Friday, May 16, 2008

the Cold War

MONDAY: p. 582 Story that matters: Why does it matter?
Read Cold War, Cold war spreads, and Vietnam
Chpater assess 1,2,4,5,6,

WEDNESDAY Chapter 13 Berlin Wall; read sec 1-3 assessment to be assigned

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Friday's Test Topics...most of them anyway!

Hitler's Vision, Aryan race,
Mussolini, General Tojo
Axis and Allied
Churchill, Roosevelt
German path to war
Japans path to war
Map on 548
Holocaust, Final Solution, Einzatzgroupen ?, genocide, Auschwitz, teens in war, resistance
map 548
Pearl Harbor
Rosie The Riveter
Normandy Invasion, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Little Man, Fat Man, President Truman
Milgram experiment and other presentation topics: homosexuals, gypsies, medical experiments,
etc.

This should get you STARTED>!!

Monday, May 12, 2008

End of WWII events

nRead/Text: 549-550 Summarize the main events that helped end the war. Include the Normandy Invasion.
nRead p. 563-4 The Atomic Bomb
–Answer: evaluating; How did the bomb effect world war 2 events and what has been called the Cold War?
–Describe the Conferences that helped end the war.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Facing History, Facing Ourselves Website

Be the Change; Upstanders for Human Rights

Go to this website to see your HW for the weekend. You will be registering
and learning about the life of one of these 5 activists....your choice. More
direction tomorrow---but be prepared to complete steps 1-5.