1. Parents’ Evening – next Weds (22 Jan) NameTargetLast Tracker Last Homework Comments Joe Bloggs AEELazy and smelly Boe Jloggs CA* Champion; future leader of men

2. Homework – Complete end of unit test. Due Monday.

3. LO: Be able to explain the impact of WW2 on Germany Starter: What can you learn from this image about one of the impacts of WW2 on Germany?

4. World War II in 7 bullets… 1.1939 – Germany and Russia carve up Poland. No real fighting in the West. 2.1940 – Germany defeats France in 6 weeks. Battle of Britain – for control of British skies – won by RAF. 3.1941 – Germany invades Russia and pushes Russian army back to Moscow. Dec ‘41 – Japan attacks USA; USA declares war on Japan and Germany. 4.1942 – Stalemate. Germany navy too weak to attack UK. British & US army too weak to land in France. 5. 1943 – tide turns in Russia – German army retreats. 6.1944 – Allies land in France and open up Western Front. Germany now fighting on 2 fronts. 7.1945 – German armies defeated. Germany surrenders and senior Nazis commit suicide. Aug – Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, ending the Pacific War.

5. Enthusiasm for war? Hitler had fulfilled his promises to…  … tear up the Treaty of Versailles…  … rebuild Germany’s armed forces…  … unite Germany and Austria…  … and extend German territory into eastern Europe.  However in doing so, he started WW2. Most Germans had no enthusiasm for war – they remembered the horrors of WWI in which 2.5m Germans died.  But in war, as in peace time, the Nazis used all available methods to make the German people support the regime.

6. Timeline of impact of war on Germany  The left-hand column charts the fortunes of the German army during WW2  Read pages 176-177 and complete the right hand column by explaining how the German people were affected at these times  Ext. task: Answer the question at the bottom of the sheet in your exercises book.

7. Wartime Propaganda In pairs, choose one of the sources on p.178 and make some notes explaining  the message of the source  context – what you know about the period  how effective you think the method used is Feedback to class in 8 mins