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* 971-984 (Day 1) Analyze political cartoons related to World War II.

* 971-984 (Day 1) Analyze political cartoons related to World War II. Identify key steps/events involved in World War II. Analyzing Political Cartoons :. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Analysis: Date Background Information Symbolism Directions:

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* 971-984 (Day 1) Analyze political cartoons related to World War II.

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  1. * 971-984 (Day 1) • Analyze political cartoons • related to World War II. • Identify key steps/events • involved in WorldWar II.

  2. Analyzing Political Cartoons: 6 1 2 3 4 5 Analysis: Date Background Information Symbolism Directions: For each cartoon explain the meaning and label any examples of symbolism.

  3. 1924-33 - Before Hitler becomes chancellor, he promises to overturn the unfair Treaty of Versailles by legal means 10/1933 - Hitler withdraws Germany from the League of Nations and makes public his desire to rearm Germany! 1935-36 – Germany establishes draft in March, 1935 - Appeasement Policy demonstrated that there was no united front against Hitler, encouraged Germany to occupy Rhineland in March, 1936. - Mussolini of Italy invades Ethiopia, Hitler offers making the Rome-Berlin Alliance 1935, Japan joins later. - Fascists and Nazis support Franco in his Fascist attack to overthrow the Spanish Republic, 1936 1938 - Hitler occupies Austria and the Sudetenland (Czech) with British approval in Munich Pact, 9/38. World War II 1939-1945

  4. Munich Pact – 9/1938 Neville Chamberlain Adolf Hitler

  5. 1939 – Germany takes the rest of Czechoslovakia, and signs the “Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact” with Stalin. 9/1/39 – Germany invades Poland; Britain & France declare war, press calls early months of war a “Phony War”. 1940 - The German “blitzkrieg” conquers Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France – Battle of Dunkirk summer/40 - Battle of Britain in fall, 1940 prevents German invasion of Britain. 1941 - Germany conquers Greece, Yugoslavia, Balkans. - Germany attacks Soviet Union, leading to the Battle of Stalingrad until 1/1943 = Stalin now joins the “Big Three” or “The Grand Alliance” - Japan attacks Pearl Harbor 12/7/41 due to U.S. oil and steel embargo against Japan, begin “Europe First” plan. World War II 1939-1945

  6. THE BIG THREE THE BIG THREE Churchill Roosevelt Stalin THE GRAND ALLIANCE

  7. Battle of Stalingrad

  8. World War II • German treatment of conquered lands was particularly brutal: • Areas were taxed and exploited heavily • Nordic regions received best treatment, French were tolerated (since not Aryan) and treatment was most brutal in the East (USSR). • POW treatment was harsh along with the “special” target • of Nazi Germany were the Jews and the Holocaust. • Arrival in the camps • Life in the camps • Death in the camps 1939-1945

  9. * 971-984 (Day 2) • Analyze political cartoons • related to World War II. • Identify key steps/events • involved in WorldWar II.

  10. World War II Create the remainder of the timeline for World War II using the following dates. Identify the main battles and/or events during each of the following years: 1941- - - - - 1939-1945

  11. Which of the following war years do you consider to be the greatest “turning point” in the war in favor of the Allies? World War II FRONT 1942 1941 Go to your year and be prepared to explain your choice. 1939-1945 1945 1943 1944

  12. World War II 1942 - Tide of battle turns against the Axis Powers - Soviets destroy German Sixth Army at Stalingrad - U.S. win naval victories at Coral Sea 5/42, Midway 6/42 and Guadalcanal 8/42-2/43. 1939-1945

  13. Battle of Midway Battle of Guadalcanal Battle of Coral Sea

  14. World War II 1942 - Tide of battle turns against the Axis Powers - Soviets destroy German Sixth Army at Stalingrad (“Operation Barbarrosa”) - U.S. win naval victory at Midway and Guadalcanal. 1943 - Battle of El Alamein: General Montgomery, Eisenhower and Patton defeat Rommel “the Desert Fox” in N. Africa. 1944 - Eisenhower launches “D-Day” 6/6/44 re-invasion of France (“Operation Overlord”). 1939-1945

  15. General Eisenhower encourages troops before D-Day

  16. World War II 1942 - Tide of battle turns against the Axis Powers - Soviets destroy German Sixth Army at Stalingrad - U.S. win naval victory at Midway and Guadalcanal. 1943 - Battle of El Alamein: General Montgomery, Eisenhower and Patton defeat Rommel “the Desert Fox” in Africa. 1944 - Eisenhower launches “D-Day” 6/6/44 re-invasion of France (Operation Overlord). 1945 - Germany is defeated by the Allies in May, 1945 “V-E Day” 1939-1945

  17. VE - DAY: May 7, 1945

  18. World War II 1942 - Tide of battle turns against the Axis Powers - Soviets destroy German Sixth Army at Stalingrad - U.S. win naval victory at Midway and Guadalcanal. 1943 - Battle of El Alamein: General Montgomery, Eisenhower and Patton defeat Rommel “the Desert Fox” in Africa. 1944 - Eisenhower launches “D-Day” 6/6/44 re-invasion of France. 1945 - Germany falls to Allies in May, 1945 “V-E Day”. - Japan surrenders after the bombings of Hiroshimo and Nagasaki in August, 1945 = “V-J Day” 9/2/45. 1939-1945

  19. Kamikaze Attacks Atomic Bomb Hiroshima

  20. VJ-DAY: September 2, 1945

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