How did WWI affect the US economy?
Did WWI have a happy ending, did it really make the world safe and stable?
How did WWI and the mutual self-destruction of Europe affect the US’s international standing?
Why was there a Great Depression?
Why was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor a defeat, even though it was successful?
Why did Stalin, a communist, make a treaty with Hitler, a fascist, in 1939?
How did many people in the USA in the 1930s feel about the possibility of getting involved in war?
What did large numbers of black Americans do during the Second World War?
What was the effect of FDR's sudden death?
If Japan was basically already defeated by August 1945, why did Truman still drop 2 nukes on Japan?
Why was the 'Cold War' called 'cold'?
What had been Eisenhower's profession before he became president?
Who was Charles Wilson?
What is the 'Domino Theory'?
Who was Mao? What happened to China in 1949, and why?
The Soviet Union's apparent strength caused the USA to do what?
What was the Baby Boom? What were its short term and long term effects?
What did the CIA and British Intelligence do in Iran in the 1950s?
How was the US economy in the 1950s and 1960s?
What happened to average salaries in the US during this time?
What was segregation? What racial laws existed before the Civil Rights movement?
What was a major legal victory of the Civil Rights movement in 1954?
How were some of the major changes to racist practices achieved?
What is the military industrial complex?
What things were done by the US government as part of its anti-communist policies?
Just before leaving office, President Eisenhower went on national TV to warn Americans about what?
Who was Robert McNamara?
What was the 'Bay of Pigs'?
What are some reasons President Kennedy may have been killed?
Why is President Kennedy's assassination so suspicious?
What were the areas of the US that had high growth in the 1950s and 1960s?
What were major sources of this growth?
What did Lyndon Johnson do when he became President, following Kennedy's murder?
What was LBJ's 'Great Society'?
What were Texan LBJ's actions in the Civil Rights area?
What was the result of democratic support for civil rights?
What was the 'New Right' of the late 1960s, what was it concerned with?
What caused heavy federal spending under LBJ?
Why did US fiscal situation begin to deteriorate under LBJ?
What things started happening to the US economy under Nixon?
How did Nixon handle Vietnam?
What was Nixon's attitude towards communist China and the USSR?
Why was the US having such difficulty winning the war in Vietnam?
Why was Nixon the only US president to resign?
What happened to the US dollar in the early 1970s?
What happened to petroleum in the 1970s?
How did the US get involved with Iran and Saudi Arabia in the 1970s?
Who was Jimmy Carter? How was he different from his predecessors?
What were some different policies that Carter attempted?
How did Iran and Afghanistan begin to be US concerns in the late 1970s and 1980s?
What are 'deregulation' and 'privatization'?
How successful was Carter with his new policies?
What things destroyed Carter's presidency?
Who was Reagan? What were his economic and foreign policy ideas?
What happened to the US economy during Reagan's presidency?
Did Reagan do anything illegal why he was president, and if so, what was the result?
How did average American families begin to change in the 1980s and 1990s?
What happened during the presidency of George H Bush, in the late '80s and early '90s?
How did the collapse of the Soviet Union affect the US?
Why did the US attack Iraq, which it had been helping fight Iran before?
Why didn't George H Bush take out Saddam Hussein when he had the chance?
What was the reaction of some Muslims to the Gulf War?
What happened during Clinton's presidency?
Why was Clinton perhaps not as friendly to the poor and middle class as most people might think?
What happened to US corporations and the way they do business in the 1990s?
What happened to the wealth distribution of the US in the 1980s and 1990s?
Did the sources of US GDP change in the '80s and '90s compared to the '50s and '60s?
What happened to US manufacturing, and why?
What company employs the most Americans today?
Who is Alan Greenspan, and what did he do?
What happened during the US presidential election of 2000?
What was the origin of Islamic terrorism, and was 9-11 the first time it targeted Americans?
Was Iraq connected to terrorist attacks on the US?
Why did the US attack Iraq in 2003?

