The American Navy is often used as a diplomatic tool to promote American values abroad.
Our sailors have been called upon to help foreign governments and needy populations to recover from disasters, wars and drought. Theodore Roosevelt used our American naval might as a ‘big stick’ to help convince the rulers of other nations that America was a ‘world power’ and to convince the people of those nations that Americans will use our might to spread peace and prosperity.
Six years later, on the eve of World War I, Europe nations were competing to construct large, dangerous, sailing, gun platforms (battleships) and stealthy, underwater missile platforms (submarines).
To counteract the threat of those submarines, the British Navy created a stealthy craft of their own – the Q-ship.
ASSIGNMENT ONE
How to successfully complete assignment #1.
THE GREAT WHITE FLEET (24.47 minutes)
THE GREAT WHITE FLEET (15.19 minutes)
- Watch these two documentaries.
- Now use your notes, or re-watch both of these two documentaries, and create a 20-question quiz based on these two documentaries.
- TWO documentaries combined to create ONE quiz.
- Your quiz questions should be worded in such a way that the answer would demonstrate that the person taking the quiz has viewed and understood the basic premises of the documentary.
- You must include the answers with the quiz that you submit.
- Each thought-provoking question must be composed in the form of a full sentence.
- Each answer must be composed of a full sentence as well.
ASSIGNMENT TWO
How to successfully complete assignment #2.
Q-SHIPS
MYSTERY SHIPS – THE Q SHIPS – article
- Watch this documentary and read this article.
- Now use your notes, or re-watch the documentary, and create a 15-question quiz based on the video.
- Your quiz questions should be worded in such a way that the answer would demonstrate that the person taking the quiz has viewed and understood the basic premises of the documentary.
- You must include the answers with the quiz that you submit.
- Each thought-provoking question must be composed in the form of a full sentence.
- Each answer must be composed of a full sentence as well.
BONUS
- Are Q-ships legal (according to the rules of warfare)?
- Have American sailors ever been captured while on a mission of peace (see USS Pueblo -1968)?
