Friday, April 24, 2015

WWII - Unit Assignment

Here is a link to the handout from today describing your weekend homework - preparation for the in-class essay on Monday.

Here is a link to the charts you will complete over the weekend.

To complete the charts, consider these topics we studied in this unit:

  • Timeline - The Road to War - When to take action / When to go to war?
  • All My Sons
  • FDR speeches
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Japanese Internment
  • The homefront / collective sacrifice / the “war effort” / propaganda
  • The War in the Pacific
    • The Bataan Death March
    • Iwo Jima
    • Okinawa
  • The War in Europe
    • D-Day
    • The Battle of the Bulge
  • American and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference - Beschloss and Schlessinger articles
  • Why We Fight film and discussion
  • The atomic bomb discussion