History 487 37150r the United States Since 1939 Spring 2014 4 units Wednesday, 5: 00 – 7: 50 pm vkc 202
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History 48737150RThe United States Since 1939 Spring 2014 4 units Wednesday, 5:00 – 7:50 pm VKC 202 University Professor Kevin StarrCourse Description The study of history engages the past, the present, and the future. We study history from the present, influenced by present-day preoccupations. At the same time, we attempt to study and understand the past on its own terms. We also study history as a guide to the future. The history of the United States since 1939 is at once recent, event-filled, apparent, and obscure. In this conference course, we shall attempt not to come up with final explanations, but, rather, to isolate and suggest those people, events, social, cultural, and economic forces, accidents and deliberate decisions, that may in the long run yield to historians of the future – or to you in your later lifetime – a patterned, interpreted, and usable past. Required Reading James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Vol 10, The Oxford History of the United States, 1996) paperback ISBN 978-0-19-511797-4 James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States From Watergate to Bush v. Gore (Vol 11, The Oxford History of the United States, 2005) paperback ISBN 978-0-19-530522-7 Course Requirements Recitation (attendance and discussion) Midterm (from predistributed questions) Final (from predistributed questions) Paper (12-15 pages, involving discussion of at least one bestseller, one film, and one song in the context of themes developed in paper.) Grading Recitation 15% Midterm 25% Final 30% Paper 30% Paper due at the last class 30 April 2014. Office Hours Office Hours: Wednesdays, 9:00 am – 11:00 am Office: Social Sciences Building, Office 175 Office Phone: 213.821.2595 Office Fax: 213.740.6999 USC email: kstarr@usc.edu Course Meetings and Readings Jan 15 Topics The Great Depression, Lend Lease, WWII Readings Not required. David M. Kennedy, Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Vol 9 The Oxford History of the United States, 1999) Jan 22 Topics The immediate postwar era Readings Grand Expectations, Chapters 1,2, 3 & 6 Jan 29 Topics International Considerations Readings Grand Expectations, Chapters 4-5 Feb 5 Topics Anti-Communist Front Readings Grand Expectations, Chapters 7, 8, 10 Feb 12 Topics Eisenhower Years (1950s) Readings Grand Expectations, Chapters 9, 11, 12 Feb 19 Topics Civil Rights and Camelot Readings Grand Expectations, Chapters 13, 14, 16, 17 Feb 26 Topics Emergent Divisions: The 1960s Readings Grand Expectations, Chapter 15, 18, 19 Mar 5 Topics Coming Apart: Vietnam and Civil Rights Readings Grand Expectations, Chapters 20, 21, 22 Mar 12 Topics The Rise and Fall of Richard M. Nixon Readings Grand Expectations, Chapters 23, 24,25 Mar 19 Spring Break Mar 26 Topics The Troubled 1970s Readings The Restless Giant, Chapters 1, 2 Apr 2 Topics The Rise of Ronald Reagan Readings The Restless Giant, Chapters 3, 4 Apr 9 Topics From Reagan to Bush I: The 1980s Readings The Restless Giant, Chapters 5, 6, 7 Apr 16 Topics Culture Wars: The 1990s Readings The Restless Giant, Chapters 8, 9 Apr 23 Topics The Clinton Years Readings The Restless Giant, Chapters 10, 11 Apr 30 Topics Impeachment, Electoral Crisis, Terrorism Readings The Restless Giant, Chapters 11, 12 Points for Discussion This course will include many newsreels, film clips, and photographic images. These images are intended to convey a sense of living history as well as to reinforce and stimulate discussion. The following lists are intended to assist students to keep track of this visual material and to assist them in developing points for discussion. From Isolationism to