Download European Theater

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Warm Up:
Use
your notes to color the
two alliances (Axis and Allies)
on your World War II Maps.
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Create a key
Remember
sides!
to color both
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Objectives
 Content: Analyze
primary sources from
Pearl Harbor.
 Language: Explain
the importance of the
Invasions of Poland, France, and the Battle
of Britain.
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World War II
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Theater
 During
a time of
war, the military
uses the term
“theater” to refer
to a specific
geographical
area.
 We
will cover two
WWII theaters:
European and
Pacific.
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Fronts
The European
Theater was
broken up into
the Western and
Eastern Front
because the
European
Theater was so
big.
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Germany Invades Poland
September 1, 1939
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What happened?
 1st
use of “Blitzkrieg”
 Polish
Army was
defeated in a matter of
weeks by Germans
and Soviets.
 Britain
and France
declared War on
Germany to honor
their agreement to
protect Poland’s
borders
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Importance
Beginning of
WWII
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Germany invades France
May 10-22 1940
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What happened?
 Days
after
Germany invades
France, the
German Army
captures Paris
 French
government
agrees to disband
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Importance
 Britain
is now the
only member of
the Allies in
Europe
 The
invasion also
helped strengthen
the Nazi hold
over Europe
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Battle of Britain
July 1940
+ What happened?
 Air
Raids by Germany
against London & other
major cities
 Germany
wanted to
destroy the Royal Air
Force (RAF) & force Great
Britain to surrender
 Germany
believed they
couldn’t carry out an
invasion of Great Britain
until the RAF was taken
down
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Importance
First defeat of
Hitler’s military
forces
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Objectives
Content:
Analyze primary sources
from Pearl Harbor and discuss the
reliability of each.
Language:
Explain the causes and
effects of the bombing of Pearl
Harbor.
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Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
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there was a gradual
change in American
foreign policy
The
United States was
an isolationist country.
Isolationists believe
the United States
should stay out of other
country’s affairs,
except in cases of selfdefense.
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After Hitler
invaded Poland,
President
Roosevelt
announced the
United States
would remain
neutral but he
realized most
Americans
sympathized with
the Allies.
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The United States
soon passed the
Lend-Lease Act.
This law, passed in
1941, allowed the
United States to
ship arms and
supplies, without
immediate
payment, to nations
fighting the Axis
Powers.
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 There
was also rising
tensions developing
between the United
States and Japan
because of Japanese
aggression in East
Asia.
 The
U.S. cut off
shipments of oil after
Japan continued to
invade China
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On
December 7,
1941, Japan
attacked the United
States at Pearl
Harbor without
warning.
Pearl
Harbor is a
navy base in
Hawaii where the
United States kept
its Pacific Fleet
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In less than two
hours, 19 American
ships were sunk or
seriously damaged,
almost 200
American planes
destroyed, and
about 2,400 people
were killed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyoIpKGEw
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On
December
8, 1941, the
United States
declared war
on Japan.
Three
days
later, Germany
declared war
on the United
States.
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Objectives
Content: Defend
which battle was the
most important to World War II.
Language: Explain
the causes and
effects of Japanese Internment.
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Warm Up
“Kenji” –
Fort Minor
http://youtu.be/I-L99_omies
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Internment
 There
was a heightened Anti-Japanese fear
in the United States as a result of the
bombing of Pearl Harbor
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 While
many Japanese
Americans served in
the armed forces,
others were treated
with distrust and
prejudice, and many
were forced into
internment camps.
 As
a result of this
distrust, President FDR
signed Executive
Order 9066
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 It
allowed the military commanders to
designate “military zones” as
“exclusion zones” from which “any or
all persons could be excluded.”
 The power was used to exclude all
Japanese from the Pacific Coast
 It directed the Army to relocate over
120,000 Japanese Americans to
relocation camps.
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Between
110,000 and 120,000
Japanese were brought to these
internment camps. Most of them were
American citizens.
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Battle of Midway
June 1942
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What happened?
 Japan
sent all of their
military to Midway to
launch a surprise
attack on the U.S. Fleet
 U.S. Fleet
was waiting
for the Japanese to
show up because of
code breaker success
 U.S. defeated
the
Japanese in battle
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Importance
Turning
point of
war in the
Pacific
America
begins
to push Japan
back
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Battle of Stalingrad
Begins August 1942, Ends February 1943
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What happened?
 Germany
invaded the Soviet
Union and moved into the
city of Stalingrad
 Soviet
Union sent 1 million
well supplied soldiers to
surround the city as winter
approached.
 The
Germans were unable to
receive food and supplies
and were forced to
surrender.
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Importance
Turning
point of
the Eastern
Front of the war.
Soviet
Union
beings to push
Germany back
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D-Day
June 6, 1944
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What happened?
 Paratroopers
were
dropped into
Normandy, France to
cut off supplies.
 Huge
multinational
coordinated sea to
land invasion
 After
sustaining
heavy losses, Allied
forces gained control
of the coast
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Importance
Turning
point of
the Western
Front of the war
Great
Britain and
U.S. began to
push Germany
back