Module 6 Application Assignment (100 Points Total)
HIST 1302.V01/V02: United States History
Student Learning Objectives (ACGM) assessed in this assignment
1. Create an argument through the use of historical evidence. (SLO1)
2. Analyze and interpret primary and secondary sources. (SLO2)
3. Analyze the effects of historical, social, political, economic, cultural, and global forces on this period of United States history. (SLO3)
Core Objectives (THECB) assessed in this assignment:
1. Critical Thinking Skills (CT) – to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and the analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of information.
2. Communication Skills (COM) – to include effective written, oral, and visual communication.
3. Social Responsibility (SR) – to include intercultural competency, civic knowledge, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.
4. Personal Responsibility (PR) – to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making.
Directions. Read your PowerPoints and Module reading assignments to answer the following questions. Type your response directly into this document and upload your assignment as a word document. Your response to each question should be at least 250 words in length. Be sure to cite your sources and use your own words when using the ideas of other authors.
1. Explain how events in Europe and Asia (give 3 examples) led President Franklin Roosevelt to change American neutrality policies during the years and months leading up to the U.S. entry into World War II. What kind of language did Roosevelt’s use to justify this move away from neutrality?
2. How did Americans use Roosevelt’s Four Freedom’s Speech to re-define the meaning of freedom and challenge racial and religious discrimination during World War II? How successful were these efforts? To answer these questions, read and/or watch (and cite in your response) at least three of the documents found in your module course resources:
• Transcript of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
• The House I Live In
• The House I Live (the Lyrics)
• Documents on Civil Rights and Freedom (in your Module Resources
• George Takei’s Ted Talks “Why I love a country that once betrayed me”
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3. Explain how the United States government, business community, organized labor, and the wider scientific community work together to promote wartime production and develop new weapons and technologies in support of the war effort. How was the Manhattan Project a reflection of this type of collaboration?
