Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (143 page)
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Authors: James T. Patterson
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Welles, Orson,
238
West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany),
134
,
167
n,
170
,
280
Westmoreland, General William,
599
,
605
,
610
,
613
,
614
,
615
,
619
,
634
,
635
–36,
679
,
680
,
682
,
683
–84
Wheeler, General Earle,
610
,
613
,
635
,
682
Wheeler, Harvey,
444
n
When Worlds Collide
(film),
239
The Whip Hand
(film),
239
White, Byron,
641
White, Harry Dexter,
140
White, Josh,
483
White, Theodore,
120
,
247
,
491
,
522
–23
The Making of the President
1960,
461
White House Special Investigations Unit ("Plumbers"),
757
Whitman, Ann,
434
Why Johnny Can't Read
(Flesch),
352
Why They Behave Like Russians
(Fischer),
120
"Wide World of Sports,"
453
The Wild Bunch
(film),
449
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1968),
726
Wilderness Act (1964),
726
Wilkins, Roy,
20
,
411
,
473
,
482
,
552
,
583
,
656
,
658
,
667
Will, George,
442
Williams, G. Mennen,
418
–19
Williams, Hank,
12
Williams, Hosea,
580
Wilson, Charles E.,
42
–43,
281
–82,
316
Wilson, Harold,
615
Wilson, James,
651
Wilson, Sloan,
338
Wofford, Harris,
475
Wolfe, Tom,
786
and Civil Rights Act of 1964,
545
and civil rights movement,
369
,
644
in counterculture,
669
and education,
367
equal rights for,
638
,
643
,
646
–47,
714
,
787
–88
Equal Rights Amendment,
36
–38
feminism,
361
–62,
444
,
449
,
644
–48
in the home,
362
–63
labor legislation,
36
depicted in motion pictures,
363
–64
protective legislation for,
39
sexual freedom,
35
,
360
–61,
448
,
711
,
788
suburbanization,
362
–65
depicted on television,
364
–65
in Vietnam,
599
n
voting rights,
585
in the work force,
32
–33,
34
–35,
80
,
367
–68,
450
,
644
,
647
–48,
738
Women's Equity Action League,
714
Women's Liberation Movement,
644
–48
Woodward, Joanne,
349
Woodward, Robert,
774
Working conditions,
32
–33,
42
,
321
–25,
382
,
738
–39
Works Progress Administration (WPA),
590
A
World Restored
(1957),
744
World War I,
4
,
96
,
99
,
133
,
180
,
217
,
282
,
347
n
World War II: African-Americans during,
5
,
23
,
385
American troops in,
13
casualties,
4
and China,
170
and communism,
181
domestic effects of,
8
,
46
,
57
,
60
,
61
,
64
,
67
–68,
78
,
451
firepower,
216
and Hollywood,
347
n
creation of Israel,
152
Japanese-Americans interned,
378
and Korea,
208
Office of War Information,
77
and Roosevelt,
214
scientific experiments during,
278
n
and Truman,
94
Wright, Moses,
395
–96
Xerox Corporation,
453
Yale University,
185
Yalta Conference,
85
–86,
92
–93,
102
,
105
–6,
107
,
194
,
251
Yamron, Bernard,
701
Yasgur, Max,
710
Yom Kippur War,
784
Young, Whitney,
482
,
583
,
656
,
667
Young Americans for Freedom,
455
Youth International Party (Yippies),
695
Youth rebellion,
362
,
374
,
621
–23,
686
–88
Yugoslavia,
122
Zellner, Bob,
471
Ziegler, Ron,
773
Zimmerman, Robert.
See
Dylan, Bob
1.
Eric Hobsbawm, in
Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century
, 1914–1991 (London, 1994), applies the term "Golden Age" to much of Western history between 1947 and 1991.
1.
Newsweek
, Aug. 20, 1945, pp. 32–33.
2.
Jon Teaford,
The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise, and Reality
(Baltimore, 1986), 97.
3.
Recent accounts of World War II tend to devote considerable attention to its savagery. See Gerhard Weinberg, A
World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
(Cambridge, Eng., 1994); Paul Fussell,
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
(New York, 1989); and Michael Adams,
The Best War Ever: America and World War II
(Baltimore, 1994). Adams's title is deliberately ironic. Weinberg, 894, estimates deaths at 60 million, including more than 25 million people from among the many ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, 15 million Chinese, and 6 million Poles. The number of Germans killed is estimated at 4 million, the number of Japanese at 2 million, the number from Yugoslavia at 1.5 to 2 million, the number from the United Kingdom at 300,000.