Popular History of United States Society After 1945This
information is mostly taken from Howard Zinn’s famous book, A Popular History of the United States. Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a critical and pacifist historian of U.S. history, and his work certainly reflects his efforts to reconsider U.S. history.
We offer three major reflections on U.S. history after 1945.
1. The beginning of the Cold War and the Truman Doctrine
– Aid to Greece
– The Korean War
– Fight against communism
– Joseph McCarthy
– The Rosenberg spy case
– Culture in the service of anti-communism
– The military budget
– Marshall Plan and economic aid
– The intervention of the United States
– Inequalities of the American population
– The awakening of the black American conscience
– Rosa Parks
– Sit-ins and Freedom Rides
– Congressional and Presidential Response
– The 1963 March on Washington
– The assassination of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
– The relative improvement of the living conditions of the Black population
3. The United States at the time of the Vietnam war
– The1st part of the Indochina war
– The 2nd part of the Indochina war
– The first protests against the war in Vietnam
– The amplification of the movements of protest against the war
– The end of the US involvement in Vietnam
