US History Part 2: 1877 - Present

Explore the progressive era in America, a city-focused reform movement from the 1890s to 1920 that pushed child labor laws, women's suffrage, antitrust reforms, and social gospel reforms.

Trace how McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson shaped progressive reforms and imperial expansion, from open door to dollar diplomacy, Panama Canal, and making the world safe for democracy.

Explore the Spanish-American War, driven by yellow journalism and the USS Maine, with Dewey’s victory in Manila Bay and Aguinaldo’s support, leading to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

Explore World War One causes: militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism. Follow major fronts and battles, like Marne and Somme, the Russian Revolution, the U.S. entry, and Versailles treaty.

Explore how the roaring 20s challenged traditional values, from women's roles and immigration to education and prohibition, then explore the Harlem Renaissance’s flowering of black art, literature, and jazz.

Analyze the Great Depression and the New Deal era, from the 1929 stock market crash and bank failures to FDR's alphabet agencies, relief, recovery, and reform.

Explore how hyperinflation and economic collapse fostered the rise of militarist and fascist dictators in Germany, Italy, Spain, the Soviet Union, and Japan, setting the stage for World War II.

Explore World War II battles, key events, and pivotal figures from Hitler's rise and blitzkrieg to D-Day and the atomic bombs.

Explore how the American home front supported World War II with rationing, war bonds, and the War Production Board, while women joined factories and Japanese internment emerged.

Explore the rise of Nazi Germany, anti-Semitic policies, and the Holocaust, including ghettos, extermination camps, the final solution, and postwar trials.

Explore the cold war's rise and end, from Potsdam and Berlin to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Union’s reform era of glasnost, perestroika, and detente.

Explore how the containment policy and Truman Doctrine shaped U.S. actions in Korea and Vietnam, from the 38th parallel stalemate to Saigon's fall.

Explore John F. Kennedy's presidency amid Cold War tensions, from the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his civil rights and space program legacies.

Trace detente and the 1980s arms race, Reagan's leadership, and Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika, culminating in the end of the Cold War and German reunification.

Trace the civil rights movement from the Jim Crow era to landmark laws, highlighting Brown v. Board of Education (1954), desegregation, and leaders like MLK, Rosa Parks, and RFK.

Explore Nixon’s rise, the Vietnam War era, and the Watergate scandal from the cover-up and tapes to his resignation, highlighting the break-in, prosecutors, and eroding trust in government.

Explore America in the nineteen nineties, from the end of the cold war to the tech boom, welfare reform TANF, and NAFTA shaping domestic and foreign policy.

Explore the Middle East conflict from World War II to the present, including Israel and Palestine, Iran, Iraq wars, and ISIS.