WW2 PPT - Warning! This is a large file! over 27MB! Be prepared! However, it is comprehensive and from another teacher
and site. I think iti is very useful as an overview of the war.
Holocaust Denial PPT - This file is about 5MB and discusses how people can deny the facts surrounding the Holocaust. Very interesting.
Another great PowerPoint by Scott Masters.
WW2 Notes - Causes and Steps Toward war (3/7/14)
WW2 Notes - An overview of the war (the short version). Notes from 3/29/2012.
Notes from 4/1/2009
1919-WWI ends
1929-Stock Market Crash
1932-Hitler/FDR elected
1935-Nuremburg Laws
1936-Berlin/Olympics,
invasion of Rhineland
1938-Anschluss, Sudetenland, Kristallnacht, Death Camps
1939-Invation of Poland-WWII starts.Britian
and France declared war.
Notes from 4/9/10
May 8, 1945 – VE Day
Sept. 2, 1945 – VJ Day
August
1945 – bombs dropped on Japan
April 29, 1945 – Hitler
April 7, 1945 – FDR
June 6, 1944 –
D Day
1943 – Operation Husky
1942 – N African Campaign
Battle of El Alamein
Rommel
1942
– Battle of Stalingrad
1940 – Battle of Britain
France occupied
Vichy
Sept.
1939 – Poland invaded
Start WWII
Dropping of the Atomic Bomb
Document
Analysis
1. Who wrote this document?
2. What is the purpose
of this document?
3. What date was this
document issued?
4. Why is the name of
the city left out?
5. Why does the atomic
bomb's power have to be explained?
6. Look at the last paragraph
of the second page of the press release. What were Truman's plans for ending the war? Did he accomplish those goals in dropping
the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Why or why not?
7. On page three, Truman
advocates the use of atomic power for world peace. How does he propose to fulfill this goal?
8. What reasons does
President Truman use to justify dropping the bomb?
Follow-Up Questions
1. Armed
with all of the knowledge that President Truman and his advisors had accumulated, how would you have ended the war in the
Pacific?
2. Make
a table listing the advantages and disadvantages that the atomic bomb presented to modern warfare? Why did the fire bombing
of Tokyo just weeks earlier that killed over 120,000 civilians not receive the same moral criticism that the atomic bomb received?
One newspaper critic stated after dropping the bomb, "Yesterday we clinched victory in the Pacific, but we sowed the whirlwind."
What did he mean by this? Argue for or against this statement.
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