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USA, 1917-1945

President Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States in 1914. President Wilson expressed the view that as far as the war in Europe was concerned (1914-1918) Americans should remain neutral in thought and deed'. However, on his re-election in 1916, his private views coincide with that of the Allied Powers, and the United States began to supply them with arms and loans.

In 1917 with the sentiment that the world had to be made 'safe for democracy', the United States entered the war, thus ending its neutrality and beginning decades of involvement in European affairs.

Smith, G A 1992, The USA as a world power, British Association for American Studies, London.

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Web Resources

Library Resources

The Library catalogue is a powerful searching tool and would be a good place to start your reserach on this topic.

On the shelves

Dewey number

History of the United States - 973

Keyword searching

eBooks

Britannica eStax

Forms of government and the rise of Democracy edited by Brain Duignan
Hiroshima by Stewart Ross
A New world power: from 1920 to 1945 edited by Jeff Wallenfeldt
Pearl Harbor by Stewart Ross and Joe Woodward

Infobase eBooks

From the Key Concepts in American History series:

Internationalism by Dianne Durante
Isolationism by Tom Streissguth and Lora Friedenthal

From the Eyewitness History series:

The Great Depression David F. Burg

From the Milestones in American History

The Stock market crash of 1929 by Brenda Lange

Collection highlights

Brett, P (2000), The USA and the world, 1917-45, Hodder & Stoughton, London.
Dorothea Lange, (1987), Dorothea Lange, with an essay by Christopher Cox, Aperture, New York
Nippoldt, R (2013), Jazz: New York in the roaring twenties, Taschen, Koln.
Swinton, J (1996), USA 1919-45: the rise to world leadership, Longman, Melbourne
Walker Evans: (1983), Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York.

Reference sources

On the shelves - General reference

World Book Encyclopedia

Web Resources

Overview of the USA in 1917

US Entry into World War I - From the Office of the Historian (U.S. Government)

Nature and causes of internal divisions in American society

Klu Klux Klan - from the History Channel
NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of American Coloured People
Native American Cultures - from the History Channel
Scopes Monkey Trial - Monkey Trial begins, from the History Channel

Jazz Age

The Jazz Age: the American 1920s - from Digital History

Great Depression and the New Deal

Timeline of the Great Depression - from PBS
The Wall Street Crash and Depression - from BBC - GCSE Bitesize

American Foreign Policy 1917-1918

AP Central - Teaching 1917-1945 in the U.S History survey. by David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University, Stanford, California

America's war effort 1941-1945

America goes to war, from the National WWII Museum, New Orleans
Attack on Pearl Harbour, from the History Channel
The Yalta Conference, 1945, from the Office of Historian (U.S. Government)
Yalta and Postdam conferences - BBC-GCSE, Bitesize

Modern History (TASC Level 3)

USA, 1917-1945

Smith, G A 1992, The USA as a world power, British Association for American Studies, London.

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