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Tojo, Hideki, 633 Unemployment: in 1890s depres- Voting and voting rights: in 1950s Weapons of mass destruction, 765
Tombstone (AZ), 393 sion, 469, 470, 472; in 1930s Great and 1960s, 686, 698, 703, 704–705; Weaver, James B., 466–467, 468
Totalitarian, 627, 627 Depression, 605–606, 606, 610; in in Jim Crow South, 374; late nine- Weaver, Robert, 699
Totalitarianism, 633, 666, 719 1970s, 729; in 2000s, 763; in 2009, teenth century, 457; in presidential Webb, Walter Prescott, 379
TOW antitank missiles, 742 770; post World War II, 676 elections, 534, 534–535, 535, 538; Weber, Max, 524
Towns. See Cities and towns Unilateralism, 765 reconstruction and, 355–356, Weinberger, Caspar, 740
Toynbee Hall (London), 451 Union Pacific Railroad, 367, 408, 358–359, 361–362, 369–372, 370; Welch, Joseph, 670
Tracy, Benjamin F., 488 410, 468 women’s suffrage and, 442, 457, Welfare: Clinton reform of, 758;
Trade. See also Restraint of trade; Unions. See Labor unions 534, 534–535, 535, 586 crisis in social, 452–453
Tariff(s): relations with the world, United Airlines, 764 Voting Rights Acts, 686, 704 Wellesley College, 443
482 United Automobile Workers (UAW), West, trans-Mississippi, 377–402;
Trade unions, 422, 510, 512, 515, 617–618 W beyond the frontier and, 379, 402;
518–520. See also Labor unions United Mine Workers, 541 bonanza of, 391–394, 402; mean-
Trading-with-the Enemy Act (1917), United Nations (UN): Declaration Wade-Davis Bill, 356 ing of, 399; Native Americans and,
572 of, 636; Gulf War and, 750; Iraq Wages: in 1920s, 585; industrial so- 377–402; settlement of, 387–391,
Transcontinental railroad, 408–409, and, 766 ciety and, 418–419, 420, 428; New 402
410 United States, physiographic map Deal and, 612–613; of women Western Federation of Miners, 520
Transportation. See also Automobiles of, 379 (1970s), 730 Westmoreland, William, 710, 715
and automobile industry; revolu- United States v. Harris, 447 Wagner Act (1935), 617, 617–618, Weyler y Nicolau, Valeriano, 489
tion in, 406 Universities and colleges, 443–446. 622, 623 What Social Classes Owe to Each
Transportation, U.S. Department See also by specific names Wagon trains, 382, 387–389, 388–389 Other (Sumner), 449
of, 705 Urbanization, 429–454, 468–495, Wainwright building, 431 Wheat, 613
Treason: McCarthyism and, 667 522; automobiles and, 584; and Walesa, Lech, 749 Wheeler, Burton, 622
Treasury, U.S. Department of, 461 cultural change, 438–446, 453; Wallace, George C., 700, 716, 716 White, George H., 375
Treaty of Paris (1998), 497–498 culture and, 438–446, 521–524, Wallace, Henry A., 613 White, Henry, 576
Treaty of Versailles, 575–579, 578 526, 585–589, 602; growth of, Walling, William E., 514 White, William Allen, 439, 530, 631
Trench warfare, 568–569 in 1920s, 585; immigration and, Wall Street: real estate bubble and, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
Triangle Shirtwaist Company, 510, 434–435; in late twentieth century, 767–768; Stock market crash of (WASP), 438
510, 519 751; lure of city and, 453; over- 1893 and, 466; Stock market crash White citizens’ councils, 683
Tripartite Pact, 633 crowding and, 429–430, 432–434; of 1929 and, 604–608 White-collar workers, 522
Truman, Harry S.: Cold War and, pluralistic society and, 453; power Wanamaker, John, 418 White League, 372
649, 649–664; domestic presidency structures and, 436–438; reform War, U.S. Department of, 565; White supremacy: in the New South,
of, 664–670, 681; Johnson and, and, 449–453, 538; spread of Jim Spanish-American War and, 491, 370–372, 374–375; reconstruction
704–705; World War II and, 647 Crow and, 446–448 492–496, 501 and, 370–372
Truman Doctrine, 654–655 Urban League, 712 War Committee on Labor, 573 Whitewater scandal, 757, 758
Trunk lines, 408 U.S. Reclamation Service, 512 Ward, Aaron Montgomery, 418 Whittier, John Greenleaf, 404
Trust(s), 413; busting, 459–461, U.S. Rubber, 508 Ward, A. H., 370 WIB. See War Industries Board
540–541, 541, 546–547; fear of, USS Cole (ship), 764 Ware, James E., 432 (WIB)
