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Assignment:

Could you please answer each question in your own words?

1. In your own words, describe the two issues that pushed the United States and the Soviet Union into the Cold War.

2. In your own words, describe the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on the mobilization of the black community.

3. In your own words, describe President Johnson's vision of a Great Society.

4. In your own words, describe the Watergate scandal and explain how it led to President Nixon's decline.

5. In your own words, explain what the three key economic policies comprising the Reagan Revolution were.

6. In your own words, explain what the Lewinsky scandal was and how the Lewinsky episode affected Bill Clinton's tenure as the president of the United States.

7. In your own words, explain the controversy surrounding the automatic Florida recount during the 2000 election.

8. In your own words describe the reasons that the Bush administration gave for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003

9. In your own words, briefly describe the steps taken by Barack Obama to improve the economic situation in the United States.

10. Think about what you have learned in this class and describe some of the contributions of diverse individuals and/or groups (name them) to the richness of the American experience. (Class is GE251 Contemporary American History).