Transcript World War Two

World War Two
Chapter 17
(pages 338-363)
Questions from the test
• 1. Describe THREE causes of WWII.
• 2. Explain THREE new important technologies of
WWII.
• 3. Describe the major outcomes/results of WWII.
• Remember this will be an open note and open
Google Slides test. But, it will not be collaborative.
(Do it by yourself)
Review of 17.1 (pp 340-344)
(look for the causes of WWII)
• Germany violates Versailles!
– increasing military & enters the demilitarized
Rhineland
• Great Britain has a policy of appeasement
– policy of making political or material concessions
to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict
• New Alliances: Germany & Italy,
Germany & Japan
• By 1938, Hitler gains control of Sudetenland,
Czechoslovakia and Austria(Anschluss)
• Germany & USSR sign a Nazi-Soviet
Nonaggression pact( Aug ‘39)   
– Agreed not to attack one another
– USSR gains control of E. Poland & Baltic states
• Hitler invades Poland and WWII has begun
(Sept 1, ‘39)
– Br. & Fr. declare war two days later
What’s going on in Asia?
• Japan’s main motivation in Asia
was to aggressively gain
resources
– Manchuria (1931--)
– League of Nations investigates
• Japan opts out of the League
– China appeases at first
• Japan seized China’s capital and
massacred & raped 1000s
• Rape of Nanjing (The China Incident)
• US imposes economic sanctions
on Japan
– Japan badly needed oil & scrap
iron
– A major reason behind Japan’s
attack on Pearl Harbor.
Hitler’s Early Victories
(Ch. 17. 2—pages 345-349)
• Blitzkrieg “lightning war”
– Panzer tanks & Luftwaffe
• (Air force)
• Poland surrenders end of Sept.
(4 weeks)
– Germany & USSR divide Poland
• Denmark, Norway, Netherlands,
Belgium, & France all fall by
mid-1940
– Failed Maginot Line (see 2nd pic)
US response?
• Roosevelt denounces aggressors
– publicly declare to be wrong or evil
• Isolationism
– No alliances
– Neutrality acts
• Not taking sides
• Lend-Lease Act (1941-45)
– $50 B supplies to Allies
• Food & militaries supplies
– Helps get US out of Depression
• How? Discussion question
Britain---Hangin’ in
there!
• Dunkirk
– 340K evacuated-Hitler’s blunder!
– Result: Britain is still in the war
• Battle of Britain
– Aug. 1940: major offensive on
Britain’s military targets
– Sept. 1940-bomb civilians
• “The Blitz” 9/’40-5/’41  video
• London for 57 nights!
• 16 cities, 40K killed
– RAF & radar
Graphic Novel Assignment # 4
• Hitler violates the Non-Aggression Pact
• In the graphic novel, students are to find
instances in which the German soldier
mentions supplies. List those.
Then….
• Students are to write a paragraph
addressing the following questions:
(include the questions in your answer)
– 1. Why do you think the Soviet people killed
their livestock and burned their houses and
crops?
– 2. How does Russia’s geography (it’s location
to Europe) lend itself to such a strategy?
– 3. What would you have done if you were in
Russia’s situation? Germany’s situation?
Two Front War
• Germany attacks USSR
– Operation Barbarossa
– War against Communism
• Goals: 1. knock out inferior USSR, 2. gain
lebensraum, 3. then get Britain
– “living space”
• Late start proves costly
– Summer ‘41, not Spring like planned
– 1800 mile front
– “Scorched Earth” policy
• Dismantle factories
• Ship livestock, food, etc.
• Burn land & property
– High casualties on both sides
– 2 M Russians captured
– Harsh winters--Germany
Hear Wikipedia excerpt
America Goes to War
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date
which will live in infamy -- the United
States of America was suddenly and
deliberately attacked by naval and air
forces of the Empire of Japan.   
Ch. 17.2 pp 348-349 (3/30/16)
• You have 12-15 minutes to read QUIETLY
• Answer the questions on the worksheet ( #5)
Island hopping-check for
understanding
• What is island hopping and why
was it an important military
strategy employed by the Allies?
• Turn and share your thoughts
with a neighbor
Summary of #5
• Attack unifies the US
• Japan has early
victories…..MacArthur leaves
– “ I Shall Return!” (and he does)
• Battle of Coral Sea saved Australia
• Midway was the turning pt. in
the Pacific
• Island Hopping:    
• Germany is fighting two fronts:
East, and now Africa (really 3)
• Germany miscalculates (again)
Battle of Stalingrad
WWII in Europe & N. Africa
American Propaganda
• While you watch, please consider the following:
– 1. How does the video portray Hitler and the Nazis?
– 2. What is the central message? (If you were an
American during WWII, what would you have thought
about the war effort?)
