World+War+II

Essential Questions:
 * Do Hard times create strong leaders?
 * How can war effect people in different ways?
 * Is Appeasement an effective strategy?
 * Did the end of the war bring peace or more conflict?

‍**You Ask the Questions activity**:

 * Scan through the four sections of the Chapter
 * Ask three or four questions that you would kie answered for each of the sections.
 * Please label you questions by sections

Chapter 14

Section 1: Axis Aggression - How did having alliances with other countries affect Europe as a whole? -How did Hitlers action of going against the Treaty of Versailles go unchallenged? -Did the allied powers question the Axis first formed?

Section 2: The Allied Response -How may have things been or turned out differently if Germany did gain controll of the Atlantic Ocean? -Was there a sense of nationalism during this time in other places like there was in America? -Why did the allies want to take control of North Africa first in orer to get to Europe?

Section 3: The Holocaust -Did anyone question the4 anti-semitism and "final solution" against the Jewish people? Did they wonder why them? -Why didnt the U.S. or Great Britain make any concrete actions during the Holocaust? -How was it that the Soviets could invade Aushwitz and liberate many Jewish people without trying to be stopped?

Section 4: The End of the War -If Adolf Hitler would have died earlier throughout the war do you think that the Holocaust would have been still as bad as it was or would someone have stopped it? -Why were these small islands so important to target? -If WW2 would have never happened, do you think there would be a U.N.?

**Overview of the War** :

Here is a link to an interactive website on WWI:[|WWII: A Global Perspective] The website is an interactive map that include three topic areas: 1. **North America**
 * 2 Europe and Africa**
 * 3. Asia**

A copy of the dialectical journal can be found here.....
 * Click on one area of the map at a time.
 * This will open a number of thumbnail images that provide different material
 * Comment on what you see and read and hear in the dialectical journal which is divided by designated map areas

//**Reflective Writing piece**// : Now that you have completed your work with the interactive map and your dialectical journal on what you read, viewed, and heard; it is time to reflect on all that information. The directions to the reflection writing piece are here.....


 * Complete the work in a word document.
 * Print a copy and upload your work to your wiki

Complete the timeline activity located here.... [|opener on time line.doc]



Summary of WWI: Attached is a timeline highlighting key events of WWII [|Timeline of WWII.docx]

Read and Mark up :Summary of WWII by events [|Summary of WWII Events by Year.docx]


 * Based on your markup, write a summary for each year's event in your wiki.

Copy the following into your wiki :

Headlines on WWII:

1939: " German agression leads to the Battle of the Atlantic and the Ribbentrop Pact." I chose this because Germany was very agressive, they went against not only the United States but Great Britain as well. They used their famous U-boats in order to carry out their agressive moves onto these countries. The Ribbentrop Pact showed the connection that Germany had with The Soviet Union. " With Briatin and France declaring war on Germany, they begin to maticulasly plan their agression on Europe."--> this better explains this section because this is exactly what germany did, they stayed or signed the Ribbentrop Pact with Russia so that they wouldnt have to fight them too.

1940: " Germany uses different strategies such as airstrikes in order to divide and conquer countries." This was chosen because Germany did use a number of strategies to conquer countries and divide them such as Denmark and Norway. "hitler takes over western europe and still wants more"

1941: " During the winter, both the Germans and Japanese continue on with their own battles. Germany in the Holocaust and Japan with attacking America with bombings." I chose this becuase during the winter Germany was continuing its run with the Holocaust and killing millions of Jewish people with gas chambers. Japan decided on bombing the Americans which lead to the Pacific War. "Germany and Japan were in control of the war"--> Japan with Pearl Harbor.

1942: " The Allies begin to win against Japan and come one step closer to stopping German aggression towards the Jewish people." By the Allies, in the first case with Japan, i meant mostly America because they destroyed four Japanese carriers which lead to a turing point in the pacific war. And in the second case i meant the allies alltogether because they started to hear news about the way the Germans were mistreating the Jewish people. "The blitz attacks continue while america fights japan."

1943: " Germans surrender marking the end of the Battle of the Atlantic, yet they continue in some ways to fight and gain land. "

1945: