American History Since 1877 - HIST 122 Resource Guide

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The business of producing and selling self-powered vehicles, including passenger cars, trucks, farm equipment, and other commercial vehicles...

Operation of heavier-than-air aircraft and related activities. Aviation can be conveniently divided into military aviation, air transport, and general aviation...

Family notable in U.S. industrial history. The Du Pont family's importance began when Eleuthère Irénée Du Pont established a gunpowder mill on the Brandywine River in N Delaware...

The company, based in Detroit, Michigan, is the world's third largest motor manufacturer after General Motors and Toyota...

Organized military force for fighting on the ground. A national army is used to further a political policy by force either within the state or on the territory of another state...

Originally, all ships of a nation, whether for war or commerce; the term navy now designates only such vessels as are built and maintained specifically for war...

A nation's fleet of fighting aircraft and the organization that maintains them...

Broadly, the extension of rule or influence by one government, nation, or society over another...

Systematic manipulation of public opinion, generally by the use of symbols such as flags, monuments, oratory, and publications...

General term for the political and economic theory that advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of production and distribution of goods.

Political philosophy that society should have no government, laws, police, or other authority, but should be a free association of all its members...

Nationalism is basically a collective state of mind or consciousness in which people believe their primary duty and loyalty is to the nation-state...

Movement for the political, social, and educational equality of women with men; the movement has occurred mainly in Europe and the United States...

Term used to describe a flowering of African-American literature and art in the 1920s, mainly in the Harlem district of New York City...

In US history, the period 1920-33 when the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was in force, and the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol was illegal...