Comparative Questions

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

Document Links

Document 25-1: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan

Document 25-2: A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor

Document 25-3: The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews

Document 25-4: Soldiers Send Messages Home

Document 25-5: Rosies the Riveter Recall Working in War Industries

  1. How did the experience of the Hirabayashi family compare with the policies of the governments the United States fought against?
  2. To what extent did soldiers' letters home contain evidence of the meaning of official wartime goals in their own daily experiences? How did the soldiers' concerns about the home front compare to the experiences of Rosies the Riveter?
  3. In what ways did the war intensify racial and gender identities and stereotyping, according to the documents in this chapter? Who were the exceptions to these stereotypes?
  4. Judging from the documents in this chapter, was World War II a just war? Why or why not?