All the topics have international connections. 1. How tensions with France and Britain in the 1790s stimulated the creation and clash of political parties in early U.S. history. 2. How both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill struggled to prepare their countries for resistance to Hitler’s aggression. 3. The rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy: How the American people experienced Cold War hysteria and eventually recovered from it. 4. Yitzhak Rabin and Israel’s Wars: How a Hawk Turned into a Dove.
