Moving On

George Donelson Moss has taught history at the University of California, Berkeley, College of the Holy Names, City College of San Francisco, and the University of California, San Diego. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his M.A. from UC Berkeley. He is the author of America Since 1900 (Original title: America in the Twentieth Century), Vietnam : An American Ordeal, Vietnam Reader: Sources and Essays, The Rise of Modern America: A History of the American People, 1890-1945 and numerous articles, essays, and reviews.

• Brief Content and Detailed Contents 1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS Found in this Section: Brief Table of ContentsFull Table of Contents PrefaceChapter 1 Postwar AmericaChapter 2 Wars: Cold and HotChapter 3 Postwar PoliticsChapter 4 The Affluent SocietyChapter 5 The Consumer CultureChapter 6 The Age of ConsensusChapter 7 New Frontiers at Home and AbroadChapter 8 Great Society and VietnamChapter 9 Rebellion and ReactionChapter 10 Pragmatic CentrismChapter 11 Calming the Cold WarChapter 12 Era of LimitsChapter 13 Social and Cultural TransformationsChapter 14 The Age of ReaganChapter 15 Reigniting then Icing the Cold WarChapter 16 Social Tensions and Culture WarsChapter 17 Going GlobalChapter 18 America in a New MillenniumChapter 19 The Wars on TerrorIndex 2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS PrefaceChapter 1: Postwar America Victory!People on the MoveEconomic TransformationsA Diverse SocietyThe Growth of Big LaborA Religious PeopleWomenAfrican AmericansHispanic AmericansAsian AmericansNative AmericansThe Politics of WarLegacies of World WarBrief Bibliographical EssayChapter 2: Wars: Cold and Hot Origins Of Cold WarThe Truman DoctrineThe Marshall PlanNatoThe Chinese RevolutionVietnam: The BeginningNSC-68The Korean War, 1950–1953The Cold War ConsensusDocumentsBernice Brode, Tales of Los Alamos (1943)Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech (1946)George Kennan, Containment (1947)Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947)General Douglas MacArthur, Farewell Address to Congress (1951)Clark Clifford, Memorandum to President Truman (1946)George Marshall, “The Marshall Plan” (1947)National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (1950)ImagesCloser Look: Cold War Bomb ShelterCloser Look: The Korean WarVideosAtomic Bomb at HiroshimaThe Korean War ArmisticeBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 3: Postwar Politics Harry Who?The Election of 1946The Eightieth CongressCivil RightsThe Election of 1948A Fair DealRed ScareBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 4: The Affluent Society Demographic PatternsAn Economy of AbundanceThe Age of the AutomobileLabor at Mid-CenturyPoverty Amidst PlentySuburban SprawlWomen: Family and WorkClass and StatusBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 5: The Consumer Culture The “Teen Culture”Rock ’N’ RollTelevision Takes OverReligion RevivedCulture CriticsRebelsBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 6: The Age of Consensus The Election of 1952Dynamic ConservatismMcCarthy DestroyedThe Politics of ConsensusCivil RightsThe New LookVietnamChina CrisisAt the SummitThe CIA in Covert ActionTrouble in SuezSoviet Tanks Crush the Hungarian RevolutionA Sputnik MomentCuba and CastroThe Cold War Heats UpEnd of an EraBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 7: New Frontiers at Home and Abroad The Election of 1960Social ReformThe EconomyLet Freedom RingCold WarriorThe Bay of PigsAlianza para ProgresoBerlinMissile CrisisVietnam: Raising the StakesDeath of a PresidentCloser Look: SignsVideosJohn F Kennedy Presidential CampaignKennedy Nixon DebateCivil Rights March on WashingtonThe Cuban Missile CrisisBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 8: Great Society and Vietnam Goldwater Challenges the Liberal Welfare StateGreat SocietyThe Warren CourtThe Six Day WarPolicing the CaribbeanGoing to War in VietnamThe American Way of WarWar at HomeThe Tet-68 OffensiveLyndon B. Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964)The Civil Rights Act of 1964Lyndon Johnson, Message to Congress and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)Voting Literacy Test (1965)Lyndon Johnson on the Immigration Act (1965)Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience and the Vietnam War (1967)Profile: Eugene McCarthyMapsImpact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965Vietnam WarVideosLyndon Johnson Presidential Campaign Ad: Little Girl vs. Mushroom CloudNewsreel: Peace March, Thousands Oppose Vietnam WarThe Vietnam WarBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 9: Rebellion and Reaction Student RadicalsThe Greening of AmericaThe Fire This TimeBlack PowerBrown and Red PowerGay Lesbian LiberationThe Rebirth of FeminismBacklashThe Election of 1968Summing Up the SixtiesDocumentsStudents for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962)Betty Friedan, "The Problem That Has No Name", from The Feminine Mystique (1963)National Organization from Women, Statement of Purpose (1966)Donald Wheeldin, The Situation in Watts Today (1967)Shirley Chisholm, Equal Rights for Women (1969)The Gay Liberation Front, Come Out (1970)Cesar Chavez, From He Showed Us the Way (1978)Profile: Kwame Toure, (Stokely Carmichael)Profile: Cesar ChavezProfile: Janis JoplinProfile: Bobby SealeVideoMalcolm XProtest, Counterculture, and the Antiwar Movement During the Vietnam EraRichard Nixon Presidential CampaignBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 10: Pragmatic Centrism A Closet Liberal?NixonomicsThe Southern StrategyActivists and ReformersEcology and ConsumerismThe 1972 ElectionWatergateDecline and FallRachel Carson, from Silent Spring (1962)House Judiciary Committee's Conclusion on Impeachment (1972)Roe v. Wade (1973)Statement by the American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee (1973)Watergate Special Prosecution Force Memorandum (1974)Exploring America: American Indian MovementImagesCloser Look: Watergate ShipwreckCloser Look: Watergate Through Political CartoonsVideosRichard Nixon I am not a crookBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 11: Calming the Cold War DétenteThe China OpeningVietnam: A War To End A WarMiddle Eastern DilemmasChaos In ChileNew Relations with European PowersThe Emergence of JapanRealist Diplomacy in PerspectiveTestimony at the Winter Soldier Investigation (1971)Richard Nixon, "Peace With Honor" (1973)ImagesNixon in ChinaCloser Look: Life Magazine Cover May 15, 1970 Tragedy at Kent StateVideoAtrocity and Cover Up: My Lai MassacreBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 12: Era of Limits Economic DeclineEnergy CrisesCars and ComputersA Ford Not a LincolnExtending détenteVietnam: The EndThe Election of 1976Mr. Carter Goes to WashingtonA New Foreign Policy ApproachThe Decline of détenteDebacle in IranThe Rise of the New RightThe Election of 1980A Time of TroublesPresidential candidate Jimmy Carter speaks about an "Invisible Wall of Racial Segregation," (1976)The Camp David Accords (1978)Jimmy Carter, The "Malaise" Speech (1979)Islam and the State in the Middle East: Ayatollah Khomeini's Vision of Islamic Government (1979)Ronald Reagan, Republican Party Nomination Acceptance (1980)Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981)Profile: Jimmy CarterProfile: Jerry FalwellVideosGerald Ford Presidential CampaignJimmy Carter and the CrisisRonald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax CutsBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 13: Social and Cultural Transformations A Demographic ProfileNew ImmigrantsAfrican Americans: A Dual SocietyWomen: Changing Attitudes and RolesThe Most Religious Nation in the Western WorldThe “Me” DecadeCultural TransformationsConflict and Diversity: Hollywood's Visions of the 1970sTelevision and the Ascendancy of the Media CultureIone Malloy, Southie Won't Go (1975)Toi Derricotte, Black in a White Neighborhood (1977-1978)Affirmative Action in Atlanta, "Can Atlanta Succeed Where America Has Failed?"Patricia Morrisroe, Yuppies - The New Class (1985)MapAmerica's Move to the Sunbelt 1970-1981Immigration to the United States, 1945-1990VideoEvangelical Religion and Politics, Then and NowBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 14: The Age of Reagan ReaganomicsRecession and RecoveryMorning Again in AmericaThe Election of 1984Second EffortsThe “Go-Go” EconomyShifting the Supreme Court to the RightThe Sleaze FactorRichard Viguerie, Why the New Right is Winning (1981)Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers