Compare and Contrast America after WWI and WWII

Contextualization: larger context of the Red Scares; Soviet Union and Communism

Causes of the Cold war

Contextualization: Stalin's Goals= his own security and paranoia, Russian Security, Buffer (between west and russia spreading Communism)
Comintern= spreading communism world wide

Cause and Effect of the economic boom

Contextualization: WWII mass production and isolation causing Strong Am. Companies

Continuity and Change of civil rights

Contextualization: WWII Fighting for democracy but african Americans still segregated

Continuity and Change of Cold War ( 1965- 1990)

Contextualization: WWII (seperation of Berlin to defeat Berlin) Berlin wall, Potsdam Conference

Continuity and Change after Watergate

Contextualization: Red Scare and staying too long in Vietnam for things that didn't concern the US

Continuity and Change Foreign Policy

Contextualization: WWII isolationism we did not want to be addressed by other nations and refused to take part in international affairs until japan dragged us into the war and we got involved by creating things like the UN