9/19 Homefront

U.S. Homefront

Ch. 18 Sec. 1 – The Home Front
I. Identification-Identify the following in your Cornell Notes
1.  Selective Training and Service Act (Draft)
2. GIs
3. Navajo Code Talkers
4. Tuskegee Airmen
5. War Production Board (WPB)
6. Office of War Mobilization
7. James F. Byrnes
8. Henry J. Kaiser--Liberty Ships
9. Smith-Connally Act
10. Gross National Product (GNP)
11. Deficit spending
12. OPA
13. rationing
14.Victory Gardens
15.Civilian Defense

* Constitution Day---How to become President and the Amendments Pictograph.

9/16 Pearl Harbor and the American Involvement in WWII

Pearl Harbor---Clip from Tora Tora Tora
Reading of Pearl Harbor and Highlighting Important pieces.

Course of the War---Europe Map and WWII Course of War in Europe Wkst.

9/14 American Neutrality

American Neutrality---
Read Text on American Neutrality and take Cornell Notes.

Interpret Dr. Seuss political cartoons.

Pearl Harbor writing

9/12 Causes of WWII

Causes of WWII Video

9/9 WWII Review--Day 1

Get Texts and Organized

WWII Formative Assessment and Review

Rise of Dictators WS---Due on Monday 9/12

For each of the following explain:

I.             The WHO(background),

II.           The WHY (why did they feel the need to take over)&

III.         The HOW (how did they takeover and how did they keep control)

Stalin’s Soviet Union (Chapter 17 p 569-570)

Fascism in Italy (Mussolini) (Chapter 17 p 570)

Hitler’s Rise to Power (Chapter 17 p 570-573)

Japan Builds an Empire (page 581-584)