1. Warm Up Turn to your Common Vocabulary page.
What do the following words mean? Write definitions down in your own words.
You may use your phone or a dictionary to look up words you don’t know.

2. Unit 7: America Reacts to World at War
Day 1: The Rise of the Dictators

3. What are we going to learn in this unit?
Prior to this unit, we learned about the economic devastation of the Great Depression and the leadership of President Roosevelt. In this unit we will study about the rise of dictatorships in Europe and how that contributed to the cause of a second world war. We will examine the reasons for the United States’ entry into the war, and the response on the home front, including Executive Order 9066 and the economic and social changes brought about by U.S. involvement in the war.

4. Let’s Recap With your shoulder partners discuss the following:
Identify the causes of World War I and reasons for US entry. 
How did WWI end?
What we already know about Hitler?

5. Rise of Dictators in Europe and Japan
Totalitarianism- a government in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible.
Alliances- Germany, Italy, and Japan agreed to an alliance which afterwards they were known as the Axis powers.
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, June 1940.

6. Reasons for U.S. entry in to World War II
1.) Dictatorships and their aggression
Nazism in Germany under Adolph Hitler (1933)

7. The Emergence of Nazi Germany
How Hitler Came to Power
Watch video clip entitled: “Hitler Comes to Power”
What it was like for Germans during the Nazi rule.
Watch video clip entitled: “Social Control”
Watch video clip entitled: “The Dark Side of Nazi Rule

8. Fascism in Italy under Benito Mussolini (1922)

9. Communism (Stalinism) in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin (1928) (also in Spain, Poland, and most of eastern Europe)

10. German expansion into Austria, Czechoslovakia and, finally, Poland (1939) bring Europe into a second world war.

11. Japan: Japan embarks on a campaign of expansion into Manchuria and China (1930s) 

12. Discussion Question With your shoulder partners discuss the question:
What similar actions did Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan do that made the United States and the rest of the world very nervous?

13. 2.) Attack on Pearl Harbor
A result of economic sanctions hindering their expansion campaign, Japan attacks the US at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy” (President Franklin D. Roosevelt) 
Allies Powers Axis Powers
Britain Germany
France Italy
USA Japan
Extension on the attack of Pearl Harbor next class period.

14. Recap Today: Why did the United States enter WWII?
Rise of Aggressive Dictators in Europe and Japan
Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan

15. If time permits
Extension: Nazi and Soviet Propaganda What characteristics do you notice?

17. Mothers fight for your children.

18. Nazi propaganda. Translation: "Long Live Germany"

19. English translation
Caption
We will ruthlessly defeat and destroy the enemy!
The paper
Nonaggression Treaty Between the USSR and Germany

20. "The Red Army fighter, save us!"

21. Nazi poster inviting Netherlanders (Dutch) to join SS.

22. “O soldier, save me from slavery!"