Mastering Modern US History covers the key developments in American History from 1900 to 1980. The text 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. It is an ideal text for students of A-Level and first year undergraduates, who will find the text accessible, lively and thought-provoking.
Mastering Modern US History covers the key developments in American History from 1900 to 1980. The text 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. It is an ideal text for students of A-Level and first year undergraduates, who will find the text accessible, lively and thought-provoking.
JOHN TRAYNOR is Senior Teacher, Christleton High School, Cheshire. Formerly Head of Humanities at Lymm High School, he is the author of a number of history textbooks for GCSE and A-Level. He has also written educational history CD-ROMs in both the UK and US.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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