Strike (1981)Ronald Reagan, Address to the National Association of Evangelicals (1983)Paul Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution (1984)T. Boone Pickens, My Case for Reagan (1984)Thurgood Marshall, Remarks on the Bicentennial of the Constitution (1987)ImagesAttempted Reagan AssassinationVideoRonald Reagan on the Wisdom of Tax CutsRonald Reagan Presidential CampaignBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 15: Reigniting then Icing the Cold War The Old Cold WarriorThe Pacific RimDisaster in LebanonCanada and AmericaPolicing the Western HemisphereInternational CrisesThe Iraqi–Iranian WarIran-Contra ScandalsIcing the Cold WarDocumentsA Liberal White Journalist on Apartheid (1970s-1980s)Ronald Reagan, Support for the Contras (1984)Bill Chappell, Speech to the American Security Council Foundation (1985)Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1986)Mikhail Gorbachev on the Need for Economic Reform (1987)Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Brandenburg Gate (1987)MapsThe Cold War Military Stand-offConflict in Central America, 1970-1998VideosRonald Reagan at the Berlin WallOliver North HearingBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 16: Social Tensions and Culture Wars 2000: A Demographic ProfileBust, Boom, and BustCable TV and the Information SuperhighwayMulticulturalismCulture WarriorsBlack and White, But Not TogetherHispanic AmericansAsian AmericansWomen and WorkDocumentsHoward Rheingold, Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993)Cecelia Rosa Avila, Third Generation Mexican American (1988)Jesse Jackson, Common Ground (1988)Elaine Bell Kaplan, "Talking to Teen Mothers" (1995)ImageSign at a Gay Pride MarchBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 17: Going Global The Election of 1988A Kinder NationThe Rehnquist CourtThe Election of 1992ClintonomicsThe Republican EarthquakeThe Election of 1996A President ImpeachedEnding and Winning the Cold WarThe Post–Cold War WorldThe Gulf WarClinton and the Post–Cold War WorldThe Balkan WarsTerrorism Abroad and at HomeDocumentsGeorge H.W. Bush, Inaugural Address (1989)President Clinton's First Inaugural Address (1993)Clinton Health Care Reform Proposals (1993)Republican Contract with America (1994)The Balkan Proximity Peace Talks Agreement (1995)Articles of Impeachment Against William Jefferson Clinton (1999)Bill Clinton, Answers to the Articles of Impeachment (1999)ImageTiananmen SquareMapEvents in Eastern Europe, 1989-1990VideosThe Berlin WallBill Clinton Sells Himself to AmericaThe Collapse of the Communist BlocGeorge Bush Presidential Campaign Ad: The Revolving DoorPresident Bush on the Gulf WarBrief Bibliographic EssayChapter 18: America in a New Millennium The Demographics of DiversityYoung People of the New MillenniumA Multicultural SocietyA Nation of ImmigrantsDocumentsWilliam Julius Wilson, The Urban Underclass (1987)Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996Building a Black Christian Community from Scratch (1999)Health Issues in the Black Community (2005)Hillary Clinton, Speech on Health Care (2007)Louis Farrakhan on Education (2007)From Then to Now: Immigration: An Ambivalent WelcomeFrom Then to Now: The Diversity of American Religious LifeProfile: Colin PowellMapImmigration to the United States, 1945-1990Brief Bibliographic EssayChapter 19: The Wars on Terror Election 2000Thirty-Six DaysCompassionate ConservatismTerrorist Attack!The Transformation of U.S. Foreign PolicyThe Invasion of IraqOperation Iraqi FreedomElection of 2004The War PresidentGlobal Financial Crisis and Recession2008 ElectionThe New Face of AmericaThe 2010 ElectionsContaining the Wars on TerrorSpring 2012DocumentsGeorge Bush, Address to the Nation, (2001)George W. Bush, Address to Congress (2001)N.R. Kleinfield, American Enters a New Century with Terror (2001)George W. Bush, From National Security Strategy of the United States of America (2002)Al Gore, Global Warming (2006)Dirty Politics in the 2008 Election, (2007)Nancy Pelosi, Inaugural Address, (2007)Barack H. Obama, Inaugural Address (2009)VideosThe Rise and Fall of the Automobile EconomyModernity's Pollution ProblemsThe Historical Significance of the 2008 Presidential ElectionBrief Bibliographic EssayIndex

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