Worl War II

World War II , also known as the Second World War, was a global war that was underway by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units. During the war over 16 million Americans served in the United States military, with 290,000 killed in action and 670,000 wounded.Japan tried to neutralize America's power in the Pacific by attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which catalyzed American support to enter the war and seek revenge. During the first 2 years of the global conflict, the United States had maintained formal neutrality, while supplying Britain, the Soviet Union and China with war material through Lend-Lease, as well as deploying the US military to replace the British invasion forces in Iceland. In a state of "total war", the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it resulted in 50 million to over 75 million fatalities. These deaths make World War II by far the deadliest conflict in human history.

The world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and Britain. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany formed the Axis alliance with Italy, conquering or subduing much of continental Europe. Following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories between themselves of their European neighbours, including Poland. The United Kingdom and the other members of the British Commonwealth were the only major Allied forces continuing the fight against the Axis, with battles taking place in North Africa as well as the long-running Battle of the Atlantic.

In December 1941, Japan joined the Axis, attacked the United States and European territories in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the Western Pacific. In 1943, with a series of German defeats in Eastern Europe, the Allied invasion of Italy, and American victories in the Pacific, the Axis lost the initiative and undertook strategic retreat on all fronts.


In 1944, the Western Allies invaded France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. During 1944 and 1945 the United States defeated the Japanese Navy and captured key Western Pacific Islands.

The war in Europe finished in May 1945 when the Russians sacked Berlin and the Germans surrended. The US, British and French troops, along with their other allies, and the Soviets, took the surrender jointly. The War in the Pacific ended in August 1945 following the US Atomic bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki earlier that month. The Japanese were already sueing for peace prior to the Atomic bombs being dropped. The Japanese surrended formerly on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay with the US, Britain and Australia at the signing ceremony.

Three Little Pigs

Orientation

Who / What ?

• Three little pigs
• Big bad wolf

 

Three little pigs and The wolf

Where ?

• Three little pigs' houses (straw house, stick house, brick house)

When ?

• One night when the big bad wolf feels hungry

 

Complication 1

What happened one day ?

• One big bad wolf saw the pig with the straw house and feels hungry. Then the wolf tried to blow down the house of the first little pig that was made from straw. 

 

Resolution 1

What happened then ?

• The straw house blown down and the big bad wolf ate the first little pig

Complication 2

And then ?

• The big bad wolf saw the pig with the stick house and feels hungry. Then the wolf tried to blow down the house of the second little pig that was made from sticks. 

Resolution 2

What happened next?

• The sticks house blown down and the big bad wolf ate the second little pig.

 

Complication 3

What happened next ?

• The big bad wolf saw the pig with the brick  house and feels hungry. Then the wolf tried to blow down the house of the third little pig that was made from bricks. 

• The big bad wolf failed to blow down the brick house and tried to enter the house from the chimney.

 
 

Resolution 3

What happened next ?

• The third little pig placed a cauldron of boiling water under the chimney

Re-orientation

What is the end of the story?

• The big bad wolf climbed the brick house’s chimney and fell into the boiling water.

• The third little pig was saved the brick house remains.

How is the ending?

• The surviving pig invites his mother over and ate the wolf togother.

 

Happy or sad ?

• It is a happy ending story. The third little pig with the brick house lives happily ever after.

World War I

America entered World War One on April 6^th, 1917. It involved all the world’s great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances : the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Rusia) and the Centeral Powers (originally the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy but, as Austria-Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war).These alliances both reorganized (Italy fought for the Allies) and expanded as more nations entered the war.

Long-term causes of the war included the imperialistic foreign policies of the great powers of Europe, including the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire the Russian Empire, the British Empire, the French Republic, and Italiy. The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the throne of Australia-Hungary, by a 
Yugoslav nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia was the proximate trigger of the war.

On August 4^th, 1914, Wilson officially announced that America would be neutral in World War One. That neutrality extened to a policy of ‘fairness’ – whereby American bankers could lend money to both sides in the war.

On February 4^th, 1915, Germany announced that merchant shipping in a specified zone around Britain would be legitimate targets. They added that this would include neutral ships because many Allied ships had taken to flying the flag of a neutral nation to assist its safety. Wilson warned the Germans that he would hold them to account if any American ships were sunk. This threat was tested when on May 7^th, 1915, the ‘Lusintaniawas sunk. 128 Americans on board the liner were killed. However, the ‘Lusitania’ was not a American ship and Wison accepted the Germans change of policy-that U-boats would adopt ‘cruiser’ tactics and surface and attack a ship by guns fitted on to their decks.

Lusitania Ship

By the end of 1915, tolerable equilibrium had been reached in terms of America’s relationship with Germany. In late December 1915, Wilson sent one of his closest advisors to London, ColonelHouse, to see if a peace initiative could be thrashed out between Britain and Germany with America acting as an
intermediary. On February 22^nd. 1916, the House-Grey Memorandum was signed which put on paper Wilson’s plan of mediation. Two Americans on the ‘Sussex’ were hurt but when reports got back to America, they stated that they had been killed. The ‘Sussex” incident was resolved and by mid-1916, the Americans seemed to have developed a more positive relationship with Germany.

Sussex Ship

In mid-January 1917, he set up secret negotiation with both Britain and Germany to obtain their agreement for America’s mediation in a peace plan.

After a 1918 Germany offensive along the western front, the Allies drove back the Germany armies in a series of successful offensives and United States forces began entering the trenches. Germany, which had its own trouble with revolutionaries at this point, agreed to a cease-fire on 11 November 1918, later known as Armistice Day.The war had ended in victory for the Allies.

Armistice on 11 November 1918