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Now in its second edition, this engaging text introduces readers to all the key developments in American history between 1900 and 2000. Combining factual coverage with an analysis of professional historians most recent interpretations of major domestic and foreign affairs, it fully explores dramatic events such as the Wall Street Crash, Pearl Harbor, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Watergate Scandal. Chapters are enriched by presidential profiles and supported by stimulating source material and exam-style questions to reinforce learning.

This text will be essential reading for students undertaking courses in American History at college, foundation and undergraduate level. It is also the ideal companion for anyone with a general interest in the American history of the twentieth century.

New to this Edition: - Two brand-new chapters on African-American History - A new American Lives feature which gives insight into a wide range of cultural figures including the Wright Brothers, Rachel Carson, J.D. Salinger and Muhammed Ali

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John Traynor provides a masterly, comprehensive and highly readable survey of The American Century. A model of crisp compression and clear organisation, it blends sharp analysis, broad themes, and deft portraits of leading figures to produce an authoritative introduction to the United States' transition from the recognisably small-town society of the later 1800s to the global superpower of today. * Richard Carwardine, University of Oxford, UK * Mastering Modern United States History offers an engaging introduction to the politics and society of the United States during the twentieth century. Combining a vibrant writing style with well-structured and coherent chapters, this is an important new resource for both students and teachers. * Louisa Hotson, London Campus of Syracuse University, UK *

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This engaging text introduces readers to all the key developments in American history between 1900 and 2000. It combines factual coverage with an analysis of professional historians interpretations of key domestic and foreign affairs, from the Wall Street Crash to the Watergate Scandal.
List of Tables xiv
List of Presidential Profiles xvi
List of Great American Lives xvii
Acknowledgements xviii
1 The beginning of the American twentieth century: 1900-20 1(32)
1.1 Introduction - A simpler age
1(1)
1.2 Population
2(1)
1.3 Women in America at the turn of the twentieth century
2(2)
1.4 The Hispanic population
4(1)
1.5 Native Americans and Alaska Natives
5(2)
1.6 The American economy in 1900
7(1)
1.7 Robber barons or captains of industry?
8(1)
1.8 Regional contrasts
9(1)
1.9 The transition from an agrarian to an industrial economy
10(2)
1.10 Women at work
12(1)
1.11 The development of the American city
12(2)
1.12 Immigration
14(1)
1.13 The presidency: From Progressivism to the New Freedom
15(3)
1.14 President Theodore Roosevelt and the origins of Progressivism
18(3)
1.15 The Roosevelt Administration
21(2)
1.16 The Taft Administration
23(3)
1.17 Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
26(6)
Further reading
32(1)
2 Foreign policy 1900-20 33(25)
2.1 Theodore Roosevelt and foreign policy
33(6)
2.2 Taft's 'dollar diplomacy'
39(1)
2.3 Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy
40(1)
2.4 A 'distant conflict': The outbreak of war in Europe
41(4)
2.5 The election of 1916 and America's subsequent entry into the First World War
45(4)
2.6 America's impact on the First World War
49(2)
2.7 American casualties
51(1)
2.8 Peace without victory
52(1)
2.9 The impact of war on civil liberties: 1917-18
52(1)
2.10 Woodrow Wilson and the quest for peace
53(2)
2.11 The Senate and the Versailles Treaty
55(2)
Further reading
57(1)
3 The 1920s 58(46)
3.1 The transition from war to peace: President Harding and a return to isolationism
58(1)
3.2 The Washington Naval Conference
59(1)
3.3 Reparations
60(1)
3.4 The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928
60(1)
3.5 The 'Red Scare'
61(3)
3.6 The election of 1920 and the Harding Administration
64(5)
3.7 Prohibition
69(6)
3.8 Religious fundamentalism
75(2)
3.9 Changing attitudes towards immigration
77(1)
3.10 The Coolidge era and the presidential election of 1924
78(3)
3.11 The economy in the 1920s
81(1)
3.12 Farmers and agriculture
82(2)
3.13 Industry
84(3)
