Class: 20th-Century U.S. History since 1960
CHOOSE TWO QUESTIONS -EACH QUESTION SHOULD BE 3-4 PAGES DOUBLE SPACED
CITATIONS SHOULD APPEAR IN PARENTHETICAL FORM: (CHAFE, P. 29.) AND INCLUDE A BIBLIOGRAPHY
EACH ANSWER SHOULD HAVE A THESIS STATEMENT THAT IS NO LONGER THAN TWO SENTENCES PRINTED IN BOLDFACE. PLEASE RESTATE THE PROMPT AT THE TOP OF YOUR ANSWERS.
1. WHAT IS LIBERAL CONSENSUS AND WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?
3. MANY AMERICANS FELT IN THE YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR TWO, THAT THE AMERICAN DREAM WAS COMING TRUE. DISCUSS.
4.WRITE AN ESSAY DESCRIBING THE FOUR PROCESSES SET IN MOTION BY THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO AND EXPLAIN HOW THEY LED BOTH TO THE WAR IN VIETNAM AND THE CLASH BETWEEN THE WAR IN INDOCHINA AND LBJ’S HOPES FOR “A GREAT SOCIETY.”
5. DESCRIBE THE IMPACT OF THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK ON THE NATION, INCLUDING THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE MURDER. WAS THERE A LONG TERM IMPACT RELATED TO KENNEDY’S DEATH.?
6. WHY IS LYNDON B. JOHNSON SO OFTEN DEPICTED AS A TRAGIC FIGURE. IN ANSWERING THIS QUESTION GIVE SOME THOUGHT TO ALTERATIONS IN THE ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND HOW THESE CHANGES PLAYED PUT IN JOHNSON’S ADMINISTRATION
7. DID THE AFFLUENCE OF THE 1950S CREATE THE DISSENT OF THE 1960S? WHY OR WHY NOT? IN YOUR ANSWER, CONSIDER THE GROWTH OF SUBURBIA, THE EXPANSION OF HIGHER EDUCATION, THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, AND THE EFFECTS OF TELEVISION UPON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC.
(please let me know which two questions you pick, thank you in advance)
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