Guiding Questions

Station One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iHKtrirjlY

What capture your attention the most in FDRs speech? And why?
What stuck out to you the most about Tojo and Mussolini?
What is your opinion on Adolf Hitlers May Day Speech?
What was it about Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo that allowed them to form an alliance to one
another?

Station Two
http://time.com/3620986/after-pearl-harbor-rare-photos-from-the-american-home-front/#1

What accounted for the growing hostility that had developed between the United States
and Japan by the early 1930s?
Was war between the United States and Japan inevitable after September 1941?
What is your opinion on the United States response to Japans actions before Pearl
Harbor?
What stuck out most to you after viewing the images about Pearl Harbors aftermath?

Station Three
http://life.time.com/history/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-photos-from-the-ruins/?iid=lb-galviewagn#end

What were the reasons behind the dropping of the atomic bombs?
How much of a role do you believe that the atomic bombs play in making Japan
surrender?
Why do you believe the use of these weapons could be controversial?
After viewing the images do you believe the use of the atomic bombs was needed?
Explain you answer.

Station Four
http://time.com/3638432/behind-the-picture-the-liberation-of-buchenwald-april-1945/

In a society where all the forces of law and order are directed against one group, what
can be accomplished by violent resistance?
What are the likely outcomes of violent resistance, for the fighter and for those whom he
or she intends to protect?
In what sense is remembering the Holocaust and preserving it as an historical event an
act of resistance against the forces that brought it about?
How does memory, and the sharing of memories through study and discussion, affirm
our humanity?