1. During the 1960s, the United States had become a more open, more tolerant-in a word, freer country. Defend or refute that statement.
2. How did John F. Kennedy's foreign policy agenda envision new initiatives aimed at countering communist influence in the world? How successful was Kennedy's foreign policy?
3. Compare Lyndon Johnson's Great Society with Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Be sure to discuss how the Great Society was a response to prosperity, unlike the New Deal, which was a response to depression.
4. 1968 was a turbulent year. Describe the events of 1968, both domestically and globally, and their significance in both the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement.
5. Compare the civil rights movement in the South with that in the North. Be sure to discuss methods, leader ship, and issues that were being addressed, and the success of each.