Compare and contrast the presidential reactions to attacks on the United States by Franklin Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor and George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. How are they similar and different in their messages?
Week 4
The Third Wave
Word count min 150
This experiment took place at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California, during the first week of April 1967. Jones, finding himself unable to explain to his students how the German population could have claimed ignorance of the Holocaust, decided to demonstrate it to them instead. Jones started a movement called “The Third Wave” and told his students that the movement aimed to eliminate democracy. The idea that democracy emphasizes individuality was considered as a drawback of democracy, and Jones emphasized this main point of the movement in its motto: “Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action, strength through pride.”
The experiment was not well documented at the time. Of contemporary sources, the experiment is only mentioned in the Cubberley High School student newspaper, The Cubberley Catamount. It is only briefly mentioned in two issues, and one more issue of the paper has a longer article about this experiment at its conclusion. Jones himself wrote a detailed account of the experiment years afterwards and more articles about the experiment followed, including some interviews with Jones and the original students.
Read the attached document and answer the following questions:
What were some of the things that Mr. Jones did to get his students to fall in line?
Why was it so easy for everyone to follow Mr. Jones?
Why did it work? Could this type of thing happen today?
Pearl Harbor and 9/11
Word count min 150
The Infamy Speech was a speech delivered by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a Joint Session of Congress on December 8, 1941, one day after the Empire of Japan’s attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the Japanese declaration of war on the United States and the British Empire. The name derives from the first line of the speech: Roosevelt describing the previous day as “a date which will live in infamy.” Within an hour of the speech, Congress passed a formal declaration of war against Japan and officially brought the U.S. into World War II. The address is one of the most famous of all American political speeches.
A series of terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bush’s first term as president on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 victims lost their lives in the attacks. On the night of September 11, George W. Bush addressed the nation in a speech that has become very well-known.
Read the attached documents and answer the following questions (you also have the option to watch the speeches, linked here):
Compare and contrast the presidential reactions to attacks on the United States by Franklin Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor and George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. How are they similar and different in their messages? In the delivery of their messages?
Foreign Policy Between the Wars
Word count min 200
In these discussion forums, you are allowed and encouraged to use outside resources for your responses.
Should the United States sell arms to other nations?
Reply to Dieter
Word count min 100
I don’t see any problem with the act of the United States selling weaponry to other nations by itself . If these countries feel the need to buy weaponry to defend themselves against a real threat, I don’t see anything wrong with that. However, I really think that there should be more oversight into where the weaponry ends up and whose hands it is falling into. There are numerous examples of the United States sending weaponry to foreign countries and losing sight of it or leaving a whole lot of it behind like was done in Afghanistan, but more recently Ukraine. According to CNN regarding the US sending weapons to Ukraine, “Because the US military is not on the ground, the US and NATO are heavily reliant on information from Ukraine’s government”. The problem with this approach is that Ukraine is not currently in a good spot economically (majority of the news outlets using the word “giving” weapons, not “selling” weapons), so there is a potential for them to be more easily corrupted into selling these weapons to unfriendly countries at a later date. It really looks bad on the United States diplomatically when the groups who get ahold of these weapons use it for their own ends, and it’s no wonder why after all the times this has happened that many people think the US is intentionally doing this. Again, an arms deal is not bad in and of itself, as long as there is enough regulation and care taken to ensure the weapons stay in the right hands.
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