Reference no: EM133307105
Assignment:
Q1. Briefly explain the role of the Navajo language in the WWII efforts.
Q2. Please reflect on your thoughts about Clifton Truman Daniel (grandson of President Truman) and his involvement with Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb. Did you learn anything from this segment within Cogbooks? How can knowledge of past events shape our identities and values?
Q3. Describe how the U.S. government used films during both WWII and the Cold War to communicate with the public. Within Cogbooks you were provided with two examples dealing with Japanese-American Internment and avoiding nuclear fallout. Briefly discuss the purpose of both films and how well you think they met their objectives.
Q4. In your own words, summarize how different sections of the American population were impacted by WWII (either abroad or on the home front) both during and after the war's end? Please provide specific examples for THREE groups (i.e. women, soldiers, Mexican Americans, African Americans, American Indians, unionized workers, children, immigrants, etc.).
Q5. Describe TWO of President Roosevelt's objectives for demanding unconditional surrender by Germany and Japan.
Q6. During the 1930s, President Franklin Roosevelt welcomed thousands of persecuted German Jews into the United States to seek refuge.
A. True
B. False
Q7. One of the biggest challenges for women who went to work in the defense industry during WWII was a lack of adequate childcare facilities.
A. True
B. False
Q8. Watching the rise of communism in places like China, Japan found a common ideological bond with Germany and Italy-creating a military alliance of Axis powers.
A. True
B. False
Q9. The House Committee on Un-American Activities was initially established to root out Nazi sympathizers in the United States, and then redirected to search for pro-Soviet Americans within the motion picture industry and academic circles.
A. True
B. False
Q10. During WWII, unionized workers agreed to keep production going by not striking.
A. True
B. False
Q11. One of the ways that American civilians at home helped the war effort was by sending a percentage of their salaries to banks in China who helped fund American military efforts.
A. True
B. False
Q12. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a response to a city ordinance that dictated that the buses be segregated with African American passengers entering from the rear and sitting in the back.
A. True
B. False
Q13. Fearing the potential for another war, Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin attempted to avoid Nazi imposition by agreeing to divide Poland.
A. True
B. False
Q14. Capitalizing on the frustrations of Italians after they felt betrayed by the Treaty of Versailles, Benito Mussolini was able to rise to power drawing upon the main tenets of fascism.
A. True
B. False
Q15. President Truman referred to his program of economic and social reform as the "Square Deal."
A. True
B. False
Q16. The Cold War refers to the ideological and technological conflict between the United States and Soviet Union that emerged after WWII.
A. True
B. False
Q17. Adolf Hitler's pro-Communist Party (the Nazis) gained momentum during the Great Depression when he promised the German people a restoration in their rise to greatness through an alliance with the Soviet Union.
A. True
B. False