Compose a one-page essay in which you will take a first-person perspective of the situation, describe the debate in your own words, and provide a justified and academically defended argument for one side or the other. The essay will need to reflect your understanding of the time period to avoid being anachronistic, and your argument must relate to one of the viable outcomes from that time.
- As a multi-generational American citizen, in the wake of Pearl Harbor, do you support the internment of your Japanese neighbors?
- As an 18-year-old male high school senior, are you eager or fearful of going to war?
- As an 18-year-old female high school senior, are you eager or fearful of going into the wartime factories?
- Is the crisis in Europe something that the U.S. should join, or should the U.S. remain isolated? (Use a perspective from no later than November 1941.)
- You are an important congressperson. How do policies and economics that are in place at the end of the war impact America's position in the world?