The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II.
The Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945. The World Wars ended the United States' policy of isolationism and left it as a world superpower.
Navy poster by Howard Chandler Christy
A 1919 sheet music cover, noting that many young people were abandoning farms for the excitement of the cities
Photo taken with newly invented Kodachrome film at the 1939 New York World's Fair, with the League of Nations and the Polish pavilions visible
The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politic
History of the United States (1917–1945)
…began as the veterans returned, many moving to the rapidly expanding suburbs. Optimism was the hallmark of the new age—an age of grand expectations. History of the United States (1945–1964) Attacks on the United States (1900–1945…
Martin Luther King, Jr. leads civil rights protestors during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of major social and political changes in the United States.
Gen. MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon from the USS Mt. McKinley, 15 September 1950.
A 1947 booklet published by the Catholic Catechetical Guild Educational Society raising the specter of a Communist takeover
Eisenhower and Gamal Abdel Nasser in New York, 1960