Big Ideas of the Cold War. US vs. THEM Due Tuesday.

HW: The COLD WAR p. 584; Copy the Main idea;
Truman Doctrine: summarize in 8 words
containment: summarize in 8 words
Marshall Plan: summarize in 8 words

P. 585 Read the DIVISION OF GERMANY;
List the ideas and events that divided Germany…
Complete geography skills on 586.

5 paragraph Essay/Speech for your President! Typed.

Prompt: If you were the president, explaining on the radio to to America about why you used an atomic bomb/or not on Japan, how would you describe your decision? 1. Good Morning Americans…“We are at war…..summarize WWII, the war with Japan, and the U.S. created new weapon developed by scientists in America. 2. Clear statement about what you have decided to do with the bomb or not to do…. to Japan. 3. Explain your personal, internal ‘debate’ about whether this was the right action. Give 3-4 reasons for your decision Present 2 opposing viewpoints to show that you have considered other opinions. 4. Explain the short term and long term effects of your choice on people and nations. 5. Explain your Justification or refusal for using this weapon against ‘innocent citizens’. Is this inhumane and a “Crime Against Humanity” or was it a ‘necessity’ of war? Explain why some people thought it was ‘ok’ to bomb Hiroshima….and then Nagasaki. Conclusion: Explain why you are confident about your choice. Explain why this Was the best action for Americans.

Outline for Final Exam/Presentation!!

Final ‘Exam’: 15 minute power point presentation

Teach the class includes:

introduction, 2-3

Essential Questions, 2

‘hook’ activity, 2-5

Visual Discovery, 2-3

10-15 slides and video, 5-7

conclusion (no cut and paste, all original captions, etc.) 2

Due Monday: Your Presidential Speech on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Essay: follow the outline we developed in class

Prompt: If you were the president, explaining on the radio to to America about why you used an atomic bomb on Japan, how would you describe your decision?

1.“We are at war….."
1. As the president, summarize WWII, the war with Japan, and the new weapon developed by scientists in America.

2. Clear statement about what you have done.

3. Explain your personal ‘debate’ about whether this was the right course of action.

3-4 reasons for your decision

2 opposing viewpoints:

4. Justification for using this weapon against ‘innocent citizens’. Is this in humane or was it a ‘necessity’ of war? Explain why it was ‘ok’ to bomb Hiroshima….and then Nagasaki.

5. Explain the short term and long term effects of your choice.

. Conclusion: Explain why you are confident about your choice. Explain why this

Was the best action for Americans.

Test Next: Wednesday--World War II there will be 30 questions from this list.

1.Hitler

2.Mussolini

3.Churchill

4.Tojo, Hirohito

5.Stalin

6.nationalism

7.Allies

8.Axis powers

9.Hitlers vision for Germany

10.World War I, The Treaty of Versailles and its effects on Germany

11.How did the Treaty and the Depression make Hitler more popular?

12.Anti-semitism

13.What steps or stages led up to the Holocaust?

14.Mein Kampf

15.Obedience, obedience to authority

16.Milgram experiments

17.Youth Pledge to Hitler

18.Nuremberg Laws

19.Propaganda

20.Six Stages of Genocide

21.Nazie school education for prejudice and discrimination

22.Kristalnacht

23.Holocaust?

24.Genocide

25.•Bystander

26.•Perpetrator

27.•Upstander

1.•The Final Solution

2.Ghetto

3.•Deport

4.•exterminate

5.•Concentration camp

6.• Auschwitz

7.

8.Pearl Harbor

9.D Day

10.Hiroshima, Nagasaki

11.Truman

12.Atomic or nuclear bomb

13.•How can we explain why ordinary people participated in the mass murder of millions

of children, women, and men?

We remember them! sites Gabriela has visited!

Wiesenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance
Graceline
US Holocaust Museum

email rememberchildren@earthlink

LA Holocaust visit extra credit; Due Mpnday; typed essay

¢Thesis Statement: (write your own!) Going to the LA Holocaust Museum is important because events in the Holocaust must never happen again: prejudice, deportation, hatred, discrimination, violence against minorities, etc.
1. Introduction:
2. How did your visit to this museum influence and educate you: what did you learn about
the above issues both in the past and present?
3. Give example of things you saw in each museum room.
4. Give examples from what you learned from your docent or the Holocaust survivor Gabriella Karen.
5. Apply any of these ideas to your own prejudices or the prejudice
you see around you.
conclusion