WW2

Chapter 14: WWII Directions:
 * View and take notes on WWII based on the Interactive website provided
 * On the l**eft** take notes about what you read, see and hear under each topic heading. Feel free to add space in each section as needed.
 * The right side is for you to add comments, links, and questions (your thoughts about WWII and how the website impacted prior knowledge on the subject.
 * **A separate writing piece will be required **


 * **Europe & North Africa ** || **CCQPs ** ||
 * **Maginot Line **
 * defense on the French- German border
 * Named after Frances’s minister of war Andre Maginot
 * 1,000 soldiers housed each a mile away from each other & tanks and ditches spread throughout
 * Hitler’s plot around the line: split troops- Belgium & Ardennes = breaking the line’s defense
 * German Jews Flee **
 * Jews < 1% (523,000 people)
 * 300,000 forced to leave homeland
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Jews à <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> Shanghi & South America
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">British allow Children to immigrate to the country
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Nazi Expansion **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Desire for living space
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Germany invades/annexing Poland, Rhineland, Austria,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">France & Britian declare war on Germnay after the invasion of Poland
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Battle of Britain **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Hitler launches an aerail attack against Britian
 * hoped the atack would lead to British surrender
 * Luftwaffe- German airforce & Royal Air Force battled for two months
 * British victory
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Leningrad **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">the russian city was a target of the Germans
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">1 milllion casualties in a battle lasting 872 days
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Germany broke the nonaggression pact with the surprise attack
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">civilians of Russia had to work to protect the area and build the needed materials/military supplies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Panzer Tanks **
 * Germans building up military equippment/weapons for their " lightning strikes"
 * armored tanks= panzerkampfwagen
 * improvements to the main gun of the panzer tank made the tanks a force not to reckoned with
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">D-Day Normandy, France **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">June 6 1944 **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">allied invasion of western Europe
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">150,000 troops, 5,000 vehicles
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">off of french coast


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Yalta Conference: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Allied powers meeting: United States, Great Britain,and the Soviet Union
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">addressing... Germany's future after the defeat, the fate of liberated nations (Poland)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">set stage for the cold war and communism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">divide Germany into several zones


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Marshall Plan: **
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">economic assistance plan for the distressed Europe **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">**U.S. funded the program but was designed by European nations**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Truman hoped the assistance would help stabilize the western Europe's governments
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">13 billion in aid
 * rebuilding industry and transportation lines
 * every participating country had recovered with the exception of western Germany || * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">I know France did eventually get invaded by Germany, nut how long were they able to hold out against them?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The French Force was not as strong…secure as they portrayed to the public?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">More than half of the Jews had to leave their homeland, just because of their religion
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">In the video from homework the children also had to travel secretly without their parents to other countries for safety.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Why didn't Britian and France declare war and Germany after they invaded Czechoslovakia? Why Poland?
 * Hitler should have been more subtle about his expanision. Did he want or expect a world war? Is that what he wanted?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Had the United Nations not allowed Germany to build up their air force/military this Battle would have been an easy win or may not have occurred at all...silly rabbits
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Why would Hitler break the pact and create another enemy? That doesn't seem smart. The Soviets were simply going to stay out of the Germans business...
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This assistance must have led the Europeans to favor and support the U.S ||



Use the map in your text p. 439 to chronicle German aggression. Where did the Nazis go first and what were the results? Make a chronology. The Nazi's began making moves toward war. They established alliances and pacts between countries. However, as they pushed toward the Czechs they created enemies and their actions were put before the united nations. Unfortunately, the united nations sought peace, and in doing so ignored Germany's actions. Nevertheless, their actions were further monitored and now becoming a growing concern.
 * Chronology:**
 * 1.** Armed force into Rhineland (area bordering France) (Violated Treaty of Versailles)
 * 2. Demanding** annexation of Austria ( uniting German speaking countries)
 * 3.** Threatening Czech government, Czechs put up their defenses
 * 4.** Italy and Japan join Germany in the Axis powers
 * 5.** Italy and Germany alliance with Spain
 * 6.** Nazi- Soviet non-aggression pact
 * Analysis:**

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The author portrays Hitler and Stalin as newly married couple. The Nazi’s and Soviet established the nonaggression pact, to keep the peace in their relationship. Since the British and French did not appear willing to defend the Soviets,the agreement between the Nazis and Soviets would keep the Soviets out of war without each other, and in doing so the Soviets land would not be threatened by the Germans.However, like most relationships (marriages in this) they end in a divorce. The author is inferring that the pact or bond between the Nazi’s and Soviets would not make it through "honeymoon”, or in other words would not last very long. ||
 * Summary – What is the artist inferring?


 * I See
 * A man with the Nazi symbol
 * Stalin
 * Holding hands after a wedding ||


 * It Means
 * Hitler
 * Soviet Union
 * The secret union/deal: The nonaggression pact ||

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Allies able to purchase American War materials <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Payments in cash à <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> gold <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Rent- free leases on air force/military <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Allowed the U.S. to help allies
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">North America ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">CCQPs ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Lend-Lease Act **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">-
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Lend-Lease/Battle of Britain video clip **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Japan attack <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- 2,400 American deaths on ships <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Destroying American battle ships/air crafts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Pearl Harbor **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Pearl Harbor clip **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- U boat raids on U.S. eastern seaboard <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Nearly 2,000 merchant marines/crew members killed <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Battle of the Atlantic- btwn GB and Germs <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">-
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">German Attacks on American ships **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- To promote cause/ attack opponents <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Pro allied messages to the public & anti- axis <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Racists/stereotypical/ patriotic <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Office of war information was the source of the propaganda
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">War Propaganda **