3.14 Analysis: How widespread was the affluence of the 1920s?
87(3)
3.15 Republican economic policy
90(1)
3.16 Coolidge's decision not to seek a second term and the emergence of Hoover
91(2)
3.17 Before the fall - Hoover's domestic agenda
93(1)
3.18 The stock market crash of 1929
94(4)
3.19 The Great Depression
98(3)
3.20 Analysis of Hoover's temperament in response to the Crash
101(1)
3.21 1931 - Further collapse and Hoover's response
101(1)
3.22 Analysis
102(1)
Further reading
102(2)
4 FDR: The Great Depression and the New Deal 104(28)
4.1 The presidential election of 1932
104(3)
4.2 FDR's background
107(2)
4.3 The Hundred Days and the First New Deal
109(7)
4.4 Criticism of the New Deal
116(3)
4.5 The Second New Deal
119(1)
4.6 The presidential election of 1936 and the 'Roosevelt recession' of 1937
120(3)
4.7 A New Deal for women?
123(1)
4.8 The rural depression
123(4)
4.9 Industrial relations during the New Deal era
127(1)
4.10 Assessments of the New Deal
128(1)
4.11 The presidential election of 1940
129(1)
Further reading
130(1)
Online resource
131(1)
5 Roosevelt's foreign policy, 1933-45 132(28)
5.1 Latin America and the 'Good Neighbor policy'
132(1)
5.2 The road to war: The Far East
132(2)
5.3 The road to war: Europe
134(4)
5.4 The Neutrality Acts, 1935-39
138(1)
5.5 The Lend-Lease Program
139(2)
5.6 The Atlantic Charter
141(1)
5.7 Pearl Harbor and its consequences
142(3)
5.8 America enters the Second World War - the Grand Alliance
145(1)
5.9 The Home Front
146(1)
5.10 Impact of the war on the American economy
147(2)
5.11 The war in Europe
149(1)
5.12 The war in the Mediterranean
150(1)
5.13 The war in the Pacific
151(3)
5.14 The election of 1944
154(1)
5.15 The Manhattan Project
155(1)
5.16 The Grand Alliance
155(1)
5.17 The Yalta Conference
156(2)
5.18 The death of Roosevelt and the succession of Truman
158(1)
Note
159(1)
Further reading
159(1)
Online resource
159(1)
6 African Americans 1900-45 160(19)
6.1 Systemic oppression
160(1)
6.2 Racial violence and lynching
161(2)
6.3 Presidential attitudes from McKinley to Wilson
163(1)
6.4 The role of Black Americans in the First World War
164(1)
6.5 Black leadership in the period 1900-45
165(4)
6.6 The Great Migration
169(1)
6.7 Presidential attitudes from Harding to Hoover
169(2)
6.8 The Ku Klux Klan
171(2)
6.9 Presidential attitudes from Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt
173(2)
6.10 A New Deal for African Americans?
175(1)
6.11 Lynching
176(1)
6.12 1936-40
176(1)
6.13 The impact of the Second World War
177(1)
Further reading
178(1)
7 Post-war America 179(34)
7.1 Truman and the post-war economy
181(1)
7.2 Truman's domestic legislation
182(2)
7.3 Internal division and the election of 1948
184(1)
7.4 The presidential election of 1948
185(1)
7.5 The rise of McCarthyism
186(4)
7.6 Truman's foreign policy
190(1)
7.7 The Potsdam Conference
191(1)
7.8 The atomic bomb
192(3)
7.9 The Iron Curtain
195(1)
7.10 The Truman Doctrine
196(2)
7.11 Marshall Aid
198(2)
7.12 The Berlin blockade
200(1)
7.13 NATO
201(1)
7.14 National Security Council Resolution 68
202(1)
7.15 Eastern Europe
203(1)
