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• 3/13/06
• Please open your Interactive Notebook to page
  108. Thank you!
  
• Title the page The Influence of Geography and put
  your heading in the upper right corner.
  
• Answer the focus question
• Focus Question
• Do you think the United States would behave
  differently if it was not isolated by the
  Atlantic and Pacific oceans? Justify your answer.

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• The Rest of the Agenda
• Check Homework progress on editorial
  assignments
  
• Work on Editorial assignments
• Lecture the D-Day invasion and the end of World
  War II.
  
• Socratic Seminar Dropping the Big One

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• Check Homework Progress on Editorial Assignments

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• Work on Editorial Assignments
• While you are working on your assignments, I will
  come around and help with any questions you have.

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• Please open your Interactive Notebook to page
  137. Thank you!
  
• Title the page D-Day Invasion and the End of
  World War II.
  
• Get ready to take lecture notes.

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• D-Day. June 6, 1944.
• Allied forces land at Normandy, France in the
  first major assault on German territory.
  
• Eventually, the Allies would liberate France and
  establish a new front along the Netherlands,
  Belgium, and Luxembourg.
  

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• II. The same year, Roosevelt defeats Thomas Dewey
  for an unprecedented fourth term as president.
  
• A. Dewey claimed that after 12 years of New
  Dealism, it was time for a change.
  
• B. The CIO, a group of union members, campaigned
  for Roosevelt, using the question What were you
  doing in 1932?.
  
• 1. This was a direct reference to the Great
  Depression, and a subtle scare tactic.
  
• C. Roosevelt won 432 to 99 in the electoral
  college.
  
• D. Overall, Roosevelt won because the war was
  going well.

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• III. By late 1944, Germany was all but defeated.
• A. Hitler tried one last gamble, an attempt to
  take over the port town of Antwerp in Belgium,
  which was a vital supply line for the allies.
  
• B. Germany threw nearly all of his reserves into
  the offensive, creating a bulge in the allied
  lines. The battle was called The Battle of the
  Bulge
• C. The allies won this battle, and Germany would
  spend the last 4 months of the war in retreat.
  
• D. Hitler commits suicide on April 30, 1945, and
  Germany officially surrenders on May 7, 1945.

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• IV. The Pacific theatre.
• A. After Germany surrenders, the Allies were
  tightening the noose around the island of Japan.
  
• B. The Potsdam Conference
• 1. In July 1945, Truman met with Stalin and
  British leaders and issued an ultimatum to the
  Japanese surrender or be totally destroyed
  
• C. At this time, the United States was
  completing research into the development of
  nuclear weapons, known as the Manhattan Project.
  July 16, 1945 the first nuclear device is
  detonated in New Mexico.
• D. August 6, 1945 Hiroshima. August 9, 1945
  Nagasaki. August 10, 1945 Japan surrenders,
  ending World War II.

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The Bombing of Hiroshima
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• Hiroshima after the bombing

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• Socratic Seminar Dropping the Big One
• Do you think the United States should have
  developed the Atomic bomb?
  
• Do you think the Untied States made the right
  decision to drop the Atomic Bomb?
  
• Do you think the invention of nuclear weapons
  have been beneficial or harmful to the security
  of the United States?
  
• Do you think the invention of nuclear weapons
  have been beneficial or harmful to the security
  of the world?