Journal entrys and assignment for a history class

Respond to the following questions. Your responses do not have to be long, just a paragraph, but do make sure that they completely answer the questions.

Save your work when you complete it. You will turn it in with the rest of your journal entries and portfolio assignments at the end of the course .

Objective 1

1. What is the difference between a totalitarian government and a democratic government? How would the lives of average citizens be affected under these two types of government?

2. What were the similarities between Germany, Italy, and Japan in the years following World War I?

Objective 2

1. What is your opinion on war in general? Is it an effective mode of problem solving? Defend your position.

Objective 3

1. How do you feel about the United States providing aid to the Soviet Union despite their ideological differences of democracy verses communism?

2. What do you believe Americans thought and felt after the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Objective 4

1. Did you know that Japanese were held in camps during the war? How was this situation similar to the Nazi concentration camps? How was it different?

Objective 5

1. Why do you think Adolf Hitler committed suicide?

2. How do you feel about the United States stating it was necessary to drop atomic bombs on Japan to end the war? If you disagree, what alternative solutions might have worked just as well?

Activity

Please complete this activity. Make sure you look at the grading rubric below before beginning your assignment.

Read the book Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, and complete the book report. Questions from the reading will also be on the Speedback assignment. Milkweed is a piece of Holocaust literature about a young orphaned boy in Nazi-occupied Poland. Although the book has scenes which illustrate the atrocities of living in the Warsaw ghetto, the details are not overly graphic. Milkweed presents a hopeful and compelling story of a boy who perseveres through a tremendously difficult time in history.

1. What is the setting of the book?

2. Who are four of the main characters? Give a brief description of each character.

3. Write a summary of the story.

4. How did the story end?

5. Did you like the book? Why or why not?