“The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.” MenStatesSocialChallengesUnitedRolesUnited StatesCenturyCreationFatherhood20th CenturyUrgentSocial Roles Author:David Blankenhorn
“The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - "Is this all?"” YearsMindMadeStatesProblemAsksHouseUnitedUnited StatesWifeMiddleCenturyStrangeBedLongingLaysSilentBuriedYearning20th CenturyGroceriesDissatisfactionStirringUnspokenAmerican WomanMystiqueBrowniesFeminine Mystique Author:Betty Friedan
“The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.” StatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesCenturyLatinDictatorship20th CenturyLatin America Author:Carlos Fuentes
“In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.” Has BeensStatesFactsCommunityUnitedUnited StatesCenturyPercentWinnerPrizePregnancyRepresentatives20th CenturyNobelNobel PrizeJewish CommunityNobel Prize Winners Author:Jon Porter
“Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.” WorldMadeStatesHomeCommunityUnitedUnited StatesCenturyPopulationImmigrationDestroyedGenocideHolocaust20th CenturyMigrationJewish Community Author:Jon Porter
“I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.” IfsThinkingMadeImportantStatesSongCultureUnitedUnited StatesCenturyContribution20th CenturyPopular SongImportant Contributions Author:Linda Ronstadt
“Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.” WorldWellsWarEndsStatesHandsUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesSeaCenturyPositionDespiteWar Of The WorldsBritainMost PowerfulWealthySteadyWorld War IiDeclineWorld War IDominant20th CenturyWorld HistoryDominanceWorld PowerUpstart Author:Noam Chomsky