21H.131 America in the Nuclear Age, Fall 2000

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Jacobs, Meg
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America in the Nuclear Age
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Abstract
This course examines the American experience at home and abroad from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Cold War. Topics include: America's role as global superpower, foreign and domestic anticommunism, social movements of left and right, suburbanization, and popular culture.
Date issued
2000-12
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104788
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section
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21H.131-Fall2000
local: 21H.131
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Keywords
american history, nuclear, world war two, twentieth century, foreign policy, cold war, atomic bomb, military industrial complex, baby boom, social movements, postwar economy, Pearl Harbor, America's role, global superpower, foreign anticommunism, domestic anticommunism, social movements, The Left, The Right, suburbanization, popular culture, World War II, WWII, 20th century, nuclear warfare, domestic policy, economic abundance, politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, Ronald Reagan, nuclear war, American politics, economy, society
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