A History of America in 100 Maps

BETWEEN WAR AND ABUNDANCE 221 higher elevations. The color scheme mimics the landscape: green forests, beige deserts, blue water ...

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BETWEEN WAR AND ABUNDANCE 223 The French Communist Party designed this propaganda map at the height of the early Cold War, urgen ...

224 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Ten years after the end of World War II, Democrats and Republicans remained convinced that ...

BETWEEN WAR AND ABUNDANCE 225 anti-communism. To renew the fight, he compiled a volume of essays purporting to expose the Soviet ...

226 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS No individual embodies twentieth-century American culture more than Walt Disney, whose chil ...

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BETWEEN WAR AND ABUNDANCE 229 The interstate highway system remains the most ambitious infrastructure project in American histor ...

230 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS As the map on page 198 shows, African Americans hoping to travel through the South were wis ...

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H ow do we write the history of our own time? Generalizations—and certainly conclusions—are necessarily provisional, for the cha ...

has most thoroughly reshaped American society, not just in the Southwest but throughout the country (page 252). By relaxing rest ...

234 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS On October 15, 1962, American intelligence officials discovered that the Soviets were const ...

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236 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The deliberations within the administration ranged widely. The Joint Chiefs of Staff presse ...

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238 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Anti-communism drove US foreign policy after World War II. Every region of the globe was se ...

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