2/19-Looked at the end of the war in Europe and how D-day was the beginning of the end
2/20-Finished up the war in europe
2/21-We did an activity looking at the Manhattan Project. Everyone was given a different role, this secret project helped make the bomb a reality. We also looked at how Japan refused to surrender in the Pacific.
2/22-We started looking at America using the nuclear bomb to help resolve the end of the war against Japan. When nothing else worked america dropped 2 nuclear bombs on Japan.
2/25-We started prep for King High Remembers
2/26-Continued
2/27-Continued
2/28-Continued
3/1-King High Remembers
3/4-Finished atom bomb work and wrote rough drafts for Thank you Cards
3/5-Completed thank you cards and reviewed next steps as well as covering atom bomb
3/6-We began to look at the Cold War and how the iron curtain fell across Europe. Students had a short assignment that went with some primary source documents. Both sides were partly responsible for what happened.
3/7-We looked at the Berlin airlift in class and Mr Whitman talked about containment. He showed how while it is impossible to fix all the problems, it was somewhat easy to keep it from spreading if we used our resources in the right way.
3/8-We began to look at the red scare and how things like mccarthysm and HUAC went after Americans who could be communists. We played a card game where people accused others of being communist and you had to root out the actual commies.
3/11-We finished looking at the red scare. I talked about the fear that came along with it, and how people were worried about a nuclear disaster.
3/12-Mr whitman looked at the 1950's and how the culture was for the time period. It was filled with entertainment and rebellion.
3/13-Finished talking about the 1950's culture and how it was in America at the time. I finished class by looking at the Korean War, There was a short assginment at the end discussing why it is a forgotten war.
3/14-Read through the Bay of Pigs assignment. Talked about Cuba and the Cuban takeover and then began to look at the Cuban Missile Crisis
