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America in America in World War World War IIII
Prelude to Global Prelude to Global War and the Road War and the Road
to Victory in to Victory in EuropeEurope
AgendaAgenda• Review Quiz• Homework: Read pgs. 444-49, answer
#2 and Read pgs. 451-54, answer #3.
• Triumph of the Will Video• Prelude to War and the War in the Pacific• Project-PPT• Review• Objective: To explain the significance of
WW II.
Triumph of the Triumph of the WillWill
Prelude to Prelude to WarWar• Germany marched troops
into the Rhineland.• Annexed Austria and
Czechoslovakia, and invaded Poland.
• Italy suspends elections.• Establishes dictatorship,
and invades Ethiopia.• Japan Seized Manchuria.• Invaded China and
Indochina, and attacked Pearl Harbor.
Invasion Speech
Prelude Prelude to Warto War
• Totalitarian:• Government that controls
every part of life.• Fascism:• Belief in nation above an
individual.• Axis Powers:• Germany, Italy, Japan.• Appeasement:• Giving into demands for peace.• Blitzkrieg:• “Lightening War”• Allies:• US, Britain, and the Soviet
Union.FDR War
Road to Victory in Road to Victory in EuropeEurope• Early Axis Dominance:
• Atlantic-Germans used Submarine warfare, Africa-Rommel gained territory, USSR-Germans gained territory.
• Allied Offensives:
• Africa-Defeated Rommel, Italy-Mussolini overthrown.
• Victory in Europe:
• France-D-Day, Germany-Germans defeated at the Battle of the Bulge.
D-Day Accounts 1, 2
Battle of the Bulge
Liberation of Paris
ReviewReview• What did Hitler do after he sent troops
in to the Rhineland?• What do Fascists believe?• What nations were in the Axis Powers?• What does Blitzkrieg mean?• What nations were in the Allied
Powers?• What Battle did the Allies win in
France?
America in America in World War World War IIII
War in the Pacific War in the Pacific and the and the
HolocaustHolocaust
AgendaAgenda• Political Cartoon• Homework: Read pgs.470-73, answer
#3 and Read pgs. 475-81, answer #3.
• Pearl Harbor Videos, Newspaper, and Artifact
• Timeline/Cartoon• Review Homework• Work on War in the Pacific/The Holocaust• Project• Review• Objective: To explain the significance of
WW II.
HomeworkHomework• Which two battles changed the
course of the war in the Pacific?• Midway and Guadalcanal• Nazi persecution of Jews:• Nuremberg Laws passed, SA
and Gestapo organized, concentration camps began, kristallnacht.
ReviewReview• How did Americans react to Pearl
Harbor?• Who did Germany attack to cause
Britain and France to declare war on them?
• What countries did Japan conquer in its’ empire?
• What battle turned the tide in the Pacific to America’s side?
• What did the Nuremberg Laws say?
America in America in World War World War IIII
War in the Pacific, the War in the Pacific, the Holocaust, Women at Holocaust, Women at
War, and Justice.War, and Justice.
AgendaAgenda• Saving Private Ryan• Homework: PPT due Wednesday!• Review Homework• Review from previous day: War in the
Pacific, the Holocaust • Work on:
– Women in the Army, Resources of the Allies and Axis nations.
– Women at War and Justice.
• If Time: Project• Review• Objective: To explain the significance of WW
II.
HomeworkHomework• What were benefits and drawbacks of
women during the war?• Benefits: Extra $, learn new skills;
Drawbacks: Discrimination, lower wages, and care for children.
• How did African, Mexican, Native, and Japanese Americans experience the war:
• African: New jobs, but still discrimination, and ghettos; Mexican: New jobs, suffered violence, and barrios; Native: Assimilated culturally, military; Japanese: Intense discrimination, camps.
• Battle of the Coral Sea:
• Prevented Japanese advancement.
• Battle of Midway:• Allies take offensive.• Battle of Okinawa:• Opened up Allied
invasion of Japan.• Manhattan Project:• Atomic Bomb!
Bombing over Japan
• Nuremberg Laws:• Stripped Jews of citizenship, forbade marriage of Jews
and non-Jews.• Gestapo:• Arrested political opponents of the Nazis.• Kristallnacht:• “night of the broken glass”• Evian Conference:• All but 29 nations refused to ease immigration laws for
Jews.• Wannsee Conference:• Announce plans to destroy Jews.• Death Camps:• Mass Murder.• Nuremberg Trials:• Trial of leading 24 Nazis, people responsible for own
actions.
• Rosie the Riveter:• A fictional young
women that was used to attract women to the work force.
• Seniority:• Status derived from
the length of one’s service in a job.
• African Americans:• Jim Crow Laws, segregation.• Mexican Americans:• Terrible working conditions,
job opportunity.• Native Americans:• Adjusted to white culture, job
opportunity.• Japanese Americans:• Interment camps,
discrimination. Click Here• Nisei:• Born in US, but parents
immigrated from Japan.• Internment camps:• Complex confining people
during the war. Click Here
ReviewReview• What were some of the obstacles faced
at D-Day?
• What was the Manhattan Project?
• Who were the Gestapo?
• What did the Nuremberg Laws say?
• Who was Rosie Riveter?
• What group of people did Americans place in internment camps?
America in America in World War World War IIII
Women at War, Women at War, Geography, the Death of Geography, the Death of
Hitler, and a Japanese Hitler, and a Japanese Internment Camp.Internment Camp.
AgendaAgenda•Review:
– Women in the Army, Resources of the Allies and Axis nations.
– Women and the war and Justice. (Click Here)
•Death of Hitler•Family Feud!•Project•Review•Homework: Quiz tomorrow!•Objective: To explain the significance
of WW II.
Speech
Mac on Japan’s Surrender
ReviewReview• Why did Hitler kill himself?
• What resources do the Allies have?
• What group of people did Americans place in internment camps?
• What were they like?