Combines traditional history with a focus on the American people. A comprehensive overview of U.S. History since World War II, Moving On weaves together political, economic, diplomatic, and military history, while incorporating the social, demographic, environmental, and cultural history of the period. The text also features a focus on the late 1960s as a major turning point in post-war America. Learning Goals Upon completing this book readers will be able to: Understand the key events, players, and issues that define post 1945-America Understand the social and cultural legacy of the important decades of post-1945 America Know the importance of each decade in shaping America through the new millennium 0205

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Brief Content and Detailed Contents 1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Found in this Section: Brief Table of Contents Full Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Postwar America Chapter 2 Wars: Cold and Hot Chapter 3 Postwar Politics Chapter 4 The Affluent Society Chapter 5 The Consumer Culture Chapter 6 The Age of Consensus Chapter 7 New Frontiers at Home and Abroad Chapter 8 Great Society and Vietnam Chapter 9 Rebellion and Reaction Chapter 10 Pragmatic Centrism Chapter 11 Calming the Cold War Chapter 12 Era of Limits Chapter 13 Social and Cultural Transformations Chapter 14 The Age of Reagan Chapter 15 Reigniting then Icing the Cold War Chapter 16 Social Tensions and Culture Wars Chapter 17 Going Global Chapter 18 America in a New Millennium Chapter 19 The Wars on Terror Index 2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Chapter 1: Postwar America Victory! People on the Move Economic Transformations A Diverse Society The Growth of Big Labor A Religious People Women African Americans Hispanic Americans Asian Americans Native Americans The Politics of War Legacies of World War Brief Bibliographical Essay Chapter 2: Wars: Cold and Hot Origins Of Cold War The Truman Doctrine The Marshall Plan Nato The Chinese Revolution Vietnam: The Beginning NSC-68 The Korean War, 1950–1953 The Cold War Consensus Documents Bernice Brode, Tales of Los Alamos (1943) Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech (1946) George Kennan, Containment (1947) Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947) General Douglas MacArthur, Farewell Address to Congress (1951) Clark Clifford, Memorandum to President Truman (1946) George Marshall, “The Marshall Plan” (1947) National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950) Images Closer Look: Cold War Bomb Shelter Closer Look: The Korean War Videos Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima The Korean War Armistice Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 3: Postwar Politics Harry Who? The Election of 1946 The Eightieth Congress Civil Rights The Election of 1948 A Fair Deal Red Scare Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 4: The Affluent Society Demographic Patterns An Economy of Abundance The Age of the Automobile Labor at Mid-Century Poverty Amidst Plenty Suburban Sprawl Women: Family and Work Class and Status Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 5: The Consumer Culture The “Teen Culture” Rock ’N’ Roll Television Takes Over Religion Revived Culture Critics Rebels Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 6: The Age of Consensus The Election of 1952 Dynamic Conservatism McCarthy Destroyed The Politics of Consensus Civil Rights The New Look Vietnam China Crisis At the Summit The CIA in Covert Action Trouble in Suez Soviet Tanks Crush the Hungarian Revolution A Sputnik Moment Cuba and Castro The Cold War Heats Up End of an Era Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 7: New Frontiers at Home and Abroad The Election of 1960 Social Reform The Economy Let Freedom Ring Cold Warrior The Bay of Pigs Alianza para Progreso Berlin Missile Crisis Vietnam: Raising the Stakes Death of a President Closer Look: Signs Videos John F Kennedy Presidential Campaign Kennedy Nixon Debate Civil Rights March on Washington The Cuban Missile Crisis Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 8: Great Society and Vietnam Goldwater Challenges the Liberal Welfare State Great Society The Warren Court The Six Day War Policing the Caribbean Going to War in Vietnam The American Way of War War at Home The Tet-68 Offensive Lyndon B. Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Lyndon Johnson, Message to Congress and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964) Voting Literacy Test (1965) Lyndon Johnson on the Immigration Act (1965) Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience and the Vietnam War (1967) Profile: Eugene McCarthy Maps Impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Vietnam War Videos Lyndon Johnson Presidential Campaign Ad: Little Girl vs. Mushroom Cloud Newsreel: Peace March, Thousands Oppose Vietnam War The Vietnam War Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 9: Rebellion and Reaction Student Radicals The Greening of America The Fire This Time Black Power Brown and Red Power Gay Lesbian Liberation The Rebirth of Feminism Backlash The Election of 1968 Summing Up the Sixties Documents Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) Betty Friedan, "The Problem That Has No Name", from The Feminine Mystique (1963) National Organization from Women, Statement of Purpose (1966) Donald Wheeldin, The Situation in Watts Today (1967) Shirley Chisholm, Equal Rights for Women (1969) The Gay Liberation Front, Come Out (1970) Cesar Chavez, From He Showed Us the Way (1978) Profile: Kwame Toure, (Stokely Carmichael) Profile: Cesar Chavez Profile: Janis Joplin Profile: Bobby Seale Video Malcolm X Protest, Counterculture, and the Antiwar Movement During the Vietnam Era Richard Nixon Presidential Campaign Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 10: Pragmatic Centrism A Closet Liberal? Nixonomics The Southern Strategy Activists and Reformers Ecology and Consumerism The 1972 Election Watergate Decline and Fall Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring (1962) House Judiciary Committee's Conclusion on Impeachment (1972) Roe v. Wade (1973) Statement by the American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee (1973) Watergate Special Prosecution Force Memorandum (1974) Exploring America: American Indian Movement Images Closer Look: Watergate Shipwreck Closer Look: Watergate Through Political Cartoons Videos Richard Nixon I am not a crook Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 11: Calming the Cold War Détente The China Opening Vietnam: A War To End A War Middle Eastern Dilemmas Chaos In Chile New Relations with European Powers The Emergence of Japan Realist Diplomacy in Perspective Testimony at the Winter Soldier Investigation (1971) Richard Nixon, "Peace With Honor" (1973) Images Nixon in China Closer Look: Life Magazine Cover May 15, 1970 Tragedy at Kent State Video Atrocity and Cover Up: My Lai Massacre Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 12: Era of Limits Economic Decline Energy Crises Cars and Computers A Ford Not a Lincoln Extending détente Vietnam: The End The Election of 1976 Mr. Carter Goes to Washington A New Foreign Policy Approach The Decline of détente Debacle in Iran The Rise of the New Right The Election of 1980 A Time of Troubles Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter speaks about an "Invisible Wall of Racial Segregation," (1976) The Camp David Accords (1978) Jimmy Carter, The "Malaise" Speech (1979) Islam and the State in the Middle East: Ayatollah Khomeini's Vision of Islamic Government (1979) Ronald Reagan, Republican Party Nomination Acceptance (1980) Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981) Profile: Jimmy Carter Profile: Jerry Falwell Videos Gerald Ford Presidential Campaign Jimmy Carter and the Crisis Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 13: Social and Cultural Transformations A Demographic Profile New Immigrants African Americans: A Dual Society Women: Changing Attitudes and Roles The Most Religious Nation in the Western World The “Me” Decade Cultural Transformations Conflict and Diversity: Hollywood's Visions of the 1970s Television and the Ascendancy of the Media Culture Ione Malloy, Southie Won't Go (1975) Toi Derricotte, Black in a White Neighborhood (1977-1978) Affirmative Action in Atlanta, "Can Atlanta Succeed Where America Has Failed?" Patricia Morrisroe, Yuppies - The New Class (1985) Map America's Move to the Sunbelt 1970-1981 Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990 Video Evangelical Religion and Politics, Then and Now Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 14: The Age of Reagan Reaganomics Recession and Recovery Morning Again in America The Election of 1984 Second Efforts The “Go-Go” Economy Shifting the Supreme Court to the Right The Sleaze Factor Richard Viguerie, Why the New Right is Winning (1981) Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers