Week of February 4, 2013

Current event term 3 week 2  will be due this week.

Homework due  Tuesday
29(3) The Allies Turn the Tide (939-945) 
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
Read Witness history (939) why did WWII become a total war for the US?  
Read the infographic (941) identify three new WWII technologies and explain how they were used to win the war. 
Read the three biographies on page 944, identify each of the 3 Allied leaders, their country and two facts about the leaders from each reading.
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences: be sure to restate the question in your own words. 

Separate homework grade: 
Read D-Day 946-7, answer the three thinking critically questions on page 947

Homework due Thursday

29(4) Victory in Europe and the Pacific (948-951)

 Identify the terms, people, and places.

Answer map skills question #3 on page 949.

Draw the shape of the nuclear cloud on page 950.

Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences. 

Homework due next Tuesday:
29(5) The End of WWII (952-956)

Identify the terms, people, and places.

Look at the picture on page 952, what happened on V-J Day?

Look at chart on page 953, which nation suffered over 22 million deaths and 14 million

     wounded?

What does the Soviet poster pictured on page 954 warn against?

Read about the Berlin Airlift (955) How were Germany and Berlin divided?

What threat to America does the Red Menace (956) warn against?

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.