WARM UP: 3/24/16 Open your HistoryAlive! textbook to chapter 36. Define the terms Allies and Axis Powers. ALLIES: AXIS POWERS:

TODAY WE WILL: ■Identify some of the military strategies the United States and it’s allies used to defeat the Axis Powers in WWII ■Annotate battlefront maps of WWII ■What you don’t finish is homework! (book pages and instructions on the wiki) ■Be good. I will call your home on Spring Break if I have to…

SECTION Read section Annotate the map for this section: Identify North Africa, Poland, and the Soviet Union and label each with a star Write three facts about events that occurred in these areas

SECTION Read through the section “Soviets Fight Alone at Stalingrad” 2.Annotate the map for this section: Identify southern Italy and Stalingrad and label each with a star Write two facts about events that occurred in these areas 3.Read the remainder of the section. 4.Finish annotating the map: Identify Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge and label each with a star Write two facts about events that occurred in these areas.

SECTION Read section Annotate the map for this section: Identify Phillipines, Tokyo, and the Coral Sea and label each with a star Write three facts about events that occurred in these areas

SECTION Read through the subsection “Truman Faces a Decision to Drop the Bomb” 2.Annotate the map for this section: Identify Midway and Okinawa and label each with a star Write two facts about events that occurred in these areas 3.Read the remainder of section Finish annotating the map for this section: Identify Hiroshima and Nagasaki and label each with a star Write two facts about events that occurred in these areas

Processing the Strategies of WWII: ■Complete this writing prompt when you are finished with your reading and annotated maps : –Choose two strategies or actions from the list below. Write one paragraph that explains why America should be praised for a strategy. Write another paragraph that explains why America should be criticized for a strategy. ■“Europe First” Strategy ■Postponement of the invasion of France ■Decision not to bomb concentration camps ■Operation Overlord ■Liberation of the concentration camps ■Leapfrogging strategy ■Battles of Iwo Jima and Nagasaki ■Decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan