1. Agenda Data collection Warm Up
Discussion: European Front and the Homefront.
Homefront Analysis
HW: Finish Homefront Analysis

2. Warm Up
WWII helps to end imperialism, why does this lead to decolonization all over the world?
Why do women enter the workforce during WWII?

3. Europe, the Troops, and the Homefront

4. Don’t Write this DOWN The War Thus Far
Germany and Russia sign non- aggression act (1939)
Hitler invades Poland (1939)
Hitler conquerors France (1940)
Battle of Britain (1940)
Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor (1941)
America retaliate with Doolittle Raid (1942)
Battle of Midway: Pacific War Turning Point (1942)

5. Hitler’s Big Mistake Hitler worried Russia will join Britain
Tries to strengthen Russian alliance
Russia asks for new territory
Germany invades Russia

6. Sides Divided Allied Powers Axis Powers United States Britain
Soviet Union
Canada
Axis Powers
Germany
Italy
Japan
Romania

7. The Invasion and Battle of Stalingrad
Hitler’s intent:
Eliminate Stalin and USSR
Eliminate Communism
Take lands for Germany
Germans suffer heavy losses because of the Russian Winter.
Stalingrad: Last city before Moscow
330,000 Invade, only 90,000 survive to surrender.

8. War at Home Civilians mobilize for war away from battlefield
Automobile factories making tanks, bullets.
Women enter the workforce. i.e. Rosie the Riveter.

9. Rationing and Victory Gardens
Families are encouraged to ration goods.
Meatless Mondays return
“Victory Gardens”
Gas, Rubber, and Steel are rationed as well.

10. Censorship Images at home Headlines/Stories in newspapers
Letters to and from soldiers