Sources' Names and Main Ideas

Question 1

OpenStax U.S. History “Chapter 28: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1946”

Answer 1

• Challenge of demobilization after WWII
• The GI Bill of Rights
• The Cold War : containment, domino theory, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, House Committee of Un-American Activities
• American Dream
• Baby Boom
• Levittown and Suburbanization
• The Organization Men

Question 2

OpenStax U.S. History “Chapter 29: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s”

Answer 2

• Decade of hope, change, and war that signaled an important shift in American culture
• Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
• Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Tet Offensive
• End of the Great Society

Question 3

OpenStax U.S. History “Chapter 30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980”

Answer 3

• The concerns and attitudes of younger people, women, gays and lesbians, and people of color became the mainstream.
• Counterculture, Hippies, and Woodstock
• American Indian Protest
• Gay Rights (Stonewall Inn)
• Feminist push for greater rights (Roe v. Wade)
• My Lai Massacre
• Vietnamization
• Kent State Shootings
• Pentagon Papers

Question 4

OpenStax U.S. History “Chapter 30: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968.

Answer 4

• The presidential election of 1968 revealed the division of the Democratic Party.
• Republican candidate Richard Nixon wins by appealing to the silent majority.
• Nixon championed “middle American,” which was fed up with social convulsions and called upon the country to come down together.
• Nixon’s Domestic Policies
• Nixon’s foreign policies
• Nixon’s misdemeanors: Watergate Break-In Scandal that confirmed the beliefs of the public that the government cannot be trusted to protect the interests of people and tell them the truth.

Question 5

OpenStax U.S. History “Chapter 31: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980 -2000”

Answer 5

• Reagan appealed to moderates and conservatives anxious about social change and the seeming loss of American power and influence on the world stage.
• Reagan’s rise to presidency was an unusual transition form pop cultural significance to political success. Main political skill: capturing the public mood and catering to it, but compromising when necessary
• The rise of the New Right
• Strong support among White voters, over 45 y.o and those with incomes over $50K proved crucial for Reagan’s victory
• Reaganomics
• Much of the intellectual meat of Reagan Revolution came from conservative think tanks that specifically thought to shape American political and social dialogue.
• Moral Majority
• By 1980, evangelical Christians had become an important political and social force in the U.S.
• Equal Rights Amendment
• AIDS Crisis
• War on Drugs and the Road to Mass Incarceration

Question 6

OpenStax U.S. History “Chapter 32: The Challenges of the 21st Century”

Answer 6

• The events set in motion by the Sep 11 attacks would raise fundamental questions about U.S. role in the world, the extent to which privacy should be protected at the cost of security, the definition of who exactly is an American, and the cost of liberty.
• Bush Doctrine
• War in Afghanistan
• War in Iraq
• War on Terror

Question 7

The American Yawp. “28. The Unraveling”

Answer 7

• Nixon was the 1st president in 120 years to enter office with the opposition party controlling both houses.
• Nixon was turning America from the policy of active Communist containment to the policy of Détente.
• Taking advantage of tensions between China and USSR, Nixon pursued closer relations with both in order to de-escalate tensions and strengthen the U.S. position relative to each.
• Facing a tide of congressional opposition to the war, passed the War Powers Resolution, which dramatically limited president’s ability to wage war without congressional consent.
• Nixon was the 1st and only president to ever resign from office.

Question 8

“The President Needs Broad Wartime Powers to Protect the Nation” by John Yoo

Answer 8

2006
- Although this nation has used military force abroad more than 100 times, it has declared war only 5 times.
- The text of the Constitution, as well as its application over the last 2 centuries, confirm tat the president can begin military hostility without the approval of Congress
- The presidents is given the war powers to ensure flexibility, prompt response, and secrecy.