Summary WW II

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Summary World War II

Lesson plan

Very quick recap WWII	10 min
Questions/work	10 min
Break	4 min
Questions/work	10 min
Blooket	10 min

At the end of this lesson you feel prepared for your test on Friday

You have asked everything that you are still unsure of

Group A

1. Come sit at the front
   
2. Listen to recap
   
3. Take notes
   
4. Make timeline
   
5. Ask questions
   
6. Work
   

Group B

1. Go sit at the back
   
2. Work in workbook
   
3. Make your own summary
   
4. Make timeline
   
5. Save questions
   
6. Work
   

If you work well,

last 10 mins Blooket!

1933

Hitler comes to power

Wants to make Germany great again

one by one, breaks all the rules of the Treaty of Versailles

anti-semitic

1935: Nuremberg Laws: who is and isn't a Jew

1938: Jewish children can no longer go to German schools

1941: Jews have to wear yellow stars on their clothes

1 september 1939

Germany invades Poland

England and France declare war on Germany

Soviet Union does nothing: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Start of World War II

1940

Germany conquers Western Europe:

Blitzkrieg

German army seems invicible

10 May 1940

German army invades The Netherlands

14 May: bombing of Rotterdam

15 May: The Netherlands surrender

German occupation

Only one party allowed: the NSB

Censorship

22 june 1941

Operation Barbarossa

End of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: Hitler attacks Soviet Union

Starts promising, but then winter comes...

7 December 1941

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

US declare war on Japan

Japan = German ally

Germany declares war on the US

during the war

Hitler wants to get rid of all Jews in Europe

Using extermination camps where the Jews were gassed 

Holocaust

1943

Germans lose Battle of Stalingrad

Germans retreat

Red Army starts liberation of Eastern Europe

6 June 1944

D-Day

Allies land on the beaches of Normandy, France

German army gets locked in

Soviet Union in the east

other allies in the west

Did not mean they stopped fighting!

Allied troops reached The Netherlands in September 1944

Liberation of the south went as planned

Stopped at the rivers

German occupation of the north continued

Dutch Famine

Serious shortages of food and fuel in occupied part

Very cold winter

20.000 people died of hunger

30 april 1945

Hitler commits suicide

Germany surrenders one week later

War is over in Europe

Germany divided

Allies wanted to make sure Germany would not start another war

West: Great-Britain, US and France

East: Soviet Union

United Nations

Never again

Working together for peace

Take a little break

Let's get to work

1. Timeline
   
2. Summary

Ready?

Come and get the Sudoku!