Productive Thinking
- Brainstorm Model:
- Brainstorm all of the ______
- ways Americans were impacted by World War II.
- ways Americans were encouraged to support the war effort.
- ways Americans efforts on the home front led to victory.
- ways Americans sacrificed for their country.
- similarities between American racism and German racism.
- similarities between American nationalism and German nationalism.
- similarities between American propaganda and German and Japanese propaganda.
- Brainstorm as many______
- ways women’s lives were changed forever by World War II.
- types of recreation enjoyed by American children on the home front.
- ways education was different for various groups of American children.
- ways propaganda was used for various reasons and audiences.
- ideals and values from World War II still exist today.
- ways the World War II war mobilization impacts life today.
- reasons why Americans could not reconcile racism on their own home front.
- Viewpoint Model:
- How would______look to______?
- the idea of rationing gasoline and food look to Americans today?
- the idea of women giving up their jobs to returning soldiers look to women’s rights advocates?
- the treatment of Japanese-Americans look to Muslim-Americans today?
- the treatment of Black Americans in the South look to Adolf Hitler?
- the military budget of World War II look to liberal Democrats today?
- big government spending and programs during World War II look to conservative Republicans today?
- the need for and use of migrant labor during World War II look to immigrants of today?
- How would ______view the American home front during World War II?
- Black Americans living in the Jim Crow South
- George Washington
- Churchill
- Abraham Lincoln
- Japanese living in Japan
- Japanese living in internment camps
- Young children
- Veterans of World War I
- Involvement Model:
- How would you feel if you were______
- a child whose father was away at war?
- the mother of a son missing in action?
- a teacher assigned to teach school in the Topaz internment camp?
- a civilian living in a town with German POWs imprisoned nearby?
- a Black soldier who was not allowed to donate blood to the Red Cross?
- Harry Truman trying to decide the best way to spare American lives in the Pacific?
- President Roosevelt confronted with the similarities between the Jim Crow South and Nazi Germany?
8. a Navajo called to serve in the military as a Code Talker?
- If you were______what would you see/taste/smell?
- an Italian POW imprisoned in rural Utah
- an elderly Japanese man interned in a prison camp
- a woman working in an shipyard
- a civil defense worker organizing local efforts
- a child in New York City during World War II
- a Black soldier in army basic training
- a resident of a small, rural town in the Midwest during World War II
- Reorganization:
- What would happen if ______were true?
- women were not expected to give up their wartime jobs to returning soldiers
- Blacks were allowed access to jobs, wages, living conditions, and education
- German-Americans were deported to Europe during World War II
- Italian-Americans were deported to Europe during World War II
- Japanese-Americans were deported to Japan during World War II
- the Japanese did not bomb Pearl Harbor
- Hitler invaded the United States
- What would happen if there were no______
- Allies
- Axis
- ration stamps/ration programs
- propaganda
- atomic weapons
- racism in the U.S. during World War II
- film technology during World War II
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