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Required Reading
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Assignment
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What were the origins and the significance of Populism?
How did the liberties of blacks after 1877 give way to legal segregation across the South?
In what ways did the boundaries of American freedom grow narrower in this period?
How did the United States emerge as an imperial power in the 1890s?
Why did most Americans support isolationism in the 1930s?
What factors after 1939 led to U.S. involvement in World War II?
How did government, business, and labor work together to promote wartime production, and how did the war affect each group?
How did different groups understand or experience the Four Freedoms differently?
Explain how conservatives in Congress and business used the war effort to attack the goals and legacy of the New Deal.
How did the war alter the lives of women on the home front, and what did different groups think would happen to the status of women after the war?
How did a war fought to bring "essential human freedoms" to the world fail to protect the home-front liberties of blacks, Indians, Japanese-Americans, and Mexican Americans?
Explain how World War II promoted an awareness of the links between racism in the United States and colonialism around the world.
What was the impact of the G.I. Bill of Rights on American society, including minorities?
Describe how the decisions made at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 created the framwork for postwar U.S. economic and foreign policy.