Rise to World Power: How did World War II impact the homefront?
Tasks:
- Determine what the question is asking you to argue:
- Identify the subject, task, and time period
- Subject: American homefront
- Time period: WWII (1941 - 1945)
- Task: Impact - analyze the way the homefront changed as a result of America's participation in the war; social, political and economic change
- Notes on political and economic changes taking place in U.S. as a result of WWII
- Working in small groups, analyze documents to determine the impact of war on different social groups - women, African Americans, Mexican Americans and Japanese.
- Practice working on an extended analysis of the documents by analyzing the point of view of the speaker, the context of the document, the intended audience, or the author's purpose.
- Choose one group, and write an argument in response to the question. Use evidence from the source to support your argument.
- Read the "Atomic Bomb" for tonight, and identify the different arguments historians have made for why the United States dropped the atomic bombs in 1945.
Reminders:
- Test Corrections due March 1 (that is TODAY)
- AP Test Registration is open (money due by March 8)
Rise to World Power: How does the fighting in WWII compare to WWI?
Tasks:
- Review Road to War comparison from Friday's class.
- Compare and contrast America's involvement in WWI and WWII by completing the comparison chart in your notes.
- Supplement notes with a comparison of the Atlantic and Pacific Theaters.
- Unlike WWI, America fought a two-front war - one in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific. I will use slides to illustrate the differences between the two fronts.
- End class by exploring the degree to which WWII was a race war by exploring examples in popular culture. The race war helps explain decisions being made throughout the war.
Reminders:
- Test Corrections due March 1.
- AP Test Registration due March 8.
Rise to World Power: How and why did America's foreign policy change from 1921 - 1941?
Tasks:
- Debrief New Deal quiz.
- Small group question #1: How did America's foreign policy change?
- Group will use the timeline from homework to determine the way in which America's foreign policy changed.
- Need an argument that moves beyond "It went from isolationist to interventionist." This is not a sufficient answer because it is providing a very basic argument.
- Small group question #2: Why did America's foreign policy change?
- Group will generate reasons for why the U.S. policy shifts in the 1930s.
- Small group question #3: Compare and contrast the road to war: WWI (1914 - 1917) and WWII (1939 - 1941).
- Group will compare the Congressional actions, public debate, and declaration for war. Focus should be on the years BEFORE the U.S. publicly declares war.
Reminders:
- AP Test Registration due March 8.
Creation of the Welfare State: Great Depression & New Deal
Tasks:
- Review: What are the problems that emerge from the Great Depression?
- High unemployment
- Failing farms, industry, and banks
- Home foreclosures
- Fear among Americans
- Using your notes, How did the Hoover administration respond?
- Write your response to this question in your notes.
How have people come to view Hoover and his actions in response to the Great Depression?
- Listen to the song "We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover" from Annie musical.
- What is the tone of the song?
- What can we infer about the mood of the country?
- Historian analysis
- What is the argument about Hoover made by the historians, Hofstadter and Jeansomme?
- Are their interpretations of Hoover positive or negative? What evidence in the text can you use as support?
- Segue to the Election 1932
- Significance of election
- Democrats win in landslide victory
- Shifting electorate - African Americans & women vote Democrat
- FDR inaugurated into office, and brings with him enthusiasm & experimentation
- Task: New Deal Program Answers to these questions should be in your notes.
- Describe the purpose of the "Relief" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.
- Describe the purpose of the "Recovery" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.
- Describe the purpose of the "Reform" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.
Creation of the Welfare State: Great Depression and New Deal
Tasks:
- Introduce inquiry: How did the role and function of the federal government change in response to the economic needs of the citizens?
- The Great Depression is unlike any economic calamity the country has ever faced. As a result, the role and function of the federal government will begin to change. The inquiry asks you to determine how the government's role and function changes.
- Focus of class today will be Hoover's response: How did Hoover's administration respond to the problems of the Great Depression?
- Source analysis - Today we will work on sourcing documents that moves beyond a simple "SOAPStone." The College Board expects you to analyze at least 4 documents on the DBQ.
- Discuss the characteristics of the source analysis using my example for Document 1 in the Hoover text set.
- Work together in small group to complete a source analysis on Hoover primary sources (#2-4).
- Choose ONE component of analysis (POV-CAP), and write your document analysis response on a separate sheet of paper.
