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