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Postwar America (1945 to the Present)An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History Edited by James Ciment Includes: Topic Finder, sidebars, cultural landmarks, photos, glossary, master bibliography Awards: Best Reference, Library Journal Outstanding Reference Source, Reference and User Services Association, ALA Reviews: “[A] valuable resource. Because of the importance and diversity of the topics covered, it could easily find a home in high school, undergraduate and public libraries.” Against the Grain “[T]his work is comprehensive in its coverage, with references to point interested persons to more material. Recommended to academic and public libraries.” Library Journal “[T]he in-depth articles provide detailed background information and address topics that align with standard curricula. Researchers will appreciate the breadth and depth of coverage. This unique and satisfying resource is recommended for large public, academic, and secondary collections that support upper-level U.S. history courses.” Booklist “The 550 alphabetically arranged articles are well organized and will be accessible to readers who have little background on the topics. ... Controversial subjects receive balanced treatment ... succeeds in covering a complicated era in a style and format that is both useful and engaging.” School Library Journal Description: From the outbreak of the Cold War to the early twenty-first century, the period in American history since World War II has been filled with momentous events and major change. Diplomatically, economically, politically, and culturally, the United States has emerged as the world’s last remaining superpower, while encountering new challenges around the globe. On the domestic front, the postwar era has witnessed some of the most turbulent and prosperous years in U.S. history. Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History provides detailed and up-to-date coverage of the remarkable developments in U.S. affairs during this period, as well as their far-reaching effects on the rest of the world. More than five hundred A-Z entries shed light on notable events, movements, organizations, geographical locations, concepts, and artistic, cultural, and scientific trends. Sidebars highlight colorful figures, telling incidents, and other items of special interest; and Cultural Landmark entries detail the music, literature, arts, and cultural history of the era, decade by decade. A rich collection of photographs helps bring the era to life, and a Master Bibliography provides a comprehensive reference resource for further investigation. Contents: Cultural Landmarks Glossary Abortion Abscam Adams (Sherman) Scandal Advertising Affirmative Action Agency for International Development Agricultural Workers Agriculture AIDS/HIV Crisis Air Pollution Air Traffic Controllers’ Strike Alaskan Pipeline Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education (1969) Alliances, Foreign Altamont Killings American Independent Party American Nazi Party AmeriCorps Anticommunism Anti-Nuclear Power Movement Antiwar Movement, Vietnam Era Apollo Program Architecture Arms Race Army-McCarthy Hearings Arts, Fine Arts Funding, Government Asian American Groups Atomic Weapons Testing Atoms for Peace Attica Prison Riot Automobile Culture Automobile Industry Baby Bells Baby Boom Baker (Bobby) Affair Bakke Decision (1978) Ban the Bomb Movement Banking and Credit Baruch Plan Baseball Basketball Bay of Pigs Beauty, Fashion, and Cosmetics Beirut Bombings Berlin Airlift Berlin Wall Bicentennial Celebrations Billygate Birmingham Church Bombing Birth Control Bitburg, Reagan Visit to Black Muslims Black Panthers Black Power Movement Blackouts, Electrical Blue-Collar Workers Boland Amendments Bork Nomination Bosnia Intervention Boston Strangler Murders Boxing Bracero Program Brady Bill Brawley (Tawana) Affair Bricker Amendment Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Busing Camp David Accords Campaign Finance Canada, Relations with Capital Punishment Caribbean, Relations with (Except Cuba) Carter Doctrine Catonsville Nine Censorship Central America, Relations with Central Intelligence Agency Central Park Jogger Central Treaty Organization Chappaquiddick Affair Checkers Speech Chessman (Caryl) Affair Child Rearing China and Taiwan, Relations with Christian Coalition Christian Right Church Committee Hearings Citadel Affair Civil Liberties Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Rights Legislation and Policy Civil Rights Movement, Through 1965 Civil Rights Movement and Black Power, After 1965 Classical Music Club of Rome Report College Sports Columbia University Protest Comic Books Comic Strips Committee to Re-elect the President Common