When one says the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany, what does this mean?  What did the Nazi Party believe and wish to accomplish?  

What two student leaders are associated with SDS and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, respectively?  What do both individual have in common?

In the course of this class, we’ve seen a number of industrial revolutions. The industrial revolution of the 1950s centered on:

Why did the American Neutrality Act of 1937 pretty much green-light bad behavior on the part of Germany and Japan?

In 1960, a US military officer wrote a strong critique of American Cold war strategy.  His critique included this quote.    “In such a postwar climate, it was probably natural for the U.S. to do most of its defense spending for air power and atomic weapon systems. It is true that current events, such as the Communist-led civil war in Greece, the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia and the Russian blockade of Berlin, should have been reminders of the need to meet challenges to which the Atomic bomb would be no reply. However, the lesson, if perceived, was not effective and conventional forces were sacrificed to the needs of atomic power.” Based on what you know about Cold War strategies and timelines, what policy was he criticizing ?

Lectures argued the Gilded Age in American history resembled the modern United States in a lot of ways.  What was the one thing it lacked, and what specific incident was used to illustrate this point?

It was the Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case in 1954 that produced a Supreme Court ruling that overturned decades of racial segregation in education.  The Brown decision ruled that “separate but equal” facilities for children were inherently unequal and thus ordered schools to desegregate.

In the Palawan Massacre of 1944, Japanese soldiers burned alive US prisoners of war.

Discuss the Port Huron Statement.

Some Americans have recently argued that Joseph McCarthy was a hero for attacking communist infiltration into the US government.  Why do the lectures argue that this is an incorrect interpretation?