1. Tell me as much as you can about each photo.
Use complete sentences that identify which photo you are talking about.

2. Housekeeping
Table of Contents
Vocabulary

3. Unit essential Questions

4. Unit Title
WWII: The Ethics of War

5. Essential Questions Statement of Inquiry
War brings about extraordinary circumstances that require ethical decisions of great importance.

6. Essential Questions Factual Question
What major ethical dilemmas arose during WWII?

7. Essential Questions Conceptual Question
Why are ethics important during times of war?

8. Essential Questions Debatable Question
In war, is it more important to be ethical or to meet the military
Objectives?

9. Unit Overview
Cornell Notes

10. Before we begin…

11. These are the key topics we will explore during this unit.
Notetaker Overview
1. The Path to war 2. Pearl Harbor 3. Japanese Internment 4. Holocaust 5. The Atomic Bomb
These are the key topics we will explore during this unit.

12. Section 1: The path to war

13. What was WWIi?
WWII was the largest and most destructive war in human history.
It lasted from
There were more deaths, more injuries, more buildings destroyed, more economies and societies mobilized than ever before or since.
It is estimated that million of the estimated 70 million people who died due to WWII were civilians.

14. But how did it occur? In this section we will explore:
types of governments?
How did Germany rise to power again?

15. Section 2: Pearl Harbor

16. Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941 The Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the neutral U.S.
In about two hours, most of the U.S. Pacific fleet was destroyed and over 2,000 Americans were killed.
It is know as “The Day of infamy.”

17. Pearl Harbor But in this section we will explore the question:
“Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?”

18. Section 3: Japanese-American Internment

19. Japanese-American Internment
Within 2 months of the outbreak of war between the U.S. and Japan, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, known as FDR, signed Executive Order 9066.
It ordered the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in “internment camps” for most of the war.
About 70,000 of those incarcerated were American citizens.
Was the order helpful to the war?
Was it ethical?

20. Section 4: The Holocaust

21. The Holocaust
The Nazi's committed one of the worst atrocities in human history during WWII.
Under the direction of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi’s attempted to kill all the Jews.
Over 6 million Jews were killed during what is now know as the holocaust.
An additional 5 million others were also killed with the victims encompassing: gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah's Witnesses, anarchists, gay people, priests, Poles, and Slavic peoples were also killed.

22. The Holocaust in this section we will explore the question:
How could “ordinary” German citizens turn into mass murderers?

23. Section 5: The Atomic Bomb

24. The Atomic Bomb
On August 6, 1945, an American bomber dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people;
Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.
tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.

25. The Atomic Bomb
Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”
Our Questions:
Is the Atomic bomb a cruel weapon?
What ethical dilemmas?