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Monday Bellringer
Quick Write: Make a list of at least 3 things
that come to mind when you think about
World War II.
Chapter 19
World War II: 1939-1945
 Adolf
Section 1
German Path to War
Hitler believed that Germany could
build a great civilization.
 Germany needed more land to support
the German people.
 Hitler also believed that Germany could
revise the unfair provisions of the Treaty
of Versailles.
 In March 1935, he created a new air force
and began a military draft.
Germany violated the TOV by sending troops to
the Rhineland, which was supposed to be a
demilitarized zone.
 This began the policy of appeasement.
Appeasement is the belief that if European
states satisfied reasonable demands of
dissatisfied states, they would be content and
preserve peace.
 Hitler gained an ally in Benito Mussolini while
forming the Rome-Berlin Axis. Germany also
signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan.
 By 1937, Germany had become a very powerful
nation.
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In 1938, by threat of invasion, Hitler forced
Austria to put Nazis in charge of their
government.
 After demanding more land, British, French,
Italian, and German representatives met in
Munich to discuss these demands.
 They came away believing that the settlement
from the conference would mean peace and
Germany would make no more demands.
 After the conference, Hitler was even more
convinced that France and Great Britain would
not fight.
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Tuesday- Bell Ringer
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1. Who did Germany and Hitler ally with
while also forming the Anit-cominterm
pact?
2. Germany violated the terms of the
Treaty of Versailles by sending its troops
here.
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Hitler invaded western Czechoslovakia, France
and Great Britain began to react.
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France and Great Britain began negotiations
with Joseph Stalin. They knew they would
need the Soviet Union to help contain the
Nazis.
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Hitler was afraid of this, so in August 1939,
Germany and the Soviet Union signed the
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact.
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They promised not to attack each other and
Hitler offered Stalin the eastern half of Poland
and the Baltic states.
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Hitler knew he would eventually break the
pact, however it gave him freedom to
invade Poland.
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On 1 September 1939, Germany invaded
Poland. Two days later, Great Britain and
France declared war on Germany.
Wednesday-Bell Ringer
1.
2.
When did WWII begin?
Who did Germany invade to start WWII?
Bell Ringer- Monday
Japan’s Path to War
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In September 1931, Japanese soldiers seized
Manchuria. The Japanese faked the attack.
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By the 1930s, militants had gained control of
Japanese politics. The US opposed it but didn’t
stop it.
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Japanese military leaders wanted to establish a
New Order in East Asia. Japan thought that, as
the only modernized country, they could guide
the other East Asian countries to prosperity.
The Japanese planned to seize Soviet Siberia
also.
 During the 1930s, Japan began cooperating
with Nazi Germany. The Japanese thought
they and Germany could defeat the Soviet
Union and divide its resources.
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The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact forced
Japan to rethink their goals. The Japanese
needed the natural resources.

In 1940, the Japanese demanded the right to
exploit economic resources in French
Indochina.
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The US responded by imposing economic
sanctions, unless Japan withdrew to its borders
of 1931.
Bell ringer- Tuesday-pg. 600
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The Japanese badly needed the oil and scrap
iron from the US. The economic sanctions
were a real threat.

In the end, after long debate, Japan decided to
launch a surprise attack on US and European
colonies in Southeast Asia.
Section 2
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Germany used a blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) to
invade and take over Poland in only four
weeks.
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On September 28, 1939, Germany and the
Soviet Union divided Poland.

In the spring of 1940, Hitler invaded
Denmark and Norway. In May, Germany
attacked the Netherlands, Belgium, and
France.

The French had fortified their border with
Germany along the Maginot Line, but the
Germans just went around it.
Blitzkrieg Video
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCW
MZaKKUw
Bell Ringer-Wednesday

What types of technology did the Germans
use during the invasion of Poland?
Engineers, photographs etc. 4-5
Sentences.
On June 22, the French signed an armistice
with the Germans.
 An authoritarian French government was set up
under German control. This was named Vichy
France.
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The British asked the US for help, but due to a
policy of isolationism, the US did nothing at
first.
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Over time, the US began sending food, ships,
planes, and weapons to Britain.
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Hitler knew he could not attack Great Britain
without first having control of the air.
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The German Luftwaffe (air force) began major
bombing raids on Great Britain.

