1. Build Up To War In the World Vocabulary to be familiar with – Tojo, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, Churchill – Spanish Civil War – Appeasement, Fascism, Totalitarian, – Munich, Sudetenland, Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Concepts to be Prepared to Discuss (Write) – Why give dictators small victories? – What were the goals of Japan, Germany, and Italy?

2. America’s Reactions Vocabulary to be familiar with – America First Committee, Neutrality Acts, Cash and Carry, Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter Concepts to be Prepared to Discuss (Write) – Build up to Pearl Harbor – The process of going from isolation to neutrality to economic/industrial support to finally fighting

3. WWII Vocabulary to be familiar with – Blitzkrieg, Dunkirk, anti-Semitism, Axis Powers, Allied Powers, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, kamikaze, Island Hopping, Rape of Nanjing, Concentration Camps Concepts to be Prepared to Discuss (Write) – The cost of the war for civilians (video notes) – The sacrifices made by allied soldiers to defeat Nazism.

4. The American War Machine Vocabulary to be familiar with – War Bonds, Victory Gardens, Propaganda, Rations, Rosie the Riveter, Internment Camps, FDR, Harry Truman, the Manhattan Project, Enola Gay Concepts to be Prepared to Discuss (Write) – The Economic and social impact of the war at home. – The Decision to drop the Atomic bomb vs. land invasion of Japan. – A new role for the United States in the World