History

History

Order Description
1. How and why did FDR and the New Deal fundamentally transform America? In your answer, consider the changes related to business, farmers, laborers, minorities, and politics. What were the limits of the New Deal? What was its legacy?
2. Explain the major foreign policy decisions of the United States between 1935 and Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Why were American efforts to avoid another war unsuccessful?
3. How and why did the mobilization of the United States for participation in World War II transform American society in general and the American economy in particular? In your answers, be sure to consider both short- and long- term effects.
4. How and why did the African American civil rights/freedom movement and the social legislation enacted in the 1960s transform American? What does that era teach us about change in America?