Read a book and answer the questions

Written Paper
2
History 130
2
Professor Lawrence
Chapter
22
–
Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War II, 1941
–
1945
; Chapter 23
–
The United States
and the Cold War, 1945
–
1953
;
Chapter 24
–
An Affluent Society, 1953
–
1960
;
Chapter 25
–
The Sixties,
1960
–
1968
;
Chapter 26
–
The Conservative Turn, 1969
–
1988
Format: Essay
•
Answer the following questions in your own words after reading
the
from the text book
–
Give Me
Liberty
, an American Experience by Eric Foner
(Brief 6
th
Edition)
and
your
PPT lecture
notes.
•
Eac
h question should form one essay
with
at least 2
paragraphs.
•
Type in the question number and the answer
.
DO NOT copy the questions
, type in the correct number
of the question
.
•
The assignment will be
typed in the text box
or
uploaded
on a
Microsoft
word
document,
single
spaced, Times New Roman, font #12.
Each Question is
2
5
points
.
•
Each question will form one
short
essay
(Total 6 short free response answers)
•
Each part of the question is a
paragraph (At
least 2 paragraphs per answer)
•
Cite your sources at the end of the paper in MLA format.
Questions:
1.
How did the Four Freedoms create a language of national unity? How did different groups understand or
experience the Four Freedoms
differently?
(Chapter 22)
2.
What series of events and ideological conflicts prompted the Cold War?
Explain how McCarthy
benefited from a culture of fear, and how McCarthyism contributed to that culture. (Chapter 23)
3.
President Truman referred to the Truman Do
ctrine and the Marshall Plan as
“two halves of the same
walnut.”
Explain the
similarities
and
differences
between these two aspects of containment.
(Chapter
23)
4.
How did governmental policies, business practices, and individual choices contribute to
racially
segregated suburbs?
How did
Martin Luther
King
Jr.
use religion to appeal to a broad audience?
(Chapter 24)
5.
What were the major crises and policy initiatives of the Kennedy presidency and Lyndon Johnson’s
Presidency? In what ways was 1968 a climac
tic year for the Sixties?
(Chapter 25)
6.
What were the major policies of the Nixon administration on social and economic issues?
How did
Vietnam and the Watergate scandal affect popular trust in the government?
(Chapter 26)

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