1. Warm-Up 4/7
NYT Article

2. Agenda 4/7
Warm-Up
Finish Notes (Assignment #37)
Operation Barbarossa: A closer look
Pearl Harbor Activity
Review Homework

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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?

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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?

9. Homework
Assignment #40: Ch. 16, Sec. 3 Questions
Read the section and answer Q. #3
Update your key terms sheet as you read