• Take your seat
• Take out your notebook
• Open to your study guide
Warm-Up
Start review questions 7-22, if they are not answered then start answering them.
I will be calling on students to answer questions
Questions will be asked out of order.

• Review study guide
• FN: The Allies Turn the Tide
• Homework –
 Finish vocabulary – quiz Friday
 Study guide questions 23-25

10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World
War II.
Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the Axis and Alied powers.
Essential Question
Why did Japan attack the United States, and how did this effect the U.S. at home and Allies in
Europe?

Japan Seeks a Pacific Empire
• Japan was overcrowded needs more resources
• Military leaders encourage nationalism and begin building a Pacific empire
 General Togo – Lead
Nation through Emp.
Hirohito
 General Yamamoto – planned major Japanese invasions – Pearl Harbor
• Japan makes plans to take
Southeast Asia
Isoroku Yamamoto

U.S. Responds
U.S. wants to protect colonies:
 do you feel the United

States was acting in a neutral fashion? Why or why not?
– talk about this in your groups, 30 seconds.

Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941
• Japanese surprise attack
• Nearly whole Pacific fleet damaged
• 2,348 Americans killed
• More than 1,000 wounded
• Roosevelt: “a date which will live in infamy.”
• On Dec. 8 Congress declares war

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• Take your seat
• Take out your notebook
• Take out a piece of paper
Warm-Up
Summarize what you learned from the video about the invasion of Pearl Harbor.

• Warm-Up Discussion
• Focus Notes: “Allies Turn the Tides”
• Homework –
 Study for Vocabulary Quiz
Tomorrow
 Study guide questions 26-27

Japan’s Pacific Victories
• Battle for the Philippines (Jan. 1942)

Bataan Death March (Jan. 1942) - The transfer of over 90,000 American POW’s, resulting in death due to their brutal treatment by the
Japanese
• Conquers 1 million square miles of land (in pacific)
 about 150 million people (1942)
• Brutal treatment for 150,000 POW’s

10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World
War II.
Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the Axis and Alied powers.
Essential Question
Why did Japan attack the United States, and how did this effect the U.S. at home and Allies in
Europe?

10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into
WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the
Axis and Alied powers.
Essential Question
How did the Allies turn the tide of war during World War II?

• Germany is winning, until the battle of
Stalingrad 1942
 USSR = only country on continent fighting Nazi’s
 They want Allies to launch an invasion into W. Europe.
 U.S., Britain and Soviet Union, begin to talk about what peace process
• Yalta Conference
– Allies begin dividing Germany into occupation zones
»4 zones, American, Soviet,
British and Frnch

• Allies capture N.
Africa (May 1943)
 Operation Torch
American General
Eisenhower lands in
NE Africa
• Eisenhower was the
Amer. Gen over the
European Theater
 Important turning point – gives Allies upper hand in
Mediterranean

• Germans suffer heavy losses = Moscow,
Leningrad, Russian
Winter
• Battle of Stalingrad
August 1942 Germans take 90%
 Soviets take offensive – Germans retreat
 Turning Point –
Hitler on the defensive

In your groups discuss the essential question”
How did the Allies turn the tide of World War
II?
On your Map’s put a star on all of the areas that the Axis Powers lost to the Allies (the ones we just discussed.) Use the Map on page
479.
Answer Critical Thinking Questions on Map

• July 10, 1943 – Allies invade Sicily and capture it.
 Mussolini loses power
 September 3, 1943 –
Italy surrenders
 Germans still occupy parts of Italy
 Soviets are no longer alone on Continent

• Total War  Factories converted for wartime production
• Rationing & Propaganda

• Women join work force

• Feb. 1942: Internment & property loss for
Japanese Americans
 2/3 interned were native-born
American citizens
 Sent to away from coast to Utah,
Idaho, Colorado, and
Wyoming

10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into
WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the
Axis and Alied powers.
Essential Question
What impact did World War II have on the home front?
(think about all countries, not just the U.S.

10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into
WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the
Axis and Alied powers.
Essential Question
What was the significance of D-Day and the Yalta Conference?
Explain how they would impact the War Effort


D-Day Invasion: June 6,
1944
• Eisenhower strikes
Normandy
• American, British,
French, Canadian troops
• 6,603 Americans die
• Aug. 25 Paris is freed from German control
• Sept. 1944 France,
Belgium,
Luxembourg Liberated

• Feb. 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta
• Stalin wants control of Eastern Europe to create a buffer zone between U.S.S.R. and Europe
• US and England wanted self-determination for Eastern
European countries
• End agreement –
 Stalin would enter war against Japan
 Soviet gets certain lands
 Germany will be divided into 4 zones – British,
French, U.S. and Soviet
 Stalin agreed to hold free elections in Eastern
European nations….. But he won’t