LESSON PLAN FOR CHAPTER 34
ORGINS OF WORLD WAR II
DATE
1.______READ AND ANSWER CH 34 SEC1 QUESTIONS
2. ______ACTIVITY: GROUP SHOULD WRITE DOWN
EVERYTHING THEY KNOW ABOUT WWII IN 2
MINUTES. GROUP WITH MOST GETS BONUS POINTS
3.______READ AND ANSWER CHAP 34 SEC 2 QUESTIONS
4.______CLASS NOTES
5.______CLASS NOTES
6.______READ AND ANSWER CHAP 34 SEC 3
7. ______READ AND ANSWER CHAP 34 SEC 4
8. ______CLASS NOTES, ESSENTIAL QUESTION GROUP
DISCUSSIION
9. ______GROUP ACTIVITY: REVIEW GAME, STUDY
10.______CHAP 34 TEST
CHAPTER 34
ORGINS OF WORLD WAR II
Objectives
Students will
• investigate the Essential Question: Could World War II have been prevented?
• experience examples of aggression and appeasement and compare them with important events leading up to
World War II.
• state and support a position on whether the war could have been prevented.
• learn and use the Key Content Terms for this lesson.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
COULD WORLD WAR II HAVE BEEN PREVENTED
CHAPTER 34 SECTION 1-2
DICTATORS AND MILITARISTS RISE TO POWER
- MANY COUNTRIES FALL INTO A DEPRESSION AFTER WWI
A.) PEOPLE ARE UPSET AND WANT A CHANGE
GERMANY
- THOUGHT TREATY OF VERSAILLES WAS UNFAIR
1.) LAND TAKEN FROM THEM
2.) COULDN’T PAY WAR DEBTS (REPARATIONS)
- GOVT COLLASPES AND A GROUP CALLED THE NAZI PARTY LED BY
ADOLF HITLER TAKES CONTROL OF GERMANY
NAZI PARTY
BASED ON
1.)EXTREME NATIONLISM OR FASCISM
A.) EXTREME NATIONALISM WHICH THE
COUNTRY COMES FIRST AND INDIVIDUAL
LIBERTY IS SECOND
2.)RACISM- BLUE EYES & BLONDE HAIR OR THE ARYAN RACE
3.)EXPANSION
- BLAMES ALL OF GERMANY’S PROBLEMS ON THE JEWS
- BELIEFS LAID OUT IN HITLER’S BOOK NAMED MEIN KAMPF
(MEANING MY STRUGGLE)
A.) EXPLAIN IDEA OF “LIVING SPACE” SO ARYAN PEOPLE CAN
HAVE LARGE FAMILIES TO EXPAND GERMAN EMPIRE AND
EVENTUALLY RULE THE WORLD
- HITLER CALLED HIS NEW GOVT THE THIRD REICH (1ST –ROMAN EMPIRE,2ND GERMANS BISMARK 1800’S)
- GERMANY WANTED TO CONQUER EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE
GERMANY ALLIES WITH
ITALY
- LED BY BENITO MUSSOLINI
-ESTABLISHES A TOTALITARIAN GOVT
(TOE-TAL-LIT-TAR-RE-IN)
-NATION THAT TOTALLY CONTROL THE LIFE OF ITS PEOPLE
- GAINS SUPPORT WITH RALLYS, PARADES, MUSIC, APPEAL TO NATIONAL PRIDE
- MUSSOLINI BLAMES ALL OF ITALY’S PROBLEMS ON
COMMUNIST
SOVIET UNION
- WHEN LENIN DIED A MAN NAMED JOSEPH STALIN TOOK CONTROL OF THE GOVT.
A.) WANTED TO RESTRUCTURE AGRICULTURAL AND
INDUSTRY
1.)PUT EVERYTHING UNDER GOVT CONTROL
2.)PEOPLE HAD RIGHTS TAKEN AWAY AND SUFFERED BECAUSE OF NEW POLICY
- SOVIET UNION BECAME A POLICE STATE AND PEOPLE WERE EXECUTED OR SENT TO SIBERIA FOR SPEAKING OUT AGAINST NEW LEADER.
