Courtesy of State Historical Society of Iowa, Smith, Kim Marie, "Iowa Peace Heroes - Helping Victims of War," The Goldfinch, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 14-15, September 1991
Description
This excerpt from The Goldfinch highlights the humanitarian efforts of Iowan Herbert Hoover’s to help victims of war after World War I.
Transcript of "Iowa Peace Heroes-Helping Victims of War" Excerpt
Source-Dependent Questions
- What evidence from the text supports that Herbert Hoover was a humanitarian during World War I?
- After the war, how did Hoover continue his famine relief work?
- Why was it important for Hoover to do this? Why is it important for us to be humanitarians when it’s not even “our” community?