Wednesday, November 30, 2016

THURSDAY

US HISTORY
EQ:
1. What efforts did President Eisenhower make to contain the spread of global communism (1952-60)?
2. 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
CIA in Guatemala
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)
video clips from Atomic Cafe
Nuke Map
video clip: President Eisenhower warns against the military-industrial complex
US military spending since the Cold War
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video clip: Vice; season 4; episode #14 on America's nuclear arsenal
ESSAY PREP/REVIEW


HW:
PREPARE FOR UNIT 5 EXAM!

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

WEDNESDAY

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
QUIZ WILL COVER ALL OF YOUR COLD WAR NOTES

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

TUESDAY

US History
EQ:
What efforts did President Truman make to stop the spread of communism?


CW:
reading quiz
notes: The Cold War Heats Up--Korean War (1950-53)
The Korean War (1950-53)
video clips from Presidents series (Truman)
origins of the war and UN/American troops on the ground
(1:08:22---1:26:30)
stalemate achieved and MacArthur is fired (1:35:16---1:41:17)
MacArthur vs. Truman in public opinion
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North Korea today:
video clip: life in North Korean prison camps
North Korea's horrible human rights record 
March 2016--American college students sentenced to 15 years hard labor
Dennis Rodman visits North Korea (from Vice)

HW:
Read pp. 822-27
Loyalty Review Boards
HUAC
Alger Hiss; The Rosenbergs
Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for Commies!

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

WEDNESDAY--THANKSGIVING BREAK BEGINS AT 3:05!

EQ:
What efforts did President Truman take to stop the spread of communism?

CW:
small group activity: How should we remember the dropping of the atomic bomb? (cancelled due to late start)
President Obama visits Hiroshima
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discussion on Japanese and German occupations post-WWII
Nuremberg Trials
UN created in 1945 
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Operation Crossroads--1946
video clip: atomic vets
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Cold War begins (1947)
map of Germany post-WWII  
notes:  CONTAINMENT OF COMMUNISM
Containment Docs
National Security Act--1947
video clips from The Cold War
clip #1--Truman Doctrine--(first five minutes)
clip #2--Marshall Plan in Greece (23:21--27:50)
map of Berlin
Berlin Airlift--1948 

HW:
Read pp. 815-21
Civil War in China leads to Communist takeover
Korean War: What happened?
Gen. MacArthur vs. President Truman

Monday, November 21, 2016

TUESDAY

EQ:
How did the U.S. and its Allies re-take the Pacific from Japan?

CW:
video clips/notes:
Ketus Go! (from Victory in the Pacific)
Battle of Okinawa--April 1---June 22, 1945 (from The War)
Okinawa clips from The Pacific (civilians)
notes: the GI Bill--1944
Japanese decoys in the Pacific 
Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon
Manhattan Project locations 
July 16, 1945--Trinity Test in New Mexico
video clip: U.S.S. Indianapolis (from The War)
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Atomic Bomb Debate
OPTIONS?!?
reading from Nagasaki--Flash Point
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)
President Obama visits Hiroshima

HW:
Read pp. 810-14
containment; Cold War; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; Berlin Airlift; NATO

Friday, November 18, 2016

MONDAY

EQ:
How did the U.S. and its Allies re-take the Pacific from Japan?

CW:
map of the Pacific Theater of Operations (1942-45)
no surrender mindset of the IJA
video clip from The War--Guadalcanal--intro to Syd Phillips
video clip from The Pacific--combat on Guadalcanal (1942)--Alligator Creek (18 mins)
video clip from The War-Sept. 1944--Peleliu
clip from The Pacific--bunker scene on Peleliu
video clip from The War--Iwo Jima (Feb-Mar 1945)
video clip from Victory in the Pacific (22:31--31:09) firebombing of Tokyo--Mar 9, 1945
Firebombing of Tokyo; effects of destruction;
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instructions for atomic bomb debate (SAC by small groups)

HW:
atomic bomb documents
DUE TOMORROW! 

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

FRIDAY

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

THURSDAY

EQ:
What events led to an Allied victory over the Axis powers in Europe?

CW:
Band of Brothers:
"Day of Days"
"Carentan"

 
HW:
Everlasting Shame of Mankind reading
READING QUIZ ON FRIDAY

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

WEDNESDAY

US History
EQ:
What events led to an Allied victory over the Axis powers in Europe?
CW:
WWII notes quiz
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propaganda activity--OWI
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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
video clip--The War--Disc #2--1:29--41
opening up a second front in Europe--
preparations for Operation Overlord (D-Day)--June 6, 1944
video clips:
German preparations (from VHS tape)
video clip: Operation Fortitude  
Operation Fortitude clip #2
D-Day landing (clips from The War)
first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan--D-Day sequence

HW:
Everlasting Shame of Mankind reading
QUIZ FRIDAY! 

