Bell RingerWhich action best illustrates the policy of isolationism followed by the United States before it entered World War II?A. signing of a collective security pact with Latin American

nationsB. passage of neutrality legislation forbidding arms sales to

warring nationsC. embargo on the sale of gasoline and steel to JapanD. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s exchange of American

destroyers for British naval and air bases

Day 2 – European Front Standards• E.1.b. Identify the significant military and political aspects

of World War II• E.1.e. Identify and evaluate the scientific and technological

developments in America during and after World War II

Learning Targets• U8T4- I can describe major strategies used on the

European Front during WWII.• U8T5- I can discuss the importance of new inventions on

the European Front during WWII.• U8T6- I can explain the importance of D-Day to the Allies.

Think Pair Share

• What event caused the US to join WWII?

Axis Powers

• Germany and Japan made the anti-communist treaty Pact

• Italy joined one year later• During World War II, the Axis powers presided

over empires that occupied large parts of Europe, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, and islands of the Pacific Ocean

Allied Powers

• The anti-German coalition at the start of the war (1 September 1939) consisted of France, Poland and the United Kingdom,

• After 1941, the leaders of the British Commonwealth, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America known as the "Big Three", held leadership of the allied powers

The US enters the War

New technologies for Fighting WWII

• Tanks• Machine guns• ballistic missile• Jet aircrafts• Atomic bombs• Battleship with aircraft carriers

How do you think this effected and changed the way wars were fought?

A partners Please pick up:

• An Atlas from the front of the room for you and your partner

• A yellow or orange marker for highlighting for you and your partner

• Two different colored pencils

Mapping the War

• Read through the directions and use the Nystrom atlas book to fill out the map.– Section 2 Part D: draw your own US on the left part of the

map

• Complete as individuals or with you’re A/B partner • Highlight important events and facts in the directions

using your marker • The 2 colored pencils are for labeling the Axis power

countries and the Allied Power countries.

Think Pair Share

• Which event helped the Allied powers defeat the Axis powers?

Complete 50d

• War in Europe• What are the strategies used to overthrow

Germany?

• Use the following to help you complete the chart– Map– Pages 88-89 in atlas– Directions to complete map

Think, Pair, Share

• What do you think were the biggest advantages the Allied powers had over the Axis powers to help them during WWII?

New technologies during WWII

• The Allied powers are using aircrafts and tanks to help advance in the European front.

• Britain had huge advantages over Germans with radars to stay one step ahead of them.

• The United States was called the “arsenal of democracy” for giving weapons to Britain and France.

Improve Pre- Assessment

• Keep map and directions in your binder • Improve #’s 1-6 • Turn In when finished!