Politics and Government Break Homework

a)Read Supremes' Greatest Hits pg 35-58

b)You must complete an analysis for 10 of the following cases, either neatly written or typed. This is for your own benefit; you will be quizzed on these cases. Your summaries don't need to be terribly long, but they should demonstrate effort and understanding.

1. WVA Board of Education v. Barnette

2. Minersville v. Gobitis

3. Lemon v Kurtzman

4. Zelman v Simmons-Harris

5. Weeks v U. S.

6. Oregon v Smith

7. Powell v Alabama

8. Gideon v Wainright

9. Miranda v Arizona

10. Mapp v Ohio

11. Furman v Georgia

12. Gregg v Georgia

13. Bowers v Hardwick
Each case analysis should:

-include facts of case
-state constitutional question
-mention any legals rules that were developed as a result of the ruling
-include discussion of majority opinion
-address dissenting opinion if available
-include a reflection and your opinion

These cases can easily be found on the internet, but you may not quote from Wikipedia. Please be prepared to be randomly called upon to present a case to class.

You might want to try these sites:

http://www.oyez.org/
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
http://lp.findlaw.com/

Democratizing Break Homework

This is a lot of work. Pace yourself. I will start checking it on Monday. It is due no later than Tuesday.

Read Zinn 427-442

For each term do the following:

a) describe in your own words

b) write a quote from the text about the term

c) relate the term one of the following questions: 1) Why did the Civil Rights Movement get underway when it did? 2) How was WWII a "war to save capitalism?" 3) How did WWII affect workers and unions? 4) What role did the U. S. play in WWII and the post WWII world?


Korea/Japan
Korean War
Berlin Airlift
Increasing Nationalism in African Nations
Joseph McCarthy/McCarthyism **(two quotes)
Liberals and the Red Scare
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
House Un-American Activities Committee
ACLU
U. S. Military Expenditures
Marshall Plan
John F Kennedy
Fidel Castro/Cuban Revolution


Read Packets (Chapter 21 & 22 - Fighting the Four Freedoms, Blacks in the Cold War Era)

a) Answer the following questions (you started these questions when I was out):

1. What do the authors suggest about the League of Nation?
2. Discuss Mussolini and the impact of his actions on African Americans.
3. Discuss Hitler and the impact of his actions on African Americans.
4. Which European nations were conquered by Hitler?
5. What % of teh army was black in 1940?
6. Discuss the role of blacks in thearmy in 1940/
7. Discuss the War Dept's attitude toward blacks in 1940. How did blacks react?
8. Identify: A. Philip Randolph
9. What gains were won by blacks in the early 1940s?
10. Why was the U. S. called an "Arsenal of Democracy"?
11. Discuss an instance of black heroism in the War.
12. What was the OPA? How did it impact the lives of blacks.
13. Discuss problems that arose as a result of changing demographics, i. e. Detroit
14. Why were some blacks resentful of Joe Louis?
15. How did the War Dept attempt to appease blacks?

**Spanish Civil War was a fight between Spanish Republicans (govt w/out a monarchy) and the Spanish Monarchists (those who wanted the king)

16. What was the purpose of the San Francisco Conference. Discuss blacks' attitudes about the San Francisco Conference. **3 quotes
17. How did blacks hope to use the U.N?
18. Discuss the gains blacks made via the Supreme Court.
19. Identify: "To Secure These Rights"
20. How did Harry Truman impact the status of blacks?
21. Provide 3 examples of evolution of black voting rights after WWII
22. Discuss NAAWP, White Citizens' Councils and interposition. How did these all impact African Americans?
23. In what ways did whites use violence to resist?
24. What is "white flight"? What caused it and how did imoact housing trends?
25. Discuss three gains blacks made regarding employment post WWII.

Democratizing Homework

Read Zinn pgs 418-428

For each term do the following:

a) describe in your own words

b) write a quote from the text about the term

c) relate the term one of the following questions: 1) Why did the Civil Rights Movement get underway when it did? 2) How was WWII a "war to save capitalism?" 3) How did WWII affect workers and unions? 4) What role did the U. S. play in WWII and the post WWII world?

1 - Socialist Workers Party
2 - Smith Act
3 - Attitudes toward Japanese
4 - Air raids/bombings
5 - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
6 - Manhattan Project
7 - New World Order/Organization of nations after war
8 - Harry Truman
9 - Truman Doctrine
10 - Greece
11 - Chiang Kai-shek
12 - National Consensus/Cold War Consensus

Democratizing

No homework this weekend

Democratizing Twentieth Century Homework

1.Read and take notes on the following link. When you are finished, create a timeline in your notebook titled "WWII: Major Events"

Your timeline should demonstrate an understanding of the reading.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ww2_summary_01.shtml



2. Identify the following terms, people or places from the reading:


-U. S. relationship with Britain, 1939
-Battle of Britain
-Ribbentrop Pact
-Winston Churchill
-Charles de Gaulle
-Operation Barbarossa
-Auschwitz
-VE Day
-War in the Pacific
-Hiroshima, Nagasaki




3. (DUE TUESDAY) Read Zinn chapter sixteen "A People's War?" pgs 405-415
Answer the following questions:
a) What was the point of the Communist party sketch about the war?
b) List numeric data regarding public participation in the war.
c) Zinn seems to suggest that there was a degree of hypocrisy in the U. S.'s opposition to Germany during the 1930s. Provide two quotes that show evidence of this. Explain.
d) Discuss the pre-WWII relationship between Japan and the United States.

Identify: Atlantic Charter, Open Door Policy





Remember:


Allies- (Major Countries) Britain, France, Soviet Union, United States


Axis- (Major Countries) Germany/Austria, Italy, Japan