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[conference at Dumbarton Oaks, outside Washington, D.C.]

Dumbarton Oaks is in Georgetown a part of Washington D.C.

the civil war?

 Lodge’s opponents successfully blocked America’s entry into the League of Nations,

I think you want to say “Lodge’s opposition”

[The army and navy chose to appoint them instead, which left the status of professional medical women hovering somewhere between the enlisted and officer ranks.]

Appoint them to what? The sentence is unclear.

From June 5th, 1942 till May 30th, 1943, a Japanese garrison occupied the Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska, which are a part of Alaska. The “Battle of Attu” took place there, and that was the first and only battle to be fought on U.S. soil during WWII.

I feel like that’s a pretty important thing that is not mentioned here at all.

Japanese troops surrender on June 3, 1943.

Goats were native to Eurasia. How is this possible pre-contact?

[black behavior]

Should read “the behavior of Blacks…”  It’s is an offense to refer to African-Americans as “black” and not “Black.”

Why isn’t there information about Native Americans fighting as soldiers in the Civil War?

Recommended citation for this chapter is incorrect as it reads-

Recommended Citation: Edwin C. Breeden et al., “The Cold War,” James McKay, ed., in The American Yawp, eds. Joseph Locke and Ben Wright (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018).