1. How did the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki affect the country of Japan? How did it affect the U.S.?
2. How did America get involved in WWII? 3. Which was the first battle that helped America get back at Japan after Pearl Harbor? 4. Why did France get invaded? 5. When did Germany invade Poland? 6. Why did Italy invade Ethiopia? 7. Which president made the decision to declare war on Japan? 8. Why did Japan invade Manchuria? 9. What was El Alamein? 10. How did WWII start in Europe? 11. What do you think would be different in the world if the U.S. lost WWII? 12. What happened on D-day? 13. Who were the United States allies? 14. Who were Germany's allies? 15. Why was Germany killing Jewish People? 16. How long did WWII last? 17. Can you name three battles? 18. The battle of Kristallnacht was what? 19. How did Adolf Hitler die? 20. What was Adolf Hitlers rank? 21. Who was the British Prime Minister? 22. Who was United States President during WWII? (see Sam and George for answers)
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First, they had to brainstorm by themselves. Then, they compared lists with the others at their tables, eliminating any “repeats.” In other words, one person read his/her list and if any of the other students replicated the answer, they crossed theirs out. They wrote the problems/issues on cards and stuck them to the board. Then we looked at the variety of issues they had come up with. 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The warm inversion air layer is usually displaced by a strong storm, allowing the pollution to escape and returning air to healthy levels. - James I think it is sad that horses get trapped in cages in captivity when they used to roam free. If they are going to do that they should get them when they are babies when they get used to changes quickly. I think the breeding medicine that prevents the horses from being able to give birth is a great idea. They should just get more peoples to help track down the female horses. I want to help. - Sylvia
Even though there is a wild horse population issue in the western U.S., I think that shooting the wild horses is unethical because so many people are attached to them. It seems to be the wrong thing to do, to go around killing horses. In my opinion, a better option would be to still do the birth control shots, but not have people going around trying to find horses to do the shots to. Instead, they could do something like the round up, and only have them run a mile or less so they hopefully don't get hurt and they do not get as tired. Then after you give them the shots you let them out of the crate to be free and do this once year. So it does not hurt the horses and is not that hard on the humans. - Gemma |