16.4 Interment Camp and Atomic Bomb Socratic Seminar Questions
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16.4 Interment Camp and Atomic Bomb Socratic Seminar Questions Directions: Completely answer ALL 8 questions. Justify all of your answer. Use your textbook as a reference.
Interment Camp Questions:
1. With our promise of “Liberty & Justice for all” in our pledge of Allegiance, did the use of internment camps put the U.S. in a hypocritical position? Why? 2. Was the use of internment camps justified? Explain your answer? 3. Compare and contrast Japanese internment camps and the Nazi concentration camps. (create a Venn diagram or similar mind map) Which were worse? Why do you think this? 4. Given the old adage of “judging a book by its cover” was America guilty or innocent of this as it applies to the use internment camps? Provide at least three reasons.
Atomic Bomb Questions:
1. Does shortening a war to save lives justify killing citizens by dropping a bomb? Explain your opinion. 2. How many American lives can be taken before justifiably using a weapon such as the Atomic bomb? How would you determine such a number? 3. If the bomb had never been dropped would the war have gone on for less than a year or more than a year? What do you think the outcome of World War II would have been if the Atomic bomb was not dropped? 4. Should the bomb have been dropped? Explain!
16.4 Interment Camp and Atomic Bomb Socratic Seminar Questions Directions: Completely answer ALL 8 questions. Justify all of your answer. Use your textbook as a reference.
Interment Camp Questions:
1. With our promise of “Liberty & Justice for all” in our pledge of Allegiance, did the use of internment camps put the U.S. in a hypocritical position? Why? 2. Was the use of internment camps justified? Explain your answer? 3. Compare and contrast Japanese internment camps and the Nazi concentration camps. (create a Venn diagram or similar mind map) Which were worse? Why do you think this? 4. Given the old adage of “judging a book by its cover” was America guilty or innocent of this as it applies to the use internment camps? Provide at least three reasons.
Atomic Bomb Questions:
5. Does shortening a war to save lives justify killing citizens by dropping a bomb? Explain your opinion. 6. How many American lives can be taken before justifiably using a weapon such as the Atomic bomb? How would you determine such a number? 7. If the bomb had never been dropped would the war have gone on for less than a year or more than a year? What do you think the outcome of World War II would have been if the Atomic bomb was not dropped? 8. Should the bomb have been dropped? Explain!