Presents main themes in twentieth-century life, including military confrontations, booms and depressions, political ideologies, and technological developments.
Americans fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War
Lawson, Don
1989
Discusses the causes and events of the Spanish Civil War, focusing on the American volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the key battles in which they were involved, and their reasons for joining in this early fight against fascism.
Children's author, Yoshiko Uchido, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.