- STALIN RESPONSIBLE FOR AN ESTIMATED DEATH OF 8-13 MILLION PEOPLE
1.) MILLIONS MORE STARVED TO DEATH FROM
THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE COUNTRY
JAPAN
- BELIEVED IN THE THEORY OF EXPANSION OR “LIVING SPACE” FOR ITS GROWING POPULATION
- BELIEVED IN MILITARISM- MILITARY WOULD GOVERN COUNTRY
- JAPAN IN 1931 INVADES MANCHURIA CHINA
1. MASSACRES 300,000 CIVILIANS AND RAPED OVER 20,000 WOMEN
2.) LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEMANDS JAPAN TO RETURN MANCHURIA TO CHINIA
JAPAN REFUSES
CHAPTER 34 SECTION 3
MILITARY AGGRESSION MEETS WEAK RESPONSE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS FAILURE TO STOP JAPAN CAUGHT HITLER’S ATTENTION
1.)HITLER WITHDREW FROM LEAGUE AND
STARTED A MASSIVE MILITARY BUILDUP
2.)LEAGUE DID NOTHING TO STOP HITLER
U.S. RESPONDS CAUTIOUSLY
- U.S. WANTED TO STAY OUT OF EVERYTHING
1.) STILL IN ISOLATION FROM WWI
2.) SRONG ANTI-WAR FEELINGS
- U.S. WOULD STAY NEUTRAL
SPAIN
- 1936 FRANCISCO FRANCO REBELS AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN GOVT OF SPAIN
1.) GERMANY AND ITALY SEND TROOPS, WEAPOMS, TANKS TO AID FRANCO
2.) U.S. SENDS FOOD TO HELP SPAIN
- FRANCO WINS AND TAKES OVER COUNTRY AND SETS UP ANOTHER TOTALITARIAN COUNTRY IN EUROPE
WAR IN EUROPE
- HITLER DECIDES THE ONLY WAY FOR THE 3RD REICH TO SURVIVE WAS TO EXPAND ITS TERRITORY.
-MARCH 12, 1938 – GERMANY MARCHES INTO AUSTRIA UNOPPOSED AND TAKES CONTROL
1.) REST OF THE WORLD DOES NOTHING
HITLER THEN TURNS HIS ATTENTION
TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- ENGLAND AND FRANCE WANTING TO AVOID WAR BELIEVED HITLER WHEN HE SAID THIS WOULD BE THE LAST TERRITORY TAKEN
- ENGLAND AND FRANCE ADOPT THE POLICY OF
APPEASEMENT – GIVING NATIONS WHAT THEY WANT TO
AVOID WAR
MUNICH PACT (SEPT 30 1938) GERMANY SIGNS PACT GIVING GERMANY SUDENTENLAND OR NORTHERN PART OF CZECH. IF THEY PROMISE NOT TO EXPAND ANY FURTHER
THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE BEGINS
- MARCH 15, 1939 GERMANY INVADES WHAT WAS LEFT OF CZECH AND TAKE OVER COUNTRY BREAKING MUNICH PACT
HITLER THEN FOCUSES ON POLAND
- ENGLAND AND FRANCE SAID THEY WOULD DEFEND POLAND IF HITLER ATTACKED
1.) TRIED TO GET SOVIET UNION ON THEIR SIDE
CHAPTER 34 SECTION 4
HITLER PLUNGES EUROPE INTO WAR
- AUGUST 23, 1939- JOSEPH STALIN SIGNS THE
NON-AGGRESSION PACT WITH HITLER
1.)PROMISED NOT TO FIGHT EACH OTHER
2.)IN A SECRET PACT GERMANY AND SOVIETS WOULD DIVIDE POLAND
3.)HITLER REMOVES A 2 FRONT WAR WITH THIS PACT
1.)DIDN’T THINK ENGLAND AND FRANCE
WOULD GET INVOLVED
SEPT 1, 1939- GERMANY ATTACKS POLAND IN A BRUTAL AND QUICK MANNER. THIS NEW STRATEGY WAS KNOWN AS THE
