Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Day 57: End of WW2

Life is Beautiful OPINION PAPER due today.

Review of key events for Canadians after D-Day (Operation Overlord):
  • Battle of the Schedlt
  • Battle for the Rhineland
  • Liberating the Netherlands
Victory in Europe (VE Day): May 8, 1945

Nuclear Weapons: is the use of weapons of mass destruction ever justified? 
Current events: Nuclear agreement with Iran (5 members of the UN + Germany).  What does this mean for the Middle East and the world?
Answer #1,2 on Pg 151.


CPH: "Sacrifice and Secrets."  US building the Alaska Highway through Canada.  Dene (First Nations group) mining Uranium in the Northwest territories for a secret project (Atomic Bomb).  Side-effects of uranium exposure was withheld and many of those people exposed later died.

"The Price of Victory"  Spring 1945.  Liberation of concentration camps.  Atomic bombs on Japan. 

Read page 153-159.  Add details to the review MIND MAP

WW2 TEST on WED, DEC 4th

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