History Case

Instructions: Below are lists of questions for the three books that are not textbooks for the class. Under the title, there will be further instructions regarding the required number of questions that you will need to answer to be eligible for full credit. Please note that if the question has multiple parts, you need to answer all of those parts. Please include page numbers for each answer in parentheses at the end. Also, please answer the questions in complete sentences. Finally, please type up your answers.

Howard Merkel-When Germs Travel

Choose three of the four questions to answer.

1. What does the author intend to do show with the examples he provides in this book?

2. Choose three of the histories he provides and explain the social, political, and, where possible,

economic explanations for how the governments dealt with the victims.

3. Which of these diseases do you think represented the most danger to American Society? Why?

4. Which of these diseases do you think represented the least danger to American Society? Why?

Mark Danner-The Massacre at El Mozote

Choose four of the five questions to answer.

1. How might Mark Danner's profession, his is a journalist rather than a historian, affect the way in which

he presents this story?

2. What does this story exemplify about the nature of the Cold War in Latin America?

3. How can this book be used to understand the way in which the United States and the Soviet Union

fought the Cold War in Latin America and Africa?

4. Why did the United States Government not intervene in order to prevent these attacks?

5. Was it in the US's best interest not to condemn the El Salvadorian Army's tactics? Why or Why not?

Anne Alexander-Nasser

Please answer question one, and choose one of the other two to answer.

1. What is the thesis of this book?

2. Does Alexander present Nasser in a positive light? If so, how?

3. Does Alexander present Nasser in a negative light? If so, how?

4. Does Alexander present Nasser in a neutral light? If so, how?