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Series
Publisher
Core Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Step back in time and experience the postwar era. The past will come to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more.
Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO. Reviewed Are you ready for a journey through the eras of US...
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Series
History of US volume 10
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
Covers the period of American history from 1945 to 1998, from the end of World War II to the Clinton administration.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In twentieth century America, no threat loomed larger than the communist superpower of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party of the United States attempted to use deep economic and racial disparities in American culture to win over members and sympathizers. Marrin shows how the miscarriage of justice in the Scotsboro Boys case, the tragedy of the Rosenbergs, and the menace of the Joseph McCarthy and his war hearings lured many Americans to the ideals...
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Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation.
The...
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
During the 1960s, America became embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war fighting communism in Vietnam. Antiwar sentiment led to mass youth protests, which occasionally turned deadly. With the Soviet Union breaking up in the late 1980s, the United States was the sole superpower. But it quickly became the target of Islamist terrorism, as 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the War on Terror came to define the first two decades of the new...
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Although America proclaimed its neutrality when World War II broke out in Europe in 1939, in just a few years it would not only be forced into the bloodiest conflict in world history but would also determine the war's outcome. The unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust were revealed when U.S. and Allied troops liberated concentration camps. Then, in 1945, the United States gave birth to the nuclear age when it dropped atomic bombs on Japan. In the...
7) Vietnam
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Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
An account of the Vietnamese Conflict and its aftermath, with information on its origins and on how the war affected American foreign policy and attitudes even today.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"...a breathtaking journey through American life from the end of World War II to the present. It begins with Truman, an 'accidental' president whose grandparents remembered the Civil War; it travels through contemporary American history with its wars and wonders; it considers the astonishing democratic potential of the information age; and it never loses sight of the American promise of freedom and equality for all" -- Cover, p. 4.
14) The home front
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Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Examines how the Cold War period in America, lasting roughly fifty years following World War II, was a contradictory time of prosperity and optimism coupled with concerns over Soviet espionage infiltrating American institutions and fear of nuclear apocalypse.
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