week 4Answer ONE of the following.

For students whose last names beging with the letters A-M, choose ONE of these three:
1. What were the roaring 20s all about? What were some of the cultural and social developments before 1930?

2. What were the domestic and foreign causes of the Great Depression? How did President Hoover respond to the economic emergency?

3. Was Truman right to order the atomic bombings of Japan? What were the key issues that influenced his decision?

For students whose last names beging with the letters N-Z, choose ONE of these three:

4. What were the main programs of the New Deal’s “Hundred Days”? What were their goals? Evaluate the success of the various programs.

5. How do you explain the decision to intern virtually all Americans of Japanese birth or ancestry from 1942 to 1946?

6. What was the crucial turning point of the war in Europe OR the Pacific?

week 5

Answer ONE of the following questions:

For students whose last names beging with the letters A-M, choose ONE of these three:

1.Why was the United States unable to avoid entering a Cold War with the Soviet Union? What were the key U.S. strategies of the Cold War?

2.What was the long term significance of the Vietnam War?

3.What were the key components of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What civil rights were not included in it? Who were the key leaders that made it possible?

For students whose last names beging with the letters N-Z, choose ONE of these three:

4.Describe and explain the Vietnam War. Why was it such contentious and controversial war? What can we learn from it?

5. Describe and explain Johnson’s Great Society. What impact did it have on American society?

6.What is the significance of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision?