Cmd-tab does not bring up window

When you use command-tab (actually cntl-tab) in Windows, you can scroll through each active program and the active program you stop on displays the window of the active program even if you had minimized it previously. This is not true for the Mac operating systems. You can use cmd-tab, but the program you stop on--even though it is the active program--the window does not show if it has been minimized. You have to click on the icon in the dock.
Is there anyway you can re-launch the last active window of the active program without clicking on its icon in the dock? Is there a shortcut key combination that launches the window of an active program?

To my knowledge, no. I tend to avoid the problem by not minimizing windows. If I want to get to the desktop I use Mission Control's desktop function. I also use multiple desktops and assign programs to them.

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