Wednesday, January 25, 2012

WWI

Watch The Century, America's Time: Shell Shock (in three parts): 1, 2, 3

Questions for film:  

1.      1.  What is the ideological spin (bias) that the film seems to have about the war?  How does it differ from Howard Zinn’s ideological spin?  Explain your answer with specifics.
2.      2.  What do you notice about the film’s rhetoric?
3.      3.  What reasons does the film give for the United States getting involved in World War I?