1. "The story of black America in the 1970s and 1980s was really two very different stories." Explain what this quotation means using as many facts as possible.
2. Compare and contrast American society and culture in the 1960s with that of the 1980s and early 1990s.
3. Discuss the foreign policies of the United States in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East under the Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush administrations.
4. What is meant by the term "the Reagan Revolution"? According to Chapter 32, what accounted for the appeal of Ronald Reagan and his policies to the American electorate in the 1980s? What, if anything, have been the last effects of Reagan's policies?
5. Explain how and why U.S.-Soviet relations changed from the late 1970s to 1988.