APRIL through the END OF SCHOOL
YOUR ASSIGNMENTS to be completed by End Of April:
READ UNIT 8 pages to page 319- 350 (do not try to read it in one sitting its long..sections will be assigned throughout the weeks) WRITE: Complete your Timeline LISTEN to Disc FOUR Track 2 - Miracle @ Dunkirk Track 3 - Battle of Britain Watch all multimedia clips and comment (write up a response) where indicated each week will have additional resources and assignments pertaining to a specific topic. WORLD WAR 2WEEK 1: Section 1
additional assignments: Watch stock footage and powerpoint and answer questions listed on first slide Read New York Times Article, Leaders of the Nations Read additional articles: Border Resistance, Sept 1, 1939 Paths to War Aggressive moves by Germany and Japan set the stage for World War II. Adolf Hitler began a massive military buildup and instituted a draft in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. The German annexation of Austria alarmed France but did not shake Great Britain's policy of appeasement. Mussolini became a German ally. Appeasement of Germany peaked at a conference in Munich where Hitler claimed he sought only one final territory, the Czech Sudetenland. This soon proved false. When Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Stalin and invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Japanese expansion into Manchuria and northern China brought condemnation from the League of Nations. While still at war with China, Japan launched a surprise attack on U.S. and European colonies in Southeast Asia. Axis Aggression, War Begins View this PowerPoint that presented information about Germany invading Poland and France. <Answer the questions on the first slide> While Hitler had already militarized the Rhineland, annexed Austria, and annexed the Sudentenland in Czechoslovakia, war had not been declared yet. It wasn't until the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 that Great Britain and France finally became involved--and this was because they had made an alliance with Poland. Even though Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, they did not send much support to Poland. Germany soon turned to France, invading in the spring of 1940. France surrendered to Germany on June 22, 1940. Read article from the New York Times about the German invasions of Poland and France . WEEK 2:
Section 2 The Course of World War II additional assignments: Watch Battle of Britain (youtube) and Powerpoint , Listen to this news brief after the Blitz, Listen to one woman’s experience., Listen to Winston Churchill. Read: from text 329-333, The rise of Hitler, **optional watch Blitzkrieg** Write: Worksheet, WRITE a news broadcast about the Blitz (30 seconds) and perform it as if on the radio. Complete timeline for 1939- 1941 ~ German forces swept through northern Europe early in the war and set up the Vichy government in France. German air attacks on Great Britain resulted in fierce British retaliation. In the east, harsh weather and a resolute Soviet Union defeated an invading German army. The Japanese conquered the Pacific but miscalculated when they attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. The United States surprised Japan by abandoning its neutrality and entering the war to retake the Pacific. By the end of 1943, the tide had turned against Germany, Italy, and Japan. After the invasion of Normandy, the Allies liberated Paris and defeated Germany. U.S. president Harry Truman, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin met at Potsdam, Germany, to plan the postwar world. The war in Asia continued until the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing massive casualties and bringing Japan's surrender. Hitler
Stalin
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Additional Resources
LONG but good summary of the War and Hitler's actions:
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WEEK 3 the HOLOCAUST
additional assignments Watch these two short video clips. wearing the star of David the ghetto was a holding place until they were sent to be killed
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Print a Map and mark all the countries controlled by Germany
We will be using this excerpt from Clara's Story as a basis for general
knowledge about what many Jews experienced while in hiding. Much of what this
reading described was experienced by many.
The Nazi plan displaced millions of families from all over Europe. Through Their massive concentration camp system, with well over one thousand camps of various sizes, all designed to imprison innocent humans, Considered sub-human by Nazi standards. Every human right what Replaced by Nazi laws, rules and arbitrary Decisions. Almost every major German city had at least a slave labor camp nearby. The inmates of camps were forced thesis under the pain of death to work for the German war effort, with no pay, inadequate food and other necessities to survive. Death camps, constructed-for the sole purpose of mass executions by Means of poison gas, shootings, starvation, disease, and torture were used by the Nazis to exterminate Those fellow humans, men, women children and infants, by design.
There Are Those among us, who say the Holocaust did not happen at all Or maybe a few people were killed, but not millions.Historical facts have proven time and time again, did Nazi Germany, Planned and Implemented Their plan to rid Europe of Those splat They Considered sub-human. Accurate numbers for exactly how many humans died as a result of the Nazi plans are simply not available and never will be. Research by some of the worlds most fashionable historians place the number of Holocaust victims murdered by government policy to be not less than twelve million and probably more.
* Sources Raul Hilberg: Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945 .
