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LESSON PLAN FOR CHAPTER 35-37
THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II ON AMERICANS
DATE
1.________READ AND ANSWER CH 35 SEC1 QUESTIONS
2. _______ ACTIVITY: GROUP SHOULD WRITE DOWN
EVERYTHING THEY KNOW ABOUT WWII IN 2
MINUTES. GROUP WITH MOST GETS BONUS POINTS
3.________READ AND ANSWER CHAP 35 SEC 2 QUESTIONS
4.________CLASS NOTES
5.________ CLASS NOTES
6.________ READ AND ANSWER CHAP 35 SEC 3
7. _______ READ AND ANSWER CHAP 35 SEC 4
8. _______ CLASS NOTES, ESSENTIAL QUESTION GROUP
DISCUSSIION
9. ________GROUP ACTIVITY: REVIEW GAME, STUDY
10.________CHAP 35 TEST
CHAP 35
THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II ON
AMERICANS
Objectives
Students will
• analyze key content from the lesson to understand the effect of World War II on
Americans.
• synthesize key content from the lesson to create World War II newsreels.
• learn and use the Key Content Terms for this lesson.
• examine text and maps to understand the military strategies and events of World War II.
• evaluate U.S. military strategies in World War II based on key content
• analyze historical images to identify U.S. actions in the immediate aftermath of World
Wars I and II.
• note and highlight U.S. actions after World War II that support the thesis that the United
States did learn from past mistakes.
STANDARDS
HS.AH.24.1. Describe how American life in the postwar period was impacted by the postwar economic
boom and by advances in science.
HS.MWH.20.1. Explain how religious diversity, the end of colonial rule and rising nationalism have led
to regional conflicts in the Middle East.
HS.MWH.19.1. Describe how treaties and agreements at the end of World War II changed national
boundaries and created multinational organizations.
HS.AH.14.1. Describe social changes that came from the Harlem Renaissance, African-American
migration, women's suffrage and Prohibition.
HS.MWH.17.1. Describe how World War II devastated most of Europe and Asia, led to the occupation of
Eastern Europe and Japan, and began the atomic age.
HS.MWH.16.1. Explain how and why oppression and discrimination resulted in the Armenian Genocide
during World War I and the Holocaust, the state-sponsored mass murder of Jews and other groups, during
World War II.
HS.MWH.15.1. Explain how the consequences of World War I and the worldwide depression set the stage
for the Russian Revolution, the rise of totalitarianism, aggressive Axis expansion and the policy of
appeasement which in turn led to World War II.
HS.AH.18.1. Summarize how atomic weapons have changed the nature of war, altered the balance of
power and began the nuclear age.
HS.AH.1.1. Analyze a historical decision and predict the possible consequences of alternative courses of
action.
HS.AH.2.1. Analyze and evaluate the credibility of primary and secondary sources.
HS.AH.4.1. Identify examples of multiple causation and long- and short-term causal relationships with
respect to historical events.
HS.AH.4.2. Analyze the relationship between historical events taking into consideration cause, effect,
sequence and correlation.
HS.AH.17.1. Identify and explain changes American society experienced with the mobilization of its
economic and military resources during World War II.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
WHAT KINDS OF OPPORTUNITIES AND HARDSHIPS DID WORLD
WAR II CREATE FOR AMERICANS AT HOME AND ABROAD?
CHAP 36 SEC 3 AMERICAN GI’S GO TO WAR
- 6 MILLION VOLUNTEER FOR MILITARY SERVICE
A.) 10 MILLION DRAFTED
- NICKNAME FOR U.S. SOLDIER WAS GI FOR GOVERNMENT
ISSUED
- FACTORIES SHUTDOWN OF PRODUCTS AND BEGIN PRODUCING
WAR MATERIALS (EX. CAR FACTORYS MADE TANKS ETC…)
- 6 MILLION WENT INTO THE WORK FORCE
WOMEN
-ASKED TO TAKE THE PLACE FOR THE MEN IN THE WORK
FORCE.
A.) GOVERNMENT CREATED A MYTHICAL PERSON CALLED
ROSIE THE RIVETOR TO PROMOTE THIS TO WOMEN
MOBILIZING SCIENTISTS
- SCIENTIST DURING WAR IMPROVED RADAR AND SONAR,
PESTICIDES (DDT)
- DEVELOPED MEDICINE SUCH AS PENICILLIN
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
- ATOMIC BOMB WAS DEVELOPED BY A MAN NAMED
ALBERT EINSTEIN ( GERMAN IMMIGRANT)
- PROJECT WAS KNOWN AS THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
A.) IN 1941 THEY SAID U.S. WAS 3-5 YRS AWAY FROM THE
BOMB BEING USED IN WAR
INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS
- AMERICANS QUESTIONED JAPANESE AMERICAN’S LOYALTY
AND FEARED THEY WERE PART OF A MASTER PLAN TO TAKE
OVER THE U.S.
