Lecture 1: The 19^th Century in a Nutshell

1. Introduction

2. Industrialization and Its Effects

3. Immigration and Population Growth

4. Urbanization and Westward Expansion

5. The Plight of Native Americans

6. Race Relations

7. Conclusion

Industrialization	Wage Economy	The Domestic Ideal	Free Market Individualism
Social Darwinism	Nativism	Urbanization	Westward Expansion
Jim Crow Laws	Plessey vs. Ferguson

Lecture 2: The Progressive Era: Life at the Start of a New Century.

1- Introduction

2- Population and Immigration

3- Employment and Urban Growth

4- Technology

5- Mass Culture

6- The African American Experience

New Immigrants	Henry Ford	Spanish Flu	William Randolph Hearst
Nickelodeons	Newspaper chains	Jim Crow	Plessey vs. Ferguson
Booker T. Washington	W.E.B Du Bois	NAACP	Lynching

Lecture 3: Progressive Era Politics (I)

1- Introduction

2- Elements of the Progressive Movement

– Political Progressives

– Muckrakers

– Socialists and Wobblies

– The Suffragettes

3- Progressive Demands

- Direct Government

- Municipal Reform

- Woman’s Suffrage

- Welfare Legislation

Progressivism	Theodore Roosevelt	Progressive Era
William H. Taft	Woodrow Wilson	Muckrakers
Socialist Party of America	Eugene Debs	Industrial Workers of the World
Suffragettes	New Woman	Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony	Elizabeth Cody Stanton	National American Women Suffragette Association
Direct Gov’t	17^th Amendment	Municipal Reform
City Manager	19^th Amendment	Welfare Legislation
Robert La Follete

Lecture 4: Progressive Era Politics (II)

1 – Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal

2 - William H. Taft

3 - The Election of 1912

4 – Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom

Square Deal	16^th Amendment	Bull Moose Party
The New Freedom	Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914	Robert La Follete

Lecture 5: America and World War I

1- Introduction

2- Wilson’s Foreign Policy

3- Wilson’s Interventions in Latin and Central America

4- World War I

– Introduction

– A Neutrality in Difficulty

– Dissent

– America Enters the War

– A Compromised Peace and the End of Wilson

5- Conclusion

William Jennings Bryan	Monroe Doctrine	Roosevelt Corollary
Francisco “Pancho” Villa	The Central Powers	The Lusitania
Sussex Pledge	Selective Service Act (1917)	General John Pershing
Committee on Public Information	The Espionage Act (1918)	Battle of the Somme
League of Nations	Treaty of Versailles

Lecture 6: The Twenties

1- Introduction

2- Prohibition

3- Antiradicalism

4- The Ku Klux Klan

5- The African American Experience

6- The Scopes Trial

7- Technology

8- The Sexual Revolution

9- Freud and Psychoanalysis

10- The Lost Generation

11- Mass Culture

12- Conclusion

Anti-Saloon League	18^th Amendment (1917)	Volstead Act (1919)	21^st Amendment (1933)
Red Scare	Palmer Raids	Sacco & Vanzetti	Great Migration
Lynching	Marcus Garvey	A. Philip Randolph	Monkey Trial
Spirit of St. Louis	Younger Generation	Psychoanalysis	Lost Generation
The Jazz Singer	Louis Armstrong

Lecture 7: Politics and the Crash of 1929

1 – Introduction

2 – Warren G. Harding

3 – Calvin C. Coolidge

4 – The Economic Origins of the Crash and the Great Depression

Return to Normalcy	The Ohio Gang	Immigration Restriction Act
Veterans Bureau Scandal	Teapot Dome Scandal	Boston Police Strike
Boston Police Strike	Mass Consumption	Buying Stocks on Margin
Bull Market	Calvin Coolidge	Warren G. Harding

Lecture 8: Hoover and the Great Depression

1 – Introduction

2 – Herbert Hoover

3 – Great Depression

- Introduction

- Great Depression 1929-1932

- Hoover’s Response

- Conclusion

Herbert Hoover	“Hooverize”	Farm Relief Legislation
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930)	Reconstruction Finance Corporation	Glass-Steagall Act
Federal Home Loan Bank Act	Bonus Army

