Feb. 28-March 1

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

CW:
WWII notes quiz #2
Japanese decoys in the Pacific 
Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon
Ketus Go!
Battle of Okinawa--April 1---June 22, 1945 (from The War)
Okinawa clips from The Pacific
Manhattan Project locations 
video clip from Atomic Cafe: July 16, 1945--Trinity Test in New Mexico

HW:
complete analysis of atomic bomb docs

Feb. 27

ACT DAY

Feb. 23; 26

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;

HW:
atomic bomb documents
Review notes for WWII notes quiz; quiz will be next class
Due next Friday (March 2;  and the following Monday-March 5)

Feb. 22 ONLY

5B US History
Bastogne from Band of Brothers or discuss guns and Parkland

FEB 21

SNOW DAY

Feb. 16; 20

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

Feb. 14-15

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

CW:
Band of Brothers:
"Carentan"
more of Saving Private Ryan

 
HW:
Everlasting Shame of Mankind reading
READING QUIZ NEXT CLASS

Feb. 12-13

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 
Battle of Stalingrad (July 1942-Feb. 1943)
Operation Torch in North Africa--video clip from The War--Disc #2
Italian Campaign--1943--45
Operation Mincemeat
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
D-Day landing (clips from The War)
first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan--D-Day sequence

HW:
Everlasting Shame of Mankind reading
DUE BY FRIDAY

Feb. 8-9

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.
"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 
map of internment camps
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!