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Thesis Prompt: Could WWII have been prevented?. Read p.34.3-34.5 and gather evidence of the build up to WWII. (format on the next slide) Write a thesis statement that identifies why or why not the war had to happen.
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Thesis Prompt:Could WWII have been prevented? • Read p.34.3-34.5 and gather evidence of the build up to WWII. (format on the next slide) • Write a thesis statement that identifies why or why not the war had to happen. • There were so many bad guys intending harm to the world, it seems easy to prove that the war had to happen. • More challenging would be trying to prove that it didn’t have to happen.
Directions: As you read, write a description of the action taken and the reaction by Britain, France, or the United States. • 1935–1936 Germany remilitarizes • 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia • 1936–1939 Germany and Italy aid nationalists in Spanish Civil War • 1938 German Anschluss (union) with Austria • 1939 Germany invades Czechoslovakia • 1939 Germany attacks Poland • 1940 Germany invades Low Countries and France • 1940 Germany attacks Britain (Battle of Britain) • 1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Could WWII have been prevented? Directions: • Use your notes to come up with 3 reasons why it could not have been prevented. • Challenge: Come up with 3 ways it couldhave been prevented. • Sentence frame: WW II was inevitable because____________, ___________ as well as _______________. Grading Criteria: • ___ Thesis includes 3 categories that are specific (e.g. more specific than political, economic and social) • ___Thesis answers the prompt and states a clear position • ___Thesis use academic language (vocab terms and transition words)