Assignment

REVIEW QUESTION

1. How did Cold War politics and assumptions shape American made foreign policy in these years? What were the key interventions the United States made in the Europe and the third World?

2. How did postwar economic prosperity change the lives of ordinary Americans? Which groups benefited most and which were largely excluded from "the affluent society"?

3. What role did federal programs play in expanding economic opportunities?

4. Analyze the origins of postwar youth culture. How was teenage life different in these years from previous eras? How did popular culture both reflect and distort the lives of American youth?

5. How did mass culture become even more central to American everyday life in the two decades following World War II? What problems did various cultural critics identify with this trend?

6. Evaluate the domestic and international policies associated with John E Kennedy and the New Frontier. What continuities with Eisenhower-era politics do you find in the Kennedy administration? How did JFK break with past practices?

Text Book: Faragher, J. M. (1997). Out of many: A history of the American people. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.