TUESDAY--MAY 3

US History
EQ:
How did anti-communist hysteria impact life the United States during the 1940s and 1950s?

CW:
Video clip: How to detect a communist
WHO'S THE COMMIE? 
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notes: The Great Fear/Second Red Scare
Truman establishes LRBs
HUAC
26:3--The Cold War at Home (OVERHEAD NOTES--USE THEM IF ABSENT!)
GREAT LINK FOR COLD WAR AT HOME INFO
McCarthyism
McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, WV--1950
(first 18 minutes; then pick up at 22:30 for McCarthy's downfall)
rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy (elected in 1946; re-elected in 1952)
The Rosenbergs
Truman's response to McCarthy telegram 
Declaration of Conscience  
video clips from Atomic Cafe

HW:
review notes for a Cold War notes quiz
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IB HOTA
EQ:
How did the Allies defeat the Axis powers (1942-45)?

CW:
war on the homefront (BRIEF)
"Double V"
rationing, war production, civilian sacrifice, war bonds, taxes to fight the Axis
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Map of Axis controlled Europe--1942 
Allies in WWII 
Fighting and Winning the War in Europe and North Africa--1942-44
map of Allied operations in Europe 
Stalingrad
Operation Torch in North Africa--video clip from The War--Disc #2
Italian Campaign--1943--45
opening up a second front in Europe--
preparations for Operation Overlord (D-Day)--June 6, 1944
video clips:
video clip: Operation Fortitude 
D-Day landing (clips from The War)
first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan--D-Day sequence (IF TIME)
video clip/notes:
Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 1944-Jan 1945)
Feb. 1945--Yalta Conference
Feb-Mar 1945--firebombing of German cities
April 12--FDR dies; April 30--Hitler commits suicide in Berlin
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War in the Pacific (1942-45)
map of the Pacific Theater of Operations (1942-45)
island hopping campaign
March 9, 1945--Fireboming of Tokyo--video clip from The War
effects of destruction
Battle of Okinawa--April 1-June 22, 1945
kamikaze attacks
Ketsu Go!

HW:
Why We Had to Drop the Atomic Bomb