Assignment: Portfolio Assignment

Part 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?

Part 2

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

Part 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?

Part 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?

Part 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?