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Aim all Classes: How should we remember the dropping of the atomic bomb?

Online Research Project: Truman Hero or Villain?

UK National Archives project link

Video: ABC News. Hiroshima, Why the Bomb was Dropped.

5
Aim All Classes: "Was Truman a Hero or War Criminal"?

Debate. Was Truman a Hero or a War Criminal?

Truman: Hero or War Criminal Notes?

Hiroshima Debated 60 years later

Should Truman Have Dropped The Bomb Lesson Plan

Should Truman Have Dropped The Bomb Handout

The Manhattan Project Reading

6
Aim all Classes: How did the role of women and minorites change during WWII?

Do Now: Please read the directions to todays assignment with your group and highlight the key ideas.

Changing Role of Women and Minorities Documents Lesson

Women and minorities in WWII
Rosie the Riveter
Tuskegee Airmen
Japanese American Internment Camps
Korematsu v. U.S.
Navajo Codetalkers  

7
All Classes Test Review Today for the WWII Unit.

Create a WWII timeline beginning in 1918-1945

WWII 8th Grade Review Book Study Guide

8
All Classes Multiple Choice Test Today for the WWII Unit.
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All Classes Constructed Response classwork today based on the WWII Unit.
12
Aim All Classes: The Cold War Begins: The Cold War Project

Report to the Library: The Cold War Project 2018

The Cold War Research Paper Project

Political Cartoons for the Cold War Project

Homework All Classes: Complete the Cold War Homework 1 HandoutDue Friday 3/16

 

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Aim All Classes: The Cold War Begins: The Cold War Project

Report to the Library: The Cold War Project 2018

The Cold War Research Paper Project

Political Cartoons for the Cold War Project


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Aim All Classes: The Cold War Begins: The Cold War Project

Report to the Library: The Cold War Project 2018

The Cold War Research Paper Project

Political Cartoons for the Cold War Project

All Classes Homework: Complete the Cold War research paper. Due Monday 3/19


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Aim All Classes: The Cold War Begins: The Cold War Project

Report to the Library: The Cold War Project 2018

The Cold War Research Paper Project

Political Cartoons for the Cold War Project


18
Aim All Classes: The Origins of the Cold War

Berlin Blockade Reading and Worksheet

The Cold War Smart Notebook

Cold War Maps Smart Notebook

The Cold War Part I Google Presentation

Cold War CNN Special Online Guide

Cold War Maps

Marshall Plan Webquest

The Truman Doctrine
The Berlin Crisis / Airlift
Containment
The Marshall Plan
The Yalta Conference
The Division of Germany
The Iron Curtain
The United Nations
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Communism in China

Homework All Classes: Complete the Cold War Homework 2 HandoutDue Tuesday 3/20

19
Aim all Classes The Cold War Era: Postwar Politics

Post WWII Politics Google Presentation

Berlin Blockade Reading and Worksheet

The Fair Dear
The National Security Act
The Department of Defense
The National Security Council
Creation of the CIA  
The G.I. Bill
The election of 1948
Truman Desegregates the Military
The United Nations
Establishment of Israel

Homework All Classes: Complete the Cold War Homework 3 HandoutDue Wednesday 3/21

20
Aim all Classes: The Cold War Era: Inquiry. Was McCarthyism Justified?

Inquiry handouts for stations. Was McCarthyism justified?

Smartnotebook political cartoon quiz for cold war events.

The Red Scare and McCarthyism Google Presentation

The Red Scare for Dummies Video

Fear of Communist subversion
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hollywood Blacklists
McCarthyism

McCarthyism Video Clip downloadable


Homework All Classes: Complete the Cold War Homework 4 Handout. Due Friday 3/23
21
Aim all Classes: The Cold War Era:
The Red Scare and McCarthyism

McCarthy Reading Packet Handout 
Assignemnt Handout

The Red Scare and McCarthyism Google Presentation

Video: McCarthyism in 10 Minutes

American Spies:
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
The Army-McCarthy Hearings




All Classes Homework: Complete the 1950s Homework #1: Eisenhower in the White House Due Monday 3/25
22
Aim all Classes The Cold War Era: The Korean War

The Korean War Worksheet and short paragraph response.

The Korean War Google Presentation

Video: The Korean War for Dummies

Conflict in Korea
Invasion
General Douglas McArthur
Pusan
The United Nations Forces
U.S. on the Offensive
China enters the War
Truman and McArthur disagree
"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away."
Stalemate
The DMZ and the 38th Parallel

All Classes Homework: Complete the 1950s Homework #2: 1950s Prosperity. Due. Saturday 3/30

25
Aim all Classes: America in the 1950s: Prosperity

The 1950s @ Home Google Presentation

1950s Online Notes

Suburban Growth Engage NY 2017

The Good Wifes Guide

History of US 10. Suburbia worksheet

Alaska and Hawaii
Booming economy
Rise of the middle class
Computers and productivity
The Baby Boom / Social Security
Jonas Salk and Polio
Levittown / rise of suburbia
Love affair with the car
1961 Farewell Speech
Jet Travel
Rock and Roll
Television 
Conformity
Urban Poverty
White flight
Materialism
The Beat Generation
Betty Friedan and Feminism

 

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Aim all Classes: Writing the Enduring Issues Essay.

Enduring Issues Essay: Women

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Aim all Classes: The 1950s: Eisenhower in the White House and The Nuclear Arms Race.

Video: President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Google Presentation on the Nuclear Arms Race

Video: Survival Under Atomic Attack

Video: Bert the Turtle "Duck and Cover"

Richard Nixon
Moderate Republicanism
Budget Surplus
The Federal Highway Act
The Nuclear Arms Race
Burt the Turtle
Duck and Cover
Chinese and Nuclear Weapons
Soviet get the bomb
The Hydrogen Bomb
Soviets get the H-bomb
Bomb Shelters
The Nuclear Arms Race
MAD (Massive Retaliation)
The Arms Race (IRBMs, ICBMs)
Civil Defense Administration

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Aim all Classes: The 1950s: Eisenhower in the White House and The Nuclear Arms Race.

Video: President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Google Presentation on the Nuclear Arms Race

Video: Survival Under Atomic Attack

Video: Bert the Turtle "Duck and Cover"

Richard Nixon
Moderate Republicanism
Budget Surplus
The Federal Highway Act
The Nuclear Arms Race
Burt the Turtle
Duck and Cover
Chinese and Nuclear Weapons
Soviet get the bomb
The Hydrogen Bomb
Soviets get the H-bomb
Bomb Shelters
The Nuclear Arms Race
MAD (Massive Retaliation)
The Arms Race (IRBMs, ICBMs)
Civil Defense Administration

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Aim all Classes: America in the 1950s: Eisenhower in the White House. The Space Race

Video: Race to the Moon download

The Space Race Google Presentation

Video: The Space Race and the Cold War

Video: The Atomic Cafe

NASA
Sputnik
Mercury
Gemini
Apollo

Reading: A History of US: Liking Ike page 49 Worksheet

All Classes Homework:Complete the Civil Rights Movement Homework #1 Assignment. Due Wednesday 4/3

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