1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What were the military alliances created by the United States and the Soviet Union?
   2. Who became the Soviet leader after Stalin’s death?
   3. What was Nixon’s policy of easing Cold War tensions?
   
   
2. Chinese Communist Revolution
   Use the reading (Google Classroom) to answer the questions

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What the United States’ successful recovery plan for Western Europe?
   2. What was the Soviet Union’s unsuccessful recovery plan for Eastern Europe?
   3. Over what city was the first conflict of the Cold War?
   
   
2. Clip from The Cold War - OverSimplified (Part 1) Video
   
   
3. Cold War Cools and Thaws
   Use the reading (Google Classroom) to answer the questions

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What part of the United Nations makes decisions such as deploying the peacekeeping forces?
   2. What phrase did Churchill use to describe the division of Europe?
   3. What policy stated that the United States would prevent the further expansion of Communism?
   
   
2. Finish Discussing the Origins of the Cold War
   Take Notes
   
   
3. Who Was Responsible? Document Analysis
   Use the documents (Google Classroom) to answer the questions

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. Who became President of the United States after Roosevelt’s death in April 1945?
   2. Where were the major war crimes trials held after World War II?
   3. What did the United States do with Emperor Hirohito after the war?
   
   
2. Unit 8 Overview Video
   
   
3. Discuss the Origins of the Cold War
   Take Notes

1. Explain Project X: Making a Prediction
   
   
2. Project X, Activity 9: Making a Prediction #4
   Use the Our World in Data website and other online resources to answer the questions and make your final project's prediction

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What city saw the Japanese kill 200,00 civilians in China?
   2. What was the name of the Japanese group which experimented on Allied POWs?
   3. Who were the young girls the Japanese forced into sexual slavery?
   
   
2. What Happened at the Nuremberg Trials? Video
   
   
3. The Tokyo Trials Video
   
   
4. Review Unit 7 Essential Questions #3 and 4
   
   
5. World War II Conferences
   Use the information on the worksheet to answer the questions

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What was the name of the Conventions which established the rules of war?
   2. What German city was firebombed by the Allies?
   3. Who was the Nazi doctor who performed experiments on twins?
   
   
2. Finish Discussing Wartime Atrocities
   Take Notes
   
   
3. Clip from Spirits' Homecoming Movie
   
   
4. Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials
   Use the reading to answer the questions (Google Classroom)

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. Who was the head of the SS?
   2. Who was second in command of the SS, who led the Wannsee Conference?
   3. What poison gas was used in the death camps?
   
   
2. Discuss Wartime Atrocities
   Take Notes
   
   
3. Work Unit 7 Project (Due Tomorrow)

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What was the name of the conference which came up with Hitler’s “Final Solution”?
   2. What was the most infamous of the death camps?
   3. About how many people died during the Holocaust?
   
   
2. Finish Night and Fog Video
   Answer Questions
   
   
3. The Holocaust: Sourcing
   Use the sources to answer the questions (Google Classroom)
   
   
4. Work Unit 7 Project (Due Wednesday, March 15th)

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. Following the success of Germany’s blitzkrieg, what did the United States increase production of?
   2. What was the name of the American project to develop an atomic bomb?
   3. What was the device used by Germany to send encrypted messages?
   
   
2. Discuss the Holocaust
   Take Notes
   
   
3. Night and Fog Video
   Answer Questions

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What battle was Japan’s last “all or nothing” gamble in Asia?
   2. On what two cities did the United States drop atomic bombs?
   3. On what date did Japan surrender, finally ending World War II?
   
   
2. Finish WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 2) Video
   
   
3. World War II Technology
   Use the linked articles and videos to answer the questions (Google Classroom)
   
   
4. Work Unit 7 Project (Due Wednesday, March 15th)

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What was the codename of the Allied invasion of Italy?
   2. On what date was D-Day in France?
   3. What battle was Hitler’s last “all or nothing” gamble in Western Europe?
   
   
2. Finish Discussing Victory in Europe
   Take Notes
   
   
3. Victory in the Pacific
   Use the reading to answer the questions (Google Classroom)
   
   
4. Work Unit 7 Project (Due Wednesday, March 15th)

1. Finish Discussing Allied Advances in Europe
   Take Notes
   
   
2. Scene from Saving Private Ryan Movie
   (Edited) D-Day scene
   
   
3. Discuss Victory in Europe
   Take Notes

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. On what date did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
   2. What is considered the turning point battle in the Pacific?
   3. What was the first Japanese defeat on land?
   
   
2. Review Unit 7 Essential Question #1 (Germany and Japan)
   
   
3. Discuss Allied Advances in Europe
   Take Notes

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. What was the name given to the seven months following the fall of Poland, where nothing happened?
   2. What was the name of Hitler’s nightly bombings of cities during the Battle of Britain?
   3. What was the codename of Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union?
   
   
2. Finish WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1) Video
   
   
3. Clip from WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 2) Video
   
   
4. Japanese Aggression
   Use the reading to answer the questions (Google Classroom)
   
   
5. Work Unit 7 Project (Due Wednesday, March 15th)

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. The Nazi-Soviet Pact secretly agreed to divide what country?
   2. Following the invasion of #1, what action did the British and French take?
   3. What battle strategy did the Germans follow in their invasion of #1?
   
   
2. Discuss Axis Advances in Europe
   Take Notes
   
   
3. Work Unit 7 Project (Due Wednesday, March 15th)

1. Warm Up Questions
   1. Who was the British Prime Minister who practiced appeasement at Munich?
   2. Who was the future British Prime Minister who criticized #1?
   3. After being given the Sudetenland, where did Hitler invade six months later?
   
   
2. Review Unit 7 Essential Question #1 (Germany and Japan)
   
   
3. Clip from WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 1) Video
   
   
4. Discuss Unit 7 Project (Due Wednesday, March 15th)
   By yourself or with one other person in the class, you will choose ONE of the options of either World War II or Holocaust projects (Google Classroom). You can do this on paper (supplies can be provided, as needed) or in any digital format of your choosing (example: Google Slides).