1. Bell Ringer Complete the 1st page of the handout.
You may work with a partner.
You have 15 minutes!

2. World War II

3. Today in class… We will… You will be able to… Language Social Studies
Identify the key events, people and locations of WWII.
You will be able to…
Social Studies
Language
Define: Appeasement, Blitzkrieg
Axis Powers
Analyze a political cartoon.
Describe the impact of the worldwide depression on Japan, Italy and Germany.
Describe the actions of Germany, Italy and Japan that led to WWII.
Identify key people of WWII and their importance.
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4. Appeasement - Giving in to a more aggressive country in order to avoid war

5. Blitzkrieg "Lightning War"
Germany’s war strategy of intense bombing followed quickly by waves of tanks and infantry

6. Axis Powers
Countries that fought on the same side as Germany in WWII

7. Effects of the Worldwide Depression Japan, Italy, & Germany 1930’s

8. Japan Government was blamed when the Great Depression hit.
Military then took over the country
Extreme nationalists
Believed they could solve economic problems through expansion
Decided to create a Pacific Empire
This way they could get raw materials, have markets for its goods, and new homes for its people as the population was growing

9. Japan Expands Manchuria: Taken by Japan in 1931
China: Attacked by Japan in 1937
Treaty of Portsmouth, (Sept. 5 [Aug. 23, Old Style], 1905), peace settlement signed at Kittery, Maine, U.S., ending the Russo-Japanese War of According to the terms of the treaty, which was mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, the defeated Russians recognized Japan as the dominant power in Korea and turned over their leases of Port Arthur and the Liaotung Peninsula, as well as the southern half of Sakhalin Island, to Japan. Both powers agreed to restore Manchuria to China.
This way they could get raw materials, have markets for its goods, and new homes for its people as the population was growing

10. Italy
Mussolini sees Japan’s success and takes Ethiopia in order to expand.

11. Germany Goes against the Treaty of Versailles Rebuilds armed forces
Beginning in March 1935
Rebuilds armed forces
Starts in 1934!
Germany moves troops into the Rhineland

12. League of Nations Condemns actions of Japan, Italy and Germany
But … they could not back it up!
No army
USA did not join

13. Tripartite Pact Alliance between Germany, Italy, & Japan
Became known as the Axis Powers
October 1936: Germany & Italy form an alliance
November 1936: Japan joins

14. Appeasement
Britain and France practiced appeasement prior to the start of World War II.
Britain & France allowed Germany to do what it wanted (appeasement).
To appease is to please.

15. Appeasement
1936: Germany reoccupies the Rhineland > Britain condemns Germany.
1938: Germany takes over Austria > Britain allows it, but makes Germany promise not to take over anymore territory.
1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia > Britain & France condemn Germany’s actions.

16. Munich Conference
September 29, 1938: Meeting between France, Britain, Germany, & Italy
Germany was given land & Germany promised not to take anymore land
Hitler is given the
Sudetenland
6 months later Hitler
takes the rest of
Czechoslovakia

17. Non-Aggression Pact Agreement between Hitler & Stalin
Germany & USSR become allies
Agreed that they would split Poland

18. Germany invades Poland
September 1, 1939
Germany invades Poland
German planes came in and bombed while the infantry attacked from the ground.
Warsaw, the capital of Poland was bombed relentlessly.
The city was destroyed.
Two days later, France and Britain decided to declare war on Germany once they invaded Poland.
But Poland still fell within a few weeks, because Britain and France were not ready to respond militarily.

19. The invasion of Poland caused Britain and France to declare war
The invasion of Poland caused Britain and France to declare war. World War II officially starts.
YouTube - Germany Invades Poland-France and Britain Declares War

20. Blitzkrieg!
YouTube - Germany Invades Poland-France and Britain Declares War

21. On April 9th, 1940, Hitler invaded Denmark and Norway.
Denmark was defeated in 4 hours.
Norway was defeated after a couple of months.
Hitler used these lands so that he could build bases along the coast from which he could attack Britain.

22. Invasion of France on June 3, 1940
Signed treaty in same place as TOV
Invasion of France on June 3, 1940

23. Atonement - Elegy For Dunkirk - YouTube
May 26-June 4
Dunkirk evacuation, code named Operation Dynamo it took place from may 26 to June In nine days, more than three hundred thousand (338,226) soldiers — 218,226 British and 120,000 French were rescued by a hastily assembled fleet of about seven hundred boats. These craft included the famous "Little Ships of Dunkirk These small craft ferried troops from the beaches to larger ships waiting offshore.

24. June 10: Italy joins Germany & attacks France from the south
June 14: Paris falls
June 22: France surrenders
The Germans took control of the Northern part of the country and let the southern part be ruled by a puppet government.

25. On June 16, 1940, the French cabinet voted to ask Germany for armistice terms. In order to completely humiliate the French, Hitler insisted on receiving their surrender inside the same railroad car in which the Germans had surrendered to the Allies at the end of World War I.

27. Economic & Political Causes of WWII
Aggression by totalitarian powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan)
Nationalism
Failures of the Treaty of Versailles
Weakness of the League of Nations
Appeasement
Tendencies towards isolationism and pacifism (peace loving) in Europe and the U.S.

28. Partner Work
Battles and Events chart - Use your notes to fill in 1 and 2
Label the map (1-9) and color code it for Axis powers, Axis control, Allied nations, Neutral nations – Purple textbook, pg. 438
Complete the Exit Ticket (political cartoon) and turn in before you leave
Complete Good Guys/Bad Guys chart using pictures in the hall (can be done in Pride)
Axis Control: Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Norway, Finland, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece.
Axis Powers: Germany, Italy
Allied Nations: Great Britain, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Neutral Nations: Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Sweden, Ireland

30. Axis Control: Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Norway, Finland, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece.
Axis Powers: Germany, Italy
Allied Nations: Great Britain, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Neutral Nations: Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Sweden, Ireland