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Part I: Behind the Scenes 1. Conceptual Overview: This lesson will highlight the major events of WWII. It will emphasize the two sides of WWII, the axis and the allies, and will give students a better understanding of the course of the war. This lesson will give students a comprehensive understanding of the immediate and lasting effects of WWII. This lesson will rely on maps, handouts, group work and possible internet research. 2. Standards Addressed a. NCSS: i. II, III, VI, VII, VIII, IX b. NCHS: i. Era 8, Standard 3 3. Materials Required: a. Classroom Maps b. Posterboard in two colors and markers c. World War II handout 4. Modifications for Diverse Learning Needs: a. Class A: Appropriate accommodations would be made for those with physical handicaps. All students will be included in the lesson as much as possible with the help of student aides in the classroom. The groups will be pre-arranged to create the most dynamic groups possible. Part II: Heart of the Lesson 1. WWII Significant Events 2. U.S. History 3. Grade 10 4. Objective: At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to name the important events of WWII. 5. Body of the Lesson: a. Introductory Activity: Students will be asked to move desks out of the way to provide a large space in which they will “vote with their bodies.” The room will be divided into two sides: one that represents the allies and one that represents the axis. The teacher will read off a list of countries and students will walk to the side that they think that country sided with during WWII. (5 min) Procedure: Students will be broken up into six groups of five. Each group will be assigned one country from the axis or allies. The groups will consist of Germany, Japan and Italy for the axis and the U.S., Russia and Great Britain for the allies. Each student will get a copy of the handout World War II and each group will read them aloud, taking turns for each paragraph. They will each have a posterboard (one color for allies and another for axis countries) from which to cut the basic shape of their country. On the posterboard they will write the major events that their country took part in during WWII. They will be able to use the information from their handouts and any research that they find on the internet. Once the posterboards are completed, each group will have 3-5 minutes to present their country to the class. The posterboards will then be hung up on one side of the classroom (in relation to their geographic location) and will remain up throughout the unit. Each student will be responsible for the information presented by each group and will be instructed to take notes. (20-30 minutes for presentations, 20-25 minutes for posterboard construction) b. Assessment Plan: Students will be questioned about the major events of WWII . . . students should be able to properly identify the major countries in both the axis and allied side of the war. c. Concluding Activity: Students will be asked how they believe WWII affected the interactions between the countries involved both then and at the present time. d. Homework: Students will be asked to color in the blank world map provided by coloring all those countries involved in the axis one color and all those involved in the allies another. Students are also to continue reading Hiroshima and working on their questions for the “hot seat.” Part III: See attached: World War II handout World Map World War II (1939–1945) Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) versus Allies (U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia). 1939 Germany invades Poland and annexes Danzig; Britain and France give Hitler ultimatum (Sept. 1), declare war (Sept. 3). Disabled German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee blown up off Montevideo, Uruguay, on Hitler's orders (Dec. 17). Limited activity (“Sitzkrieg”) on Western Front. 1940 Nazis invade Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg (May 10). Chamberlain resigns as Britain's prime minister; Churchill takes over (May 10). Germans cross French frontier (May 12) using air/tank/infantry “Blitzkrieg” tactics. Dunkerque evacuation > about 335,000 out of 400,000 Allied soldiers rescued from Belgium by British civilian and naval craft (May 26–June 3). Italy declares war on France and Britain; invades France (June 10). Germans enter Paris; city undefended (June 14). France and Germany sign armistice at Compiègne (June 22). Nazis bomb Coventry, England (Nov. 14). 1941 Germans launch attacks in Balkans. Yugoslavia surrenders—General Mihajlovic continues guerrilla warfare; Tito leads left-wing guerrillas (April 17). Nazi tanks enter Athens; remnants of British Army quit Greece (April 27). Hitler attacks Russia (June 22). Atlantic Charter—FDR and Churchill agree on war aims (Aug. 14). Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Guam force U.S. into war; U.S. Pacific fleet crippled (Dec. 7). U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan. Germany and Italy declare war on U.S.; Congress declares war on those countries (Dec. 11). 1942 British surrender Singapore to Japanese (Feb. 15). Roosevelt orders Japanese and Japanese Americans in western U.S. to be exiled to “relocation centers,” many for the remainder of the war (Feb. 19). U.S. forces on Bataan peninsula in Philippines surrender (April 9). U.S. and Filipino troops on Corregidor island in Manila Bay surrender to Japanese (May 6). Village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia razed by Nazis (June 10). U.S. and Britain land in French North Africa (Nov. 8). 1943 Casablanca Conference—Churchill and FDR agree on unconditional surrender goal (Jan. 14–24). German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad—turning point of war in Russia (Feb. 1–2). Remnants of Nazis trapped on Cape Bon, ending war in Africa (May 12). Mussolini deposed; Badoglio named premier (July 25). Allied troops land on Italian mainland after conquest of Sicily (Sept. 3). Italy surrenders (Sept. 8). Nazis seize Rome (Sept. 10). Cairo Conference: FDR, Churchill, Chiang Kaishek pledge defeat of Japan, free Korea (Nov. 22–26). Tehran Conference: FDR, Churchill, Stalin agree on invasion plans (Nov. 28–Dec. 1). 1944 U.S. and British troops land at Anzio on west Italian coast and hold beachhead (Jan. 22). U.S. and British troops enter Rome (June 4). D-Day—Allies launch Normandy invasion (June 6). Hitler wounded in bomb plot (July 20). Paris liberated (Aug. 25). Athens freed by Allies (Oct. 13). Americans invade Philippines (Oct. 20). Germans launch counteroffensive in Belgium—Battle of the Bulge (Dec. 16). 1945 Yalta Agreement signed by FDR, Churchill, Stalin—establishes basis for occupation of Germany, returns to Soviet Union lands taken by Germany and Japan; USSR agrees to friendship pact with China (Feb. 11). Mussolini killed at Lake Como (April 28). Admiral Doenitz takes command in Germany; suicide of Hitler announced (May 1). Berlin falls (May 2). Germany signs unconditional surrender terms at Rheims (May 7). Allies declare V-E Day (May 8). Potsdam Conference— Truman, Churchill, Atlee (after July 28), Stalin establish council of foreign ministers to prepare peace treaties; plan German postwar government and reparations (July 17–Aug. 2). A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima by U.S. (Aug. 6). USSR declares war on Japan (Aug. 8). Nagasaki hit by Abomb (Aug. 9). Japan agrees to surrender (Aug. 14). V-J Day—Japanese sign surrender terms aboard battleship Missouri (Sept. 2).