10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of WWII.
1. Warm Up Week
11
2. Cornell Notes:
Ch 14 Section 2
Part 1: The Axis
Advances (pg
12)
3. Q/S for C-Notes
4. Wrap Up
 Questions and
Summary for C
Notes
 Turn in your Ticket out the door from
Tues if you have not.
 World Leader
Project is Due 4/14
(Monday)
 Last Day to turn in
Extra Credit is
TOMORROW!
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10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of WWII.
1. Warm Up Week
11
2. Cornell Notes: Ch
14 Section 1: The
Axis Advances
3. Q/S for C-Notes
4. Wrap Up: Due
Today
 Turn In Extra Credit
 Questions and
Summary for C Notes
 Turn in your Ticket out the door from Tues if you have not.
 World Leader Project is Due 4/14 (Monday)
 Eagles: Help your
Eaglets!!
Next Slide

Warm-Up
Who usually wins a war? Why? Explain your answer.
65 words minimum, use complete sentences


EQ: Which regions were attacked and occupied by the Axis powers and what was life like under their occupation?

Today’s Standard
 10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.

Today’s Objectives
 Identify and discuss the immediate causes of World War II by taking
Cornell notes and class discussion.
 Identify the main theaters of conflict in
WWII and explain the significance of each area by taking Cornell notes and participating in class discussion.

Axis and Allies
Germany

Adolf Hitler
Great Britain -

Winston Churchill
Italy

Benito Mussolini
France

Charles de Gaulle
Japan

Emperor Hirohito

Prime Minister Tojo
Soviet Union
(USSR)

Joseph Stalin


Blitzkrieg
(lightening
War ) invasion of Poland –
Sept. 1, 1939.
Germany Sparks New
European War

Germany Sparks New
European War

Sept. 3, Britain
& France declare war

“Phony War” –

7 month calm
Germany invades
Denmark &
Norway in April
1940; both surrender

 Germany sweeps through Holland,
Belgium, &
Luxembourg
 France invaded - May
1940
 Allied troops escape from Dunkirk
 Italy joins Germany & declares war on France
& Britain - June 10
 France surrenders -
June 22
The Battle for France

Summer 1940 – May
10, 1941
 Britain stands alone against
Nazis

RAF’s 2,900 planes to
Nazis 4,500
The Battle of Britain:

 Sept. cities are bombed
(London)

Britain’s advantages: radar &
Enigma
 Hitler calls off attacks
 Allies learn:
Hitler’s advances could be blocked
The Battle of Britain


Germany &
Italy attack
N. Africa

They want
Oil & Egypt
(British)
Mediterranean Fighting

 1941-1942
 Erwin Rommel the “desert fox” led
German forces.
 Pushed British back across the desert to
Cairo.
Mediterranean Fighting

 Hitler takes
Balkans in April
1941 –
 Yugoslavia
& Greece
The Eastern Front

The Eastern Front

10-year nonaggression pact with Stalin (U.S.S.R.) –
Aug. 23, 1939

 Hitler invades
U.S.S.R. –
June 1941
 Hitler penetrates
500 miles while Soviets
“slash & burn”
The Eastern Front

 Leningrad
& Moscow repel Nazis
 1 million
Russians die
 500,000
German soldiers lost
The Eastern Front

Wrap Up
Who usually wins a war? Why? Explain your answer.
use complete sentences