World History II- Meyers
Name______________________________
Unit 4: World War II
Enduring Understandings for American and World History
EU#1: The United States gradually became a global superpower during the 20th century.
EU#2: American society and culture has changed throughout the 20th century.
EU #3: Challenges to pre-existing social, economic, and political systems shaped 20th century W.
History.
EU #4: Conflict and cooperation between peoples and nations shaped 20th century World History.
Essential Questions for Unit 4: World War II
1. What were the causes of WWII?
2. How did the Allied Powers defeat the Axis Powers?
3. How did WWII change or influence U.S. society?
4. What were the immediate results of WWII?
5. What is genocide? Why does it happen?
Unit 4 Skill: Historical Memory
Unit 4 Project: War Crimes Memorial
Unit 4 Exam: 12-13 (Objective Only)
Unit 4 Project: Due 12-17 (last day of classes before finals)
Date
Monday, 11-26
Topic
Intro Unit 4
The Path to War
Tuesday, 11-27
The Path to War
Wedne3sday, 11-28
World War II Begins
Thursday, 11-29
Pearl Harbor
Friday, 11-30
Monday, 12-3
The War in Europe
Focus: Battle of the Bulge
Tuesday, 12-4
Wednesday, 12-5
The War in the Pacific
Focus: Okinawa
Thursday, 12-6
Friday, 12-7
Monday, 12-10
Tuesday, 12-11
Wednesday, 12-12
Thursday, 12-13
Friday, 12-14
Monday, 12-17
Homefront: A Sleeping Giant
Homefront: Video and Propaganda
Memorial Project Assigned
The Holocaust
Civilians at War, End of the War
Objective Exam Only!
Study for Finals!
Study for Finals!
Project Due!
Thursday, 12-20
Social Studies Final Exam!
Homework
BL 584-588
Purpose: How did America,
Congress, and FDR respond to
the rise of dictatorships?
BL 589-594
Purpose: What were the most
significant events of the war
through 1940?
BL 601-606
Purpose: What were the “steps”
leading to America entering the
war?
BL 618-623
Purpose: What were the most
significant battles or events from
1940-1943?
Reading on the Bulge
BL 631-637
Purpose: What evidence suggests
that between 1943 and 1944 the
war was turning in favor of the
allies?
Reading on Okinawa
BL 625-630 Purpose: How did
life on the homefront vary
depending on race, ethnicity,
age, gender and geography?
Reading
Enola Gay
Memorial Project
Memorial Project
Study for Exam!
Memorial Project
Memorial Project
World History II
Name_________________________
War Crimes Memorial Project
Assignment: For the project in this unit, we will consider war crimes, crimes against humanity, and
genocide in the 20th century. You are to choose one of these situations for further study and create a
memorial to the people who lost their lives in your situation. A memorial is usually some kind of
structure designed to remind people of a person or event. You may consider parks, statues, sculptures,
paintings, buildings, and monuments as potential memorials. Use symbolic elements of architecture and
creative designs to make it as realistic and as meaningful as possible.
War Crimes
DEFINITION: An action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international
rules of war, such as the killing, enslaving, or mistreatment of POW’s or citizens or the needless
destruction of property.
ORIGIN: Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, United Nations International Court of Justice
Crimes Against Humanity
DEFINITION: Crimes against large numbers of civilians before, during, or after war, such as the killing,
enslaving, deportation, or mistreatment of civilians, and any political, religious, or racial persecutions of
specific groups of people.
ORIGIN: Nuremburg War Crimes Trials, United Nations International Court of Justice
Genocide
DEFINITION: gen-o-cide: noun: The planned extermination of a particular religious, racial, or ethnic
group of people.
ORIGIN: 1940s: from Greek genos ‘race’ + -cide .
For more detailed definitions of these terms, go to the following link on the United Nations website:
http://www.un.org/icc/crimes.htm#war
Items for Submission:
1. Write and submit a one-paragraph summary of the event. This summary should be concise but
complete, and needs to be in your own words. Cite your source underneath the paragraph. See
attached works cited page to help you.
2. Write and submit a letter, poem, diary entry, or something similar from the perspective of
someone who witnessed the atrocity. This person could be a victim, perpetrator or witness.
3. Write and submit a one to two paragraph explanation of your memorial. This explanation should
explain anything not evident by the design you have submitted. Be sure to explain any and all
symbolic elements, logistical issues (consider cost, location, etc) and the like.
*Note: Submit items 1-3 together, typed, double-spaced, 12-point font
4. Create and submit a design for a memorial to commemorate your event. This could be drawn on
paper or digitally, painted on canvas, sculpted out of clay, built out of wood, or constructed out
of any other material and submitted by any other means deemed appropriate by your teacher. See
me if you have questions.
Due: 12-17
75 Points
Sample Topic List: Note these are only suggestions. For a more comprehensive list, go to:
http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocidetable2005.htm. The link is on my website.
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Armenian Holocaust (WWI)
Nazi Holocaust (WWII)
o disabled, Jews, Gypsies, ghettoes, experimentation victims, Einsatzgruppen victims,
specific concentration camps, specific individuals (ex. Anne Frank), Russian POW’s
Japanese War Crimes (WWII)
o Experimentation victims, Rape of Nanking, Bataan Death March, POW’s
Allied Actions (WWII)
o Firebombing of Dresden & Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Japanese-American Internment
Stalin’s Purges and the Gulags
China’s Cultural Revolution or the Great Leap Forward
Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge (Pol Pot): 1970’s
Balkans and Slobodan Milosevic: 1990’s
Rwanda: 1994
Darfur region of Sudan: 2004-Present
Victims of various terrorist bombings or attacks (Israel, Indonesia, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, United
States, Spain, London etc.)
World History II
Mr. Meyers
Name______________________Total Score_______/75
Memorial Project Scoring Guide
Part 1: Event Summary
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Did you clearly and concisely summarize the event?
Is all relevant information presented?
Is it written in your own words?
Is it proofread?
Did you cite your source?
Comments:
Part 2: Witness Testimony
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Did you choose an appropriate format to recount the event (journal, diary, letter, poem, court transcript, eulogy,
confession)?
Did you state whether you were writing as a victim, witness, or perpetrator?
Did your testimony accurately reflect the viewpoint of the person you chose to represent in that situation? Is it
something a victim / witness / perpetrator would write?
Is your testimony original? Creative? Moving?
Comments:
Part 3: Memorial Explanation
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Did you completely and thoroughly explain your design?
Did you explain what were you trying to accomplish?
Did you explain the symbolic elements of the memorial?
Did you include information that people might want to know before, during or after a visit?
Did you include any and all information not evident by visually looking at the design?
Is all of the above (Parts 1-3) typed, double-spaced, 12-point Times font, proofread?
Comments:
Part 4: Memorial Design
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Is your design creative? Original? Meaningful? Symbolic?
Is your design appropriate given the circumstances surrounding the event?
Is your design neat? Clear?
Is it evident that a good deal of thought went into the design?
Most importantly, will the proposed memorial do justice to the victims of the event?
Comments: