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Prosperity, depression and the New Deal / Peter Clements

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Prosperity, depression and the New Deal / Peter Clements
Auteur(s)
Mention d'édition
  • 4th edition
Editeur, producteur
  • London : Hodder education, 2008
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (VI-247 p.) : ill., graph., photogr., portr. ; 25 cm
Collection
  • Access to history
ISBN
  • 978-0-340-96588-7
  • 0-340-96588-6
EAN
  • 9780340965887 br.
Appartient à la collection
  • Access to history
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 973.91
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 219. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Machine derived contents note: Dedication vii Chapter 1 A Changing Nation 1 Introduction 1 1 Historical Background 2 2 The Political System 4 3 The USA 1890-1920 7 4 The Growth of Big Business and its Impact on the USA 7 5 New Immigration 10 6 The Populist Movement and Political Protest 12 7 Growth of Empire 15 8 Progressivism and the Progressive Presidents 19 9 US Entry into the First World War 24 Study Guide 27 Chapter 2 Problems and Tensions in the USA 1917-28 29 1 A Changing Society 29 2 The Presidency of Warren Harding 31 3 Tensions in Society 33 4 Religion and Morality 42 5 The Old Versus the New 47 Study Guide 49 Chapter 3 Prosperity? 51 1 The Presidency of Calvin Coolidge 51 2 The Boom Years 54 3 Reasons for Prosperity 55 4 Problems in the Economy 66 5 The Strength of the Economy 76 Study Guide 78 Chapter 4 The Collapse of the Wall Street Stock Market, October 1929 82 1 The Wall Street Crash 82 2 Causes of the Wall Street Crash 85 3 Effects of the Wall Street Crash 93 Study Guide 96 Chapter 5 President Hoover and the Great Depression 97 1 Introduction 97 2 Herbert Hoover: His Background and Beliefs 98 3 The USA During the Great Depression 101 4 Why the Depression Lasted So Long 107 5 Federal Government Policies 110 6 The 1932 Presidential Election 116 7 President Hoover: An Epitaph 120 8 The Key Debate 121 Study Guide 125 Chapter 6 Roosevelt and the First New Deal 1933-4 128 1 Beginnings of Roosevelt's Presidency 129 2 The First 100 Days and the First New Deal 132 3 Alternatives to the New Deal 146 4 The Character of the First New Deal 151 Study Guide 155 Chapter 7 Roosevelt and the Later New Deals 1935-9 158 1 Introduction 159 2 The Second New Deal 159 3 The 1936 Presidential Election 169 4 Problems in the Second Term 170 5 The Later New Deal 178 6 The End of the New Deal 181 Study Guide 184 Chapter 8 American Foreign Policy 1920-41 186 1 Introduction 186 2 US Foreign Policy in the 1920s 187 3 Roosevelt's Foreign Policies 1933-9 190 4 US Response to the European War 195 5 Road to Pearl Harbor 198 6 US Foreign Policy: An Overview 200 Study Guide 201 Chapter 9 The New Deal in Retrospect 203 1 Introduction 203 2 Relief, Recovery and Reform 204 3 Race and Gender 207 4 Impact of the Second World War on the USA 210 5 Political Legacy of the New Deal 214 6 The Key Debate 217 7 Conclusion 220 Study Guide 222 Chapter 10 The USA and the Fear of Communism 225 1 Introduction 225 2 Postwar Prosperity 226 3 Foreign Policy 1945-54 229 4 Domestic Responses to Communism 233 5 Conclusion 237 Study Guide 238
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