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| − | :"Keep Cool with Coolidge." That was the campaign slogan he used. I like everything about the Coolidge administration. He made choices confidently and decisively, and good, conservative choices at that. "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." (Proverbs 17:28) | + | :"Keep Cool with Coolidge." That was the campaign slogan he used. I like everything about the Coolidge administration. He made choices confidently and decisively, and good, conservative choices at that. "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." (Proverbs 17:28) (Steven M.) |
5. What is your view of the New Deal, and what might you have done differently in response to the Great Depression? | 5. What is your view of the New Deal, and what might you have done differently in response to the Great Depression? | ||
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Lecture - Questions - Student Answers
American History Homework Eleven Model Answers
Instructor: Andy Schlafly
Read the lecture first.
1. This course is mostly over. Can you now identify a value in learning history?
2. Was the United States right to enter World War II, and should we have entered sooner or later?
3. Which of the approaches in American history towards immigration do you like best, and why?
4. Pick out something from the "Roaring Twenties" and describe what you like about it.
- "Keep Cool with Coolidge." That was the campaign slogan he used. I like everything about the Coolidge administration. He made choices confidently and decisively, and good, conservative choices at that. "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding." (Proverbs 17:28) (Steven M.)
5. What is your view of the New Deal, and what might you have done differently in response to the Great Depression?
6. Do you think we should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan? Explain.
7. Please interpret and explain the cartoon, including an estimate of its date. (It was published by a paper in New Jersey years ago.)
Honors (pick 3 out of 5)
H1. Throughout American history, has the president has been becoming more and more of a "leader" or a "follower"? In other words, is the trend towards more of a leadership position for that office, or less of one? Explain.
H2. Pick out any military aspect of World War II and discuss it.
H3. Discuss any issue, mystery or debate topic from the lecture or time period 1920-1946.
H4. Your view of the United Nations, please?
- The United Nations is yet another example of something that looks great on paper and mostly fails in practice. There are two setbacks to large, international councils like this: one, they have a tendency to limit or damage national sovereignty, and two, nations can sometimes hardly agree on their own national policies, let alone agree with other nations. It’s like taking the thirteen (somewhat disunited) states under Articles of Confederation, and putting that on an international scale. Not to mention the fact that the UN needs a huge bureaucracy to run, and bureaucracies are often self-serving and prone to selfish scandals such as the Oil for Food scandal. Also, it was recently reported that a very expensive decoration project was undertaken for a refurbished UN human rights chamber in Spain. This money could have gone somewhere much better. Perhaps the UN should go somewhere I can’t say .... (Addison DM)
H5. How would you recommend for handling the communist infiltration described in the lecture?