The teacher is asking two part for the essay. Please answer both parts . Part1: The events at the 1968 Democratic national Convention in Chicago suggested to many that the nation was disintegrating. But, as the authors of the textbook have noted, the tensions that seemed so palpable that summer had been long in developing and had “revealed deep cracks” in the postwar liberal consensus. How real was the postwar consensus?
What caused such a seismic breakdown in social harmony? In other words, why did the optimism and idealism that had characterized the 1950s and early 1960s give way to disillusionment and polarization? Part 2: What geopolitical forces drew the United States into World War II? Was it different from the issues that drove us into World War I? How did the American attitude toward the world change because of the war?