In class: Holocaust slide notes

The Holocaust slide notes from Thursday, December 19 are located here.

The anti-Semitic propaganda slide notes are located here.

In class: Atomic Bomb slide notes

The Atomic Bomb slide notes from Tuesday, December 17 are located here.

In class/homework: Fog of War

Date assigned
Tuesday, December 17


Assignment
Watch the clip from Fog of War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8TOJy3eO1A&safe=active

We started at 30:17 and stopped at 43:11.

Then respond to the following two questions that McNamara himself asks during the film:

1) "In order to win a war, should you kill 100,000 civilians in a single night?"

2) "What makes it immoral if you lose, but not immoral if you win?"


Due date
Thursday, December 19

First 10 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHvqS2kk1rs&safe=active

Portraying the US military landing on Omaha Beach in France.

In class: Japanese internment slide notes

The Japanese internment slide notes from Monday, Dec. 16 are located here.

In class: Pearl Harbor slide notes

The Pearl Harbor slide notes from Thursday, Dec. 12 are located here.

PROJECT: Propaganda

Propaganda project instructions:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BoFxfNceowEip77Z6A7amL2HOiN_u5diWEFhCX5WNEM/pub


Example video projects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIWaxwyKRtI&feature=share&list=FLcDHe0vV8mYtmmqCRwjKdzg&index=36

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex1fnczE21w&feature=share&list=FLcDHe0vV8mYtmmqCRwjKdzg&index=13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeGAMEHfbys&feature=share&list=FLcDHe0vV8mYtmmqCRwjKdzg&index=15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IULUiJnY0Y4&feature=share&list=FLcDHe0vV8mYtmmqCRwjKdzg&index=16

DUE JANUARY 21

In class: Propaganda

The Propaganda slide notes from Tuesday, Dec. 10 are located here.

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_sHnYuUnVw&safe=active

US Marines commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDZ2fMHTvwk&feature=share&list=FLcDHe0vV8mYtmmqCRwjKdzg&index=34

In class: AP PARTS, Mein Kampf, Triumph of the Will, and Star Wars

AP PARTS
https://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/archive/files/apparts_b60cd02284.pdf


Mein Kampf excerpt
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kampf.html


Triumph of the Will clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl2iIHRE1ng&list=PL41F128BD575551A7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Ath24sf9w&list=PL41F128BD575551A7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcgzpDazujE&list=PL41F128BD575551A7


Star Wars clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yixG8pfncOs&safe=active

In class: Fascism, Hitler, and Nazi Germany slide notes

The Fascism, Hitler, and Nazi Germany slide notes from Thursday, Dec. 5 can be found here.

Homework: Over the Edge

Date assigned
Thursday, December 5


Assignment
Watch the episode of The Century: America's Time titled "Over the Edge" on YouTube.

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYbu0CdJ87k&list=PLC8D9DC28C3EC5223

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG2ZkiRw-jw&list=PLC8D9DC28C3EC5223 (Period 4 left off at 5:15 of Part 2)

Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBWQUG9S-g4&list=PLC8D9DC28C3EC5223

Write 5 questions you have about the episode.


Due date
Monday, December 9

Supplemental reading: WWI, WWII, and the Holocaust

WWI                                                                                                   

Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo                                           

The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman                                        

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon                      

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway                                      

All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque               

WWII

The Pacific War: 1931-1945, by Saburo Ienaga

The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang

Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose

Hiroshima, by John Hersey

D-Day, by Stephen Ambrose

Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, by Ronald Takaki

The Holocaust

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, by Wladyslaw Szpilman

The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelmlan

Survival in Auschwitz, by Primo Levi

The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski

In class: Russian Revolution slide notes

The Russian Revolution slide notes from Monday, Dec. 2 are located here.