President Harry S. Truman (D) (1945 - 1953)

United Nations Conference on International Organization
"San Francisco Conference" (April 25–June 26, 1945) 

Permanent Members Security Council
Rotating Members Security Council
General Assembly

Elbe Link-Up 

Battle of Berlin 1945 

VE Day (May 8, 1945) 

Iwo Jima & Okinawa

National War Labor Board 

Union Enforced Discipline

B-29 "Super Fortress" 

Tokyo Firebombing 

Manhattan Project  

Atomic Bomb (A-Bomb) 

Hiroshima - Nagasaki 

Japan Surrender Aug 14, 1945 

VJ Day  (Sept 2, 1945)

Alfred Eisenstaedt
"The Kissing Sailor"

Norman Rockwell
("The Homecoming")

Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 ("GI Bill") 

Battle of Athens Tennessee August 1946

Bowery

Derelicts

Flop Houses

"Bowery Derelicts" (1969)
Duane Hanson

CBGB

"Feminization of Despair"  'Bag Ladies'

American Hegemonic Era (1945-1949)
United States as the Hegemonic Superpower

The Bi-Polar Power Era (1949 - 1991)

The Second American Hegemonic Period "Globalization"
(1992-2001)

Post 9/11 Era 2001- ????

Post-2008 Crash 2008 - ????

American Regionalism 

Midwest Region 

Mean Population Center of America

Dust Bowl

Rouge River Ford Factory 

"Fordism"

Corporate Enforced Labor Discipline 

"Service Department"
"Plant Protection" (after 1941) 

Detroit Kansas City 

Northeast (Eastern Seaboard) Region 

Shop Industry 

Trade Unions (Skilled Trades)

Wall Street

New York City Banking

Ivy League Universities

Old Boys Club

W.A.S.P.

E. Digby Baltzell
The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America

John Gunther Inside USA (1947)

Northeastern Cosmopolitanism
Multiculturalism

Cultural Industries
Madison Avenue ("Madmen")

Publishing Theater Music Television

Housing Shortage

"Urban Blight"

West Side Story (1957 Broadway; 1961 Movie)

"Slum Renewal"

Low Income Housing

Public Housing Projects (The "Projects")

Cabrini-Green Projects (Chicago Housing Authority)

The Candyman (1992)
(The Forbidden Clive Barker) 

Mixed Income Housing

Inner Cities vs. Suburbanization 

Urban Expressways 

Robert Moses

Lower Manhattan Expressway

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
Cities and the Wealth of Nations (1984)
Dark Age Ahead (2004)

Spadina Expressway 

Regent Park 

St. Jamestown 

Appalachia

Shelby Lee Adams

South Region

("The South")

balanced economies vs. extractive industry 

sharecropping

tenant farming

segregation

Anti-miscegenation laws
Virginia: “Racial Purity Act”

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
"Separate But Equal Doctrine" 

Homer Plessy "octoroon"

Detroit Race Riots (1943)

Zoot Suit Riots (1943)

Lynching 

Smith vs. Allwright (1944)

South West
West
North West