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Infamy: FDR's War of Empires    NEW!

Eighty-five years ago, the Roosevelt Administration planned and provoked an attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of the Japanese Imperial Navy. This closely guarded maneuvering by elite American leaders unified the overwhelmingly anti-war nation into leading the defeat of fascism in Japan and Germany. In doing so, the United States crushed the nascent imperial ambitions of those two nations, and it oversaw the eventual dismemberment of the empires of England, France, and Netherlands in Asia. In this course, you will discover how it all occurred. Your December 7, “a date that will live in infamy,” will never be the same.

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