7.16 Relations with China, 1945-49
203(1)
7.17 Relations with Japan, 1945-52
204(1)
7.18 Historiography of the Cold War
205(1)
7.19 Overview: Crisis in Korea
205(1)
7.20 Invasion and Truman's decision to intervene in Korea
206(2)
7.21 The United Nations
208(1)
7.22 The initial campaigns
208(2)
7.23 The intervention of China
210(1)
7.24 Military deadlock and initial peace negotiations
211(1)
Further reading
211(2)
8 The 1950s: Affluence and anxiety 213(33)
8.1 Ike's background and upbringing
213(3)
8.2 Continuity and change between the Truman and Eisenhower administrations
216(1)
8.3 The decline of McCarthyism
217(1)
8.4 The rise of an affluent society
217(4)
8.5 The 'baby boom' of the 1950s
221(1)
8.6 Eisenhower's domestic legislation
222(1)
8.7 Eisenhower's leadership style and the 'hidden hand' presidency
223(1)
8.8 The election of 1956
224(2)
8.9 Eisenhower's relationship with Nixon
226(1)
8.10 Eisenhower's foreign policy, 1953-61 - overview
227(1)
8.11 Impact on the Korean War of the presidential campaign of 1952
228(2)
8.12 The foreign policy of John Foster Dulles
230(1)
8.13 The Cold War
231(1)
8.14 The military-industrial complex
232(4)
8.15 SEATO
236(1)
8.16 Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu
236(1)
8.17 The 'New Look' defence policy
237(1)
8.18 The Soviet invasion of Hungary, 1956
238(1)
8.19 The Suez crisis, 1956
239(1)
8.20 Origins of the war in Vietnam
240(3)
8.21 The U-2 crisis
243(2)
Note
245(1)
Further reading
245(1)
9 John F. Kennedy, 1961-63 246(42)
9.1 Poetry and power - JFK in the White House
246(2)
9.2 JFK's early political career
248(1)
9.3 The presidential election of 1960
249(4)
9.4 The New Frontier: Kennedy's domestic legislation
253(2)
9.5 Poverty
255(1)
9.6 Education in the New Frontier
256(2)
9.7 Women in the 1960s
258(2)
9.8 The economy
260(1)
9.9 The space race
261(2)
9.10 Problems with Congress
263(2)
9.11 Foreign policy
265(1)
9.12 Latin America: The Alliance for Progress
266(1)
9.13 Berlin
267(1)
9.14 The Bay of Pigs
268(2)
9.15 The Cuban Missile Crisis
270(2)
9.16 Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis arise?
272(1)
9.17 American discovery of the missile bases
272(1)
9.18 Thirteen days - A chronology of the Cuban Missile Crisis
273(5)
9.19 The consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis
278(1)
South East Asia
279(1)
9.20 Laos
279(1)
9.21 Vietnam
280(1)
9.22 Sending military assistance to Vietnam
281(5)
Further reading
286(2)
10 LBJ: The Great Society and Vietnam 288(32)
10.1 Lyndon Baines Johnson
288(2)
10.2 From the New Frontier to the Great Society
290(1)
10.3 The election of 1964
291(1)
10.4 Launching the Great Society
292(3)
10.5 Education
295(3)
10.6 Poverty
298(1)
10.7 Medicare and Medicaid
298(3)
10.8 The Supreme Court
301(1)
10.9 The decline of the Great Society
301(1)
Johnson's foreign policy
302(1)
10.10 The Dominican Republic
302(1)
10.11 Johnson's foreign policy team
303(1)
10.12 Johnson's initial response to the problem of Vietnam
304(2)
10.13 The Gulf of Tonkin and military escalation
306(1)
10.14 Internal criticism: Opposition in Congress
307(1)
10.15 Vietnam and the media
308(2)
