The Cold War was more than just a disagreement between two nations over political systems.  The United States had serious concerns about the USSR because of its behavior.  The USSR, after all, committed a number of crimes against humanity, including the Holodormor of 1932-33, in which it intentionally starved about seven million of its own people.

The election of Donald Trump in 2016 is believed to have reflected widespread irritation with and mistrust for professional politicians.  According to the lectures, what single event in the 1970s is believed to have set the stage for this election by severely damaging the faith and trust American citizens had in their politicians?  Why?

The Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1961 was a sit-in movement run by young black Americans in North Carolina.

The Watts Riot of 1965 and the riots of 1967 destroyed the notion that the United States had fully solved its civil rights and race issues.

The Cold War is so named because its primary antagonists never engaged each other directly in a “hot,” or shooting war. But was the Cold War entirely without war? What major conflicts did the United States fight during the Cold War and when?

A Memo from the US Bureau of Census announced that the American frontier no longer existed as of 1890.

Lectures noted that after World War II, racial segregation only existed in the south, not in the north. 

In World War II, the United States only employed one atom bomb.  That was enough to get Japan to surrender.

Compare the goals of Germany and Japan in the 1930s.

Since 1877, the social and/or political development of the United States has been shaped by what factors?