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U.S. History II - HIST 121

Covers Reconstruction, industrialization, progressivism, world wars, the Great Depression, civil rights, the Cold War, and contemporary America.

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12 Contemporary America

Explore how political debate, economic and technological change, social movements, and global events have shaped the United States since the end of the Cold War.
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08 The Early Cold War

Trace the origins and major conflicts of the early Cold War, and examine how nuclear rivalry, postwar prosperity, and anticommunism shaped life in the United States.
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09 The Civil Rights Movement

Trace how Black-led organizing, protest, court challenges, and federal action advanced civil rights after World War II—and why legal victories did not end inequality.
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04 World War I and Its Aftermath

Trace why the United States entered World War I, how wartime mobilization changed American life, and why the country rejected the postwar peace settlement.
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02 Industrialization and the Gilded Age

Trace how western settlement, railroads, industrial growth, immigration, and urbanization reshaped the United States from the 1870s through the 1890s—and how their benefits and costs were contested.
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10 Conflict and Social Change

Trace how war, social movements, political crises, and economic uncertainty reshaped American public life during the 1960s and 1970s.
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11 The United States Since the Cold War

Trace the United States from the conservative politics and economic changes of the 1980s through the Cold War’s end, globalization, civil-rights developments, terrorism, war, and the Great Recession.
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06 The New Deal

Trace how the New Deal responded to the Great Depression through emergency action, relief, economic recovery, and reform, and examine its social effects, limitations, and lasting changes to federal responsibility.
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03 Progressivism and American Expansion

Explore Progressive reforms to government, urban life, labor, and political participation alongside the expansion of U.S. influence overseas.
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07 World War II and the Home Front

Trace how World War II brought the United States into a global conflict, transformed life at home, exposed injustices, and established a new American role in the postwar world.
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05 The 1920s and the Great Depression

Trace how consumer growth and cultural change in the 1920s coexisted with inequality and financial risk, then follow the crash and banking crises into the Great Depression.
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01 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath

Trace Reconstruction’s efforts to redefine freedom and citizenship after the Civil War, the retreat of federal protection, and the rise of Jim Crow.
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11 The United States Since the Cold War

A medium-difficulty quiz on political, economic, technological, and international changes in the United States from the 1980s through the early 2010s.
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07 World War II and the Home Front

A medium-difficulty quiz on how World War II reshaped U.S. foreign policy, the home front, civil liberties, and America’s role in the world.
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12 Contemporary America

A medium-difficulty quiz on political, social, economic, and international change in contemporary America.
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06 The New Deal

A medium-difficulty quiz on the New Deal’s programs, goals, social effects, and limits.
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05 The 1920s and the Great Depression

A medium-difficulty quiz on the social changes, economic risks, and events that shaped the 1920s and the beginning of the Great Depression.
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04 World War I and Its Aftermath

A quiz on U.S. involvement in World War I, wartime mobilization and dissent, and the postwar peace settlement.
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09 The Civil Rights Movement

A medium-difficulty quiz on the strategies, federal actions, landmark laws, and continuing challenges of the postwar Civil Rights Movement.
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10 Conflict and Social Change

A quiz on the Vietnam War, social movements, political upheaval, and economic change in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s.
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01 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath

A medium-difficulty quiz on Reconstruction, the changes it brought, and the forces that limited its lasting effects.
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08 The Early Cold War

A medium-difficulty quiz on the origins and policies of the early Cold War, the Korean War, nuclear tensions, postwar prosperity, and domestic political conflict.
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03 Progressivism and American Expansion

A medium-difficulty quiz on Progressive reform, changes in government, and U.S. expansion overseas.
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02 Industrialization and the Gilded Age

A medium-difficulty quiz on how industrialization, westward expansion, labor conflict, immigration, and urbanization reshaped the United States during the Gilded Age.
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06 The New Deal

Review the New Deal’s response to the Great Depression, its major programs and reforms, and its achievements and limits.
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10 Conflict and Social Change

Review how war, social movements, political crises, and economic change reshaped American public life during the 1960s and 1970s.
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01 Reconstruction and Its Aftermath

Review Reconstruction’s constitutional changes, political struggles, retreat, and the rise of Jim Crow.
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11 The United States Since the Cold War

Review major political, economic, social, and foreign-policy changes in the United States from the 1980s through the early 2010s.
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03 Progressivism and American Expansion

Review Progressive Era reforms, their effects on government and society, and the expansion of U.S. influence overseas.
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12 Contemporary America

Review how political, economic, social, technological, and international changes have shaped the United States since the Cold War.
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09 The Civil Rights Movement

Review key campaigns, federal actions, landmark laws, and continuing challenges of the postwar U.S. civil rights movement.
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04 World War I and Its Aftermath

Review the United States’ entry into World War I, wartime mobilization and dissent, and the postwar peace settlement.
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05 The 1920s and the Great Depression

Review the consumer boom and social conflicts of the 1920s, and the economic risks and financial crises that ushered in the Great Depression.
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07 World War II and the Home Front

Review how World War II drew the United States into the conflict, reshaped life at home, and established a new postwar global role.
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08 The Early Cold War

Review the origins and policies of the early Cold War, the Korean War and nuclear tensions, and the effects of postwar change on American society and politics.
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02 Industrialization and the Gilded Age

Review how railroads, industrial growth, immigration, and urbanization reshaped the United States during the Gilded Age, including the conflicts and inequalities that accompanied this change.
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