10.16 What was it like to serve in Vietnam?
310(4)
10.17 The role of Robert McNamara (Defense Secretary, 1961-68)
314(2)
10.18 The Tet offensive, 1968
316(2)
10.19 President Johnson's decision not to stand for re-election, 1968
318(1)
Further reading
318(1)
Online resources
319(1)
11 The shift to the right 320(41)
11.1 Introduction
320(5)
11.2 The election of 1968
325(3)
11.3 The Nixon Administration and the end of the Great Society
328(1)
11.4 The Supreme Court
329(1)
11.5 The presidential election of 1972
330(1)
11.6 Watergate
331(4)
11.7 The resignation of Nixon
335(2)
11.8 President Ford
337(3)
11.9 The election of 1976
340(1)
11.10 The Carter presidency
341(1)
American foreign policy, 1968-80
342(1)
11.11 Overview of Nixon's foreign policy, 1968-74
342(1)
11.12 Nixon's aims in Vietnam
343(1)
11.13 Vietnamisation of the war
343(2)
11.14 Cambodia
345(1)
11.15 Losing the battle of hearts and minds
346(1)
11.16 The peace process and the bombing of Vietnam
347(3)
11.17 Henry Kissinger
350(1)
11.18 Relations with the Soviet Union: The arms race, detente and the SALT talks
350(2)
11.19 Communist China
352(1)
11.20 The Middle East
353(1)
11.21 President Ford's foreign policy, 1974-76
354(1)
11.22 President Carter's foreign policy 1976-80
355(4)
Further reading
359(1)
Online resources
360(1)
12 African Americans 1945-2000 361(34)
12.1 President Truman, civil rights and the transition from war to peace
361(2)
12.2 President Eisenhower and the civil rights campaign
363(1)
12.3 Brown vs Topeka Board of Education (May 1954)
363(2)
12.4 White resistance and violence
365(1)
12.5 The civil rights movement
366(2)
12.6 Martin Luther King Jr
368(2)
12.7 Appraisal of Eisenhower's record on civil rights
370(1)
12.8 Grass-roots resistance
371(2)
12.9 President Kennedy and the civil rights issue
373(2)
12.10 The transition from Kennedy to Johnson (1963)
375(1)
12.11 The Civil Rights Act, 1964
375(3)
12.12 'The freedom summer; 1964
378(1)
12.13 The Great Society and the Voting Rights Act, 1965
379(1)
12.14 The Watts riots, 1965
380(1)
12.15 The Black Power movement
380(3)
12.16 1967 - Further rebellion and a presidential Commission of Enquiry
383(1)
12.17 Malcolm X
383(2)
12.18 A change in direction for the civil rights movement
385(1)
12.19 King in perspective
385(1)
12.20 From LBJ to President Nixon
386(2)
12.21 From Ford to Carter, 1974-80
388(1)
12.22 President Reagan
389(1)
12.23 George H.W. Bush
390(2)
12.24 President Clinton
392(1)
12.25 The fundamentals of racism in American society in the twenty-first century
393(1)
Further reading
393(1)
Online resource
394(1)
13 The end of the American century: 1980-2000 395(43)
13.1 The 1980s and the shift to the right
395(1)
13.2 Ronald Reagan
396(1)
13.3 The presidential election of 1980
396(2)
13.4 Ronald Reagan's first term: 1981-85
398(2)
13.5 The presidential election of 1984
400(1)
13.6 Ronald Reagan's second term
401(1)
13.7 The Iran-Contra affair
402(3)
13.8 George H.W. Bush, 1989-92
405(1)
13.9 The presidential election of 1988
406(1)
13.10 President Bush and the Reagan legacy
407(1)
13.11 Newt Gingrich and the rise of political partisanship
407(1)
13.12 The environment
408(1)
13.13 Corruption
408(1)
13.14 Bush and domestic policy
409(1)
13.15 The economic recession
410(1)
13.16 The impact of the recession upon President Bush
411(1)
13.17 Bill Clinton and the presidential election of 1992
411(1)
13.18 Clinton's background
411(1)
13.19 The Clinton campaign
412(1)
13.20 Shortcomings in the Bush campaign
413(1)
13.21 Analysis of the 1992 election
413(2)
13.22 President Clinton in the White House
415(1)
13.23 Opposition to the Health Care Plan
415(1)
13.24 The Oklahoma City bombing
416(1)
13.25 The presidential election of 1996: Clinton vs Dole
416(1)
13.26 The Lewinsky scandal, 1998
417(1)
13.27 Impeachment
418(1)
13.28 Clinton's economic record
418(2)
American foreign policy, 1980-2000
420(1)
13.29 President Reagan's foreign policy
420(3)
13.30 The Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), 'Star Wars'
423(1)
13.31 The rise of Mikhail Gorbachev
424(1)
13.32 President Bush and foreign policy
425(3)
13.33 The invasion of Kuwait
428(2)
13.34 The aftermath of the Gulf War
430(1)
13.35 President Clinton's foreign policy
431(4)
13.36 The presidential election of 2000
435(1)
Further reading
436(1)
Online resource
437(1)
Questions and Exercises 438(26)
References 464(6)
Index 470
John Traynor is a recently retired History Teacher. He is the author of Mastering Modern German History and Challenging History: Europe 1890-1990. He has also written history materials for the BBC, the Public Record Office and the National Archive of the United States.