WWII Unit Concept Guide

People You Should Know       Dates You Should Know

Things You Should Know From L1 

Totalitarianism, Nazism, Fascism, Communism

1 person Hitler Mussolini Stalin

Soviet/Germany Neutrality Pact

1. No fighting 2. No invading

The Allies and Axis sides

Things You Should Know From L2

Racial Purification

Removing the Jews out of Europe/putting them in concentration camps

The Holocaust 

The Final Solution

The systematic genocide of Jews in Europe/ 6 million die

Things You Should Know From L3

Cash-and-Carry Policy / The Lend-Lease Act

Keeps the US out of War by giving weapons for $

The Attack on Pearl Harbor

The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor

F.D.R declares war on Japan

The USS Arizona is sunk

Things You Should Know From L4

GI Bill

• Edu/training/housing to WWII vets

The Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese-Americans were thought to be spies

Things You Should Know From L5

The Allied War Plan

• 1. beat hitler 2. unconditional surrender

The Battles of Europe

STALINGRAD - Soviet Union STOPS THE GERMANS FROM GOING 

INTO THE Soviet Union

TORCH (NORTH AFRICA) - TANK WARFARE BY PATTON

INVASION OF ITALY - HANG MUSSOLINI / ITALY JOINS ALLIES

D-DAY - LIBERATE WESTERN EUROPE / 2 FRONT ATTACK

MARKET GARDEN - MAJOR FAILURE / G.B. PLANS ATTACK

BULGE - THE LAST GERMAN OFFENSIVE OF WWII / PATTON SAVES DAY

V-E DAY  

Mussolini’s Fate

• Italy hung him in the streets

The 5 Beaches of Normandy

• Utah/ Omaha/ Gold/ Juno/ Sword

Hitler’s Fate

• Soviet Union invades berlin/ to bunker/ commits suicide/ V-E Day

Things You Should Know From L6

The Bataan Death March

FORCED MARCH OF ALLIED TROOPS BY THE JAPANESE / MANY WILL DIE 

Island Hopping 

NETWORK OF ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC TO REACH MAINLAND JAPAN 

The Battles of the Pacific

MIDWAY - US WILL SINK 4 JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS / US WINS

IWO JIMA - THE ICONIC MARINE PHOTO 

OKINAWA - BLOODIEST BATTLE IN THE PACIFIC / TO REACH MAINLAND JAPAN 

Things You Should Know From Oppenheimer

The Manhattan Project

CREATE THE ATOMIC BOMB / ROBERT OPPENHEIMER IN CHARGE

Codenames for the Bombs

FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY (REAL)

TEST BOMB - GADGET / TRINITY TEST

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

LOCATIONS USED BY THE ATOMIC BOMB 

V-J DAY ON THE USS MISSOURI