1. U.S. HISTORY ON THIS DAY: Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, AL, to form the Confederate States of America The Russo-Japanese War began after Japan laid siege to Port Arthur During World War II, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans for Germany's defeat The Administrator of General Services announced that the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had been ratified. The amendment banned the poll tax.
BELL WORK: #2
PICK-UP MOBILIZING FOR DEFENSE.
COMPLETE ACTIVE READING:
1. READ PASSAGE.
2. UNDERLINE IMPORTANT INFORMATION/TERMS/ NAMES.
3. CIRCLE UNFAMILIAR INFORMATION/TERMS/ NAMES.
4. ASK QUESTIONS IN MARGINS, SPACE BELOW OR BACK ABOUT CIRCLED ITEMS.
AGENDA:
DISCUSS THE HOME FRONT.
COMPLETE & DISCUSS THE HOME FRONT DBQ #1. (#4.3)
COMPLETE EXIT TICKET.
HOMEWORK:
VIDEO 5.9 & CORNELL NOTES DUE FRIDAY.
UNIT 5 VOCABULARY

2. Exit Ticket/Objective 5.7 Assessment
On December 7th, 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on our naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Following the attack Americans rallied around the slogan (1)_____. Soon after we began to prepare for war. After the attack 5 million men (2)_____ to serve in the military. Since we still needed more men we used the Selective Service System to (3)_____ an additional 10 million men into the military. The expansion of the military included help from all Americans. For example, 350,000 women served in the (4)_____, which was originally not an official part of the Army. Other groups of minorities joined as well including, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Native-Americans and (5)_____.

3. Exit Ticket/Objective 5.7 Assessment
While men and women were being added to the military factories began producing the weapons needed to win the war. At this time the city of (6)_____ became “the arsenal of democracy” because of its ability to produce the tanks, planes & trucks that would be needed to win the war. The government also needed to sell the war to the American people and turned to (7)____ to produce propaganda in the form of war movies. The U.S. also mobilized its scientists when FDR created the (8)_____ which was responsible for developing sonar, DDT and penicillin. These scientists also would lead the (9)_____ which was given the job to create an atomic bomb. Lastly, the government took control of the economy and called on all citizens to begin (10)_____, meaning each person and family was limited to using a fixed amount of goods so the rest could be directed towards the war effort.