Lesson #6 wwii

1. Bell Ringer Activity
 Take FIVE minutes and write anything that
you know about World War II.
Can be anything from the effects of WWI
through the end of WWII.
 Example: Hitler invaded Poland which caused
Britain and France to declare war on
Germany.

2. Share Bell Ringer Answers
 Only share one example per student.

3. OGT Buckle Down
Lesson 6
World War II

4. March 1938
 Hitlermarched into Austria and took over
the nation.
 Violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
 European countries did not resist it.

5. Appeasement
 European countries did not resist Hitler
because few have the desire to fight
another war.
 Itwas better to give Hitler what he wanted
in order to avoid another war.

6. September 1938
 Hitler took Sudetenland.
 Britain, France, and Italy agreed to permit
Hitler to take Sudetenland if he promised not
to take the rest of Czechoslovakia.
 Sixmonths later, Hitler went back on his
agreement and took the rest of
Czechoslovakia.

7. Appeasement was Clearly a Failure
 Hitler began looking towards Poland.
 Britain announced that it would defend
Poland against a German invasion.
 September 1, 1939 Hitler launched a
blitzkrieg.
 Planes, tanks, artillery, and soldiers quickly
broke through Poland’s defenses.
 Two days later, Britain and France declared
war on Germany.

8. America-Early Stages of WWII
 Americansfollowed the crisis closely, but
had no desire to get involved.
 Congress passed a series of Neutrality
Acts that forbid the U.S. to sell weapons or
give help to countries at war.

9. Lend-Lease Act
 When Germany invaded France and
threatened Britain, President Roosevelt
passed the Lend-Lease Act.
 This law allowed the U.S. to give American
ships and supplies to Britain and the Soviet
Union.
 Roosevelt promised “all measures short of
war” to help.

10. Complete Quick Review 1 NOW!

11. The U.S. Enters the War
 Duringthe 1930s Japan had moved to
increase its power in Asia.
 Fighting a war against China.
 Japanese supported Germany and took
over French and Dutch territories in Asia.
 This U.S. cut off sales of oil and scrap
metal to the Japanese and began sending
warships into Asian waters.

12. Japanese-U.S. Relations
 The two countries tried to make a deal.
 The Japanese were planning a secret
attack on the Americans.
 December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor.
 Killed 2,500 Americans.
 8 battleships were sunk.
 188 airplanes were destroyed.

13. U.S. Enters the War
 The next day Roosevelt asked Congress
to declare war on Japan.
 Germany and Italy immediately declared war
on the United States.
 Thecountry that had tried to stay out of
world affairs since 1918 would now fight
another war on the opposite side of the
world.

14. Complete Quick Review 2 NOW!

15. Effects of Pearl Harbor
 Winston Churchill wrote that on the night
of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
he slept more soundly than he had in
months.
 He knew that with the U.S. now involved in
the war, the Allies would certainly win.
 It would still take nearly four years of hard
fighting to win the war.

16. Germany-Two Front War
 In
1941, Hitler broke a nonaggression pact
he had made with the Soviet Union.
 Hitler
sent a large part of his army to the
eastern front to fight.
 The Soviets suffered many defeats.
 Thelong Russian winters wore down the
German troops, and the Soviet Union
began pushing the Germans back across
Europe.

17. U.S. in the War
 TheU.S. first concentrated its efforts in
the Pacific and in Italy.
 June6, 1944 D-Day. Huge army of
Americans, British, and Canadian troops
invaded German-occupied France.

18. U.S. Meets the Russians
 Following D-day, for the next 10 months
the Allied forces pushed the Germans
back across Europe from the west.
 In the east the Soviet forces crushed the
Germans as well.
 In the spring of 1945, American and Soviet
troops shook hands along the Elbe River
in Germany.
 This signaled the end of the war in Europe.

19. Complete Quick Review 3 NOW!

20. War in the Pacific
 Alliesfought to push the Japanese back,
one island at a time.
 By the summer of 1945 military planners
were getting ready to invade Japan.
 Many military planners believed it would take
nearly one million soldiers to successfully
invade Japan.

21. Manhattan Project
 April1945 President Roosevelt died of a
cerebral hemorrhage.
 He had been President for 12 years.
 When Harry Truman took office he learned
of a secret project.
 This project was a race to build the most
powerful weapon the world had ever seen–
the atomic bomb.

24. Decision to Drop the Bomb
 Truman ordered the new bomb to be
dropped on Japan.
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the targets.
 August6 and 9, 1945.
 Hundreds of thousands died.
 The Japanese surrendered a few days
later.
 End of WWII.

25. American Justification
 Americans justified the atomic bombing by
saying that it saved more lives than might
have been lost from an invasion of Japan.
 Other
Americans believed it was
necessary to show the Soviet Union the
power of the U.S.

26. Complete Quick Review 4 NOW!

27. Impact of the War
 13 Million Soldiers died.
 23 Million Soldiers were wounded.
 75 Million People worldwide may have
died.
 1945Allied troops discovered
concentration camps.
6 million Jews were killed.
 5 million non-Aryan were killed.

28. Nuremberg Trials
Following the war Allies rounded up
the leaders of Germany and Japan
and put them on trial.
17 Nazi leaders.
12 were sentenced to death.
Japanese general Hideki Tojo.
Ordered attack on Pearl Harbor.

29. Russian-U.S. Relations
 Both countries emerged from WWII as the
most powerful nations.
 Soviets refused to remove its armies from
Eastern Europe after the war.
 An intense rivalry between groups of
democratic and communist nations.
 Led to the Cold War.

30. The United Nations
 Allieswere determined to keep world peace.
 United Nations was formed to keep world peace.
 United
States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France,
and China all worked together to form the U.N.
 Japan was not admitted until 1953.
 Italy until 1955.
 Germany until 1973.

31. Establishment of Israel
 Britain promised a new Jewish homeland.
 Arabs in the region were not in favor of the
new Jewish homeland.
 1948 Israel was recognized by the United
States.

32. Complete the following questions
and leave your answers on your
desk.
 Describe how the policy of Appeasement
led to another World War.
 Discuss the U.S. foreign policy prior to the
attack on Pearl Harbor.
 Explain the impact of the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor.