- Warm Up Questions
- What was the most important foreign policy moment of the war and why?
- What was the most important domestic policy moment of the war and why?
- Finish Japanese Internment Document Analysis
Using this video and the documents (Canvas), answer the questions
- WWII Memorial: A Testament to Freedom Video
Answer Questions
- Finish Essential Questions and Study for Test (Homework)
- Warm Up Questions
- How did the United States change Japan politically?
- How did the United States change Japan economically?
- Review Essential Question #6
- Japanese Internment Document Analysis
Using this video and the documents (Canvas), answer the questions
- Warm Up Questions
- What was the importance of the Yalta Conference?
- What was the importance of the Potsdam Conference?
- Aftermath of the War
Use the reading (Canvas) to answer the questions
- Review Essential Questions #4 and 5
- Warm Up Questions
- Why were the Navajo chosen to be the “code talkers” in the Pacific?
- Why did California see a sharp increase in population during the war?
- Wartime Conferences
Use the information on the paper to answer the questions
- Finish Discussing Economic Opportunities and Discrimination
Take Notes
- Warm Up Questions
- What actions could ordinary Americans take to help the support the war effort?
- Who were the Tuskegee Airmen and what did they accomplish?
- Finish Discussing Heroes in Combat
Take Notes
- Review Essential Question #2
- World War II Propaganda Analysis, Part II
With your partner(s) working on your assigned poster, answer the two questions on the shared Google Doc (Canvas)
- Discuss Economic Opportunities and Discrimination
Take Notes
- Warm Up Questions
- How did American industry contribute to the war effort?
- How did scientists help the war effort?
- What is rationing and how did the work during the war?
- Clip from America in the 20th Century: World at War Video
- Discuss Heroes in Combat
Take Notes
- Warm Up Questions
- What was the Selective Service System and how did it help the United States meet manpower needs?
- What jobs did the WAC perform?
- Disney's Donald Gets Drafted Cartoon
- World War II Quiz
- Industry and Rationing
Use the reading (Canvas) to answer the questions
- Warm Up Questions
- Why did the Allies believe Iwo Jima and Okinawa were a foreshadowing of an invasion of Japan?
- Why did President Truman decide to use the atomic bomb?
- Americans Join the War Effort
Use the reading (Canvas) to answer the questions
- World War II Propaganda Analysis, Part I
Use the article (Canvas) to answer the questions
- Study for Monday's Quiz (Homework)
- Warm Up Questions
- What was the importance of the Battle of Midway?
- What strategy did the United States adopt for fighting Japan?
- Finish Discussing Victory Over Japan
Take Notes
- Clip from America in the 20th Century: World at War Video
- Review Essential Question #3
- Hiroshima Perspectives Document Analysis
Use the documents (Canvas) to answer the questions
- Warm Up Questions
- Which Allied nation received the “honor” of taking Berlin?
- Why did the other Allies allow that to happen?
- What was the Bataan Death March?
- Finish Discussing Allied Advances in the Pacific
Take Notes
- Clip from America in the 20th Century: World at War Video
- Discuss Victory Over Japan
Take Notes
- Warm Up Questions
- What was the importance of the Battle of the Bulge?
- What were the short and long-term effects of the election of 1944?
- Finish Discussing Victory in Europe
Take Notes
- Clip from America in the 20th Century: World at War Video
- Discuss Allied Advances in the Pacific
Finish Notes
- Warm Up Questions
- What was Operation Fortitude and what were its results?
- What were the desired conditions for the D-Day invasion?
- Finish Mail Call: D-Day Video
Answer Questions
- Discuss Victory in Europe
Take Notes
- Warm Up Questions
- To what did Roosevelt and Churchill agree early in the war?
- What were the operational codenames for the following invasions?
- North Africa
- Italy
- France
- Finish Discussing Allied Advances in Europe
Take Notes
- Review Essential Question #1
- Mail Call: D-Day Video
Answer Questions
- New Seating Chart
- Warm Up Questions
- Why was Japan on a collision course with the United States?
- How was Pearl Harbor both a success and a failure for Japan?
- Discuss Allied Advances in Europe
Take Notes
- Begin work on World War II Unit Essential Questions (Homework--Due the day of the unit test)
- 2023 in Review Video
- Clip from America: The Story of US--The US Enters WWII Video
Use the maps and your knowledge of World War I to answer the questions
- "Day of Infamy" Speech Analysis
Use FDR's speech to answer the questions
- Most Important Event of 2023? (Homework--Due Tomorrow)
On your own paper, choose what you think was the most important/interesting/news-worthy event in 2023 and at least one paragraph about why you think it was the most important.