America in the Twentieth Century

by Moss, George Donelson

• ISBN13: 9780130833709
• ISBN10: 0130833703
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For freshman/sophomore-level survey courses in 20th Century U.S. History. Written in a lively, narrative style, this comprehensive survey of 20th century U.S. historyfrom the late 19th century through the late 20th centuryfocuses on the public life of American people, on American political history, and the history of American public policy. It intertwines political, demographic, economic, social, and cultural history throughout.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
1 PROLOGUE: A SOCIETY IN TRANSITION	1	(42)
A Demographic Portrait	1	(1)
Economic Growth	2	(5)
Labor	7	(2)
Immigrants	9	(2)
Cities	11	(1)
Women, Children, and Work	11	(1)
Native Americans	12	(2)
Hispanic Americans	14	(2)
African Americans	16	(2)
Asian Americans	18	(1)
Farmers	19	(2)
Politics	21	(1)
The People's Party	22	(2)
Imperialism	24	(10)
Social Darwinism	34	(1)
Religion	35	(1)
Schools and Colleges	36	(1)
Mass Media	37	(1)
Architecture, Literature, and Philosophy	38	(2)
Civilization and Its Discontents	40	(1)
Bibliography	41	(2)
2 THE PROGRESSIVE ERA	43	(38)
Modern Society	43	(3)
Popular Culture	46	(2)
Literature and Art	48	(1)
The Roots of Reform	49	(1)
Social Justice	50	(3)
Muckrakers	53	(1)
Women Reformers	54	(2)
African Americans	56	(1)
Asian Americans	57	(1)
Native Americans	58	(1)
Moral Reform	58	(2)
Educational Reform	60	(1)
Political Reform	61	(2)
The Advent of Theodore Roosevelt	63	(3)
Taft versus Progressivism	66	(2)
The Election of 1912	68	(4)
Wilsonian Progressivism	72	(5)
Progressivism in Perspective	77	(2)
Bibliography	79	(2)
3 THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD	81	(36)
Managing the American Empire	81	(6)
Europe Goes to War	87	(1)
Unneutral Neutrality	88	(4)
America Goes to War	92	(6)
Over There	98	(5)
The Home Front	103	(2)
Propaganda and Civil Liberties	105	(2)
Red Scare	107	(3)
The Peace Conference	110	(2)
Fight for Ratification	112	(2)
The War Experience	114	(2)
Bibliography	116	(1)
4 THE TWENTIES	117	(37)
A Mobile People	118	(1)
The Consumer Economy	118	(7)
The New Urban Nation	125	(2)
Women and Family Life	127	(2)
Popular Culture	129	(1)
The Movies	130	(1)
Spectator Sports	131	(1)
An American Hero	132	(1)
The Ethic of Play	133	(1)
Popular Writers	134	(1)
Literature	135	(2)
The Harlem Renaissance	137	(2)
The Jazz Age	139	(1)
Art and Music	140	(1)
The Rise of Radio	140	(1)
Religious Fundamentalism	141	(2)
The Revival of the Klan	143	(1)
Closing the Door	144	(2)
The Business of Government	146	(6)
Bibliography	152	(2)
5 THE GREAT DEPRESSION	154	(32)
The Hoover Era	154	(1)
The Great Crash	155	(1)
Causes of the Great Depression	158	(7)
The Deepening Depression	162	(5)
African Americans	167	(1)
Women and Family Life	167	(1)
Popular Culture	168	(2)
Hoover Battles the Depression	170	(1)
The Collapse of European Economies	171	(1)
The Depression Deepens	172	(4)
The Election of 1932	176	(5)
Interregnum	181	(2)
Nadir	183	(2)
Bibliography	185	(1)
6 THE NEW DEAL	186	(38)
FDR	186	(2)
The New Deal Begins	188	(2)
The Hundred Days	190
Critics--Left, Right, and Populist	185
The Second New Deal	198	(4)
A New Deal for the Environment	202	(1)
The Election of 1936	203	(2)
The New Deal Coalition	205	(1)
Roosevelt Attacks the Supreme Court	205	(3)
