Unit+8-+World+War+II

Unit 8 Standards
Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II. 1. Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939. 2. Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domes- tic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II. 3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors. 4. Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower). 5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians. 6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan. = =

=Assignment 8.1- WWII Vocabulary Part 1= Complete this vocabulary in google presentation and embed it on your wiki for full points. Just follow the steps.

Title Slide: World War II Picture: Any image from World War II. -Please put the years that the war began and ended.

Slide 1-Hitler's Beginning Picture: A photo of the SS -What does Lebensraum mean? -What was Anschluss? -What event started World War II?

Slide 2- Hitler-Stalin Pact Picture: Them together. -When was it signed? -What did it do? -Was it honored by both sides?

Slide 3- Appeasement Picture: Neville Chamberlain -What does it mean? -What happened at the Munich Conference? Write this: "We have peace in our time" -Neville Chamberlain

Slide 4- The Axis Powers Picture: The flags of the Axis Countries. -List the major Axis Powers.

Slide 5- The Allies Picture: The flags of the Allies (US too). -Who were the main Allied powers.

Slide 6- Blitzkrieg Picture: A German Tank -What was the Blitzkrieg? -What was the Luftwaffe?

=Assignment 8.2- World War II Video Introduction= Please respond to the video in 15 bullet points/ sentences.

Questions to help you. -How does this movie tell the story of World War II? -In 1939, what is Nazi Germany's status? Are they being stopped? -What was the preparedness level of the United States in 1939? -What kind of message did Germans send Serbians when they killed 36 of them in 1939? -When did the Germans invade the USSR and how well did they do? -What secret map did the United States intercept? -Who were some of the Axis Powers? -What happened on December 7th, 1941? -What five countries were the first to be invaded by the Germans in World War 2? - In what year was Poland invaded? In what year did France surrender? - In the year that France fell, who was the only democracy in Europe left to fight the Nazis? - How did Hitler try to conquer Great Britain? - In 1940, even though there is a draft, what was the only case in which Americans could fight at this time? - How would you describe the preparation level of the Americans for battle early on in the war? - In what year did the Nazis invade the Soviet Union? - What did the secret Nazi map intercepted by Americans reveal about Hitler's plans? = = =Assignment 8.3- Path to War=

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.



















1. What did Hitler and the Nazi's need for their "great civilization" to rise? 2. What was Hitler's plan regarding the Soviet Union? 3. What things did Hitler do to violate the Treaty of Versailles? 4. Explain what happened in the Rhineland. 5. What was **Anschluss**? 6. Where was the Sudetenland and what did Germany do to it? 7. What happened at the Munich Conference and what was **appeasement?** 8. What did Mussolini call his alliance with Hitler? 9. How did Hitler feel about Great Britain and France's ability to stop him? 10. Why did Hitler sign a pact with Stalin? 11. What finally caused Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany? 12. How did Japan begin expansion into China and what did it rename Manchuria? 13. Who was **Chiang Kai-Shek** and what did the Japanese do in 1937?

=Assignment 8.4- Political Cartoons= You will work with a partner. Explain what each one means in 3 sentences on your wiki.

4. Appeasement
=Assignment 8.4- World War II in HD/ The War by Ken Burns.=

Disk 2, 2nd Episode (3:30) 1. Which countries were the Nazis chased out of by the beginning of this clip? 2. Was Fascist Italy still in the picture? Skip from ~4:00 to 11:39 3. Where does the path to Germany began for the Allied troops? 4. What is the Sigfried line? Skip from 15:40 to 19:40 5. What allied country were the Americans involved in liberating? Skip from 22:00 to 28:25 Stop 36:18

The War-Disc 2 3:45 6.Where did the US Navy stop the Japanese advance? 7. Where did American troops first test themselves against Italian and German forces on land? 8. What did you notice about women in this clip? 9. What did the woman say about President Roosevelt? 10. How is the US described by the man who spoke about troops in North Africa? 11. Who was the British Prime Minister at this time? 12. Who was the German general in North Africa? 13. Who became in charge for Americans in North Africa?

Stop at 20:30

The War- Disc 6 39:00 14. How many Jews were killed overall? 15. What other groups besides Jews were killed? 16. Which countries liberated the camps? 17. What did the gentlemen say happened to some survivors that they fed when they arrived? 18. What did the gentlemen say to people who say the Holocaust is not real?
 * Skip 43:15 to 43:30**

Holocaust ends at 51 then it talks about the end of the war in Europe.