American Experiment (474 page)

abortion,
439
,
440
,
447-9
,
452
,
458
,
628
,
654

battery,
449
,
534

Eleanor Roosevelt and,
10
,
29
,
113
,
433-4

ERA,
434
,
438-9
,
452
,
457
,
458-9

legislation of 1960s and 1970s,
378
,
439

pornography,
449
,
534-5

rape,
449

suffrage,
433
,
440
,
646-7

Supreme Court decisions,
651
,
653
,
654

see also
sex discrimination

women’s liberation movement,
436-60
,
659

blacks in,
451-3

dualisms in,
441-9
,
451
,
454

genesis and growth of,
453-4

and lesbianism,
450-1

national coalition of groups,
440-1

question of electoral and lobbying politics,
456-8
,
460-1

radical groups,
443-9
,
454
,
455-6

younger vs. older branch,
441-3
,
454-5
,
457-8
,
460-1

Women’s Political Council,
349-50

Women’s Trade Union League,
10

Women Strike for Peace,
392

Wood, Grant,
138

Woodin, William,
23-4

Woodrow Wilson Foundation,
155

Woodstock festival,
426-7
,
431
,
432

Woodward, Bob,
501

Wooley, Mary,
122

worker participation in management,
565
,
578

Workers’ Alliance of America,
132
,
570

working class,
45
,
52
,
57
,
564

see also
labor

working conditions,
46
,
48

hours,
32
,
90
,
100
,
106

NRA reforms,
32
,
33
,
106

Works Progress Administration (WPA),
76
,
104
,
191
,
213

Federal Art Project,
134-5

Federal Theatre Project,
135-8

Federal Writers’ Project,
139-41

World Court,
63
,
70

World War I,
177
,
193
,
219

World War II,
337-8
,
402-3
,
453
,
497

Allied conferences,
195-9
,
205-9
,
224-5
,
226

battle of Atlantic,
169-70
,
171-2
,
173
,
175
,
180
,
197
,
217

danger in Europe,
149-51
,
153
,
155-9

danger in Pacific,
168
,
170-1
,
172-4

in Europe,
159-64
,
166-70
,
177
,
180
,
182
,
196
,
199-201
,
206
,
211
,
223-4
; cross-Channel attack,
177-8
,
180-1
,
196-201
,
207

North African operations,
178
,
181
,
197

in Pacific,
174-80
,
196
,
198
,
201-2
,
206
,
207
,
211
,
224
,
225

Pearl Harbor,
174-6

question of second front,
180-1
,
196-9
,
202
,
207
,
221-2

unconditional surrender requirement,
211
,
217
,
224
,
225

US and,
174-90
,
192-5
; aid to Britain,
161
,
162
,
164
,
166-70
; FDR pledge to stay out,
160
,
161
,
162
,
166-7
,
170
; growing US intervention,
167-74
; war production and labor,
182-4
,
186-9
,
199
,
268
,
272
,
648

V-E day,
224

V-J day,
225
,
226

Worsley, Peter,
304

Wright, Frank Lloyd,
593

Wright, Richard,
145
,
615

writers, writing,
605
,
665

Depression era,
141-6

New Deal programs,
139-40

1970s,
615-20

postwar,
296-301

and red-baiting,
132
,
139
,
140
,
141-2

and the State (PEN Congress),
617-20

Wyman, Jane,
606-7

Yale University,
270
,
542

Yalta Conference and agreement,
159
,
205-9
,
210-11
,
226
,
252-3

Yamamoto, Adm. Isoroku,
180

Yasgur, Max,
427

Yeager, Charles E.,
268

Yeats, William Butler,
681
,
682

Yom Kippur War (1973),
487
,
574

Yorktown
, U.S.S.,
179
,
180

Young, Andrew,
352
,
592

Young, Neil,
587

Young, Owen D.,
15

Young, Whitney,
371
,
387

Young Americans for Freedom,
637

Young Communist League,
603

youth culture of 1960s,
394
,
426-32

Youth International Party (Yippies),
414-15

youth programs:

New Deal,
76
,
104
,
113

War on Poverty,
566

see also
Civilian Conservation Corps Yugoslavia,
149
,
169
,
260

“yuppies,”
599
,
660

Zangara, Joseph,
21

Zappa, Frank,
427

Zhdanov, Andrei,
227
,
229

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