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HIST 237: America in Crisis: Great Depression, World War II and Cold War

(1 Unit)
America from 1929 to 1960: Stock market crash, Great Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal, FDR and Hitler, “The Good War,” Hiroshima and Nagasaki, McCarthyism and the Red Scare, Baby Boom and “We like Ike.” Stress on historical controversies, the roles of workers, women and minorities and the significance of the environment. Dick.