An overview of the Great Depression and World War II.

Step back in time and witness a turbulent time period for the Unites States: the Great Depression through World War II. The past will come to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

This text helps readers to understand the lasting impact of the Great Depression & World War II on the American people & to recognize that these two events irrevocably altered the political, economic, social, & cultural life of the nation & its people.

Changing International affairs and the forces of technological innovation shaped the lives of Americans in the last decades of the 20th century. While the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to hopes of peaceful international relations, the Gulf War and the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York shattered these aspirations. In the social sphere, cell phones, CDs, and the Internet completely transformed the ways by which people communicated and conveyed information. The election of an African-American man to the presidency marked the successful continuation of the struggle for equal civil rights, bolstering America's reputation as a radically changing place in this contemporary period.

In 1929, the United States was plunged into the Great Depression. This book tells the story of how Americans struggled to regain economic stability under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies. It also tells how World War II was fought in Europe and in the Pacific, and how in the age of atomic weapons, the strained relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union degenerated into the Cold War. Book jacket.

Presidents of the United States takes readers on a journey through each era in American history as it relates to the leaders of the country.

This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler use Swiss monetary history to provide valuable insights into a number of issues concerning the organization and development of monetary institutions and currency that shaped the structure of financial markets and affected the economic course of a country in important ways. They investigate a number of topics, including the functioning of a world without a central bank, the role of competition and monopoly in money and banking, the functioning of monetary unions, monetary policy of small open economies under fixed and flexible exchange rates, the stability of money demand and supply under different monetary regimes, and the monetary and macroeconomic effects of Swiss Banking and Finance. Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century illustrates the value of monetary history for understanding financial markets and macroeconomics today.

Follows the history of the United States from the Great Depression through World War II. This book, which follows a student researcher investigating primary sources, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about this challenging period in US history.

A Boyas Eye View relives a defining period of American historyathe Great Depression and World War IIaas seen through the eyes of a young boy living the time in San Francisco, California. In addition to his own Depression and war-time adventures, the author, a son of an Austrian mother and a German father, comments on how his parents and their sisters and brother cope with the challenges of a new life, a new language, and a new culture. In addition to their Depression struggles, family members must also deal with the looming war with their homeland and the distinct possibility that one of the sons would soon be dropping bombs on relatives still living in Germany.