Transcript The Effects of War

The Effects of War
The Effects of War
Lesson 1: Analyzing Political Cartoons
Lesson 2: Political Cartoon Jeopardy
The Effects of War
Lesson 3: Unit Overview and Essential
Questions
Wars Explored in this Unit
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Iraq/Afghanistan
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Vietnam
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World War II
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World War I
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The Civil War
War Unit
Length: 18 Periods
Readings:
Informational Texts
Political Cartoons
Video/Film
Songs/Lyrics
Images
Short Stories
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War Unit
Essential Questions:
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How are individuals affected by their
experiences in/at war?
How does war change a generation?
War Unit
Stations
Station 1: Analyzing Media
Station 2: Exploring Images
Station 3: Analyzing Political Cartoons
Station 4: Analyzing News Articles
Station 5: Analyzing News Articles
The Effect of War Unit Introduction
Assessment:
Opening Journal Entry (10 min):
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In what ways have the recent wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan affected you, your family or
your friends?
Afghanistan/Iraq War
Station 1: Analyzing Media (white board):
1. Listen/View (10 min): Music Video
"Live From Iraq"
2. Complete the "Song Lyric Analysis"
3. Complete Ticket to Leave
4. Take homework assignmnet
Afghanistan/Iraq War
Station 2: Exploring Images
View the images.
1. Choose 2 images
2. Fill out the OPTIC graphic organizer
3. Complete Ticket to leave
4. Take homework assignment
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Afghanistan/Iraq War
Station 3: Analyzing Political Cartoons
View the following political cartoons in reader:
1. Page 75 "Rick Perry and Marines"
2. Page 76 "Urinating Soldiers"
3. Fill out the Analyzing Political Cartoons
graphic organizer for each.
4. Ticket to leave
5. Take homework assignment
Afghanistan/Iraq War
Station 4: Analyzing a News Article
1. Read and annotate "Video Inflames a
Delicate Moment for U.S. in Afghanistan"on
page 72 in reader.
2. Complete the News Article Analysis
3. Finish your analysis for homework
Afghanistan/Iraq War
Station 5: Analyzing a News Article
1. Read and annotate "The Abu Ghraib
Scandal You Don't Know" page 59 in reader
2. Complete the News Article Analysis
3. Finish your analysis for homework
War
Lesson 5: Understanding Primary and
Secondary Sources
Vietnam War
• Essential Question:
o Do mainstream media have an obligation to report the
truth about war even if such reporting results in
adverse (bad) effects?
Vietnam War
Vietnam War
Vietnam War
Vietnam War
Vietnam War
Understanding Author’s Purpose
Analyzing Media
Screaming Eagles
The Leaves Keep Falling
Teaching the Vietnam War in Vietnam
Napalm Girl
Vietnam War
Communist and Protests Background
The Red Scare
Anti War Protests
Analyzing Vietnam Era Song Lyrics
Eve of Destruction
For What It’s Worth
Unknown Soldier
Give Peace a Chance
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Vietnam War-and Hollywood
Napalm in the Morning
Ride of the Valkyries
Into the Eyes of Hell
Good Morning Vietnam
Forest Gump
Real DaNag Battle (Graphic)
We were Soldiers (DaNang)
Vietnam War-Political Cartoons
Vietnam War-Political Cartoons
Vietnam War-Political Cartoons
Vietnam War-Political Cartoons
Vietnam War-Political Cartoons
Vietnam War-Political Cartoons
World War II
The Greatest Generation
World War II Background
The instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage
for another international conflict–World War II–which broke out two decades
later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an
economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National
Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy
and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler's invasion of
Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on
Germany, and World War II had begun. Over the next six years, the conflict
would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe
than any previous war. Among the estimated 45-60 million people killed were 6
million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler's
diabolical "Final Solution," now known as the Holocaust. (www.history.com)
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http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/videos#dday-invasion (Attack on
Pearl Harbor)
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/interactives/inside-wwii-interactive
(Interactive site for WWII)
WWII-Propaganda Posters
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What: When you think of the weapons of WWII, what
comes to mind? Planes, tanks, money? Bullets,
machine-guns, and grenade launchers? Yes, all of these
were important tools in the effort to win the war. But so
was information. In this case, government issued
information. Over the course of the war the U.S.
government waged a constant battle for the hearts and
minds of the public. Persuading Americans to support
the war effort became a wartime industry, just as
important as producing bullets and planes. The U.S.
government produced posters, pamphlets, newsreels,
radio shows, and movies-all designed to create a public
that was 100% behind the war effort.
