A History of US Book 9: War, Peace, and All that Jazz

by Hakim, Joy

• ISBN13: 9780195077629
• ISBN10: 0195077628
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Describes the period of American history encompassing the Great Depression and World Wars I and II.

Table of Contents

Preface: Time Travelers	9	(4)
War's End	13	(3)
Fourteen Points	16	(5)
Another Kind of War	21	(4)
The Prohibition Amendment	25	(4)
Mom, Did You Vote?	29	(5)
Red Scare	34	(3)
Soft-Hearted Harding	37	(4)
Silent Cal and the Roaring Twenties	41	(6)
Feature: Monkeys on Trial	44	(3)
Everyone's Hero	47	(4)
Only the Ball Was White	51	(4)
American Music	55	(6)
Feature: Hooray for Hollywood	60	(1)
Space's Pioneer	61	(4)
The Lone Eagle	65	(5)
The Prosperity Balloon	70	(2)
Getting Rich Quickly	72	(5)
Down and Out	77	(5)
Economic Disaster	82	(4)
A Boy Who Loved History	86	(2)
How About This?	88	(3)
A Lonely Little Girl	91	(2)
First Lady of the World	93	(2)
Handicap or Character Builder?	95	(3)
Candidate Roosevelt	98	(2)
President Roosevelt	100	(5)
Twentieth-Century Monsters	105	(5)
A Final Solution	110	(8)
Feature: Arrival in Auschwitz	114	(4)
War and the Scientists	118	(2)
Fighting Wolves	120	(3)
Pearl Harbor	123	(5)
Taking Sides	128	(5)
World War	133	(4)
A Two-Front War	137	(5)
Forgetting the Constitution	142	(5)
A Hot Island	147	(5)
Axing the Axis	152	(5)
Feature: The End of The Road	156	(1)
Going for D-Day	157	(5)
A Wartime Diary	162	(3)
April in Georgia	165	(3)
President HST	168	(2)
A Final Journey	170	(4)
Day by Day	174	(4)
A Little Boy	178	(4)
Peace	182	(2)
Chronology of Events	184	(2)
More Books to Read	186	(1)
Index	187	(4)
Picture Credits	191	(1)
A Note From the Author	192