This is a lucid and thematic exploration of America's emergence as a global superpower in the first half of the 20th century. Involvement in the two world wars was central to the process and the roles played by two of America's most influential presidents, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, are analyzed within this context. Key events of the period such as the Versailles Peace conference, Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Hiroshima are examined from an American perspective. The author also assesses American isolationism between the wars and US-Japanese relations from 1919 to 1941. The narrative incorporates research and a selection of source-based and essay questions.
This book provides a thorough survey of American political, social and economic history during the interwar years. Topics include the economic boom years and their impact on rich and poor, the social history of the Roaring Twenties including the role of women and prohibition, the Wall Street Crash and the Depression, Roosevelt and the New Deal and the buildup to World War Two. The book, which is enquiry-based, is structured around key investigations, background briefings and reviews of the topics covered. Using a wide range of sources and vivid pictorial evidence that help bring the era to life, the author has produced a text that will be both manageable in extent and motivating to a wide range of students.
Vol. for 1958 includes also the Minutes of the final General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America and the minutes of the final General Assembly of the Presbyteruan Church in the U.S.A.
Chronicles the rise of the American military and the role it played in winning World War I, from the declaration of war in 1917 to the social changes that occurred on the home front.
A study of civil rights in the USA, this text is designed to fulfil AS and A Level specifications. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the margin, and summary boxes to help students assimilate the information.
American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.