Causes… Allied Powers… Axis Powers…. Learn on your own… In google docs provide a list of research materials and encourage students to add their own. Allow.

DO YOU KNOW WWII?

Causes…Allied Powers…Axis Powers…

Learn on your own… In google docs provide a list of research

materials and encourage students to add their own.

Allow students 15 minutes to explore WWI facts and

resources.

Who maintained control of the Soviet Union by killing and imprisoning his political enemies?

What alliance fought Great Britain and the United States in World War II?

Who blamed Jewish people, intellectuals, and Communists for Germany’s problems after World War I?

What law provided aid to the Allies before the United States had entered the war?

Under what political system is the government seen as more important than individuals?

Rise of Totalitarianism

All resources shared

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Japan Invades Northern China

Considered Gendercide Over 360,000 killed

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3 - Against the Treaty of Versailles

4 – “The government had to choose between shame and war. They chose shame, they will get war.”

5 – Attacked Poland using Blitzkreig, “lightning war”

6 – Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands. BY 1940 France surrenders to Germany after they take the port city of Dunkirk.

How did some countries stay out?

Switzerland was never a threat to the Third Reich unless provoked, so there was no need for Hitler to make any more enemies. Switzerland is full of mountains which are excellent terrain for defense and the Swiss Army was superbly trained, well equipped and prepared for war in 1939. Also, Germans were the largest ethnic group in Switzerland, therefore, they were pure “Aryans.”

The Germans did have a plan for an invasion of Switzerland, called Operation Tannenbaum, but for the reasons above - and the fact that the main enemies Britain, Russia and later USA were not yet defeated - there was no reason to invade Switzerland.

Spain was, if anything, an ally to their fellow fascists in Germany so Hitler obviously didn't need to invade. Spain was ruled by Franco, a fascist, who sent a division to help the Nazis and provided intelligence.

As for other neutral countries, Hitler didn't invade because there was no need too make more enemies by invading countries that were not a threat to him.

Battle of Britain

Planes bombed Britain from September 1940 – May 1941 Using radar, the British Royal Air Force

(RAF) were able to secure the English Channel and eventually stop the Germans

Now, Britain stood alone

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8 – Despite the LLA, FDR knew the US would eventually have to get involved.

9 – The US froze funds for the Japanese in US banks.

Pearl Harbor

2400 people killed, 1200 wounded, 200 planes destroyed, 18 battleships damaged

or destroyed Not one aircraft carrier was damaged

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US declare war JapanGermany declares war US

At 7:55 a.m. Hawaii time on December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, launching one of the deadliest attacks in American history. The assault lasted less than two hours. Almost half of the casualties at Pearl Harbor occurred on the naval battleship USS Arizona, which was hit four times by Japanese bombers.

It was a “date which will live in infamy.”

Quick Facts Twenty-three sets of brothers died

aboard the USS Arizona. The USS Arizona’s entire band was

lost in the attack. Fuel continues to leak from the USS

Arizona’s wreckage. Some former crewmembers have

chosen the USS Arizona as their final resting place.

A memorial was built at the USS Arizona site, thanks in part to Elvis Presley. Fact Vs

Myth

The single vote against Congress's declaration of war against Japan came from

Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana. Rankin was a pacifist who had

also voted against the American entrance into World War I. "As a woman," she said, "I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone

else."

Who maintained control of the Soviet Union by killing and imprisoning his political enemies?

What alliance fought Great Britain and the United States in World War II?

Who blamed Jewish people, intellectuals, and Communists for Germany’s problems after World War I?

What law provided aid to the Allies before the United States had entered the war?

Under what political system is the government seen as more important than individuals?

Stalin

Axis

Hitler

Lend-Lease

Fascism

Homework "You ask what is our aim? I can answer in

one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival.“ Winston Churchill

Churchill RooseveltEisenhower General PattonHitler MussoliniStalin EinsteinBelgium PolandJapan Russia

DON’T FORGET…

Causes…Allied Powers…

Axis Powers…

European takeover, Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor

U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia

Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria