Veterans Video Portrait Project
ArtDes 310, Sec. 002, Fall 2006
School of Art and Design
Prof. Heidi Kumao

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Homework #3 (30 points)
Due Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006

Print out and Read: Howard Zinn's, Chap. 5: "Just and Unjust War"

(excerpted from the book, "Declarations of Independence," 1990)

 

1.(15 points) Throughout the chapter, Zinn explains some of the JUST CAUSES the U.S. government has used for as reasons for going to war. Name 3 of them.

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b)

 

c)

 

 

 

2. (5 points) Do you think the U.S. had a "just cause" for entering into a war with Iraq? What did the U.S. government say was "just cause?"

 

 

 

 

3.(5) Throughout the chapter, Zinn points out the contradictions between what the U.S. government SAID it did during war, and what it did at HOME. Describe one such incident.

 

 

 

4.(5) Zinn writes of WWII: "if neither saving the Jews nor guaranteeing the principle of self-determination was the war aim of the United States then
what WERE the principal motives?