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- ASSIGNMENTS - Overview of World War II Reading Packet Pearl Harbor: Fact V Fiction Packet (From 1933 - 1941)
World War II Quiz #2 1941-1945 (European Theatre)
World War II Quiz #3 1941-1945 (Pacific Theatre)
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The students will know: · How isolationists delayed US entry into the war · How Pearl Harbor turned the tide towards US involvement in WWII · How wartime economic needs ended the Depression · The impact of nationalism on the rights of Japanese Americans · How war technology brought advances to the homefront · The importance of FDR, Eisenhower and Marshall in the strategies of the war · The contributions of Connecticut residents and industries in the war effort · How the Atomic bomb changed US notions of world affairs · The factors that led to the creation of the United Nations · Why the Marshall Plan was created
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Key Vocabulary Allies, Axis, Nazis, Holocaust, Kristallnacht, Gestapo, War Reparations, Pearl Harbor, Appeasement, Totalitarianism, Internment, Blitzkrieg, Marshall Plan, Propaganda, Euthanasia, Homefront, Rosie the Riveter, Lend-Lease Act, D-Day, Battle of the Buldge, Battles of the Coral Sea and of Midway, Bataan Death March, VE Day, VJ Day Key Individuals Allies Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Winston Churchill Charles DeGaulle Joseph Stalin
Axis Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Emperor Hirohito
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