Lend Lease A Resurgent Depression (1940) America First movement Resurgent Depression (1940) FDR Equivocates Battle of Britain Joseph Kennedy Replaced by George Winant Atlantic Charter Restoration of Draft Emergence of Top Commanders World War II Treaty of Versailles Germany and Rise of Hitler Annexation of Austria Munich Agreement Czechoslovakia Invasion of France Dunkirk The Louisiana Maneuvers of 1940-1941 Pearl Harbor Siege of Corregidor British Surrender at Singapore The Battle of Midway USA-British Battle Plans Invasion of North Africa Invasion of Sicily/Italy Italian Campaign D-Day 6 June 1944 Invasion of Europe War in South Pacific 1944-1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki MacArthur in Japan Allied Occupation of Western Europe Domestic Front: 1945 to Early Fifties GI Bill Housing Shortage Suburban Expansion Baby Boom Presidential Election of 1948 Harry Truman as President Steel Strike Firing of General MacArthur Golden Age of Broadcast Radio Cold War Part One Fulton Missouri speech Berlin Airlift Ike Assumes NATO Command Hydrogen Bomb Civil Rights: Part One, 1940s Gunnar Myrdal’s Race, An American Dilemma (1940) Paradox of Boxer Joe Lewis Executive Order 9066/Japanese Relocation Segregation of African Americans in Military Detroit Race Riots Port Chicago Tuskegee Airmen Patton’s African American Tankers American Nisei in the Italian Campaign Japanese-Americans Released from Camps Truman De-Segregates Armed Forces Jackie Robinson and Major League Baseball Nat King Cole Tries to Buy a House Uninvited Football Teams/ other black athletes Films 1940s Citizen Kane (1941) Casablanca (1942) Since You Went Away (1944) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) The Stranger (1946) The Third Man (1949) Bestsellers 1940s Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Budd Schulberg, What Make’s Sammy Run? (1940) Roberts, Oliver Wiswell (1940) John P. Marquand, H. M. Pulham, Esq (1941) Pearl S. Buck, Dragon Seed (1942) John P. Marquand, So Little Time (1943) Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe (1944) W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge (1944) Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber (1945) John P. Marquand, B. F.’s Daughter (1946) John Steinbeck, The Wayward Bus (1947) Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions (1948) John P. Marquand, Point of No Return (1949) Soundtrack 1940s Begin the Beguine (Artie Shaw) Skylark Stardust (Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra) In the Mood (Glenn Miller) Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller) Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (Andrew Sisters) Comin’ in on Wing and a Prayer (Four Vagabonds) God Bless America (Kate Smith) Der Fuehrer’s Face (Spike Jones) They’re Either Too Young or Too Old (Andrea Marcovicci) You Can’t Say No to a Soldier (Andrea Marcovicci) I’ll Be Seeing You (Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra) White Christmas (Bing Crosby) American Patrol (Glenn Miller) GI Jive (Louis Jordan) Do It Again (Mel Torme) Nature Boy (Nat King Cole) Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole) Progressive, Be-Bop and Jazz City of Glass suite (Stan Kenton) Jazz Goes to College LP (Dave Brubeck Quartet) Anything by Dizzy Gillespie Charlie (Yardbird) Parker Jerry Mulligan Miles Davis Ornett Coleman Eric Dolphy Jimmy Gieuffre Charlie Mingus Hampton Hawes John Handy Domestic Front: 1952-1960 Discovery of Double Helix DNA molecule Eisenhower as President Expansion of Cabinet Departments Defense and Interstate Highway Acts Kefauver Committee Rise of National Television Sputnik 1957 Jet Airliner Passenger Service 1958 Alaska and Hawaii Admitted to Union 1959 NASA Selects Mercury Seven 1959 The Lonely Crowd The Organization Man