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Why did America become imperialist?
What groups of people supported American imperialism? Which opposed it?
Why did America go to war with Spain and what was the outcome?
What was the Platt Amendment and why was it significant?
How did the U.S. treat the Philippines after the war with Spain?
What was the Boxer Rebellion trying to accomplish?
Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan and why were his ideas significant?
What was yellow journalism?
What were Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy goals?
How did America gain rights to build the Panama Canal?
What as the gentleman's agreement?

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What factors contributed to the outbreak of WWI?
What was American policy toward the warring nations?
What were Wilson's goals in achieving peace without victory?
How did workers benefit (or not) from WWI?
How did America pay for the war?
What was the purpose of CPI and how did it accomplish this?
What were the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles?
What was total war?
What would be the purpose of the League of Nations?
Why did Americans become outraged at the Zimmerman telegram?
Which nation did America feel more compelled to support during the war?
What was the Red Scare?
Who was Marcus Garvey?
Why did Germany revive sub warfare?
How was the war going for the Allies when the U.S. entered it?
How did Europeans respond to the 14 Points and League of Nations?

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Who were flappers and why were they significant?
What was welfare capitalism?
 How did farmers fare during the 1920s?
Why were rural and urban America at odds during the decade?
What characterized the KKK of the 1920s?
What was the Harlem Renaissance and why was it significant?
What was the "lost generation?"
What was economy like during the 1920s?
How did peoples' lifestyles change during the era?
What were the personal characteristics and policies of Harding, Hoover and Coolidge?
What was the purpose of the Kellogg-Briand pact?
What was the significance of the Scopes Trial?
Who were the most important public figures of the decade and why?
How did the women's movement change in the 1920s?
What were businessmen's goals during the 1920s?

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Who was FDR and what shaped his life?
What was the most important crisis that FDR faced upon entering the oval office?
What was the CCC?
Who were FDR's critics and what did they propose?
What rights did women reformers seek?
What proposal of FDR's achieved the greatest resistance from the people?
What new union was formed during the 1930s?
What fiscal policies made the depression worse?
Why was the Bonus Army significant?
How did African Americans and Mexican Americans fare during the depression?
What changes in foreign policy did FDR inaugurate?

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What was the difference between Cash and Carry and Lend Lease?
What was the significance of Operation OVERLORD?
Where was the atomic bomb used? Why?
What were African American experiences during the war?
What happened to Japanese Americans during WWII?
What triggered people like Hitler coming to power?
How did American foreign policy differ between the 1930s and 1940s?
Why didn't Americans do more to help the Jews?
Why did America join WWII?
Was Truman "prepared" to be President? Why or why not?
How did American workers benefit (or not) from the war?

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What was the Truman Doctrine and why was it significant?
What were the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947?
What were the major goals of the Marshall Plan?
How did the Taft-Hartley Act affect the labor movement?
What did the G.I. Bill accomplish?
In what ways was segregation challenged in the 1950s?
What was Levittown and what were the characteristics of places like it?
What was NATO and why was it needed?'
Why did America go to war in Korea?
What were the conflicting goals of Korea? How did Truman react to subordination?
Why were the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss significant?
What was containment?
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Who were the Dixiecrats and why were they significant?
How did the Cold War affect America economically, politically, socially and culturally?
What was the Kinsey Report?

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Who were the major leaders of communist movements in Cuba and Vietnam who influenced American involvement in those countries?
What was the greatest threat to America in 1961?
Why was the Montgomery Bus Boycott significant?
What were Martin Luther King's goals in the civil rights movement and how did he accomplish them?
What was the New Frontier?
What was Operation Wetback?
What was the purpose of the Peace Corps?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis and how was it resolved?
How did America approach foreign policy in Latin America? In third world countries?
Why did people move from the inner cities to the suburbs? What happened to the cities?
What was the Bay of Pigs?
What role did the CIA have in foreign policy?
Why was the 1956 Highway Act significant?

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What was the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
What was the Tet Offensive?
What was détente and how did it affect American foreign policy?
Why did Kent State occur?
Why did Nixon resign?
What were some of the major programs of the War on Poverty and Great Society?
Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 significant?
Why did America get involved in the Vietnam War?
What significant events occurred in 1968?

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What was the fastest growing region of the U.S. by the 1980s and why?
Who were the leaders of the national African American, Women's and Chicano movements and what were their goals?
What cultural differences took place since 1974? (TV, entertainment, job satisfaction/careers)

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Why were Affirmative Action programs established?
What role did business restructuring have in the economy?
What unpopular thing did Ford do?
What problems did Carter have with foreign policy?
What were the trends that took place under Reagan's presidency?
What was the Iran Contra Affair?
Why did Jimmy Carter appeal to voters? Clinton? Reagan?
What is the Bush Doctrine?
What was significant about the 2000 election?