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Roosevelt orders War department to remove individual groups away from American defense areas <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- After pearl harbor- Japs considered enemy aliens <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- 120,000 Japs removed from homes and communities relocated <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Held like prisoners in camps
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Japanese Internment Camps **

- first nuclear chain reaction - America catching up w/ Germany - top secret nuclear testing and development - goal: develop the first nuclear bomb - 1939 - after U.S. entry into war - near Tennessee Valley - k-25 uranium --> little boy ---> dropped over Hiroshima - Los Almos--> fat man--> Nagasaki
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Manhattan Project **

-1940 Selective Training and Service Act -September 16-- the first peacetime draft ever in America - all men btwn 21 and 36 - 16 million men signed up - conscientious objections- assigned non combat positions over seas or at home
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Draft **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Women in WWII **
 * - 1940 to 1945
 * -women in workforce--> 27% to 37%
 * -350,000 served in the armed forces
 * - 1/4 worked out of home
 * - female workers in aviation
 * -Rosie the Riveter-> most successful war propaganda


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Rationing **
 * - rationed goods essential for the war effort
 * - office of price adjustment- set price controls and supply levels
 * - rubber needed
 * - sugar to gasoline
 * - victory gardens- additional 8 million tons of food produced by Americans


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">GI Bill **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">returning veterans with financial aid in education, low cost loans, and care
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">education benefits and and guaranteed loans on houses, farms and businesses, and fair pay for unemployment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">formally known as Serviceman's Readjustment Act || <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">-If only allies can purchase the materials, the U.S. is neutral in the war

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Did Japan do this out of fear? <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Perhaps they wanted to just wipe out the American defenses so they could not participate in the war… if so, boy were they wrong…this catalyzed American’s entrance into war

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- I feel like the Axis powers were playing with fire, they should have know America would join the war after they pushed enough buttons

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Propaganda on the wars in the middle east nowadays are not very prominent

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- Segregation <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- This was a bit extreme and disrespectful <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- If they attempted this now with middle eastern people, it would not go over smoothly

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">- nuclear weapons are dangerous for every country and should not be used at all, its almost unfair to use something so powerful and destructive like an atomic bomb

- It's interesting how now women fight in war but before, they didn't....I wonder what Americans back then would say about Americans today - I feel as though if there were a draft today, their would be major conflicts and uprising...are we less patriotic now? - don't drafts require mandatory sign- ups ?

- think soldiers should be compensated for fighting in the war, they served the country now the country should serve them ||


 * **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Asia –War in the Pacific ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">CCQPs ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Japan’s Expansion –
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Manchuria, China & French Indo China
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Increased sphere of influence
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Led to U.S. declaration of war
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Japan joins Axis powers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">US embargo on trade with Japan’s raw materials- steel, oil, and iron


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Bataan **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">In Philippines Japan defeated US and Filipino forces in April 1942
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">70,000 captives forced to march 60 miles to a captured base
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Claimed lives of 1,000 Americans and 7,000-10,000 others
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Disastrous beginning to the war

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">????????????
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Big “E” – USS Enterprise **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Battle record **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Flying Tigers – What/Where was their mission? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">American Volunteer Group (AVG) of elite pilots à <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> flying triggers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Surprise attacks, & tactics to defeat the Japanese
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Curtiss P-40 planes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Primary mission to protect the Burma Road connecting the vital port of Rangoon with the rest of China


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Zero to Kamikaze **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Fighter planes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Flew planes with explosives into enemy vessels
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Zero was better suited for suicide bombings then actual fighting because of its thin armor


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Leyte Gulf **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Fleet battle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">60 battleships, craft carriers, cruisers, and destroyers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Codename: operation victory
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Between the US and Japs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">US success

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Iwo Jima <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Feb. 19, 1945
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">30,000 marines attack the small Jap island
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">3 Jap airstrips
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Mount Suribachi a US flag was planted after its success

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Okinawa – video <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Stats – American & Japanese **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">The Atomic Bomb **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">100,000 killed and thousands exposed to radiation from bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Led to Japan’s surrender
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Hiroshima- center pacifism and anti-nuclear sentiment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Fat Man on Nagasaki- stronger than Little Boy led to the surrender


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Nanjing Memorial **
 * || * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">US defends China to protect their resources, however if China had not been needed by the US, would they have helped them…if the resources weren’t at risk?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Japanese were cruel in war, perhaps the reason, the US was so willing to drop the bomb on them…no mercy in war


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Like Top Gun!


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Like suicide bombings?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Was the battleship game derived from WW2 fleet battles?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">This is one of the most memorable American symbols/icons in my opinion
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">What is the controversy over?

WW2 Reflective Writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">After those bombings I wouldn’t want nuclear battles either
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Japan should have surrendered after the 1st bomb, I mean, 70-80 thousand innocent people were killed ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Movie Rating: //Grave of the Fire Flies// (Grade: A)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Grave of the Fire Flies is a tragic animation film, on the lives of a two young siblings during World War 2 in Japan. After the death of the children’s mother and unknown whereabouts of their father, the children were left orphaned. The Children’s relatives treated them cruelly, leaving the two to fend for themselves, homeless and without food or care. Through these tragic events in the older brother does his best to care for his young sister. After living off of slight stolen meals, their lack of nutrition takes a toll on their health. Despite, the brother’s attempt to care for his sister, she becomes ill from malnutrition and dysentery. With rations on food and very few resources, the siblings have no place to go and no options but to fend for themselves. The film is moving and depicts realistic events in a historical animation film. From the information on the bombings in Japan to the rations, the film accurately demonstrates the quality of life in Japan during WWII. Due to the films touching impact and historical accuracy, I rate the film with an A. Though the film is a cartoon, the film also includes information pertaining to Japan’s surrenders and the state of the economy during the war which further makes the film realistic. The film is a true tear jerker and I would recommend it to multiple audiences.