Detroit and General Motors Downtowns of Steel and Glass Opening of Disneyland 1955 Advertising, Mad Men, Martinis and Cigarettes High Fashion Silent Generation Rise of Rock ‘n Roll Cold War Part Two Strategic Air Command US Army Europe (7th Army) Continuing Draft Khrushchev and Nixon Kitchen Debates Khrushchev Visits USA Civil Rights Part Two: 1950s Continuing Menendez Case Brown vs Board of Education (1954) Rosa Parks Refuses to Go to Back of Bus Thurgood Marshall First Civil Rights Bill Since Reconstruction National Guard Sent to Little Rock, AK Race Music Crosses Over Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton Louis Armstrong East Coast Bebop and West Coast Jazz Hollywood Stars: Strode, Belafonte, Poitier Anti-Communist Crusade Spanish and Greek civil wars Truman Doctrine People’s Republic of China Republic of China on Formosa House Un-American Activities Committee The Hollywood Ten The Algier Hiss Trial Rise of Richard Nixon Presidential Conventions of 1952 Dwight Eisenhower vs Adlai Stevenson Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism Hollywood Blacklist Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Army-McCarthy Hearings Broadway Musicals 1950s South Pacific (1949) Brigadoon (1950) Paint Your Wagon (1951) Call Me Madam (1952) The King and I (1953) Pal Joey (1954) Damn Yankees (1955) Candide (1956) West Side Story (1957) My Fair Lady (1958) Sound of Music (1959) Films 1950s On the Waterfront (1954) Sabrina (1954) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Some Like It Hot (1959) Paths of Glory (1957) North by Northwest (1959) Soundtrack 1950s When I Fall in Love (The Lettermen) April Love (Pat Boone) Don’t Be Cruel (Elvis Presley) Are You Lonesome Tonight (Elvis Presley) The Twist (Chubby Checker) Mashed Potato Time (Dee Dee Sharp) Where the Boys Are (Connie Francis) Our Day Will Come (Ruby and the Romantics) Runaround Sue (Dion) One Fine Day (The Chiffons) Surf City (Jan & Dean) Dead Man’s Curve (Jan & Dean) I Get Around (The Beach Boys) Big Girls Don’t Cry (Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons) Dawn Go Away (Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons) Leader of the Pack (The Shangri-Las) Duke of Earl (Gene Chandler) Bestsellers 1950s Henry Morton Robinson, The Cardinal (1950) Budd Schulberg, The Disenchanted (1950) James Jones, From Here to Eternity (1951) Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny (1951) Nicholas Monsarrat, The Cruel Sea (1951) John P. Marquand, Melville Goodwin USA (1951) J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (1951) Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Leon M. Uris, Battle Cry (1953) Herman Wouk, Marjorie Morningstar (1955) John O’Hara, Ten North Frederick (1955) Edwin O’Connor, The Last Hurrah (1956) Grace Metalious, Peyton Place (1956) Nevil Shute, On the Beach (1957) Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago (1958) Vladimir, Nabokov, Lolita (1958) Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything (1958) Sloan Wilson, A Summer Place (1958) Leon Uris, Exodus (1959) James Michener, Hawaii (1959) Allen Drury, Advise and Consent (1959) Domestic Front, the 1960s John F Kennedy vs Richard M Nixon president US Figure Skating Team killed crash 2/61 First US manned suborbital flight 5 May 1961 John Glenn Goes Into Orbit 2/62 Free Speech Movement, UC Berkeley, 10/64 Invention of Arpanet (Internet) 21 Nov 1969 Cold War Part Three Gary Powers and U2 Incident Quemoy and Matsu (Nixon/Kennedy debate) Berlin Wall 1961 Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Civil Rights: Part Three, 1960s Sit-in Woolworth’s Greensboro, NC 1960 3000 troops quell riots as James Meredith enters U Miss Oct 1962 Civil Rights March on Washington 28 Aug 1963 Assassination of JFK 22 Nov 1963 Muhammad