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🗓️ 5 July 2023
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0:00.0 | War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding |
0:10.8 | right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its |
0:16.5 | size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history. |
0:24.0 | Welcome to Key Battles of American History, |
0:26.8 | a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars. |
0:32.8 | Here is your host, James Early. |
0:43.9 | Thank you. your host, James Early. Hello and welcome to a special episode of Key Battles of American History. |
0:48.3 | This is your host, James Early. |
0:50.0 | As always, got a really special program for you today. |
0:54.7 | In 1938, the prime ministers of Britain and France forced Czechoslovakia to cede land to the Third Reich. |
1:00.8 | Nazi thugs attacked Jewish homes and businesses during Kristallnach. |
1:04.8 | Charles Lindbergh was so forceful in his public praise of Nazi air power that Luftwaffe |
1:10.2 | commander Gehring decorated him with the |
1:12.6 | service cross of the German Eagle, and the United States was so politically isolationist and pacifist, |
1:18.6 | that its defense forces were smaller than Portugal's. That same year, Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
1:23.7 | ordered the federal government to spark a dramatic expansion in domestic airplane production, |
1:28.6 | and this minor effort, three years before Pearl Harbor, would in time become the arsenal |
1:34.3 | of democracy, the full-throttle unleashing of American enterprise that was the secret weapon for |
1:39.2 | victory in World War II. Combined with Roosevelt's public fight with Lindbergh, known as the Great Debate, |
1:46.0 | victory at land, sea, and air across the globe began at home. Under FDR's resolute leadership, |
1:51.7 | the United States rose from poverty and solitude to defeat the greatest evils of the 20th century. |
1:56.9 | By transforming what Americans thought they could achieve, FDR's efforts ended the Great Depression, |
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