| ISOLATION AND
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| CAUSES OF DISILLUSION AND PACIFISM
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NEUTRALITY ACTS OF 1935-1937 - SPANISH CIVIL WAR - FDR'S "QUARANTINE" SPEECH (1937)
- FAILURE OF PEACE: TRIUMPH OF AGGRESSION - AGGRESSIONS OF JAPAN,
GERMANY, AND ITALY: 1932-1940 - APPEASEMENT: THE MUNICH CONFERENCE (1938)
- GERMAN ATTACK ON POLAND: START OF WORLD WAR
II IN EUROPE - GRADUAL UNITED STATES INVOLVEMENT |
| HANDOUTS |
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HANDOUT:
Decipher the Code - "The Rise of Benito Mussolini in Italy" |
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HANDOUT:
Decipher the Code - "World War II, Part 1" |
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Reading with Questions - "A New Coalition" |
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Reading with Questions - "War and Uneasy Neutrality" |
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here for a large library of American history-themed printable
readings with questions. |
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| MAPS and PICTURES |
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| POWERPOINTS |
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POWERPOINT: "Isolationism
and Neutrality: American Foreign Policy between World War I and
World War II" - 6 slides including 4 review questions - Version:
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PPTX
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TRIVIA: Build-up
to World War II Trivia Questions -
Page 1 |
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| THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II |
PEARL HARBOR -
HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF THE WAR - ALLIED STRATEGY AND
LEADERSHIP - ATOMIC BOMB - WAR'S IMPACT ON MINORITIES - DEMOBILIZATION
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HANDOUTS
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HANDOUT:
Causes and Effects - "World War II" - Short-term and long-term causes and
effects chart |
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Reading with Questions - "Japan, Pearl Harbor, and War" |
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Reading with Questions - "Mobilization for Total War" |
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Reading with Questions - "The War in North Africa and Europe" |
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Reading with Questions - "The War in the Pacific" |
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Reading with Questions - "The Politics of War" |
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Reading with Questions - "War, Victory, and the Bomb" |
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Reading with Questions - "The Rise of Industrial Unions" |
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HANDOUT:
T-Chart - "Strengths and Weaknesses: Allies against Axis Powers in WWII" |
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HANDOUT:
T-Chart - "The Players and Their Games" - Students complete this table chart which
looks at the leading World War II nations and their leaders in 1938,
their domestic and international concerns and goals, etc. - The objective
is to give students an idea of how and why World War II was able to
happen |
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HANDOUT:
T-Chart - "Pivotal Events of World War II" |
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| MAPS and PICTURES |
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| POWERPOINTS |
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| VIDEO LINKS |
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VIDEO LINK: "Camp Amache"
(Japanese-American internment camp in Colorado) - 5 minutes -
Archaeology Channel |
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VIDEO LINK: "Douglas MacArthur: The General" - 25:47 in
length - Courtesy of Biography Channel and Hulu |
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VIDEO WEBSITE LINK: Pare Lorentz Center at
the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library - Over 300 videos
from the Roosevelt era available free to teachers |
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WEBSITE LINKS |
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WEBSITE LINK:
Official White House Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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WEBSITE LINK: Official White House
Biography of Harry S. Truman |
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WEBSITE LINK: World War II Memorial
(Washington, D.C.) |
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WEBSITE LINK: Pacific
Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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