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WWII
How did the aggressive expansion of Italy, Germany and Japan lead to the outbreak of WWII?
How did military decisions and new military technologies impact the outcomes of World War II?
How can we properly acknowledge the immense human cost of World War II today?
World War II is the most devastating and significant event in the history of the 20th Century. It left approximately 60 million
people dead across the globe, uprooted over 50 million from their homes and caused property damage in the tens of billions
of dollars. How the conflict started along with the main military and political implications of the war will be our focus for the
first half of the unit. How people today can begin to try and make sense of and learn from this type of enormous suffering
and devastation will be the focus of a project we undertake for the second half of the unit.
Monday
3/13
No School – staff
development
Tuesday
Wed/Thurs BLOCK
Friday
3/14
3/15-16
3/17
DUE: HW #1
Rise of Japanese Militarism The failure of appeasement
HW #1 Quiz
and beginning of WWII
Course of WWII
3/20
3/21
3/22-23
Course of WWII
Course of WWII/Intro
Project
3/27
3/28
Holocaust/Human Cost of Human Cost of WWII on
WWII
soldiers and civilians
How to Write an
Annotated
Bibliography/Project work
time
3/29-30 DUE: HW #3
HW #3 Quiz
Human Cost of WWII
4/3
Human Cost of WWII on
soldiers and civilians
4/5-6
DUE: Museum
Project
Present Museums
4/4
Human Cost of WWII on
soldiers and civilians
Homework #1:
Read Pages 481-485 and 491 - 496
3/24 DUE: HW #2
HW #2 Quiz
The Atomic Bomb and the
human cost of WWII on
civilians
3/31
Long Essay Test
4/7
Wrap up Museum Project
DUE: Friday 3/17
Answer questions below in an original paragraph each. OR Take about one page of “Cornell Style” notes. There will be a quiz on this HW on
the DUE date.
1. How did the rule of Japanese militarists demonstrate the ideology of fascism?
2. How did Germany & the USSR begin World War II?
3. Explain how France and England became involved in World War II.
4. What happens when fighting spreads to North Africa and the Soviet Union?
Japanese Militarists, Manchuria, Mussolini attacks Ethiopia, Examples of Appeasement, Spanish Civil War, Third
Reich, Munich Conference, Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, Blitzkrieg, Fall of France, Battle of Britain,
Afrika Korps, Operation Barbarossa
HW #2 and #3 on back -----
Homework #2:
Read Pages 497-501 and 506-513
DUE: Friday 3/24
Answer questions below in an original paragraph each. OR Take about one page of “Cornell Style” notes. There will be a quiz on this HW on
the DUE date.
1. Describe TWO key events relating to fighting between the Allies & Japan early in WWII.
2. Why are the battles of Stalingrad & D-Day considered key military turning points of WWII?
3. What factors led the US to use the atomic bomb against Japan in August of 1945?
Pearl Harbor, Bataan Death March, Pacific War Strategy, Battle of Stalingrad, Invasion of Italy, Operation
Overlord, V-E Day, Kamikaze Pilots, Battle of Iwo Jima, Manhattan Project, Post War Devastation in
Europe
Homework #3:
Read Pages 502-505 and 514-517
DUE: BLOCK 3/29-30
Answer questions below in an original paragraph each. OR Take about one page of “Cornell Style” notes. Your short answer test with 8 MC
questions is on the DUE date for this HW.
1. Describe some of the steps the Nazis employed building up to the “final solution.”
2. How did the victorious allied forces deal with the defeated Germany and Japan?
Holocaust, Nuremberg Laws, Ghettos, Concentration Camps, Extermination Camps, Jewish Resistance,
Nuremberg Trials, Demilitarization of Japan
Memorial Museum Project
DUE: BLOCK 4/5-6
Next week you will be assigned a project that will ask you to examine the human cost of the war. There will be
benchmarks associated with this project to keep you and your group on track. More information to come.