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Pearl Harbor. Warm-Up 3/8/13. The Only Way We C an Save Her. Agenda. Rise of Dictators Brochure Pearl Harbor Life during the attack Your Tweets or Updates on the attack. Rise of Dictators. In your pairs complete the worksheet by using the red textbooks. Discussion.
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Warm-Up 3/8/13 The Only Way We Can Save Her
Agenda • Rise of Dictators • Brochure • Pearl Harbor • Life during the attack • Your Tweets or Updates on the attack
Rise of Dictators • In your pairs complete the worksheet by using the red textbooks.
Discussion • What is Isolationism? • What is Internationalism?
Discussion • How did isolationism conflict with the rise of dictators and world leaders in Europe? • Would we have acted differently had these events happened today?
Brochure • Now you will create a brochure either in support of Isolationism or Internationalism. • The brochure should include pictures and some words. It should try to persuade people to embrace your position.
Things to Consider • The rise of dictators in Europe • The heavy death toll during World War I • Neutrality Acts • The Great Depression and its effect on both philosophies • Growing tensions in Europe and Asia
Warm-Up 3/11/13 • What is the difference between Isolationism and Internationalism?
Essential Question • Why would Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor?
Notes • In 1935 Hitler began to defy the Treaty of Versailles. First they would build a new air force and expand its army. • At Munich Conference in 1938, Britain and France agreed to Hitler’s demand by giving him part of Czechoslovakia. This was known as appeasement.
Notes • Hitler proposed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. Stalin agreed. • Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Beginning World War II. • Hitler used blitzkrieg warfare against France and easily beat their army.
Pearl Harbor • Read the documents to figure out why Japan would attack the United States at Pearl Harbor.
Interactive Map • Write down different events you find important and any words or thoughts that you find interesting as you listen to actual accounts of the attack.
Time to Tweet • Give me 3 to 4 tweets or status updates as to why the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. • Then give me 4 tweets or status updates that an American solider might have made during the Pearl Harbor attack.
Warm-Up 3/13/13 • Why did Japan decide to attack Pearl Harbor?
Agenda • Japanese Internment Camps • WWII Notes • Letters from actual soldiers
Japanese Internment • In February of 1942, Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066, authorizing the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans.
Essential Question • Why were Japanese Americans interned during World War II? • Do you think the United States should be allowed to restrict the rights of individuals during wartime?
Video Discussion • What were some of the reasons for internment offered in the newsreel? • How does the newsreel portray internment? Is it positive or negative? • Who do you think the audience was for this newsreel?
Document B/C Discussion • Has anyone’s hypothesis changed? Why or why not? • Do you find these documents more or less trustworthy than the government newsreel? Why or why not? • Why is the date of the Munson report important?
Final Discussion • Which of these documents do you think has a better explanation of Japanese internment? Why? • Why were Japanese Americans interned during World War II?
Paragraph • Explain in a paragraph if you believe it is right to put people into internments camps during wartime.
War in the Pacific • 4 days after Pearl Harbor, Germany and Italy declared war on December 11th on the United States. • Japan took the Philippines from the United States in May of 1942. • But at the Battle of Midway the United States halted the Japanese advance in the Pacific. This battle turned the tide in the Pacific.
What was happening in Europe? • In Europe Hitler betrayed the Soviet’s after defeating France and attacked the Soviet’s. • Before Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt got the Lend-Lease Act passed which allowed America to send supplies to country’s “vital to the nation’s defense.” • This included Britain and now the Soviets.
War in Africa • Instead of attacking in Europe the United States and Britain went into North Africa. • US and Britain invade North Africa and won in 1943. • Next the US and Britain would turn their eyes to Europe.
Letters Home • Soldiers and military personnel on the battlefronts of World War II stayed connected to their loved ones through letter writing. • Because the U.S. military was concerned that intercepted letters would provide the enemy with detailed information about the location of troops and battle plans, all mail sent home was censored before it was mailed as V Mail, or Victory Mail.
Examine the Letters • Read through the letters from those that fought in WWII and fill in the chart. • Answer the 2 questions once you are finished.
There are 4,048 Gold Stars on the WW II Memorial, as part of a feature called, the Freedom Wall. Each star represents 100 American service men and women killed in the war.