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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most soldiers believed that their actual wartime experiences would be reported when?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the resources that the author cites specifically as being scarce during the war?

3. Most soldiers believed that the meaning and purpose of the war was which of the following?

4. Overall, the example that Horizon set was which of the following?

5. Which of the following is NOT one way that soldiers perceived of the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What qualities caused an idiom to transfer to enter the general vocabulary?

2. What were the most important types of media during the war?

3. What was the overall reading experience of citizens and soldiers like during the war?

4. What types of stories would be most likely to be reported on?

5. What does RADAR stand for?

6. What critical knowledge did an average soldier typically lack?

7. How did the media interpret the suffering of the nation's citizenry?

8. How and why did the media fail to report the entire story of the war?

9. How did the media imply God's involvement in the war?

10. How did most media outlets react to the requirements placed on them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The organization and doctrine behind America's army was woefully out of date when it entered World War II, and dramatic changes were necessary to prepare it to fight the axis war machine.

1) Describe America's army before its entrance into the war.

2) Explain the duties that the American army was prepared for and how it expected to fight and win battles.

3) Discuss the realities of the demands placed on the army during the second World War.

4) Explain how the US army adapted and rose to the challenge.

Essay Topic 2

The nature of warfare, especially in World War II, made mistakes commonplace and almost unavoidable. The military and media handled these sometimes deadly mistakes in a way that might be considered disingenuous or immoral.

1) Discuss the factors that contribute to blunders being made in warfare. Explain why warfare is more prone to these mistakes than other ventures, and why the combat in World War II was especially so.

2) Explain some of the major types of military blunders that occurred in World War II, including recognition error and friendly fire.

3) Describe the ways that the military and media reacted to military blunders.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the war, the media made a concerted effort to accentuating the positive aspects of stories about the war and to downplay, misrepresent, or ignore negative aspects. This gave Americans a sanitized vision of the war that was easier to continue to support than the real war.

1) Explain the policy of "accentuating the positive" in the media, and explain why it was adopted.

2) Discuss the types of stories that were likely to be reported by the mainstream state and public media and the impression of the war that these reports gave to the common citizen.

3) Describe some of the grizzly, unsettling, and unpleasant aspects of the war that were unlikely to be reported on. Discuss how these types of stories and details were handled.

4) Discuss the impact that the policy of "accentuating the positive" had on American soldiers.

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