Agenda 2/15/16
• Holiday/Staff Development!
Agenda 02/16/16
• WU: Human Costs Handout
• Discuss CW# 3-10
• N# 3-4: WWII
• HW# 3-3: WWI & WWII crossword
puzzle
• HW: HW# 3-3 due February 22nd. DBQ #
3 due Wednesday, March 2nd, for early
turn in, March 24th for official due date!
N# 3-4: WWII
What were the WWII Alliances?
• The Allies versus the Axis Powers.
The Allies – The Big 3
Winston Churchill
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
The Axis Powers
Emperor Hirohito
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Who were the Allies?
Who were the Axis Powers?
Key Terms/People WWII
• Blitzkrieg – Devastating, lightning fast attacks that
Germany used at the beginning of WWII.
• Holocaust – Organized killing of Jews and others by the
Nazis during WWII
• Gen. Eisenhower – General in charge of U.S. troops in
Europe
• Gen. MacArthur – General in charge of U.S. troops in
the Pacific
• President Truman – President in WWII after Roosevelt
• Iwo Jima, Japan – Location of fierce battle between
U.S. troops and Japan in Pacific during WWII
• Normandy, France – Site of D-Day invasion June 6,
1944
What is Fascism?
• A philosophy that
supports a strong
central government
controlled by the
military and led by a
powerful dictator
– Germany under Hitler
– Italy under Mussolini
– Spain under Franco
Where was WWII fought?
• WWII was mostly fought in 3 parts of the
world. These areas are known as theaters
– Europe
– Northern Africa
– The Pacific
El Alamein
EGYPT
D-Day Invasion June 6, 1944 – Normandy France, Omaha Beach
African-Middle East Theater - WWII
A map showing the territories of, and held by, Allied (dark green) and
Axis (orange) forces at the outbreak of hostilities in the Mediterranean.
(Neutral countries are in grey, and countries that were Allies at later
stages of the war are in lime green.)
• What was one reason the U.S. joined
WWII?
• On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed the
U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Battle of Iwo Jima
• What did the U.S. do to help end WWII?
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
First and only time atomic bombs
have been used in warfare.
Aug 6, 1945
Aug 9, 1945
Japan surrenders five days
after the bombing of Nagasaki
Bombing of Hiroshima, Japan
The bombing of Nagasaki, Japan
Surrender of Japan
Sept 2, 1945
Aboard USS Missouri
• What happened to Germany at the end of WWII?
• Germany was divided into East and West
Germany after WWII. East Germany became
communist and was controlled by the Soviet Union
Occupation zone borders in
Germany as of February 21, 1947.
The territories east of the OderNeisse line, under Polish and
Soviet administration/annexation
are not shown.
Berlin is the multinational area
within the Soviet zone.
Agenda 02/17/16
• WU: Why did America get involved in
WWI? What event led to the U.S.
getting involved in WWII and when
did it occur?
• CW # 3-11: Jeds & Pads
• HW: HW# 3-3 due February 22nd.
DBQ # 3 due Wednesday, March
2nd, for early turn in, March 24th for
official due date!
Why did America get involved in WWI?
• There were three things that led to
America getting involved in WWI: the
sinking of merchant ships, the sinking of
the Lusitania, and the Zimmerman
telegram.
What event led to U.S. involvement in
WWII? When did it occur?
• On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed the
U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Agenda 02/18/16
• WU: Describe a time where you had a conflict with
someone. How was it resolved?
• Finish CW # 3-11: Jeds & Pads
• RDG SG 16
• HW: SG# 3-2 due Wednesday, 3-2! Test on
3-3! DBQ # 3 due Wednesday, March 2nd for
early turn in, March 24th for official due
date!
Agenda 2/18/16
• How did you feel at the beginning of the
activity?
• How did you feel when I, the Great Power,
allowed several Jeds to immigrate?
• Jeds, how did it feel when I restricted
immigration?
• Pads, how did it feel when immigration for
Jeds was restricted?
Agenda 2/18/16
• How did you feel towards me, the Great
Power, when I kept favoring the Jeds and
allowing them to immigrate?
• How were your views on immigration
affected by the announcement that millions
of Jeds had been killed?
• Explain who everyone is and what each
round simulated.