Ali wins heavyweight title 25Feb64 MLK, Selma to Montgomery March 1965 Watt Riots Aug 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed law Aug 1965 Medicare Launches Great Society July 66 Riots Plague USA Cities July 1967 USS Pueblo Seized by N. Korea 23 Jan 68 Assassination of Martin Luther King Apr 1968 Richard Nixon Elected President 5 Nov 68 Neil Armstrong Walks on Moon 20 July 69 Indians Occupation of Alcatraz Island Nov 1969 Vietnam War, 1960s and 1970s JFK Steps Up Involvement in Vietnam Tonkin Resolution Expands Vietnam War 8/64 First Public Burning of Draft Cards 15 Oct 64 4-Party Vietnam Peace Talks Begin 18 Jan 69 533,400 Troops in Vietnam 7/69 250,000 Anti-Vietnam Protest DC 6/69 Chicago Seven Convicted 2/70 4 Kent State Students Killed 4/70 4 Day Raid into Laos 2/71 Supreme Court Upholds Pub Pentagon Papers 6/71 US Steps Up Bombing In Response N Vietnam Troop Movements 3/72 Paris Peace Accords 1/73 End of Draft Announced 1/73 Communist Forces Take Over S Vietnam 4/75 Vietnam Vets Memorial Dedicated 11/82 Films 1960s Spartacus (1960) Psycho (1960) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Cleopatra (1963) The Graduate (1967) In the Heat of the Night (1967) Rosemary’s Baby (1968) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Easy Rider (1969) They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Bestsellers 1960s and 1970s Irving Wallace, The Chapman Report (1960) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) Herman Wouk, Youngblood Hawk (1962) Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, Seven Days in May (1962) Mary McCarthy, The Group (1963) Morris West, The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1964) Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, Candy (1964) Louis Auchincloss, The Rector of Justin (1964) Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (1964) Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls (1966) William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967) Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby (1967) John Updike, Couples (1968) Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain (1969) Erich Segal, Love Story (1970) Erica Jong, Fear of Flying (1973) Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975) Domestic Front, the 1970s Microprocessor Age Texas Instruments 9/71 Nixon Visits China 2/72 Watergate Break-In Trials 1/73 Impeachment of Nixon Hearings Begin 5/74 Secretariat Wins Belmont Stakes 6/74 Nixon Resigns 8/74 VP Spiro Agnew Replaced by GeraldFord 10/74 Arab Oil Embargo 10/74 Patty Hearst Kidnapped 2/75 US Bicentennial 7/76 Apple I Launch 4/76 Viking 1 Space Probe Lands on Mars 7/76 Jimmy Carter Elected President 11/76 Carter Pardons Vietnam Draft Evaders 1/77 New York City Blackout Looting 7/77 15 Nations Sign Nuclear Non-Proliferation 9/77 Senate Votes to Return Panama Canal 4/78 Camp David Israel Egypt Peace Accord 9/78 Karl Wojtyla of Poland Elected Pope 10/78 3 Mile Isle Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown 3/79 Pioneer 11 Passes Planet Saturn 9/79 Federal Govt Bailout of Chrysler 11/79 63 Americans Taken Hostage Iran 11/79 Films 1970s Patton (1970) The French Connection (1971) Dirty Harry (1971) The Godfather (1972) Mean Streets (1973) American Graffiti (1973) Chinatown (1974) The Conversation (1974) Taxi Driver (1976) Coming Home (1978) The Deer Hunter (1978) Animal House (1978) Apocalypse Now (1979) Domestic Front, the 1980s Soviets Invade Afghanistan 1/80 Carter Announces Embargo of Soviets 1/80 US Sets Records at World Olympics NY 2/80 At Request of Carter, US Olympic Withdraws from Summer Games in Moscow 4/80 US Try to Rescue Iranian Hostages Fails 4/80 Mt St Helens Volcano Erupts 5/80 Regan Defeats Carter 11/80 Iran Frees Hostages, Regan Inaugurated 1/81 