WORLD WAR
II
World War II Standard
We will analyze America’s
Participation in World War II
Key Elements :
Understand Cause and Effect
Interpret Past Events
Understand the impact of the
outcome of WWII and the
consequences of other outcomes
What do you know about World
War II ?
Explain three areas of focus
War in the Europe
(Germany)
War in the Pacific
(Japan)
The Home Front
Review Depression
(worldwide)
Review results of WWI and
impact on Germany
U.S.-China relationship
The Dictators
The Rise of Adolph Hitler
Perfect Timing : Depression and Anger
Show Video Clip One : Hitler’s Rise
Controlling the Will of the People
Show Video Clip Two : Hitler Youth
Why did people support Hitler ?
Italy
Rise of Mussolini
Military Dictatorship
in Japan and USSR
First German Advances
Rhineland
History of Conflict w/France
Appeasement
(France and Britain)
Annexation of Austria
Overruns Czechoslovakia
War Begins
Play Video Clip
“Blitzkrieg”
Hitler from Poland to France
Great Britain Alone
Needs U.S.A. Help
Germany Signs NonAggression Pact with
USSR
Churchill Warns
Against
Lend-Lease ***
The War With
Japan in the
Pacific
Japan –
Depression
Military
Take Over
Conquest
will end
depression
Naval Race
United States
Japan
Great Britain
Late 1930’s
Japan’s Conquest Begins
Manchuria
other bits of China
Play Video Clip 2
(skip 1)
Chinese Defend and Lose
Shanghai, Panay
Open Door Policy
Shanghai (Important Port)
The Sinking of The Panay
1940 Japanese movie into
Indochina
U.S. Upset with Japan
Embargo
(Metal, Fuel)
Japan signs agreement with
Germans
Play clip 3
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
(US Military base in Hawaii)
December 7 , 1941
Play Pearl Harbor – Leave 4 minutes
FDR Declares War on Japan
and Germany
World War II
The Homefront
Pearl Harbor Attacked
Show
America Shocked
LA Times From Isolationists to Internation
(Owned by Cubs) Headline
U.S. Military
George
Marshall
Top Man
Marshall Plan
Private Ryan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Top General in Europe
Play/Skip Clip
Patton – Field General
Play Clip 2
Pacific General
MacArthur/Nimitz
Skip/Play Clip 3
Quick Weddings
Chance to Have Children
Selfish ?
Women put to
work
Took the jobs
men left behind
Changed
women
forever
Japanese-Americans
Discrimination
Assets frozen
Put in Camps
Play Clip 4
African Americans
Best time for job ever
Discrimination
remains in military,
workplace, and pro
baseball
Play Clip 5
(Jackie Robinson,Joe Louis)
Mexican Americans
in L.A. and Oakland
200,000 Mexicans
invited to Work on
farms
Youth (often gangs)
wear “Zoot-Suit”
Some Zooters have run in with Marines off duty
Military goes into Mexican neighborhood – burn
suits, cut hair.
Fear of Immigrants
Why is there little discrimination
against German Americans ?
Employment High
No Strike Pledge from Unions
Wealth Increase
Depression Ending
Entertainment
Chaplin – Citizen Kane – Why We Fight –
Superman
Play Final Clips
The Allies Strike Back !
Allies
Great Britain
United States
USSR
Axis
Germany
Japan
Italy
1942
North Africa
U.S. Victory at El Alamein
We move Nazis out of Africa
Next Italy
First step
Sicily
Britian or U.S.
who will do it ?
Play Clip 1
Sicily is liberated
Patton Gets in Trouble after
visiting wounded soldiers
Play Clip 2
Hard battles
in Monte Cassino
and Rome
Italian resistance
movement strong
Italy liberated
Soviet fight
Winter defeat
Clip 3
Leningrad
How was life in
the USSR in
WWII
compared to
US ?
Operation
Overlord
Invasion of
Normandy
D-Day
June 6, 1944
Clip 4
Private Ryan Opening
Battle of the
Bulge
French
Freedom
Fighters
Charles
DeGaulle
German defeat
Hitler didn’t listen
to advice
Attacked from 2
sides
Slaves instead of
determined
workers
The War in the Pacific
Put students in groups of
3-4
One is the writer
One is the Captain (leader)
All contribute
You are Nimitz and MacArthur
You must decide a course of
attack upon Japan
Give out handout
Read Handout
Each student take 3
minutes to think silently to
self
Now groups begin discussion
After 5-7 minutes
Ask each group for their course
of action
Discuss
Actual technique used was called :
Leapfrogging
Leapfrogging brings
United States to the
verge of attacking the
Japanese Mainland
Toughest Battle of All
Island battles include
Iwo Jima, Guam
Midway,New Guinea
Marshall Islands
Soloman Islands
China Cleared of Japanese
Philippine Invasion led and won
by Mac Arthur
Leapfrogging brings
United States to the
verge of attacking the
Japanese Mainland
Toughest Battle of All
End of the War Against Germany
Bombing of Berlin
Navajo Code
Fall of Italy
Hanging of Mussolini in the streets
Adolph Hitler
Believed to have committed
Suicide
U.S. and Allies enter German
territories and discover
“Holocaust”
Attempted Genocide of the Jews
Show DVD Clip
Nuremberg Trials
Nazi’s on Trial for War Crimes
?x3
Truman’s Dilemma
FDR dies in 1944
Truman (VP) takes over
Finds out about Manhattan Project
“A” Bomb
Top Secret
Must defeat Japan
Invasion will cost 1,000,000
American Lives
What would you do
3 Groups
1 Choice per group
1) Invade Japan
pros and cons
2) Drop a bomb over ocean
to show power and force
surrender
3) Drop the bomb on Japan
Each group discuss pros and
cons
Which choice is the best ?
Potsdam Proclamation
Dropping of Bomb
August 6 + 9, 1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Essay #2
Show DVD clips
Essay 1
World War II Death Totals
24 million Service Personnel
40 million civilians
292,000 USA Killed or MIA
Soviet Union – 20 million deaths
New Struggle Exists
U.S. vs Soviet Union
Germany Divided
West Germany rebuilt by U.S.
Japan rebuilt by MacArthur (U.S.)
United States
“Super Power”
The Marshall
Plan – Aid to
any country
willing to be
our allie
NATO
Formal Alliance
USA and friends
Warsaw Pact
Alliance
USSR and subjects
Social Life in the US
Cubs in 45 Series
Jackie Robinson plays
In the Major Leagues
(Clip 1)
Suburbs grow – Economy Good
Separation of classes
Downward spiral of the Cities
Many women forced to give up jobs
Japanese Released but lose everything
Entertainment more cheerful
1946 – It’s a Wonderful Life
(play clip 2)