American History 2020

1-  What were the American and Soviet strategies after World War II?

2-  What government polices encourage postwar prosperity?

3-  How did America wind up fighting in Korea?

4-  How did the Truman administration contribute to the Red Scare?

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5-What were the factors that pushed the growth of the suburbs?

6-How were the ideals of a middle class reflected on television?

7-How did conglomerates fit into the scheme of Eisenhower's "modern Republicanism?

8-How did Eisenhower's aggressive policy of the "New Look" play out in Asia, Iran and Guatemala?

9-How did Kennedy confront the Soviet Union at the Bay of Pigs, in Berlin, and during the Cuban missile crisis?

10-How did African American and Latino civil rights cases spark a civil rights movement that went beyond court challenges?

11-What were the different tactics, and where was each used in the civil rights campaigns led by CORE, SCLC, and SNCC?

12-What were the major legislative achievements of Johnson's Great Society agenda?

13-How did the movements of the counterculture develop both politically and socially?

14-  How did Lyndon Johnson justify escalating the war in Vietnam?

15-  How did conditions in Vietnam make it difficult for American soldiers to fight the war and how did conditions at home lead to dissent over the war?

16-  In what ways did Richard Nixon escalate the war even as he was working to wind it down?

17-  How did each of the following groups work to change their identities and status in American society: Latinos, women, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and gays?