Reading Check (pages
524-539) – American Indian Movement
10 minutes: Answer in complete sentences. Make specific reference to what you
have read.
1.
– What happened at Wounded Knee in 1890?
--What happened there in 1973? Why (what were some of their grievances)?
2. What is meant by the quote on pg. 524 that “an Indian reservation is the most complete colonial system in the world”? Do you think this still applies today? Explain.
3. How did the war in Vietnam affect the attitudes of many American Indians?
Reading Check: pgs 443-456
1. What was one thing you learned from this reading?
2. Why did communism appeal to many African Americans? How did this and the civil rights movements in the ‘50s have international implications for the United States?
3. Give two examples of nonviolence used in protest during the ‘50s.
4. What is one example of violence being used in this reading?
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Reading Check: Chapter 16, pgs. 428-442 Name:___________________________
1. Refer to one provocative passage from the reading. Why was it significant or what was your reaction?
2.
How did McCarthy incite anti-communism?
Why do you think people took him seriously?
3.
What was the Rosenberg case about; what was the
result?
What does this case reveal about the mood of the 1950s?
4.
Why was Castro a threat to American interests?
What did America plan to do? How?
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Reading quiz: Chapter 16, pages 416-425
1. Write down three significant decisions or policies of Truman from this reading.
2. What was the most significant factor in the US decision to drop the atomic bomb? Explain.
3. Choose a passage from this reading you find most significant or interesting and explain.
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Reading Quiz, Chapter 16 (pgs 407-415). Answer three of the
following questions in complete sentences.
1. What was one part of this reading you found most provocative? Explain.
2. Do you agree with judge Radhabinod Pal, that the US “clearly provoked the war with Japan”? Why/why not?
3. Why does Zinn say that the US record “cast doubt on its ability to uphold the principle [of nonintervention]”?
4. Give one example of US policy toward fascist governments in the 1930s.
5. Zinn mentions Vietnam several times in this chapter. In what way do you think the roots of the Vietnam war connect to WWII?
