American History Homework Eleven Answers - Student Two

StevenM.

1. History is valuable for learning how the world works. Certain people want some things, others want the opposite things, the conflicts and compromises that occur are very interesting. Government is a great tool but nobody really knows how to use it correctly. The individual facts are helpful, but the general lessons are critical in transactions with other people. There's not really a subject in school: "How to live with your fellow Man", but an insightful student of history may pick up on some of those aspects.

2. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour makes it, to say the least, very difficult to argue that we should not have enter World War II, whether or not any Americans knew of the attack beforehand. Going to war sooner, would obviously have been better for the allies, but it would also have angered most Americans. What

Pick out something from the "Roaring Twenties" and describe what you like about it.

5. What is your view of the New Deal, and what might you have done differently in response to the Great Depression?

6. Yes we definitely should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. While some sorces believe that Japan was going to surrender anyway, whether or not we had bombed them, I don't think they would have. We see in Okinawa the Japanese never backed down and

7. Please interpret and explain the cartoon, including an estimate of its date. (It was published by a paper in New Jersey years ago.)