Do Now

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Do Now

• Please get out something to write with

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Outbreak of WWII

• Alliances were formed
• Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan
• Allies - Great Britain, France, Soviet Union
  (switch sides June 1941), United States (December
  1941), China
• Locate and color countries of both alliances on
  your map. Choose two colors, one for each
  alliance. Make a key on your map to represent
  each alliance.
• exception, to be colored on other map

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Review and Color

• Choose a third color that will represent the
  countries taken over by Germany. Add this to your
  key.
• Locate and color the following countries already
  under German control
• Austria
• Czechoslovakia

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Hitlers Lightning War

• September 1, 1939 Hitler launched the invasion of
  Poland start of WWII
• Enacted a new military strategy, the Blitzkrieg
  or lightning war
• Planes, tanks, infantry used to surprise enemy
  and quickly conquer
• Locate and color Poland on your map.

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Hitlers Lightning War

• Blitzkrieg struck April, 1940
• Hitler quickly conquered Denmark and Norway
• Set sights on France, went through Belgium and
  the Netherlands
• Locate and color the countries listed above that
  were taken over by Germany. Give those the same
  color as Poland.

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Miracle of Dunkirk

• Invasion of Belgium
• Hitlers armies split French and British forces
  and trapped entire British army on French beaches
  of Dunkirk

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Miracle of Dunkirk

• Britain sent all available naval vessels and
  merchant ships, even fishing and pleasure boats
  across English Channel to pick up stranded troops
  from beaches of Dunkirk

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Miracle of Dunkirk

• As a high-ranking British military officer, you
  have been presented with the current issue that
  is happening at Dunkirk in France. Your troops,
  some 350,000 plus, have been surrounded by Nazis
  troops and are trapped on the beaches. It is your
  job to figure out a way to get your troops safely
  off the beaches of Dunkirk and back to Britain.
• How are you going to do this?

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Do Now

• In your groups
• Please designate a writer
• Please designate an artist
• Please designate a presenter

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Miracle of Dunkirk

• Materials you will need
• Chart paper, pencil, colored pencils/pens
• Directions
• In your groups, come up with a strategic plan to
  get your troops successfully off the beaches of
  Dunkirk
• 1. Create a detailed step-by-step write-up
  describing your strategy
• 2. Draw a visual representation of your strategy
• 3. Give a brief presentation to the class
  describing your strategy
• 4. USE YOUR IMAGINATION! BE AS CREATIVE AS
  POSSIBLE! !
• Exception No teleporting!

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