Lesson on Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Aim: How did WWII transform the United States domestically and change its relationship with the world?

Bell Ringer: Grade Chapter 23 Vocabulary Quiz (5 min)

Agenda:

1. Journal 130 / A: The Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of territory and ended Italy's colonial claims in Africa and the Middle East. Germany, Italy, and Japan desired overseas colonies for natural resources, markets, and prestige.

2. Journal 131 / A: Both Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech and Churchill and Roosevelt's Atlantic Charter cast the war as a struggle between democracy and oppression. The four freedoms Roosevelt sought to protect in Europe were the freedoms of speech and religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. The charter underlined these points by calling for economic  cooperation, national self-determination, and guarantees of political stability after the war to ensure "that all men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want."

(5 min)

3. BP: WWII Causes (5 min)

4. What was the U.S. response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria? The U.S. adopted the Stimson Doctrine of Non-Recognition (1932), whereby it refused to diplomatically recognize the Japanese invasion and conquest of Manchuria or the puppet state Manchukuo. The weak American response can be said to have encouraged the fascist state in Japan.

JAPAN INVADES MANCHURRIA (skip to 1:30) (4 min)




5. Fascism (POL): "Germany struggled under the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, and Japan and Italy had their desire for overseas empires thwarted by the treaty makers."

National Socialist (Nazi) Party (POL)

Rome-Berlin Axis (POL)

The Neutrality Acts of 1935 (WOR): "If a warring country wanted to purchase nonmilitary goods from the U.S., it had to pay cash and carry them in its own ships, keeping the United States out of potentially dangerous naval warfare."

1932 - Hideki Tojo (Japan) invades Manchuria 
1935 - Mussolini (Italy) invades Ethiopia
1939 - Hitler (Germany) invades Poland
1940 - Germany invades Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. France too surrendered! 

6. Popular Front (WOR), Munich Conference (POL) (appeasement), Four Freedoms (CUL): see Journal 130, Lend-Lease Act (WOR), Atlantic Charter (WOR): provided the ideological foundation of the Western cause; called for economic cooperation, national self-determination, and guarantees of political stability after the war to ensure "that all men in all lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want."

*Many American think of WWII as starting in December 1941 with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; Europeans mark the start of the war in September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.

Compare and Contrast the beginnings of each war:

WWI - unintentionally
WWII - deliberately

(Grade Journals 121-130)


(8 min)


 Home Learning:

1. Comment on three themes that Haile Selassie makes in his argument (failure of the League of Nations, effects of European colonialism, and religious/political cross points).
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/selassie.htm (10 min)

2. Read pages 773-781 (not American Voices)

3. Journal 132 - How did the war affect the relationship between private corporations and the federal government?

4. Journal 133 - How does the slogan "A Jim Crow army cannot fight for a free world" connect the war abroad with the civil rights struggle at home?

5. The Complete History of the Second World War: https://youtu.be/SPMBwSH3e58 (49 min) (please watch before the next EXAM)