Introduction.- America at the Turn of the Century.- The Progressive Period 1900-1919.- The United States and Foreign Affairs: 1898-1917.- America at War and in Peace: 1917-1919.- The Aftermath of War: American Society in the 1920s.- The American Economy in the 1920s.- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 1932-1941.- American Foreign Policy 1920-1941.- The USA and the Second World War.- The Cold War.- 'The Forgotten War': The War in Korea.- President Truman and the Post-war American Economy.- The Eisenhower Era: 1953-1961.- Eisenhower's Foreign Policy: 1953-1961.- The Kennedy Presidency: 1961-1963.- Kennedy's Foreign Policy 1961-1963.- Johnson and the Great Society.- Johnson's Foreign Policy.- The Nixon Years.- Nixon's Foreign Policy.- Index.