Florida Standards
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World War II Textbook Chapter & Workbook Pages
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World War II Notes and Assignments
Reading Like a Historian: Appeasement & Nanjing
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You can't have a world history unit without a good map activity
European and Pacific Theaters
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Man your Battle Stations
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The Holocaust
Sixty years ago, in the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe found evidence of atrocities which have tortured the world's conscience ever since. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began in the summer of 1945 on the documentary, but the film was left unfinished. FRONTLINE found it stored in a vault of London's Imperial War Museum and, in 1985, broadcast it for the first time using the title the Imperial War Museum gave it, "Memory of the Camps."
As the film's history shows, it was a project that was supervised by the British Ministry of Information and the American Office of War Information. And during that summer of 1945 some of the documentary editing was done under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.
"At the time we found the film, it was not entirely clear what role Hitchcock played in its development," says David Fanning, executive producer of FRONTLINE. "Moreover, one reel of the original six, shot by the Russians, was missing. There was a typed script intact -- undated and unsigned -- but it had never been recorded."
FRONTLINE took the film, added the script and asked the late British actor, Trevor Howard, to record it. The aim was to present the film unedited, as close as possible to what the producers intended in 1945.
"Memory of the Camps" includes scenes from Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen and other Nazi concentration camps whose names are not as well known. Some of the horrors documented took place literally moments before the Allied troops arrived, as the Germans hurried to cover the evidence of what they had done.
As the film's history shows, it was a project that was supervised by the British Ministry of Information and the American Office of War Information. And during that summer of 1945 some of the documentary editing was done under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock.
"At the time we found the film, it was not entirely clear what role Hitchcock played in its development," says David Fanning, executive producer of FRONTLINE. "Moreover, one reel of the original six, shot by the Russians, was missing. There was a typed script intact -- undated and unsigned -- but it had never been recorded."
FRONTLINE took the film, added the script and asked the late British actor, Trevor Howard, to record it. The aim was to present the film unedited, as close as possible to what the producers intended in 1945.
"Memory of the Camps" includes scenes from Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen and other Nazi concentration camps whose names are not as well known. Some of the horrors documented took place literally moments before the Allied troops arrived, as the Germans hurried to cover the evidence of what they had done.
Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Japan?
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Post WWII and the start of the Cold War
Members of the Big Three countries (America, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union) meet at the Yalta Conference on the left and later at Potsdam on the right.
Autopsy of a Totalitarian Leader
Study Guide WWII and The Holocaust
***This is not an all comprehensive guide to the test. You will need to review all the terms from your textbook (Ch 30), Goal Sheet, notes, handouts and any other assignments from this unit to prepare completely for the test.***
Possible but probable constructed response questions.
- What action started WWII?
- Was the US involved in WWII at the start? What event forced the US into WWII?
- Why were civilians targeted during the war? Give examples of cities that were targeted.
- Who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan? Why?
- Where did the Allies open a second front in Western Europe? What was the operation called?
- Why did Hitler not invade the Soviet Union right away?
- Describe the events of the Munich Conference?
- What was the strategy of the US in the Pacific? Explain the strategy?
- Where were the war trials for Germany held? Why is this significant?
- What were the turning points in WWII?
- What was the goal of the UNited Nations?
- Why was Hitler not able to invade England?
- What was the Holocaust? Who were the victims? What was the Final Solution?
- Describe blitzkrieg.
- What was the Manhattan Project?
- Define the policy of appeasement. How did Hitler react to this policy?
- Why did Stalin want to maintain control of Eastern Europe after WWII?
- What was Germany’s last major offensive attempt in western Europe?
- What was the name given to the alliance between Germany and Italy?
Possible but probable constructed response questions.
- After the Munich conference how did Churchill’s and Chamberlain’s opinions about appeasement differ.
- Refer to the appeasement RLH assignment
- What were the arguments for and against dropping the atomic bombs on Japan? Be sure to provide both sides.
- Refer to class debate handouts
- Refer to class debate handouts