HISTO 102 Japan Bombing Nuclear Weapons Discussion

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Primary Source Selections and Topics (the readings are available in the links below) Pick 1 of the 3 options below and write a 1000 to 1100 page paper that answers the questions listed. Please include explanations and not just facts. Cite everything and use details if possible but also explanations.

PICK 1 OF THE 3 OPTIONS BELOW:

1. READ:

Robert Taft, “The New Problems of Government” at:
blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13973982_1/xid-13973982_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Robert A. Taft.pdf
Huey Long, “Sharing Our Wealth,” at:
blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13973981_1/xid-13973981_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Huey Long.pdf

Franklin Roosevelt, “What the New Deal Has Done for Business,” at:
blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13973980_1/xid-13973980_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Franklin D. Roosevelt.pdf

David M. Kennedy, “Chapter 6: The Ordeal of the American People,” from Freedom from Fear: the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Read to footnote #21 on page 170: blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13871038_1/xid-13871038_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>David M. Kennedy.pdf
Using the sources above as well as readings from your textbook, compose an essay in which you consider the following questions:

  • Through what policies and programs did Franklin Roosevelt and the New Dealers seek to help the US economy recover from the Great Depression? What features of a welfare state were created?
  • Why did the New Deal face criticism from both ends of the political spectrum? Discuss in particular the critiques of Taft and Long.
  • Why did Harry Hopkins send Lorena Hickok to see and hear the people affected by the Great Depression? What did she “discover” regarding the history of poverty in the United States?
  • What were some specific achievements and failures of the New Deal? In your opinion, which was helped more by the New Deal, business or the common man?
  • How does the New Deal continue to resonate in the United States in the present?

2. OR READ

Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of War, “The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb,” in Harper’s Magazine, February, 1947: blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13871061_1/xid-13871061_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Stimson – Harper Feb 1947 – Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.pdf
John Hersey, “
Hiroshima” in The New Yorker, August 31, 1947, Read Chapter 1, “A Noiseless Flash” at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

Duck and Cover (1951) Burt the Turtle, uploaded to Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60&t=13s.

The Family Fallout Shelter: blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13871016_1/xid-13871016_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Bomb Shelter Cover.jpg blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13871066_1/xid-13871066_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Bomb Shelter Back.jpg

Michael S. Henry
, “Where Do We Stand on the A-Bomb?” in OAH Magazine of History, Spring, 1996, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp 51-52: blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13871015_1/xid-13871015_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>MIchael S. Henry.pdf

Rinjiro Sodei
, “Hiroshima/Nagasaki as History and Politics” in The Journal of American History, Dec., 1995, Vol. 82, No. 3, pp 1118-1123: blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13871014_1/xid-13871014_1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Rinjiro Sodei.pdf

Using the sources above as well as readings from your textbook, compose an essay in which you consider the following questions:

  • Describe Stimson’s argument regarding why the Truman administration chose to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Why was it important that Hersey’s article on Hiroshima was first printed in the pages of The New Yorker, a magazine? What impact did such information have on the U.S. public?
  • Characterize the “Duck and Cover” video as well as “The Family Fallout Shelter.” How did such information affect the people who viewed or read them?
  • U.S. textbooks tend to include only the traditional view on why the bomb was dropped, that it ended the war and saved lives. Why would the revisionist ideas have been left out?
  • Why did the United States drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

3. OR READ:

George Kennan, The Long Telegram at

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm

and his “X-article” blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-845708-dt-content-rid-13871046_1/xid-13871046_1″ rel=”noopener”>Sources of Soviet Conduct.pdf

and read: NSC-68 summary (this document, National Security Council policy paper #68, dated April 14, 1950; it was not declassified until 1975): http://fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/nsc-68-cr.htm

Using the sources above as well as readings from your textbook, compose an essay in which you consider the following questions:

  • What is Kennan’s analysis of the Soviet view of world affairs? What does he believe their post-war international policies will be?
  • What are his recommendations for U.S. foreign policy? Are these consistent with or are they a departure from the traditional U.S. role on the international stage?
  • How did his recommendations shape the containment policy under Truman?
  • Is there any way that U.S. foreign policy was not guided by “containment” as envisioned by Kennan? How is NSC-68 different from the containment policy developed to that point?
  • How does the Cold War continue to resonate in the world during the present time?
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