What’s up doc?

1. What’s up doc? • SOL: VUS.12a/b • NCSS: Culture and Cultural Diversity • SWBAT(s): • Describe the impact of the United Nations • Analyze post-war outcomes and the short-term and long-term implications of the division of Germany, including the establishment of the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and NATO • Discuss the division of the world between democratic and communist ideals • Guiding Question: • How did differences in economic and political thought create the “Cold War?” • What prevented the Cold War from becoming a “hot” war?

2. Giddy up. • SOL: VUS.12b • NCSS: Culture and Cultural Diversity • SWBAT(s): • Identify the impacts of the Cold War on America during the 1950s by focusing on: • The fear of communism in the U.S. through McCarthyism and the Rosenberg Trials • The impact of communism around the globe, including in Korea, Cuba, and Soviet Union • The use of new technologies (launch of Sputnik and creation of nuclear weapons) • Guiding Question: How did tensions in the Cold War increase as a result of the events of the 1950s (compared to the 1940s)?

3. Yhatzee… • VUS.12b/c • NCSS: Time, Continuity, and Change • SWBAT(s): • Identify Cold War conflicts including the Bay of Pigs invasions, the Berlin Wall, and the Vietnam War. • Discuss key figures including John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro • Guiding Question: How did the Cold War intensify compared to the 1940s?

4. Countdown to Spring Break: 4 days left… • VUS.12b/c • NCSS: Global Connections • SWBAT(s): • Identify the major events of the Cold War in the 1960s • Analyze the role of JFK during the Cold War • Guiding Question: • What events caused the “brink” of war, and how did cooler heads prevail?

5. 3 days left… • SOL: VUS.12c • NCSS: Civic Ideals and Practices • SWBAT(s): • Identify the division of America on their view of the Vietnam War • Discuss Cold War events of the 1970s • Guiding Question: • What events during the 1970s caused the most animosity among American citizens during the Cold War?

6. (2 days left) and my last lesson…  (or  to some…) • SOL: VUS.12d • NCSS: Time, Continuity, and Change • SWBAT(s): 1. Analyze the fall of the Soviet Union and interpret the impacts in former Soviet states 2. Discuss the impact of the Cold War (from the 1940s to 1990s) and how America has progressed from the fall of the Soviet Union • Guiding Question: What events caused the Cold War to end…finally?

7. Some FREE information… • SOL: VUS.10a • NCSS: Power, Authority, and Governance • SWBAT(s) • Define and provide examples of fascism • Analyze and interpret the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler to power • Discuss the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany Guiding Question: How did the failures of the Weimar Republic lead to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power?

8. Is anyone paying attention? • SOL: VUS.10a • NCSS: Power, Authority, and Governace • SWBAT(s) • Identify regions of growing militarism and domination during the 1930s • Examine Germany’s violation of the Treaty of Versailles • Interpret America’s stance (position) at the beginning of WWII Guiding Question: Why did America attempt to remain neutral (like in WWI) with the German invasion of Poland?

9. Some Vital Information • SOL: VUS.10a/b • NCSS: Global Connections • SWBAT(s) • Identify the shift in America’s position of the war (from neutrality to eventual involvement) • Discuss and describe the battles of Great Britain and Stalingrad Guiding Question: What were the similarities and differences between the military forces of Great Britain and the Soviet Union?

10. Free Information…Thursday edition…. • SOL: VUS.10a/b • NCSS: Power, Authority, and Governance • SWBAT(s) • Identify the causes of Pearl Harbor for America. • Analyze the impact of the attack on both Japan and America. Guiding Question: What were the long-term and immediate results of the attack on Pearl Harbor to America?

11. “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds…” – Churchill • SOL: VUS.10b • NCSS: Power, Authority, and Governance • SWBAT(s) • Discuss the importance of El Alamein in North Africa • Identify the turning point of the war, examining how the Allies were successful against Germany and the Axis powers. • Analyze the overall strategy in defeating Germany in WWII Guiding Question: How were the Allies able to stop the German advance eventually pushing them back into Germany, ending the war in Europe? VITAL INFORMATION, but still free… - TEST, Next Tuesday, April 4

12. Copy all of this down, NOW… or just take a look at it • SOL: VUS.10b • NCSS: Time, Continuity, and Change • SWBAT(s) • Discuss the U.S. advance towards Japan in their “island hopping” campaign. • Analyze the Pacific campaign and discuss how Japan resorted to using kamikaze pilots as a military strategy. Guiding Question: How did America’s Navy progress from rebuilding their fleet after Pearl Harbor to their successful “island hopping” campaign, eventually defeating Japan?

13. You say fission, I say fusion…let’s call the whole thing off… • SOL: VUS.10b/d • NCSS: Civic Ideals and Practices • SWBAT(s) • Interpret the use of atomic weapons during the war. • Discuss the short-term and long-term implications or impacts of WWII on America. Guiding Question: How did WWII result in the creation of a “cold war” between the U.S. and Soviet Union?

14. Get your K-nowledge on… • SOL: VUS.10e • NCSS: Civic Ideals and Practices • SWBAT(s) • Analyze the impact of the Holocaust • Discuss the results of the Holocaust and resulting Nuremburg Trials. Guiding Questions: • How were the leaders/officers of the Axis powers punished as a result of WWII and the Holocaust? • How could the atrocities of the Holocaust happen in the 20th century?

15. Just throwing it out there… • SOL VUS.8d-.9a • SWBAT(s): • Identify and describe the foreign and national policies of each Progressive Era President (McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson) and their impacts as Presidents • Compare and contrast their policies and ideas about American policy during this period

16. I heart the SOL’s • SOL: VUS.8D SWBAT • Identify the impact of the Progressive Movement • Examine and define the concepts of child labor, antitrust laws, labor unions, and women’s suffrage