Causes of the Cold War and its Impact on American Society in the 20th Century

Assignment Instructions
Choose one of the following prompts and answer all questions as thoroughly as possible in a historical essay at least four full pages in length. Use our course texts and required readings, and please cite work in Chicago format.
Formatting:
The Essay will be at least four full pages in length, double-spaced, using 12-point font.
Please include the following information on a cover page: your name, date the essay is due, the class section, and an indication of which essay option you have chosen. Cover page is not included in the page count.
No Works Cited or Bibliography page necessary. Use Chicago footnotes and endnotes instead.
How to submit:
Upload a copy to the Final Essay folder by clicking the link in the top-right corner of this assignment instruction page.
An “A” essay will:
Be cited in Chicago format.
Answer the chosen essay prompt as fully and completely as possible, and within the time frames stipulated.
Include a main thesis, or argument, which the rest of your essay will successfully refer to and strengthen.
Use detailed and appropriate evidence from the course’s required readings.
Utilize a mix of both primary and secondary source material.
Include body paragraphs that a) support your thesis, and b) are organized using transition sentences.
Be at least four full pages in length.
**Pay attention to the dates and periods mentioned in the prompts. Neglecting these dates or the instructions will result in a lower grade. **
Please note that the "twentieth century" (or "20th century") is the same as saying "the 1900s." We are in the 21st century, or the 2000s. Children born today will likely see the 22nd century, or the 2100s.
Prompt Option 1: Describe patterns and policies of immigration between the 1920s and the 1990s. Keeping within the same time period, what were the American attitudes and responses to immigration? Discuss why the 1960s represented a turning-point in US immigration policy. How does 1990s multiculturalism compare to the "melting pot" ideas of the early 1900s?
Prompt Option 2: Describe American foreign policy since World War I. Confine your answer through the early 2000s War on Terror (and more concretely, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq). What similarities do you see between the home front experience of World War I and the War on Terror, especially in war propaganda and challenges to American freedoms? How did World War II affect American foreign policy with regards to the US’s vision of its own role in the world? Remember Henry Luce’s “American Century”—was he correct in his forecast?
Prompt Option 3: To what extent were the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1950s and 1960s a continuation of the urgent demands made by black Americans since the Reconstruction era? Why, given the success of the Civil Rights Movement, were black Americans still being discriminated against and violated as late as the 1990s?
Prompt Option 4: Describe the causes of the Cold War and its impact on American society in the 20th century.