1. What was the impact of the automobile on American life?
2. Was the 1929 stock market crash the cause of the Depression? Why or why not?
3. What was the impact of the New Deal on women?
4. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
5. Why did the United States bomb civilians in Japan and Europe in the last years of the war?
6. How did postwar economic problems affect American politics and society?
7. How did the Cold War progress under Eisenhower?
8. What were the political effects of John Kennedy's assassination?
9. What was the New Left? How was it related to the counterculture?
10. Why did the American electorate become increasingly conservative during the 1970s and 1980s? What are some examples that testify to this increasing conservatism?