505; growth of, 508–509; railroads U.S. Steel, 421, 541, 547, 617 War Hawks: nuclear superiority Wild West Show, 387, 393
and, 413–415 Utah Territory, 380, 393 policy and, 697 Wiley, Harvey W., 543
Tuberculosis, 439 Ute Indians, 380, 383 War Industries Board (WIB), 573 Wilhelm II (Kaiser of Germany), 561
Tulane University, 443 Utilities. See Electricity; Telephone War Labor Board (WLB), 573 Willard, Frances, 439
Tunisia, World War II and, 638 War on poverty, 703, 705 Williams v. Mississippi, 447, 499
Tunney, Gene, 587 V War on terror, 764–765 Willkie, Wendell, 632, 632
Turkey: Cold War and, 654–655, War Production Board (WPB), 640 Willow Run factory (Ford), 640
696–697, 706; in World War I, 561, Vagrancy and vagrancy laws, 366, Warren, Earl, 681, 683 Wilson, Edith Bolling, 578–579
569, 575 607 Warren Commission report, 701 Wilson, William B., 551–552
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 399, 400 Valentino, Rudolph, 589 War Shipping Board, 573 Wilson, Woodrow: election of 1912
Turner, Henry McNeal, 374–375, 375 Vandenberg, Arthur M., 655 War Trade Board, 573 and, 529, 547–549; foreign policy
Turner’s thesis, 399 Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 408 Washington (DC): 1960 race riots in, under, 560–561; as progressive
Turnpikes. See Roads and highways Vanderbilt University, 443 712; marches on, 700, 700–701, president, 549–552; Treaty of Ver-
Tuskegee Institute, 443, 445 Van Devanter, Willis, 621–622 712; September 11, 2001 and, 764 sailles and, 575–579; World War I
TVA. See Tennessee Valley Authority Van Doren, Charles, 679 Washington, Booker T., 443–446, and, 555–557, 561–567, 561–579
(TVA) Van Vorst, Bessie, 425 445, 497, 514, 540 Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act (1894),
Twain, Mark, 471, 497 Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 591–592 Washington Territory, 393 469, 489
Tweed, William M., 436, 437, 438 Vaudeville, 523, 523 WASP. See White Anglo-Saxon Windmills, on the Great Plains, 398
Tweed Ring, 436 Vaughn, Harry, 664 Protestants (WASP) Winnebago Indians, 380
Twenty-one (television program), 679 Venezuela, 484 Waste disposal, 434 "Wisconsin idea,” 539
Tyco International, 763 Verdun, battle at, 568 Water: in California, 390, 512; trans- WLB. See War Labor Board (WLB)
Tydings, Millard, 668 Vermont, 734 Mississippi West and, 390, 398 Wobblies. See Industrial Workers of
Typewriters, 404, 415 Vertical integration, 413 Watergate scandal, 724–726, 725 the World
Typhoid, 439 Veterans of Future Wars, 629 Watson, Thomas E., 466, 474 Women: in 1920s, 585–589; in 1970s,
Typographical Union, 422 Victrolas, 523 Watts race riot, 712 730–732; education and, 443–444,
Vietcong, 608, 610, 615, 694, 708, WCTU. See Women's Christian 512, 534–535, 586; in industrial so-
710, 715
Temperance Union (WCTU)
U Vietnamese Americans, 755 Wealth and the wealthy: Great ciety, 418–420, 420, 422, 512–513;
labor unions and, 518–520; in late
UAW. See United Automobile Work- Vietnam War, 694–695, 706–708, Depression and, 607; industrial nineteenth century, 441–442; min-
ers; United Automobile Workers 708, 709, 715; ending the, society and, 425–427; late nine- ing camps and, 394; reform move-
(UAW) 722–724; protests, 710–711 teenth century, 455 ments and suffrage, 534, 534–535,
U-boats: in World War I, 563–564, Vigilantism, 370 Weapons. See also Missiles; Nuclear 549; work and, 441–442, 470,
564, 566; in World War II, 632, 640 Villa, Francisco (“Pancho”), 561 arms race: to Allies, 630–632, 740; 512–513, 586–587, 678, 730–731;
Udall, Stuart, 698 Villard, Oswald Garrison, 514, 551 army, 489, 568; atomic, 647, 653; work in wartime by, 573–574, 574,
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 447 Virginia City (NV), 393 Cold War and, 659–660, 670, 676, 640, 641, 641; in World War II,
Underwood Tariff Act (1913), 550, Vittum, Harriet, 429–430, 440, 451 695–697, 703, 740; to Iran, 742; 640, 641, 641
598 Volcker, Paul, 729 naval, 489, 563–564; World War I Women, ERA and, 731; Fifteenth
Undocumented aliens, 753 Volstead Act (1920), 592 and, 567 Amendment and, 370; Nineteenth
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