A.) FEB 1942 – FDR ORDERS THE REMOVAL OF PEOPLE
WITH JAPANESE ANCESTRY FROM CALIFORNIA,
WASHINGTON,OREGON, ARIZONA
B.) LOCKED UP 110,000 PEOPLE IN INTERNEMNT CAMPS
C.) SOME WERE LOCKED UP IN CAMPS FOR 2YEARS
A.) SOME LET OUT SO THEY COULD JOIN THE
MILITARY IN ALL JAPANESE AMERICAN UNITS
AFRICAN AMERICANS
- GOVERNMENT REFUSED TO TAKE ANY AFRICAN AMERICAN IN
THE BEGINNING
HOWEVER
- SEGREGATED BLACK UNITS CREATED WITH NO CONTACT
WITH WHITE SOLDIERS (SEPARATE SLEEPING AND MESS
HALLS ETC…)
A.) USED FOR CONSTRUCTION, CLEANING, COOKING
AND POLISHING BOOTS
HOWEVER UNDER PRESSURE
- GOVT CREATES FIRST COMBAT UNIT CALLED THE
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
A.) ALL BLACK FIGHTER PILOT UNIT
B.) WOULD ESCORT BOMBERS TO BOMB SITES
1.) ONLY UNIT NEVER TO LOSE A BOMBER ON A
MISSION
- OVER 1 MILLION AFRICAN AMERICANS WILL SERVE DURING
WWII
CHAPTER 36 SEC 2
PREPARING FOR WAR IN EUROPE
U.S. SITUATION
- U.S. NAVAL FLEET DISABLED FROM PEARL HARBOR
1.) JAPAN WON VICTORY AFTER VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC
( GUAM AND WAKE ISLAND)
- GERMANY OCCUPPIED ALMOST ALL OF EUROPE
- GERMANY PUSHING DEEP INTO THE SOVIET UNION
IN AFRICA
- HITLER NEEDED OIL FOR MASSIVE MILITARY SO HE DECIDES
TO GET IT FROM NORTH AFRICA
SO
- GERMAN GENERAL ERWIN ROMMEL ( DESERT FOX)
1.) LED ITALIAN AND GERMAN FORCES IN NORTH AFRICA
A.) TOOK OVER THE SUEZ CANAL
ALLIES STRATEGY
- GERMAN U-BOATS ATTACKING SHIPS OFF THE EAST COAST
OF THE U.S.
- ROOSEVELT DECIDES TO FOCUS ALL HIS EFFORTS ON
GERMANY AND EUROPE FIRST
1.) HITLER WAS THE BIGGER THREAT THAN JAPAN
- PACIFIC WOULD BE A DEFENSIVE WAR AT FIRST
CHAPTER 36 SEC 3
WAR IN EUROPE 1942-1945
EASTERN FRONT AND MEDITERRANEAN
SOVIET UNION
- GERMAN TROOPS PUSHED JUST OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW,
LENINGRAD ( ST. PETERSBURG) AND STALINGRAD
- STALIN PLEADED WITH THE ALLIES TO INVADE WESTERN
EUROPE TO TAKE PRESSURE OFF SOVIETS (1942)
1.) U.S. AND ENGLAND SAID THAT IT WOULD BE A YEAR
AND THEY WERE ON THEIR OWN
2.) STALIN NEVER FORGAVE U.S. AND ENGLAND FOR THIS
BATTLE OF STALINBRAD
-GERMANY PUSH INTO CITY OF STALINGRAD AND FOR 3
MONTHS WAGED WAR WITH THE SOVIETS. HOUSE TO HOUSE
FIGHTING, HAND TO HAND ( AUG 1942)
NOVEMBER 1942- SOVIETS COUNTER ATTTACK
FEB 2 1943 – GERMANS SURRENDER
1.) RUNNING OUT OF SUPPLIES AND FREEZING
2.) WEATHER WAS A MAJOR FACTOR IN GERMANY’S
DEFEAT ( RUSSIAN WINTER)
- SOVIETS LOSE 1.25 MILLION SOLDIERS AND CITIZENS IN
BATTLE
- GERMAN’S LOSE 200,000 KILLED
A.) MORE PEOPLE THAN U.S. LOST IN ENTIRE WAR
1.) 400,000 U.S. LIVES LOST IN WAR
NORTH AFRICA
MAY 1943 – U.S. AND BRITISH TROOPS LED BY GEORGE S.
