Pop culture 1950's

1. What media exploded on the 50s, and how did businesses respond to this explosion? 

Television, businesses took advantage of the opportunity. 

2. Why did critics not like television? 

They didn't like it, because of the effect on children and its stereotypes on women minorities. 

3. What's so ironic about rock and roll music in the 1950s? 

It's just like today and hip hop music 

The American dream 1950s

1. What were some cause for the baby boom? 

After solider returned from WWII and settled into family life. 

2. What did Americans have to do in order to support all the new babies? 

The Americans had to make more baby stuff for the new borns?

3. How did roles of woman changed in the 1950s? 

Women in the 50s spoke of their discontentment, they were unhappy with their role. 

4. What changes allowed the American car explosion to occur?

Easy credit, a lot of advertisement, easy to sell 

Truman's labor policies

1. What were some of the significant challenges president Truman faced after WWII ?  

He had to faced getting twelve million soldiers, and the task of bringing stability and prosperity to all Americans. 

2. How did Truman try help returning G.I.s get jobs after WWII, and how effective was he ? Explain your opinion. 

He listed 21 main policy points, to postwar Americans. It wasn't really effective because some democrats thought it was unnecessary.  

The American teenager

1. How did the live of teenagers change TGD and WWII? 

After WWII the teenager years were recognized as an important and unique stage between childhood and adulthood. 

2. What is "white fight?" Was it good for society? 

Middle class white people left the cities and moved to the sub-burbs. 

3. Why did Mexicans immigrate to the the US before the 1950s? 

They wanted to help out with the Agriculture laborers. 

Postwar America 1950

1. What was the u.s. economy like during WWII? 

The US economy during WWII was after the Great Depression, which meant they were still regrouping. 

2.how did the American economy transfer after the Great Depression and WWII? 

3. Why would a company like google would not do well in the 1950s? 

Because people were not rebels, creative thinkers, or they didn't rock the boat.   

The boy in the striped pajamas

1. Bruno moved with his family so his father could be closer to the Nazi death camps. At first only his father knew the real reason for moving to the country. Why do you think father was so secretive about why they moved? 

I the the reason why he was so secretive about why they moved is because he didn't want his family to know that he was a nazi. 

2.Bruno was taught the think of Jews in a certain way. Why was Bruno taught about Jews? 

I think it because his dad brain washed him into believing that the Jews was were bad people and there the reason for the war. 

3.when Bruno fell from the swing a Jewish man helped him why was this significant to Bruno's mother's thinking of Jewish people?   

The significant about this event was that Bruno and his mother were taught that the Jews were bad people but then a Jewish man help him up. 

4. Bruno's father evolved and transformed form a loving father to what? Why?

Bruno's dad transformed into a loving father in to an evil soldier because he was a nazi that moved closer to death camp. 

5. Bruno evolved and transformed as well   What kind of boy was he at first and what did he transformed into? 

Bruno transformed into a normal little boy until he saw another little boy that has a Jewish prisoner. Bruno thought that he was a simple kid as well and he also thought that he was getting out. 

6. Describe your feelings about Bruno actions. Include description of the scene and the choice(s). Bruno made and what differences his actions made. 

Bruno made a dumb decision because he left his house to see another boy then died at the end.      

Bell work

1. Why were the Americans afraid of the Soviet Union? 

Because the Soviet Union were communist and threaten the Americans way of life. 

2. What did the Soviet Union want in Europe? 

Keep Germany divided and weak so that it would never again threaten he soviet  union. 

3. What did the Americans want in Europe? 

Create a new world order in which all nations had the right of self determination     

Japanese internment and justice

1. What does the word "internment" mean?

Is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. 

2. Why were Japanese Americans interned in manzanar?

Because after the Pearl Harbor attack the U.S. government looked at them as the enemy. 

3.Why were Japanese internment policies wrong? 

They were wrong, because they lost their homes, jobs, freedom, and money. 

The end of WWII

1. Was Gen. MacAuthor a successful general? Explain with evidence 

Yes, he was a successful general, because he successfully led the allied troops in battle in the Bataan leytan island. 

2. Explain how successful the G.I. Bill was to returning soldiers? 

Yes, because 7.8 million soldiers took at vantage, which meant a free collage scholarship. 

3. Why were Mexicans in L.A. Unfairly treated in 1943?

Because 11 sailors reported that they had been attacked by zoot-suit   Wearing Mexicans. Then thousands of servicemen    and civilians mobs poured into Mexican neighborhoods and grabbed every zoot-suiter they could find, tear their clothes off and beat them.   

WWII in the pacific

1. Who promised to "returned" to liberate the Philippines?

General MacAuthor

2. What reasons did the POTUS use for using atomic bomb?

To American lives and to end the war.

3. * In 1942, Why were the Allies under-strength to fight Japan?

They were handicapped by the weather and the terrain.

4. * Were American submarines effective in the pacific?Explain

Yes, because they were one of the most important part of the war.