1) Current Event Worksheet: This activity requires you to read a domestic (US based) news article and complete the worksheet that goes with it.

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1 Name: Welcome to U.S. History 2 There are four activities that you must complete before the new school year begins. You must hand in this cover paper with your assignments on the first day of school. This sheet is your rubric and is worth 5 points. This will be the first grade of the marking period! Attached you will fmd the following: Check off once complete: 1) Current Event Worksheet: This activity requires you to read a domestic (US based) news article and complete the worksheet that goes with it. 1. IS TOTAL: ) Film Analysis TOTAL: )Document Based Question (DBQ): Read the documents and answer the questions below TOTAL: ) Reading Comprehension: Read the article and answer the questions that follow. 10 questions-2 points each 120

2 Name: _ Date: _ Current Events Report: U.S. II Directions: Find one domestic (U.S) current event that happens during the summer months(june-august) that interests you. Read the article and answer the questions below in complete sentences! Each Question is 5 points each. Title of Article: Who is involved (individuals, groups, things) When (Date of event and date of article) Where in the world (County, city, state-mention all that apply) What is going on (In complete sentences)

3 Why is the event/issue newsworthy (Why would people care about this?)

4 Film Analysis us. History II: Please find below some guidelines and helpful hints for the movie review. one (1) page analysis. It must be a Step One - Choose one movie from the list below: 1. Blast from the Past 5. The Long Walk Home 2. The Hunt for Red October 6. A League of Their Own 3. Remember the Titans The Blind Side 8. Forrest Gump Step Two- Watch the movie As you watch the movie pay attention to detail. Try to remember character names, and keep track of plot twists. What are the major themes and conflicts and how are they resolved or are they left unresolved? Also, record your own initial reactions to the film. Step Two - additional research required You're not ready to start writing quite yet. Your review would still benefit from more research. Take to the Internet and research the topic that the movie is based on. You must have one reliable source to support your analysis. Step three - Write the Review Evaluate the Movie: in terms of history, the review should attempt to answer the following questions. 1.) Does this movie portray historical events accurately? If not, what does it do wrong? 2.) Discuss the historical context, essentially how well does the movie represent the time in which it is cast? 3.) Are the events, feelings, and material culture of the era properly represented? 4.) How good is the film at immersing the viewer in the era? 5.) Also, what does the movie say about the important themes of the area?

5 The New Deal Answer the following questions in complete sentences by analyzing the above political cartoon about the New Deal. 1. Who are the three people depicted in this cartoon? How do you know who they are? 2. What do some of the abbreviations stand for? Name two. 3. What is ironic about the "New Deal Remedies" bag? 4. How is Roosevelt depicted by the illustrator? 5. Do you think this cartoon is optimistic or pessimistic of the "New Deal" Programs?

6 Name: _ Date: Class: War and Uneasy Neutrality Before Roosevelt's second term was well under way, his domestic program was overshadowed by the expansionist designs of totalitarian regimes in Japan, Italy, and Germany. In 1931 Japan had invaded Manchuria, crushed Chinese resistance, and set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. Italy, under Benito Mussolini, enlarged its boundaries in Libya and in 1935 conquered Ethiopia. Germany, under Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, militarized its economy and reoccupied the Rhineland (demilitarized by the Treaty of Versailles) in In 1938, Hitler incorporated Austria into the German Reich and demanded cession of the Germanspeaking Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. By then, war seemed imminent. 1. Totalitarian regimes existed in all but which of the following countries? a. Canada b. Germany c. Italy d. Japan 2. The Japanese renamed Manchuria. a. Japanese Manchuria b. Manchukuo c. Machu Picchu d. New Manchuria 3. What country did Italy conquer in 1935? 4. What German leader militarized his country's economy in the 1930s? The United States, disillusioned by the failure of the crusade for democracy in World War I, announced that in no circumstances could any country involved in the conflict look to it for aid. Neutrality legislation, enacted piecemeal from 1935 to 1937, prohibited trade in arms with any warring nations, required cash for all other commodities, and forbade American flag merchant ships from carrying those goods. The objective was to prevent, at almost any cost, the involvement of the United States in a foreign war. 5. During the 1930s, the United States was eager to get involved in international conflicts. a. True b. False With the Nazi conquest of Poland in 1939 and the outbreak of World War II, isolationist sentiment increased, even though Americans clearly favored the victims of Hitler's aggression and supported the Allied democracies, Britain and France. Roosevelt could only wait until public opinion regarding U.S.involvement was altered by events. 6. What country was invaded by the Germans in a. China b. Norway c. Poland d. Russia After the fall of France and the beginning of the German air war against Britain in mid- 1940, the debate intensified Visit for free interactive test-prep games...no log-in required!

7 Name: _ Date: Class: between those in the United States who favored aiding the democracies and the antiwar faction known as the isolationists. Roosevelt did what he could to nudge public opinion toward intervention. The United States joined Canada in a Mutual Board of Defense, and aligned with the Latin American republics in extending collective protection to the nations in the Western Hemisphere. 7. Americans opposed to joining the war were known as a. fraidy cats b. interventionists c. isolationists d. war hawks Congress, confronted with the mounting crisis, voted immense sums for rearmament, and in September 1940 passed the first peacetime conscription bill ever enacted in the United States. In that month also, Roosevelt concluded a daring executive agreement with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The United States gave the British Navy 50 "overage" destroyers in return for British air and naval bases in Newfoundland and the North Atlantic. 8. When was the first peacetime conscription bill enacted in the United States? The 1940 presidential election campaign demonstrated that the isolationists, while vocal, were a minority. Roosevelt's Republican opponent, Wendell Wilkie, leaned toward intervention. Thus the November election yielded another majority for the president, making Roosevelt the first, and last, U. S. chief executive to be elected to a third term. 9. Who ran against Franklin Roosevelt in the presidential election of In early 1941, Roosevelt got Congress to approve the Lend-Lease Program, which enabled him to transfer arms and equipment to any nation (notably Great Britain, later the Soviet Union and China) deemed vital to the defense of the United States. Total Lend-Lease aid by war's end would amount to more than $50,000 million. 10. Describe the Lend-Lease program. Most remarkably, in August, Roosevelt met with Prime Minister Churchill off the coast of Newfoundland. The two leaders issued a "joint statement of war aims," which they called the Atlantic Charter. Bearing a remarkable resemblance to Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, it called for these objectives: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes without the consent of the people concerned; the right of all people to choose their own form of government; the restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; economic collaboration between all nations; freedom from war, from fear, and from want for all peoples; freedom of the seas; and the abandonment of the use of force as an instrument of international policy. America was now neutral in name only. Visit free interactive test-prep games...no log-in required!