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FROM ISOLATION TO WORLD WAR: 1930-1945


Ohio's New Learning Standards: Social Studies

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High School American History
Content Statement 21. During the 1930s, the U.S. government attempted to distance the country from earlier interventionist policies in the Western Hemisphere as well as retain an isolationist approach to events in Europe and Asia until the beginning of World War II.
Content Statement 22. The United States mobilization of its economic and military resources during World War II brought significant changes to American society.


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Bibliography

Knepper, George W. Ohio and Its People. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1997.

Lentz, Ed. Columbus: The Story of a City. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Press, 2003.

Ohio History Central.  http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org.

Shriver, Phillip and Wunderlin, Jr., Clarence E.  The Documentary Heritage of Ohio.  Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000.

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