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?

World War II began in Europe with the German invasion of Poland in 1939.  This invasion brought Britain and France into the War.  The United States did not immediately join the conflict.  

Why, according to the lectures, did the United States use nuclear weapons against Japan and not Germany?

Address the emergence of American youth as a powerful force in United States history.

In the 1930s, the United States began to isolate itself from the world.  Other nations, though, were coming under murderous, vicious regimes in that same period.  What two nations in particular came under military regimes and why?  What happened to them?

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?