Promises to Keep The United States Since World War II

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ISBN: 9780618433834 | 061843383X
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Designed for the "U.S. Since 1945" course, this comprehensive survey presents the World War II experience as a backdrop for understanding recent developments and events in American history. The text features four principal, interwoven themes: the pervasive impact of the Cold War; the effects of social-protest movements among African Americans, women, and other groups; the sources and impact of economic, demographic, and cultural changes; and a thorough examination of politics. New! This edition includes coverage of the 2000 election, recent trends in immigration, the attacks of September 11, and the war on terrorism, including the U.S. role in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Charts and Graphs

Maps

xii

Preface

xiii

PART ONE The American Century

(128)

CHAPTER 1 Crucible of Change: World War II and the Forging of Modern America

(31)

The Grand Alliance, Globalist Dreams, Big Power Realities

(3)

High Resolve and National Unity

(3)

The American Economy Goes to War

(4)

Government and Politics in the War Years

(3)

A People in Wartime

(9)

IN PERSPECTIVE Women and War

(2)

Technology, Oil, and the Atomic Bomb

(3)

The Atomic-Bomb Decision: The Ongoing Debate

(8)

Conclusion

Selected Readings

(3)

CHAPTER 2 "Not Since Rome and Carthage": Into the Cold War

(30)

Roots of the Cold War

(4)

1946: Eastern Europe, Iran, Atomic Energy

(3)

1947: The Truman Doctrine, Containment, and the Marshall Plan

(8)

IN PERSPECTIVE Presidential Persuasion on Foreign-Policy Issues

(7)

1948-1949: The Prague Coup, the Berlin Airlift, and NATO

(4)

Deeper into the Cold War: China, the H-Bomb, Korea

(6)

Conclusion

(2)

Selected Readings

(2)

CHAPTER 3 Uneasiness at Dawn: Domestic Trends in the Early Postwar Years

(32)

Demobilization and the Limits of Liberalism at Home

(2)

Boom Times

(2)

Beyond "Rosie the Riveter": Women in Early Postwar America

(2)

African Americans and the Liberal Agenda

(3)

A Growing Mexican-American Community Faces Postwar Challenges

(1)

The Cold War at Home and the 1948 Election

(4)

The Fair Deal and the Red Scare

(7)

IN PERSPECTIVE The National-Security State

(5)

All Aboard the Freedom Train: Rallying Against Communism

(3)

Diversion and Doubt: Early Postwar Literature and Popular Culture

(3)

Conclusion

(2)

Selected Readings

(2)

CHAPTER 4 Modern Republicanism and Suburban Togetherness in the 1950's

(32)

The Politics of Moderation

(9)

IN PERSPECTIVE Highways and America's Car Culture

104

(3)

1953-1956: Nuclear Strategy and Global Containment

107

(5)

Deepening Entanglements in Asia

112

(3)

The Economic Boom Rolls On

115

(4)

Suburban Living and Family Togetherness

119

(5)

Middle-Class Women in 1950's America

124

(2)

Conclusion

126

(1)

Selected Readings

127

(2)

PART TWO Dissent, Terror, Reform

129

(112)

CHAPTER 5 The Other Side of the Picture Window: Outsiders, Dissidents, and Critics in the 1950's

132

(28)

Films of the Fifties: Undercurrents of Menace

133

(2)

Rebellious Youth

135

(4)

Cultural Resistance: The Arts and Social Criticism in Cold War America

139

(6)

IN PERSPECTIVE The Mass-Culture Debate

140

(5)

Fallout Fears and Test-Ban Activism

145

(3)

Brown and Beyond: The Civil-Rights Movement in Eisenhower's America

148

(7)

Beyond Suburbia: Hispanics and Native Americans in Eisenhower's America

155

(2)

Conclusion

157

(1)

Selected Readings

158

(2)

CHAPTER 6 The Cold War Heats Up: From Sputnik to Vietnam

160

(25)

Cold War Alarms in the Late Fifties

161

(3)

Campaign 1960: Variations on the Cold War Theme

164

(3)

The Cold War, Kennedy-Style

167

(2)

Disaster at Bahia de Cochinos

169

(1)

October 1962: To the Brink

170

(5)

IN PERSPECTIVE The Ironies of Civil Defense

172

(3)

Southeast Asia and Vietnam: Deeper into the Tunnel

175

(5)

The Kennedy Cold War: A Summary

180

(1)

Tragedy in Dallas

181

(1)

Conclusion

182

(1)

Selected Readings

183

(2)

CHAPTER 7 The Liberal Hour

185

(29)

Shaping a Liberal Agenda: The 1950's

186

(1)

Sketching a Liberal Agenda: The Kennedy Years

187

(3)

LBJ: The Making of a President

190

(2)

The Apex of a Liberal Agenda: The War on Poverty

192

(4)

Election 1964: Liberalism Triumphant

196

(3)

Liberalism at High Tide: Johnson's Great Society

199

(5)

IN PERSPECTIVE The Problem of Poverty in the Land of Opportunity

200

(4)

The New Environmentalism

204

(4)

The War on Poverty and the Great Society: A Retrospective View

208

(3)

Conclusion

211

(61)

Selected Readings

272

CHAPTER 8 The Civil-Rights Movement at Flood Tide

214

(27)

1960-1962: Tactical Innovation, Political Hesitation

217

(7)

