Assignment Papers-What was McCarthyism? How do we explain the anti-communist sentiment in the post-war period? Who were its victims4
- 5. What was McCarthyism? How do we explain the anti-communist sentiment in the post-war period? Who were its victims?
- 6. What were the most significant factors that contributed to the growing momentum of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s?How was the early Civil Rights movement both a matter of top-down (elite) and bottom up (non-elite) activism?
- 7. Why does the U. S. become involved in Vietnam? What are war experiences like for soldiers? Why didn’t the U.S. win the war?
- 8. Why does Foner refer to the 1980s as the Second Gilded Age? What does he mean by this? What accounts for the conservative shift in U.S. politics in the 1980s and 1990s?
