Transcript 02-25 How did WWII Begin

Aim: How did World War II begin?
Do Now:
Trench Warfare
(1) Describe what you see in image A.
Answer the following
questions in your
notebook
(2) What war is illustrated in image B? [review question!]
(3) How is battle A from different from trench warfare seen in image B?
(4) Why do you think Germany changed their war strategy?
1. Axis Powers: a military and
political alliance between
Germany, Italy and Japan. Its goals
were to achieve vast expansion
through aggressive warfare
2. Allied Powers: the nations,
primarily China, Great Britain, the
Soviet Union, and the United
States, allied against the Axis
3. Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression
Pact: an agreement that
guaranteed the two countries
would not attack each other.
 Read the timeline together as a class.
 Answer questions on the back of the sheet with your
partner.
 You will need the map and the timeline to answer all the
questions.
A: Total War:
-means not just armies but whole
countries fought in this war.
-All factories, people & wealth of
nations went toward the war effort
C: Scientific War:
B: Global War:
-60 nations were involved & up to
40 million people died.
D: The Holocaust:
-new inventions like radar, guided -the murder of 6 million Jews in
missiles, jet airplanes & the Atomic German Concentration Camps.
Bomb changed war forever.
-War against Japan ended in
August 1945 when the Atomic
Bombs were dropped on
Hiroshima & Nagasaki.
How could World War II have been prevented?
Answer in a paragraph in your notebook