Teach Yourself Twentieth Century USA,9780071452144

Teach Yourself Twentieth Century USA

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ISBN13: 9780071452144
ISBN10: 0071452141
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Pub. Date: 2005-04-20
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
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Summary

Readers journey back to the end of WW IIandbeginning of the superpower stare-down betweenAmerica and the Soviet Union. From the cold war tothe fall of Communism to the political scandals ofthe 1990s, Teach Yourself Twentieth-Century USAprovides a comprehensive and concise chronicle ofhow America got where it is today.

Author Biography

Carole Bryan Jones is an experienced teacher of twentieth century history.

Table of Contents

the USA at the beginning of the twentieth century
1(7)
the American Constitution and federalism
3(3)
political parties
6(1)
the voters
6(2)
the USA in 1900
8(12)
progressivism
9(1)
President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt 1901--9
10(3)
President William Howard Taft 1909--13
13(2)
President Woodrow Wilson 1913--20
15(5)
the First World War
20(15)
the sinking of the Lusitania
21(1)
the Zimmerman telegram
22(1)
unrestricted submarine warfare
23(2)
the Battle of the Marne
25(1)
St Mihiel
26(1)
the Battle of the Argonne
26(1)
the US Home Front
27(1)
US losses
28(1)
the Treaty of Versailles
29(1)
the League of Nations
30(2)
The USA's isolationism 1919--33
32(3)
problems and challenges in the 1920s
35(17)
Prohibition
38(3)
gangsters
41(5)
the Ku Klux Klan
46(3)
social changes
49(3)
politics and the economy in the 1920s
52(15)
President Calvin Coolidge 1923--9
54(1)
the economic boom
55(3)
the `Roaring Twenties'
58(6)
the economy in 1928
64(3)
the Depression years
67(11)
the Wall Street crash
68(1)
the reality of unemployment
69(1)
the effect of the Depression on the family
70(1)
the Depression in the countryside
71(1)
Herbert Hoover and government action
72(3)
the 1932 presidential election
75(3)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
78(17)
the Hundred Days
79(1)
the New Deal
80(4)
the Second New Deal
84(3)
the 1936 presidential election
87(1)
opposition to the New Deal
87(3)
did all Americans benefit from the New Deal?
90(2)
the new slump
92(1)
Roosevelt's achievements
93(1)
the 1940 presidential election
94(1)
the Second World War
95(19)
Neutrality Acts
96(3)
the 1940 presidential election campaign
99(1)
the Lend Lease Act 1941
99(2)
the Atlantic Charter
101(1)
Pearl Harbor
102(3)
The New Deal at war
105(1)
the economic effect of war
105(1)
the internment of Japanese-Americans
106(1)
domestic changes
107(1)
the war in Europe
108(2)
the war in the Pacific
110(4)
the Cold War 1945--60
114(17)
what was the Cold War?
115(1)
Yalta
116(1)
Potsdam conference
116(2)
the Truman Doctrine
118(1)
Marshall aid
119(1)
National Security Council Resolution 68
120(1)
the German question
120(2)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
122(1)
Eisenhower and Dulles: Cold War warriors
123(1)
the Cold War in Asia
124(7)
1950s' consumerism and communism
131(16)
the standard of living
132(1)
rise of the suburbs
133(1)
television
134(1)
teen culture
135(3)
literature
138(1)
the car culture
139(1)
prosperity in the 1950s
140(1)
politics in the 1950s
141(1)
McCarthyism
142(5)
race relations and civil rights
147(25)
the situation in 1900
148(1)
Booker T. Washington and accommodationism
149(1)
W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP
150(2)
Marcus Garvey and Black Pride
152(1)
the end of the 1920s
153(1)
Roosevelt and the New Deal
153(2)
the Second World War and civil rights
155(1)
Truman and civil rights
156(1)
civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s
157(8)
black radicalism 1965--8
165(4)
the conservatism of the 1970s and 1980s
169(1)
President Bill Clinton
170(1)
the situation at the end of the twentieth century
171(1)
Kennedy and the 1960s
172(23)
Kennedy during the war
173(1)
politics and marriage
174(4)
support of space programmes
178(1)
Kennedy and foreign affairs
179(8)
assassination
187(3)
the Warren Commission
190(1)
conspiracy theories
191(2)
the President's health
193(1)
the President's love life
194(1)
Vietnam
195(21)
the domino theory
197(1)
the guerrillas return
198(1)
opposition to Diem's regime
199(1)
President Lyndon B. Johnson 1963--9
200(1)
the Gulf of Tonkin
201(1)
Operation Rolling Thunder
202(1)
Increasing ground troops
203(1)
search and destroy
204(1)
Vietcong tactics
205(1)
the My Lai massacre 1968
206(1)
the Tet offensive 1968
207(1)
protest and the media
208(1)
peace talks
209(1)
Vietnamization
209(2)
renewal of war
211(1)
why did the US fail in Vietnam?
212(1)
effects of the war
212(4)
Nixon and Watergate
216(15)
a decade of protest
218(2)
economic policies
220(1)
Nixon and foreign policy
220(2)
the Middle East
222(1)
Vietnam
223(1)
Nixon and the presidency
223(6)
Nixon's departure
229(1)
the effect of Watergate on US politics
229(2)
Ford and Carter
231(13)
President Gerald Ford 1974--7
232(3)
the 1976 presidential election
235(1)
President James Earl Carter 1977--81
236(3)
the 1980 presidential election
239(1)
life after the presidency
239(1)
the 1970s -- a forgotten decade
240(4)
Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War
244(14)
assassination attempt
247(1)
economic policy
248(2)
social programmes
250(2)
the AIDS epidemic
252(1)
Reagan and foreign policy
252(1)
Stars Wars
253(4)
end of an era
257(1)
Bush and Clinton
258(15)
President George Herbert Bush 1989--93
259(4)
the 1992 presidential election
263(1)
President William Jefferson Clinton 1993--2001
264(5)
impeachment
269(3)
achievements
272(1)
the end of the millennium
273(8)
Bush in office
275(1)
11 September 2001
276(3)
the war on terrorism
279(1)
Iraq
279(2)
conclusion 281(1)
glossary 282(3)
abbreviations 285(2)
taking it further 287(2)
Index 289

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