Grace

=**Semester 2**= 02.04.09

Q: How did World War II affected women?

A: Similar to World War I, many women began to play major roles in society as the United States entered the war. Many Americans were drafted to World War II to fight for the country. As a result, the opportunities for women in working places increased. As the war lasted longer, women worked in factories and helped out the soldiers by volunteering nursing works in the battlefield. Women were able to show their equal abilities as men could have in working places. As more women participated in society, their political power became stronger.

Picture Analysis (Norman Rockwell)
Norman Rockwell uses a liberty girl to honor all the efforts that women made during wartime. In the picture, the girl is caring many things on her back. These tools are mostly related to manufacture and agricultural economy. Women were involved in nursing, farming, cleaning, writing, or others. The image of the liberty girl shows how much women were actually involved in the society to fill up the empty places for the draftees. The readers can infer that during World War II, many women had more opportunities to perform their skills in many fields. Moreover women were more liberalized than they were in previous years.

(Propaganda WWII)

Women were portrayed in either negative or positive ways. In a negative way, women were mostly portrayed as the main victims of the war. In a positive way, they encouraged many people to support the war by joining the army. Women were viewed angelically to Americans. The enemies were, however, portrayed as monsters or brutal men. There were corpses and blood around them and their surroundings arose the anger and hatred in Americans. Moreover most of the enemies were mocked.

The American women are portrayed feminine, but they are willing to join the navy if they were men. These two images are positive and make American women look like saints. Moreover the posters are encouraging women to volunteer in army.

(Miss U.S.A.) She is a secretary and encourages women to step up and volunteer in army.

(Oh place do! Daddy) The poster encourages people to buy war bonds to raise money.

(God Save the king) The poster is encouraging people to join the army and fight for their countries.

These posters during wartime encouraged many people to join the army or buy the war bonds to raise money for the battle.

02.11.09

(Picture Analysis)
After the bombing event in Pearl Harbor, Japanese began to buy dynamites in California. They were waiting for the signal from Japan to give a second attack in the United States. This picture shows that Japanese were ready to be part of the war unlike the United States. The guy on top of the roof is a symbol of spies from Japan, who lives in the west coast of the United States.

(Executive Order 9066 to Prescribe Military Areas: 1942)
1. What is the restriction on movement, cite evidence. 2. What is to be provided to those who are relocated? 3. What is the stated reason? 4. Answer questions 1 and 2 from the handout.


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(Homework, 03.09.09) Before the Gary Powers incident, the Soviet Union and the United States had a chance to alleviate the tension that they had. However when Khrushchev, the premier in the Soviet Union, found out that one of the American spies had been shot down in the Soviet, he refused to proceed with the summit, which he promised with Nixon when he visited the United States. Eisenhower promised that the U-2 flights, the one that Gary Power was riding it on, would stop. However he didn't apologize to the Soviet Union. As a result, Khrushchev refused to meet with Eisenhower again. Fortunately, this event caused the brief thaw in the Cold War to come to an abrupt end.

(CIA intervention and the Suez Crisis) The backgrounds: -The Suez Crisis The Suez canal was becoming part of Egypt and the president of Egypt declared that other nations couldn't use the Suez canal, especially Israel. As soon as the president of Egypt declared the new proposal, France and Israel immediately reacted. They tried to use the military forces to find the Suez Canal back. Then the United States stepped in to stop the war. -Guatemala and Iran The United States used CIA and its small military forces to control the government in Iran and Guatemala.

When Eisenhower intervened the foreign problem in Iran, he actually used CIA to call a military coup against the Iranian leader. Even though the plan succeeded, some of Iranians were only provoked to have anti-American feelings. The same thing happened to Guatemala. However when Eisenhower handled the Suez crisis, he used the diplomatic skills to resolve the problem. He tried to stop the growing tension that was going on between Egypt and other countries. The Suez crisis didn't violate the values that the United States emphasized. However the CIA intervention in Iran was different. The United States actaully caused a military coup in other country to find a new democratic president in Iran. Even though the United States was only trying to protect democracy, the violated the freedom of nations in their own governments. Therefore I think the Suez crisis was the better incident that the US dealt with because they didn't violate any values when they were helping other nations in Egypt. The motivations for each case were basically to protect democracy and to keep the Soviet Union away from the other nations. The US removed the ex- Iranian president because he was a communist. Moreover when the Soviet Union tried to enter Egypt, the US actually tried to stop them from leaving communist's influences.

Research Question How did the relationship between the United States and Japan change after World War II? (I'm trying to focus on the Japanese Americans in the United States after the atomic bomb)

Q. Is it ever justifiable to treat people differently based on race, religion, gender, handicap,etc.?

A: I think it can be justifiable when it comes to certain situations where people have to separate others whether they want to or not. For example, handicaps generally shouldn't be treated differently because they also have same rights as normal people. However when handicaps have to compete or work with other people, they don't have any choices but to separate themselves to benefit the group. I think it's all similar to other factors, except race and religion. Race is something that people can't choose when they get born. Moreover the religion is something that people have their own freedom to choose. Therefore if people get treated differently by others because they don't have the same religion, it's biased.

