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WORLD WAR II
World War II StandardWe will analyze America’s
Participation in World War II
Key Elements :Understand Cause and Effect
Interpret Past EventsUnderstand the impact of the
outcome of WWII and the consequences of other outcomes
What do you know about World War II ?
Explain three areas of focus
War in the Europe(Germany)
War in the Pacific(Japan)
The Home Front
Review Depression(worldwide)
Review results of WWI and impact on Germany
U.S.-China relationship
The DictatorsThe Rise of Adolph Hitler
Perfect Timing : Depression and AngerShow Video Clip One : Hitler’s Rise
Controlling the Will of the People
Show Video Clip Two : Hitler Youth
Why did people support Hitler ?
Italy
Rise of Mussolini
Military Dictatorshipin Japan and USSR
First German AdvancesRhineland
History of Conflict w/FranceAppeasement
(France and Britain)
Annexation of Austria
Overruns Czechoslovakia
War Begins
Play Video Clip“Blitzkrieg”
Hitler from Poland to France
Great Britain AloneNeeds U.S.A. Help
Germany Signs Non-Aggression Pact with
USSRChurchill Warns
AgainstLend-Lease ***
The War With Japan in the Pacific
Japan – Depression
Military Take OverConquest will end
depression
Naval RaceUnited States
JapanGreat Britain
Late 1930’s
Japan’s Conquest BeginsManchuria
other bits of China
Play Video Clip 2(skip 1)
Chinese Defend and Lose Shanghai, Panay
Open Door PolicyShanghai (Important Port)The Sinking of The Panay
1940 Japanese movie intoIndochina
U.S. Upset with Japan
Embargo(Metal, Fuel)
Japan signs agreement with Germans
Play clip 3
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor(US Military base in Hawaii)
December 7 , 1941
Play Pearl Harbor – Leave 4 minutes
FDR Declares War on Japan and Germany
World War IIThe Homefront
Pearl Harbor AttackedAmerica Shocked
From Isolationists to Internationalists
Show
LA Times
(Owned by Cubs) Headline
U.S. Military George Marshall
Top Man
Marshall Plan
Private Ryan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Top General in Europe
Play/Skip Clip
Patton – Field General
Play Clip 2
Pacific General
MacArthur/Nimitz
Skip/Play Clip 3
Quick Weddings
Chance to Have Children
Selfish ?
Women put to work
Took the jobs men left behind
Changed womenforever
Japanese-Americans
Discrimination
Assets frozen
Put in Camps
Play Clip 4
African Americans
Best time for job ever
Discrimination remains in military, workplace, and pro baseball
Play Clip 5 (Jackie Robinson,Joe Louis)
Mexican Americansin L.A. and Oakland
200,000 Mexicans invited to Work on
farms
Youth (often gangs) wear “Zoot-Suit”
Some Zooters have run in with Marines off duty
Military goes into Mexican neighborhood – burn
suits, cut hair. Fear of Immigrants
Why is there little discrimination against German Americans ?
Employment High
No Strike Pledge from Unions
Wealth Increase
Depression Ending
Entertainment
Chaplin – Citizen Kane – Why We Fight – Superman
Play Final Clips
The Allies Strike Back !
Allies Axis
Great Britain Germany
United States Japan
USSR Italy
1942
North AfricaU.S. Victory at El Alamein
We move Nazis out of Africa
Next Italy
First stepSicily
Britian or U.S.who will do it ?
Play Clip 1
Sicily is liberated
Patton Gets in Trouble after visiting wounded soldiers
Play Clip 2
Hard battlesin Monte Cassino and Rome
Italian resistancemovement strong
Italy liberated
Soviet fightWinter defeat
Clip 3Leningrad
How was life in the USSR in WWII compared to US ?
Operation Overlord
Invasion of Normandy
D-Day
June 6, 1944Clip 4Private Ryan Opening
Battle of the Bulge
French Freedom Fighters
Charles DeGaulle
German defeat
Hitler didn’t listen to advice
Attacked from 2 sides
Slaves instead of determined
workers
The War in the Pacific
Put students in groups of3-4
One is the writerOne is the Captain (leader)
All contribute
You are Nimitz and MacArthur
You must decide a course of attack upon Japan
Give out handout
Read Handout
Each student take 3 minutes to think silently to
self
Now groups begin discussion
After 5-7 minutes
Ask each group for their course of action
Discuss
Actual technique used was called : Leapfrogging
Leapfrogging brings United States to the
verge of attacking the Japanese Mainland
Toughest Battle of All
Island battles includeIwo Jima, Guam
Midway,New GuineaMarshall IslandsSoloman Islands
China Cleared of Japanese
Philippine Invasion led and won by Mac Arthur
Leapfrogging brings United States to the
verge of attacking the Japanese Mainland
Toughest Battle of All
Bombing of Berlin
End of the War Against Germany
Navajo Code
Fall of ItalyHanging of Mussolini in the streets
Adolph HitlerBelieved to have committed
Suicide
U.S. and Allies enter German territories and discover
“Holocaust”Attempted Genocide of the Jews
Show DVD Clip
Nuremberg Trials
Nazi’s on Trial for War Crimes
Truman’s Dilemma?x3
FDR dies in 1944Truman (VP) takes over
Finds out about Manhattan Project
“A” Bomb
Top Secret
Must defeat Japan
Invasion will cost 1,000,000 American Lives
What would you do
3 Groups
1 Choice per group
1) Invade Japanpros and cons
2) Drop a bomb over ocean to show power and force
surrender
3) Drop the bomb on Japan
Each group discuss pros and cons
Which choice is the best ?
Potsdam Proclamation
Dropping of Bomb
August 6 + 9, 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Essay #2
Show DVD clips
Essay 1
World War II Death Totals
24 million Service Personnel40 million civilians
292,000 USA Killed or MIASoviet Union – 20 million deaths
New Struggle ExistsU.S. vs Soviet Union
Germany DividedWest Germany rebuilt by U.S.
Japan rebuilt by MacArthur (U.S.)
United States“Super Power”
The Marshall Plan – Aid to any country willing to be
our allie
NATOFormal AllianceUSA and friends
Warsaw PactAlliance
USSR and subjects
Social Life in the US
Cubs in 45 Series
Jackie Robinson playsIn the Major Leagues
(Clip 1)
Suburbs grow – Economy Good
Separation of classesDownward spiral of the Cities
Many women forced to give up jobs
Japanese Released but lose everything
Entertainment more cheerful
1946 – It’s a Wonderful Life(play clip 2)