11th Grade American History

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11th Grade American History
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Mr. Daltons Class
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Subject Chapter 17

• The World at War
• 1941-1945

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Objectives

• Describe how the Allies halted the expansion of
  the Axis during 1942
• explain how the Allies defeated Germany and Italy

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Objectives

• Describe the impact of World War II on the U.S.
  economy and on women, Japanese Americans, and
  other minority groups
• describe Allied advances on Japan in the Pacific

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Objectives

• Discuss the decision to develop and use the
  atomic bomb
• describe the political and social effects of
  World War II

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Activity one

• The students will create an illustrated scrapbook
  of World War II. Students may focus on such
  topics as war technology, changes in the United
  States as a result of the war, or its effect on
  American foreign policy. They will be able to
  use photographs, art, literature, movies , and
  music of the war period.

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Activity two

• On the computers the students will work in pairs
  and play the game The European Theatre. The
  Nazis are taking over Europe and the Allied
  forces must find a way to stop them. Students
  made decisions regarding troop movement,
  weaponry, and joining forces with other nations.
  The students will write a page describing how
  their war ended.

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Activity three

• As a class we will watch the video D-Day, a film
  that tells of the Allies military build-up,
  strategies leading to D-Day, and the Allied
  invasion of Europe. We will then discuss the
  outcome of it and tell how each would have done
  things differently if possible.

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Activity four

• The students will read the book, Diary of a Young
  Girl, Anne Frank. It is a book about a Jewish
  girl who survived the concentration camp. The
  students will then write a two page report on
  what they think of it

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Activity five

• After watching the video, The Home Front, a film
  that depicts the social changes that the U.S.
  went through during the war, including the effect
  on family life, the beginning of the civil
  rights movement, and the growth of the American
  Economy, they will get into groups and write a
  page on what was the most important in their
  minds.

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Activity six

• As a class we will discuss what daily life must
  have been like for civilians in Stalingrad,
  Leningrad, and for soldiers fighting in the
  Pacific. They students will write in their
  notebooks a short-story or diary entry describing
  on such person

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Activity seven

• In groups the students will create a balance
  sheet illustrating the good and bad effects of
  the war on the U.S. economy. Then they will
  present their ideas to the class.

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Activity eight

• As a class we will discuss the issue of civic
  responsibility to daily life. On a sheet of
  paper they will write how their lives might be
  different if it were 1943.

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Activity nine

• We will discuss the ethics of total war. The
  students will recall the Battle of Britain and
  subsequent Allied bombing of German cities, such
  as Dresden. Then they will be divided into two
  groups and debate whether the horror of war
  escalates in proportion to technology.

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Activity ten

• As a class we will discuss how might the U.S.
  have believed that use of the atomic bomb would
  affect its relations with the Soviet Union in the
  post war. Then in their notebooks they will
  answer this question, do you think the U.S.
  should have dropped the bomb on Japan? Why or Why
  not?

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Important terms

• Axis powers
• allies
• battle of El Alemein
• battle of Stalingrad
• Bataan Death March
• Battle of Midway

• Internment
• War Production board
• Battle of the Atlantic
• unconditional surrender
• Battle of the Bulge
• Yalta Conference

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Important terms

• Island hopping
• Battle of Leyte Gulf
• kamikaze
• Battle of Iwo Jima
• Battle of Okinawa
• Manhattan Project

• Holocaust
• Nuremberg trials
• GI Bill of Rights
• superpower
• United Nations

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Important people

• Albert Einstein
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Douglas MacArthur

• A. Phillip Randolph
• Erwin Rommel

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Web sites to get more information

• Http//www.csi.as.jp/ABOMB/
• http//www.dannen.com/decision
• http//www.lclark.edu/history/HIROSHIMA/
• http//www.revisionism.com
• http//www.holocaust-history.org/

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Web sites to get more information

• Http//earthstation1.simplenet.com/wwii.html
• http//gi.grolier.com/wwii/
• http//tlc.ai.org/wwii.thm
• http//www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/collections/wwii
  -posters/
• http//www.openstore.com/posters/index.html