IN PERSPECTIVE Black Ministers and the Black Church

222

(2)

1963: Victory in Birmingham, Action in Washington

224

(6)

1964: Breaking the Legislative Logjam

230

(3)

1965: Selma and the Voting Rights Act

233

(2)

The Civil-Rights Movement Reaches Hispanic Americans

235

(1)

Reflections on the Civil-Rights Struggle, 1960-1965

236

(2)

Conclusion

238

(1)

Selected Readings

239

(2)

PART THREE The Loss of Innocence

241

(108)

CHAPTER 9 Radicalization: Black Power, the New Left, and the Counterculture

244

(19)

Inner-City Upheavals and Black Power

245

(7)

The Personal Is Political: The New Left and the Counterculture

252

(9)

IN PERSPECTIVE The Politics of Music

258

(3)

Conclusion

261

(1)

Selected Readings

262

(1)

CHAPTER 10 Out of Control: War in Vietnam, Protest at Home

263

(28)

Vietnam 1963-1967: The Years of Escalation

264

(13)

Gnawing Doubts at High Levels

277

(3)

"The Wound That Bleedeth Inward..."

280

(4)

IN PERSPECTIVE The Imperial Presidency

282

(2)

Responses to Vietnam: The Faces of Opposition and Support

284

(4)

Conclusion

288

(1)

Selected Readings

289

(2)

CHAPTER 11 1968 and the Nixon Years

291

(31)

1968: "The Center Cannot Hold"

292

(7)

Nixon's War: Vietnam, 1969-1975

299

(8)

Realpolitik and Détente

307

(7)

IN PERSPECTIVE The Nuclear Threat

308

(6)

Domestic Policy: New Departures, Conservative Affirmations

314

(5)

Conclusion

319

(1)

Selected Readings

320

(2)

CHAPTER 12 Reform in the Nation, Crisis in Washington

322

(27)

Escapism and the Collapse of the Counterculture

323

(3)

New Activist Energies

326

(5)

A Revived Women's Movement

331

(4)

The 1972 Election and Watergate: The Nation in Crisis

335

(7)

IN PERSPECTIVE Presidential Scandals and Trust in Government

336

(6)

The Final Stage of the Crisis

342

(4)

Conclusion

346

(1)

Selected Readings

347

(2)

PART FOUR Setbacks, Achievements, New Dangers

349

(162)

CHAPTER 13 Picking Up the Pieces: Post-Watergate America

353

(31)

A Ford, Not a Lincoln

353

(4)

A Sea of Troubles: The Carter Years

357

(6)

A Changing Economy

363

(4)

Backlash: Culture and Politics in the Later Seventies

367

(10)

IN PERSPECTIVE That Old-Time Religion

374

(3)

Carter Diplomacy and the Middle East Hostage Crisis

377

(3)

Conclusion

380

(2)

Selected Readings

382

(2)

CHAPTER 14 Prime-Time Politics: The Reagan-Bush Years

384

(41)

The New Right Takes Charge: 1980-1984

385

(6)

New Anticommunist Militance: Reagan and Foreign Policy

391

(5)

Iran-Contra Scandal and a Waning Cold War: Reagan's Second Term

396

(4)

The Cold War Thaws

400

(4)

IN PERSPECTIVE Politicians, the Media, and Campaign-Finance Reform

402

(2)

Individualism Rampant: American Life in the 1980's

404

(3)

Mass Culture in the 1980's

407

(5)

Campaign '88

412

(1)

Bush and the World: End of the Cold War, Desert Storm, NAFTA

413

(7)

Marking Time: Bush's Domestic Record

420

(2)

Conclusion

422

(1)

Selected Readings

422

(3)

CHAPTER 15 America at the Turn of the Century: Prosperity, Scandal, a Changing Society

425

(54)

Campaign '92

426

(2)

Liberalism Lite: Clinton at the Helm

428

(6)

Clinton's Second Term: Chastened Liberalism

434

(3)

America and a Changing World: The 1990's

437

(6)

A Booming Economy, Soaring Stocks, and Growing Economic Disparities

443

(5)

Scandal and Impeachment: The Final Years of Clinton's Presidency

448

(2)

A Diverse People: Contemporary Social Trends

450

(11)

IN PERSPECTIVE The Multiculturalism Debate

452

(9)

The Environmental Movement in the 1990's and Beyond

461

(2)

Health Care and AIDS, a Wired Nation, Mass-Culture Trends

463

(8)

An Apprehensive Mood as a New Millennium Dawns

471

(4)

Conclusion

475

(1)

Selected Readings

476

(3)

CHAPTER 16 A Sea of Troubles, Glimmers of Promise, as a New Century Dawns

479

(32)

Five Judges Choose a President: The Disputed Election of 2000

479

(3)

September 11, 2001: A Day That Changed America

482

(2)

A New Kind of War: Mobilizing Against Terrorism

484

(6)

IN PERSPECTIVE Balancing Freedom and Security

488

(2)

War in Iraq

490

(4)

Reconstruction and Resistance in Iraq, Uneasiness at Home

494

(5)

Battling Terrorism Worldwide

499

(1)

Recession and Corporate Scandals

500

(3)

The Bush Presidency: Serving God and Big Business

503

(4)

Conclusion

507

(1)

Selected Readings

508

(3)

Index

511

(33)

Credits

544

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Promises to Keep The United States Since World War II

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