1. Monday February 23, 2015 Mr. Goblirsch – U.S. History
OBJECTIVE – Students Will Be Able To – SWBAT:
Trace the events that led to the outbreak of WWII in Europe.
AGENDA:
WARM-UP: WWII Begins Map
CONCEPT: WWII Begins
READING: FDR “Quarantine” Speech
WWII Begins Map WARM-UP: (Follow the directions below)
***5 Minutes***
Analyze the map on P Answer the questions below.
In which countries did authoritarian leaders come to power? Who were those leaders?
Read the caption for Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, why was Hitler able to come to power in 1933?
Look at France, why do you think democratic France might have felt threatened?

2. World War II
Begins
Ch 16
Copy the Black

3. WWII Begins
Treaty of Versailles failures – Failed to secure “just & secure Peace”
Germ saw as unfair; problems for Weimar Republic (Democratic Govt)
USSR resented losing territory
Democracies unsuccessful, dictators gain control
Nationalism – loyalty to one’s country above all else
Totalitarian Gov’ts
Stalin = Communist USSR
Mussolini = Fascist Italy
Hitler elected chancellor of Germ = Nazi Germany, Third Reich
Joseph Stalin
Man of Steel
Benito Mussolini
IL Duce
Adolf Hitler
Der Fuhrer

4. WWII Begins cont’d Aggressions lead to war
Japan wants more living space
Japan Invades Manchuria
League of Nations fails to act
Hitler & Mussolini notice
Germ quits League, builds up military, militarizes Rhineland
1933 – Hitler quits League
1935 – begins military buildup
1936 – sends troops to demilitarized Rhineland
Italy invades Ethiopia
League threatens It, and economic boycott
It takes Ethiopia - May 1936, nothing done
Hitler & Mussolini aid Spanish Civil War for Fascist takeover
Ger & It sign Rome-Berlin Axis Alliance
Germ takes Austria - March 12, 1938
Munich Agreement – Fr & GB agree to allow Germ Sudetenland in Czech; Sept 30, 1938 Hitler says “last territorial demand” – Appeasement
German troops marched into the rest of Czech - March 15, 1939

5. WWII Begins cont’d
WWII starts
Germ signs nonaggression pact w/ USSR
Aug 23, 1939 – agree not to attack, Secretly agree to divide up Poland
Germany avoids 2 front war (major problem of WWI)
Germ invades Poland - Blitzkrieg
Sept 1, 1939 – Germany invades Poland using powerful air force and fast tanks
Fighting over in 3 weeks, USSR attacks Poland from East (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
Sept 3, 1939 – GB & France declare war on Germany
Germ invades Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, & Luxembourg
Apr 9, Launch surprise invasion of Denmark & Norway
Overrun Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg by May 1940
March around Fr & GB troops thru Ardennes (thought impassible) heading to Paris
Germ invades Fr – June 22, 1940 Fr surrenders
Germ launches attack on Britain – Battle of Britian
After 6 weeks, Hitler called off invasion