Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- Major battles, events, and consequences of World War II campaigns.
- The location on a map of major battles of WWII and the territorial claims of the different WWII powers.
- Military strategies used in WWII.
- Reasons for and results of dropping atomic bombs on Japan.
- Events, incidents, and consequences of war crimes committed during WWII.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Locate specific points on a map and identify political, social, and geographic changes that occurred during or as a result of a historical event.
- Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media.
- Evaluate an author's premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information related to historical events.
- Read and comprehend historical texts independently and proficiently on various topics related to events that led to WWII and the effect of those events on American foreign policy today.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There were many key events and battles of WWII that had an impact on the outcome of the war, and the relationships between countries in the post-war world.
Vocabulary
- WWII campaigns
- Midway
- Normandy
- Okinawa
- Battle of the Bulge
- Iwo Jima
- Yalta Conference
- Potsdam Conference
- allied and axis expansion
- Blitzkrieg
- island-hopping
- amphibious landings
- atomic bomb
- Holocaust
- Bataan Death March
- Nuremberg Trials
- Declaration of Human Rights
- Genocide Convention
