After WWI, Britain and France punished and humiliated Germany with fines and restrictions, leading to anger and desire for revenge among Germans.  After WWII, the United States did not make this same mistake, but instead spent millions of dollars rebuilding old enemies.  Though this spending was part of a Cold War containment strategy, it also had the effect of creating long-term peace instead of smoldering resentment.     

Lectures pointed out that economic depressions were regular visitors through the Gilded Age and into the second period of the class.  There as the Panic of 1873, the recession of 1882, the Depression of 93, the Panic of 1907.  What law, from what president,  largely stopped or lessened this depression cycle?

Which of the following are true of wartime production in the United States during WWII?

PBS, Food Stamps, Medicare, Medicaid. All of these were created by the John F. Kennedy administration between 1961-1963.

United States soldiers first saw action on the ground in the Vietnam War at the Ia Drang Valley in 1965.

What role has the Navy played in shaping American history?  In which of the following wars was US entry provoked by an incident involving a US navy ship (or ships)?

In the course of this class, we’ve seen two American presidents – Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, face terrible setbacks in their lives.  Both responded by surmounting their hardships and turning weakness into strength.  What about Hitler?  Did he face a setback in life?  How did he respond?

Lectures established that young people of the 1950s were conformist, that a significant proportion could think of no way they wanted to be different from their parents.  How, then, did young people of the 1960s become leading activists against the policies created by their parents?   According to the lectures, which of the following partly accounts for this shift?

What was Lend –Lease?

This is Tule Lake, which was created by Executive Order 9066.  What was the purpose of this place?