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Based on your reading of Chapter 21 in the textbook, the primary source documents, and the online lessons, please share your views on ONE of the discussion topics. 

1. What were the possible causes of the Great Depressions?

2. Some critics charged that President Roosevelt's New Deal nearly destroyed American capitalism; others maintained that said that he saved it. Which view is more persuasive and why?

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Discussion 9: World War II

Based on your reading of Chapter 22 in the textbook, the primary source documents, and the online lessons, please share your views on ONE of the discussion topics. 

1. How did World War II change the role of women in the United States?

2. Was it necessary to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?  Why?

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Discussion 10: Cold War

Based on your reading of Chapter 23 in the textbook, the primary source documents, and the online lessons, please share your views on ONE of the discussion topics. 

1. What caused the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II?

2. What factors contributed to McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s?

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Discussion 11: Affluent Society

Based on your reading of Chapter 24 in the textbook, the primary source documents, and the online lessons, please share your views on ONE of the discussion topics. 

1. How do you describe the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement?

2. What were the major effects of household technologies on women in the 1950s??

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Discussion 12: Sixties

Based on your reading of Chapter 25 in the textbook, the primary source documents, and the online lessons, please share your views on ONE of the discussion topics. 

1. What were the major achievements of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s?  How do you evaluate the Black Power movement?

2. Should the United States go to Vietnam in 1965?  In the debate between the Hawks and Doves on the Vietnam War, which argument make better sense to you and why?

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Discussion 13: Conservatism

Based on your reading of Chapter 26 in the textbook, the primary source documents, and the online lessons, please share your views on ONE of the discussion topics. 

1. Identify major causes and effects of America's swing towards conservatism in this period (use examples from the documents).

2. What were the reasons and results of President Nixon's Detente policy?

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Discussion 14: Globalization

Based on your reading of Chapter 27 in the textbook, the primary source documents, and the online lessons, please share your views on ONE of the discussion topics. 

1. How do you evaluate the debate between proponents and critics of free-trade agreements and globalization?  What were the actions of anti-globalization activists?

2. How do you evaluate the intensified battle between Liberalism and Conservatism in the 1990s?

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Discussion 15: New Century

Based on your reading of Chapter 28 in the textbook, the primary source documents, and the online lessons, please share your views on ONE of the discussion topics. 

1. Did the Bush Administration handle the "War on Terror" appropriately?  Why or why not?  What are the long-term implications for America's place in the world?

2. How do you assess President Obama's first term?

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