3. Were there any stereotypes or portrayals that may
have been seen as offensive or inappropriate? If so,
what were they, are why?
Home Front Jigsaw
• See criteria
• 10 minutes-Use all of the
time.
• If using computer, login
ASAP
The Home Front and Civilians
(pages 350-354)
• Mobilization: the process of assembling troops &
supplies; making them ready for war.
• Civilians=20 M killed total
• 1. Soviet Union
– Siege of Leningrad (1.5 M die)
• 900 days
– Women
• Combat (only nation)
• Snipers & aircrews
• factories
– “battle of machines”
• Moving factories & machines
• Out produced the Germans
• Emphasis of military goods=food shortage
– Rationing for troops & civilians
– Starvation: ate dogs, mice, leather, glue soup
• 2. United States & Home Front
• “Great arsenal of the Allies”
– 6 ships/day, 96,000 planes/year (1943)
• Boomtowns housing & school
shortages
• Women
– “Rosie the Riveter”
– Military (350K & noncombat)
• Japanese Internment Camps
(1942-45)
– 110,000 (65% were born in US)
• Nisei=Japanese Americans
– Why? National security & reduce
hysteria
Video from WA state
We ALL did our part
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Victory Gardens
Victory Bonds
Rationing
Scrap metal, paper & rubber drives
Video: Within your notes, add
additional efforts from the Home
Front
A soldier rethinks the Home Front
If absent on the Home Front video, go to
the link below
• 3. Germany
• Blitzkrieg take from conquered
countries
– Food & raw materials
• Losing war, more effort towards arms
• TOTAL MOBILIZATION OF THE
ECONOMY (1944)
– Schools, theaters, cafes closed
– No schools = more soldiers & factory
workers
– Total mobilization was too late!
• Women in workforce changed
slightly
• 4. Japan
• Highly mobilized
• Government control
– Prices, wages, labor, resources
• Call for sacrifice
– Kamikaze= “divine wind”
– Using planes as weapons
• Ages 13-60 were mobilized
• Women
– “ The weakening of the family
system would be the weakening of
the nation….We are able to our
duties…only because we have wives
& mothers at home.” Gen. Tojo
– Increased work in textiles & farming
– Brought in Korean & Chinese
workers (& sex slaves  )
Civilians as targets
• Britain
– The Blitz (review)
– Children ( & moms) to countryside
– Or Canada?
• Arandora Star …U-Boat sunk it.
Children died
• Germany
– British bombing raids
• .5 M civilians killed
– Terror
– Kids to countryside too
– Firebombing of Dresden
• Japan
– B-29s on the mainland
• Got close enough due to island hopping
– Tokyo Firebombing (Mar 1945)
• Listen and take notes in margin
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Last Years of the War (359-362)
• The European Theater
– Italy: Mussolini=head of German puppet
state. Allies take Rome in June ‘44
– D-Day 6/6/’44(Operation Overlord)
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Allies under Eisenhower
Normandy, France
Germans were duped = time to succeed
Turning pt. for Allies in Europe
– Battle of the Bulge (Dec ‘44-Jan ‘45)
• Result: hard fought Allied victory
– Soviets march toward Berlin
• Hitler commits suicide, Mussolini killed by
partisans (resistance fighters)
• V-E Day May 7, 1945  Attention toward
Japan
The Century: Home
Front. 29:58-38:05
Last Years of the War
(359-362)
• The Asian Theater (The Pacific)
• Great gains via island hopping
– Iwo Jima & Okinawa significant victories
• Roosevelt dies, VP Truman
• Manhattan Project (new weapon)
– 5+ years, $2B, 130 K workers
– July 1945, Trinity test in NM desert
• Used on Japan  ends war
– Hiroshima (8/6/45)
– Nagasaki (8/9/45)
– Ushers in the Atomic Age (Cold War)
video
The Atom Bomb
• BBC’s Hiroshima/video clips
– This video will help students
prepare for Question 2
– Contrasting the use of
technology during WWI and
WWII.
– Take notes on the back of the
Powerpoint notes that explain
how the superweapon helped
win the war.
BBC Hiroshima: Dropping the Bomb
Outcomes of WWII (q #3)
• Allies win, Axis Powers defeated
• US becomes most powerful nation
– In the ‘50s, we will possess 50+% of world’s wealth
• Ushered in a Cold War
– East vs West
• Democracy vs. Communism
– NATO vs Warsaw Pact
– Germany split in 2, Berlin split in 2
• Ushered in an Atomic Age/Space Race
– Nuclear weapons
– Nuclear energy
• Led to the development of a United Nations
• Creation of Israel
Timeline….it may help
Not exactly true….US Civilian losses
You have some information to help
answer these questions
• 1. Describe THREE causes of WWII.
• 2. Explain THREE new important technologies
of WWII.
• 3. Describe the major outcomes/results of
WWII.