Strike (1981) Ronald Reagan, Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983) Paul Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution (1984) T. Boone Pickens, My Case for Reagan (1984) Thurgood Marshall, Remarks on the Bicentennial of the Constitution (1987) Images Attempted Reagan Assassination Video Ronald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax Cuts Ronald Reagan Presidential Campaign Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 15: Reigniting then Icing the Cold War The Old Cold Warrior The Pacific Rim Disaster in Lebanon Canada and America Policing the Western Hemisphere International Crises The Iraqi–Iranian War Iran-Contra Scandals Icing the Cold War Documents A Liberal White Journalist on Apartheid (1970s-1980s) Ronald Reagan, Support for the Contras (1984) Bill Chappell, Speech to the American Security Council Foundation (1985) Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1986) Mikhail Gorbachev on the Need for Economic Reform (1987) Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate (1987) Maps The Cold War Military Stand-off Conflict in Central America, 1970-1998 Videos Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall Oliver North Hearing Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 16: Social Tensions and Culture Wars 2000: A Demographic Profile Bust, Boom, and Bust Cable TV and the Information Superhighway Multiculturalism Culture Warriors Black and White, But Not Together Hispanic Americans Asian Americans Women and Work Documents Howard Rheingold, Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993) Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third Generation Mexican American (1988) Jesse Jackson, Common Ground (1988) Elaine Bell Kaplan, "Talking to Teen Mothers" (1995) Image Sign at a Gay Pride March Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 17: Going Global The Election of 1988 A Kinder Nation The Rehnquist Court The Election of 1992 Clintonomics The Republican Earthquake The Election of 1996 A President Impeached Ending and Winning the Cold War The Post–Cold War World The Gulf War Clinton and the Post–Cold War World The Balkan Wars Terrorism Abroad and at Home Documents George H.W. Bush, Inaugural Address (1989) President Clinton's First Inaugural Address (1993) Clinton Health Care Reform Proposals (1993) Republican Contract with America (1994) The Balkan Proximity Peace Talks Agreement (1995) Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1999) Bill Clinton, Answers to the Articles of Impeachment (1999) Image Tiananmen Square Map Events in Eastern Europe, 1989-1990 Videos The Berlin Wall Bill Clinton Sells Himself to America The Collapse of the Communist Bloc George Bush Presidential Campaign Ad: The Revolving Door President Bush on the Gulf War Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 18: America in a New Millennium The Demographics of Diversity Young People of the New Millennium A Multicultural Society A Nation of Immigrants Documents William Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass (1987) Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 Building a Black Christian Community from Scratch (1999) Health Issues in the Black Community (2005) Hillary Clinton, Speech on Health Care (2007) Louis Farrakhan on Education (2007) From Then to Now: Immigration: An Ambivalent Welcome From Then to Now: The Diversity of American Religious Life Profile: Colin Powell Map Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990 Brief Bibliographic Essay Chapter 19: The Wars on Terror Election 2000 Thirty-Six Days Compassionate Conservatism Terrorist Attack! The Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy The Invasion of Iraq Operation Iraqi Freedom Election of 2004 The War President Global Financial Crisis and Recession 2008 Election The New Face of America The 2010 Elections Containing the Wars on Terror Spring 2012 Documents George Bush, Address to the Nation, (2001) George W. Bush, Address to Congress (2001) N.R. Kleinfield, American Enters a New Century with Terror (2001) George W. Bush, From National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002) Al Gore, Global Warming (2006) Dirty Politics in the 2008 Election, (2007) Nancy Pelosi, Inaugural Address, (2007) Barack H. Obama, Inaugural Address (2009) Videos The Rise and Fall of the Automobile Economy Modernity's Pollution Problems The Historical Significance of the 2008 Presidential Election Brief Bibliographic Essay Index