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?

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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?

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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?