HISTORY 17B

I.  Major Economic and Social Changes in the late l800s

II.  America at the Turn of the Century
          A.  Intellectual Change and the Progressive Movement
          B.  Theodore Roosevelt:  Conservative or Reformer?
          C.  Executive Power in Foreign Policy
          D.  William Howard Taft

III.  Woodrow Wilson:  The Intellectual Turn Politician
          A.  Race Relations and the Status of Women
          B.  Trials of a Moralist in Foreign Policy

IV.  Red Scare of l9l9

V.  The l920s:  Normalcy or Insanity?
          A.  The Era of "Good Times"
          B.  Intellectual and Minority Alienation
          C.  The Stock Market Crash and Depression

VI.  Out of Depression:  A New View of Governmental Responsibility

VII. War in Europe and Asia
          A.  America's "Short of War" Policy
          B.  America in World War II

VIII.  The Cold War:  Paranoia of an Age
          A.  Postwar Domestic Problems
          B.  1950s:  Age of Suburbia

IX.  Ferment of the l960s
          A.  Civil Rights Movement
          B.  Vietnam:  America in a Quagmire

X.   Watergate