* Martin Gilbert: Atlas Of The Holocaust .
additional assignments Watch these two short video clips. wearing the star of David the ghetto was a holding place until they were sent to be killed
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Print a Map and mark all the countries controlled by Germany
We will be using this excerpt from Clara's Story as a basis for general
knowledge about what many Jews experienced while in hiding. Much of what this
reading described was experienced by many.
- Clara's Story excerpt.zip
Clara's Story worksheet.doc
Resistance: Read the packet of excerpts from The Bielski Brothers and answer the questions on the worksheet Attached below are a zip folder of the pages in the packet, as well as the worksheet.
Bielski Brothers excerpts.zip
Bielski Brothers Reading Worksheet.doc
Section 3 The New Order and the Holocaust
To further their war effort and Hitler's plans for Aryan expansion, the Nazis forced millions of people to resettle as forced laborers. No aspect of the Nazi New Order was more terrifying than the deliberate attempt to exterminate the Jews. As part of the Nazis' Final Solution, Jews were locked into cramped, unsanitary ghettos or forced to dig their own mass graves before being killed. When this proved too slow for the Nazis, they transported Europe's Jews to death camps where they were worked to death or sent to die in gas chambers. The Nazis killed between five and six million Jews and nine to ten million non-Jews. In Asia, Japan showed little respect for the peoples it conquered in its effort to secure industrial markets and raw materials. Japanese treatment of prisoners of war was equally harsh. Japan professed a commitment to ending Western colonialism, but the brutality of the Japanese convinced many Asians to resist Japanese occupation.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html
The Nazi plan displaced millions of families from all over Europe. Through Their massive concentration camp system, with well over one thousand camps of various sizes, all designed to imprison innocent humans, Considered sub-human by Nazi standards. Every human right what Replaced by Nazi laws, rules and arbitrary Decisions. Almost every major German city had at least a slave labor camp nearby. The inmates of camps were forced thesis under the pain of death to work for the German war effort, with no pay, inadequate food and other necessities to survive. Death camps, constructed-for the sole purpose of mass executions by Means of poison gas, shootings, starvation, disease, and torture were used by the Nazis to exterminate Those fellow humans, men, women children and infants, by design.
There Are Those among us, who say the Holocaust did not happen at all Or maybe a few people were killed, but not millions.Historical facts have proven time and time again, did Nazi Germany, Planned and Implemented Their plan to rid Europe of Those splat They Considered sub-human. Accurate numbers for exactly how many humans died as a result of the Nazi plans are simply not available and never will be. Research by some of the worlds most fashionable historians place the number of Holocaust victims murdered by government policy to be not less than twelve million and probably more.
* Sources Raul Hilberg: Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945 .
* Martin Gilbert: Atlas Of The Holocaust .
"Visit" this Museum and explore: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum includes Some Where Neighbors,
online exhibits, Dictionary
online exhibits, Dictionary
Week 4 - last week of April/1st week of May
American Isolationism and Pearl Harbor
additional assignments
Watch: Powerpoint Neutrality acts, Watch FDR's Speech
Read Articles (first hand accounts about Pearl Harbor), newspaper articles
writing assignment, in which you have to argue whether or not you think it was legal to intern a group of people based on race, using the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, 1944 to help you decide. - links below
America's policy towards World War II: stay neutral! The US used two specific programs to
remain "neutral" for the beginning years of the war. The first was a series of
laws passed in Congress, called the Neutrality Acts. There were three, published
in 1935, 1937, and 1939, and each one allowed for more than the previous one.
The Neutrality Act of 1935 stated that the US could not sell anything that could
be used in war to countries that were fighting in war. The next two, allowed for
more of those items to be sold. The second program the US used to remain neutral
was called Lend-Lease, in which the US would provide any country, at the
discretion of the President, with any good and the country would be able to pay
for it later/over time. After we discussed these programs the US used to remain
"neutral", we discussed how the US actually entered the war: the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. We read two eyewitness accounts from the
attack on Pearl Harbor, the first being from one of the Japanese pilots who was
bombing Pearl Harbor and the other being from a nurse who was working that day.
We then listened to/watched President Roosevelt's speech to Congress asking them
to declare war on Japan.
American Isolationism and Pearl Harbor
additional assignments
Watch: Powerpoint Neutrality acts, Watch FDR's Speech
Read Articles (first hand accounts about Pearl Harbor), newspaper articles
writing assignment, in which you have to argue whether or not you think it was legal to intern a group of people based on race, using the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, 1944 to help you decide. - links below
America's policy towards World War II: stay neutral! The US used two specific programs to
remain "neutral" for the beginning years of the war. The first was a series of
laws passed in Congress, called the Neutrality Acts. There were three, published
in 1935, 1937, and 1939, and each one allowed for more than the previous one.