BLITZKRIEG – LIGHTENING WAR
SEPTEMBER 3,1939 – FRANCE AND ENGLAND DECLARE WAR ON GERMANY
1.)U.S. SAID IT WOULD STAY NEUTRAL
BUT WOULD SELL ARMS IF PAID
CASH
- TOOK ONLY 3 WEEKS FOR POLAND TO FALL
1.) LAST WEEK OF INVASION THE SOVIET UNION ATTACKED
POLAND FROM THE EAST
2.) SOVIETS STILL UPSET FROM THE LOST LAND FROM WWI
STARTED TO RETAKE IT BACK (ESTONIA, LATVIA, LITHUANIA,
FINLAND)
APRIL 9 1940- GERMANY INVADES DENMARK AND NORWAY
MAY 1940 – GERMANY INVADES NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM AND LUXEMBURG
JUNE 1940- GERMANY PUSHES TOWARDS FRANCE THROUGH BELGIUM
1.)FRANCE AND GERMANY BORDER HEAVILY DEFENDED
A.)GERMANY SHORT CUTS THROUGH BELGIUM
- ITALY LED BY MUSSOLINI DECLARES WAR ON ENGLAND
AND FRANCE AND INVADE FRANCE FROM THE SOUTH
- ENGLISH RETREAT BACK TO ENGLAND ACROSS THE ENGLISH
CHANNELDUNKIRK EVACUATION
A.) MASSIVE EVACUATION OF BRITISH AND FRENCH TROOPS
FROM FRANCE ACROSS ENGLISH CHANNELTO ESCAPE
ADVANCING GERMANY ARMY
B.) FRENCH GOVERNMENT ALSO FLED
JUNE 22, 1940 FRANCE SURRENDERS TO GERMANY
A.)ENGLAND KNOW STANDS ALONE AGAINST
GERMANY
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
SUMMER OF 1940 GERMANY BEGINS TO FOCUS ON ENGLAND
- GERMANY KNEW COULDN’T COMPETE WITH BRITISH NAVY SO THEY BEGIN A MASSIVE BOMBING ALL OVER ENGLAND
A.) TRYING TO SOFTEN THEM UP FOR A GROUND
INVASION
B.)MASSIVE DAMAGE, BUT UNABLE IN DEFEATING THE ENGLISH
SEPTEMBER 17, 1940 – HITLER SUSPENDS THE INVASION ON ENGLAND
THE PERSECUTION BEGINS
-APRIL 4 1933 3 MONTHS AFTER HITLER TOOK POWER HE ORDERED ALL NON ARYANS REMOVED FROM THE GOVT
ARYANS- BLONDE HAIR BLUE EYES
WHY THE JEWS
- JEWS WERE USED AS SCAPEGOATS FOR THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AFTER WWI
A.) OWNED THE BUSINESSES
B.) HAD THE WEALTH
- AS THE RAGE AGAINST THE JEWS GREW SO DID THE RESTRICTIONS
1935 THE NUREMBERG LAWS WERE PASSED
1.) STRIPPED JEWS OF THEIR RIGHTS AND PROPERTY
2.) JEWS OVER THE AGE OF 6 HAD TO WEAR A YELLOW
STAR OF DAVID ON THE CLOTHES
-1938 CRYSTAL NIGHT
1.) A JEWISH BOY KILLED A GERMAN EMBASSY WORKER IN PARIS
WHO DEPORTED HIS PARENTS
2.) NAZI FOLLOWERS OUTRAGED SMASHED AND DESTROYED
JEWISH BUSINESSES ACROSS GERMANY
3.) THE NEXT MORNING 20,000 JEWS WERE BLAMED AND ARRESTED
AND SENT TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS
JEWISH REFUGEES
- GERMANY’S MAIN GOAL IN THE BEGINNING WAS TO GET JEWS OUT OF
THE COUNTRY
1.) TRIED TO SPEED UP JEWS IMMIGRATION TO OTHER
COUNTRY’S
PROBLEM – THE WORLD DIDN’T WANT ANYMORE
JEWS IMMIGRATING TO THEIR
COUNTRY
FINAL SOLUTION
- HITLER COULDN’T GET RID OF THE JEWS FAST ENOUGH THROUGH IMMIGRATION.
