Warm-Up 4/7 NYT Article
Agenda 4/7 Warm-Up Finish Notes (Assignment #37) Operation Barbarossa: A closer look Pearl Harbor Activity Review Homework
North Africa Italy focuses on Suez Canal in Egypt Britain fights back with a vengeance; Italy needs Germany to help General Erwin Rommel (“Desert Fox”) commands the Africa Korps
The Balkans Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Turkey Key to Hitler’s plan to attack USSR Countries in red join Axis powers Yugoslavia and Greece fall to Nazis
Video Focus Questions Segment Three: Segment One: Segment Two: Who was Molotov and what was the result of his meeting with Hitler? What does Stalin tell his generals re: war plans? Does Hitler feel confident going into his invasion of the Soviet Union? Why or why not? Segment Two: Why does Stalin think that Germany will not attack? Segment Three: What was the effect of Operation Barbarossa on the war? On Stalin?
Hitler Invades the Soviet Union Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941 Sept: Leningrad surrounded Oct: Attack on Moscow Winter weather hurts the Germans Germans hold the line until 1943
U.S. Aids Allies Lend-Lease Act had passed Mar. 1941 U.S. navy escorts British ships carrying U.S. arms – Hitler orders them sunk FDR and Churchill meet secretly Aug. 1941 Atlantic Charter signed – will later serve as peace plan at end of war
Assignment #39: Pearl Harbor Read the Pearl Harbor chronology individually Respond to the following questions in your notebook (use complete sentences): Why do you think Japan attacked Pearl Harbor? What did she have to gain? To lose? What evidence is there to suggest that: The U.S. government wanted to have Pearl Harbor attacked? The U.S. military was responsible for what happened?
Homework Assignment #40: Ch. 16, Sec. 3 Questions Read the section and answer Q. #3 Update your key terms sheet as you read