New World Power : America from 1920 to 1945.
Title:
New World Power : America from 1920 to 1945.
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Publishing, Britannica Educational.
ISBN:
9781615307401
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (169 pages)
Series:
Documenting America: The Primary Source Documents of a Nation
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Postwar Republican Administrations -- Postwar Conservatism -- Document: Robert Benchley: "The Making of a Red" (1919) -- Peace and Prosperity -- Document: Thomas J. Walsh: Teapot Dome (1924) -- Document: Calvin Coolidge: The Destiny of America (1923) -- New Social Trends -- Nineteenth Amendment -- Document: Harry Emerson Fosdick: The Fundamentalist Controversy (1922) -- Eighteenth Amendment -- Chapter 2: The Great Depression -- The Stock Market Crash -- The Dust Bowl -- Document: Report on Conditions in the South (1938) -- The Depression Goes Global -- The Gold Standard -- Chapter 3: The First New Deal -- Document: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Progress of the Recovery Program (1933) -- Relief -- Document: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, and Reform (1934) -- Agricultural Recovery -- Doucment: Henry A. Wallace: Declaration of Interdependence (1933) -- Business Recovery -- Chapter 4: The Second New Deal -- Populist Challengers -- Document: Huey P. Long: Sharing Our Wealth (1935) -- The Works Progress Administration -- The Social Security Act, the Wagner Act, and the Supreme Court -- Document: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Program for Social Security (1935) -- The Culmination of the New Deal -- The Fair Labor Standards Act -- Document: John L. Lewis: Industrial Unions (1938) -- An Assessment of the New Deal -- Chapter 5: The Road to War -- Document: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Good Neighbor Policy (1936) -- Document: Wendell L. Willkie: Acceptance Speech (1940) -- Document: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms (1941) -- Document: The Atlantic Charter (1941) -- Chapter 6: The United States at War -- War Production -- Financing the War -- Social Consequences of the War -- Document: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Discrimination in Wartime Employment (1941).
Document: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Frank Murphy, and Robert H. Jackson: Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- The 1944 Election -- Chapter 7: The New U.S. Role in World Affairs -- Document: The Yalta Agreement (1945) -- Document: Harry S. Truman: Announcement of the Dropping of an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945) -- Conclusion -- Appendices (Documents) -- Robert Benchley: The Making of a Red (1919) -- Thomas J. Walsh: Teapot Dome (1924) -- Calvin Coolidge: The Destiny of America (1923) -- Harry Emerson Fosdick: The Fundamentalist Controversy (1922) -- Report on Conditions in the South (1938) -- Soil -- Private and Public Income -- Labor -- Ownership and Use of Land -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Progress of the Recovery Program (1933) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, and Reform (1934) -- Henry A. Wallace: Declaration of Interdependence (1933) -- Huey P. Long: Sharing Our Wealth (1935) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Program for Social Security (1935) -- John L. Lewis: Industrial Unions (1938) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Good Neighbor Policy (1936) -- Wendell L. Willkie: Acceptance Speech (1940) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms (1941) -- Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Frank Murphy, and Robert H. Jackson: Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- The Yalta Agreement (1945) -- I. World Organization -- II. Declaration on Liberated Europe -- III. Dismemberment of Germany -- IV. Zone of Occupation for the French and Control Council for Germany -- V. Reparation -- VI. Major War Criminals -- VII. Poland -- VIII. Yugoslavia -- IX. Italo-Yugoslav Frontier -- Italo-Austria Frontier -- X. Yugoslav-Bulgarian Relations -- XI. Southeastern Europe -- XII. Iran -- XIII. Meetings of the Three Foreign Secretaries -- XIV. The Montreux Convention and the Straits -- Harry S. Truman: Announcement of the Dropping of an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945).
Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The inward-looking, isolationist tendencies of the United States as it emerged from the first World War may give the impression of a country vastly different from the outward-looking incipient superpower that began to materialize during WWII. As it transitioned from economic depression to international prominence under the steady hand of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the United States slowly carved out a place for itself on the world stage. Seminal documents and personal accounts are interspersed with historical narrative in this enthralling volume, which chronicles the political and social history of the United States in the aftermath of one world war through its engagement in another.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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