Mastering Modern United States History

This text covers the key developments in American History from 1900 to 1980. It provides comprehensive coverage of each president from Theodore Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter. Dramatic events such as the Wall Street Crash, Pearl Harbor, Cuban Missile Crisis and the Watergate Scandal are fully explored.

List of contents

Introduction.- America at the Turn of the Century.- The Progressive Period 1900-1919.- The United States and Foreign Affairs: 1898-1917.- America at War and in Peace: 1917-1919.- The Aftermath of War: American Society in the 1920s.- The American Economy in the 1920s.- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-1941.- American Foreign Policy 1920-1941.- The USA and the Second World War.- The Cold War.- 'The Forgotten War': The War in Korea.- President Truman and the Post-war American Economy.- The Eisenhower Era: 1953-1961.- Eisenhower's Foreign Policy: 1953-1961.- The Kennedy Presidency: 1961-1963.- Kennedy's Foreign Policy 1961-1963.- Johnson and the Great Society.- Johnson's Foreign Policy.- The Nixon Years.- Nixon's Foreign Policy.- Index.

Product details

• Authors: John Traynor
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2001
• EAN: 9780333730058
• ISBN: 978-0-333-73005-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Palgrave Master Series; Master S; Macmillan Master Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories