Please answer each question and 2 essays. Thanks!
Please read Chapter 29 through Chapter 32
PLEASE NO OUTSIDE SOURCES! THANKS!
Chapter 29: A New Frontier and the Great Society, 1960-1968
1. What were the issues that propelled Richard Nixon to victory in the 1968
presidential election?
2. What was the Tet Offensive? What were the results of the Tet Offensive in
Vietnam and in the US?
3. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? What led to its passage and what were
the consequences?
4. What were President Kennedy and Johnson’s motivations for deepening
America’s military involvement in the Vietnam War?
5. What was the Great Society? Did it achieve its goals? How did it change the
relationship between the citizens, the states, and the federal government?
6. What were the different methodologies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X?
7. What were the strategies and achievements of the civil rights movement in the
1960s? What divisions emerged among its activists during the decade?
8. What were President John F. Kennedy’s efforts to contain communism abroad
and pursue civil rights and other social programs at home?
Chapter 30: Rebellion and Reaction, 1960s and 1970s
1. How did the Watergate scandal unfold? What revelation changed everything
about it? What was its political significance?
2. Why was it said that “only Nixon could go to China”? How did this impact the war
in Vietnam and foreign relations with the USSR?
3. What was the international strategy brought about by Richard Nixon’s and Henry
Kissinger’s diplomacy and foreign policy during the 1970s?
4. What was Nixon’s southern strategy and how did it impact his domestic agenda
of New Federalism?
5. How and why did Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger change military and
political strategies to end America’s involvement in the Vietnam War?
6. How did the Nixon Doctrine differ from the Truman and Kennedy Doctrines?
What similarities did the Nixon Doctrine have to the Eisenhower Doctrine? Why?
7. Explain the various aspects of the “youth revolt”, and the associated social
activism.
ASK SUPPORT FOR LOGINS
Chapter 31: Conservative Revival, 1977-1990
1. What led to Operation Desert Storm? How did this reflect a changing role in U.S.
foreign policy in a post-Cold War world?
2. What series of events led to U.S. involvement in Panama?
3. How did Reagan’s Soviet strategy help end the Cold War?
4. What were the factors that led to the election of Ronald Reagan, the rise of the
conservative movement, and the resurgence of the Republican Party?
5. Why did Jimmy Carter have such limited success as America’s thirty-ninth
president?
Chapter 32: Twenty-First-Century America, 1993-2016
1. What was the Affordable Care Act and how did the Supreme Court Case of
National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius impact the ACA in
regards to the Individual Mandate?
2. What were President Obama’s priorities at home and abroad? How effective
were his efforts to pursue them?
3. What was the impact of global terrorism on the United States during the
presidency of George W. Bush? How effective was his “war on terror”?
4. How did U.S. foreign policy change in the nineties?
5. What were the accomplishments and setbacks of Bill Clinton’s presidency?
6. What were the major population trends (demographics) in the United States
during the twenty-first century? How did they impact the nation’s politics?
ESSAY: Please make sure to choose ( 2 ) of the following essay topics
to write about.
1. Trace the early foreign-policy setback during the Kennedy administration.
2. The year 1968 has been called the most turbulent year of the 1960’s Explain
why some people believe this.
3. Describe the domestic policy of the Nixon administration
4. Trace how the Watergate crisis brought an end to the Nixon presidency.
5. What was America’s role in world affairs during the Reagan and Bush
years?