HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ethnic Conflict, Executive Order 9066, Internment Of Japanese Americans
14 Mar 2016
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Good war, war without mercy hist221 lecture notes. Ww2 mobilizaion: shits from neutrality to war, some home front condiions. 2 major historical narraives about the war: the good war , war without mercy . What the war meant: ethnically contested, without mercy. Pj, fascism, japanese conquest in paciic, horror of holocaust: ww2 was a moral war, us forced by pearl harbour to ight, they didn"t want to ight, holocaust, japan"s treatment of korea and china, about morality. Importance of culture industry: war as unavoidable moral batle, heroism of everyday soldiers, american hyper-power . Hyper-power, launches into superpower during the 20th century. 1991: popularity of ww2 rises, height of american moral inluence, height of american bravery. Magazines, adverisements, posters, the greatest generaion casablanca . The idea that ww2 wasn"t a good war: some aspects were good, but some some were horrible, these need to be remembered, should be criically engaged with more.