HIS SOLUTION
- ALL JEWS HEALTHY ENOUGH WAS SENT TO SLAVE LABOR CAMPS. THE
REST WERE SENT TO EXTERMINATION CAMPS
- HITLER BELIEVED TO PERSERVE THE “MASTER RACE”
AND KEEP IT PURE HE HAD TO RID THE WORLD OF JEWS, GYPIES,
HOMOSEXUALS, MENTALLY DISABLE, INCURABLE ILLNESS,
PHYSICALLY DISABLE ETC….
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- HITLER STARTED HIS FINAL SOLUTION IN POLAND
A.) ROUNDED UP ALL JEWS. SOME WERE SHOT,
HERDED IN GHETTOS OR SENT TO CONCENTRATION
CAMPS
IN THE CAMPS
- HUNGER – BARELY FED, HUMILATED AND WORKED DAWN TO DUSK
A.) THOSE TO WEAK TO WORK WAS KILLEDEXTERMINATION
- HITLER NOT HAPPY BECAUSE JEWS WEREN’T DIEING FAST ENOUGH
SODEATH CAMPS WERE CREATED
- PRISONERS WERE EXAMINED BY DOCTORS, IF STRONG ENOUGH YOU WORKED, IF WEAK YOU WENT TO THE GAS CHAMBER
1.)LOOKED LIKE SHOWERS AND EVEN GIVEN SOAP, THEN CYANIDE GAD CAME OUT
- KILLING AS MANY AS 6,000 A DAY
- TO GET RID OF BODIES THEY BUILT CREMATORIES
- SOME WERE KILLED BECAUSE OF EXPERIMENTS DONE ON THEM
- 6 MILLION JEWS WILL DIE IN THESE CAMPS
U.S. MUSTERS ITS FORCES
- U.S. STAYING NEUTRAL BUT WOULD SELL WEAPONS AND SUPPLIES TO ENGLAND IF THEY PAID CASH
- ENGLAND- GETS A NEW PRIME MINSTER WINSTON CHURCHILL
SEPTEMBER 1940
- JAPAN, GERMANY AND ITALY JOIN FORCES AND SIGNED A TREATY WHICH BECAME KNOWN AS THE AXIS POWERS
A.) THIS WAS MEANT TO KEEP U.S. OUT OF THE WAR
B.) IF U.S. ATTACKED ONE THEY ATTACKED ALL OF THEM
1.) DIDN’T THINK U.S. COULD FIGHT A 2 OCEAN WAR
- U.S MILITARY WEAK FROM ISOLATION SINCE WWI
1.) 18 COUNTRIES HAD LARGER ARMIES
2.) NAVY SO SMALL COULD BARELY PROTECT
PANAMA CANAL
2.)ITALY ALONE HAD A BIGGER AIR FORCE THAN U.S.
