American Civil Rights

essay should be in your words, not someone else’s.
A. America as A World Power: America's role in the world and the nature of its foreign policy changed drastically throughout the twentieth century. For most of the 1900s the U.S. remained isolated from world affairs but at the beginning of the 20th century. Please describe the keys reasons for and goals of this transformation.
Events/topics:

1. Impulse to imperialism in 1880s and forward
2. Spanish American War
3. World War I
4. World War II
5. The Cold War as the core of American foreign policy including Truman Doctrine, containment, expansion of federal government and nuclear proliferation
6. Korean and Vietnamese Wars
7. America’s current role as a world leader
   B. The Role of Government in the Lives of Americans: In the late 1800s state and federal government played a limited role in the daily lives of Americans, especially those Americans at the bottom of the social ladder. Please describe the transformation of the role of the federal government and the debates that have accompanied those changes
   Events/topics:
8. Late 1800s industrialization and urbanization
9. The Populist and Progressive Movements
10. The Great Depression and the 2 New Deals
11. Impact of World War II on American society
12. The Cold War’s impact on life in America (anti-communism, threat of nuclear war, civil rights)
13. Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty
14. The debate over welfare
15. The political battle over the size of the federal government (Republican and Democratic positions and ideas)
    C. American Civil Rights: Despite the foundation of America on the concept of equality, our history has been filled with ongoing battles over what equality and civil rights truly mean. Please trace the ongoing battles for equality among at least three (3) groups in American history.