Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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

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