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Introduction -- Unit 1: American High: 1945-1962 -- Issue 1: Was it Necessary to Drop the Atomic Bomb to End World War II? -- Issues 2: Was President Truman Responsible for the Cold War? -- Issues 3: Did Communism Threaten America's Internal Security after World War II? -- Issues 4: Should President Truman Have Fired General MacArthur? -- Issues 5: Was Rock and Roll Responsible for Dismantling America's Traditional Family, Sexual, and Racial Customs in the 1950s and 1960s? -- Issue 6: Was President Kennedy Responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis? -- Unit 2: From Liberation Through Watergate: 1963-1974 -- Issue 7: Did Lee Harvey Oswald Kill President Kennedy by Himself? -- Issues 8: Was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Leadership Essential to the Success of the Civil Rights Revolution? -- Issue 9: Did the Great Society Fail? -- Issue 10: Was the Americanization of the War in Vietnam Inevitable? -- Issue 11: Has the Women's Movement of the 1970s Failed to Liberate American Women? -- Issue 12: Was Richard Nixon America's Last Liberal President? -- Unit 3: Postindustrial America and the End of the Cold War: 1974-2007 -- Issue 14: Were the 1980s a Decade of Affluence for the Middle Class? -- Issue 15: Is George W. Bush the Worst President in American History? -- Issue 16: Should America Remain a Nation of Immigrations? -- Issue 17: Is the Environmental Crisis "An Inconvenient Truth"?