Assassination Attempt on Reagan 3/81 First Launch of Columbia Reusable Shuttle 4/81 Reagan Achieves Largest Tax Cut in History 7/81 Launch of IBM PC 8/81 S D O’Conner Senate Conf for High Court 9/81 Fed Court Orders Breakup of Bell system 1/82 Sally Ride First Woman in Space 6/83 Terrorist Bomb Kills 241 Marines Beirut 10/83 US Invades Grenada 10/83 Successful Olympic Games Open in LA 7/84 Reagan Wins over Democrat Mondale 11/84 General Electric Buys RCA 12/85 Challenger Shuttle Explodes Liftoff 1/86 Start of Iran-Contra Affair 11/86 Black Monday Stock Market Crash 10/87 Robert Bork Rejected for Supreme Court 10/87 George W Bush Defeats Michael Dukakis 11/88 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Alaska 3/89 Colin Powell Made Chairman Joint Chiefs 8/89 Cold War Part Four Reagan Proposes Star Wars 3/83 Glasnost/ Gorbachev Ronald Reagan and Evil Empire Boris Yeltsin Reagan and Gorbachev Meet Geneva 11/85 US & Soviets Agree Missile Ban 9/86 Reagan Gives Tear Down Wall Speech Berlin 6/87 US & Soviets Dismantle Intermediate Range Nuclear Missiles 12/87 German Citizens Allowed To Travel Btwn East/West Germany 9/89 Tearing Down the Berlin Wall 11/89 Central Com of Soviet Communist Party Surrenders Monopoly of Power 2/90 Plan to Reunite Germany Announced 2/90 US & USSR Sign Treaty to Eliminate Chemical Weapons 6/90 Newly Renewed Russian Nation Stops Targeting US Cities with Nuclear Weapons 1/92 Passage of 27th Amendment Prohibiting Congress From Giving Itself Payraise 5/02 Federal Authorities Devastate Ruby Ridge Enclave 8/92 Clinton Elected President 11/92 Domestic Front, the 1990s Largest art theft in US history occurs Boston 3/90 Hubble telescope placed in orbit 4/90 Iraq Invades Kuwait Initiating Iraq War I 8/90 UN Authorizes Peacekeeping Forces in Yugoslavia 11/91 World Trade Center Bombed by Islamic Terrorists 2/93 Cloned Sheep Dolly Produced 7/96 Summer Olympic Games Atlanta, Bombing on 27 July 7/96 President Clinton Defeats Bob Dole 11/96 Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan Questions Run-up of Stock Prices 12/96 President Clinton Signs Bill Banning Federal Funding for Human Cloning Research 3/97 NATO Alliance Expands Into Eastern Europe 7/97 Pres Clinton Denies Sexual Involvement With Intern in TV Interview 1/98 Osama bin Laden Issues Fatwa Against Jews and Crusaders 2/98 Terrorists Attack US Embassies in Africa 8/98 Congress Passes Iraq Liberation Act 9/98 Euro Introduced to Stem Power of US Dollar 1/99 Clinton Escapes Impeachment 2/99 DJIA Closes Above 10,000 for First Time 3/99 Anti-Globalization Demonstrations at World Trade Organization Meeting in Seattle 11/99 Cold War Part Five Federal Govt Lays Siege to Branch Davidian Enclave 2/93 US Cruise Missile Attack on Baghdad In Retaliation for Plot to Assassinate Pres GHW Bush 6/93 Savings & Loan Scandal Results in Censure of Senator Cranston, $150 Billion Bailout 11/93 NAFTA Goes Into Effect 1/94 OJ Simpson Arrested for Murder of Wife and Friend 6/94 Clinton Signs Assault Weapons Ban 9/94 World Series Canceled Due to Strike 9/94 Federal Building Oklahoma City Bombed 4/95 170 Nations Sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty 5/95 Space Shuttle Atlantis Docks With Russian Space Station Mir 6/95 Domestic Front, 2000s Court Declares Microsoft a Monopoly 4/00 George W Bush Elected President in Highly Disputed, Long-Drawn Out Process 11/00 Montgomery Ward Closes 12/00 Terrorism Islamic Fundamentalists Hijack 4 Airliners and Crash Them into World Trade Center Towers and Pentagon, Nearly 3,000 Die Plot Attributed to Al-Qaeda Led by Osama Bin Laden 9/11/01 Directory: soc -> syllabus -> 20141 syllabus -> Ctan 200 The Rise of Digital Hollywood syllabus -> 3 units Fall 2015 – Thursday, 9-11: 40 a m. 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