Read for March 21
Questions
for reading: Be able to list the 3 most
significant developments that you think came as a result of World War II. Do
you think freedom was narrowed or limited during the War? Why or why not? Can
you connect the four freedoms and the economic bill of rights to the
connections for the 1930s. If you were to continue one
of your characters chosen for the first paper, what might have happened to them
during the war? What would their perspectives on what happened have been, do
you think?
Read for March 23
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Give Me
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Voices of Freedom 158-170
Questions for reading: What were the major intellectual debates about how
freedom might be defined in the postwar world? Be able to distinguish between the
views not only from the textbook reading but from the readings in Voices of
Freedom, isolating quotations that you think distinguishes the views. How did
the war affect the freedoms and liberties of blacks, Indians,
Japanese-Americans and Mexican-Americans?
Why does Robert Jackson dissent in the (p. 879 Give Me Liberty) from the
Supreme Court Ruling that upheld the internment policy that the
Recommended:
Stories that suggest major American Industrialists Had Ties
to and profited from Nazis/Fascist enemies During the War (Ford, GM, GE,
IBM, Standard Oil, Kodak)
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Ford
and the Fuhrer New Documents Reveal the Close Ties Between Dearborn and the
Nazi
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GE’s ties
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Washington
Post Story of GM and Ford Nazi Ties
“GM was an integral part of the German war effort.
The Nazis could have invaded
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IBM: and
that’s how the trains ran on time
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Orville
Quick Remembers Pearl Harbor
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Perspectives
on War and Consumerism—What is the author arguing
about the difference between previous wars and 9/11?
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A Day
that Will Live in Infamy-FDR’s declaration of War
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Homefront
Advertising—selling life after the war
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Read
an Issue of Yank—army weekly paper for the troops
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Marine
Describes the Battle of Guam
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"Hello,
You Fighting Orphans": "Tokyo Rose" Woos U.S. Sailors and
Marines
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A
Japanese Soldier Describes the Horrors of Guadalcanal
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"How
to tell a Chinese from a 'Jap.'" (photo/explanation)
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Depicting
the enemy. (photo)
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To
buy is patriotic (photo)
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"True
towel tales . . . as told to us by a soldier." (ad
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True towel
tales . . . as told to us by a soldier.”
· "An American soldier of the Antitank Co., 34th Regiment who was killed by mortar fire."
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"[T]ests have shown . . . that our three average men are
equal."
"Identify them by their
garb."
Believe it or not
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Powers
of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
National Archives and Records Administration.\
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World
War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art
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Pictures
of African Americans During World War II
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A
People at War [World War II]
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A
World War II Navy Nurse Fights Sexism in the Military
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War
Labor Board on Equal Pay for Equal Work for women
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After
work. (ship yards photo)
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“Continued
Employment after the War?”: The Women’s Bureau Studies Postwar Plans of Women
Workers
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What Did You Do
In The War Grandma? An Oral History of Rhode Island Women During World War II
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“Belles
of the Ball Game”: Women’s Professional Baseball League Thrives in the 1940s
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The
Michigan CIO debates the No-Strike Pledge
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Roll Hitler
Out and Roll the Union In: The No-Strike Pledge
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Women and War: An
Exhibit of Photographs from the Schlesinger Library
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War Labor
Board on Equal Pay for Black Workers
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Mexican
youth and the context of the Zoot Suit riots
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“We’re
looking for suits to burn”-Zoot Suit account
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Gis fight poll tax for Mexican-Americans in Texas
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U.S. Latinos and Latinas
in WWII America Oral History project –follow links to one or two stories
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Fighters on the FarmFront: Oregon’s Emergency Farm Labor Service,
1943-1947; Farm laborers included urban youth and women, soldiers, white collar
professionals, displaced Japanese- Americans, returning war veterans, workers
from other states, migrant workers from Mexico and Jamaica, and even German
prisoners-of-war.
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Student Voices from
World War II and the McCarthy Era –oral histories of a farm labor project
are the main material from WWII ---(not
to be used for extra reading)
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Gonna Miss President Roosevelt – Blues song lamenting
FDR’s death
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Labor
and the Holocaust: The Jewish Labor Committee and the Anti-Nazi Struggle
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Oakland
General Strike of 1946 Exhibit
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GM
Rejects Reuther’s Call to “Open the Books”: The
Post-WWII Strike Wave
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Truman
Speaks on the 1946 Railroad Strike—using Government power to Tame Labor
Japanese Internment:
The Decision to Drop the Bomb:
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“Why
We had to Drop the Atomic Bomb” ==standard explanation for dropping the
bomb, but I would argue that this is deeply flawed argument given evidence in
document following
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Hiroshima:
Historians Reassess – most historians question the standard explanation,
because of the evidence that has come forward to challenge that standard
interpretation. This article reassesses: The key challenge is to see that the
Japanese were ready to surrender, and that the bomb was intended as a message
to the
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My
outline of atomic diplomacy as a reason U.S. dropped the bomb – one page
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Ugly History Hides in
Plain site
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Bomb
As a Technology of Death this takes some time to
get through, so prepare to make an intense reading. I expect you to make a
serious effort to understand the argument, though it WILL take time and an
effort on your part. If we have a reading response, I will require everyone to
mention a key argument and point of evidence from this reading. For more on the
bomb, see list of readings at bottom of page
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One other document from the list below, one
relevant to your paper or interest – exclude photos please
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Highly useful for background, clarification: some of these
links are not working.
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Who’s Who
and What’d they do? - a list and
more background on the figures mentioned in the articles
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Chronology of Decision to
Use Bomb –very detailed
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Critical Review of Gar Alperowitz’s book (just read that part of the review,
you can skip the rest)
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1995
Article in Houston Chronicle (pro-bomb)
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Silencing
History: Censoring The Exhibit on the Enola Gay
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Hiroshima:
Was it necessary? By Doug Long—esp. good on the issue of Hirohito and unconditional surrender
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Did
the Bomb Prolong the War?
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Forgetting
the Bomb; The Assault on History by Historian Martin Sherwin—on suppression
of information after the war
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International
Law - Bombing of Civilians - At the beginning of World War II, the bombing
of civilians was regarded as a barbaric act. As the war continued, however, all
sides abandoned previous restraints. But international law has always
distinguished between civilians and combatants. Legal context to the decision,
from a variety of international treaties and the
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Hiroshima: who disagreed with the atomic bombing?
Including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Albert Einstein, etc (some of these people were
censored in the bomb exhibit at NASA)
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Documents
on the use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Documents
relevant to the dropping of the Atomic Bomb—100s of documents, many of them
those that the historians you’ve read relied on for interpretation
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Hiroshima
Archive –see link for “Hiroshima Directory” at the opening page for more;
photos, memories, documents, extensive
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Excerpt from Hiroshima’s
shadow (about the active attempt to censor discussion about the bomb)
·
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Documents
from the Truman Library
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Hiroshima
Archives from Japan
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Universal
Declaration of Human Rights --
remarkable agreement that sought to make human rights to font of post-war
society, still the working document of the U.N.
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20
mishaps that might have sparked a nuclear war
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Scientists who
were involved in the nuclear control movement
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Why Did we have to Win it Twice? – a nuclear physicist
remembers
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The
A-Bomb Won’t Do What You think --
disputing the notion that the bomb won the war
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I’m
Not Afraid of the A-Bomb --
government attempts to dispel fears
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Korea:
from Truman to Eisenhower administration, documents, etc
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Hidden History of the
Cuban Missile Crisis