U.S. HISTORY 2: Vol 2

U.S. History Volume 2: 1900-1945 features a series of seven lessons covering the transformation of a nation.  These lessons provide you with different perspectives from many historians and how freedoms were maintained but fears persisted. This highly interactive learning enhancement tool integrates video, text, interactive activities, and self-assessments to offer a visually engaging representation of this time in American history.  

Titles include:



The Progressive Paradox examines how and why American identity, freedom, and equality had changed since 1876, the Progressives and the causes they pursued are profiled.  The meaning of progressive reform and the paradox of segregation is assessed.


A War to End All Wars covers America entering World War I on the side of the Allies in 1917.  Why this happened and the effects of the war on the home and military fronts is analyzed.  President Wilson’s plans for a peaceful world and the Senate’s refusal to go along with his vision is examined.



Modern Times recognizes that by the early 1920s, America was changing into a society that begins to look quite familiar to us.  Radios, automobiles, sports, and consumerism often overshadowed the cultural tensions surrounding race, religion, and immigration.  This new era is examined and its meaning is assessed.


The Great Depression examines the stock market crash in 1929 and how it signaled that hard times were going to spread beyond the farms.  The causes of the depression, how it affected the American people, and why the Hoover administration seemed unable to deal effectively with the crisis are analyzed.


A New Deal focuses on how Franklin Roosevelt offered a new deal to the American people, and during his first two administrations he delivered some of the most important political and economic reforms in the 20th century.  How FDR and the New Deal transformed America in the 1930s is examined and the legacy of these changes is assessed.



Road to War concentrates on Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941 brought the U.S. into the most devastating war of the 20th century.  America’s diplomatic road to war, why the attack occurred, and the wartime mobilization, including the internment of Japanese Americans is analyzed.



World at War examines how and why turning to diplomacy and military operations, the reasons the Allies were successful are assessed. The holocaust, the use of atomic bombs, and how the war transformed the world and the place of the United States in it are examined with personal recollections from two veterans.