The 1940's,9780737703023

The 1940's

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ISBN13: 9780737703023
ISBN10: 0737703024
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-04-01
Publisher(s): Greenhaven Pr
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Summary

The 1940s are remembered as a time of war and the beginning of the atomic age. Essays examine the events leading to World War II, the war itself, the home front, and the motion picture industry.

Table of Contents

Foreword 11(2)
Introduction: Facing a New World in the 1940s 13(21)
The Road to War
1940: Clam Before the Storm
34(16)
Donald I. Rogers
From Isolation to Intervention
50(12)
Gerald D. Nash
December 7, 1941: A Day of Infamy
62(18)
Cabell Phillips
World War II
World War II: An Overview
80(14)
John Patrick Diggins
The Policy of Unconditional Surrender
94(14)
Robert James Maddox
Women Warriors, Spies, and Angels of Mercy
108(12)
William B. Breuer
African Americans in Combat
120(13)
A. Russell Buchanan
The Voice of America: Propaganda as Warfare
133(8)
Holly Cowan Shulman
The Atom Bomb
141(11)
Alan J. Levine
The Home Front
The Politics of Truth: The Office of War Information
152(11)
John Morton Blum
Shortages, Conservation, and Rationing
163(14)
Richard R. Lingeman
The Third Force: Women Go to Work
177(6)
Nancy Baker Wise
Christy Wise
The Internment of Japanese Americans
183(30)
Diane Yancey
The Rise and Fall of the Motion Picture Industry
Hollywood Goes to War
213(13)
Allen L. Woll
Doing Our Part: Celebrities Support the War Effort
226(13)
Otto Friedrich
Postwar Hollywood: From All-American to Un-American
239(16)
Robert Sklar
Emerging Trends in Popular Culture
Television Takes Off
255(15)
Harry Castleman
Walter J. Podrazik
The Belles of Baseball
270(11)
Jack Fincher
The Politics of Popular Music
281(15)
Lewis A. Erenberg
The Cold War
The Soviet-American Rift: An Overview
296(18)
Armin Rappaport
Drawing the Line for Freedom: The Truman Doctrine
314(8)
Mark Willen
Chronology 322(4)
For Further Reading 326(3)
Index 329

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