March 3-4

EQ:
How did the fear of communism impact life in the United States during the early Cold War years?

CW:
COLD WAR NOTES QUIZ
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small group activity: bomb shelter simulation
debrief groups' choices for their bomb shelter
watch "The Shelter" from The Twilight Zone
watch: "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street"
clips from "Fail Safe"
small group discussion sheet
EXIT TICKET

HW:
Read 23:2 (just read these sections)
growth of suburbia
baby boom
medical breakthroughs
TV
Rock'n'Roll

Feb. 28; March 2

EQ:
How did anti-communist hysteria impact life the United States during the 1940s and 1950s?

CW:
Video clip: How to detect a communist
FIND THE COMMIE! 
video clip from The Crucible
notes: The Great Fear/Second Red Scare  
video clip on HUAC
video clips from "McCarthy" DVD:
HUAC-Hollywood 10--(26:31---31:20)
The Rosenbergs arrested in 1950
 McCarthyism 
DVD--McCarthy in West Virginia (3:00-7:15)
Truman's response to McCarthy telegram 
Declaration of Conscience
DVD--McCarthy hearings in the Senate (1953)--1:05:37--1:07:00)
DVD--McCarthy--media attention: (1:11:34--1:14:00)
DVD--Army-McCarthy hearings (1:30:00--1:41:00)
video clip: Trump SOTU-2019--Dems are socialists
video clips from Atomic Cafe

HW:
Cold War Notes Quiz next class

Feb. 26-27--ACT FEB. 25

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
COVERT OPS--CIA
video clips:
video clip: Iran: 1953
video clip: Guatemala--1954
video clip: Guatemalan coup explained
Bomb shelter instructions
document:  Nuclear war scenario
video clip: command and control of nuclear weapons
video: steps in launching a nuclear missile from a silo 
video clip: effects of a nuclear bomb
USG bomb shelters
video clips from Atomic Cafe
Nuke Map
video clip:
President Eisenhower warns against the military-industrial complex
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video clip: Vice; season 4; episode #14 on America's nuclear arsenal

HW:
Read 22:3 pp. 1-5
Loyalty Review Program
HUAC vs. Hollywood
Alger Hiss case
The Rosenbergs
Senator Joseph McCarthy

Feb. 21; 24

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

CW:
PART ONE OF ESSAY THREE!
Cold War begins (1947)
map of Germany post-WWII 
map of eastern Europe and Soviet domination
notes:  CONTAINMENT OF COMMUNISM
Containment Docs
video clips from The Cold War
clip #1--Truman Doctrine--(first five minutes)
clip #2--Marshall Plan in Greece (23:21--27:50)
Berlin Airlift--1948
video clip: birth of NATO--1949
notes: The Cold War Heats Up--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
video clip: the DMZ 
video clip: North Korean soldier escapes into South Korea
March 2016--American college students sentenced to 15 years hard labor 
Otto Warmbier returns to US, dies 
President Trump on OW's death--Feb. 2019
video: From North Korea with Dread
What war with North Korea would look like

HW:
Read 22:4
massive retaliation
brinksmanship-Taiwan crisis
Suez Crisis
covert operations--Iran and Guatemala
Sputnik
military-industrial complex

Feb. 19-20

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

CW:
Survey data from Americans on use of the a-bombs
atomic bomb survey
airplane question
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
primary source evidence of a third bomb
small group activity:
How should we remember the dropping of the atomic bomb? (Stanford)
**updated group form for this activity**
video clip: Enola Gay controversy at the Smithsonian--1994

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
President Obama visits Hiroshima
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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:
22:2
containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Chinese revolution
Korean War
Truman fires MacArthur

Feb. 13; 18--in-service followed by President's Day

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. 11-12

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:
Notes Quiz #2 next class
A class notes- Feb. 7 and today's notes
B class notes- Feb. 10 and today's notes

Feb. 7; 10

EQ:
What events led to an Allied victory over Axis powers in Europe?
What was Hitler's Final Solution?

CW:
WWII maps
video clip/notes:
Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 1944-Jan 1945)
notes: Yalta Conference
firebombing of German cities
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video clip from DVD:
Anti-Semitism in the US pre-WWII 
May 1939: Voyage 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 and the Final Solution (1942-45)
Millenials and survey data on the Holocaust

video: chronology of the Holocaust
discuss the Madagascar Plan 
notes: the Holocaust
discuss reading: The Everlasting Shame of Mankind reading
Holocaust documents
map of Nazi camps
Nazi medical experiments:
NOVA site  
video clips
The War: "It Happened"
Holocaust denial 101
video: capturing Adolph Eichmann 
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
Guadalcanal
island hopping
Iwo Jima

Feb. 5-6

EQ:
What events led to an Allied victory in the ETO (1942-45)?


CW:
NOTES QUIZ
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preparations for Operation Overlord (D-Day)--June 6, 1944
video clips:
German beach defenses
DD tanks
German beach defenses-Part II
read letter from Eisenhower (in packet)
Eisenhower letter in case of failure
illustration of an infantryman on D-Day
clips from the War: Disc #3 (8:42--11:48; 31:12--45:30-ish)
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Hollywood's depction of D-Day:
D-Day paratrooper jump from "Band of Brothers"
D-Day landing sequence from "Saving Private Ryan"
"Carentan" episode from BoB

HW:
Everlasting Shame of Mankind reading