This document provides an overview of World War 2 history content covering several chapters. It includes summaries of key events such as the rise of fascist regimes in Italy and Germany in the 1930s, Hitler's demands and expansionism in the late 1930s which other nations initially appeased, Germany's quick defeat of France in 1940, the British evacuation at Dunkirk, and the Battle of Britain. It also lists assignment details for students such as reading chapters, answering questions, completing notes, and watching related videos to help understand the time period before the US entered the war.

1. World War II – Unit 8 - Term II
Ch 20.1/.2/.4
 Ch 21 #10

2. Film/Interview – History v Hollywood
 Check on Canvas - History v Hollywood
 No Doubling up on Topics
 No Saving Pvt Ryan or Holocaust Movies
 Sign up by – April 30th
 Film/Interview – Due: May 13th

3. During the Great Depression
&
Axis Powers
(Rise of Totalitarianism)
Ch 20.1

4. FDR’s Strategy in the 1930’s
- American Foreign Policy
1) Stay out of European Problems
- Economic Troubles at Home : GD
- Costs of the Great War(Lives & $)
2) Western Hemisphere Nations
“Good Neighbor” Policy
 FDR stated – U.S. should not interfere
w/internal affairs of Latin Am. Neighbors
- would we keep our word?

5. Three Great Challenges developed
in our Foreign Policy
1) ITALY
- chaos after WWI: no jobs/poor economy
Benito Mussolini burst onto the scene
A) Challenged the Italians to rebuild
- their economy & prestige
B) Ruthless tactics allowed him to gain
control of the Govt.(armed thugs/streets)
- made people want a strong leader
“Black Shirts” destroyed political opposition
C) Brought energy & discipline back to Italy

6. Scale Model of Rome / Empire

7. Fascist Political Parties
established in Italy & Germany
Fascism – what is it?
Preaches that the
Nation and the Race
were more important
than the Individual
Citizens gave up Rights
In order to be:
Strong & Safe

8. German Govt. after WWI
The Weimar Republic 1918-1934
- emerged after Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated
the throne at the end of the war
- President Paul Von Hindenburg
Gen. Ludendorff hated the new Govt.
(should have never signed the shameful treaty)

9. 2) Hitler’s Germany
Germany was almost destroyed following the Great War
& In 1929 hit by the Depression
- Adolf Hitler: Builds the Nazi party
- Learns from Mussolini (hero)
- Wants a strong & united Germany
“Brown Shirts-S.A” roam the Streets
- Finds Scapegoats to Blame
(Jews / Comm. / Weimar Rep. / Treaty of V)
- Attempts to Dominate the World
- Hitler gains from support of Gen. Ludendorff

10. Hitler Packet
 Read Packet - Canvas
 Answer Questions on a separate sheet of paper
1. Evaluation #1 – 10
2. Hitler’s Book #1-5
Turn In Tomorrow
Quiz on Hitler – When Completed

11. Treaty of Versailles

12.  Post-WW1 – Hitler stayed
in German army
 acted as a “mole” and
spied on various
communist organizations
 One group he spied on
German Workers Party
 In 1919 they became:
National Socialist (Nazi)
 with Hitler as the leader
 Munich /Beer Hall Putsch
- Ludendorff (1923)
 The failure of the Beer Hall
Putsch demonstrates that
power needs to be taken
through legal means

13.  Hitler on trial –
high treason
 A political circus –
sympathetic
judge, minimal
sentence…
 Landsberg Prison
 Mein Kampf
 Lebensraum
 Biological/ Racial
anti-Semitism

14.  NAZI focus shifted to
propaganda and
electoral success and
winning the support of big
business
 “First power, then politics”
 The “Germany Flights”

15.  Seats won in
the Reichstag
 1932 saw a
(NAZI)
plurality
(no majority)
But the most
 Rohm’s
“Brown Shirts”
S.A in the
streets…
 Ludendorff
Regrets his
support

16. Pres. Paul Von Hindenburg
- felt Hitler would be good for Gr. (if controlled)
 Eliminate the riots on the streets
Appoints Hitler Chancellor(1933)
– to help lead the coalition Govt.
1934 – Hindenburg Dies
Hitler declares himself Fuehrer(supreme leader)
- Quickly moves to eliminate all opposition
- By 1936 : Axis Powers are formed w/Italy

17. The Reichstag Fire Suited Hitler’s Needs

18. Hitler & Hindenburg

19. massive state propaganda program
Nuremberg Rallies
 Joseph Goebbels, as Min. of Truth and
Enlightenment, created the “Big Lie”
 Unacceptable ideas were stamped out –
the “Burning of the Books”

