2. Quickwrite Was America Justified in using the Atomic Bomb? Explain your reasoning. During the video, note pros and cons as demonstrated by visuals and events.

3. Closure- On Quickwrite Paper Was America justified in using the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Explain. Use your notes from the video to support your answer. Finish for HW if you need more time.

4. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

6. Quickwrite What event “officially” signals the beginning of WWII? Please pass your homework (Ch. 18 Section 2a forward).

7. The Versailles Treaty

8. A Weak League of Nations

9. The Ineffectiveness of the League of Nations y No control of major conflicts. y No progress in disarmament. y No effective military force.

10. Failure of the Weimar Republic

11. The Great Depression

12. Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931

13. Italy Attacks Ethiopia, 1935 Emperor Haile Selassie

14. Germany Invades the Rhineland March 7, 1936

15. U. S. Neutrality Acts: 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939

16. The Spanish Civil War: 1936 - 1939

17. The Spanish Civil War: A Dress Rehearsal for WW II? Italian troops in Madrid

18. “ Guernica” by Pablo Picasso

19. The Japanese Invasion of China, 1937

20. The Austrian Anschluss, 1938

21. The “Problem” of the Sudetenland

22. Appeasement: The Munich Agreement, 1938 Now we have “peace in our time!” Herr Hitler is a man we can do business with. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

23. Czechoslovakia Becomes Part of the Third Reich: 1939

24. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 1939 Foreign Ministers von Ribbentrop & Molotov

26. Poland Attacked: Sept. 1, 1939 Blitzkrieg [“Lightening War”]

27. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, 1940 The Tripartite Pact

29. European Theater of Operations

30. The “Phoney War” Ends: Spring, 1940 After the invasion of Poland, there was a lull in the action. This is called the “Phony war.”

31. Blitzkrieg- Lightning War Spring 1940- Hitler attacked Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and France.

32. Dunkirk Evacuated June 4, 1940 Operation Dynamo commences and 300k men are evacuated from Dunkirk aboard “anything that floats.”

33. France Surrenders June, 1940

34. Now Britain Is All Alone!

35. US Congress agrees to loan $ Great Britain.........................$31 billion Soviet Union..........................$11 billion France..................................$3 billion China..................................$1.5 billion Other European......................$500 million South America.......................$400 million The amount totaled: $48,601,365,000 U. S. Lend-Lease Act, 1941

36. Battle of Britain: The “Blitz” Germany begins operation Sea Lion, a joint sea and air invasion of Great Britain. Just short of success, Hitler abandons the strategy and begins to plan an invasion the USSR.

37. The London “Tube”: Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz

38. The Royal Air Force

39. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

40. The Atlantic Charter y Roosevelt and Churchill sign treaty of friendship in August 1941.

41. Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Biggest Mistake?

42. Battle of Stalingrad: Winter of 1942-1943 German ArmyRussian Army 1,011,500 men1,000,500 men 10,290 artillery guns13,541 artillery guns 675 tanks894 tanks 1,216 planes1,115 planes

43. The North Africa Campaign: The Battle of El Alamein, 1942 Gen. Ernst Rommel, The “Desert Fox” Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery (“Monty”)

44. The “Big Three” Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin

45. Bert Schapelhouman What was the most memorable thing Bert said to you yesterday? I called Mr. Schapelhouman last night to thank him for coming to class. He related that he loves nature and the outdoors. I bought an Ansel Adams card that I thought we might sign. I will deliver it.

46. Good Morning! Thanks for your work on the D-Day Simulations. Please pass your homework forward. Please pass your D-Day invasion plan forward (name of the person who did each job on each paper and stapled) Do you need a semester 2 project paper? (A’s and B’s) Review the WWII Study Guide Take out your spiral notebooks for some notes.

47. Gen. Eisenhower Gives the Orders for D-Day [“Operation Overlord”]

48. D-Day (June 6, 1944)

49. Normandy Landing (June 6, 1944 ) Higgins Landing Crafts German Prisoners

50. T The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944 De Gaulle in Triumph!

51. U. S. Troops in Paris, 1944

52. The Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Last Offensive Dec. 16, 1944 to Jan. 28, 1945

53. Yalta: February, 1945 y FDR wants quick Soviet entry into Pacific war. y FDR & Churchill concede Stalin needs buffer, FDR & Stalin want spheres of influence and a weak Germany. y Churchill wants strong Germany as buffer against Stalin. y FDR argues for a ‘United Nations’.

54. US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River: April 25, 1945

55. Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed

56. Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen

57. Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 The F ü hrer’s Bunker Cyanide & Pistols Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

58. V-E Day (May 8, 1945) General Keitel

59. Good Morning! Please turn in your homework (War in the Pacific) Take out your spiral notebooks for some notes. There will be a formative assessment at the end of the period.

61. Prelude to Pearl Harbor In 1941 the US cuts all oil exports to Japan. Japan simultaneously prepares to attack the US and sends diplomats to Washington.

62. Pearl Harbor

63. Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!

64. President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

65. Pacific Theater of Operations

66. U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor, the Philippines [March, 1942]

67. Bataan Death March : April, 1942 76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.

68. Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”

69. Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942

71. US Marines on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

72. Potsdam Conference: July, 1945 yMake conditions for Japanese surrender. yThe United States has the A-bomb. yAllies agree Germany is to be divided into occupation zones. P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin

73. Tinian Island, 1945 Little Boy Fat Man Enola Gay Crew

74. Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 ©70,000 killed immediately. ©48,000 buildings. destroyed. ©100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

75. Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 ©40,000 killed immediately. ©60,000 injured. ©100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

76. V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

77. V-J Day in Times Square, NYC

79. WW II Casualties Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded Australia1,000,00026,976180,864 Austria800,000280,000350,117 Belgium625,0008,460 55,513 1 Brazil 2 40,3349434,222 Bulgaria339,7606,67121,878 Canada 1,086,343 7 42,042 7 53,145 China 3 17,250,5211,324,5161,762,006 Czechoslovakia— 6,683 4 8,017 Denmark—4,339— Finland500,00079,04750,000 France—201,568400,000 Germany20,000,000 3,250,000 4 7,250,000 Greece—17,02447,290 Hungary—147,43589,313 India2,393,89132,12164,354 Italy3,100,000 149,496 4 66,716 Japan9,700,0001,270,000140,000 Netherlands280,0006,5002,860 New Zealand 194,000 11,625 4 17,000 Norway75,0002,000— Poland—664,000530,000 Romania 650,000 5 350,000 6 — South Africa 410,0562,473— U.S.S.R.— 6,115,000 4 14,012,000 United Kingdom 5,896,000 357,116 4 369,267 United States 16,112,566291,557670,846 Yugoslavia3,741,000305,000425,000 1.Civilians only. 2.Army and navy figures. 3.Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps. 4.Deaths from all causes. 5.Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany. 6.Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany. 7.National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.

80. Massive Human Dislocations

81. The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Emerged as the Two Superpowers of the later 20 c

82. The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War

83. 7 Future American Presidents Served in World War II

84. The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements

85. The De-Colonization of European Empires

87. Quickwrite At the beginning of the unit I had you write down everything you knew about WWII. Then we had a Moodle post that asked what you want to know. (In a moment we will review these.) Now I want to know what you learned. Please quickly list everything you learned about WWII in our unit.