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questions 1

Who were the major national college student organizations before World War II in the 1930’s? Who were their student leaders who went on to later prominence? Which First Lady was mentor to three generations of national student leaders?   Answer

questions 2

What 1946 conference in Europe inspired formation of the U.S. National Student Association (NSA)? Who were the students on the official U.S. delegation? How did they get more than 300 colleges to send delegates to Chicago 120 days later? Who were the future union leader and state university system chancellor among them?   Answer

questions 3

What major universities had no student governments in 1946? Why was formation of the U.S. National Student Association (NSA) considered a transformative event? How was the groundwork laid in the late 1940s for the civil rights movement? What was the effect on early NSA of the Red Scare-McCarthy era? One NSA leader later became a special assistant to President Johnson, and another helped to topple him. Who were they?   Answer

questions 4

Which 1948 event drew U.S. students into their own Cold War? What was the most widely supported foreign aid appeal on U.S. campuses? Why did President Truman provide a ship in 1950 for 800 U.S. student tourists? What technical assistance program preceded the Peace Corps by ten years? Which early NSA Cold War observor served as provost or president of three colleges?   Answer

questions 5

How many WWII veterans went to college on the GI Bill? How did they transform U.S higher education? Why did the Catholic Church launch "Operation University" in 1946? Why did the Student Christian Movement support NSA? Though it lasted only ten years, what was the largest U.S. post-war political student organization? When did the conservative student movement emerge? Which Catholic student leader became NSA's first African American president in 1948?   Answer

questions 6

What was the impact on students of West Coast Japanese-American relocation after Pearl Harbor? What role did Chicano veteran students play in New Mexico? Why did so many Catholic women's colleges join NSA? What was the first national purchase discount system operated by students that lasted for almost twenty years? Which three states of the 48 had no NSA representation during its first 5 years? Which 1948 women's college NSA leader helped blaze a trail for women in professional careers?   Answer