World War Two

The Basics

Agree/Disagree• The government should spend money

during times of depression to help the economy

• The interests of the majority are more important than individual rights

• Religions and unions make people less American and less trustworthy to the government

Presentations: 4-7 notes, 1 image & event for Timeline

1. Germany sparks . . . – Battle of Britain (925)2. Britain – US Aids Allies (927)3. Pearl Harbor – Allies Strike Back (931)4. Allies Strike back – end (934)5. Holocaust6. Tide Turns (941)7. Victory in Europe (943)8. Victory in the Pacific (945)

What do you know?• There are four people, four battles and

two weapons• With a partner, sort these names into

there correct categories- Rommel - Midway - Spitfire- Iwo Jima - Patton - Normandy- Britain - Yamamoto - Panzer

- De Gaul

USSR – Soviet Union• Stalin (a communist) blames previous

government and capitalists• Forces people to work on collectives

(farms) & 5 Year Plans (increase factory output)

• State ownership, revolutionary ideals• About 13 million soviets die under his rule

Italy• Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) leads

fascists to power (state above individual)– Private property & rights

• Strong government rules

• Fought against: unemployment, inflation & strikes (blames the poor and communists)

• Proves strength by attacking the weak

Germany• Hitler leads National Socialist German

Workers party or Nazis• Wants to unite all German peoples/Great

again• Create lebensraum “living space”• Create a pure Aryan race/Why else would he

oppose the Jewish people?• 1933 – Chancellor Hitler• Start of the Third Reich

Crash Course – WW2• Pick three concepts from the list and be

ready to explain them after the video:• Starting date?• Blitzkrieg• The Blitz• Hunger Plan/Lebensraum• Stalingrad• Canadian involvement• Homo Homini Lupus (destruction)

Clips• WW2 in HD, start of war (3:50-12:50)• WW2 in HD, Holocaust (11:40-19:30)• Band of Brothers, Liberation clip

Start of the War• 9-1-1939: Germany invaded Poland

– Blitzkrieg = lightning war– Low countries & France fall by June 1940

• Japan has taken over Manchuria moving to knock-out US

• Battle of Britain: aerial defense of England by RAF keeps Britain alive– The Blitz destroys much of London . . .

• Germans are eventually driven back across N. Afrika

Turning Points• Stalingrad: USSR defeats Nazis in a 9

month horror (could have been the end)• D-day landings: Beaches of Normandy

are invaded by Allied forces– Beginning of the last final push

• Island hopping: Guam, Philippines, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal

Concluding the War• Hitler kills himself as Soviets take the city of

Berlin (Eisenhower let them take it)• A-bombs and Soviet threats knock Japan

out of the war• USSR is clearly a

threat and is not ableto be trusted (Cold War begins)

Impact of the Cold War• Polarized War: America v. USSR

– Both create alliances NATO v. Warsaw Pact• Containment: stop the spread of

communism throughout the world (Truman Doctrine)

• Domino Theory: Once one nation falls to communism, they all will!

• Containment in action– Marshall Plan– Korea, Vietnam