1. L1: Introduction to World War Two Tan Block Agenda Objectives: 1.To explore our understanding and impressions of what constitutes a good war. 2.To explore our understanding and impressions of World War Two as a good war. 3.To introduce the lens through which we will be exploring World War Two: Total war and its role in creating a moral ambiguity in World War Two. Schedule: 1.Housekeeping: Unit Overview 2.Good War Discussion 3.Essential Questions 4.Introduction to World War Two Inquiry Project Homework: 1.Read World War Two Chapter (see last slide for specifics): Due L2- L4 2.Watch People’s Century: Total War (see last slide for specifics): Due L2-L4 3.Totalitarianism Writing Portfolio (see assignment sheet!) Due: Friday 4/27 4.Writing Goals: Due L5 Tues 5/1

2. L1: Introduction to World War Two Blue Block Agenda Objectives: 1.To explore our understanding and impressions of what constitutes a good war. 2.To explore our understanding and impressions of World War Two as a good war. 3.To introduce the lens through which we will be exploring World War Two: Total war and its role in creating a moral ambiguity in World War Two. Schedule: 1.Housekeeping: Unit Overview 2.Good War Discussion 3.Essential Questions 4.Introduction to World War Two Inquiry Project Homework: 1.Read World War Two Chapter (see last slide for specifics): Due L2- L4 2.Watch People’s Century: Total War (see last slide for specifics): Due L2-L4 3.Totalitarianism Writing Portfolio (see assignment sheet!) Due: Friday 4/27 4.Writing Goals: Due L5 Tues 5/1

3. Introduction to World War Two & The Cold War: Unit Overview

4. Introduction to World War Two & Cold War: Unit Overview Go over unit schedule Go over writing assignment Discussion of research –Wellesley High School Library website Catalog Jstor

5. Our Approach to Studying World War Two

6. What makes a “Good” War?

7. What do you know about World War Two?

8. Do you consider World War Two a “Good” War?

9. World War Two as a Moral War World War Two is widely considered to be one of the most morally unambiguous conflicts in history. Yet the morality of World War Two might not be as morally black and white as is commonly perceived...

10. World War Two, Total War, and Moral Ambiguity… The moral ambiguity of World War Two is seen when World War Two is examined through the lens of total war. What is total war?

11. World War Two, Total War, and Moral Ambiguity World War Two extended and redefined the notion of Total War. –World War One: Civilians were incorporated into the war to provide home front support or as collateral damage in military objectives. Important, but indirect –World War Two: Civilians were incorporated into the war in a direct and totalizing way: as military targets, as perpetrators of violence, as domestic enemies, as military intelligence, as prisoners, as refugees, as workers, etc. Central and direct

12. World War Two, Total War, and Moral Ambiguity The direct role that civilians played in World War Two blurred the line between civilians and combatants for all countries involved in the war. It is the blurring of this line, that leads to the blurring of the moral line in World War Two.

13. Essential Questions for Our Study of World War Two How and why was World War Two a total war? –War Experience 1939-1944 –The Holocaust –How the War Ends Given the nature of total war in World War Two, can the war be considered a moral war?

14. Exploring our Total War Question for the Experience of World War Two 1939-1944: World War Two Inquiry Project

15. Homework Read: Chapter on World War Two. –Goal is to be knowledgeable about: Invasion of Poland & Blitzkrieg Phony War Fall of France Battle of Britain North Africa Invasion of the Soviet Union Stalingrad Japan in the Pacific The U.S. in the Pacific Watch: People’s Century: Total War (available on the course website) –Goal is to preview how World War Two was a total war