World War Two

In the summer of 1939, President Roosevelt addresses an anxious nation in response to atrocities in Europe committed by Hitler's Nazi Germany. Roosevelt declares in his radio broadcast the U.S. "will remain a neutral nation." He acknowledges, however, that he "cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought."

World War Looms

  1. Dictators Threaten World Peace
  2. Nationalism grips Europe and Asia
  3. Failures of the WWI peace treaty (Treaty of Versailles)
  4. Stalin transforms the Soviet Union
  5. The rise of fascism in Italy
  6. The Nazis take over Germany
  7. Militarists gain control in Japan
  8. Aggression in Europe and Asia
  9. Civil war breaks out in Spain
  10. The U.S. responds cautiously
  11. Americans hold on to isolationism
  12. Neutrality breaks down
  13. War in Europe
  14. Austria and Czechoslovakia fall
  15. Union with Austria
  16. Bargaining for the Sudetenland and appeasement
  17. The German offensive begins
  18. The Soviet Union declares neutrality-Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
  19. Blitzkrieg in Poland
  20. The Phony War
  21. France and Britain fight on
  22. The fall of France
  23. The Battle of Britain
  24. The Holocaust
  25. The persecution begins
  26. Jews targeted
  27. Kristallnacht
  28. Jewish refugees
  29. The Plight of the St. Louis
  30. Hitler’s Final Solution
  31. The condemned
  32. Forced relocation
  33. Concentration camps
  34. The final stage
  35. Mass exterminations-Death camps, gas chambers & ovens
  36. The survivors
  37. America Moves Toward War
  38. The U.S. mobilizes its forces
  39. Moving cautiously from neutrality
  40. The Axis threat
  41. Building U.S. defenses
  42. FDR wins third term
  43. The Great Arsenal of Democracy
  44. The Lend-Lease Plan
  45. Supporting Stalin
  46. German wolf packs (u-boats)
  47. FDR plans for war
  48. The Atlantic Charter
  49. Shoot on site orders
  50. Japan attacks the U.S.
  51. Japan’s ambitions in the Pacific
  52. Peace talks are questioned
  53. The attack on Pearl Harbor
  54. Reaction to Pearl Harbor

Vocabulary: I can use key vocabulary words and identify the significance of the key people and events of the Great Depression.

-JOSEPH STALIN -BENITO MUSSOLINI -IL DUCE - BLACK SHIRTS -ADOLF HITLER -DER FUHRER -FRANCISCO FRANCO

-NEUTRALITY ACTS -SOVIET UNION (U.S.S.R.) -TOTALITARIAN -FASCISM -MEIN KAMPF -NAZISM -THIRD REICH

-ISOLATIONISM -NEVILLE CHAMBERLIN -WINSTON CHURCHILL -CHARLES DE GAULLE -MUNICH AGREEMENT

-APPEASEMENT -LUFTWAFFE -MAGINOT LINE -RAF -NONAGRESSION PACT -BLITZKRIEG -SITZKRIEG

-BATTLE OF BRITAIN -ELIE WIESEL -HOLOCAUST -NUREMBERG LAWS -KRISTALLNACHT -ANTI-SEMITISM

-FINAL SOLUTION -GENOCIDE -GHETTOS -CONCENTRATION CAMPS -AUSCHWITZ -CREMATORIUMS -HIDEKI TOJO

-EMPEROR HIROHITO -TRIPARTATE PACT -AXIS POWERS -LEND-LEASE ACT -ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY -WOLF PACKS

-ALLIES -ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR