Homework Questions 28-31
Chapter 28 The Affluent Society and the Liberal Consensus 1945-1965
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Explain the record of American prosperity during the two decades following World War II.
What were the changing roles of cities and suburbs in American society?
Assess the validity of the “fifties” as the historical norm of American life.
Evaluate resident Kennedy’s New Frontier platform.
How did President Johnson’s Great Society program attempt to fulfill modern liberals’
agenda for reform?
Chapter 29 War Abroad and at Home: The Vietnam Era 1961-1975
1. How and why did America enter the war in Vietnam?
2. What was the relationship between American domestic affairs and the conduct of the
Vietnam war?
3. Discuss and analyze the origins, methods, and ambitions of the student movement of
the 1960s, and assess its effect on American political, intellectual, and social institutions.
4. Why did racial and civil unrest turn violent during the late 1960s?
5. What did the election of President Nixon and the end of the Vietnam War signal about
the nature of American politics in the early 1970s?
Chapter 30 The Lean Years 1969-1980
1. How and why did America experience a severe economic crisis in the 1970s?
2. Explain the Watergate crisis and its effect on American politics.
3. How the civil rights movement come to include women, Hispanics, Native Americans,
gay people, and people with disabilities?
4. How did foreign affairs affect President Carter’s administration?
Chapter 30 A Domestic and World Order 1981-2001
1. Explain how domestic policies of Presidents Reagan and Bush reflected the interest in
supply side economic theory?
2. How and why did the cold war conclude?
3. How did the development of the internet affect the American economy in the 1990s?
4. Explain the difficulties of the 2000 presidential election.