Monday, November 14, 2016

TUESDAY

EQ:
How did the Japanese attack on PH impact the lives of Japanese-Americans?
How did the USG mobilize the nation for total war (1941-45)?


CW:
anti-Japanese sentiment and nationalism swept across the U.S.--handout
"We're Gonna Have to Slap the Dirty Little Jap"
The Angry American
notes/analysis: Why were Japanese-Americans interned during WWII?
EO 9066
War Relocation Authority video
Japanese relocation in Portland 
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America Mobilizes for Total War:
Total War notes
Unrestricted War notes
clips from The War, Disc #1
the draft (49:00-ish--56:00)
video clip from Many Rivers--the Double V campaign
war bond drives (1:30--1:33:19)
map of the Manhattan Project
Hollywood goes to War
"Why We Fight"
 Donald Duck pays his taxes
Disc #2 
Mobile, AL clip
rationing (1:26:01--1:28:00)--Office of Price Administration
propaganda activity 
make propaganda using one of the propaganda techniques (if time)
 

HW:
REVIEW YOUR NOTES!

Tuesday, November 08, 2016

MONDAY--NOV. 14

EQ:
What factors/events led to WWII?
How did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor impact the United States and its citizens?

CW:
new seating chart (unless done on mid-term day)
mid-term results
preview of Unit 5
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discuss 24:1--Dictators Threaten World Peace
map of German aggression in Europe 
discuss 24:2--Aggression in Europe and Asia
timeline military aggression in Europe (handout)/Japanese aggression on back
Rape of Nanking; beheading
video clip from The War--"How did this happen?"
Disc #1 28:50--38:00
America remains neutral--Neutrality Acts of the 1930s (handout)
Pearl Harbor attacked--December 7, 1941

HW:
Read pp. 768-774

Monday, November 07, 2016

WEDNESDAY

EQ:



CW:
MID-TERM EXAM



HW:
Read pp. 735-739

TUESDAY

EQ:



CW:
GREAT DEPRESSION DBQ ESSAY



HW:
PREP FOR MID-TERM

Friday, November 04, 2016

MONDAY

EQ:


CW:
small group activities:
groups will devise a list of how the American people responded to the Depression and how the USG responded
small groups will answer scaffolding questions for DBQ

HW:
STUDY/REVIEW FOR MINI-MID-TERM AND PREP FOR DBQ ESSAY! 

Thursday, November 03, 2016

FRIDAY

EQ:
How did the USG and the American people respond to the Great Depression?
Who were the major critics and what were their criticisms of the New Deal?

CW:
video clip: 100 Days of legislation (19:17--27:00-ish) First 100 Days (Glass-Steagall/Emergency Banking Relief Act, CCC, NIRA, Federal Securities Act, and TVA)
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Great Depression Notes quiz
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Second New Deal--1935--complete New Deal PPT
video clips:
African Americans left out of the New Deal
Second New Deal (1935-38)
Liberty League
Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin
"A traitor to his class..."
1936 re-election speech: I welcome their hate!
1936 election results
1937 Court Packing Plan
1938--New Deal comes to an end

HW:
REVIEW NOTES FOR SECOND NEW DEAL QUIZ
PREP FOR DBQ ESSAY
PREP FOR MID-TERM

Wednesday, November 02, 2016

THURSDAY

EQ:
How did the USG under President Roosevelt respond to the Great Depression?

CW:
Dust Bowl: Where? Why? What?
Hoover responds to the Depression:
RFC; Boulder Dam Project
summer of 1932--Bonus Army marches on D.C. video clip: Bonus Army  1932 presidential election results--Franklin Delano Roosevelt vs. Herbert Hoover President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal--First New Deal--1933--35
video clips from The Roosevelts (disc #2)
banking crisis: (11:00--17:00)
New Deal Powerpoint 
letters to the Roosevelts activity 
 
HW: REVIEW YOUR NOTES FOR A NOTES QUIZ!

Tuesday, November 01, 2016

WEDNESDAY

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


CW:
1920s notes quiz
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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 hoboes
hobo symbols
 
HW: Read pp. 694-97 FDR's New Deal first major action as president--banking crisis AAA; CCC; NIRA