1930s-1945: World War II

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1930s-1945:
World War II

Skill Focus
Cause and Effect

Compelling Question
Did the United State's wartime policies respect the rights of
ordinary people everywhere to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Essential Lessons
World War II

Essential Lessons will help you with specific information about the impacts of World War II.
We are engaging in this complex thinking of connecting different topics to show our deeper understandings.

Growing Our Vocabulary

Directions:
These words need to be added to your personal glossary with defintions.

Genocide
Totalitarianism

Add words that you came across throughout these Essential Lessons that you learned and add them to your glossary.

A People's History of the US:
Chapter 16 - A People's War?

The Path to Nazi Germany:
Stages of Genocide

United States and Japan:
Pearl Harbor to Atomic Bombs

Newela:
The U.S. war in the Pacific, through photos

Additional Lessons

These Lessons can help you better understand different aspects of the concept we are studying.
These Lessons are NOT mandatory but would add to your learning about this time period.

These may be articles/videos/podcasts about our topics and there may or may not be specific instructions to do something with them other than read/watch/listen and see how it can add meaning to your understanding.