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WORLD WAR II
Unit Introduction Sheet
Over the course of the next few weeks we will be studying the events leading up to the United
States' entry into World War II, the war's impact on the U.S. homefront, the important military and political
strategies employed by the combating nations, the Holocaust, and the results of the Allied victory. We will
be using Chapters 16 & 17 in your textbook, selected readings from historical documents, map exercises,
video/laser-disc programs, WWII-era propaganda, musical selections, and guest speakers to help better
understand this earth-changing event.
UNIT OBJECTIVES- Students will be able to:
 Describe the world events that led up to the United States' entry into World War II.
 Trace how the people and economy of the United States were organized for the war effort.
 Analyze examples of propaganda used by each side during World War II.
 Identify the major battles of the European and Pacific theatres of operation.
 Examine the causes and results of the Holocaust.
 Describe the results of the Allied victory in World War II.
 Describe the effects of the war on women and Japanese-Americans at home in the U.S.
 Describe the war contribution made by the United States in terms of lives and dollars.
 Describe the lasting impact of World War II on the U.S. and the world.
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KEY PEOPLE- Students will be able to identify and explain the contribution of the
following people:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt –
Harry S. Truman –
Winston Churchill –
Neville Chamberlain –
Dwight D. Eisenhower –
Douglas MacArthur –
George Patton –
Adolf Hitler -
Benito Mussolini –
Joseph Stalin –
Emperor Hirohito -
Hideka Tojo -
KEY TERMS/EVENTS- Students will be able to spell, define and use the following
terms in a classroom discussion:
Axis-Powers –
Allies Fascism Totalitarianism Nazism Aryan Communism Neutrality Acts "arsenal of democracy" –
Lend-Lease mobilization Munich Pact / appeasement annexation non-aggression pact –
Luftwaffe
Blitzkrieg –
anti-Semitism propaganda genocide –
death campsKristallnacht“Final Solution”
Nisei Kamikaze –
D-Day Battle of the Bulge -
V-E Day –
V-J Day Big Three –
Homefront –
rationing United Nations Enola Gay Nuremberg Trials -
MAP/GEOGRAPHY- Students will be able to locate and describe the importance of:
Manchuria (China)
Normandy (France)
Paris (France)
Hiroshima (Japan)
Dunkirk (France)
Nagasaki (Japan)
London (England)
Berlin (Germany)
Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
Stalingrad (U.S.S.R.)
Austria
Iwo Jima
Rome (Italy)
Leningrad (U.S.S.R.)
Poland
Okinawa
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)
Midway Island
Tokyo (Japan)
WORLD WAR II – TIMELINE OF MAJOR EVENTS
Event
Date
Treaty of Versailles
June 1919
Benito Mussolini becomes the
Prime Minister of Italy
Oct. 1922
Japan invades Manchuria
Sept. 1931
Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany
Jan. 1933
Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes the
President of the United States
March 1933
Importance
Hitler announces Germany’s withdrawal
from The League of Nations
Oct. 1933
Nuremberg Laws strip the Jews of their
rights as citizens in Germany.
Sept. 1935
Italy invades Ethiopia, Africa
Oct. 1935
Germany reoccupies the Rhineland
March 1936
Berlin Summer Olympics
Aug/Sept. 1936
Germany annexes Austria (Anschluss)
March 1938
Munich Pact signed…Germany seizes the
Sudetenland
Sept. 1938
Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass”
Nov. 1938
Germany invades Czechoslovakia
March 1939
Germany and the Soviet Union sign
a non-aggression pact
Aug. 1939
*Germany invades Poland*
Sept. 1, 1939
Germany takes Denmark, Norway,
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
April-May 1940
Germany conquers France
June 1940
Germany bombs London “The Blitz”
Aug-Sept 1940
Roosevelt & Churchill create
the Atlantic Charter
Aug. 1940
U.S. Lend-Lease Act
March 1941
Germany invades the Soviet Union
June 1941
Germany establishes the
death camp system
June 1941
Japan launches a surprise attack on
the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor
Dec. 7, 1941
The Battle of the Atlantic
Jan.-April 1942
Doolittle’s Raid bombs Tokyo
April 1942
The Battle of Midway
June 1942
Allies defeat the Axis troops in N. Africa
Nov. 1942
U.S. forces the Japanese off of Guadalcanal
Feb. 1943
Allies land at Normandy (D-Day)
June 6, 1944
Paris freed from Nazi control
Aug. 1944
President Roosevelt reelected to 4th term
Nov. 1944
Germans launch the Battle of the Bulge
Dec. 1944
The Big Three meet at Yalta
Feb. 1945
U.S. Marines defeat the Japanese on
the island of Iwo Jima
March 1945
Pres. Roosevelt dies/ Harry Truman
assumes the office of President
April 12, 1945
Benito Mussolini is executed in Italy
April 24, 1945
Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
in Berlin
April 30, 1945
Germany surrenders
May 7, 1945
V-E Day
May 8, 1945
U.S Marines defeat the Japanese on
the island of Okinawa
June 1945
Big Three meet for the Potsdam Conference
July 1945
The crew of the Enola Gay drops an atomic
bomb on Hiroshima, Japan
July 6, 1945
The U.S. drops a second atomic bomb on
the Japanese city of Nagasaki
July 9, 1945
Japan officially surrenders to the Allies
Aug. 15, 1945
V-J Day
Aug. 15, 1945
Japan officially signs the surrender terms
Sept. 15, 1945
First session of the UN is held
Jan. 1946
US occupies and helps rebuild Japan
1945-1951
Nuremberg Trials are held
1945-1949
The Marshall Plan helps rebuild the war-ravaged
Countries of Western Europe
1945-1952