To what extent did African American experiences during World War II, focus attention on public discussions regarding American national identity?

Did the Paris Peace Accords bring an end to fighting in Vietnam? Explain.

What difficulties did American soldiers face in Vietnam? What effect did these difficulties have?

Why did the Nixon administration try to stop publication of the Pentagon Papers?

Analyzing Political Cartoons Study the politi$\mathrm{cal}$ cartoon on this page and answer the questions that follow. a. Whom do the individuals in the cartoon represent? b. What is the cartoonist saying about Truman's power?

Explain why you think the bombings in Cambodia were kept secret.

What was an effect that World War II had on American women?

What was one lasting effect of World War II on African Americans?

In your own words, who were the so-called "Silent Majority" and why did Nixon call them that?

Before changes were made in 1969, why was the Selective Service System the subject of criticism?

How did Moreno's civil rights activism on behalf of Latinos compare with similar efforts promoting the interests of minority groups in America? What similarities or differences can you see?

Why do you think Kallen set "democracy" against "melting pot" in his title? How does he define the relationship between these ideals?

Analyze Riley's essay (W. B. Riley, “The Faith of the Fundamentalists,” ) to see how he creates a fundamentalist identity in opposition to modernism. What definition of each emerges from his discussion?

More than 600,000 immigrants passed through Ellis Island in 1912, the year residents of the Lower East Side wrote this letter to President Taft criticizing the disparaging remarks of the New York commissioner of immigration. Unlike earlier waves of immigration, increasing numbers hailed from Southern and Eastern Europe, including Jews and other groups that many Americans feared as radical and inassimilable. This anxiety led to a study published in $1911$ by the Dillingham Commission recommending immigration restriction, which would later be enacted in the early $1920$s. Here, a citizens' committee of the Lower East Side responds by affirming their identity as Americans.

Examine the role of ethnic identity in shaping both the Commission of Immigration's characterization of Lower East Side residents and their response. To what extent did their ethnicity define them in their own minds?