The Longman Companion to America in the Era of the Two World Wars, 1910-1945

Abstract

Part 1 Chronology, 1910-1945: the climax of progessivism, 1910-1914 war and peace, 1915-1919 years of boom and bust, 1920-1929 the Great Depression, 1930-1933 recovery and reform, 1934-1940. Part 2 Foreign policy, 1910-1940: US imperialism in the Caribbean - Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, Haiti dollar diplomacy and Wilson's new freedom in Central America - Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico the Far East - Japanese immigration, Japan and the First World War Europe and the First World War - Britain and the Panama Canal, the road to war, 1914-17, the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-19 republican diplomacy - the Pacific, Latin America, arms litigation the League of Nations and European peace economic policy - reparations, the Great Depression the Roosevelt years - Mexico, the road to war, 1934-1940. Part 3 Constitution and civil liberties: the First World War and the red scare. Part 4 Economic and social history, 1910-1945: agriculture - overview, the farm bloc, farming and the Great Depression conservation - the Progressive Era commerce and the tariff - pre-1910, Tariff Reform Movement, 1900-1913 banking and finance - pre-1910, the Progressive Era, taxation and financing the First World War, finance between the wars, financing the Second World War industry - pre-1910, industrial concentration, industry and mobilization industrial production, 1910-1945 demography industrial workers and labour unions. Part 5 Principal office-holders, 1910-1945: presidential cabinet officers justices of the Supreme Court national leadership - the legislative branch. Part 6 Biographies. Part 7 Maps.