HIST 140- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)
Document Summary
Immigration membership: common law and constitution, government is a pluralist democracy, ethic. Inherited membership: common roots in ancestry, government is ethnic majority, nation creates the individual, collective memory, stories that society uses to explain who they are and what they should do, shared sensibility. Collective memory of wwii and japan: wartime atrocities and hiroshima. Day: many contesting factions within a singular group"s collective memory, any group has collective memory, from church groups in small towns to a nation. Surrender of japan: emperor says that japanese race did not fail, but was defeated by american science. Atrocities: mass killings and women in brothels during invasion of china, japan wasn"t forced to confront their crimes like west germany did. Remembering hiroshima: us censorship prevented news of hiroshima and nagasaki during the occupation of. Japan: film of 2 cities were confiscated, john hersey"s hiroshima was banned, casualty figures are not well known, remembering hiroshima became an assertion of japan"s independence in 1952.
