Discuss the events that led up to and contributed to US involvement in Vietnam. How did US involvement in the war affect domestic programs? What was the impact of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy on the election of 1968? How were various communities affected? Describe the central philosophical assumptions behind Reaganomics. What were the key policies by which it was implemented? To what extent were these policies a break with previous economic approaches? Analyze the key structural factors underlying recent changes in American economic and cultural life?