WORLD WAR II

World War II StandardWe will analyze America’s

Participation in World War II

Key Elements :Understand Cause and Effect

Interpret Past EventsUnderstand the impact of the

outcome of WWII and the consequences of other outcomes

What do you know about World War II ?

Explain three areas of focus

War in the Europe(Germany)

War in the Pacific(Japan)

The Home Front

Review Depression(worldwide)

Review results of WWI and impact on Germany

U.S.-China relationship

The DictatorsThe Rise of Adolph Hitler

Perfect Timing : Depression and AngerShow Video Clip One : Hitler’s Rise

Controlling the Will of the People

Show Video Clip Two : Hitler Youth

Why did people support Hitler ?

Italy

Rise of Mussolini

Military Dictatorshipin Japan and USSR

First German AdvancesRhineland

History of Conflict w/FranceAppeasement

(France and Britain)

Annexation of Austria

Overruns Czechoslovakia

War Begins

Play Video Clip“Blitzkrieg”

Hitler from Poland to France

Great Britain AloneNeeds U.S.A. Help

Germany Signs Non-Aggression Pact with

USSRChurchill Warns

AgainstLend-Lease ***

The War With Japan in the Pacific

Japan – Depression

Military Take OverConquest will end

depression

Naval RaceUnited States

JapanGreat Britain

Late 1930’s

Japan’s Conquest BeginsManchuria

other bits of China

Play Video Clip 2(skip 1)

Chinese Defend and Lose Shanghai, Panay

Open Door PolicyShanghai (Important Port)The Sinking of The Panay

1940 Japanese movie intoIndochina

U.S. Upset with Japan

Embargo(Metal, Fuel)

Japan signs agreement with Germans

Play clip 3

Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor(US Military base in Hawaii)

December 7 , 1941

Play Pearl Harbor – Leave 4 minutes

FDR Declares War on Japan and Germany

World War IIThe Homefront

Pearl Harbor AttackedAmerica Shocked

From Isolationists to Internationalists

Show

LA Times

(Owned by Cubs) Headline

U.S. Military George Marshall

Top Man

Marshall Plan

Private Ryan

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Top General in Europe

Play/Skip Clip

Patton – Field General

Play Clip 2

Pacific General

MacArthur/Nimitz

Skip/Play Clip 3

Quick Weddings

Chance to Have Children

Selfish ?

Women put to work

Took the jobs men left behind

Changed womenforever

Japanese-Americans

Discrimination

Assets frozen

Put in Camps

Play Clip 4

African Americans

Best time for job ever

Discrimination remains in military, workplace, and pro baseball

Play Clip 5 (Jackie Robinson,Joe Louis)

Mexican Americansin L.A. and Oakland

200,000 Mexicans invited to Work on

farms

Youth (often gangs) wear “Zoot-Suit”

Some Zooters have run in with Marines off duty

Military goes into Mexican neighborhood – burn

suits, cut hair. Fear of Immigrants

Why is there little discrimination against German Americans ?

Employment High

No Strike Pledge from Unions

Wealth Increase

Depression Ending

Entertainment

Chaplin – Citizen Kane – Why We Fight – Superman

Play Final Clips

The Allies Strike Back !

Allies Axis

Great Britain Germany

United States Japan

USSR Italy

1942

North AfricaU.S. Victory at El Alamein

We move Nazis out of Africa

Next Italy

First stepSicily

Britian or U.S.who will do it ?

Play Clip 1

Sicily is liberated

Patton Gets in Trouble after visiting wounded soldiers

Play Clip 2

Hard battlesin Monte Cassino and Rome

Italian resistancemovement strong

Italy liberated

Soviet fightWinter defeat

Clip 3Leningrad

How was life in the USSR in WWII compared to US ?

Operation Overlord

Invasion of Normandy

D-Day

June 6, 1944Clip 4Private Ryan Opening

Battle of the Bulge

French Freedom Fighters

Charles DeGaulle

German defeat

Hitler didn’t listen to advice

Attacked from 2 sides

Slaves instead of determined

workers

The War in the Pacific

Put students in groups of3-4

One is the writerOne is the Captain (leader)

All contribute

You are Nimitz and MacArthur

You must decide a course of attack upon Japan

Give out handout

Read Handout

Each student take 3 minutes to think silently to

self

Now groups begin discussion

After 5-7 minutes

Ask each group for their course of action

Discuss

Actual technique used was called : Leapfrogging

Leapfrogging brings United States to the

verge of attacking the Japanese Mainland

Toughest Battle of All

Island battles includeIwo Jima, Guam

Midway,New GuineaMarshall IslandsSoloman Islands

China Cleared of Japanese

Philippine Invasion led and won by Mac Arthur

Leapfrogging brings United States to the

verge of attacking the Japanese Mainland

Toughest Battle of All

Bombing of Berlin

End of the War Against Germany

Navajo Code

Fall of ItalyHanging of Mussolini in the streets

Adolph HitlerBelieved to have committed

Suicide

U.S. and Allies enter German territories and discover

“Holocaust”Attempted Genocide of the Jews

Show DVD Clip

Nuremberg Trials

Nazi’s on Trial for War Crimes

Truman’s Dilemma?x3

FDR dies in 1944Truman (VP) takes over

Finds out about Manhattan Project

“A” Bomb

Top Secret

Must defeat Japan

Invasion will cost 1,000,000 American Lives

What would you do

3 Groups

1 Choice per group

1) Invade Japanpros and cons

2) Drop a bomb over ocean to show power and force

surrender

3) Drop the bomb on Japan

Each group discuss pros and cons

Which choice is the best ?

Potsdam Proclamation

Dropping of Bomb

August 6 + 9, 1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Essay #2

Show DVD clips

Essay 1

World War II Death Totals

24 million Service Personnel40 million civilians

292,000 USA Killed or MIASoviet Union – 20 million deaths

New Struggle ExistsU.S. vs Soviet Union

Germany DividedWest Germany rebuilt by U.S.

Japan rebuilt by MacArthur (U.S.)

United States“Super Power”

The Marshall Plan – Aid to any country willing to be

our allie

NATOFormal AllianceUSA and friends

Warsaw PactAlliance

USSR and subjects

Social Life in the US

Cubs in 45 Series

Jackie Robinson playsIn the Major Leagues

(Clip 1)

Suburbs grow – Economy Good

Separation of classesDownward spiral of the Cities

Many women forced to give up jobs

Japanese Released but lose everything

Entertainment more cheerful

1946 – It’s a Wonderful Life(play clip 2)