1. Describe the criticisms leveled at the consumer society of the 1950s.
2. Describe Truman's Fair Deal and explain why it was not passed.
3. Describe the elections of 1948 and 1952. Who were the candidates and what were the most important issues.
4. Describe the political stalemate that existed in American politics from at least 1946-1963. What were the sources of the stalemate and what finally broke the political deadlock?
5. Describe the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
6. Describe the role of the Supreme Court, the president, and the legislature in expanding civil rights.
7. Describe the methods that civil rights activists used in the south. Describe how the south reacted to the civil rights workers.
8. Describe the decline of the civil rights movement.
9. Describe the election of 1960.
10. Describe JFK's goals as president. Evaluate his New Frontier programs.
11. Compare and contrast the nuclear policies of Eisenhower and Kennedy.
12. Describe why the Soviets decided to place missiles in Cuba.
13. Evaluate the American response in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
14. Discuss the long term consequences of the crisis.
15. Identify the major programs initiated by LBJ in his Great Society, and evaluate the success of these programs.
16. Trace the beginnings of American involvement in Vietnam.
17. Describe the escalation of American involvement in Vietnam.
18. Evaluate America's conduct of the Vietnam war.
19. Describe the Tet Offensive and its impact on the American public.
20. Describe LBJ's escalation of America's involvement in Vietnam, and describe how it undermined his administration.
21. Describe the 1968 election. Who ran and what were the main issues?
22. Describe the purpose, implementation, and results of Vietnamization.
23. Describe the nature of Nixon's personality, his "politics of deceit," and why a Watergate was possible.
24. Describe the events that led to Nixon's resignation.
25. Asses the impact of Watergate on the American political system.
26. Describe and evaluate Reaganomics. What was the purpose? Who benefited? What were the results.
27. Evaluate Reaganís foreign policies. How did his policies signal a change from previous administrations? Describe the major sources of contention.
28. Describe the end of the Cold War.
29. Discuss the Clinton impeachment crisis.
30. Discuss the break-up of Yugoslavia and the US intervention efforts.

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