Abundance and Anxiety

America, 1945-1960

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

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The United States had tremendous opportunities after World War II. The nation's industrial might, geared to defeat Germany and Japan, could now be focused on domestic production. Real wages were up, the GNP was on the rise, industrial production was up, and inflation was under control. The future looked bright for the average American. But this abundance was punctuated with anxiety. Within four years of the end of the war, the Soviet Union had become the new enemy: they had the bomb and China and Eastern Europe had fallen into the Soviet sphere of influence. These two points, the abundance of the growing economy and the anxiety of the Cold War, defined the period from 1945-1960.

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Utgivningsdatum:1997-05-21
Mått:161 x 240 x 16 mm
Vikt:482 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780275957735

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GARY A. DONALDSON is Associate Professor of History at Xavier University in New Orleans. In 1991 he spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in the People's Republic of China. He is the author of America at War Since 1945: U.S. Involvement in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War (Praeger, 1996), and A History of African Americans in the Military (1991).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Domestic Politics in Truman's First Term--and the Anatomy of an Upset The New World Order and the Origins of the Cold War Domestic Fears and the "Red Scare" America and the Forgotten War: Stopping the March of Communism in Korea The Fair Deal and Truman's Second Term Eisenhower in the White House--and the Fall of McCarthy Korea and Foreign Policy in the Eisenhower Administration The Civil Rights Movement in the Postwar Years The Use of Abundance: Culture and Society, 1945-1960 The Election of 1960 and the End of an Era Notes Bibliographical Essay Index