Week of Oct 2017 Honors

This is the last week of the term,  complete current events before Friday

Read 31(5)  From World War to Cold War (791-795)
Define: Iron Curtain, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Berlin Airlift, NATO, Warsaw Pact
Look at the fact finder (792)  Which nation had over 20 million deaths and 14 million military wounded?  Why do you think this nation would want to protect itself in the future?
Look at the Primary Source (793) What metaphor did Churchill coin describing Soviet control of Eastern Europe? 
Look at the map on 794.  What German city was divided into 4 zones?  Why would Greece and Turkey be early areas for Cold War Conflicts?  
Read the Berlin Airlift (795) What was Operation Vittles and Operation Little Vittles?
Answer questions 3-6 on page 795.

Complete the FDR reading for next week.   
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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Define these WW2 terms:

Anschluss

Appeasement

Totalitarian vs. Democracy

The (London) Blitz/Operation Sea lion   

Operation Barbarossa

Blitzkriegearl 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

Tojo Hideki and Emperor Hirohito

Final Solution  /Genocide

Holocaust

Kristallnacht

Auschwitz

Week of October 29,2017 CP1 and CP2

Last week of the term,  do not forget current events

Due next week

Read  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 three of the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR list 3 bullets for each term

Define each of these WWII terms

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?

Which nation was the Arsenal of Democracy?  Why?

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

Tojo Hideki and Emperor Hirohito

Final Solution  /Genocide

Holocaust

Kristallnacht

Auschwitz

Week of October 23, 2017 Honors

Mark Twain said: "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."   What did he mean?


31(3)  The Global Conflict: Allied Successes 781-786
Identify: genocide, collaborator, reparations
Read Geography and History (782) - How long was the Burma Road between Burma and Thailand supposed to take?  How long were British POWs given to build it?  At what cost?
Read The Holocaust (783) answer questions 1+2 +3
Read Women in Wartime (784).  How do the two pictures show a change in woman's role in wartime?
Look at the map on 785.  Why do you think the battles of El Alamein (Egypt), Stalingrad and Leningrad (USSR) are significant?
Read the Primary Source on page 786.  What day or event is Werner Pluskat describing?
Answer questions 3,6,7 on page 786. 

31(4)  Toward Victory 787-790
Identify: island hopping, kamikaze
What is pictured on page 787?
Read Erwin Rommel's biography on 788.  What led to Rommel's death?  Why did the Nazis kill him?
Look at the map on 789.  Why were the battles of Coral Sea and Midway significant?
Why do you think the Allies did not attack every Japanese controlled island?  Why do you think the Japanese could not maintain every island?
What is pictured on page 790?
Answer questions 3,6,7 on page 790.

Week of Oct 23, 2017 CP1 and CP2

Mark Twain said: Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.  What did he mean?

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 or 3 bullets for each section.

Separate homework grade: 

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

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 or three bullet facts per section.

Week of October 16, 2017 Honors

31(1)  Aggression, Appeasement and War (769-774)
Define sanction, appeasement, pacifism, Anschluss
Look at the map on page 769.  What three continents did the Axis have areas under control?
Read the biography of Haile Selassie (770).  What were the years of his rule of Ethiopia?  Who
      interrupted his rule in 1935?
Look at the picture on 771.  Who were the two rulers of the Rome-Berlin Axis pictured?
Read Global Connections (772) Who was the American writer and what was his book about the
      Spanish Civil War?
Look at the map on 773.  Answer question #2+3
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page  774

31(2) the Global Conflict: Axis Advances (775-780)
Identify blitzkrieg, radar, sonar
What airplane is pictured  on page 775?  Draw the markings on its wings.
Read rationing and New Products (776).  What three products were made because of shortages in
    WWII?  What products did they replace? 
Read Surviving the Blitz(777).  What was the blitz and who survived it?
Who is pictured on page 779?
What is pictured on page 780?  What day did this date of infamy occur?
Answer questions 4,5,6 on page 780.

Week of October 16, 2917 CP 1 and CP2

29(1) From Appeasement to War (924-929)
Identify the terms, people and places
Look at the picture on page 925. What did Neville Chamberlain think he had brought Britain in September 1938 with his agreement with Hitler?
Look at the picture on 925, what treaty did Germany break by rearmament?
Look at the picture on page 926. List the four fascist leaders and their countries.
Why is the woman crying on page 927?
Look at the map on page 928. Answer questions #1+2.
Look at the chart on page 929. Identify what you think are the top two reasons to appease (give into) Hitler.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR 3 bullets for each section 

29(2) The Axis Advances (930-938)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 933.
Answer Thinking Critically #1 on page 935. 
Read the picture caption on 936, how did the Japanese treat the Chinese?
Read the caption to the picture on 938, answer the question. 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences: or 3 bullets for each section.

