Wet Wednesday, March 26, 2014

• Take your seat• Take out your notebook• Open to your study guide

Warm-Up Start review questions 7-22, if they are not

answered then start answering them.

I will be calling on students to answer questions

Questions will be asked out of order.

Today’s Agenda

• Review study guide

• FN: The Allies Turn the Tide

• Homework – Finish vocabulary – quiz Friday Study guide questions 23-25

Chapter 14, Section 2&3The Allies Turn

the Tides

Today’s Standard10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World

War II.

Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the Axis and Alied powers.

Essential Question

Why did Japan attack the United States, and how did this effect the U.S. at home and Allies in

Europe?

Japan Seeks a Pacific Empire

• Japan was overcrowded needs more resources

• Military leaders encourage nationalism and begin building a Pacific empire General Togo – Lead

Nation through Emp. Hirohito

General Yamamoto – planned major Japanese invasions – Pearl Harbor

• Japan makes plans to take Southeast Asia

Isoroku Yamamoto

U.S. Responds

U.S. wants to protect colonies:

Sends aid to China

Cuts off oil shipments to Japan in July 1941

• Lend-Lease Act: allowed the us to lend war materials to any country whose defense is of interest to U.S. safety

• Yamamoto fears U.S. presence in Pacific

Based off this information do you feel the United States was acting in a

neutral fashion? Why or why not?

– talk about this in your groups, 30 seconds.

Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941

• Japanese surprise attack

• Nearly whole Pacific fleet damaged

• 2,348 Americans killed

• More than 1,000 wounded

• Roosevelt: “a date which will live in infamy.”

• On Dec. 8 Congress declares war

Japan’s Pacific Victories• Battle for the Philippines (Jan. 1942)

Bataan Death March (Jan. 1942) - The transfer of over 90,000 American POW’s, resulting in death due to their brutal treatment by the Japanese

• Conquers 1 million square miles of land (in pacific) about 150 million people (1942)

• Brutal treatment for 150,000 POW’s

Story Time

• In your groups put the information from your notes into a story that you can tell to the class.

• Use the book, pages 473-474 for more details

• Start your story of with something like One tragic day…

Friday, March 15th • Take your seat

• Take out and pass forward your warm-ups

• Begin Warm-Up

Warm-Up

SILENTLY read over the project handout

When finished work on Precious time

Add questions, answer eq’s, highlight info.

Today’s Agenda

• Warm-Up Discussion

• Focus Notes: “Allies Turn the Tides”

• Homework – Study Guide Ques. 26-30 Work on your notebook

Today’s Standard10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.

Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the Axis and Alied powers.

Essential Question

How did the Allies turn the tide of war during World

War II?

Japan’s Pacific Victories• Battle for the Philippines (Jan. 1942)

Bataan Death March (Jan. 1942) - The transfer of over 90,000 American POW’s, resulting in death due to their brutal treatment by the Japanese

• Conquers 1 million square miles of land (in pacific) about 150 million people (1942)

• Brutal treatment for 150,000 POW’s

The Tides Turn for the Allies

• Germany is winning, until the battle of Stalingrad 1942 USSR = only country on continent

fighting Nazi’s They want Allies to launch an invasion

into W. Europe. U.S., Britain and Soviet Union, begin to

talk about what peace process•Yalta Conference

–Allies begin dividing Germany into occupation zones

»4 zones, American, Soviet, British and Frnch

Victory in North Africa

• Allies capture N. Africa (May 1943) Operation Torch

American General Eisenhower lands in NE Africa

Important turning point – gives Allies upper hand in Mediterranean

Eastern Front• Germans suffer heavy

losses = Moscow, Leningrad, Russian Winter

• Battle of Stalingrad August 1942 Germans take 90% Soviets take

offensive – Germans retreat

Turning Point – Hitler on the defensive

Wrap - Up

In your groups discuss the essential question”

How did the Allies turn the tide of World War II?

On your Map’s put a star on all of the areas that the Axis Powers lost to the Allies (the ones we just discussed.) Use the Map on page 479.

Answer Critical Thinking Questions on Map

Invasion of Italy• July 10, 1943 – Allies

invade Sicily and capture it.

Mussolini loses power

September 3, 1943 – Italy surrenders

Germans still occupy parts of Italy

Soviets are no longer alone on Continent

Today’s Standard10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.

Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the Axis and Alied powers.

Essential Question

How did the Allies turn the tide of war during World War II?

Identify the important Turning points on your maps

Thursday, March 29, 2012

• Take your seat

• Begin Warm-Up

CST Prep Handout

Do the next question

Today’s Agenda

• Warm-Up Discussion

• Focus Notes: “Allies Turn the Tides”

• Homework – Study Guide Ques. 31-35 Work on your notebook – it is Due

Friday (table of contents, title page, vocab, map assignment, etc….)

Today’s Standard10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.

Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the Axis and Alied powers.

Essential Question

What impact did World War II have on the home front? (think about all countries,

not just the U.S.

Life on the Home Front• Total War Factories

converted for wartime production

• Rationing & Propaganda

Life on the Home Front

• Women join work force

Life on the Home Front• Feb. 1942: Internment

& property loss for Japanese Americans2/3 interned were native-born American citizens

Sent to away from coast to Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming

Today’s Standard10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.

Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the Axis and Alied powers.

Essential Question

What impact did World War II have on the home front? (think about all countries,

not just the U.S.

Today’s Standard10.8Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.

Standard 10.8.3, we are analyzing WWII to understand the pacific theater, the causes for U.S. entry into WWII, and the strategic battle decisions made by the Axis and Alied powers.

Essential Question

What was the significance of D-Day and the Yalta

Conference? Explain how they would impact the War Effort

D-Day Invasion

D-Day Invasion: June 6, 1944• Eisenhower strikes

Normandy• American, British,

French, Canadian troops

• 6,603 Americans die

• Aug. 25 Paris is freed from German control

• Sept. 1944 France, Belgium, Luxembourg Liberated

The Yalta Conference• Feb. 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at

Yalta

• Stalin wants control of Eastern Europe to create a buffer zone between U.S.S.R. and Europe

• US and England wanted self-determination for Eastern European countries

• End agreement – Stalin would enter war against Japan Soviet gets certain lands Germany will be divided into 4 zones – British,

French, U.S. and Soviet Stalin agreed to hold free elections in Eastern

European nations….. But he won’t