The Roosevelt Recession	208	(1)
The End of the New Deal	209	(1)
The Rise of Organized Labor	209	(3)
A New Deal for Women	212	(1)
The Emergence of Ethnic Americans	213	(1)
African Americans and the New Deal	214	(1)
Hispanic Americans during the New Deal	215	(2)
A New Deal for Native Americans	217	(1)
FDR and the New Deal in Perspective	218	(4)
Bibliography	222	(2)
7 DIPLOMACY BETWEEN WARS	224	(35)
The Search for Peace	224	(3)
Foreign Economic Policy	227	(4)
Latin America	231	(2)
The Triumph of Isolationism	233	(2)
Europe Disintegrates	235	(5)
The Rising Sun	240	(2)
War in Europe	242	(2)
The Election of 1940	244	(1)
Lend-Lease	245	(2)
Undeclared Naval War	247	(3)
Impasse over China	250	(2)
The Strategy of Stall	252	(2)
Pearl Harbor Attacked!	254	(4)
Bibliography	258	(1)
8 WORLD WAR II	259	(44)
War in Europe	259	(4)
War in the Pacific	263	(4)
Wartime Diplomacy	267	(4)
Victory in Europe	271	(3)
Victory in the Pacific	274	(4)
Home Front USA	278	(1)
Demographic Changes	279	(3)
Economic Transformations	282	(2)
Women in Wartime	284	(3)
African Americans at War	287	(2)
Hispanic Americans in Wartime	289	(1)
Native Americans in Wartime	290	(1)
Asian Americans in Wartime	291	(3)
The Politics of War	294	(3)
Culture and War	297	(2)
World War and Its Consequences	299	(2)
Bibliography	301	(2)
9 THE RISE OF THE COLD WAR	303	(40)
The United Nations	304	(1)
Origins of Cold War	305	(6)
The Truman Doctrine	311	(2)
The Marshall Plan	313	(1)
NATO	314	(3)
The Chinese Revolution	317	(1)
Vietnam: The Beginnings	318	(1)
NSC-68	319	(1)
War in Korea	320	(6)
The Cold War Consensus	326	(1)
The Cold War at Home	327	(5)
Postwar Politics	332	(2)
The 80th Congress	334	(2)
The Election of 1948	336	(3)
The Fair Deal	339	(1)
Civil Rights	339	(2)
Bibliography	341	(2)
10 THE AGE OF CONSENSUS	343	(39)
Demographic Patterns	344	(1)
An Economy of Abundance	344	(1)
The Car Culture	345	(1)
Growth Industries and Others	346	(1)
The Mixed Economy	347	(1)
Labor at Mid-Century	348	(1)
Poverty amidst Plenty	349	(1)
The Rise of Suburbia	350	(2)
The Culture of Affluence	352	(2)
Women: Family Life and Work	354	(1)
The Advent of Television	355	(1)
Religion Revived	356	(1)
Social Critics	357	(1)
Rebels	357	(1)
The Election of 1952	358	(2)
Dynamic Conservatism	360	(2)
McCarthy: Zenith and Ruin	362	(1)
The Politics of Consensus	363	(1)
Civil Rights	364	(3)
The New Look	367	(1)
Vietnam: Getting in Deeper	367	(2)
The China Crisis	369	(2)
At the Summit	371	(1)
The CIA at Work	372	(1)
Trouble in Suez	373	(2)
Sputnik	375	(1)
Cuba and Castro	376	(1)
Controversy in Europe	377	(2)
End of an Era	379	(2)
Bibliography	381	(1)
11 NEW FRONTIERS	382	(35)
A Path to the Presidency	382	(1)
The Election of 1960	383	(5)
The Kennedy Style	388	(1)
The Cold Warrior	389	(2)
The Bay of Pigs	391	(1)
The Third World	392	(1)
Berlin	393	(3)
The Missile Crisis	396	(4)
Vietnam: Raising the Stakes	400	(3)
The Space Race	403	(1)
Social Reform	404	(1)
The Economy	405	(2)
Let Freedom Ring	407	(3)
Tragedy in Dallas	410	(3)
The Legacy of Camelot	413	(2)
Bibliography	415	(2)
12 REFORM, REBELLION, AND WAR	417	(39)
The Tall Texan	417	(1)
Johnson Takes Command	418	(2)
The Election of 1964	420	(1)
Great Society	421	(5)
The Warren Court	426	(2)
Lyndon Johnson and the World	428	(2)
Vietnam: Going to War	430	(2)
The American Way of War	432	(3)
War at Home	435	(1)
