"The war to end all wars"
Europe N. Africa Asia Pacific
Unite German "race" (volk)
Living space (Lebensraum)
Disarmament renounced, March 1935
Invasion of Austria, March 12, 1938
*Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 1938
*"Appeasement"
Fear of Soviet Union and war
Invasion of Czechoslovakia, March 1939
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact, August 23, 1939
German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939
Britain and France declare war, Sept. 3
Soviet invasion of Poland & Baltic States, Sept. 17
Germans invade Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spring 1940
Siege of Leningrad and Moscow, Nov. 1941
2 million of 4.5 million Russian troops left
700 of 15,000 tanks left
“General Snow” and “Captain Winter”
*"Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"
Colonial Empire
Political and economic independence from the West
Invasion of Manchuria, 1931
Invasion of East China, 1937-9
Tripartite pact (Japan, Germany, Italy), 1940
U.S. and Dutch Indonesia oil embargo, 1941
90% of Japan's supplies
*Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941
Invasion of SE Asia and Pacific islands, 1942
Radio
Films
Print media
1. Why was World War II a war of movement?
2. What role did propaganda play in the war? Why did new technologies make propaganda more effective?
3. Why were so many people killed in World War II?
4. Why was the Russian campaign the turning point in the war for Germany?
1. Why were German and Japanese troops successful in the early stages of World War II?
2. Why was racial stereotyping a common aspect of war propaganda?
1. How did the Koreans react to Japanese colonialism? How did Koreans collaborate with or resist the Japanese?
2. How did the Japanese use propaganda toward the Koreans? How effective was it?
3. At one point the boy thinks to himself that the Japanese are all alike. (p. 130) Is this true? Is it true of Koreans?
4. How did the Japanese occupation affect the Korean economy during wartime? (Also consider, pp. 87-115)
5. Why does the boy cry at the end of the chapter, "An Empire for Rubber Balls"?