Even as FDR’s New Deal was coping with the Great Depression, a still more fearsome menace was developing abroad – Hitler’s thirst for war in Europe, coupled with the imperial ambitions of Japan in Asia.  The greatest cataclysm in history grew out of ancient and ordinary human emotions – anger and arrogance and bigotry, victimhood and the lust for power.  And it ended due to other human qualities such as courage, perseverance and selflessness. The same generation of Americans who battled the Depression eventually had to shoulder arms in another conflict that wreaked worldwide destruction, ushered in the nuclear age, and forever changed their own way of life and their country’s relationship to the rest of the world.  In our next unit, we will learn how the nation agonized over its role in World War II, how it fought the war, why the United States won, and why the consequences of victory were sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic.  We will analyze the determinants of American strategy, the painful choices faced by commanders and statesmen, and the agonies inflicted on the millions of ordinary Americans who were compelled to swallow their fears and face this great cataclysm as best they could.

04/04/11

(Unit I) Great Depression Exam

04/05/11

Post Mortem (Unit I) Great Depression Exam

Class work-time

Homework -- CN (Chapter 19 / Section 1)

04/06/11

Review (Chapter 19 / Section 1)

Lecture -- #1 The Rise of Totalitarianism

Changing Fashions in Government

Homework -- CN (Chapter 19 / Section 2)

04/07/11

Review (Chapter 19 / Section 2)

Lecture -- #1 The Outbreak of WWII

Homework -- CN (Chapter 19 / Section 4), Roosevelt two speeches (summary), Read Pearl Harbor selections (summary)

04/11/11

Review (Chapter 19 / Section 4)

Lecture -- #2 American Neutrality

Homework -- CN (Chapter 20 / Section 1)

04/12/11

Review (Chapter 20 / Section 1)

Lecture -- #2 America joins WWII

(Homework -- CN (Chapter 20 / Section 3)

04/13/11

Review (Chapter 20 / Section 3)

Lecture -- #3 The American Homefront

Homefront Skits

04/14/11

Homefront Skits

04/15/11

Homefront Skits Performance

Homework -- CN (Chapter 20 / Sections 2, 4, & 5), Tuskeege Airmen Article (Summarize or CN)

04/18/11

Review Tuskeege Airmen Article

Lecture -- #4 Fighting in the European Theater

Short film on European conflict

Homework -- Navajo Code talker Article (Summarize or CN)

04/19/11

Review (Chapter 20/  Sections 2, 4, & 5)

Lecture -- #5 Fighting in the Pacific Theater

Short film on Pacific conflict

04/20/11

Review Navajo Code Talker Article

Lecture -- #6 WWII Legacy

Review for WWII Exam

04/21/11

(Unit II) World War II Exam

Homework: vocabulary words from “America and the Holocaust” classroom activity

04/25/11

Post Mortem (Unit II) World War II Exam

Review vocabulary homework

Watch “America and the Holocaust”

Homework -- CN (Chapter 21 / Sections 1 and 2)

04/26/11

Continue with “America and the Holocaust” and complete questions