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Allow students an opportunity to go back to America's WWII Home Front to examine various morale boosters in general ( radio, movies, etc. ), but particularly Major League Baseball.

The student will be able to analyze and determine central themes in George Orwell’s Animal Farm as these themes relate to the novel’s role as an allegory of Communism in Russia during WWII.

Through this activity, students will learn to analyze primary source materials such as pictures, letters, and diaries, and synthesize that information with material presented in the classroom to produce an original story.

Students will determine which war crime trials were the most heinous during World War II and use evidence to build a case to convict the guilty.

The students will examine the experiences of Jewish displaced persons in the years immediately following World War II. They will explore photographs and primary source documents related to the DP camps in Europe.

To assist students in developing analytical skills that will enable them to evaluate primary sources and images such as documents, photographs, political cartoons and posters related to the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II.

Students will compare and contrast the United States Bill of Rights and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Students will research the impact of World War II on Major League Baseball and create a trading card using a draw program.

This assignment allows the students the opportunity to explore the vast amount of visual examples that address various aspects of the Cold War and offers new insight into the era.

Students should be able to make inferences as to the tenor of each conference, the state of mind of the participants and the importance of the photographs in relation to their background knowledge to support or refute: FDR was too physically ill at Yalta.