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• E: 1: a Describe the circumstances at home and abroad prior to US involvement in WWII
• E: 1: b Identify the significant military and political aspects of WWII
• E: 1: c Analyze dimensions of the Holocaust and the Allies response to the Holocaust and war crimes
• E: 1: d Evaluate the social, political, and economic impacts of WWII on the home front
• E:1: e Identify and evaluate the scientific and technological developments in America during and after WWII
• E:1: f Analyze the social, cultural, and economic changes at the onset of the Cold War era
Core Standards
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Readings
• Read the entire chapter.
• Expect reading quiz each day.
• Pp. 764-774
• Pp. 774-782
• Pp. 782-794
Even the German soldiers knew to do
their readings!
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Introduction
• Eugene Bondurant Sledge
• With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
• Read his book, you’ll love his colorful language
• When I knew
• Dr. Sledge he
• looked like this.
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The United States in a Menacing World, 1933-1939
• Italy
• Germany
• Japan
• World toward a precipice
• Neutrality
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Nationalism and the Good Neighbor
• “Good Neighbor Policy” FDR
• Aid to Cuba – Fulgencio Batista
– Overthrown by Castro in 1959
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The Rise of Aggressive States in Europe and Asia
• Adolf Hitler• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-6H4xOUrs&skipcontrinter=1
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS-nQgLehpE&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDUfLX0mTA
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK-Xryw_hKA
Appeasement
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The Gathering Storm
• Joseph Stalin• Nonaggression pact• Mussolini: “FDR’s
paralysis must have reached his brain!”
• FDR takes action:– 300 million for military– 20,000 planes per year– 1.3 Billion Defense Plan– “two Madmen” who only
respect force
Stalin’s Kemlin
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America and the Jewish Refugees
• Kristallnacht• (Night of Broken glass)
• June 1939• St Louis• 950 Jews turned away on
ship in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (most died in Concentration Camps)
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British Monarchy
• George V
• Edward VIII– Abdicated
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBn06A-sdok
– George VI• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkMyKGx7TQ
• Elizabeth– Charles
• William• Harry
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The European War
• Poland
• Blitzkrieg
• Wehrmacht
• Winston Churchill
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTw3_PmKtc
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Dunkirk
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8q45vwf-0&feature=related
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Pearl Harbor and the
Coming of War
• December 7, 1941
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufoUtoQLGQY
• Pentagon
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North AfricaGeorge Smith Patton, Jr.
Bernard Montgomery
Erwin Rommel
Dwight D. Eisenhower landed troops in Morocco and Algeria
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Battle of Stalingrad
• Stalin wanted two fronts
Soviet Snipers at Stalingrad
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Abuse of Americans by Japanese
• Bataan Death March• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=SnNf57112nI&feature=endscreen
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War in the Pacific
• Philippines fall in May 1942
• MacArthur “I shall return!”• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbwuehH35I
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Battle of Midway
US Signal Corps breaks Japanese codes
4 Japanese destroyers sunk
Hundreds of Japanese planes lost
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Mjbw0GBog
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The Grand Alliance
• Roosevelt• Churchill• Giraud• De Gaulle• Casablanca• January 1943• First president to
travel abroad by plane while in office!
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Grand Alliance in Cairo
• Roosevelt
• Churchill
• Chiang Kai-shek– Anti-communist– Return Manchuria– Return Taiwan– “Free and
Independent Korea from USSR
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Grand Alliance in Tehran, Iran
• Roosevelt• Churchill• Stalin
– Invasion of France in June 1944
– Divide Germany into 4 military zones
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Domestic Issues
• Henry Wallace
• Harry S. Truman– Moderate
• Missouri• 1944 election
• Thomas E. Dewey
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Triumph and Tragedy, 1945
• Yalta Conference “accords”– Russia declares
war on Japan– FDR “gives away
eastern Europe– Roosevelt very
tired
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