Cause Communications Technologies Community Action Program Community Reinvestment Act Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Computers Congress Congress of Racial Equality Congressional Black Caucus Consciousness Raising Conservatism Conspiracy Theories Constitutional Amendments Consumer Culture Consumer Movement Containment Corporate Consolidation Counterculture Country and Western Music Courts Crack (Cocaine) Epidemic Credibility Gap Crime, Juvenile Crime, Organized Crime, Property Crime, Sexual Crime, Violent Criminal Law and Punishment Cuba, Relations with Cuban Missile Crisis Cults Dalkon Shield Controversy Dance Dance, Popular Day Care Death and Dying Defense Spending and Defense Industry Delaney Clause Democratic Party Department of Housing and Urban Development Diet and Food Disabled Americans Disco Displaced Persons Act Dixiecrats Dominican Republic Invasion Domino Theory Donora (Pennsylvania) Smog Episode Downsizing, Corporate Draft, Military Drug Culture Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programs Eagleton (Thomas) Affair Earth Day Eastern Europe, Relations with Economic Policy Education, Department of Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Government Policy and Education, Higher Eisenhower Doctrine Election of 1946 Election of 1948 Election of 1952 Election of 1956 Election of 1960 Election of 1964 Election of 1968 Election of 1972 Election of 1976 Election of 1980 Election of 1984 Election of 1988 Election of 1992 Election of 1994 Election of 1996 Election of 2000 Election of 2004 Election of 2006 Election of 2008 Electronics Industry Emily’s List Employment Act of 1946 Encounter Groups Endangered Species Act Enemies List Energy Energy, Department of Engel v. Vitale (1962) Enron Bankruptcy Enterprise Zones Environmental Protection Agency Environmentalism Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Equal Pay Act Ethnic Studies Programs Evangelical Christianity Extreme Sports Exxon Valdez Disaster Fads Fair Deal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act Fairness Doctrine Family Family Assistance Plan Family Leave Act Family Support Act Family Values Federal Election Campaign Act Feminist Movement Filibuster Film, Documentary Film, Feature Film, Independent Folk Music Food for Peace Program Football Foreign Aid Formosa Resolution Freedom of Information Act Freedom Riders Freedom Schools Fulbright Act Furman v. Georgia (1972) Gambling Gay and Lesbian Politics and Culture Gemini, Project Generation X Genetics G.I. Bill Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Global Warming Globalization Goetz (Bernhard) Incident Golf GonzÁlez (EliÁn) Affair Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act Gray Panthers Green Berets Greensboro Massacre Grenada Invasion Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Gulf War Gun Control Haiti Incursion Happenings Hare Krishnas Hart (Gary) Affair Head Start Program Health and Fitness Health and Human Services, Department of Health Care Hearst (Patty) Kidnapping Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) Hells Angels Helsinki Accords Hijackings Hiss (Alger) Case Hobbies Hollywood Ten Homeland Security, Department of Hoover Commission Horton (Willie) Ads Hotline, U.S.-Soviet House Committee on Un-American Activities Housing Howard Beach Murder Hughes (Howard) Hoax Ice Hockey Immigration Impeachment of President Clinton Inner Cities Insider Trading Scandals International Geophysical Year International Institutions Internet Iran-Contra Affair Iran Hostage Crisis Iraq War Islam Israel, Relations with ITT Affair Jackson State Killings Japan, Relations with Jazz Jet Set Jewish Defense League Job Corps John Birch Society Jonestown Massacre Judaism Junk Bonds “Just Say No” Campaign Kennan’s Long Telegram Kennedy (John F.) Assassination Kent State Shootings Kerner Report Keynesian Economics Kinsey Reports Kitchen Debate Korea (North and South), Relations with Korean Airlines Flight 007 Korean War Kosovo Intervention Lance (Bert) Affair Landrum-Griffin Act Latino and Caribbean Peoples (Except Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans) Legionnaires’ Disease Liberalism Literature, Fiction Literature, Nonfiction Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis Love Canal Love-Ins Loving v. Virginia (1967) Magnet Schools Manson Murders March on Washington Mariel Boatlift Marshall Plan Mass Transit Masters and Johnson Studies Mayaguez Incident McCarran Act McCarran-Walter Immigration Act McClellan Committee Media and Politics Medicare and Medicaid Medicine Mental Health Mercury, Project Mexican Americans Mexico, Relations with Middle East, Relations with (Except Israel) Military Assistance Advisory Groups, U.S. Military-Industrial Complex Miller v. California (1973) Million