1. Discuss the accomplishments and failures of John F. Kennedy's thousand-day presidency.
2. Martin Luther King, Jr., observed that President Johnson's desire to end poverty and provide economic opportunity for all Americans was "shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam." Do you agree with King's statement? Why or why not?
3. Discuss the development of the 1960s civil-rights movement. What were its successes and its frustrations? How and why did the Black Power movement emerge from it?
4. Discuss the 1960s movements to gain opportunity, equality, and power for women, Mexican-Americans, and Native Americans. Who participated in them? Why? What tactics did they use? What did each movement owe to the civil-rights and Black Power movements?
5. Compare and contrast the United States in the 1950s and in the 1960s. How do you account for the great differences between the two decades?