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8th grade honors social studies

This week's agenda includes test retakes, CNN 10, vocabulary, and the start of WWII focusing on alliances and early aggressions such as Japan's invasion of Manchuria and the atrocities in Nanking. It covers Hitler's annexations, Chamberlain's response, and the unfolding events leading to the outbreak of war. The blitzkrieg tactics, the fall of Poland, and the Dunkirk evacuation are also discussed. The lesson concludes with the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union.

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8th grade honors social studies

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  1. 8th grade honors social studies Mrs. Singer Quarter 3: Week 5

  2. agenda • Test retakes will be Tuesday and Wednesday after school.  If you have a scheduling conflict, please come see me and you can come during conference or before school. • CNN 10 • Vocabulary • The start of WWII

  3. The Beginning • Alliances start to form: • Fascist Italy and Germany support fascist General Francisco over in Spain. • Anti-fascists come together: U.S., France, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. • No one is at war though; they've just taken sides based on political beliefs.

  4. Japan...The first aggressor  • U.S.'s Great Depression set off a worldwide depression; Japan feels this the most because they're an island and depend heavily on imported goods from around the world. • Their military takes over the government, and on 12/13/37, the army invades Manchuria and China.

  5. quiz • What is one of the very first causes of WWII (that we just discussed)? • What country did Japan invade? • What are 2 reasons they invaded?

  6. The rape of Nanking • Japanese army invades the Chinese city of Nanking • To break the Chinese spirit the Japanese are horrifically brutal to the Chinese. • Most of Nanking was burned to the ground • Killed 150,000 Chinese POWs • Murdered 50,000 male civilians • Raped around 20,000 women and girls

  7. Der anschluss • Hitler annexes Austria • Hitler annexes part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland (much of thepopulation there is historically German) • Chamberlain and Daldier appease Hitler and let him have this land; know as the "Munich Agreement."

  8. quiz • What happened in Nanking? • How did Japan justify their actions in Nanking? • What was "Der Anschluss?" • What country did the Sudetenland previously belong to? • What happened at the Munich Agreement?

  9. Chamberlain reacts... •  "The hard fact is that nothing could have arrested what has actually happened [in Austria] unless this country and other countries had been prepared to use force." • What is the underlying message Chamberlain has set Hitler?

  10. Daldier had it right... •  "Today, it is the turn of Czechoslovakia. Tomorrow, it will be the turn of Poland and Romania. When Germany has obtained the oil and wheat it needs, she will turn on the West. Certainly we must multiply our efforts to avoid war. But that will not be obtained unless Great Britain and France stick together, intervening in Prague for new concessions but declaring at the same time that they will safeguard the independence of Czechoslovakia. If, on the contrary, the Western Powers capitulate again, they will only precipitate the war they wish to avoid."[ • Upon his return to France after the Munich Agreement, he was praised by the French for having compromised with Hitler.  His response: "Morons!"

  11. Hitler eyes poland • Germany wants that sweet Polish Corridor back! • Poland tells Germany to go fly a kite! • France and Britain immediately side with Poland, and expect that the Soviet Union will too.

  12. agenda • Test retakes will be today and Wednesday after school.  If you have a scheduling conflict, please come see me and you can come during conference or before school. • CNN 10 • Pass out dictator handouts to 2nd hour • Finish slides/notes from yesterday • Dunkirk activity  • Churchill speech analysis 

  13. The soviets get sneaky • The Soviets and Germany sign the "Non-Aggression Pact" and agree not to fight each other and to divide up Poland among their two countries! • Germany invades Poland, a la Blitzkrieg style, 9/1/39. • Poland is under German control in days. • France and Britain declare war on Germany, but do nothing to help Poland.

  14. Blitzkrieg & Sitzkrieg • Blitzkrieg-bombs airports, roads, and communication buildings, surprise attacks, heaving bombing of troops followed by quickly moving in your own troops. • Sitzkrieg is a "fake/phony war" following the Polish invasion in September of '39, nothing really happens until April '40

  15. April & May 1940 • Hitler will invade Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France! • France has the biggest target on its back (not surprising). • Germany has a plan: send trops through the Ardennes forest/mountains, into the Netherlands, down through Belgium, and into France. • By doing this Germany avoids the "Maginot Line."

  16. dunkirk • Hitler's plan works great.  France wasn't prepared to fight away from the Maginot Line. • German forces push over 300,000 Allied troops back to Dunkirk where their only escape is the sea. • For disputed reasons, Hitler calls for the Germans to halt (most likely reason is because he wanted to use his military resources for other battles). • But now the Allied troops are surrounded, regardless of if the Germans are pushing forward, and a mass evacuation effort begins to bring Allied forces across the English Channel to Dover.

  17. After Dunkirk • Italy declares war on the Allied forces. • Vichy France is set up in, you guessed it, Vichy, France.

  18. Activity Time • 3 part Dunkirk analysis  • Churchill speaks out: • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnmq3iW45xE

  19. agenda • CNN 10 • The Battle of Britain: notes and short video clip • The betrayal of Germany  • Class map review

  20. The battle of britain • The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) begins bombing Great Britain, with the goal to also invade and take over Great Britain. • From July-October 1940 it's a battle in the skies! Luftwaffe vs. the RAF (Royal Air Force). • Although there were piolets lost on both sides, the RAF cripples the Luftwaffe and wins this battle. • Result: Hitler calls off his planned invasion of Great Britain (called Operation Sea Lion)

  21. The battle of britain • What the Battle of Britain might have looked like

  22. Betrayal • Remember that German-Soviet non-agression pact?...no? Well, Hitler didn't either. • In June of 1941, Germany invades the Soviet Union! • The Soviets immediately flip sides and join France, Britain, and Australia and Canada (previous British territories who've chosen to stand with their mother country, Britain). 

  23. agenda • NO CNN TODAY, BUT AT SOME POINT TODAY, TURN IN THIS WEEK'S NOTES • 5 minutes to review your notes • Quiz

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