The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

750 Chapter 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946–1960 effectiveness of his social welfare measures—an exten- sion of S ...

Asian Policy After Korea 751 Early in 1954 Ho Chi Minh’s troops trapped and besieged a French army in the remote stronghold of D ...

752 Chapter 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946–1960 States granted independence in 1947), Thailand, and Pakistan—joi ...

Eisenhower and Khrushchev 753 Hopes of pushing back the Soviet Union with clever stratagems and moral fervor were fading. Althou ...

754 Chapter 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946–1960 Several weeks later Khrushchev rubbed hard at the rawest sore in ...

Fighting the Cold War at Home 755 close relations with the Soviet Union. After he nego- tiated a trade agreement with the Soviet ...

756 Chapter 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946–1960 “Godless” communism posed an ideological as well as military thr ...

Blacks Challenge Segregation 757 Angry jeers from whites rain down on Elizabeth Eckford, one of the first black students to arri ...

758 Chapter 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946–1960 local school systems that wished to desegregate. When the Univer ...

“Brother Nixon,” King declared, “I’m not a coward.” He called on the ministers to act in open and use their names. On the spot s ...

760 Chapter 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946–1960 boat. When the boat was sliced in two by a Japanese destroyer, K ...

Chapter Review 761 movement (which was not a major issue in the pres- idential campaign). He enthusiastically endorsed the Cold ...

762 Chapter 28 Collision Courses, Abroad and at Home: 1946–1960 Key Terms Berlin airlift U.S. effort to deliver supplies includ- ...

Hear the audio file for Chapter 28 at http://www.myhistorylab.com. HeartheAudio Chapter Review 763 Read and Review Chapter 28 Tr ...

How do you get out of a deep hole? 764 On December 2, 2009, as polls revealed growing dissatis- faction with the wars in Iraq an ...

From Camelot to Watergate, 1961–1975 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 29 CONTENTS ■Robert McCall’s depiction of an American ...

766 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 Kennedy in Camelot Having lampooned the Eisenhower administration as stodgy ...

The Cuban Crises 767 coast. But the Cuban people failed to flock to their lines, and soon Castro’s army pinned the invaders down ...

768 Chapter 29 From Camelot to Watergate: 1961–1975 withdrew the missiles, and reduced his military estab- lishment in Cuba to m ...

“We Shall Overcome”: The Civil Rights Movement 769 1963 Diem’s regime was in ruins. An ardent Catholic, he cracked down on the B ...