America in the Twentieth Century

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Marshall Cavendish, 2002 - History - 1800 pages
Examines America's progress and setbacks, decade by decade, throughout the twentieth century including important peoole and trends in American politics, social policy and civil rights, foreign policy, economy and trade, literature and arts, and the environment.

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1900s
1454
Race
1460
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1638
1464
Isthmian Canal Convention
1467
Labor
1469
1970s
1473
Platform adopted by the National Negro Committee
1474
Triangle ShirtWaist Fire
1478
1930s
1526
The Great Depression
1529
National Labor Relations Act of 1935 WagnerConnery Act
1535
Arthur Rothstein photograph
1540
Slaves of the Depression
1541
An Oral History of the Great Depression Stock Market Crash
1546
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
1548
1940s
1556

National AntiSuffrage Association
1480
Lewis W Hine Photographs
1485
Over There George M Cohan
1494
Socialism
1502
If We Must Die Claude McKay
1504
The Klansmans Manual
1518
Japanese Internment
1562
Communism
1565
War Poster
1569
Truman Doctrine
1571
Testimony before Congress Ring Lardner Jr
1579
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