Sargent York reading by John Bowers

1.  Describe the 82nd division, All-American division,  that made up Sgt. York's division.


2.  Describe Sargent York.  Where was he from?  Who was his girlfriend?  Did Bowers consider him a hillbilly?  How did he relax?

3.  Explain what happened  the day York became a hero. 
Why did some of his fellow soldiers get upset ?
Why did Nazis later deny this could happen? 


4 Why did General John J. Pershing wan First Lieutenant Samuel Woodfill to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor over Sgt. York?

5 . What happened to Sgt. York after WWI?

  

Week of Oct 10, 2017 Honors

Don't forget your permission slips for the field trip to MMA

Sargent York reading is due Thursday

 -annotate the reading,  underline the facts,  react in the margin to  the reading.

 -list 10 facts and identify the page numbers  make sure to list the facts of York's heroism
 -React to the reading.  Is Sargent York a true hero or was he made one for propaganda purposes?
     Explain your answer.  Do you think he is more legend than hero?  Why were Nazis skeptics
     of this story?

  30(1)  The Western Democracies  (756-751)
Identify: disarmament, overproduction, margin buying, and general strike
Who is pictured crying in Kathy Kolwitz's wood cutting on page 746?  Why?
Look at the picture on page 747.  What did the Kellog-Briand Pact try to ban?  What insurance policy does the picture suggest?
Read the primary source on page 748.  How did the man lose his legs?  Why risk the loss?  
What is pictured on page 748?  
What is pictured on page 749?
Read Geography and history(750)  What was the Maginot Line?  Who built it?  Did it work in WWII?
Answer questions 4 + 5 on page 751

30(3) Fascism in Italy (757-760)
 Identify: Black Shirts,  Il Duce
 Read Setting the scene (757)  Why were Italian nationalists upset after WW1?
Read  Did you know (758)  Why do you think Mussolini had a 300's scale model of Rome built?
Read Totalitarianism (759)  Answer skills assessment questions #1+2.
Read Global Connections (760)  Why reason did FDR give for Eastern European nations turning to authoritarian rulers /dictators?

Answer questions 2,3,4 on page 760.

30(4) Hitler and the rise of Nazi Germany (761-765)
Identify Chancellor, repudiate, concentration camp
Look at the picture on page 761.  What is the German woman using for fuel in 1923?  Why?
Read the biography of Hitler (762)  List 3 facts about Hitler.
What is  pictured on page 763?  How would these rallies fuel nationalism?
What is being burned in the picture on page 764?  Why?
Read the primary source Kristallnacht (765) What happened on the night of November 9-10, 1938?  What happened November 11, 1918?
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 765

Week of October 10, 2017 CP1 and CP2

Make sure you get your money and permission slip in for the field trip to MMA

28(2) The Western Democracies Stumble (891-897)

Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the picture on 891. What is a soup kitchen?
Look at the picture on page 892. What were the Irish Republican Army trying to resist?
Look at the political cartoon on 893. What point is the cartoonist trying to make?
Read the infographic (894-5). In which country did the Great Depression begin?
What country had the highest unemployment (line graph on 895)
Describe the woman pictured on page 896.
Look at the Economic Theory bloc on page 897. What does John Maynard Keynes think the government should do during depressions?
Answer four of the five checkpoint questions in complete sentence, or 3 bullets/section.

Separate HW grade
Read Pablo Picasso (p.890) . How do you think cubism got its name?

28(3) Fascism in Italy
Identify the terms, people, and places
How is Mussolini pictured on page 898 and 899?
Look at the infographic (900-901) What is a cult of personality?
What happened to Osip Mandelstam (900)?
Look at the picture on 902, what were children required to carry?

Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences or 3 bullets/section. 

28(5) Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany (912-917)

Identify the terms, people and places.
Look at the picture on 912, how did Hitler give hope to the Germans? Who did he blame?
Look at the picture on 913, what is inflation and how did it impact prices?
Read the biography of Hitler on 914. List three adjectives to describe his personality.
Look at the picture on 915. What happened on Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
Look at the picture on page 916. Why were books like All Quiet on the Western Front burned?
Look at the chart on page 917. Why were Jewish books also burned? What Jewish scientist exiled from Germany came to the US to teach at Princeton University?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR 3 bullets for each checkpoint section.