Prep activity H1

Preparatory activity

Dear Euro Students, on this page you will find the concepts, the chronological benchmarks and a quizz you have to achieve before the first history lesson This activity is designed to be done in no more than 30 minutes, so please be meticulous and do it thouroughly. In class, you will have to take a test to check on your understanding. You will be asked for two dates, two concepts and two characteristics of the Second World War. Good luck !

• Chronological Benchmarks
• Concepts
• What you already know about the Second World War.

Chronological benchmarks

Go back to your Blitz Brits book. Read from page 7 to 14 again... This should help you to remember those dates.

7 September 1940 : Real start of the Blitz. 22 June 1941 : Germany invades Russia. 2 February 1943 : German Soldiers surrender in Stalingrad (Soviet Union). The War is turining against them. 6 June 1944 : Britain and her allies invade Europe. 8 May 1945 : V.E Day in Europe ( Victory day in Europe) holiday and parties.

1 September 1939 : Germany invades Poland. The British Government, afraid of war, orders woment and children in the cities to be 'evacuated' into the safe countryside. 10 May 1940 : Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of a coalition government. German armies march towards France. 14 May 1940: Men aged 17 to 65 invited to join the Local Defence Volunteers. Later known as Home Guard or Dad's Army. 10 July 1940 : First of the large air raids = real start of the Battle of Britain. 16 July 1940 : Hitler signs order for Operation Sealion (invasion of England)

Concepts

Multiple choices questions. Ready?

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What you already know about Second Wolrd War

The Second World War appears to have been an ideological war, fought by one man in particular, Adolf Hitler, who was determined to achieve unprecedented territorial expansion and annihilate the Jewish population by setting up a despicable concentration camp system. Between 1939 and 1945, war raged in Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, where one battle followed another. Aerial bombardments, offensives and successive landings demonstrated the violence of the conflict. The world is still marked by the intensity of this conflict, which ended with the use of the atomic bomb in August 1945. Why is it a world war? * The Axis, made up of Germany, Italy until september 1943 (the Rome-Berlin axis) and the Allies (a pact dating back to 1940) opposed each other. The Allies, made up of the United Kingdom, the United States and the USSR, which opposed Germany only after 1941. * A globalised conflict due to the interplay of alliances, but also due to the involvement of the colonies in the conflict and the invasion of territories by the Axis powers in particular (Indonesia and the Philippines invaded by Japan). → Two conflict zones * A European territory split into two fronts → offensives in the West in 1939-1940 and offensives in the East in 1941. * A Pacific Ocean marked by battles between the Japanese and the Americans (notably Pearl Harbor).