I would like you to use the “War is the Health of the State” chapter from A People’s History (under the “Secondary Sources” section under the “Unit #2 Readings” tab) and “The Deadly Parallel”, “Government Stopping Sources of Disloyalty”, and the “Secrecy Shrouds Federal IWW Raids” pieces (under the “Primary Sources” section under the “Unit #2 Readings” tab”) to answer these questions.
Pleas do not copy and paste material from the readings, answer each question in your own words, the answers need to be thorough but they do not need to be overly long or in essay form.
War Is The Health of the State:
1. How did Henry James describe the US entering World War I?
2. What was Oliver Wendell Holmes’ argument for the restrictions on free speech in the Espionage Act?
3. How did the first World War help the government to destroy the IWW?
4. How are Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s raids described in Zinn?
Warning: The Deadly Parallel
5. Which country had suffered the most casualties at the time of the writing?
6. How does the IWW describe the war in Europe?
The Government Stopping Sources of Disloyalty
7. List the cities where the simultaneous raids occurred:
8. German language newspapers and magazines were subject to what?
Secrecy Shrouds Federal IWW Raids
9. Who was the government targeting under the espionage act?
10. How were Socialist organizations going to be targeted and disrupted by the US government?
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnwarhea14.html
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