The 1940s /

The 1940s /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gerdes, Louise I., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [2000]
Series:America's decades.
Subjects:
Nineteen forties.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States.
Cold War.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953.
Table of Contents:
  • 1940, calm before the storm / by Donald I. Rogers
  • From isolation to intervention / by Gerald D. Nash
  • December 7, 1941 : a day of infamy / by Cabell Phillips
  • World War II : an overview / by John Patrick Diggins
  • The policy of unconditional surrender / by Robert James Maddox
  • Women warriors, spies, and angels of mercy / by William B. Breuer
  • African Americans in combat / by A. Russell Buchanan
  • The voice of America : propaganda as warfare / by Holly Cowan Shulman
  • The atom bomb / by Alan J. Levine
  • The politics of truth : the office of war information / by John Morton Blum
  • Shortages, conservation, and rationing / by Richard R. Lingeman
  • The third force : women go to work / by Nancy Baker Wise and Christy Wise
  • The internment of Japanese Americans / by Diane Yancey
  • Hollywood goes to war / by Allen L. Woll
  • Doing our part : celebrities support the war effort / by Otto Friedrich
  • Postwar Hollywood : from all-American to un-American / by Robert Sklar
  • Television takes off / by Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik
  • The belles of baseball / by Jack Fincher
  • The politics of popular music / by Lewis A. Erenberg
  • The Soviet-American rift : an overview / by Armin Rappaport
  • Drawing the line for freedom : the Truman doctrine / by Mark Willen.