WWII-Propaganda Posters
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In 1942 the Office of War Information (OWI) was
created to both craft and disseminate the
government’s message. This propaganda
campaign included specific goals and strategies.
Artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals were
recruited to take the government’s agenda
(objectives) and turn it into a propaganda
campaign. This included posters found across
American-from railway stations to post offices,
from schools to apartment buildings.
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WHY:During WWII the objectives of the U.S.
government for the propaganda campaign were
recruitment, financing the war effort, unifying the public
behind the war effort and eliminating dissent of all kinds,
resource conservation, and factory production of war
materials. The most common objectives/ themes found
in the posters were the consequences of careless talk,
conservation, civil defense, war bonds, victory gardens,
“women power”, and anti-German and Japanese
scenarios. It was imperative to have the American
people behind the war effort. Victory over the Axis was
not a given, and certainly would not be without the
whole-hearted support of all men, women, and children.
WWII-Propaganda Posters
“The principal battleground of the war is not the South
Pacific. It is not the Middle East. It is not England, or
Norway, or the Russian Steppes. It is American opinion.”
--Archibald MacLeish, Director of the Office of Facts and
Figures, forerunner of the Office of War Administration
“The function of the war poster is to make coherent and
acceptable a basically incoherent and irrational ordeal of
killing, suffering, and destruction that violate every
accepted principle of morality and decent living.”
--O.W. Riegal, propaganda analyst for the Office of War
Information
WWII-Propaganda Techniques
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Glittering Generalities these are virtue words (good, democracy,
religious, motherhood) for which we have deep seated ideas. Words
we believe in, live by, and are ready to fight for. This is dangerous
because these words mean different things to different people.
Propagandists will use these words to get people to choose a side
or fight a war but their definition of the word may not be the same as
yours. It is name-calling in reverse. Instead of wanting you to reject
someone because of something negative they say, they want you to
accept and support something because of what you support and
believe in.
Examples—these are virtue words (good, democracy, religious,
motherhood) for example: If you are patriotic, you will fight in this
war. Good people do this (fill in) and during WWII good mothers can
and scrap.
WWII-Propaganda Techniques
• Euphemism—this is used when
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propagandists make something awful or
negative more palatable. Words that are
bland or neutral are often used.
Example: civilian deaths are “collateral
damage,” lying is “fabricating,” and murder is
“liquidation,” and during WWII (and other
times of war) death is “loss.”
WWII-Propaganda Techniques
• Transfer—when the propagandist transfers
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the importance, power, or approval of
something we respect and accept to
something else they wish us to accept and
respect. Symbols are often used
Example: a picture of a cross or other
religious symbol next to a politician, “science
based” and during WWII they often used
Uncle Sam in posters to show that something
was “American.”
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Testimonial—the recommendation or endorsement of
something by a person whose opinion is valued (or who
is famous). There is nothing wrong with someone
qualified recommending someone or something but
testimonials are often used in ways that are misleading
and unfair.
Example: a doctor selling a medication on television, a
famous singer endorsing a presidential candidate and
during WWII President Roosevelt telling Americans to
buy War Bonds.
WWII-Propaganda Techniques
• Bandwagon—everyone is doing it and so
should you. No one wants to be left out or
ignored so people will join or agree when
they believe “everyone” is doing it.
• Example: peer pressure, joining a religious
group or political party, buying a product or
service and during WWII posters that said
everyone has a Victory Garden, or scraps, or
joins up.
WWII-Propaganda Techniques
• Fear—the propagandist warns that
something horrible will happen to the group
or person if they do not follow a specific
course of action. They play on fear and try to
get you not to think.
• Example: if you don’t vote for me we will be
attacked by our enemy, and during WWII
posters that said if you don’t conserve bacon
fat, the soldiers will die.
WWII-Propaganda News Reels
• Bombing of Pearl Harbor
• Hitler Marches on Europe
• Allies Liberate France
• Video of The Greatest Generation
Documentary with Tom Brokaw
• http://www.hulu.com/watch/10399
• Watch first 8-9 minutes - Joe Foss
• http://www.historicalmilitaria.com/Obituaries/F
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(obituary with Life cover)