1. "THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. THEN THEY CAME for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. THEN THEY CAME for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.“ - Martin Niemoller, Lutheran Pastor

2. It began with negative images of “the other.”

3. Scale (Progression) of Prejudice
1 – “Antilocution” – when a group believes negative images of people outside one’s own group (begins with predilection, forming preferences) 2 – Avoidance – avoiding the minority group; no direct harm in initiated, but psychological harm may result from exclusion 3 – Discrimination – Calculated harm, denying opportunities 4 – Physical Attack – violent attack begins, could also include vandalism 5 – Extermination – genocide, complete elimination of other group
* Prejudice?
* Discrimination?
* Violence?
* Hatred?

4. Could this happen here? Published in 1942 “Senator Obama is an Arab”
“Ann Coulter on Peasant Cultures” (start 3:20)
Published in 1942

5. “A Night at the Garden” What stands out to you? https://www.npr.org/
sections/codeswitch/
2019/02/20/ /
when-nazis-took-manhattan
“Oscars Film Shows Nazi Rally at Madison Square Garden”
3:00 – 4:50

6. Read “Topic 14, Lesson Two” pages 576 to 584, answering below …
(1) What was the popular American response to President Roosevelt’s 1937 “Quarantine Speech?”
(2) Germany surprises French and British forces in the Spring of 1940 by …
(3) The importance of Dunkirk …
(4) In late 1930’s, why were Americans against involvement in WWII?
(5) The United States Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 prohibited Americans from sailing …
And prevented Americans from …
(6) How did the Neutrality Act of 1939 and “Lend-Lease” change U.S. isolationism?