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Description: Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel. Get up to 65% OFF your subscription here: bit.ly/thecynicalhistorian_babbel California is the most powerful state because of these changes. From railroads, oil, and what the Great Depression and WWII created, California became the center of the military-industrial complex and the Golden Age of capitalism. Her population overtook New York, and Hollywood maintained cultural supremacy. It had bumps, along with many to come, but the political conflagrations were could always be juxtaposed by how powerful California had become. ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata *Bibliography* Paul Sabin, _Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). amzn.to/2W16gtt Paul J. P. Sandul, _California Dreaming: Boosterism, Memory, and Rural Suburbs in the Golden State_ (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2014). amzn.to/3FoLVnO John Sedgwick, _From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West_ (New York: Avid Reader Press, 2021), audiobook. amzn.to/3DoBSi9 Kevin Starr, _Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1985). amzn.to/2VPTbVX Kevin Starr, _Material Dreams: Southern California through the 1920s_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1990). amzn.to/3oDZusG Kevin Starr, _Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1996). amzn.to/32ajETR Kevin Starr, _The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1997). amzn.to/3nnamft Kevin Starr, _Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2002). amzn.to/3CnerEz Kevin Starr, _Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963_ (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2009). amzn.to/3qGyyve ------------------------------------------------------------ The California history playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wUD7y8912ViyAtGfraKi9ru History of Albuquerque: youtu.be/nxqBDy827U0 Great Depression lecture: youtu.be/tI6V2vKiXcM Chapters 0:00 intro and promo 2:26 internal colony to self-sufficiency 4:04 railroad population boom 5:01 infrastructure projects 8:00 SF earthquake 8:40 university system 10:17 Great Depression 13:22 WWII 16:11 postwar boom 17:10 suburbia 18:33 next episode 18:58 conclusion ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory Discord: discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: twitter.com/Cynical_History