MONDAY--APRIL 25

US History
EQ:
What events led to an Allied victory over Axis powers in Europe?
What was Hitler's Final Solution?

CW:
reading quiz on Holocaust reading 
WWII maps
video clip/notes:
Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 1944-Jan 1945)
Yalta Conference and firebombing of German cities
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Holocaust-1933-45; Final Solution (1941-45)
The Everlasting Shame of Mankind reading
Holocaust documents
extermination camps and concentration camps used in the Holocaust
Nazi medical experiments:
NOVA site 
Holocaust Museum
video clips
Anti-Semitism in the US pre-WWII
attitudes toward Jewish refugees
The War: "It Happened"
Band of Brothers: "Why We Fight" (if time)
FDR and Hitler die--April 1945
V-E Day--May 8, 1945


HW:
REVIEW NOTES FOR A NOTES QUIZ

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IB HOTA
EQ:
What factors/events caused the Great Depression (1929--41)?
How did the USG and the American people respond to the Great Depression?

CW:
return/discuss Unit 5 exam
preview Unit 6
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1920s: Republican presidents 1928 presidential election results  notes: signs of trouble in the US economy (causes of the GD) industries in decline; stock market issues
Black Tuesday--10-29-1929 (14:00---19:00)-Part I
Part II: 35:44--41:44)
notes: How the American people responded to the Depression Portland's Hoovervilles  homeless camps in Portland today
the Depression hits young people--clips of teenage hobos hobo symbols

HW:
Life in the Depression reading by T.H. Watkins