HW and Essay Choices 1, 2, 3 Due Thursday

HW: p. 403 What was Hitler’s reaction to the Treaty of V.
What changes took place in America
P. 402 Answer 1-2 about popular films in America.

Essay Choices

ESSAY 1 100 points
Use the Flow Map: Write an essay about the causes and effects of American going to war in WWI. You will need to add specific details to the Flow Map first.


ESSAY 2 200 points
I. Introduction---Compare Presidential Decisions to Go to War; hypothesis

II. Wilson in WWI
Stay Home Declare War
Reasons: Reasons:
Avoid war; self defense from German u-boats
Death public opinion
Europe/far away ‘Zimmerman’ telegram to Mexico
isolationism Lusitania attacked by Germans
His campaign to “keep us rejected Wilson’s treaty for peace
Out of war” support allies England France, Russia
DECISION:

III Obama in Afghanistan
Far away $$$ attacked USA on 9/11
Too expensive $$$ 18 more months
30 billion $$
Death toll 1k in 2009 terrorist threat remains in country
Let Afghans fight train the Afghans so they
their war can stop Taliban and Al Queda
Failureis likely? help other countries in area; Pakistan
DECISION:

IV Both went to war---similar/different reasons
V. Conclusion


ESSAY 3 200 points
Apply Just Cause Theory to WWI. Apply Just War Theory to Iraq or Afghanistan

1. Intro
2, Explain Just War Theory (include Dr. Steinberg’s new criterion: government officials must send their own sons and daughters into war.
3.. Using Just War theory evaluate the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ of going to WWI by the USA. Evaluate each point of Just War theory and provide evidence from history to explain.
4. . Using Just War theory evaluate the ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ of going to war in Iraq or Afghanistan by the USA. Evaluate each point of Just War theory and provide evidence from history to explain.
5. Conclusion about going to war (wwI and today). Conclusion about the importance or relevance of Just War Theory.