1.     Analyze the policy of containment. How did the United States enact this policy?

 

2.     Discuss the changes in the American economy during the postwar period. Be sure to discuss the agricultural, industrial, and consumer sectors of the economy

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3.     The civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1950s, nearly ninety years after Reconstruction. Explain why the movement finally took off in the 1950s. What caused it to do so?

 

4.     During the 1960s, the United States had become a more open, more tolerant— in a word, freer— country. Defend or refute that statement.

 

5.     How did John F. Kennedy’s foreign policy agenda envision new initiatives aimed at countering communist influence in the world? How successful was Kennedy’s

foreign policy?