Transcript The Origins of WWII 08-09

The Origins of
World War II
Standard 11.7 Students
analyze America’s
participation in WWII
What’s going on in the world in the
1930s?
HOT ROC
► Group
Concept Map
► Share as a class
WWII
Europe After WWI
► The
Versailles
Treaty
 Germany forced to
sign “war guilt”
clause and pay
reparations (32
billion)
 Limitations on
Germany’s military
 Loss of all colonies
The Rise of Hitler
►
►
1920: The Nazi Party (National Socialist German
Workers' Party) founded
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), a WWI veteran
*don’t write down
 1923: Attempts a coup, spends year in jail
 Writes Mein Kampf
 1930: Nazi party second largest in
Germany—appeals to middle class,
farmers, veterans
 1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor of
Germany
 1934: Appointed Führer by his cabinet
 1935: Violates Treaty of Versailles by
building up military
Appeasement
►*
don’t write down
► 1938 Germany annexed Austria
with the Anschluss (political
union) and looks toward the
Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
► France and Soviet Union had
alliances with Czechoslovakia, but
unprepared for war.
► 1938 Munich Agreement—Hitler
given the Sudetenland
►
"I believe it is peace for our time." --Chamberlain
Chamberlain and Hitler at
the Munich Conference
British, July 1936 - by Sir David Low
Alliance System- *See Map
► Allies:
► Axis:
 Great Britain and
France.
 Later:
► U.S.
► U.S.S.R.
► Australia
► China
► Canada,
etc
 Nazi Germany, Fascist
Italy and the Empire of
Japan
 On August 23, 1939,
Germany and the Soviet
Union signed the
Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact.
British, October 1938 - by Sir David Low in "The Evening Standard" Sack says
"Deutshcland Uber Allies" (Germany over all) and the caption says "Europe can look
forward to a Christmas of Peace - Hitler"
Homework
►
Reading--origins of the war 435-438.

What are three commonalities between Stalin,
Mussolini, Hitler and Tojo? What was the
tension between aggression and
appeasement?
HOT ROCWhat is Dr Seuss’ Message?
Germany invades Poland
►
►
On September 1, 1939, Germany
invaded Poland, using the false
pretext of a faked "Polish attack" on
a German border post.
1940, the Germans invaded Belgium,
the Netherlands, and France using
“blitzkrieg” (lightning war).
Germany occupies Paris
►
June 22, 1940. French sign armistice.
Summer of 1940:
Battle of Britain
Summer of 1941:
Germany attacks the Soviet Union
*London
U.S. Response
► Isolationism
vs Interventionism
 1936 Congress passes Neutrality Acts (prohibits selling of
weapons to nations at war).
► FDR’s
position
 Sees Germany and Japan as threats
► FDR




Actions Timeline
1938
1940
1941
1941
Asks Congress for $300 million
Selective Service (Draft)
(January) Lend-Lease program to aid allies
Embargo against Japan
► scrap
metal sales, aviation fuel, all metals, chemicals, machine parts
and anything that could be used for military means
Japanese militarism
► Read
pgs 439-440
► Review:
► Imperial Japan in the 1930s was looking to become a
world power.
► 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria and China in 1937.
► The United States and the United Kingdom reacted by
 making loans to China.
 providing covert military assistance, pilots and fighter aircraft
to Kuomintang China.
 instituting increasingly broad embargoes of raw materials
and oil against Japan.
Japanese
Militarism
Pearl Harbor
► December
7, 1941
► At 6am, 6 Japanese
carriers launched a
first wave of 183
planes.
► Overall, 21 ships of
the U.S. Pacific fleet
were damaged and the
death toll reached
2,403.
HW
► Homework:
►2
1 paragraph
options
 Compare/contrast Pearl Harbor and 9/11
 Could WWII have been prevented?
U.S. Enters War
►
►
►
►
December 8, 1941 FDR asks Congress for Declaration of
war against Japan.
Germany and Italy declare war on U.S.
After Pearl Harbor, a new selective service act made men
between 18 and 45 liable for military service.
Army increases from 1.8 million in 1941 to 3.9 million by
1942
What was the U.S. fighting for?
► Revenge?
► Ideals?
►A
way out of the Great Depression?
► To defeat totalitarianism and fascism?
FDR’s 4 Freedoms
Speech to Congress on January 6, 1941
► The
first is freedom of speech and expression
► The second is freedom of every person to worship
God in his own way
► The third is freedom from want
► The fourth is freedom from fear
► Your
task: Create an image and slogan for the
“freedom” you are assigned. This should be pasted
into your notebook.
Ours…to fight for
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Norman Rockwell, 1943
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear
Europe 1939