A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz 1918-1945A History of US Book Nine

by Hakim, Joy

• ISBN13: 9780195327236
• ISBN10: 0195327233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games a plenty. But alongside this post WWI spree was high unemployment, hard times for farmers, ever present racism, and, finally, the Depression, the worst economic disaster in U.S. history, flip flopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity. Along came one of our country's greatest leaders, F.D.R., who promised a New Deal, gave Americans hope, and then saw them through the horrors and victories of World War II. These three decades full of optimism and despair, progress and Depression, and, of course, War, Peace, and All That Jazz forever changed the United States.

Author Biography

Joy Hakim, a former teacher, editor, and writer won the prestigious James Michener Prize for her series, A History of US, which has sold over 4 million copies nationwide. A graduate of Smith College and Goucher College she spent years teaching students from elementary school up to the college level. She also served as an Associate Editor at Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot, and was an Assistant Editor at McGraw-Hill's World News.

Table of Contents

Preface: War and the Start of a New Century	p. 9
War's End	p. 13
Fourteen Points	p. 16
Another Kind of War	p. 21
The Prohibition Amendment	p. 25
Mom, Did You Vote?	p. 29
Red Scare	p. 34
Soft-Hearted Harding	p. 37
Silent Cal and the Roaring Twenties	p. 41
Feature: Monkeys on Trial	p. 44
Everyone's Hero	p. 47
Only the Ball Was White	p. 51
American Music	p. 55
Feature: Rhapsodies in Red, White, and Blue	p. 60
Feature: Hooray for Hollywood!	p. 62
Hubba, Hubba, Hubble!	p. 63
Feature: Stars in Women's Eyes	p. 66
Space's Pioneer	p. 67
The Lone Eagle	p. 71
The Prosperity Balloon	p. 76
Getting Rich Quickly	p. 78
Down and Out	p. 83
Economic Disaster	p. 88
A Boy Who Loved History	p. 92
How About This?	p. 94
A Lonely Little Girl	p. 97
First Lady of the World	p. 99
Handicap or Character Builder?	p. 101
Candidate Roosevelt	p. 104
President Roosevelt	p. 106
Twentieth-Century Monsters	p. 111
A Final Solution	p. 116
Feature: Arrival in Auschwitz	p. 120
War and the Scientists	p. 124
Fighting Wolves	p. 126
Pearl Harbor	p. 129
Taking Sides	p. 134
World War	p. 139
A Two-Front War	p. 143
Forgetting the Constitution	p. 148
A Hot Island	p. 153
Axing the Axis	p. 158
Feature: The End of the Road	p. 162
Going for D-Day	p. 163
A Wartime Diary	p. 168
April in Georgia	p. 171
President HST	p. 174
A Final Journey	p. 176
Day by Day	p. 180
A Little Boy	p. 184
Peace	p. 188
Picturing History	p. 190
Chronology of Events	p. 202
More Books to Read	p. 204
Picture Credits	p. 206
Index	p. 207
A Note from the Author	p. 210
Atlas	p. 211
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