbor; World War II on the home front, the battlefields, and the summit conferences of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin; and the birth of the United Nations and the nuclear age.