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HIST 416B - Contemporary America: The U.S. Since 1945

Formerly Listed as HIST 417

Cold War abroad and readjustments bringing affluence and anxieties at home. Special focus upon the Korean War, McCarthyism, Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s Great Society, “limited warfare” in Cuba and Vietnam, and the Nixon Administration. Social and political tensions of the ’60s and ’70s also examined.

Credits 3
Prerequisites Six credits of history.