WWII-Part I

A Little Game of Review

• Take a look at the following slides. Each slide contains one picture from a “famous” event in WWII. Name the event and the date if you can.

• This game should be played individually, with no help and there will be a prize for the winner!

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• Dropping of Atomic Bomb. August 6th, 1945

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• Battle of Britain, September 1940

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• The Big Three, Yalta Conference. February 1945.

• Winston Churchill, FDR, Joseph Stalin

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• Allied invasion of the Normandy coast. June 6th, 1944. (D-Day)

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• The fall of France to the Nazis. June 22nd, 1940

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• Adolf Hilter, Chancellor of Germany. No date specified.

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• The Holocaust, Auschwitz, 1945

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• Battle of Iwo Jima, February-March 1945

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• Executive Order, 9066. Japanese-American Internment, 1944.

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• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941.

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• Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-43

One Minute Essay

• Take a few minutes to write about the following prompt. We will then discuss at our tables and share out to the large group:

• What were the first signs or movements of war? (Be as specific as possible)

• What were the goals for each of the following countries as they enter WWII?

Just a few Notes….

• Keep in mind, what the totalitarian rulers were doing and how democracy and the west responded.

• “The Second World War affected nations on every continent; caused the deaths of 60 million people, produced vast physical damage, generated new forms of genocidal mass murder as well as weapons of mass destruction and contributed to the influence of two superpower nations.”

The Climate in the World

• Prior to the outbreak of war, many Democratic countries were isolationist/pacifist– What are you willing to give up to keep the enemy

happy?

• Hitler uses this to his advantage and begins to go against the Treaty of Versailles (established at the end of WWI)– Hitler begins to openly build a military– Hitler invades the Rhineland, part of Germany that

was lost after WWI

The Climate of the World Cont..

• Mussolini also had ambitions, in 1935 Italy invaded Ethiopia to add to his African empire.

• Spain is engaged in Civil War• Hitler is able to unify Austria with Germany by

March 1938.• Hitler is able to control Czechoslovakia, one

of the few remaining democracies in Europe by 1938.

The Climate of World Cont…

• Don’t forget about Japanese ambitions.

• In 1931, takes over Manchuria in China

• By 1937, Japan had invaded the capital, Nanjing with violence and atrocities.

• China has very few defenses against the stronger Japanese army.

The Beginning of it All

• What was the event and the date that “officially” marks the beginning of WWII?

The Beginning of it All

• What was the event and the date that “officially” marks the beginning of WWII?

• German invasion of Poland, September 1st, 1939.