Overview you will explore some of the challenges the United States...

Overview

you will explore some of the challenges the United States faced with the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, the causes and results of American involvement in the Vietnam conflict that parallels the Cold War, and the successes and failures of the Civil Rights Movement at home.

Instructions

Select one (only one!) of the following topics and writ a response to prompt by the initial post date:

1. Using at least two primary sources and links for evidence, decide whether the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was inevitable? Explain your answer by describing the origins of the conflict.
2. Using links, and at least two primary sources, describe McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare. Compare and contrast it with one other period of mass hysteria in US History.
3. Do you believe the rights movements of the 1960s fulfilled their goals and aspirations? Explain your answer by describing the successes and failures of one of these movements in detail using at least two primary sources to provide evidence to prove your assertion.
4. Based on at least two primary sources, your links, what were the causes of US involvement in Vietnam? Do you believe the US was justified in its involvement? Why or why not?

Make sure you use evidence from the sources and source types noted in your prompt to support your points. You may use sources other than those found in Recommended Resources.