15: World War II

15: World War II

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Choices that Define Us | Facing History and Ourselves
Choices that Define Us | Facing History and Ourselves
A graduation speech from the Dean of Yale Law School in 1988 in which he told four stories about individuals who made choices during World War II reveal the complexity of human behavior and suggest how difficult it can be to make sweeping judgments about good and evil. This short reading, with accompanying questions can be used to set up a "ethics in wartime lesson" or other lesson that explores the complexity of human choice
#WS Unit 7: Fascism World Wars#lesson plan#reading#US II Unit 3: World War II
·facinghistory.org·
Choices that Define Us | Facing History and Ourselves
Our Documents - Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
Our Documents - Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
This site, published and maintained by the federal government of the United States, describes the people forcibly incarcerated by the federal government in 1942 as "evacuees". Why? Students should be presented with this page, discuss where they see the word "evacuee" and what it means. Then write to the national archives and ask them why they use this word. education@nara.gov
After encouraging voluntary evacuation of the areas, the Western Defense Command began involuntary removal and detention of West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry
Nearly 70,000 of the evacuees were American citizens
#lesson plan#primary source#secondary sources#US II Unit 3: World War II
·ourdocuments.gov·
Our Documents - Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
Special Focus: 1943 Race Riot · Before the Unrest: 1940 - 1967 · 12th Street Detroit
Special Focus: 1943 Race Riot · Before the Unrest: 1940 - 1967 · 12th Street Detroit
The race riots in Detroit concerning civilian employment of black workers and the housing of their families directly contradicts the myth canon of a unified nation "coming together" to fight world war II. Move through the other sections of this site to get pictures and other primary documents to show to students. One approach is to show them without dates and ask the students to identify them
#African Americans#World War II Home Front#primary source#US II Unit 3: World War II
·projects.lib.wayne.edu·
Special Focus: 1943 Race Riot · Before the Unrest: 1940 - 1967 · 12th Street Detroit
Saving Private Ryan: History vs. Hollywood | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Saving Private Ryan: History vs. Hollywood | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
"“Studying history … one of the hardest things to understand is that when you see that red and blue line on the map, when you see the arrow, when you see the unit identifiers, everything is presented in a concrete, discrete manner. It gives the impression of a sense of clarity and understanding that simply was not possible."
#US II Unit 3: World War II
·nationalww2museum.org·
Saving Private Ryan: History vs. Hollywood | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans
Why the Aircraft That Dropped the First Atomic Bomb Will Always Inspire Debate | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine
Why the Aircraft That Dropped the First Atomic Bomb Will Always Inspire Debate | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine
With a propeller diameter of 16 feet, seven inches, the aircraft’s four 18-cylinder 2,200-horsepower Wright R-3350 fuel-injected radial engines were powerful enough to carry 16,000 pounds of bombs while cruising at 235 miles per hour at an altitude of 30,000 feet. Designed by Boeing, the strategic bomber was one of the largest flown during the war, the bloodiest conflict in human history.
#US II Unit 3: World War II
·smithsonianmag.com·
Why the Aircraft That Dropped the First Atomic Bomb Will Always Inspire Debate | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine
The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Chronology of the Controversy Including Key Documents (1993-1995)
The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Chronology of the Controversy Including Key Documents (1993-1995)
This is collection of documents includes the conceptual plans and script of the exhibit as well as correspondence
<a href="07-93.asp"><font face="arial,verdana,helvetica,sans serif" size="2">Concept document 3</font></a>.
One page or rather one web page description of the original plan
Hatch Letter to Harwit.
Objection Letter
#US II Unit 3: World War II
·secure.afa.org·
The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Chronology of the Controversy Including Key Documents (1993-1995)
See You Next Year! High School Yearbooks from WWII : Home | The National WWII Museum
See You Next Year! High School Yearbooks from WWII : Home | The National WWII Museum
Easiest but perhaps most rewarding World War II lesson a teacher could use - just have students look through these to defensible understandings of the effect of World War II on the homefront. Search "Asian" or "Japanese", particularly in west coast schools, yields interesting results
#lesson plan#primary source#Free Range Lesson#US II Unit 3: World War II
·ww2yearbooks.org·
See You Next Year! High School Yearbooks from WWII : Home | The National WWII Museum