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Drill 4/21
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Take out the Winston Churchill reading from
Friday.
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Read the passage and in a short paragraph
compare Winston Churchill to Charles de
Gaul.
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How were they similar? How were they different?
Be prepared to share
Objective
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Students will be able to identify key events in
World War II’s Pacific Theater
World War II
The War in the Pacific
Terminology
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Historians look at World War II in two parts
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The battle in Europe (the European Theater)
The battle in the Pacific (the Pacific Theater)
Pearl Harbor: the battle
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12/7/1941
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Approx 3:47 pm Hawaiian time
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The attack came in three waves
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First wave
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Second wave
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Targets: Destroyers and aircraft carriers
Targets: Ford Island & Wheeler Field
Third Wave
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Targets: Aircraft at Ford & Wheeler plus additional
smaller bases
Result
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The US lost
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5 Battleships sunk
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2 Destroyers sunk
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1 damaged
3 Cruisers damaged
188 aircraft destroyed
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3 damaged
155 damaged
2,345 military + 57 civilian deaths
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1,247 military and 35 civilian wounded
The United States Enters the War
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The US would exact revenge for Pearl
Harbor through a series of battles on the
islands of the pacific
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With a partner create the following chart
Outline the important events of the
Pacific theater
EVENT
Description: Date, Location, What
happened? What was the result?
1) Identify the following people: Gen. Douglas MacArthur;
Isoroku Yamamoto
2) Which event was the most important in turning the tide of the
war against the Japanese?
Drill 4/22
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The Doolittle Raid, The Battle of the Coral
Sea, The Battle of Midway, The Battle of
Guadalcanal.
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Of these battles in the Pacific Theater, which one
is the turning point of the war in the Pacific? At
which point did the United States gain the upperhand?
Objective
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Students will be able to characterize events
of the Holocaust through the experience of
survivors
World War II
The Holocaust
Hitler’s Final Solution
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During Hitler’s rise to power in Germany he
exploited the Anti-Semitism that lie just
underneath the surface
Hitler’s Final Solution
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In Mien Kampf Hitler blames Jewish
influence for the fall of Germany during World
War I
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Though Jews were the main target of the
Holocaust they were not alone
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Ethnic Slavs and Poles, Gypsies, Communists,
Homosexuals, the Mentally and Physically
Disabled, etc.
Hitler’s Final Solution
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In total, by the end of the war, roughly 11
Million people were killed in Hitler’s camps
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The Jewish death toll was roughly 6 Million
Summary
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How did Hitler do it?
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How did Hitler compel an entire country to go
through with the genocide?
Drill 4/23
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Whom did Hitler target during the Holocaust?
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What was his “Final Solution”?
Objective
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Students will be able to identify the use of
propaganda during the Holocaust
Joseph Goebbels
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Chief Propaganda Minister
of Hitler’s government
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Mastermind of Hitler's
propaganda campaigns
Joseph Goebbels
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PHD in Literature
Virulent anti-Semite
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Was one of Hitler’s closest
allies and advisors
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After the Nazis took control
of the government Goebbels
took control of every outlet
of communication in the
Reich
Goebbels Propaganda
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Propaganda
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The use of media to influence thoughts/ actions
Goebbels propaganda targeting Jews in
Germany was consistent and everywhere
Film
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Nazi Germany produced
many “documentaries”
aimed at exposing the
conspiracy of Jewish
culture
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This one is called “The
Eternal Jew”
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In it and other films like it
Jews are depicted as
greedy, traitors to the
government, their families
and their own people
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The Jew: Inciter of
war, prolonger of war
Propaganda targeting
others
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The “New people”
campaign
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“this mentally deficient
person costs the
German people 60,000
marks a year to care for.”
Propaganda in schools
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The Jewish Question in Education
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“The racial and Jewish Question is the central problem of the
National Socialist worldview. Solving this problem will ensure the
survival of National Socialism and thereby the survival of our
people for all time.
The enormous significance of the Jewish Question is recognized
today by nearly every member of the German people. This
knowledge cost our people a long period of misery.
To spare coming generations this misery, we want German teachers
to plant the knowledge of the Jew deep in the hearts of our youth
from their childhood on. No one among our people should or may
grow up without learning the true depravity and danger of the
Jew. “
In Secondary Schools
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The new approach to education has the goal to lead our female
youth to motherhood, to womanhood. Mother and child, with all
their related questions, are now more the center of education.
Thank god, eugenics and a concern with healthy offspring has
also entered our schoolrooms.
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It is easy to build the bridge from them to the Jewish Question.
The Nuremberg Laws also provide a starting point. They forbid
Jews to have female servants under 45 years of age. The forbid
marriage between Jews and Germans. They provide lengthy
prison terms for sexual relations between Jews and Germans,
even if it does not lead to motherhood.
Goebbels early propaganda
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Goebbels’ work was plentiful and effective. It
culminated in 1938 with Kristallnacht [the
night of broken glass]
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This was the first official act of the German
government against a Jewish population
Drill 4/24
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What is the significance of Kristallnacht?
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It was the first overt Nazi-sponsored act of
aggression against a Jewish population in
1938
Objective
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Students will be able to identify key points in
the Allied victory in the European Theater
Setting the Stage
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1942
The United States has officially entered the
war
The Battle for North Africa
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Nazi General George Erwin Rommel
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“The Desert Fox”
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For the early parts of the war Rommel and
his “Afrika Korps” had used superior
weapons and forces to control the region
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That would soon change
The Battle for North Africa
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October 23, 1942
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British forces led by Gen. Bernard “Monty”
Montgomery attacked the Nazi stronghold of El
Alamein in Egypt
The Nazis were caught by surprise and defeated
The Battle of North Africa
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As the Nazis retreated Allied forces launched
Operation Torch
The Battle for North Africa
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Led by Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower
Torch was successful
By May of 1943 Rommel’s feared Korps was
destroyed
The allies would then move into Sicily
Patton’s Third Army
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Along with Monty’s British Forces
American General George “Ol’ Blood and
Guts” Patton’s Third Army attacked Sicily
July 10, 1943 troops landed
By August Italy was theirs
Mussolini’s End
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Mussolini was deposed by King Victor
Emmanuel II
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Fighting would continue until the end of the
war in 1945 But Germany lost an imporatnt
ally VERY quickly.
Classwork
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With a partner begin the guided Reading for
16.4
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We will be going over answers in class
tomorrow