WW2 Review

Objective

• Describe the major events, ideas, and people of WWII.

Agenda

1. Review Game:  Barrage
1. Answer question correctly to toss 3 chips in middle
2. Gain points for each chip in scoring zones at end of the game
3. If you chip lands on top of a another chip, that chip is removed.

The Pacific Theater & Civilian Bombings

Objective

• Explain the causes and effects of the US entering WWII
• Evaluate the use of bombings against civilians targets in WWII

Agenda

Audio: "A Date That Will Live in Infamy" - FDR

1. Warm-up #34: As you listen to this speech, imagine that you has just received the news about the attack on Pearl Harbor. 
1. How would you feel?
2. How would you want the US to respond?
2. Notes - US Enters the War
1. Video Clip:  The Pacific (10 minutes)
2. Discussion: Attacks on Civilians
3. Fog of War (20 minutes)
4. Review Packet

The Holocaust

Objective

• Analyze the causes of the Holocaust
• Evaluate the role of individual responsibility in the Holocaust

Agenda

1. Discuss what students already know about the Holocaust
2. Discuss Quote: "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he does." - John Paul Sartre
3. Niemoller Poem
4. Facts & Propaganda
5. Readings
1. Poems & Writings from Terezin
2. The Confession
3. Himmler's Speech at Posen
6. (If Extra Time) - WW2 Review Packet

The Eastern Front

Objective

• Analyze WW2 satire in Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator
• Explain the major battles and events on the Eastern Front

Agenda

1. Satire
1. Charlie Chaplain:  The Great Dictator
2. The Eastern Front
1. Notes
2. Video Clip:  Stalingrad

Origins of World War 2

Objective

• Explain the major causes and early battles of the second world war
• Analyze the effectiveness of Winston Churchill's leadership in Great Britain during WW2
• Examine the use of satire during WW2

Agenda

1. Start of WW2
1. Early Aggression
2. Poland
3. France
4. Britain
2. Churchill's Speeches
1. "Fight on the beaches"
2. "Their finest hour"
3. "Never have so many"
3. Satire
1. Charlie Chaplain:  The Great Dictator

The Soviet Union

Objective

• Analyze how the Russian and French revolutions are similar
• Describe the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin
  

Agenda

1. Music:  The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
2. Warm-Up #33:  This song is a song about revolutions, and it ends with the line:  "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."  How does this describe the French Revolution?
3. Anatomy of a Revolution
4. USSR under Stalin
5. Primary Source - Soviet Union Jokes

Rise of Totalitarianism

Objective

• Explain how totalitarian regimes rose to power across Europe
  

Agenda

1. Warm-Up #32:  Describe one thing that happened to Germany at the end of or after World War 1 that might have helped encourage extremist beliefs and the rise of Hitler?
2. Mussolini on Fascism
1. Find it under Public / Malafarina / Modern World History
3. WW2 - Rise of Totalitarianism Notes
1. Hitler / Germany
2. Stalin / USSR

World War 1Test / Ideologies

Objective

• Describe major political ideologies
• Explain how totalitarian regimes rose to power

Agenda

1. World War 1 Test
2. Political Ideologies
1. World's Smallest Political Quiz
3. Handout: Vote
4. Results of the Vote
5. WW2 - Rise of Totalitarianism

Russian Revolution

Objective

• Describe what life was like for soldiers in the trenches during WW1.
• Analyze the causes and effects of the Russian Revolution

Agenda

1. Warm-Up #31.    See Projector For Warm-Up
1. Is this picture propaganda?  If so, how do you know?  If not, why not?
2. Notes - Russian Revolution
3. All Quiet on the Western Front

Propaganda & Poetry

Objective

• Analyze how the weapons and tactics of World War 1 impacted the war

Agenda

• Propaganda
• Examples
• War Poets
• Poetry Reading (as class)
• "Base Details"
• "One-Legged Man"
• "Suicide in the Trenches"
• "Back"
• "Breakfast"
• "Futility"
• "Dulce et Decorum Est"
• Discussion
• All Quiet on the Western Front 
• Complete Video Guide as you watch

All Quiet on the Western Front

Objective

• Analyze how the weapons and tactics of World War 1 impacted the war

Agenda

• Warfare 1917
• Work with a partner or on your own
• Complete a the Game Guide worksheet as you play
• All Quiet on the Western Front 
• Complete Video Guide as you watch

Weapons of WW1

Objective

• Analyze how the weapons and tactics of World War 1 impacted the war

Agenda

• Reading Quiz #10 - 
• Notes - Weapons of World War 1
• Warfare 1917
• Work with a partner or on your own
• Complete a the Game Guide worksheet as you play