1. Humanising Stalin What does it mean to be “Human”?
How should a “Human” act towards other humans?
Why do some “Humans” NOT act this way?
Milgram Experiment

2. QoD How evil are you? The Milgram Experiment
DEFINITION of EVIL?
At what point would your morality stop you from committing an act that you know is wrong?
Are you sure?

3. Propaganda
Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent’s cause

4. Unit 5 World War II Ch. 15/4 and 16/1-5
SIX years BTWN million people die
The war claims an average of
27,600 lives/day
1150 lives/hour
19 lives/minute
1 life every 3 seconds 

5. Unit 5 The Interwar Years and WW2 Ch. 16 Sections 1-5
The World Prior to WW2
Italy – Mussolini/Fascism
Germany – Hitler/Fascism
Japan – Hirohito/Imperialism/Militarism
Spain – Franco/Fascism
USSR – Stalin/Totalitarian/Communism
England – Chamberlain/Empire/Appeasement
USA – FDR/Great Depression/Isolationism
France – Poincare/Republic, Empire …its complicated

6. FASCISM
A totalitarian philosophy of government that glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life
An EXTREME form of Nationalism

7. Appeasement
European leaders give in to Hitler’s demands in order to avoid war, neglecting the ToV…
September 1938 – Munich Conference
Lebensraum
Czechoslovakia, Rhineland, Sudetenland
Austria - “Anschluss”
Aug Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
“10 yr.” Peace btwn Germany and USSR
Poland?
Nazi occupation flag

8. The Start of War Sept. 1 1939 Germany invades Poland Blitzkrieg
England and France
declare war
USSR moves from the East and they “split” Poland with the Germans

9. Early German Offensives
France Surrenders
Battle of Britain
German Army sweeps thru France in six weeks
France Surrenders
June
Operation Sea Lion
October 1940-May 1941
Air warfare
German Luftwaffe vs British RAF
Hitler wants to soften up Britain so he can invade

10. MORE German Offensives
Operation Barbarossa
June 22, 1941
Hitler invades USSR, breaks M/R Pact
Battle of Stalingrad
(turning point of WW2)
Soviet victory

11. U.S enters the War – Pacific Theater
Pacific Theater Timeline and Japanese aggressions
PEARL HARBOR
Dec – “A date which will live in infamy” - FDR
U.S. declares war on ALL of the
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan AND their Allies

12. European Theater 1942-1943 Axis Powers gaining and … winning BIGLY!!
El Alamein
turning point in N. Africa
Tank warfare
Desert Fox – Erwin Rommel, Germany
Patton- US
Allows Allies advance into Italy from Sicily

13. European Theatre Combined Allied attack in Normandy
Established a beachhead in Europe
Advancing towards Berlin
Battle of the Bulge
June 6, 1944 D-Day

14. Race to Berlin Allies coming from West, South and North
Soviets coming from the East (win the race!)
Hitler commits suicide April 30, 1945
Germany surrenders May 7, 1945
Berlin ruins TODAY

15. Europe After the War Economies ruined Gov’t changes
Increased U.S. influence
Communism spreads
An “Iron Curtain” has descended across Europe - Churchill
COLD WAR begins

16. QoD What happened to Hitler? Where is your proof? QOD 2

17. World War II Quiz 1 pt each
Define each term from unit 5
Fascism
Beer Hall Putsch
Appeasement
Lebensraum
Molotov/Ribbentrop Pact
Blitzkrieg
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Midway
Operation Overlord
Dates/What Happened?
11. January 30, 1933
12. Munich Conference
13. September 1, 1939
14. December 7, 1941
15. D-Day (MM/DD/YR)

18. War in the Pacific
Japanese Nationalism, Militarism and Imperialism – China?
Spreading Empire -
SE Asia, China, Korea and towards the U.S.
(even Alaska!)
Powerful Japanese Navy

19. War in the Pacific Japanese and U.S. Navies Leads to Island Hopping
Battle of Midway
turning point in Pacific
Leads to Island Hopping
Mostly between U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers
` Battle of Okinawa

20. Japanese Refuse to Surrender
Invading Japan would cost 500,000-1,000,000 US lives
Harry Truman decides to drop Atomic bombs
August 6, 1945 – Hiroshima
August 9, 1945 – Nagasaki
September 2, 1945 Mac Arthur accepts Japanese surrender
De-militarization and US aid
Emperor NOT a God
Japanese Modernization

21. The BIG Questions Was Truman right in his decision to drop the bomb?
What other choices did he have?
What consequences did this decision have for the war and beyond?

22. WW2 Summary So Far January 30, 1933 Hitler named Chancellor
Sept. 1, 1939 – Blitzkrieg (WW2 begins)
Dec. 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
42-43 Axis control and success
Allied Turning Points
Stalingrad
El Alamein
June 6, 1944 D-Day
April 30, 1945
May 7, 1945

23. The Holocaust
K – W - L

25. Genocide
“The deliberate and systematic destruction of an entire people who belong to one racial, political, cultural or religious group.”
Genocide is Hitler’s “Final Solution”

26. “Genocide” video Group discussion QoD’s
What factors may allow for genocide to occur?
What would allow one person to commit this act against another person?
How could future genocides be prevented?

27. Nazi Holocaust Timeline
1933 book burnings begin
March 1933 Dachau opens as a “Work Camp”
1935 Nuremberg Laws
Jobs, citizenship, property
Yellow stars of David
1937 Mass exodus of Jews from Germany
1938 Polish ghettos
November 9, 1938 “Kristallnacht”
1941 First “Death Camps”
1942 Hitler’s “Final Solution” begins – use of Zyklon B
1945 Allied liberation

28. Oscar Schindler

29. Hitler Writing Prompt
Explain how Adolf Hitler used German Nationalism, Propaganda, and the Treaty of Versailles to gain, and then KEEP power in Germany during the 1920’s and 1930’s.

30. Hitler and Stalin 5-paragraph Essay
Similar to Mao/Gandhi, just in writing!
“Compare and contrast the lives of Germans under Hitler’s rule to those of Russians under Stalin’s rule. What did each ruler do to gain and keep his power, and how were the lives of the people changed in each country?”