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HST300 - U.S. History (1945-Present): Textbook

Textbook used for this course

American history: From Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium. (2019). USHistory.org. (Chapters 51 through 60)

51. America in the Second World War

  1. Wartime Strategy
  2. The American Homefront
  3. D-Day and the German Surrender
  4. War in the Pacific
  5. Japanese-American Internment
  6. The Manhattan Project
  7. The Decision to Drop the Bomb

52. Postwar Challenges

  1. The Cold War Erupts
  2. The United Nations
  3. Containment and the Marshall Plan
  4. The Berlin Airlift and NATO
  5. The Korean War
  6. Domestic Challenges

53. The 1950s: Happy Days

  1. McCarthyism
  2. Suburban Growth
  3. Land of Television
  4. America Rocks and Rolls
  5. The Cold War Continues
  6. Voices against Conformity

54. A New Civil Rights Movement

  1. Separate No Longer?
  2. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
  3. Showdown in Little Rock
  4. The Sit-In Movement
  5. Gains and Pains
  6. Martin Luther King Jr.
  7. The Long, Hot Summers
  8. Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
  9. Black Power

55. The Vietnam War

  1. Early Involvement
  2. Years of Escalation: 1965-68
  3. The Tet Offensive
  4. The Antiwar Movement
  5. Years of Withdrawal

56. Politics from Camelot to Watergate

  1. The Election of 1960
  2. Kennedy's New Frontier
  3. Kennedy's Global Challenges
  4. Kennedy Assassination
  5. Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"
  6. 1968: Year of Unraveling
  7. Triangular Diplomacy: U.S., USSR, and China

57. Shaping a New America

  1. Modern Feminism
  2. The Fight for Reproductive Rights
  3. The Equal Rights Amendment
  4. Roe v. Wade and Its Impact
  5. Environmental Reform
  6. Others Demand Equality
  7. Student Activism
  8. Flower Power

58. A Time of Malaise

  1. Undoing a President
  2. The Sickened Economy
  3. Foreign Woes
  4. Finding Oneself
  5. The New Right

59. The Reagan Years

  1. "Morning in America"
  2. Reaganomics
  3. Foreign and Domestic Entanglements
  4. Life in the 1980s
  5. The End of the Cold War

60. Toward a New Millennium

  1. Operation Desert Storm
  2. A Baby Boomer in the White House
  3. Republicans vs. Democrats
  4. Living in the Information Age
  5. The End of the American Century