20th century turning points in U.S. history / written by Mark Reeder and Ron C. Meyer ; producers, Ronald C. Meyer and Brad Gilbert. [print]

List of documents and maps laid in containers.

Disc 1. 1900-1907. The Gold Standard Act is ratifies by Congress -- Dr. Walter Reed discovers yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitos --- McKinley is shot and Theodore Roosevelt becomes president -- 140,000 mine workers go out on strike -- The government passes the Newlands Reclamation Act -- Wright Brothers fly at Kitty Hawk -- Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" is published -- U.S. takes over construction of the Panama Canal -- Frank Lloyd Wright completes the Robie House in Chicago. 1908-1918. Ford introduces the Model T -- W.E.B. Du Bois founds the NAACP -- Hollywood founded --- 16th Amendment allows progressive income tax -- 17th Amendment caps a period of election reforms -- Clayton Anti-Trust Act passed -- America prepares for World War I -- America enters World War 1.

Disc 2. 1919-1928. Prohibition begins -- Women gain the right to vote -- Teapot Dome scandal typifies the Roaring 20's -- J. Edgar Hoover named head of the F.B.I. -- The Scopes monkey trial -- Goddard initiates the space age -- David Sarnoff founds NBC -- Charles Lindbergh glies across the Atlantic. 1929-1943. "Black Tuesday" fortells the Great Depression -- Amelia Earhart: record-breaking woman aviator -- President Roosevelt's "One Hundred Days" beins his New Deal -- Jesse Owens and Joe Louis debunk Hitler's claim of Aryan superiority -- Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is published -- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

Disc 3. 1944-1952. D-Day "Operation Overlord" -- The U.S. Air Force drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- The Marshall Plan for Europe -- President Truman sends American troops to the aid of South Korea -- The Korean War -- Alan Freed introduces roch and roll. 1953-1963. John Foster Dulles becomes Eisenhower's Cold War warrior -- Senator Joseph McCarthyis condemned by the Senate -- Brown v. Bord of Education -- Rosa Parks is arrested -- Nixon-Kennedy televised debates -- Astronaut John Glen is the first American to orbit the Earth -- Cuban missile crisis -- Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

Disc 4. 1964-1973. 1973-1999. President Lyndon Johnson announces the Great Society -- Vietnam War: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -- Black urban riots begin -- Vietnam War: the Tet offensive -- First Earth Day -- Watergate -- Vietnam War: cease-fire ends war. 1973-1999. Second battle of Wounded Knee -- Roe volume Wade -- Personal computers herald the post industrial age -- The Grenada conflict -- Alan Greenspan becomes chairman of the Federal Reserve -- The gulf War demonstrates American miitary supremacy -- End of the Cold War -- Whitewater leads to the impeachment of President Clinton -- Y2K ends the American century.

Writer, Mark Reeder ; music, David Arkenstone ; editor, Lee Anderson.

"20th Century Turning Points in U.S. History is an eight-part series designed to provide a clear overview of the people and events that distinguished the 20th century at specific points in time that were significant pivotal points in history. Rare archival footage and photographs, authentic recordings, and other primary source documents bring history to life, while stunning graphics and engaging narration lend context and clarity to the subject. The series has been developed specifically for classroom use. It is organized around established standards and thoughtfully divided into chapters, with each volume functioning as either a full-length program or as focused support for specific study areas."--Container insert.

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