1. Have trifolds out if you didn’t have it Friday!
Phones up!
Have trifolds out if you didn’t have it Friday!
Be ready for your vocab quiz!

2. 3-2-1: 3 observations, 2 questions, 1 inference
Give 5 minutes for the warm up

3. VE Day: May 8th 1945 April 1945 - FDR dies
April - Hitler commits suicide
May - Germany surrenders
Victory in Europe

4. Ask students what they think this image is

5. BIG QUESTION Was dropping the atomic bombs the right decision?
Morally? Politically? Militarily?
Why did Truman make the decision to drop the bombs?
Evidence/Arguments for
Evidence/Arguments against
Discussion questions. In the boxes write what the students come up with

6. Atomic bomb Invasion estimated to cost 1,000,000 American lives
August 6th: Hiroshima – 60,000 die
August 9th: Nagasaki – 35,000 die
VJ Day: August 15th

9. Congressional Medal of Honor: Vernon J. Baker
Oral history
The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest military honor, awarded for personal acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty. The medal is awarded by the President of the United States in the name of the U.S. Congress to U.S. military personnel only. Watch the video to show the students his story.

10. Ash the students what this is an image of

11. Liberation of Concentration camps
Realization of how bad it was

12. Post War Peace United Nations created
“Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of justice and peace in the world…All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood”
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(who have we talked about that helped create this??)
Why now?
Trials for war crimes- Nuremberg Trials
Link to help

13. Exit Ticket Person’s name similarities/differences
what you think happened to your person