Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Assignments for 1/31 - 2/2

U.S. History in the 20th Century 

Please respond to the following questions in at least 750 words each.

1. Between 1900 - 1940, how did the United States of America and the Empire of Japan really come to despise each other?

2. How was the Imperial Japanese Navy's attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) really a failure for the Japanese military?

3. How was Japan thwarted in its attempt to build the dominant empire in South-East Asia because of  the outcome of the battles of the Coral Sea (May 7-8, 1942) and the battle of Midway (June 3-6,  1942)?



U.S. History I

Please respond to the following questions in at least 750 words each.

1. How did the U.S. Constitution set up the judicial branch of the U.S. government to be the weakest of the 3 branches of our U.S. government?

2. How was John Marshall really the true founder of the U.S. judicial branch of the U.S. government as the nations 4th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?

3. What is the extreme importance of Marbury vs. Madison in the workings of the U.S. government in the 19th and 20th centuries?