Lecture 9: FDR and the First New Deal

1 – Introduction

2 – Little Franklin

3 – Eleanor Roosevelt

4 – FDR: Road to the White House

5 – FDR as President

6 – The First Hundred Days

7 – The First New Deal, 1933-34

– Relief Legislation

– Recovery Legislation: Business, Agriculture and Housing

– Reform Legislation

8 – Conclusion

Franklin D. Roosevelt	Eleanor Roosevelt	Hundred Days
Unemployment Relief Act	Civil Works Administration	Federal Emergency Relief Administration
National Industrial Recovery Act	Agricultural Adjustment Administration	Federal Housing Administration
Banking Holiday	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	Tennessee Valley Authority
Keynesian Economics

Lecture 10: The Second New Deal

1 – Introduction

2 – New Directions

3 – Legislation and Action

- Relief

- Recovery: Labor and Agriculture

- Reform: Social Security Act

4 – Minorities and the New Deal

5 – Fading Popularity and Increasing Opposition

6 – Evaluation of the New Deal

Works Progress Administration	National Youth Administration	Wagner Act
Fair Labor Standards Act	Farm Security Administration	Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
Social Security Act	Huey Long	Father Coughlin
Southern Tenant Farmers Union	New Deal Coalition	Frances Perkins
Committee for Industrial Organization	Court Packing Plan	Roosevelt Recession

Lecture 11: The Road to World War II

- Introduction

- Origins of the War

- America and the War

- America and Japan

- Conclusion

Isolationists	Fascism	Axis Powers
Munich Pact	Neutrality Acts	Interventionists
Lend Lease Act	Atlantic Charter	Pearl Harbor

Lecture 12: World War II

1 – Introduction

2- The Home Front

3- The European Front

4- The Yanks Are Coming

5- D-Day

6- The Race to Berlin and Defeat of Germany

7- The Pacific Theatre

8- The Defeat of Japan

9- The Bomb

10- Conclusion

The Home Front	Allied Nations	Total Warfare	Kurst
German-Soviet War	Axis Powers	Overlord	D-Day
Battle of the Bulge	Race for Berlin	VE Day	Battle of Midway
Island hopping	Kamikaze	Iwo Jima	Okinawa
Office of War Mobilization	Hiroshima	Nagasaki

Lecture 13: Truman and the Cold War

1. Introduction

2. Harry S. Truman

3. Truman as President

– Wartime

– Peacetime

– The Election of 1948

– Truman’s Fair Deal

– Conclusion

6. The Cold War

- Origins

- Korean War

- Conclusion

Harry S. Truman	Yalta Conference	Potsdam Conference
Fair Deal	Taft-Hartley Act	Dixiecrats
Cold War	Truman Doctrine	Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift	NATO	Korean War

Lecture 14: 1950s Politics and Culture

1 – The Cold War at Home

- The Alger Hiss Case

- McCarthyism

2 – The Affluent Society

3 – Fifties Culture

4 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower - Early Life

- From Soldier to President

- The New Look

- Domestic Policies

- Conclusion

Loss of China	Alger Hiss	Whittaker Chambers
McCarthyism	McCarran Act	GI Bill
Suburbanization	Jackie Robinson	Athea Gibson
Dwight Eisenhower	Domino Theory	The New Look
U2 Spy Plane	Interstate Highway System (1956)	Military Industrial Complex

Lecture 15: 1950s Politics and Culture

1 – The Cold War at Home

- The Alger Hiss Case

- McCarthyism

2 – The Affluent Society

3 – Fifties Culture

4 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower - Early Life

- From Soldier to President

- The New Look

- Domestic Policies

- Conclusion

Loss of China	Alger Hiss	Whittaker Chambers
McCarthyism	McCarran Act	GI Bill
Suburbanization	Jackie Robinson	Athea Gibson
Dwight Eisenhower	“I like Ike”	The New Look
U2 Spy Plane	Interstate Highway System (1956)	Military Industrial Complex

Lecture 16: Civil Rights Movements

1. Introduction

2. Civil Rights in the 1950s: School Desegregation

3. The Murder of Emmett Till

4. Montgomery Bus Boycott

5.Black Civil Rights and the 1960s

-- Sit-ins

-- Freedom Rides

-- Martin Luther King and the SCLC Campaigns

-- James Meredith and the Desegregation of Southern Universities

-- Voter Registration

-- Black Power

-- Black Panthers

6. Conclusion

NAACP	CORE	Brown vs. Board of Education
Little Rock	Emmett Till	Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott	Martin Luther King	SCLC
SNCC	Freedom Rides	Eugene “Bull” Connor
James Meredith	George Wallace	March on Washington
Civil Rights Act 1964	Mississippi Summer Project	Selma
Voting Rights Act 1965	Stokely Carmichael	Black Panther Party
Huey Newton	Eldridge Cleaver	COINTELPRO

Lecture 17 JFK