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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= E1: Historical Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns Grades 9 - Diploma: World War II and Postwar United States, 1939 - 1961 (Pacific Theater) "Students understand major eras, major enduring themes, and historic influences in the United States and world history, including the roots of democratic philosophy, ideals, and institutions in the world." ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results, Social Studies: E - History

//What understandings are desired?//
• cultural differences (and misconceptions about those differences) between the US and Japan greatly affected the way the war was fought. • the Pacific theater had far reaching impacts on society in both Japan and the United States. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • the war in the Pacific had profound and lasting effects on the process and outcome of WWII as well as on US foreign policy.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• How did cultural differences (perceived or otherwise) between the US and Japan affect the war, both "on the battlefield" and "back home"? • Why was the outcome in Japan so important to the US? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • How did the Pacific theater lay groundwork for future American relations in Asia and beyond?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• __Important events and people__: Japanese invasion of Manchuria and China; FDR; Harry Truman; Joseph Stalin; Hirohito; lead-up to and attack on Pearl Harbor; Okinawa, Iwo Jima, etc.; Attu Island; Japanese surrender. • __Sequence and timeline__: end of fighting in Europe and shift of focus to the Pacific; Russian movement towards Japan; increased tensions between US and Soviet Union; "island hopping" strategy in the Pacific. || • investigate the following: 1.) The relationship between Japan and America before the attack on Pearl Harbor. 2.) The Soviet Union's entrance into WWII. 3.) The Soviet Union's anticipated entrance into the Pacific theater. 4.) America and communism after WWII. • evaluate America's hostility toward the Soviet Union, and whether or not it was justified. • communicate the caused by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • critically analyze the Presidential order authorizing Japanese internment camps in the United States, as well as American arguments against it and in support of it. • assume the role of both an American soldier and a Japanese soldier serving on Iwo Jima in the Pacific theater of WWII. • critically evaluate the use of propaganda during WWII by both the American and Japanese governments. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • __Key factual information__: casualty rates in European theater vs. Pacific; Japanese internment camps in the US; US relationship with the Soviet Union; surrender conditions set by the US; American and Japanese interpretations of one another; communism in the Soviet Union.


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**