Agenda 2/18/16
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Jeds = Jews
Pads = Palestinians
Great Power = Great Britain
Round 1 = Balfour Declaration of 1917 in
which the British declared their support for
the creation of a national home for Jews in
Palestine. Jewish immigration greatly
increased.
Agenda 2/18/16
• Round 2 = British decision in 1939 (start of
WWII) to suddenly restrict immigration to
Palestine. Neither side was happy.
• Announcement = Holocaust
• Round 3 = Represented the increased
international support for a Jewish homeland
after 6 million Jews were killed in the Nazi
Holocaust. Jewish immigration increased
enormously in the 1930s and after WWII.
Agenda 2/19/16
• WU:
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You have just been named Secretary of
State and been tasked with resolving the Jewish
conflict with Palestine. What is your solution?
N# 3-5: Holocaust
Reading Packet # 3-9: The Korean Peninsula
CW# 3-12: Korean Peninsula
HW: HW# 3-3 due Monday! SG# 3-2 due 3-2! Tset #
3-2 on March 3rd! DBQ # 3 due Wednesday, March
2nd for early turn in, March 24th for official due date!
N# 3-5: The Holocaust
What was the Holocaust?
The organized killing of Jews
and many others.
Adolph Hitler
Hermann Goering
Adolf Eichmann
Heinrich Himmler
What was the Final Solution?
• The Holocaust was referred to as the
“Final Solution” by the Nazis
• The Final Solution, aka the Holocaust, had
basically 3 Stages
1. Forced Emigration and resettlement
2. Deportation to concentration camps
3. Extermination
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Mobile Death Units
Death/Concentration Camps
What was Stage 1?
Forced Emigration and Resettlement
• Throughout the 1930's Nazi domestic
policy was aimed at stripping Jews of any
citizenship, economic, and political rights
(called dehumanization- treating people as
if they are not humans, but animals).
A sign in a public park in Krakow: "Jews: Entry is
Forbidden" written in German and Polish.
Measures Taken Against Jews
• April 1, 1933: boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
• April 7, 1933: expelled Jews from the civil service.
• April 7, 1933: prohibited Jews from becoming lawyers or
practicing law
• April 22, 1933: denied reimbursement of expenses to
patients who had Jewish doctors. Jewish doctors who
were war veterans or had suffered from the war were
excluded.
• April 25, 1933: restricted Jewish enrollment in German
high schools to 1.5% of the student body. In
communities where they constituted more than 5% of the
population, Jews were allowed to constitute up to 5% of
the student body.
What is Stage 2?
Deportation to concentration camps
Polish children imprisoned in
Auschwitz look out from behind
the barbed wire fence. (July 1944)
What is Stage 3?
Extermination
Liberation
• Dauchau was liberated by the 42nd
Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army
on 29 April 1945.
• Auschwitz was liberated by the 322nd
Rifle Division of the Red Army on January
27, 1945
• Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in
was liberated by the British in April 1945
Hitler committed suicide
along with his new bride
Eva Braun. They were
married the day before
they committed Suicide
Committed Suicide
4-30-45
Committed Suicide
10-15-46
Executed 5-31-62
Committed Suicide
5-23-45
• How many people died in the
Holocaust?
• 11 million people died in the
Holocaust
–6 Million Jews, and
–Approximately 5 Million Non-Jews
Among the groups which the Nazis and their collaborators
murdered and persecuted were: Gypsies, Serbs, Polish
intelligentsia, resistance fighters from all the nations,
German opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Jehovah's
Witnesses, habitual criminals, and the "anti-social," e.g.
disabled people, beggars, and vagrants
Austria
Italy
Belgium
Latvia
Bohemia/Moravia
Lithuania
Bulgaria
Luxembourg
Denmark
Netherlands
Estonia
Norway
Finland
Poland
France
Romania
Germany
Slovakia
Greece
Soviet Union
Hungary
Yugoslavia
50,000
7,680
28,900
71,500
78,150
143,000
0
1,950
60
100,000
2,000
762
7
3,000,000
77,320
287,000
141,500
71,000
67,000
1,100,000
569,000
63,300
27.0%
17.3%
44.0%
78.1%
66.1%
85.1%
0.0%
55.7%
0.7%
71.4%
44.4%
44.8%
0.3%
90.9%
22.1%
47.1%
25.0%
79.8%
86.6%
36.4%
69.0%
81.2%
The number of
Jews murdered
in each country
and what
percentage of
the pre-war
Jewish
population they
constituted