PATTON DEFEAT ERWIN ROMMEL
AUG 1943 – ALLIES MOVE NORTH TO TAKE SICILY
SEPT 1943 – ALLIES INVADE ITALY’S MAINLAND
1.) MUSSOLINI IS OVERTHROWN BY ITALIAN
PEOPLE
A.) SHOT AND HUNG BODY IN TOWN
SQUARE ON APRIL 28 1945
2.) GERMAN TROOPS ABLE TO HOLD OFF ALLIES
UNTIL JUNE OF 1944
ALLIES LIBERATE EUROPE
1944 – ALLIES MOVING NORTH THROUGH ITALY, SOVIETS
MOVING TOWARDS GERMANY TAKING UKRAINE, ROMANIA,
BULGARA AND HUNGARY AND EVENTUALLY MOVING INTO
POLAND
1.) ALLIES PLANES BOMBED ALL TARGETS IN GERMANY
NON-STOP
NORMANDY INVASION OR D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944
- MISSION WAS CALLED OPERATION OVERLORD
- U.S. AND BRITAIN HAD BEEN PLANNING ATTACK FOR 2 YEARS
1.) LED BY DWIGHT EISENHOWER
1.) ALLIES BOMB ALL SUPPLY ROUTES, ROADS, BRIDGES AND
RAILROADS FOR A MONTH AND A HALF
2.) ATTACK WAS SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN ON JUNE 5, BUT CLOUD
COVER AND WEATHER DELAYED IT
A.) 3 DIVISIONS PARACHUTED IN BEHIND GERMAN
LINES THE NIGHT BEFORE
1.) DROP WAS INACCURATE AND SOLDIERS
WERE ALL OVER THE PLACE UNORGANIZED
3.) JUNE 6 1944 – 6:30 AM - 176,000 TROOPS CARRIED BY
5,000 VESSELS LAND ON THE COAST OF FRANCE
A.) 600 WARSHIPS AND 11,000 PLANES
INVOLVED
- NOT A WELL EXECUTED PLAN
- LED THE WAY TO RECAPTURING PARIS BY GEORGE S.
PATTON ON AUG 25 1944
SEPT 1944 – ALLIES TAKE BACK ALL OF FRANCE, BELGIUM,
LUXEMBOURG AND NETHERLANDS
A.) SOVIETS MOVING IN BY THE EAST
B.) ALLIES MOVING NORTH THROUGH ITALY
- FDR IS ELECTED FOR A 4TH TERM AND HARRY S. TRUMAN IS
HIS VICE PRESIDENT
- DEC 1944 HITLER’S DESPERATE- ORDERS LAST DESPERATE
OFFENSIVE TO STOP ALLIES CALLED THE
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
A.) WAS UNSUCCESSFUL – GERMANY LOST 120,000
TROOPS, 600 TANKS, 1600 PLANES
1.) COULDN’T RECOVER FROM LOSSES
LIBERATION OF THE DEATH CAMPS
- AS SOVIETS CROSSED POLAND AND U.S. ENTERED GERMANY
THEY CONFIRMED REPORTS OF MASS MURDER
1.) GERMANS CAUGHT TRYING TO HIDE THE EVIDENCE
2.) 12 MILLION LIKKED, 6 MILLION JEWS
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
APRIL 25 1945 – SOVIETS ENTER BERLIN
APRIL 29 1945 – HITLER MARRIES EVA BRUAN, THEN THEY
COMMIT SUICIDE, BODIES BURNED
MAY 8 1945 – GERMANY OFFICIAL SURRENDERS THIS BECOMES
KNOWN AS V-E DAY (VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY)
- FDR NEVER SEES SURRENDER- HE DIES OF A MASSSIVE
STROKE ON APRIL 12 1945 AND HARRY TRUMAN BECOMES
PRESIDENT
CHAPTER 36 SEC 4
PREPARING FOR WAR IN PACIFICWAR IN
THE PACIFIC
ALLIES STEM THE JAPANESE TIDE
- TOWARDS END OF THE WAR WITH GERMANY, U.S.
BEGAN FOCUSING ON JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC
A.) U.S. HAD ALL THREE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, ALL
BUT 4 SHIPS FROM PEARL HARBOR FIXED AND
BACK IN ACTION
B.) AFTER PEARL HARBOR JAPAN INVADES ALL
OVER SOUTHEAST ASIA
U.S. RETAILIATION
- U.S.WANTS SOME REVENGE ON JAPAN FOR PEARL
HARBOR
DOOLITTLE RAID ( APRIL 18 , 1942 )
1.) 16 BOMBERS LED BY JAME DOOLITTLE TAKE
OFF FROM THE AIRCRAFT HORNET
2.) BOMBED TOKYO THEN PROCEEDED TO LAND IN
CHINA TO LAND
WAR IN THE PACIFIC
BATTLE OF MIDWAY
- CHESTER NIMITZ – COMMANDER OF U.S. NAVAL
FORCES IN THE PACIFIC
1.) LEARNS OF A JAPANESE INVASION ON THE
ISLAND OF MIDWAY
A.) THEN THEY WERE TO INVADE HAWAII
3.) U.S. WAS READY FOR THEM AND DEFEATED
JAPANESE.