(Journal Entry_ April 2nd, 2009) Q: What were the risks and resistance Black activists faced in working to get the vote. Is it worth it? What would you do in this situation? The Black activists had to face the danger during the demonstration. As it is shown in the picture, many activists got hurt and got beat up by the police and many whites, who were against the protest. Unlike the whites had, African Americans didn't have much protection from the society and this was extremely dangerous, especially during the protests. Moreover their relatives ignored them because they were afraid of getting lynched by the white people. Not only the indifference of the relatives, but the black activists were in danger of losing jobs in Mississippi and not having them forever. The Black activists also literally got harassed by the white people and they had to face a sever criticism. It wasn't only the physical harassment that they had to face. Black activists were violated with their freedom of speech, which was the First Amendment. The pictures show that many Black activists got hurt by the police because the police took the dogs to attack the African Americans who were in the protest. Moreover the firefighters used the water hose to stop the Black activists from rushing into the city. However even though many black activists got beat up, I think the protest was worth it because it gave an awareness to the society of their desires in equal rights. If I were one of the black activists, I would also do the exactly the same thing as the black activists did such as going to the Deep South and raise my voice for the freedom.

April 8th, 2009

(Tonkin Gulf Resolution)

A1. The escalation is to practice the real democracy and gives a freedom to choose their own governments. A2. The United States will try to help protect the freedom of the neighbor countries, which are trying to protect their nations from falling into communism. A3. The Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression. A4. This resolution shall expire when the President shall determine that the peace and security of the area is reasonably assured by international conditions created by action of the United Nations or otherwise, except that it may be terminated earlier by concurrent resolution of the Congress.

(Notes on the movie) The US military forces are dropping bombs to the Vietcong and destroying the entire village.

April, 9th, 2009

(The Rooster) 1. What do you think this song is about? The song is about the Vietnam War and it talks about the main victims of the war. 2. Who is the Rooster? The Rooster indicates the American soldiers because the national bird of the United States is a bald eagle. 3. Who are they? “They” are the Vietcongs. 4. What is the artist discussing in VERSE 2? The soldiers are dying and the artist is losing hope in life. He is hoping on God to save him from this disaster.

(Ronald Reagan)

1. economic policies - lowering taxes - reducing the size of the government - raise expanding - "Government is not the solution of the problem. Government is the problem" - cutting social programs - increasing military expanding - trickle- down theory: cut tax to stimulate growth (more consumption) - boom in the 80s and huge deficits in the 90s

2. popularity and appeal - He won 44 states over 50 states and had a great popularity. - he is the oldest president that had been elected. - he was not the brightest person but he was a terrific leader. - He knew how to strike to the point.

3. Cold war policies - communism is the problem - move the soviet union along the rope - one of the bizarre presidents - he wanted to put missiles in space - the Soviet took SDI seriously - put an exclamation when he visited the divided city of Berlin. - got a credit for collapsing the Berlin wall

05/06/09 (What value and view of government are expressed in this excerpt from Nixon's Memoirs?) Nixon doesn't think government is the problem. Instead he criticizes the government and states that government is the problem. Moreover he believes that Kennedy and Johnson didn't do well with their methods because their methods were too costly. 05/27/09 (Two America) What conclusions can you draw about Republicans and Democrats? Give a one paragraph summary for each. Republicans are mostly against the gay marriage, abortion, or other social issues that might cause disturbance in society. Moreover instead of favoring government over the intellects, the Republicans believe that intellects are more important than the government. On the other hands, the Democrats focuses on the government, and supports the citizens' rights. Moreover Democratic party emphasizes a general agreement with the principles, values, and platform of the party. However, Republicans mostly focus on the money spending or fiscal conservatism. Republicans support a non-costly way instead of a way that requires a lot of money such as oil-drilling. Moreover they support the fact that the United States should change the economic policy in order to enhance the US economy. Democrats, on the other hands, don't support guns, wars, or other social issues that might cause troubles.

Describe one thing about these interviews that surprised you. Dave criticizes the Republicans although he is a republican. He said that he feels sorry because the Republicans failed to use fiscal conservatism efficiently. To me, it sounds like Dave has a similar opinion to Peter's because both of them mock at the Republicans for failing to improve the United States.

How does each interviewee fit and Not fit into the typical party member? I think Peter W. fits the Democratic party because he criticizes the Republicans by stating that they didn't improve the US economy or others. However, Dave doesn't seem to sound like typical Republican party members because he criticizes the Republicans for failing to use fiscal conservatism. Moreover he sounds like he wants a similar thing as what Peter wants.