U.S. History: 1865 through the 20th Century

SparkNotes 101

by SparkNotes

Covers Reconstruction, Westward Expansion, World War I, The Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression, The New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam  war, and the Carter and Reagan administrations. This book also features sample A+ student essays, sample test questions and answers, timelines, major figures, and suggested reading.

Genres: History

320 pages, Paperback

First published July 18, 2005

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Reviews

[Matthew Estrada · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think that this was a really good book for reviewing for an exam because it gives you quick facts on important and semi important events and Acts. Because I’m in AP U.S History and I needed to take the AP test as well as the regents I needed to do a lot of review and this book was good for informing me on the things I needed to review. What really good about this book is that it doesn’t give you a lot of information about an even just a short summary which is more likely to stay in your head. In the end I give this book a 4/5 because it was very informative but I think that it left out some important events.