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Print out and Read: Howard Zinn's, Chap. 5: "Just and Unjust War" (excerpted from the book, "Declarations of Independence," 1990)
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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. a)
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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
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