RONALD E. POWASKI teaches advanced placement American history at Euclid Senior High School in Euclid, Ohio. He also teaches American history, part-time, at John Carroll University and Cleveland State University. Dr. Powaski holds a Ph. D. in history and has authored March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present and Thomas Merton on Nuclear Weapons.

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: American Isolationism until 1901 The Emergence of American Internationalism, 1901-1921 Republican Isolationism, 1921-1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Aggressors, 1933-1939 The Road to War, 1939-1941 The Grand Alliance, 1941-1943 The Road to Victory, 1944-1945 The Collapse of the Grand Alliance, 1945-1947 The Creation of the North Atlantic Alliance, 1947-1950 Conclusion: The Entangling Alliance Suggested Readings Index

RONALD E. POWASKI teaches advanced placement American history at Euclid Senior High School in Euclid, Ohio. He also teaches American history, part-time, at John Carroll University and Cleveland State University. Dr. Powaski holds a Ph. D. in history and has authored March to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1939 to the Present and Thomas Merton on Nuclear Weapons.

• Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: American Isolationism until 1901 The Emergence of American Internationalism, 1901-1921 Republican Isolationism, 1921-1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Aggressors, 1933-1939 The Road to War, 1939-1941 The Grand Alliance, 1941-1943 The Road to Victory, 1944-1945 The Collapse of the Grand Alliance, 1945-1947 The Creation of the North Atlantic Alliance, 1947-1950 Conclusion: The Entangling Alliance Suggested Readings Index