WEDNESDAY--MAY 4

US HISTORY
EQ:
What efforts did President Eisenhower make to contain the spread of global communism (1952-60)?
How did the fear of nuclear attack impact American life in the 1950s?

CW:
notes: Cold War years under Eisenhower (1952-60)
Eisenhower and the Cold War ppt
Iran: 1953
Guatemala--1954--stop at 5:09
Sputnik I (show image from Cold War ppt)
Sputnik II
Eisenhower's New Look defense plan--1957
Eisenhower Doctrine
MAD; fear of the bomb
Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia (first 10 minutes)
Family bomb shelters--33:30
 video clips from Atomic Cafe
MAD; fear of the bomb
Nuke Map
video clip: President Eisenhower warns against the military-industrial complex
US military spending since the Cold War 
new nuclear arms race

HW:
PREPARE FOR UNIT 5 EXAM!
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What was Hitler's Final Solution (1941-45)?
What were the social and military impacts behind the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan?

CW:
notes: the GI Bill--1944
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Holocaust-1933-45; Final Solution (1941-45)
video clip: Anti-Semitism in the US pre-WWII
attitudes toward Jewish refugees
Holocaust documents
extermination camps and concentration camps used in the Holocaust
Nazi medical experiments:
NOVA site 
Holocaust Museum
video clips
attitudes toward Jewish refugees
The War: "It Happened"
Band of Brothers: "Why We Fight" (if time)
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July 16, 1945--Trinity Test in New Mexico
video clip: U.S.S. Indianapolis (from The War)
OPTIONS?!?
Operation Olympic
video clip from The War--bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945) 
V-J Day--Aug. 15, 1945 
White Light & Black Rain (42:33---53:10)
small group activity: How should we remember the dropping of the atomic bomb?

HW:
Text pp.  784-85; 788--91*
*stop at containment militarized