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Compare the goals of Germany and Japan in the 1930s.

Since 1877, the social and/or political development of the United States has been shaped by what factors?

Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec.  These are the names of Nazi killing centers – not concentration camps – in the Holocaust.

Counterculture society emphasized drug use, long hair, freedom of expression, and sexuality.

The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s – what did they do as much of the world came under totalitarian dictatorships?

Violence has been a factor in shaping United States history since 1877.  Discuss.

Counterculture, the culture of the hippies, was most active between about 1967-70.  It was marked by drug use and by an overall desire to separate its members from mainstream society. 

In the 1930s, the United States began to isolate itself from the world.  Other nations, though, were coming under murderous, vicious regimes in that same period.  What two nations in particular came under military regimes and why?  What happened to them?

When one says the Nazi Party rose to power in Germany, what does this mean?  What did the Nazi Party believe and wish to accomplish?  

Why did the American Neutrality Act of 1937 pretty much green-light bad behavior on the part of Germany and Japan?