The Neutrality Act of 1935 stated that the US could not sell anything that could
be used in war to countries that were fighting in war. The next two, allowed for
more of those items to be sold. The second program the US used to remain neutral
was called Lend-Lease, in which the US would provide any country, at the
discretion of the President, with any good and the country would be able to pay
for it later/over time. After we discussed these programs the US used to remain
"neutral", we discussed how the US actually entered the war: the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. We read two eyewitness accounts from the
attack on Pearl Harbor, the first being from one of the Japanese pilots who was
bombing Pearl Harbor and the other being from a nurse who was working that day.
We then listened to/watched President Roosevelt's speech to Congress asking them
to declare war on Japan.
Today we focused on how life was like for Japanese immigrants and
Japanese-Americans in the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Thousands of people of Japanese ancestry were confined to internment camps after
Pearl Harbor. The US military, and some of the population as well, believed that
some of the people of Japanese ancestry in American, especially on the west
coast (California, Oregon, Washington) were enemies and/or spies for the
Japanese. Because those few people could not be picked out from the rest of the
population, much of the population of people of Japanese ancestry from the west
coast were put in internment camps, where they could be guarded and not have any
contact with Japan. You saw numerous photographs concerning this period of time
in US history, some showing the prejudice, some showing life in the internment
camps, etc. As we viewed this photographs, you had a worksheet to fill out, with
certain questions for each photograph. You answered those in writing and then
the class, as a whole, discussed the
photographs.
Homework: writing assignment, in which you have to argue whether or not you think it was legal to intern a group
of people based on race, using the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, 1944 to help you decide.
Attached below is the PowerPoint of photographs we viewed, as well as the worksheet. Also, as promised, the
handout you will receive on Monday that gives a summary of the Japanese Internment is attached below. The homework assignment is also attached below (two files: one, assignment sheet; two, reading).
Japanese Internment.ppt
Worksheet for Class.doc
Handout about Japanese Internment.doc
Writing Assignment.doc
Korematsu v. United States, 1944.doc
Japanese-Americans in the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Thousands of people of Japanese ancestry were confined to internment camps after
Pearl Harbor. The US military, and some of the population as well, believed that
some of the people of Japanese ancestry in American, especially on the west
coast (California, Oregon, Washington) were enemies and/or spies for the
Japanese. Because those few people could not be picked out from the rest of the
population, much of the population of people of Japanese ancestry from the west
coast were put in internment camps, where they could be guarded and not have any
contact with Japan. You saw numerous photographs concerning this period of time
in US history, some showing the prejudice, some showing life in the internment
camps, etc. As we viewed this photographs, you had a worksheet to fill out, with
certain questions for each photograph. You answered those in writing and then
the class, as a whole, discussed the
photographs.
Homework: writing assignment, in which you have to argue whether or not you think it was legal to intern a group
of people based on race, using the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States, 1944 to help you decide.
Attached below is the PowerPoint of photographs we viewed, as well as the worksheet. Also, as promised, the
handout you will receive on Monday that gives a summary of the Japanese Internment is attached below. The homework assignment is also attached below (two files: one, assignment sheet; two, reading).
Japanese Internment.ppt
Worksheet for Class.doc
Handout about Japanese Internment.doc
Writing Assignment.doc
Korematsu v. United States, 1944.doc
BATTLES in the PACIFIC
Battle of MidWay
End of April - 2nd week of May
Section 4 The Home Front and the Aftermath of the War
World War II reached almost every area of the world, and mobilization for war brought
widespread suffering and even starvation. The war caused nearly 20 million
civilian deaths. The United States, which did not fight the war on its own
territory, sent its forces to fight and produced much of the military equipment
for the Allies. Segregation in the U.S. military led African Americans to demand civil rights. Racism and suspicion led to the wartime detention of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. The bombing of cities by the Allied and Axis powers cost thousands of lives, but probably did nothing to weaken the morale
of either side. After the war, ideological conflict between the West and the Soviet Union resulted in the Cold War. The Cold War centered on the status of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe.
Section 4 The Home Front and the Aftermath of the War
World War II reached almost every area of the world, and mobilization for war brought
widespread suffering and even starvation. The war caused nearly 20 million
civilian deaths. The United States, which did not fight the war on its own
territory, sent its forces to fight and produced much of the military equipment
for the Allies. Segregation in the U.S. military led African Americans to demand civil rights. Racism and suspicion led to the wartime detention of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans. The bombing of cities by the Allied and Axis powers cost thousands of lives, but probably did nothing to weaken the morale
of either side. After the war, ideological conflict between the West and the Soviet Union resulted in the Cold War. The Cold War centered on the status of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe.