A History of US Book 9: War, Peace, and All that Jazz (1918-1945)

by Hakim, Joy

• ISBN13: 9780195127676
• ISBN10: 0195127676
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Model T's, woodframe airplanes, radios, Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, jazz, flappers, Babe Ruth, the Depression, and the two World Wars--all in a thirty-year span.

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	(8)
Feature: Rhapsodies in Red, White, and Blue	60	(2)
Feature: Hooray for Hollywood	62	(1)
Space's Pioneer	63	(4)
The Lone Eagle	67	(5)
The Prosperity Balloon	72	(2)
Getting Rich Quickly	74	(5)
Down and Out	79	(5)
Economic Disaster	84	(4)
A Boy Who Loved History	88	(2)
How About This?	90	(3)
A Lonely Little Girl	93	(2)
First Lady of the World	95	(2)
Handicap or Character Builder?	97	(3)
Candidate Roosevelt	100	(2)
President Roosevelt	102	(5)
Twentieth-Century Monsters	107	(5)
A Final Solution	112	(8)
Feature: Arrival in Auschwitz	116	(4)
War and the Scientists	120	(2)
Fighting Wolves	122	(3)
Pearl Harbor	125	(5)
Taking Sides	130	(5)
World War	135	(4)
A Two-Front War	139	(5)
Forgetting the Constitution	144	(5)
A Hot Island	149	(5)
Axing the Axis	154	(5)
Feature: The End of the Road	158	(1)
Going for D-Day	159	(5)
A Wartime Diary	164	(3)
April in Georgia	167	(3)
President HST	170	(2)
A Final Journey	172	(4)
Day by Day	176	(4)
A Little Boy	180	(4)
Peace	184	(2)
Picturing History	186	(12)
Chronology of Events	198	(2)
More Books to Read	200	(2)
Picture Credits	202	(2)
Index	204	(4)
A Note from the Author	208