Good Neighbor Policy

To what degree was FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy a success or failure in accomplishing its goals?

Conservative Revolution

In the period since 1945, the Republican Party, as represented in the administrations
of Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961) and Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974), virtually
abandoned the opposition to the New Deal expressed in the 1930’s. assess the
validity of this generalization. (75)

1968

“1968 was a turning point for the United States.” To what extent is this an accurate statement? In your answer, discuss TWO of the following: (1998)

National politics
Vietnam War
Civil Rights

Political Parties

A presidential election that results in defeat of the party in power usually indicates
the failure of the party in power to have dealt effectively with the nation’s problems,
rather than indicating the positive appeal of the winning candidate and his party
platform. Assess the validity of this generalization with reference to TWO of the
elections in which the party in power was defeated: 1912, 1920,1932,1952, 1960,
1968. (80)

1960s

Analyze the extent to which TWO of the following transformed American society in the 1960’s and

1970’s.(2005)

The Civil Rights Movement
The anti-war movement
The women’s movement

Hippies

“Discuss with respect to Two of the following, the view that the 1960’s represented a
period of profound cultural change.
Education Gender roles
Music Race Relations (00)”

Hawks and Doves

“Hawks” and “doves” have disagreed on United States involvement in wars since the
inception of the nation. Compare the “hawk” to the “dove” position for both a war of the nineteenth century and a war of the twentieth century. (73)

VPs

Vice -Presidents who have succeeded to the presidency on the death of the President have been less effective in their conduct of domestic AND foreign policy than the men they have replaced. Assess the validity of this statement for any TWO of the following pairs.
William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (89)

Minority Rights

The leadership, organization, and programs of ethnic and racial minority movements
after 1945 represented a fundamental departure from those which had existed from
1900 to 1945. Discuss with reference to black Americans or Mexican Americans,
giving about equal attention to the periods before and after 1945. (77)

Reconstruction Redux

How did the African-American Civil Rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s address the failures of Reconstruction? (2002)