1. Intro WWII

2. DO NOW
Set up INB
Deadlines- Page 59
Chapter 27 Reading Notes
Today’s LT/SC: 62
Learning Target: I can identify the main causes of WWII
Why it’s important: effects of WWI are still felt today; one of the greatest defining moments in world history; the end of WWI actually led to starting WWII
Success Criteria: I can draw a political cartoon about the Treaty of Versailles causing WWII

3. Versailles and Germany after WWI
Read as a class (10 min)
Answer 2 questions at bottom
5 min individually
2 min share at table
2 min share out as class

4. Reactions to Treaty of Versailles
Lets look at sources together as a class
Highlight main ideas or add more information as we go.
15 min

5. So, What Caused WWII?
AGGRESSION

6. A: Appeasement
Definition: conceding to aggression in order to avoid conflict
Allies give in to Hitler
“Please don’t start another war!”
France, GB

7. G: Germans take Austria & Czechoslovakia

8. G: German Nationalism

9. R: Real Cause- Hitler invades Poland
Q: How was Germany able to do this?
Blitzkrieg= lightning war
Poland

10. E: Everyone Ignores League of Nations
“You better stop that Hitler!”

11. S: Stupid Treaty of Versailles
Makes Germany want revenge
Persuades Italy join b/c of this

12. S: Stupid Pacifism in GB and France
“Zose vimpy French and Brits. Vee shall destroy zem!”

13. I: Italy Wants Land

14. O: Oh, US isolationists!!!

15. N: No one stops Japan in Asia

16. ID Terms
Due May 26 and 27th
Note: You should also be taking notes and studying for textbook quiz that will be randomly taken this unit!
Chapter 27 by June 6 ( R) and 7 (G)

17. Exit Ticket
Draw a political cartoon that explains how the Treaty of Versailles caused WWII

18. Mini Essay Research Essay- Due June 1 (R ) and 2 (G)
Product- coordinating with Essay- Due June 8 (R) and 9 (G)
By the time you leave- you need a strong inquiry question

19. Possible Topic Battle of Coral Sea General Douglas MacArthur
Dwight David Eisenhower
Concentration Camps
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Holocaust
Battle of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler
Lend Lease Act
War in the Pacific
Japanese Internment
Military weaponry in WWII
Auschwitz
US women in WWII
Battle of Britain
Rationing in WWII
Atomic Bomb
Joseph Stalin
General George Patton
US Manhattan Project
Benito Mussolini
Nazis
Battle of Midway
Nuremberg Trials
Invasion of Normandy
Gestapo
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Propaganda
President Franklin D Roosevelt
PTSD