Learning Intention

Success Criteria:  I can…

#1 – Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empires in the 1930s.

A.  State what happened at the Rape of Nanking and discuss how it reflected Japan’s desire to build an empire

B.  Explain the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and explain why Hitler would pursue this policy while building an empire.

#2 – Understand the role of appeasement, neutrality and  non-intervention pursued by nations prior to the outbreak of World War II.   

A.  Define the Neutrality Acts and explain how it was an example of the United States non-intervention foreign policy. 

B.  Discuss how the appeasement policy created at the Munich Conference allowed for more German expansion .

C. Discuss the financial and social conditions in Europe and the United States that led both nations to pursue an isolationist foreign policy. 

#3 – Understand the key goals of the Axis and Allied Powers and discuss how the war was mobilized on different fronts. 

A.  Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war.

B.  Identify the principal theaters of the war and discuss key strategic decisions.

C.  Explain how mechanized armies and blitzkrieg warfare conquered brought dear, death and destruction to populations in Europe, Japan and elsewhere. 

D.  State and discuss the war conferences and the political resolutions that were agreed upon. 

#4 –Understand the motivations for the Holocaust and its outcomes.. 

A.  State and explain the Nazi policy of pursuing racial superiority and its impact on muliple European populations. 

B.  Discuss how this policy transformed into the Final Solution and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.

#5 – Understand the human costs of the war with particular attention to civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, United States, China and Japan

A.  Discuss how German aggression on the Eastern Front led to the death of tens of millions of civilians and soldiers. 

B.  Discuss how WWII was a total war and explain how it affected each nation involved.

Key concepts, people & vocabulary

racism

Anti-Semitism

appeasement

Neutrality Acts

isolationism

Hideki Tojo

Winston Churchill

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Emperor Hirohito

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Axis Powers

Allied Powers

Reichstag

Nuremberg Laws