U.S. HISTORY
KAUFFMAN 1314 PERIOD 6
THE TESTING OF AMERICA: WW2
Themes:
1. What does it mean to be an American?
2. The Individual and the State
3. War and its impact on soldiers and the civilian population
4. Isolation, intervention, and engagement in world affairs
Targets:
1. I can chart the progression of foreign policy from isolation to intervention
2. I can describe the factors in the rise of totalitarianism
3. I can understand the strategies, progression, and outcomes in both the European and Pacific theaters of war
4. I can understand the political, social, and economic impact of war on the home front
5. I can describe the impact of Total War on civilian populations
6. I can critically examine the American responses to the Holocaust
M 3/24 (100)
T 3/24 (78)
Prep for Test
Read Text: 734-737 (Dictators Threaten World Peace and War in
Europe)
F 3/28 (12)
End Q3
Test
Rise of Totalitarianism and
Road to War
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Rise of Totalitarianism and
Road to War
Road to War
FDR’s Speeches
Week 2:
M 4/7 (78)
Pearl Harbor!!! Computer Lab
Pearl Harbor!!! Computer Lab
Read and Notes Text: 768-774 (Mobilizing for Defense)
W 3/26 (56)
Th 3/27 (34)
T 4/8 LS 4,
7, 8 OR W
4/9 LS 1, 2,
3
Th 4/10 (34)
Read Text: 737-748 (Dictators Threaten World Peace)
Read and Notes Text: 756-763 (America Moves Towards War)
Read and FDR Speech Packet (but not Four Freedoms and Atlantic
Charter)
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Read and Notes Text: 775-783 (The War for Europe and North Africa)
F 4/11 (12)
First Stages of the European
War—to June 1944
War at Home
Week 3:
M 4/14 (78)
T 4/15 (56)
W 4/16 (34)
Internment Computer Lab
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America and the Holocaust
Begin “A More Perfect Union” Activity online (Webquest)
Th 4/17 (12)
F 4/18 NS
Week 4:
M 4/21 (78)
T 4/22 (56)
W 4/23 day
PSAE 6, 7, 8
OR Th 4/24
½ day PSAE
1, 2, 5
F 4/25 (12)
D-Day—Band of Brothers
Read and Notes Text: 796-803 (The Homefront)
The Terrible Silence Packet
NB: Response TBA
Begin Battle of the Bulge Activity On line (Webquest )
America and the Holocaust /
Why We Fight
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War in the Pacific—to June
1944
Complete Battle of the Bulge online activity (Wequest) . Bring printed
copy to class AND submit on Turnitin.com
War in the Pacific Atomic
Bomb
Read and Notes Text: 789-793 and “Choices” reading
Notebook: Moral questions of the war
Read and Notes Text: 784-789
Week 5:
M 4/28 (100)
T 4/29 (78)
W 4/30 (56)
Th 5/1 (34)
F 5/2 (12)
WWII TEST
UN and Nuremberg
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Intro Cold War Century Best
Years
Cold War
Prepare for Test
Work on Take Home Test
WWII Take Home Due: How was the United States tested by WWII?
(Diplomacy, Homefront, Battlefield, Resolution of conflict)
TBA
Terms to KNOW:
Axis powers
Allies
Totalitarianism
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Fascism
Adolph Hitler
Nazism
Manchuria
Invasion of Ethiopia
Spanish Civil War
Neutrality Acts
Rape of Nanking
Quarantine Speech
Munich Crisis
Neville Chamberlin
Siege of Leningrad
Panay Incident
Appeasement
Arsensal of Democracy Speech
Nazi-Soviet Pact
blitzkrieg
Phony War
Four Freedoms Speech
Charles de Gaulle
Vichy France
Nuremberg laws
Kristallnacht
St. Louis
Final Solution
Axis Powers
Selective Service Act
Lend-Lease
Cash and carry
Wolf Packs
Atlantic Charter
Battle of Britain
Hideki Tojo
Pearl Harbor
Unconditional surrender
George Marshall
Women’s Auxilary Army Corps
Liberty Ships
Manhattan Project--Oppenheimer
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
propaganda
rationing
Collective Sacrifice
Executive Order 9066
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of Stalingrad
Dwight D. Eisenhower
North African Campaign
Tuskegee Campaign
Sicily
Operation Overlord
Erwin Rommel
Omar Bradley
George Patton
Battle of the Bulge
Henry Morgenthau
Breckinridge-Long
Liberation of the Camps
V-E Day/V-J Day
Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Bataan Death march
Battle of Midway
Chester Nimitz
Kamikaze
Island Hopping
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Battle of the Coral Sea
Guadalcanal
Tokyo bombing campaign
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Yalta and Potsdam