Week of November 5, 2108 Honors

Next Sunday marks the armistice  that ended WWI.  How did WWI change the world? 
Do not forget History Day Project/  Part III due 11/19

  Due next Monday

Define these WW2 terms:  due next Monday

Anschluss

Appeasement

Totalitarian vs. Democracy

The (London) Blitz/Operation Sea lion   

Operation Barbarossa

Blitzkrieg
Pearl Harbor 

Date of Infamy  December 7,1941

In what 2 parts of the world (theaters )did the US fight World War II?

Arsenal of Democracy

Battle of Midway

Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of El Alamein

Battle of Midway

Allies vs. Axis Countries

D-Day

The Battle of the Bulge

Island Hopping

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Big Three at Allied Conferences-

Winston Churchill

FDR

Harry Truman

Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito

Final Solution  /Genocide

Holocaust

Kristallnacht

Auschwitz

Complete the FDR reading for the end of next Thursday  (11/15).   
What do you think of FDR?  What do you think of Doris Kearns Goodwin's writing?
 Answer 4 of these 5 questions.

1. Polio was a transformative experience for FDR according to Eleanor.  Describe the character of FDR before and after his contracting polio.  How did FDR change both physically and psychologically (mentally)?

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2. How did talks with FDR change his general’s behavior during WWII?  How did FDR use his fireside chats?   Who were these chats directed towards? Why didn’t he give a chat every week?   How many fireside chats did FDR deliver in the 13+ years of his presidency?  ________

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3. When “Doc Win the War “replaced “Doc New Deal” how did Eleanor react?  Describe the relationship between Franklin and Eleanor.  What was Eleanor’s role in the presidency?    What caused this relationship to change?   Why did some call FDR to “muzzle that wife of yours”?    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. Actor Gregory Peck cried as a child when he saw FDR?  Why?  What caused Peck to cry and why did he soon laugh?   How did FDR manipulate his public persona?  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. How did America react when FDR died in April 1945 one month before VE Day? Why were the people so emotional? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------