20. Letter from Ludendorff to Hindenburg in 1933
“By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich, you
have handed over our sacred German Fatherland to
one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy
to you this evil man will plunge our
Reich into the abyss and will inflict
immeasurable woe on our nation. Future generations
will curse you in your grave for this action.”
The Hitler Youth Reading – 10 Bullets in your notes

21. The Road to World War
Pre WWII
Notes #11
Ch 20.2 / 1st part

22. Hitler Makes Demands
Pre - WWII
 Re-Builds Military – against Treaty of Versailles
 Armies occupy the Rhineland - 1936
 Forms the Anschluss (Union w/Austria) - 1936
 Enters the Sudetenland (Western Czech.) - 1938
European Leaders Did Nothing to Stop Hitler - Why?
1) Family Affair
2) Lebensraum
3) Who could want another war?

23. Germany Enters
the Rhineland
March 7, 1936

24. The Austrian Anschluss, 1936

25. The “Problem” of the Sudetenland

26. German Troops Parade in Streets of a
Czechoslovakian Town, ca. 1938

29. Appeasement
European Leaders give into Hitler’s
demands in order to avoid another war
Felt they could preserve peace if they
gave into Hitler
“Lines in the Sand”

30. Munich Pact of 1938
 Europe’s Leaders gave
Hitler the Sudetenland
Br. Prime Minister
– Neville Chamberlain
 Hitler Promised to Make :
“NO NEW TERRITORIAL
DEMANDS IN EUROPE”
Appeasement in Action

31. The “Great Peace/Piece” of Paper
-peace in our time: Chamberlain

32. Hitler tore up the Paper
1) Took the Rest of Czech. - 1939
2) Signed a Nonaggression Pact with Stalin
- Gr. & Soviet Union(his mortal enemy)
3) Germany & Soviets Invades Poland
Sept. 1, 1939
- Blitzkrieg is unleashed in Europe
Br. & Fr. – have an alliance with Poland
When will they attack Germany?

33. The Nazi-Soviet
Non-Aggression Pact of 1939
Foreign Ministers
von Ribbentrop & Molotov

34. Invasion of Poland

35. 1. Why is Poland in a vunerable position?
2. Why is Great Britain in a stronger position?

37. Call to Arms -video
- 5 minute video clip: Topic – Appeasement
followed by – Japan / Pearl Harbor - #12
then
Pre-WWII Quiz – 40 pts T & F

38. 38
World War II
Before America Enters
Ch 20.2 – The War Begins - p. 690 – Hitler Crushes Europe
Read & Complete in Notebook - # 13
The Fall of France -- Class Participation Discussion / 30pts
The Miracle at Dunkirk
The Battle of Britain “Britain Remains Defiant” – p. 693
8 Bullet Points in Notebook for each(24 total)
**look for Key Terms & Events**

39. April 9, 1940
WAR
Hitler unleashes Blitzkrieg
against Norway & Denmark

40. May 10 – Netherlands & Belgium
& Lux.

41. 41
The Maginot Line
Defensive Fortifications Between France & Germany
Allied Troops
after the
Invasion of
Belgium?

42. 42
Massive defensive fortifications on the border

43. 43

44. 44

45. 45

46. 46

47. 47
Hitler attacks where the defenses are weakest
The Ardennes Forest/neutral Belgium

48. Ardennes : largely undefended
- the Germans Smashed Through

49. 49

50. Dunkirk -338,000 Fr. & Br Troops evacuated
by 850 British Ships of all types / military & Civilian
May 28 – June 4, 1940
Hitler Delayed Attack?

51. June 22, 1940 – Hitler personally
accepts French surrender in Paris

52. 52
Hitler – Sightseeing in Paris

53. 53

54. The French Underground
Charles de Gaulle Free French Resistance Forces

55. Winston Churchill – New P.M. / Parliament
“Their Finest Hour” – June 4, 1940 / 1 min
Britain Will Never Surrender
“Hitler is a monster of
wickedness, insatiable
in his lust for blood and
plunder.”
They Must Break Us
in this Island or
Lose the War

56. Operation Sea lion
– Invasion Plan of Great Britain

57. The Battle of Britain summer 1940
- Air war to win control of the sky
British Spitfire
RAFLuftwaffe

58. The Blitz – Night time raids
with heavy bombers on civilian population

59. October 12, 1940
Hitler Cancels Operation Sea lion

60. Churchill pleads for American
support in the War
“Give us the
tools, and we will
finish the job”

61. 61
Short film for review
France/Maginot Line & The Battle of Britain
Canvas: America - Before the War
- did we supply the tools Churchill needed?
Ch 20.1 & 20.4 Due –
Lend-Lease
Reuben James
(p. 705)