Lesson on Thursday, April 5, 2018

LIFE ON THE HOME FRONT

Aim: How did WWII transform the United States domestically and change its relationship with the world?

Bell Ringer: Review Haile Selassie/FDR assignment

Throughout his second term (1937-1941), FDR had to struggle with a public opinion averse to entering another foreign conflict. He delivered this address after the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. What does it reveal about his thoughts--and what does the fact that the address produced no significant policy change say about FDR's motives for delivering the speech?

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/quarantine.htm

Agenda:

1. Objective MIG 2.0 encourages students to analyze the causes and effects of major internal migration patterns during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

2. Effects of the open wartime atmosphere. Despite these effects, why did homosexuals keep their sexuality hidden from authorities? 

3. Review Journal 135 / A: Wartime migration caused an upsurge in racial violence as new populations of blacks, Hispanics, and whites competed for jobs. The increase in urban populations also contributed to an emerging gay culture. 

Japanese Internment

4. Executive Order 9066: authorized the War Department to force Japanese Americans from their West Coast homes and hold them in relocation camps for the rest of the war. 

5. Review Journal 136 / A: There are two reasons why Japanese Americans suffered heightened persecution compared to their German American and Italian American counterparts. The first reason is Pearl Harbor; Americans feared that Japanese Americans might serve as spies to assist another attack. The second reasons is rooted in the long history of animosity toward Asian Americans on the West Coast, and in California in particular. 

5. Japanese Internment Assignment (rest of class) 

*Analyze Executive Order 9066, available at the National Archives https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/todays-doc/?dod-date=219

*The Japanese American internment is well documented on many Web sites. See in particular the Smithsonian Education Web site (http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/japanese_internment/) and the "Remembrance Project" at the Japanese American National Museum's Web site (http://www.remembrance-project.org)

*To shed further light on the Japanese incarceration, refer to Korematsu v. United States at the Cornell University Law School Web site (https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/323/214)

6. Journal 137 - (10 min)

1. 1)  What civil liberties did Executive Order 9066 violate?
   
2. 2)  Which countries in World War II did the United States most fear? How did
   that contribute to Executive Order 9066?
   
3. 3)  Why does war often bring out the worst in people? Name some other human rights violations that happened in World War II. 
   

(if you can't read the image, click here to download the PDF: http://www.californiamuseum.org/sites/main/files/file-attachments/thecamuseum_artifactofmonth_feb2012_0.pdf)

70 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which eventually led to the forced removal of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants during World War II. These simple flyers, announcing the relocation of all persons of Japanese ancestry, were posted across California, Oregon, Washington and parts of Arizona ordering the evacuation of people of Japanese ancestry throughout the coastal states. Along with instructions on where to assemble, the flyers also stated what a family should and should not bring with them; among the items not allowed were pets, household goods, and furniture. Some families had as little as 24 hours to prepare to leave. They had no idea of where they were going or how long they would be gone.

*Japanese Internment Handouts (rest of class)

Newsreel: https://archive.org/details/Japanese1943

Terms to know: fascism, National Socialist (Nazi) Party, Rome-Berlin Axis, Neutrality Act of 1935, Popular Front, Munich Conference, Four Freedoms, Atlantic Charter, War Powers Act, Revenue Act, code talkers, Executive Order 8802, Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944), Executive Order 9066, Holocaust, Manhattan Project. 

Additional terms not found in this chapter but that will be in WWII Exam on Monday: 
A. Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
B. Anschluss
C. Blitzkrieg
D. R.A.F.
E. Luftwaffe

*How can we differentiate Executive Orders 8802 and 9066? 

Home Learning: 

1. Read 788 - 797

2. Journal 138 - How did the Allies disagree over military strategies? 

3. Journal 139 - What factors influenced Truman's decision to use atomic weapons against Japan? 

4. Thinking Like a Historian 24 & Chapter 24 IDs due: Monday, April 9, 2018

5. Chapter 24 WWII Exam: Monday, April 9, 2018 (no vocabulary quiz for this chapter)

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6. EOC Review Guide pages 39-43 due: Monday, April 9, 2018

7. Use your WWII flashcards as a study guide for Monday's exam.