A.) JAPANESE HAD A HARD TIME IN
RECOVERING FROM LOSSES ( LOST 4
AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
- U.S. BEGINS TACTIC CALLED
ISLAND HOPPING
A.)U.S. TO LEAPFROG OR BYPASS JAPANESE
STRONGHOLDS AND ATTACK THE
LESS DEFENDED ISLANDS AND SLOWLY
MOVE TOWARDS JAPAN
PURPOSE OF ISLAND HOPPING
1.) CUT SUPPLY LINES
2.) USE NEWLY CAPTURED ISLANDS AS A BASE TO
ATTACK NEXT ISLAND
BATTLE OF GUADUAL CANAL
-1ST STEP TOWARDS JAPAN
- 1ST LAND OFFENSIVE OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
- LASTED 6 MONTHS BEFORE JAPANESE WITHDREW
- IT WAS CALLED THE ISLAND OF DEATH
- JAPAN DIDN’T REALIZE HOW POWERFUL THE U.S.
INDUSTRY WAS.
A.) VERY QUICK TO MOBLIZE AND TO REPAIR SHIPS
FROM PEARL HARBOR
BATTLE OF THE PHILIPPINES
- 2ND STEP TOWARDS JAPAN OCT 1944
- LEAD BY DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
BATTLE OF IWO JIMA
- 3RD STEP TOWARDS JAPAN
- HEAVILY DEFENDED ISLAND U.S. WANTED TO PUT U.S.
AIR BASE ON IT TO BOMB JAPAN
- HEAVY CASUALITIES ON BOTH SIDES
U.S. – 6,000 KILLED
JAPAN- OUT OF 20,700, ONLY 200 SURVIVED
A.) A LOT COMMITTED SUICIDE
- ONLY ONE OBSTACLE STOOD IN THE WAY OF U.S. AND
JAPAN
BATTLE OF OKINAWA
- JAPAN WAS DESPERATE AND TRYING TO HOLD BEGAN
USING THE CONCEPT OF
KAMIKAZES- SUICIDE PILOTS
- U.S. - 7,600 KILLED
JAPANESE- 110,000 KILLED
- THIS FEROCIOUS FIGHTING GAVE THE U.S. A SMALL
IDEA WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO INVADE MAINLAND
JAPAN.
TO BOMB OR NOT TO BOMB
- U.S. WAS WORRIED AN IVASION OF JAPAN WOULD
COST MILLIONS OF LIVES DROM WHAT THEY LEARNED
IN OKINAWA
- U.S. THOUGHT THEY SHOULD LET JAPAN KNOW OF
THE ATOMIC BOMB AND GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO
SURRENDERED
A.) JULY 145- TRUMAN TELLS JAPAN TO
SURRENDERED OR FACE UTTER DESTRUCTION
1.) JAPAN REFUSES
HIROSHIMA/ NAGASAKI
- AUG 6 1945 – B-29 BOMBER NAMED THE ENOLA GAY
DROPS 1ST ATOMIC BOMB NAMED LITTLE BOY ON
HIROSHIMA
1.) KILLS 60% OF POPULATION
- JAPAN STILL REFUSED TO SURRENDERED
- AUG 9, 1945 – U.S. DROPS 2ND BOMB NAMED FAT MAN
ON NAGASAKI
1.) DESTROYED ½ THE CITY
OVER 200,000 DIE IN THE 2 BOMBINGS
- SEPT 2 1945 JAPAN SURRENDERS ON THE USS
BATLESHIP MISSOURI
CHAPTER 37
THE AFTERMATH OF WWII
1ST MEETING
YALTA MEETING ( IN SOVIET UNION) 1945
FDR,STALIN, AND CHURCHILL AGREED TO
FORM THE UNITED NATIONS
A.) FDR CAME BACK FROM THE MEETING SICK AND
WOULD LATER DIE
2ND MEETING
POTSDAM MEETING(GERMANY)
TRUMAN, STALIN, CHURCHILL
1.) DISARM GERMANY
2.) BREAK GERMANY AND BERLIN INTO 4 ZONES
A.) EACH ZONE CONTROLLED BY A COUNTRY
U.S. ENGLAND, FRANCE SOVIET UNION
3.) TRIAL GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS, TRIALS WERE
CALLED THE NUREMBERG TRIALS
JAPAN
- MACARTHUR AND U.S. OCCUPPIED JAPAN FOR 6 YRS
CHANGING THE
1.) GOVT
2.) ECONOMY
- ALSO WAR CRIMINALS WERE PUT TO DEATH
1.) TOJO IS EXECUTED