June 2 US History

<p>I'm at about 8 wrong 2 omitted. I'd take a 780.</p>

<p>The WWII one was something like, "which of the following did not happen during WWII". i'm forgetting it!</p>

<p>integration of blacks into the army</p>

<p>why was it spledid little war</p>

<p>coz they acheived goals in phillipines and cuba?</p>

<p>twas what i put</p>

<p>whichever one was how the war was easily won</p>

<p>going back to the WWII question, so integration of the blacks into the army did NOT happen??</p>

<p>yep</p>

<p>got it wrong X( i forgot Truman did it later than WWII</p>

<p>so now on to Splendid little war</p>

<p>Cuba Phillipine was the tasty answer?</p>

<p>No it was splendid little war is because it was fast. Just think, why else would they call it splendid and little. </p>

<p>AMSCO says "so swift was the US victory that Secretary of State John Hay called it a splendid little war." </p>

<p>Please don't argue it.</p>

<p>The Integration of blacks I thought was the typical obscure question that trips up so many people. Thank God my APUSH class briefly talked about that.</p>

<p>"Splendid and little," that's what she said.</p>

<p>Anyway, Teddy was the man in that war. I believe it was he who referred to the Filipinos as "our little brown brothers." I can't decided between him and Andy Jackson as best president...</p>

<p>ugh no haha</p>

<p>18 wrong 4 omitted so far</p>

<p>shootmaynow</p>

<p>yeah the WWII one was the one about integration.
For the "splendid little war" i said because there was little/no combat. That was obviously wrong.</p>

<p>"splendid little war" - popular support for the war. The nation was clamoring for it, after the De Lome Letter and the Rise of Yellow Journalism.</p>

<p>I would have put the answer about quickness for Philippines and Cuba, but I put popular support (I think) because I remember my teacher discussing how poorly the US did in the Philippines, unlike the efficiency of the Spanish American War. Thoughts?</p>

<p>freeze- if you didn't get any more wrong, you can still get 700 =)</p>

<p>with 18 wrong and 4 omitted? that's around where i'm standing. i'll be happy with a 700.</p>

<p>Since I'm one of the "old-timers" on this board (born before 1960), let me tell you the correct answers are to some of these questions (the ones being debated) since I lived through some of this stuff.</p>

<p>First, Ralph Nader is famous for his fight for consumer rights, not for nuclear weapons safeguards. Yes, he has been opposed to nuclear power because there is not a solution to the nuclear waste issue--but that's not the same as being an advocate for nuclear weapons safeguards--which he has never written anything about.</p>

<p>As far as consumer rights, he became famous when he wrote a book entitled "Unsafe at any speed" that criticized the auto industry for the terrible job of quality they did. In particular, he criticized the Chevrolet Corvair, which Chevrolet pulled off the market in 1966 after his book became popular--he wrote the book in 1962.</p>

<p>Second, the "Silent Majority" was what Richard Nixon referred to whenever someone criticized his Vietnam policy. He kept saying that it didn't matter what the vocal anti-war critics said because "there is a large 'Silent Majority' that agrees with me" on this war policy. (Bunch of B.S. of course) This was before the news on Watergate came out and he was impeached and resigned.</p>

<p>and
Third, yes Kennedy, Nixon, and McCarthy were all staunch anti-communists (except for Nixon at the end of his presidency when he made peace with Communist China and went there to open diplomatic relations--something he later said that he thought was the highlight of his accomplishments). If you want to verify this, consider that McCarthy was famous for his ravings about "communists under every bed and in the state department and corrupting our youth, etc", Kennedy tried to attack Cuba and start its overthrow at the Bay of Pigs (major debacle), and Nixon had big arguments with Khrushchev when he was the Soviet leader. At one point Khrushchev became so mad at Nixon that he made his famous "we will bury you" comment, meaning that the Soviets would destroy the Americans.</p>

<p>Oh, and I forgot to mention, the reason that McCarthy "went down" was because he wanted to be on TV and had delusions of grandeur. He thought he was going to be elected president one day probably.</p>

<p>Anyway, he just kept accusing everyone of being a communist--and no one dared stand up to him for fear they would be accused also.</p>

<p>Finally, one time he accused a guy in the military with a fairly impecable record of harboring communists because this guy's father had attended a meeting of the communist party when the military guy was like 4 years old. </p>

<p>It was at this point that Senator Symington finally stood up and started saying that he thought the "bullying" tactics had gone far enough and that if a person could be accused for something the father did when the child was only 4, then who was safe from this kind of accusation. After Symington stood up, then finally the other senators (and even President Eisenhower finally) did also. In the end, no one believed anything McCarthy said after that, he lost the next election, and retired in disgrace--never to be heard from again. He died like less than two years later.</p>

<p>As I recall, Edward Murrow--who was one of the lead TV reporters at the time (at CBS)--did a TV show on how unfair McCarthy had been. This was also very instrumental in McCarthy's downfall. I believe this was the subject of the movie starring George Clooney (Good Night and Good Luck) just a couple of years ago.</p>

<p>Yes, we watched that Murrow movie in history class this year (and I still got that McCarthy question wrong...lol).</p>