21H.102: The Emergence of Modern America
Study questions for the week of December 5

Readings:
Chapter 31 of American People; Ted Turner biography in Nash and Graves, From These Beginnings

Questions:

1. What kind of a student was Ted Turner? What kind of a sailboat racer? What kind of a businessman?

2. What was so innovative about CNN? How did it affect the American television audience?

3. How was TBS related to Turner's role as an environmentalist?

4. What were the Goodwill Games? Why were they significant?

5. What role did CNN play in the Persian Gulf War?

6. What role did the news media play in partisan politics of the 1990s?

7. How did Bill Clinton's vision of government change from his first term to his second?

8. What was U.S. foreign policy like after the Cold War ended?