Man March Miranda v. Arizona (1966) Misery Index Missile Gap Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Mississippi Summer Project Model Cities Program Montgomery Bus Boycott Moon Landing Moonies (Unificationists) MOVE! Moynihan Report Multiculturalism Mumia Abu-Jamal Case Music Videos Mutual Assured Destruction MX Missiles My Lai Massacre Nannygate National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA National Defense Education Act National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam National Organization for Women National Security Act of 1947 National Security Policy and Agencies National Women’s Conference Native Americans Natural Disasters and Disaster Management Nautilus Neutron Bomb New Age and Eastern Religions New Federalism New Frontier New Left New York City Financial Bailout Newspapers and Magazines Nixon Doctrine North American Free Trade Agreement North Atlantic Treaty Organization Nuclear Energy Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Nuremberg Trials Occupational Safety and Health Administration Office of Economic Opportunity Office of Management and Budget Offshore Oil Drilling Oklahoma City Bombing Olympics Open Skies Program Operation Bootstrap Oppenheimer (J. Robert) Affair Organization of American States Ozone Depletion Panama Canal Treaties Panama Invasion Payola Scandal Peace and Freedom Party Peace Corps Pensions, Private Pentagon Papers People United to Save Humanity Photography Pike Committee Planetary Exploration Plastics Poetry Political Correctness Poor People’s Campaign Pornography Port Huron Statement Postal Reorganization Act Poverty Presidency Progressive Party, 1948 Promise Keepers Propaganda, U.S. Proposition 13 Psychiatry Pueblo Incident Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans Quemoy and Matsu Incident Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act Radio Rainbow Coalition Rap and Hip-Hop Rat Pack Reaganomics Redlining Regulation and Deregulation Reproductive Technologies Republican Party Rhythm and Blues Right to Die Movement Rio Pact Riots, Race Robotics Rock and Roll Roe v. Wade (1973) Roman Catholicism Rosenberg Case Ruby Ridge Shooting Rural America Rust Belt Satellites Saturday Night Massacre Scarsdale Diet Murder School Shootings Science, Government Policy on Self-Awareness Movements Selma March Seniors September 11 Attacks Service Industries Service-Sector Workers Sexual Revolution Silkwood Case Simpson (O.J.) Trial Sit-Ins, Civil Rights Skylab Social Security Somalia Intervention Son of Sam Murders South America, Relations with South Asia, Relations with Southeast Asia, Relations with Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Southern Christian Leadership Conference Southern Manifesto Southern Strategy Soviet Union/Russia, Relations with Space Shuttle Spies and Spying Sports, Participatory Sports Broadcasting St. Lawrence Seaway Stagflation Stark Incident States’ Rights Steel Industry Stock Market Crash of 1987 Stonewall Riots Strategic Air Command Strategic Arms Treaties Strategic Defense Initiative Streaking Strikes Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Students for a Democratic Society Sub-Saharan Africa, Relations with Suburbia Suez Crisis Sun Belt Supply-Side Economics Surfing Swine Flu Symbionese Liberation Army Synanon Taft-Hartley Act Tailhook Scandal Teach-Ins Teenagers Television Tennis Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Foreign Test-Tube Babies Tet Offensive Thalidomide Theater Theme Parks Third Parties Thomas (Clarence) Hearings Three Mile Island Disaster Thresher Disaster Till (Emmett) Lynching Tobacco and Tobacco Industry Tort Law Toxic Shock Syndrome Tranquilizers Transcendental Meditation Transportation Travelgate Truman Doctrine Truth-in-Lending Act Tylenol Tampering Incident U-2 Incident Unabomber Affair Unemployment Unidentified Flying Objects Unions United Nations, Relations with Urban Renewal Vesco (Robert) Affair Vietnam War Vincennes Incident Violence, Political Voice of America Volunteers in Service to America Voting Issues Voting Rights Act Waco Incident Wall Street War on Poverty War Powers Act Warren Commission Water Pollution and Water Pollution Policy Watergate Weapons, Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction Weathermen Welfare and Public Assistance Western Europe, Relations with White Citizens’ Councils White Ethnics White Supremacist Groups White-Collar Workers Whitewater Scandal Wildlife and Wilderness Women and Work Women’s Studies Woodstock Music Festival World’s Fairs Wounded Knee X Article Yippies Young Americans for Freedom Zero Population Growth Cultural Landmarks The Forties and Fifties The Sixties The Seventies The Eighties The Nineties to the Present |
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