World War ---> Between Wars ---> World War
Section One:
1492-1816
Section Two:
1816-1877
Section Three:
1877-1914
Section Five:
1945-1974
Section Six:
1974-present
A. Problems of neutrality
1. Submarines
2. Economic ties
3. Psychological and ethnic ties
B. Preparedness and pacifism
C. Mobilization
1. Fighting the war, financing the war
2. War boards
3. Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties
D. Wilson's Fourteen Points; Treaty of Versailles
E. Postwar demobilization
24. New Era: The 1920's
A. Republican governments
1. Business creed
2. Harding scandals
B. Economic development
1. Prosperity and wealth
2. Farm and labor problems
C. New Culture
1. Consumerism: automobile, radio, movies
2. Women, the family
3. Modern religion
4. Literature of alienation
5. Jazz age, music generally
6. Harlem Renaissance
D. Conflict of cultures
1. Prohibition, bootlegging
2. Nativism
3. Ku Klux Klan
4. Religious fundamentalism versus modernists
E. Myth of isolation
1. Replacing the League of Nations
2. Business and diplomacy
25. Depression, 1929-1933
A. Wall Street crash
B. Depression economy
C. Moods of despair
1. Agrarian unrest
2. Bonus march
D. Hoover-Stimson diplomacy; Japan
26. New Deal
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. 100 Days; "alphabet agencies"
C. Second New Deal
D. Critcs, left and right
E. Rise of CIO; labor strikes
F. Supreme Court fight
G. Recession of 1938
H. American people in the Depression
1. Social values, women, ethnic groups
2. Indian Reorganization Act
3. Mexican-American deportation
27. Diplomacy in the 1930's
A. Good Neighbor Policy: Montevideo, Buenos Aires
B. London Economic Conference
C. Disarmamanet and isolationism: neutrality legislation
D. Aggressors: Japan, Italy, and Germany
E. Appeasement and rearmament; Blitzkrieg; Lend-Lease
F. Atlantic Charter
G. Pearl Harbor
28. The Second World War
A. Organizing for war
1. Mobilizing production -- factories
2. Propaganda
3. Internment of Japanese Americans
B. The war in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean; D-Day
C. The war in the Pacific: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
D. Diplomacy
1. War aims
2. War-time conferences: Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam
E. Postwar atmosphere; the United Nations
Questions? Comments? E-mail me:
[email protected]