Hitler began bombing British cities instead
of military targets after GB bombed Berlin.

This allowed GB to rebuild their air force
and began inflicting crippling losses on the
Germans.
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Hitler was convinced that the only way to
defeat GB was to first defeat the Soviet Union.
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Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.
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German troops moved quickly and captured
over two million Russian soldiers by November.
Atom Bomb Video
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http://www.history.com/topics/world-warii/world-war-ii-history/videos/atomicbomb-ends-wwII
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t19kv
UiHvAE
Bell ringer- Thursday
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1. What was the name for the building of
the atomic bomb?
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2. How much was the total cost to build
the atomic bombs?
The Germans came within 25 miles of
Moscow, however winter came early that
year.
 The winter and a combined Russian
resistance forced the Germans to halt.
This was the first time in the war that
Germany had been stopped.
 The Germans were not equipped for
winter and in December, the Soviet army
counterattacked.
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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked
the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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The Japanese thought that their attacks on the
US fleet would destroy the US Navy and lead
the Americans to accept Japanese domination
in the Pacific.
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However, the attack on Pearl Harbor had the
opposite effect, it actually united the American
people and convinced the nation that it should
enter the war against Japan.
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Hitler thought that the Americans would be too
involved in the Pacific to fight in Europe. Four
days later he declared war on the US. WWII
had become a global war.
Pearl Harbor
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRCL
n78eduw
Bell Ringer- Friday
1.What is the name for “lightning war”?
2. What was the date that Japan bombed
Pearl Harbor?
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A new coalition was formed called the
Grand Alliance. It included Great Britain,
the Soviet Union, and the US.

The three nations play nice with each
other until the Axis powers surrendered
unconditionally.

In 1942, the Allies had their first successes in
the Pacific. In the Battle of the Coral Sea in
May, American naval forces stopped the
Japanese and saved Australia from invasion.
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In June, the Battle of Midway Island was the
turning point in the Pacific.

The Allied military operations in the Pacific was
led by General Douglas MacArthur.
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By November 1942, after fierce battles in the
Solomon Islands, the Japanese power was
diminishing.
Bell Ringer Monday
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1. At this battle the United States turned the
war into their favor while defeating the Japan
navy for the first time in 300 years.
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2. This alliance formed when the United States
joined the war, there was an understanding
that the countries did not agree on everything,
but would fight for a common cause.
D-Day
The Allies had long been planning a “second
front” in western Europe.
 On June 6, 1944 (D-Day), the Allies under
General Dwight D. Eisenhower landed on the
beaches in Normandy.
 The Germans were expecting the invasion to
take place in another location and was slow to
respond. This allowed the Allies to set up
beachhead and landed over two million men
and half-million vehicles. This allowed for the
eventual breakthrough of the German lines.
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After D-Day, the Allies moved south and east.
They were able to liberate Paris by August. In
March of 1945, the Allies crossed the Rhine
River.
 By January 1945, Hitler had moved into an
underground bunker in Berlin. In the end, he
blamed the Jews for the war. On April 30, he
committed suicide.
 On May 7, 1945, German commanders
surrendered.
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The war in Asia continued. As the Allies come
closer to the Japanese home islands in 1945,
President Harry S. Truman decided to drop
atomic bombs on Japanese cities.
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He hoped that this would avoid an invasion of
Japan.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zl3O
_vEUSo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzgK
MDydr5Y
Bell ringer- Tuesday
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1. On this day German commanders
surrendered ending their involvement in
the Second World War.
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2. The second front by the allies was
known as D-Day when they landed on the
beaches of Normandy, what was D-Day?
The first bomb was dropped on the city of
Hiroshima on August 6. Three days later,
a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
Both cities were completely destroyed.
 The Japanese surrendered on August 14.
 WWII was over. 17 million people had
died in battle. A total estimate of 50
million total died.
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At the Yalta Conference the three big
power ( Soviet Union, United States, Great
Britain) included big changes like the
creation of the United Nations.
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Also Stalin wanted to divide Europe so
that Eastern Europe was not influenced by
the West.
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The Potsdam Conference split Germany
into four zones and continued to have
differing opinions between U.S and USSR.
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At the Nuremberg War Crime Trials Nazi
leaders were put on trial for their actions.