American History Homework Eleven Answers - Student Eighteen
Michelle F
1. This course is mostly over. Can you now identify a value in learning history? If you study history, you can learn how to identify patterns and trends. History is constantly repeating itself. you can also learn valuable ideas. Studying history also can help you learn facts to help you defend your faith. The Bible is the single most historically accurate document. If you learn from the past (hopefully) you won't make the same mistakes again.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana
2. Was the United States right to enter World War II, and should we have entered sooner or later? The united States was right in entering WWII. But i think that the at which the U.S. entered was the right time. If we had entered any earlier, the American people would not have been as supportive of it. Then, they didn't know the enormity of the crimes of the Third Reich. Americans saw no reason to involve themselves in another nations problems. They had enough of their own. I think, however, if America had not entered WWII, the outcome would have been far worse. Europe could not have stood against Hitler and his army. Even Britain was faring poorly. The U.S. was, quite possibly, Europe's only hope.
3. Which of the approaches in American history towards immigration do you like best, and why? I like the colonist's approach. They viewed America as a place to come to escape their own country, a place of freedom. However, at that time, there were no immigrants from anywhere other than Europe. And of those, they were mostly from the British Isles. But i think that approach was best, because, in theory, anyone who wanted to come could. I think that America should be a safe haven for all who follow the proper legal guidelines in coming here.
4. Pick out something from the "Roaring Twenties" and describe what you like about it. I like the relative uninvolvement of the government in the economy. Whenever the government is involved int he economy, things go badly. In the Roaring Twenties, the government cut taxes and limited aid to farmers.
5. What is your view of the New Deal, and what might you have done differently in response to the Great Depression? I think the government should not have been as involved and should have just let the depression just run it's course, instead of trying to manage the economy.
6. Do you think we should have dropped the atomic bombs on Japan? Explain. I think we were right to drop the bombs on Japan. It was the quickest way to end the war, as the Japanese were prepared to fight to their last man. Some American commanders expected Americans casualties to be in the millions if the war continued, which it undoubtably would have. It was not the mast damaging weapon used in the war: fire bombing was far more damaging. America had already used fire bombing in Japan. Actually, one of the reasons Hiroshima was chose to be bombed was because it was a large city that had not been fire bombed yet. ( I think it is called fire bombing, but I am not certain of the proper military name)
7. Please interpret and explain the cartoon, including an estimate of its date. (It was published by a paper in New Jersey years ago.)