{"id":561,"date":"2014-11-03T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T15:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/?p=561"},"modified":"2014-12-15T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:25:36","slug":"document-workshop-mon-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/us2\/2014\/11\/document-workshop-mon-112\/","title":{"rendered":"Document Workshop, Mon 11\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assignment for Today:  Your group will address one of these questions below, using documents from your assigned part of our textbook. By midnight tonight a representative from each group should leave a comment on the course website, responding to your assigned question USING primary source EVIDENCE.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For class viewing (from 1951):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/DuckandC1951\" width=\"625\" height=\"470\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 1:<\/strong> Using the evidence in Documents 23.1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 23.5, which of these is the more persuasive statement and why?<br \/>\nWorld War II transformed racial and gender relations in the US.<br \/>\nWorld War II reinforced traditional racial and gender relations in the US. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 2<\/strong>: How should the end of the war be remembered? Whose point of view needs to be acknowledged, respected and included? Try writing a brief account of the end of the war that follows your own advice. Use Documents 23.6 &#8211; 11<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 3 (laptop based):<\/strong>  What physical resources, and what moral reasoning, did official American messages employ to build support for the conflict? How did war promotional materials construct World War II as a just, or even a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d war? What kinds of commitments were being asked of the American people? Use any of these media documents:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signalalpha.com\/WW2_Home_Front.html\">WW2 Radio and Film Propaganda Examples<\/a> (requires Windows Media Player)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=creator%3A%22U.S.%20Office%20of%20War%20Information%2C%20Bureau%20of%20Motion%20Pictures%22%20AND%20%28creator%3A%22U.S.%20Office%20of%20War%20Information%22%20AND%20%28creator%3A%22U.S.%20Office%20of%20War%20Information%22%29%29\">Internet Archive: Films Made by the Office of War Information<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=World%20War%20II%3A%20Homefront%20AND%20mediatype%3Aaudio\">Internet Archive: Audio recordings w\/ keyword &#8220;World War II: Homefront&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/its_everybodys_war\">&#8220;It&#8217;s Everybody&#8217;s War&#8221;<\/a> (20th Century Fox)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/victory\/index.htm#Contents\">Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 4:<\/strong> After 1945, the new postwar context included both the reality of atomic weapons, and a deep ideological standoff between \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the West\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the USSR. 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