Drill 4/21

Take out the Winston Churchill reading from Friday.

Read the passage and in a short paragraph compare Winston Churchill to Charles de Gaul. – How were they similar? How were they different?– Be prepared to share

Objective

Students will be able to identify key events in World War II’s Pacific Theater

World War II

The War in the Pacific

Terminology

Historians look at World War II in two parts– The battle in Europe (the European Theater)– The battle in the Pacific (the Pacific Theater)

Pearl Harbor: the battle

12/7/1941

Approx 3:47 pm Hawaiian time

The attack came in three waves

First wave– Targets: Destroyers and aircraft carriers

Second wave– Targets: Ford Island & Wheeler Field

Third Wave– Targets: Aircraft at Ford & Wheeler plus additional

smaller bases

Result

The US lost– 5 Battleships sunk

3 damaged– 2 Destroyers sunk

1 damaged– 3 Cruisers damaged– 188 aircraft destroyed

155 damaged– 2,345 military + 57 civilian deaths

1,247 military and 35 civilian wounded

The United States Enters the War

The US would exact revenge for Pearl Harbor through a series of battles on the islands of the pacific

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

The Doolittle Raid, The Battle of the Coral Sea, The Battle of Midway, The Battle of Guadalcanal.– 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 upper-hand?

Objective

Students will be able to characterize events of the Holocaust through the experience of survivors

World War II

The Holocaust

Hitler’s Final Solution

During Hitler’s rise to power in Germany he exploited the Anti-Semitism that lie just underneath the surface

Hitler’s Final Solution

In Mien Kampf Hitler blames Jewish influence for the fall of Germany during World War I

Though Jews were the main target of the Holocaust they were not alone– Ethnic Slavs and Poles, Gypsies, Communists,

Homosexuals, the Mentally and Physically Disabled, etc.

Hitler’s Final Solution

In total, by the end of the war, roughly 11 Million people were killed in Hitler’s camps

The Jewish death toll was roughly 6 Million

Summary

How did Hitler do it?

How did Hitler compel an entire country to go through with the genocide?

Drill 4/23

Whom did Hitler target during the Holocaust?

What was his “Final Solution”?

Objective

Students will be able to identify the use of propaganda during the Holocaust

Joseph Goebbels

Chief Propaganda Minister of Hitler’s government

Mastermind of Hitler's propaganda campaigns

Joseph Goebbels

PHD in Literature Virulent anti-Semite

Was one of Hitler’s closest allies and advisors

After the Nazis took control of the government Goebbels took control of every outlet of communication in the Reich

Goebbels Propaganda

Propaganda – The use of media to influence thoughts/ actions

Goebbels propaganda targeting Jews in Germany was consistent and everywhere

Film

Nazi Germany produced many “documentaries” aimed at exposing the conspiracy of Jewish culture

This one is called “The Eternal Jew”

– In it and other films like it Jews are depicted as greedy, traitors to the government, their families and their own people

The Jew: Inciter of war, prolonger of war

Propaganda targeting others

The “New people” campaign

– “this mentally deficient person costs the German people 60,000 marks a year to care for.”

Propaganda in schools

The Jewish Question in Education – “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

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.

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

Goebbels’ work was plentiful and effective. It culminated in 1938 with Kristallnacht [the night of broken glass]– This was the first official act of the German

government against a Jewish population

Drill 4/24

What is the significance of Kristallnacht?

It was the first overt Nazi-sponsored act of aggression against a Jewish population in 1938

Objective

Students will be able to identify key points in the Allied victory in the European Theater

Setting the Stage

1942 The United States has officially entered the

war

The Battle for North Africa

Nazi General George Erwin Rommel– “The Desert Fox”

For the early parts of the war Rommel and his “Afrika Korps” had used superior weapons and forces to control the region

That would soon change

The Battle for North Africa

October 23, 1942

– 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

As the Nazis retreated Allied forces launched Operation Torch

The Battle for North Africa

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

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

Mussolini was deposed by King Victor Emmanuel II

Fighting would continue until the end of the war in 1945 But Germany lost an imporatnt ally VERY quickly.

Classwork

With a partner begin the guided Reading for 16.4

We will be going over answers in class tomorrow