DBQ WWII

The following DBQ is due on Friday, May 28th as part of your WWII exam. You are to provide a typed essay that relates to 8-10 documents that YOU provide. Each document must be no longer than a half page in length.

World War II was more important than the Great Depression in fundamentally transforming American society. Assess the validity of this statement based on your knowledge of American society between 1930 and 1945 and documents that you provide.

Provide at least one document from the following types:

Photo
Graph or chart
Speech
Letter
Poster
Political cartoon

Cold War PP Link

http://multimedialearning.org/presentations/coldwar1.php3

http://www.historyteacher.net/USProjects/DBQs2001/1950s-Tomlin.htm

Life in the Tenaments

Explore the following websites devoted to virtual tours of NYC turn of the century tenements. Give a comparison/ contrast (both) assessment of life in the tenements as opposed to life on the prairies in the western US in the comments section below.

Urban Life:

http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html

http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/

Pioneer Life:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html

http://www.campsilos.org/mod2/teachers/r3.shtml