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What was the impact of World War II on life in the United States? You should focus on the aspects of manufacturing, access to food and supplies, workforce, and the roles of women and minorities.
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-Women in the work force -People allowed to buy limited amount of goods -Buy bonds
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How did America move to counter perceived Soviet threats in the 1940s and 1950s, and how did these efforts come to form part of the general policy of "containment."
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-the red scare -McCarthyism: Keep Communism out of The US! -Marshall Plan Help Europe so they like us and stay capitalist rebuilding war ravaged countries- even Germany and Japan -Truman Doctrine: (containment)- US should support countries or people threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
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How did the civil rights movement progress from difficult beginning and great successes in 1964-1965 and then encounter increasing opposition from black militants and "white backlash" after 1965?
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-MLK's Tactics Peaceful protesting → do not provoke the whites Marches Speeches Sit-ins Satyagraha -Malcolm X Aggression works better Looks at communism Does not want to fit in with white society
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What led the United States to become so deeply involved in the Vietnam War? Discuss the major events that led to our involvement and the impact of these events on the war.
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-The involvement of the US began in 1950 during the French Indochina War JFK adds troops to S. Vietnam To stop the spread of Communism By 1957, a Communist opposition group in the South, known as the Viet Cong, had begun attacks on the Diem government, assassinating thousands of South Vietnamese government officials. Although the political arm of the group would later be called the National Liberation Front (NLF), the United States continued to refer to the fighters as the Vietcong.
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Analyze the ways in which the Great Depression altered the American social fabric in the 1930s.
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social status, and future of people affected. people lose jobs → poverty racial targets for minorities migrate west healthcare women roles → men were mad they didn't have jobs but women did riding the rails foreclosure prostitution starvation → Dust Bowl increase crime and suicide
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How and why did America turn towards domestic isolation and social conservatism with political and international isolationism in the 1920s?
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- red scare and nationalism -prohibition -immigrants had begun to flood into the country. -immigrants taking jobs -flourish → people buying American goods limitless credit