- FDR KNEW WAR WAS A MATTER OF TIME
A.) PASSED 1ST PEACE TIME DRAFT (21-35 YES OLD)
B.) 800,000 MEN DRAFTED (WANTED TO BE PREPARED
- FDR WINS REELECTION FOR 3RD TERM
A.) BREAKS WASHINFTONS 2 TERM TRADTION
GREAT ARSENAL DEMOCRACY
- FDR CONTINUED TO CLAIM U.S. WAS NEUTRAL
A.) ENGLAND HAD NO MORE CASH TO BUY U.S. SUPPLIES, SO FDR CAME UP WITH A NEW PLAN
-LEND LEASE PLAN- LEND OR LEASE SUPPLIES TO ANY COUNTRY WHOSE DEFENSE WAS VITAL TO U.S.
GERMANY TURNS ON SOVIET UNION
- HITLER THINKING HE HAS EVERYTHING UNDER CONTROL IN WESTERN EUROPE
A.) DECIDES TO ATTACK SOVIET UNION ON JUNE 22, 1941
B.) BREAKS NON AGGRESSION PACT WHEN HITLER INVADES WITH 3 MILLION
1.) PREDICTED VICTORY IN 6 WEEKS
C.) STALIN QUICKLY JOINS ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND AND
U.S.
GERMAN WOLF PACKS
- TO STOP THE LEND LEASE SUPPLIES HITLER FORMED
WOLF PACKS- GROUPS OF 15-20 SUBS SINKING ALL
CARGO SHIPS
1.)SINKING SHIPS FASTER THAN THEY COULD
REPLACE THEM
2.) U.S. PROTECTED SHIPS AS FAR AS ICELAND
JAPAN ATTACKS THE U.S.
- WITH FRANCE DEFEATED, ENGLAND, STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE AND SOVIET UNION UNDER ATTACK
1.) U.S. WAS THE ONLY THING STANDING IN JAPAN’S
WAY FOR EXPANSION
- JAPAN BEGINS THEIR EXPANSION SOUTH AND INVADES VIETNAM
A.) U.S. PROTEST INVASION AND CUT OFF TRADE WITH
U.S. ESPECIALLY OIL
B.) JAPAN COULDN’T SURVIVE W/O OIL
- JAPAN’S NEW PRIME MINSTER HIDEKI TOJO SAID IF PEACE TALKS FAIL WITH U.S. THEY MUST GO TO WAR. BECAUSE THEY CAN’T SURVIVE W/O OIL
A.) WANTED TO ELIMINATE U.S. AND BRITISH
INFLUENCE IN ASIA
- JAPAN VERY CONFIDENT ON DEFEATING U.S. SENDS FLEET TOWARDS PEARL HARBOR ON NOV 26 1941
ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
- JAPAN PLANNING TO ATTACK U.S. AND BRITISH ALL OVER WESTERN PACIFIC (PHILIPPINES AND HONG CONG
1.) START WITH PEARL HARBOR TRYING TO
ELIMINATE U.S. PACIFIC FLEET
1.)6 JAPANESE CARRIERS SET SAIL NOV 26 STAYING NORTH OF SHIPPING LANES
2.)6:00AM DECEMBER 7, 1941 – 1ST WAVE IS LAUNCHED OF 183 PLANES 275 MILES OFF HAWAII
3.)7:02AM – RADAR IN HAWAII PICKS PLANES UP THEY THINK IT WAS A SQUADRON OF B-17 BOMBERS
4.)7:55 1ST BOMB DROPPED ON AIRSTRIP AND MINUTES LATER ON HARBOR
5.)8:40 AM 2ND WAVE OF PLANES ATTACKS BATTLESHIP ROW
1.)4 WERE SUNK ARIZONA AND OKLAHOMA IMMEDIATELY, 10 MORE WOULS SINK LATER
6.)250 PLANES DESTROYED AND 2,400 PEOPLE WERE KILLED – MOST COMING FROM THE ARIZONA
7.)NEXT DAY JAPAN ATTACKS PHILIPPINES AND OTHER U.S. AND BRITISH
8.)DEC 11- CONGRESS DECLARES WAR ON JAPAN
9.)JAPAN AND HITLER BOTH DIDN’T THINK U.S. WOULD BE ABLE SIGNIFICANT IN THE WAR