Tet-68 and Its Consequences	436	(4)
Young Radicals	440	(2)
The Greening of America	442	(4)
The Fire This Time	446	(1)
Black Power	447	(1)
Red and Brown Power	448	(1)
Gay-Lesbian Liberation	449	(1)
The Rebirth of Feminism	450	(2)
Women's Liberation	452	(1)
Backlash	453	(2)
Bibliography	455	(1)
13 THE NIXON ERA	456	(38)
The Election of 1968	456	(5)
The Politician	461	(1)
Pragmatic Centrism	461	(1)
Nixonomics	462	(1)
The Southern Strategy	463	(2)
Detente	465	(3)
The China Opening	468	(2)
Vietnam: A War to End A War	470	(5)
The End of the Tunnel	475	(2)
Activists and Reformers	477	(1)
Ecology and Consumerism	478	(1)
The Election of 1972	479	(4)
Watergate	483	(2)
The Decline and Fall of Richard Nixon	485	(6)
Postmortem	491	(2)
Bibliography	493	(1)
14 AN ERA OF LIMITS	494	(40)
A Ford Not a Lincoln	495	(2)
Economic and Energy Woes	497	(2)
Ford, Kissinger, and the World	499	(2)
The Election of 1976	501	(2)
President "Jimmy"	503	(1)
Mr. Carter Goes to Washington	503	(3)
Carter and the World	506	(2)
The Decline of Detente	508	(1)
Debacle in Iran	509	(2)
The Election of 1980	511	(3)
A Demographic Profile	514	(1)
Economic Stasis	515	(2)
Cars and Computers	517	(1)
New Immigrants	518	(3)
African Americans: A Dual Society	521	(1)
Women: Changing Attitudes and Roles	522	(1)
Education	523	(2)
Religion in America	525	(1)
The Rise of the Religious Right	525	(1)
The "Me" Decade	526	(1)
Popular Culture	527	(4)
A Dismal Decade	531	(1)
Bibliography	532	(2)
15 AMERICA IN THE EIGHTIES	534	(39)
The Media Man	535	(1)
The Advent of Reaganomics	536	(3)
Recession and Recovery	539	(2)
The Cold War Revived	541	(3)
The Pacific Rim	544	(2)
Disaster in Lebanon	546	(1)
Policing the Western Hemisphere	547	(3)
Reagan: The First Term	550	(1)
The Election of 1984	551	(2)
The Second Term	553	(2)
The "Go-Go" Economy	555	(4)
The Reagan Court	559	(1)
Foreign Policy	560	(1)
The Iraqi-Iranian War	561	(2)
Central America	563	(1)
The Iran-Contra Scandal	563	(5)
The Sleaze Factor	568	(1)
Thawing the Cold War	569	(3)
Bibliography	572	(1)
16 THE 1990s	573	(50)
A Demographic Profile for the 1990s	574	(1)
The Decline of the Middle Classes	575	(2)
A Nation of Immigrants	577	(1)
Black and White, but Not Together	577	(2)
A Fragmented Society	579	(2)
Culture Wars	581	(1)
Women and Work	582	(1)
The Election of 1988	583	(2)
Economic and Social Policy	585	(2)
The Supreme Court in the 1990s	587	(2)
The End of the Cold War	589	(1)
The Reappearance of Russia	590	(1)
Bush and the Post-Cold War World	591	(2)
War in the Persian Gulf	593	(4)
The Election of 1992	597	(3)
The Democrats Return	600	(3)
The Republican Earthquake	603	(2)
The Election of 1996	605	(1)
The Impeachment of President Clinton	606	(8)
Clinton and the Post-Cold War World	614	(6)
Toward the Twenty-First Century	620	(2)
Bibliography	622	(1)
APPENDICES	623	(18)
A: Amendments to the Constitution Added during the Twentieth Century	623	(7)
B: Presidential Elections Since 1896	630	(2)
C: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Cabinet Officers Since 1897	632	(3)
D: Justices of the Supreme Court	635	(1)
E: U.S. Territorial Expansion Since 1898	636	(1)
F: Population of the United States, 1890-Present	636	(1)
G: Median Life Expectancy	637	(1)
H: Recent Trends in Immigration	637	(2)
I. American Workers and Farmers	639	(1)
J: The Economy and Federal Spending	640	(1)
INDEX	641