History of Us: War, Peace, and All That Jazz 1918-1945

Name: History of Us: War, Peace, and All That Jazz 1918-1945
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ISBN: 9780195327236

ISBN-10: 0195327233

ISBN-13: 9780195327236

Edition: 3rd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Joy Hakim

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From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic close of the second, War, Peace, and All That Jazz presents the story of some of the most exciting years in U.S. history. With the end of World War I, many Americans decided to live it up, going to movies, driving cars, and cheering baseball games a plenty. But alongside this post WWI spree was high unemployment, hard times for farmers, ever present racism, and, finally, the Depression, the worst economic disaster in U.S. history, flip flopping the nation from prosperity to scarcity. Along came one of our…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/9/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 9.09" wide x 7.52" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface: War and the Start of a New Century



War's End



Fourteen Points



Another Kind of War



The Prohibition Amendment



Mom, Did You Vote?



Red Scare



Soft-Hearted Harding



Silent Cal and the Roaring Twenties


Feature: Monkeys on Trial



Everyone's Hero



Only the Ball Was White



American Music


Feature: Rhapsodies in Red, White, and Blue


Feature: Hooray for Hollywood!



Hubba, Hubba, Hubble!


Feature: Stars in Women's Eyes



Space's Pioneer



The Lone Eagle



The Prosperity Balloon



Getting Rich Quickly



Down and Out



Economic Disaster



A Boy Who Loved History



How About This?



A Lonely Little Girl



First Lady of the World



Handicap or Character Builder?



Candidate Roosevelt



President Roosevelt



Twentieth-Century Monsters



A Final Solution


Feature: Arrival in Auschwitz



War and the Scientists



Fighting Wolves



Pearl Harbor



Taking Sides



World War



A Two-Front War



Forgetting the Constitution



A Hot Island



Axing the Axis


Feature: The End of the Road



Going for D-Day



A Wartime Diary



April in Georgia



President HST



A Final Journey



Day by Day



A Little Boy



Peace



Picturing History


Chronology of Events


More Books to Read


Picture Credits


Index


A Note from the Author


Atlas