STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 31 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.
THE END OF THE COLD WAR
  • How did U.S. foreign policy change after the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union?

  • How did U.S. economic policy change after 1992?

DOMESTIC REFORM
  • How did domestic reforms of the Clinton administration affect lower-income people in the United States?

  • Why have the reforms of the Obama administration created intense disagreement among lawmakers and U.S. citizens?

THE POST-9/11 WORLD
  • How were international relations between the United States and other nations affected by the events of September 11, 2001?

  • How did 9/11 affect Americans in the decade that followed?

LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD
  • Compare and contrast the place of the United States in the world in 1900 and in 2016.

  • Defend or refute the following statement: In fifty years’ time, the United States will still be the most powerful nation in the world.