Problem
• Discuss the attempts made by African-Americans to provide voting rights and other rights to black citizens.
• Discuss LBJ's desire to build a "Great Society" and evaluate the success of his programs.
• Explain the situation in Vietnam that LBJ inherited from his predecessors and evaluate the decisions he made over the next few years concerning the Vietnam War.
• Discuss the growth of the "counterculture" in American society during the 1960s and describe three of the "movements" that developed during this decade.
• When World War II ended in 1945, the period known as the "Cold War" began. It would last for almost fifty years. In your opinion, were the hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union - the world's emerging "superpowers" - completely inevitable? Why or why not? Explain.