Feb. 28-Mar 1

EQ:
Why did the United States use atomic weapons on Japan? 

CW:
Atomic Bomb Debate (using atomic bomb docs)
video clip from The War--bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945) 
video clip: Little Boy is dropped on Hiroshima
small group activity: How should we remember the dropping of the atomic bomb? 
V-J Day--Aug. 15, 1945
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video clips from "White Light; Black Rain"----HBO online
02:26--6:38
11:13--15:55--Japanese mindset
18:03--26:00--flight crews/scientists
27:00---??-Nagasaki victims
42:33---53:10
video clip: Enola Gay controversy at the Smithsonian--1994
President Obama visits Hiroshima
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discussion on Japanese and German occupations post-WWII
video clip: Nov 1945-Nuremberg Trials
UN created in 1945
video clip on the UN
Operation Crossroads--1946 clips from Atomic Cafe
video clip: atomic vets


HW:
Read 22:2 from the textbook
containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Chinese revolution
Korean War

Feb. 26-27

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

CW:
WWII notes quiz #2
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Japanese decoys in the Pacific 
Japanese balloon bomb in Oregon 
video clip: balloon bomb
Ketsu Go!
Battle of Okinawa--April 1---June 22, 1945 (from The War)
Okinawa clips from The Pacific
Manhattan Project locations 
video clip: how does an atomic bomb work?
video clip from Atomic Cafe: July 16, 1945--Trinity Test in New Mexico
notes: Potsdam Conference (July 17-Aug 2, 1945
video clip: U.S.S. Indianapolis (from The War)

HW:
complete analysis of atomic bomb docs

Feb. 22; 25

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)
flag raising at Iwo Jima
video clip from Victory in the Pacific (22:31--31:09) firebombing of Tokyo--Mar 9, 1945
Firebombing of Tokyo; effects of destruction;

HW:
WWII notes quiz next class
atomic bomb documents
SAC debate within small groups
analysis chart due:
B day-Feb. 28
A day-Mar 1

President's Day weekend---Tuesday, Feb. 19; Wed--ACT--Thurs, Feb. 21

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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video clip from DVD:
Anti-Semitism in the US pre-WWII 
May 1939: Voayage of the St. Louis

German-American Bund in NYC--1939
attitudes toward Jewish refugees
anti-Semitism in US today
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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
The War: "It Happened"
Holocaust denial 101
Band of Brothers: "Why We Fight" (if time)
FDR and Hitler die--April 1945
V-E Day--May 8, 1945

HW:
Reading:
War in the Pacific 

Feb. 14-15

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

CW:
D-Day:
D-Day landing sequence from "Saving Private Ryan"
D-Day paratrooper jump from "Band of Brothers"
"Carentan" episode from BoB


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 (1942-45)?

CW:
finish home front notes:
video clip from Many Rivers-- 1943 Detroit race riot and the Double V campaign
video clip: Tuskegee Airmen
video clip: Navajo Code Talkers
video clip: Zoot Suit Riots--Los Angeles
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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
Operation Husky
Operation Mincemeat
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
D-Day landing (clips from The War)
first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan--D-Day sequence

HW:
NOTES QUIZ NEXT CLASS

Feb. 8; 11

EQ:
How did the USG mobilize the nation for total war (1941-45)?

CW:
 America Mobilizes for Total War (click on link for notes)
propaganda activity  make propaganda using one of the propaganda techniques (if time)
 clips from The War, Disc #1
the draft (49:00-ish--56:00)
video clip from Many Rivers-- 1943 Detroit race riot and the Double V campaign
video clip: Tuskegee Airmen
video clip: Navajo Code Talkers
video clip: Zoot Suit Riots--Los Angeles
war bond drives (1:30--1:33:19)
Disc #2 
Mobile, AL clip
rationing (1:26:01--1:28:00)--Office of Price Administration
video clip: Japanese internment (Disc #2--43:59--48:00 
video clip: Donald Duck pays his taxes
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 video clip: Japanese internment (Disc #2--43:59--48:00 

HW:
REVIEW YOUR NOTES!
NOTES QUIZ ON TODAY'S NOTES AND LAST CLASS'S NOTES!