From
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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions (or you can just put your quote in my comments if you’d like).
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Here’s mine:
“In 1917 Woodrow Wilson took on a major power when he started sending secret monetary aid to the ‘White’ side of the Russian civil war. In the summer of 1918 he authorized a naval blockade of the Soviet Union and sent expeditionary forces to Murmansk, Archangel, and Vladivostok to help overthrow the Russian Revolution. With the blessing of Britain and France, and in a joint command with Japanese soldiers, American forces penetrated westward from Vladivostok to Lake Baikal, supporting Czech and White Russian forces that had declared an anticommunist government headquartered at Omsk. After briefly maintaining front lines as far west as the Volga, the White Russian forces disintegrated by the end of 1919, and our troops finally left Vladivostok on April 1, 1920.”
Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook got Wrong – James W. Loewen
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