JANUARY 7TH • This day in History:

• 1912: US marines invade Honduras

• Learning Target:

• I can understand the United States’ involvement in World War 2 before 1941.

• Opener:

• Brainstorm: What do you know about the United States involvement in WW2 before the U.S. entered the fighting?

HITLER’S AGGRESSION• From 1936-1938, Hitler

took over:• Part of France• Austria• Czechoslovakia

• Britain and France make alliance with Poland• Hitler’s next target

NAZI-SOVIET PACT

• Hitler signs Pact with Soviet Union to invade Poland together and not fight each other

• Stalin not ready to fight Germany

INVASION OF POLAND• September 1, 1939:

Germany invades Poland

• Britain and France declare war

INVASION OF FRANCE AND BATTLE OF BRITAIN• May 1940: Germany

invaded France• Conquered it in a month

• July 1940: Germany launches massive bombing campaign against Britain• Battle of Britain• Fails

INVASION OF SOVIET UNION• After failure against

Britain, Hitler turned to Soviet Union

• Invaded in June 1941• Surprise attack

AXIS V. ALLIES• By Summer 1941:

• Germany & Italy (Axis) fighting Britain & Soviet Union (Allies)

• France conquered by Germany

DEBATE OVER INVOLVEMENT• British tried to get the

U.S. involved

• Led by Winston Churchill

• Americans focused on its own stuff

• Still dealing with Great Depression

• Thought WW1 had been a mistake

NEUTRALITY• Congress passed

Neutrality Acts• 1935, 1936, 1937• Keep Americans from

selling stuff to combatants

MOVES TOWARDS INVOLVEMENT• FDR favored Allies,

wanted to help them

• 1939: Congress passed Neutrality Act that allows combatants to buy American goods• “Cash-and-carry”

MOVES TOWARDS INVOLVEMENT• After fall of France,

Britain only one left fighting Axis

• Report from London Blitz turned many against Germans

LEND-LEASE• FDR pushed Congress to

pass Lend-Lease Act in 1941

• Allowed US to sell, lend or give weapons to Allies• Included Soviet Union

• By end of war, US gave $40 billion under Act

US AND JAPAN• US concerned over

Japanese expansion and alliance with Germany• Fear attack on Philippines

• 1940: U.S. declared embargo

• 1941: Japan began negotiation with U.S. to end embargo

BIG IDEAS

• The United States remained officially neutral for the first two years of World War 2.

• The United States supported the Allies by selling them war material before the U.S. entered the war.

• By the end of 1941, the United States was on the brink of war.

Body Paragraph Structure

• Topic Sentence• Evidence #1

• Evidence from document, with sourcing!• Commentary connecting evidence to topic sentence

• Evidence #2• Evidence #3• Concluding sentence

WRITING TASKEvidence Cluster

Usually two sentences

• Can be longer if more commentary is needed to explain the evidence

Evidence

• ALWAYS sourced (“As Hitler said in a speech, …” or “In a speech, Hitler stated….”)

Commentary

• Explains evidence• How does it connect to your topic sentence?• How does it prove your point?

EVIDENCE CLUSTER

WRITING TASK

• Write a topic sentence and one evidence cluster for a paragraph answering the question:

• Why did FDR argue that Lend Lease was necessary?

CLOSURE

• Predict:

• What pushed the United States into WW2?