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ISN 63
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Listen to the story I read to you.
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Answer the following questions:
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What do you think happens next?
Why do you think the father gives in to his
daughter?
Who is to blame for the child’s selfishness?
How would you have dealt with the
daughter?
Create a Sequence Map
ISN 64
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Use two sheets of paper
Place three squares per side
Make a total of 10 squares
Date of event
Action taken by
Germany, Italy or
Japan
US
Response
Kathe Kollwitz: Poverty
Event #1: Germany Faces
Economic Collapse 1923
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Germany’s troubled economy
Treaty of Versailles said that WWI was
Germany's fault.
Pay back 32 BILLION $$$$$$
Just printed money [inflation]
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4.2 Marks = 1 Dollar
Germany’s government could not fix the
economy
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Many blamed the government, Jews, Communist and
Liberals
U.S. Response
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Isolationism: since the US did not join the
League of Nations the US should not get
involved in European affairs.
American relief agencies did send food to
help the poor.
Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 show the
United States desire for isolationism
US Government still insisted on repayment
of their war debt.
Germany After WWI
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Adolph Hitler
Event #2: The Rise of
Adolph Hitler 1932
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Austria 1889
High School drop out
Joined the German Army for WWI
Popular because he was a good public speaker
Joined the Nazi Party in 1921
Jailed in 1923, led uprising
Wrote Mein Kampf in jail
1932 became Chancellor
August 2, 1934 after Hindenburg’s death Hitler took
control of Germany and created the 3rd Reich
Anti-Semitic Policies
U.S. Response
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The Great Depression
FDR gets elected
Focus on domestic affairs unlike Hitler
US Army 15th largest in the world;
same size as Sweden's Army
America did not want to get involved in
European affairs
Security through disarmament
Adolph Hitler
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Benito Mussolini
Event #3: Fascism
in Italy 1935
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Turmoil in Italy; Italy in economic decline as well
Before WWI Mussolini was socialist; after WWI he
became nationalist
Fascism appealed to many Italians; revive the
glories of Ancient Rome
1922 March to Rome; King named him Prime
Minister
The corporative system
October 1935 invaded Ethiopia; Ethiopia appealed
to the League of Nations but action was delayed
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Outdated weapons
U.S. Response
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1935. 90% of Americans Isolationist
Neutrality Acts: 1935, 1936 & 1937
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No weapons to Militarily aggressive nations
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Including Ethiopia
No traveling on ships of nations at war
Benito Mussolini
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Pablo Picasso Guernica
Event #4: The Spanish
Civil War 1936
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1930’s Francisco Franco & Nationalist
Party v. Socialism and Communism
Hitler & Mussolini join the Nationalist
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War as a testing ground for new tanks
and bombs
1939 Francisco become a fascist
dictator
October 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis
U.S. Response
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Neutrality put to the test
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3,000 Americans join the side of the Spanish
Republicans
Roosevelt persisted in staying neutral
Traffic Light
Event #5: The Rise of
Militarism in Japan 1936
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Similar to Germany, Italy & Spain a
dictator rises in Japan
Bad economy but not attached to WWI
Japanese Imperialism
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1931 attacks Manchuria (Northern China)
To expand from “small” Japan
1936 signed agreement with Italy &
Germany. Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
U.S. Response
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Not pleased with Japan’s invasion: Stimson
Doctrine
1937 Japan bombed Civilians in Shanghai
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Cancelled a commercial treaty but no further
action
Roosevelt become concerned & can sense
a shift in public opinion
Tries using Japan’s need of US steel and
coal in negotiations
Hideki Tojo
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Chamberlain and Hitler
Event #6:Violation and
Appeasement 1938
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1936 Hitler violates Treaty of Versailles: Re-gains
Rhineland from France
1938 Moved into Austria with little resistance from
France and Britain
Hitler demands the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
The Munich Agreement
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Change of opinion in Czech., France & Britain
Chamberlain & Hitler meet: Germany was given the
Sudetenland for independence for the rest of Czech.
Hitler announced he had no further want to expand
Germany
U.S. Response
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Roosevelt asks Chamberlain to
peaceful solution through negotiations
with Hitler
Roosevelt asks Hitler for a new
meeting of European leaders
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“The government of the US has no
political involvements in Europe, and will
assume no obligations in the conduct of
the present negotiations”
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German Tanks
Event #7: The Invasion of
Czechoslovakia 1939
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March 1939 Hitler invades
Czechoslovakia
Hitler plans to invade Poland
U.S. Response
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FDR sends messages to European
leaders hoping for peace
Most European leaders thought the
message was naïve and were largely
ignored
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Event #8: World War II Begins
1939
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Britain and France warns Hitler about
invading Poland
September 1, 1939 Hitler invades
anyway and WWII begins.
U.S. Response
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FDR sees that France & Britain’s military
power was important
FDR asks congress to lift the arms embargo
from the Neutrality Acts
Cash and Carry
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Congress allows arms trade
Must pay in cash, not credit
Britain & France must carry across dangerous
German patrolled Atlantic
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Event #9: U.S. Support of
Britain 1940
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Battles intensify
By late 1940 Hitler controlled most of
Eastern Europe
Britain was isolated as the lone power in
Western Europe strong enough to hold off
Hitler
1941 Churchill meets with FDR “Atlantic
Charter”
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To seek no gains in territory & to support the
right of all people to choose their own form of
government
U.S. Response
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Isolationist feelings fall after the fall of France
Britain wages war against Hitler alone
Cash and Carry not working; Britain out of money
Lend-Lease Act proposed- to give arms to countries
essential to US
Atlantic Charter- common goals and security
between US and Britain
October 1941 two American destroyers sunk by
German submarines
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Kearney & Ruben James
US still not joining the war
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Pearl Harbor
Event #10: Bombing of Pearl
Harbor 1941
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Japanese aggression in the Pacific
General Tojo become Prime Minister
of Japan
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
U.S. Response
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US-Japan relations almost dead after
Japan joins Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
US declares war Japan
Germany and Italy Declares war on
the US
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Roosevelt’s Declaration
of War Speech
December 8, 1941
Paragraph
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Why did it take so long for the United
States to intervene against Hitler?
Use evidence from your notes citing at
least three events
Summarize
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Please write a one-sentence summary
of this lesson.
Describe the United States’ entry into
World War II in one sentence.
Little Hitler
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Create a Visual Metaphor
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Use your notes to label, add to, and
embellish this drawing of a permissive
father and his spoiled daughter to
represent the Allies’ appeasement of
the Axis powers. Include:
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8 comments, labels etc on the drawing
List 3 aspects of the relationship between
the Allies and the Axis that are not
reflected in the drawing.