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Homework – Complete end of unit test. Due Monday.
LO: Be able to explain the impact of WW2 on Germany Starter: What can you learn from this image about one of the impacts of WW2 on Germany?
World War II in 7 bullets… – Germany and Russia carve up Poland. No real fighting in the West – Germany defeats France in 6 weeks. Battle of Britain – for control of British skies – won by RAF – Germany invades Russia and pushes Russian army back to Moscow. Dec ‘41 – Japan attacks USA; USA declares war on Japan and Germany – Stalemate. Germany navy too weak to attack UK. British & US army too weak to land in France – tide turns in Russia – German army retreats – Allies land in France and open up Western Front. Germany now fighting on 2 fronts – German armies defeated. Germany surrenders and senior Nazis commit suicide. Aug – Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, ending the Pacific War.
Enthusiasm for war? Hitler had fulfilled his promises to… … tear up the Treaty of Versailles… … rebuild Germany’s armed forces… … unite Germany and Austria… … and extend German territory into eastern Europe. However in doing so, he started WW2. Most Germans had no enthusiasm for war – they remembered the horrors of WWI in which 2.5m Germans died. But in war, as in peace time, the Nazis used all available methods to make the German people support the regime.
Timeline of impact of war on Germany The left-hand column charts the fortunes of the German army during WW2 Read pages and complete the right hand column by explaining how the German people were affected at these times Ext. task: Answer the question at the bottom of the sheet in your exercises book.
Wartime Propaganda In pairs, choose one of the sources on p.178 and make some notes explaining the message of the source context – what you know about the period how effective you think the method used is Feedback to class in 8 mins